davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24

governor be produced, and yesterday they were read to the committee, and Chairman Fassett was compelled to admit that he could see nothing of damaging character in them. If the committee succeeds in making out Squire perjurer, as it prob ably will, it's work will not have been in vain. A republican legislature has been trying to besmirch Governor Hill for several years, and this new movement already looks like complete failure. The republican party seems to be afraid of the gentleman from Elnira
 THE caucus of democratic representa- tives last night brought together about 120 members. Its purpose was to receive the report of the democatic members of the ways and means committee on the result of their efforts to arrive at an agreement with their republican colleagues as the time to be allotted for general debate on the tariff bill. The republican ultinatum fifty hours of the daily sessions of the house for their side-was not received with favor when laid before the caucus by MT Mills, but a prolonged discussion, which was participated in by many mem bers, failed to result in any plan that might fairly be expected to reduce the time demanded by the republicans. The general sentiment of the caucus finally found expression in the following resolu- tion, which was unanimously adopted:
 Resolved, That it is the opinion of this caucus that the tariff discussion shall be resumed to- morrow, and continued to a conclusion, to the exclusion of other business except that night ses- sons may be held, and, if not required for debate upon the tariff, shall be employed in current leg islation-the direction heretofore given touching an amicable arrangement as to the time of de- bate on the tariff bill to continue in force,
 The reference to the "amicable arrange ment" refers to the direction of the ma- jority of the ways and means committee to ascertain the wishes of the republicans, and it's continuance was ordered in the hope that the republican members might be disposed to compromise at the meeting of the committee to-day. The caucus ad- journed after 10 o'clock.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24
Very Hard Work.

"There are fish in the sea, said the belle stheres
 no doubt of it. Quite the equal of those which as yet have come
 out of it; But fish won't be captured by merely command
 ing them, And it's very laborious hooking and landing
 them" Merchant Traveller
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24

THE investigation of the government printing office has been resumed. It has been fully established that it was com mon practice under MT Benedict's prede cessor to do private work for politicians and others
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24
Is this Fiction |?

First Young Lady (who has boarded the train)-Where are you going, Marys
 Second, ditto-Why, in here, to be sure; don't you see there's lots of empty seatss
 "Why, what ninny you are Come, let's go in this other Don't you see it is chock full, and it will be so nice to make a couple of gentlemen give up their ats.n- Boston Transcript.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24
A UsefuI Appencaee.

Mrs. Griggs- Then you don't have to rely on the barometer to find out when there is going to pc storms
 Mrs. Briggs-Oh, dear, no. Grandfathers rheumatic leg is just splendid. I don't know what we'd do without grandfather.-Judge.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24
They'll Lean Then.

Though still unengaged are numerous belles, We're far from the end of the year, And the girls will leap at the beach hotels When the season for hops is here.
 -RoSf0n Courier.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24

What Was Said of Him. Of Jones. the miser it was said, When Death cut his life's thread: He never tired of doing good, For good he never did.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-24

The democratic electors of the state are hereby notified to choose delegates in ac- cordance with the rules herewith append ed to attend state convention to be held at Allyn hall in Hartford on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

Mr.. Toplis has estimated that a
forty-fve foot balloon could be kept up
one hour, with one gallon of gasoline,
hence the time of remining in the air
would only be limited by the amount of
gasoline that could be carried. The steer
ing apparatus to be applied to the new
air-ship has not yet been completed;
but the inventors are working assiduously
upon it. They claim to have a propuIsive
power which will render their balloon in
dependent of air currents; but while
denying that this power is electricity,
steam, or any of the well-known sources
Of motion, they will not yet disclose its
real nature. Messrs. Fest and Toplis have,
IS yet, had no opportunity to test the value
of their invention on practical scale,
but they have under construction BAL
loon TO DE forty five feet in diameter and
capable of lifting into the upper atmos-
phere weight OF 1,100 pounds. With
this they expect to be able to transport
themselves for considerable distance di
recting their course at will, and they will
probably undertake to cross the Atlantic
ocean. Letters patent have already been
granted for some portions of the
machinery, and all that remains to be
done is the completion of some details in
the steering apparatus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

patches are a dense and luxurient growth
aud they make the land rich. Just so
with the growth that always comes in the
corners of old rail fences. Take down an
old house or barn and the soil under
meath is equal to cane brake. Plant a
grape vine by the veranda al d the roots
will run under the house and feast uson
the nitrogen that the shade has made.
Put down some old planks between your
strawberry rows and soon the roots will
take refuge there and make more vigor-
Gus plants. Even the stones make shade
that give nourishment TO plants. Of
course there is no plant food in a stone or
a rock, but see how vines and trees grow
near to stone walls and piles of rock. The
falling leaves that cover the ground do
more from their shade to preserve it than
from the plant food that is in a dead leaf
See how quickly potatoes will sprout in a
dark cellar. Night, dark night is the uni
Versal restorer of all vegetstion-the
generator of plant food.
Some farmers SOW peas and turn the
green crop under. They loose the hay
and do the land no good. Peavine hay
Is easy to bale and where its value is
known, brings the highest price. Two
men and one mule can press forty bales a
day in homemade press. Four tons is
fair crop on average land and have
sold it at $50 per ton. Then SOW peas;
keep on sowing peas. Sow a running
pea that will grow rank and fall down if
it wants to. The scythe blade will get
them better than a mower. Then SOW
peas early and late; SOW more peas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

tons. Ranged behind are the guaru,.
who are also in uniform, but whose
caps are dark blue After the train
comes to halt, the chief guard Jumps
to the ground and salutes the station
master. Then the other men step for
ward, and the work of loading and un-
loading the train goes on with conyen-
tional Teutonic stolidity. 1t is the duty
of one of the guards to walk along the
train and rub all the dust from the
door handles and other brass work, so
that in the course of the journey the
metal becomes brilliantly polished.
When the train is ready for departure
the guards salute the station master
again, and he takes a whistle from his
belt and blows il twice. Upon this
another guard, who is stationed at the
further end of the platform, rings a
huge bell three times, and then, with
another salute by way of courtesy, the
train moves on its way. This is only
an indication of the military spirit
which pervades Germany in every di-
rection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Railroad Stations i'm Germany.

The railroad stations all over Ger
many are models of convenience and
pretension. The smallest local train
on German railway receives a degree
of consideration and honor that would
stagger the engineers of the Chicago
limited. The railroads are run entire.
~ by the government, and everything
connected with them shows the i'm
press of military rule. A letter from
Berlin to the New York SIN says:
s'The stations are surrounded by
small parks, in which there are foun
tains, flowers, and artistically-arrange
hedges. The station building is often
the most pretentious one in the town,
and there is usually attached to it a
large restaurant with several walters
in the conventional claw-hammer
coats. Broad walks made of granite
and marble and relieved from monoto-
ny by designs in mosaic stretch along
on either side, and there is an air of
spick and span brightness about every
thing in sight. As the train draws into
the station the walters stand in an Or
derby row at the entrance to the din
ing-room. They have all been soldiers
every man in Germany has served a
number of years in the army, and they
stand IN military attitude with their
hands their sides and their chins up.
Directly in front of the main entrance
stands the captain of the station. His
rank is indicated by a red cap. His
uniform is exceedingly snowy, and Of
ten becoming the men as rule
are stalwart and well formed. He
wears high-heeled boots, dark-blue
trousers, relieved by red stripe, a
double-breasted military frock coat,
with gold belt and rows of brass but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
A Mistake of Dean Burgeon.

The late Dean Burgeon, though a
bachelor, was remarkable for his love of
children. 1t was no uncommon sight to
see him dancing in the high street before
some delighted little ones or jumping up
and down before perambalator. At a
school treat he was in his element, and he
would run, jump aad play with the chill
dren until fairly exhausted. On one &C.
casion he was fairly done up, and could
run no more. 81 can run no MORE" said
the vicar OF st. Mary's. Then said little
girl, you sit still and make faces at u.s.
He did SO, and the contortions of his face
were truly marvellous and delightful. On
another occasion however, ha was noo so
fortunate. He was always devoted to the
children, and On calling at house where
some OF his little friends lived he asked
the servant: care they upstairs in the
drawing room?" On being told yes, he
said: All right; I'll go up myself" The
servant left him in the hall. Tie then
took up large rough sheepskin rug and
put it over his shoulder. On arriving at
the drawing room door he got down on
all tours and began to grunt and roar like
wild beast, then he advanced a little
way into the room, making hideous
nose: Unfortunately for him none OF
the children were present, only two visi-
tors staying in the house, who were
scared out of their wits by this extra
ordinary aspiration. They screamed
and rang the bell but explanation set the
matter right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
The Usefulness of Peas.

If I were an old-fashioned almanic
maker I would fill up the spaces of three
summer months with such advice as: Sow
peas-scw more peas. About this time
SOW peas. As toon as your wheat is har-
vested SOW peas upon the land. Follow
your oats with peas. Keep on sowing
peas.
Peas are better than clover and grass,
or anything; better for the land and bet
ter as profitable crop. have unbound
ed respect for peas. I SOW about five
acres every year for forage and they
make the best of forage in the world
the best for horses and mules and the
best for milchs COWS. All kinds of stock
eat it greedily. I have seen old-fasbion-
ed farmers pull peavines up by tho roots
and hang them on the fence to cure.
This is great mistake. Sow them with
a drill or broedcass-say two bushels to
the acre; when the pods are nearly grown
and the peas are in the dough, walk right
into them with good sythe blade and
cut an acre a day-any good mower can
do it easily, for it Is the sweetest cutting
in the world. Let them lie as they fall for
twenty-fOur hours; rake into winrows and
let them lay one or two days more. If IL
rains on them, just let 1t rain; when the
sun shines again, toss them up and give
them air and they will cure. l have had
them to take several rains and lie upon
the ground for week aud cure all right.
Put them in the barn and watch them for
day or tw to see if they are moulding
or getting hot; if they are then toss them
to the other side of the barn, and the
tossing and airing will bring them all
right. I have never lest a peavine crop.
But be sure and cut before the pods are
ripe OF you will loose the leaves. Cat
green and not leaf will drop and the
vines will cure SO mach easier
Now for little philosophy. Peavines
make quick and dense shade, and shade
is Dame Natures great restorer Just as
soon as the wheat or oats are removed,
nature sends up the weeds or the grass
right away to shade the exposed ground
to shield 1t from the burning sun. Peas
are better than either, both as shade and
food. Shade produces nitrogen the
great food of plants. A canebrake would
seem 80 exhaust the land from it's dense
luxurient growth, but it enriches it. The
shade of a canebrake is impenetrable.
| cleared up an acre of cane and planted i,
in corn, and made 125 bushels. Brie1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Landlords in Scotland.
Harper's Magazine.

harper ) udSdZIHe
The highlands and Hebrides are the
home of romance. There is legend for
almost every step you take. But the
cruelest of these are not so cruel as, and
none have the pathos of, the tales of their
own and their fathers wrongs and wretch
eduess, which the people tell today. The
old stories of the battlefield, ard Of clan
meeting clan in deadly duel, have given
way to the stories of the clearing of the
land that the laird or the stranger might
have his fishing and shooting as well as
his crops. At first the people could not
understand it. The evicted went to the
laird, as they would have gone Of old and
asked for new home. And what was
his answer? 81 am not the father of
your family" And then, when frighten-
ed WON On ran and hid themselves at his
coming, he broke the kettles they hung
by the well, or tore into shreds the cloth
es bleaching on the heather. And as the
people have it, she succeeded too well in
clearing the island of It's once numerous
inhabitants, scattering them over the
face of the globe" There must have
been cruelty indeed, before the West
Islander, who once loved his chief better
than his own life, could tell such tales as
these, even in his hunger and despair. L
know it is pleasanter to read of blood
shed in the past than Of starvation in the
present. A lately published book on Ire
land, has been welcomed by critics and 1
suppose by readers, because in it is no
mention OF evicticns and crowbar brig
AIDES and horrors Of which news papers
make good capital. have never been
to Ireland, and it may be You can travel
there and forget the people. But in the
Hebrides the human silence and the ruin
ed homes and the almost unbroken moor
land would let US, as foreigners, think of
nnfhlrcs 81
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
kUBBINGS OF NEWS.

The window glass factories of che west,
employing 5000 mep, will resume opera
ions Monday.
The sculling race between Kemp and
Hanlan rowed on Ponawatta river New
South Wales was won by Kemp.
The French minister of agriculture re-
ports that the French grain harvest
amounts to 96,000,O0O, hectoliters as
against an annual average yield of 1885,
100000 hectoliters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
THE FARM AND FIRESIDE
GRANDFATHER'S ADVICE.

/ remember how my grandsire,
When l was a little lad,
Saw me whiting with my Barlow,
The first knife I ever had.
I was only making litter,
Whiting sticks and time away,
And he shook his old head wisely
Don't do that, my boy, pray.
IF you've got Yankee notion
To make something of your life,
Working cut your plans is easy,
With the aid of stick and knife.
When you white, white something;
Take this, sonny, for your rule,
If It's only match or tcothpick,
1t will show that you're no fool
Some men white for a lifetime.
And when death shuts their old knife,
Nothing but heap of litter
Represents their useless life"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
To MARY IN HEAVEN.
ROBERT BURNS.

Thou lingering star, with less ming ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn;
Again thou usher'st in the day
MY Mary from my soul was torn,
o Maryi dear departed shade.
Where is thy place of biSsful rest:
gee'st thou thy lover lowly laid?
Hears thou the groans that rend his breast:
That sacred hour can forgetS
Can forget the followed grove,
Where by the winding Ayr we met,
To live one day of parting love!
Eternity will not efface.
Those records dear of transports past
Thy image at our last embrace;
Ali little thought we twas our last!
Ayr gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore,
O'erhung with wild woods thick ming green
The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar,
Twin'd am'rous round the raptured scene;
The fiowrs sprung wanton to be preSt,
The birds sang love on every spray
Till too, too soon, the glowing west,
PROCLAIMED the speed of winged day.
Still DER these scenes my mem'ry wakes,
And fondly broods with miser carel
Time but tn impression stronger makes,
AS streams their channels deeper wear.
My Mary dear departed shaded
Where is thy place of blissful rest?
See'St thou thy lover lowly laid?
Hearst thou the groanS that rend his DreaSt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
To Europe By Balloon.


A novel form of balloon is in process OF
construction by two Germantown gentle
men, who have great hopes that they will
be abs to demonstrate the long studied
problem of the navigation of the air. The
inventors are w. G. Toplis and G. p.
Fest, and the principal feature of their
balloon is that in its initiation hot air is
used instead of gas. A machine has been
patented to be carried in the balloon,
which, by the consumption of gasoline,
sustains q, constant, high temperature
upon the interor of the balloon, and this
apparatus is so constructed that the heat
may be regulated aud the temperature
inside of the silken bag maintained at an
even ratio with the temperature of the
outside air. The reason why the inventors
have displaced gas is because gas bal
loon can remain in the air for only linn
tied time whereas in their own invention
a constant supply of hot air can be
maintained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
The Individual Soul.

You fancy that you are inseparable
from your husband, your wife, YOUR
child. Yet after all, how near one
another are you? Apart you are by
all the breadth and spaces of indiyidu.
atty. You sit before each other, and
if you were walled up alive and alone
you could hardly be more inaccessible
to each other, more remote from each
other. Have you the least idea of
what is passing in that brain before
you-what memories, in which you have
no share, at this moment sweep
through it? What old sorrow, gloom
ing again at some chance encounter of
sound or scent, casts it shadow over
the eye for an instant, and you have
no sympathy with it. What old JOY
makes the heart beat more quickly and
you know nothing of it! With the
best desires for union, for complete
knowledge of each other, for absolute
confidence, for life melting into life, a
thousand inextricable, ineXplicable lit
tie threads catch and hold you in their
meShes, imprison you, lead you and
keep you apart. The mother, too,
who thinks of her little daughter is
utterly at one with her, has never a
thought unshared with her, might find,
could she but penetrate the recesses of
the child's heart, life as distinct
from the outer one, lived all uncon-
sciously, but necessary fact of identity
and Individual development and
growth, as the ripening seed is distinct
from the corolla of the flower. Many
of these souls desire and long to APP
proach each other, to be known, to
become part each of the other, to
lay aside this loneliness. But vet it is
in loneliness they must tread the wine
press of their sufferings, only in less
loneliness must drink their draught of
joy-a loneliness that can only be laid
aside with life, if even then. And the
most awe-inspiring fact of all this
Loneliness is the loneliness of death at
last, the going down alone into the
depths of the dark river, the proof of
its cold waters, the moment when
neither plying face nor loving lips nor
helping hand can reach us, the entrance
into the unknown; alone but for the
trust that as we came into this world
only to be met with loving arms, it is
loving arms again that shall meet us
there; alone unless great hope walks
with US, hope which must also have
its companionship when the waters
close around us, without which the
loneliness is indeed appalling, but
with which it ceases to be known, or
to be felt, or to eXist.-HdrpeT''S BdzGr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Wonderful Tropical Fruits.
Harper'S Magazine

All through the land round about are
other wonders. There avenues of table
trees, whose foliage seems exaggerated
horizontally; alleys of mahogany trees;
lanes of Orinokes, whose fronds corus
cate with crimson blossoming. There
are amazing shrubs-orange colored
things; there are plants with glossy
leaves speckled in four different colors
there are various plants that look like
wigs OF green hair, or masses of flIform
green seaweeds, set on short sticks; plants
with enormous broad leaves, SO diaphan-
Gus as to seem made of green glass; plants
that do not look like real plants, but like
Oscillations of plants, like the fantasti-
oalities of wood-carvers and stone cutters
animated by witchcraft. There are
grasses that look like dwarf palms-tiny
aborescent grasses With curving stems
and plumed heads. There are flowers of
extravaganza forms and colors-6ower
that possess familiar shapes, but have
absurd tipts and unfamiliar perfumes,
yellow and indigo and green, orange and
black and crimson plants. And in all
the ponds, covering all the canals, float
the green navies of the monster lily,
Victoria Regia. Close to shore the
leaves are not extraordinarily large; but
they increase in breadth as they float
further out, as if gaining bulk proper
tionately to the depth of water. A few
yards off, they are as large as soup-plates
further out they ara broad as dinner
trays; in the center of the pond OF canal
they have surface large as teatables. And
all have an upturDed edge, a perpendicu-
lar him, like bulwarck. Here and there
you see the hower-a nonsensical flower,
large as hat. Then there are fiddle
wood trees in multitude, calabash trees,
manages, bread-fruits, sage palms, fig
trees, and hundred unfamiliar shapes
of which [ cannot learn the names. And
there is the snake-nut tree, bearing a
most CHASTITY fruit. For this swart nut
shaped almost like clam shell, and halv
ing in the same way along its sharp edge
-encloses something Incredible. There
is pale enveloped about the kernel; re-
move it, and you find between your fin
gers a little viper, triangular headed,
| coiied thrice upon itself, perfect in every
detail of form from skull to tail. Was
| this marvellous nockery evolved for a
protective end? II is no eccentricity
in hundred nuts the serpent kernel lies
coiled the same.
Yet in spite of these establishments, of
these novel impressions, what q weird
| delight it is to turn again into an avenue
| of palms, and to know once more The
queer sense of being watched, without
love or hate, by all those silent, gracious
tall, sweet things