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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
News in Brief.

The population of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
said to be S05,S55.
RUSSELL SAGE is estimated to be worth
$60,000,000.
The national debt was reduced by $4,-
100000 in October.
CARTER HARRISON will arrive home from
his trip around the world on November
10.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN will edit the Home
Magazine soon to be started et Washing
ton.
DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, the first
ady physician, graduated in 1848. Now,
$500 women hold license to cure-or to
kill.
LATEST estimates of this years South
ern cotton crop place the aggregate yield
at about per cent. less than that of last
year.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN may often be seen
mounted on load of lumber, smoking q
brier pipe in company with the driver, at
his home in Bangor, Me.
The visible supply of wheat and corn is
respectively 32,972,370 and 11,2O3,S51
bushels. Since last report wheat increas-
ed 742, 275 bushels.
AN election will be held in No Mans
Land next month, to provide for organi-
cation as territory. with courts and
laws.
Mrs. LANGTRY has fortune of $550,0O0,
Clara Louise Kellogg has 100000, Fanny
Davenport S150,O00, and Kate CIaxton is
said TO be worth $4,000.
JAMES DENsMoRE, who row has an in
come of $4,000 a year from his type
writer patent, was a newspaper canvasr
ser in St. Paul a few years ago at SIS pc
week.
The amount of lumber that will be
scaled and sawed before the close of the
season by the Minneapolis mills is esti-
mated at 325 100000 feet.
The United States supreme court rem
dered decision affirming the constitu-
tionality of the Iowa prohibitory Law, de-
claring that the introduction against the
manufacture or intoxicants for export is
valid. The court also affirms the right of
state 10 prescribe tests for color blind
ness among en- ployes of railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
Cable Flashes.

GEN. RoULANGER's daughter and Capt
Dreant were married in Paris on Tuesday.
The king of the Netherlands is serious
ly i'll.
Two hundrsd houses were burned in
Hohenfeld, near Cassel, Germany.
THE Manitoba legislature has been call
ed to convene Nov. 8, to devise means for
settling the railroad war.
The English foreign Office has heard
nothing of the reported massacre of the
Stanley expedition.
= THE fund for the defence of Parnell
and his associates involved in the Times
charges amounts to e12,89O.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE of Servia refuses to
receive the document notifying her of
the divorce.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, the Premier of
Canada, has made very emphatic anti
annexation speech.
CARDINAL NEWMAN, the head of the
Catholic church in England, is 10 criti-
cal condition, and will probably not long
survive.
IT is proposed to erect monument to
the memory of Field Marshal Butcher at
the point where he crossed the Rhine,
near Caub, 1914.
REPORT has reached Paris that Henry
NJ. Stanley, the famous explorer, and all
but two of his com panions have been mas
sacred in Africa.
LoNDoN.-Earl Granville, in an address
at Manchester, said he hoped the foreign
office would treat the Sackville affair with
dignity, cancellation and consistency.
IT seems that there are now only
100000 Germans in France-less than
half the number that lived there before
the Franco Prussian war. More than
one third of these are quartered in Paris
THE Persian Government has notified
the representative Of foreign nations
that the Karum river is open to merchant.
| AhwaZ.
The Parnell commission continued the
| Investigations into the Times charges
Wednesday. Captain O'Shea was the
| principal witness, but revealed nothing
of Importance.
PATTI is singing in concerts in Wales
| for the benefit Of the poor. In this coun
| try she sang for the benefit of the rich
and few newspaper people who held
COM plimentary tickets.
SUco1, the Italian faster, has just com
pleted thirty day starving trial at Bar
| celona, Spain, during which he walked
| talked, and fenced with the vigor of q
full fed man. Mr.. Succi's only nourish-
ment was an elixer which he claims rem
ders food unnecessary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
The Tainted Royal Blood,
Pittsburg Gazette

The royal blood OF Europe tells some
sad tales. The death of the late Emper-
or, the withered arm of his son, the sui
cides that have occurred in other branches
of the royal family of Germany, all go
to show that there is some bad blood IN
it.
The English blood that has been and Is
being mingled with it is not calculated to
improve it in quality. The taints in the
English blood have been transmitted
from dissolute kings and their more dis
solute courts. The Introduction Of Rus
sian blood into the German family only
added new vigor to the poisons already
there; so it is probably true that there is
not drop of royal blood in all Europe
that is As pure and free from faint as that
of the average American citizen.
Scotch and Irish blood has been kept
notably free from such taints as Initiated
that of Russia, England. Germany, and
Spain. After the Bonapartes got pos
session of France vitiated blood was rap
idiv eliminated from court and State.
Royalty has shown little of late either
in art or letters, Or even in statecraft,
that would indicate any special virtue in
the blood of Kings. On the contrary,
those in humble life are rising, and bid
fair to outshine the noblest sciOns of
noblest blood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

ONE of the most contemtible figures in
history in his domestic relations Is Henry
VIII. of England. No one can read how
he treated his queen without feeling a
sense of Indignation. King Milan, the
comparatively insignificant brute who
rules over Servia, is doing his best to fol-
low Henry's example. He has all OF the
Embellishments dastardliness without any
of his better traits. King Milan is lib
ertine, a most arrant coward, man with,
out any character. His wife, Natalie, is a
charming woman of high culture, who
has come unscathed from the fiery fur
mace of scandal loving tongues. Milan
has succeeded in securing a divorce
from her, the metropolitan, Theodosius,
having issued pastoral formally divorc-
ing the two. Whether as the head of the
Servian Church he had right to do this
is not certain. Queen Natalie will not
recognize the divorce and has formally
announced her position. What the End
OF tnlB DOMESTIC TOW III OSrVlaS rOydi
family will not be cannot be fore-shadow-
ed. The queen is beloved by the people
of Servia generally, and of the Liberal
party she is the idol. The Liberal party
includes the great majority of the COM
mon people and the priesthood, and if
they choose to espouse the cause of the
queen they can make the King Milan's
life decidedly unpleasant. The Liberal
party favors the Russian cause. The
queen is a Russian by birth. This fact
may lead to complications which are
least expected. King Milan's course to-
wards his queen has been shameful from
the beginning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

knowledge of human nature and of affairs,
and then they will become, in one degree
and another, interesting persons. Where
viii the young women be then who have
been content to rely upon the charms of
youth and beauty and have cultivated no
interest IN anything beyond the more or
less arti6cialities Of being agreeable in a
conventional society? No partnership
goes well unless all the parties contribute
something to II. Marriage is no excep-
ton TO this. great many people have
discovered, even those who Go not accept
the cynios definition that marriage is in
tended for discipline. Love being, of
course, the attraction IN marriage, good
comrsdeship Is the working capital. and
good comradeship between uninteresting
people is an impossibility. unless each is
too stupid TO FIND out what the other
lacks.
This goes upon the assGmptiou-per-
haps it is strained one In these days
that getting married ought TO be an OBJ
ject TO be considered in preparation for
life. But the argument for girl to make
herself interesting by gaining informa-
ton and by throwing herself enthusiast
cally into some sort of pursuit is still
stronger if she intends to remain single,
or remains so by chance. For to be des-
tined TO ones own company when one Is
uninterestipg and devoid of extern al in
terests is a dreary outlook. On the other
hand, it is feared that modern education
will be pushed SO far, and girls will be-
come so interesting, that they can find
no equal mates? There ometimes seems
to be this danger. But it can az worst
only be temporary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
How to be Interesting.
Hnrnar.tS Nara Zinn

MOst.persons, it may be admitted, can
not become interesting without an effort.
The Drawer knew man of an inquisitive
but not primarily al original mind who
was always a most entert aiming compan-
ion on account of his information, upon
which he drew modestly, and without Dor
ing anybody, whenever it was needed.
And having the habit, he kept himself
filled up by reading and observation.
The society of q man of this sort never
pals, if. of course, he has been well
enough brought up to be personally
agreeable. While it is not possible to
prescribe rule by following which girl
may become entertaining and always de-
sired members of society, it IS safe to say
that person will never be Interesting
unless she is interested. To be interest-
ed in something outside of ones self Is
a necessity of the situation. That always
with any Inpan1oD makes point of in
terest. There has been growing com
plant here this season-and it is one OF
many seasons standing-of the scarcity
of young men at the resorts, and it has
also bee limited that the young men who
did appear were uninteresting- This is
the fault of the young men, for the
young women have been as attractive as
ever. Bat 1T must be kept III mind that
however devoid of entertaining qualities
men may be at certain age, from lack
of experience and of any actual taking
hold of life Tor from the idea that they
know it ALL they will soon plunge into
work, either business or profession,
that will interest them, teach them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

WHILE Dolly Phillips, eyed 20, was
watching the Republican parade at Terre
Haute, Ind, Tuesday night, man walked
up to her and, exclaiming, "There take
that" ehot her dead. The murderer,
whose name is said to be Galloway, es-
capped.
A RUDELY constructed bomb was thrown
into the grounds Of the Academy of the
Visitation, at Washington, Wednesday
night. The explosion startled the sisters
and shook the windows, but did no dam
age. The Mother Superior thinks it was
the work of boys, who were practicing a
Halloween joke.
The four men who were arrested on the
charge Of having placed dynamite on the
North Side street-railway tracks at Chi
cago during'the recent strike, with destruc-
tive intent, were released oday, by the
Police Magistrate before whom they were
examined, he deciding that the evidence
against them was not sufficient to warrant
holding them on that charge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
A LEARNED CAT.
Which Spends Its Summers in the Catskills-
Some Gifts Tricks.
Kingston Freeman

Which Spends Its Summers in the Catskills-
Some Gifts Tricks
Kingston Freeman.
correspondent of the Freeman at
Shokan, Ulster county, writes:
"This little village in the Catskill
mountains has said good bye to It's last
summer boarder, and resumed its usually
quiet and even tenor. The children in
the vicinity meet together, and if one
listens closely, the name Ned will often
be heard"
"Can't play hide and seek any more,
cause Ned amt here" said pouting
youngster.
"Poor Ned, 1 wish next summer was
here" said another.
"And who is Ned, sissy" inquired a
stranger.
"Don't you know Ned? Why he's q
cat. He lives in New York in the winter
time but every summer he comes here to
board"
Further inquiry corrotorated the
child's story and elected many amusing
facts regarding the New York feline
boarder. The cat is owned by family
named Brown, who spend their summers
in the Catskills. When puss arrived at
his old haunts this year, he was Rugged
and petted by all the wee ones of the
village who insisted that Ned kissed them
back again. Strangers it did not greet
at all, but all its old friends were recog-
nized in cat fashion,"
"When the bell would be rung for
meals, Ned would always appear in the
dining room, where its paper napkin was
spread for 1T, and It's manners while din
ing were equal to those of we'll bred
child. Ned said his prayers every night
before retiring and it was a funny sight
to see the big cat huddled together in q
devout fashion peculiarly its own.
Zone of Ned's funniest tricks was play
ing hide and seek with dozen or more
children. The cat would hunt about
with avidity and often bring forth the
little hider, holding him or her securely
by the skirt or trousers. When the chill
dren would say, now Ned you hide the
cat would trot off and hide so effectually
that several minutes would sometimes
elapse before trium phant youngste1
would lead Ned forth amid deafening
shouts of gee.
"Apother amusing story told about
Ned, is that one day it was knocked &C.
cidently out Of a village cart, since which
time it has never set foot in so PREACHER
Gus vehicle. When 1t sees one it will
sneak away, or if it hears the name even
it becomes invisible until tho danger i;
past. Il will ride in ali other vehicles
but village or Dig Cart is its particular
DIGESTION.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

PAUL Now what is the use, Sarah, of
our taking several magazines, when we
can get the whole thing combined in one?
When we were over to the Stetsons', the
other evening, I happened to pick up the
one they take, and after glancing it over
could account for your always going to
Mrs. Stetson for Information, and it wcs
very evident where she gets her informa
ton from.
SARAH.-Well, Paul, am glad you have
come to your senses at last! If you will
remember, I have wanted for some time
to take the same Magazine that they do,
but you have always put me off by OBJ
jecting to my taking Fashion Maya
zine. The fact is, Family Magazine
that is published to interest every mem
Der of the family, must contain a fash
ion department; and it is great credit to
Demorest's Monthly Magazine that its
fashion department, like all its other de-
Partments, is SO perfect. But Mr.. Stet-
son ia always as anxious for its arrival as
his wife, SO he must find in it just what
he wants too.
I understand that the publisher, W.
jennings Demorest, Is East 14th St.,
New York, will send a specimen copy for
10 cents. [ am going 10 send for one, for
I can certainly lose nothing, as each num-
Der contains q "Pattern Order" worth 80
cents, for it entities the holder to any
pattern she may choose, the Magazine is
only 81 per year and worth ten times that
amount.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
ORATORICAL INSPIRATION.
A Blow to Ex-Tempore Inspiration IN the
Ancient and Modern Times
SanduSkv REGISTER

A Blow to Ex-TempOre Inspiration IN the
Ancient and Modern Times.
Sandusky Register.
No one has ever doubted that the great
orators Of Greece and Rome prepared
their orations-wrote them out IN full
and committed them to memory. Indeed,
they were probably perfectly memorized
when fully written or revised, for 1t would
be impossible for a man of ordinary
ability even to devote weeks and months
to the preparation of a discourse, as we
have reason to believe DemOsthenes did,
without having it SO thoroughly rooted
in his mind as to make the manuscript
unnecessary. But notwithstanding all the
facts to the contrary, there still exists a
popular delusion that the orators bright
est and most eloquent sentences are in
him no special preparation is ever neces-
sary. A victim to this belief who heard
Col. Robert Ingersol durIcg a recent pr
Iltical campaign followed he distinguish
ed orator to his next sp continent, and
was both surprised and cnagrined to find
that he repeated the same speech, with
out the omission or addition of a single
syllable. Ia short the speakers wit, peth
os and argument had been studiously
prepared and committed to memory.
When the late Salmon p. Chase was can
didate for Governor of Ohio he delivered
the same speech from twenty or thirty
different stands, and finally allowed it to
be published.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
A VERY COMMENTED MAN.
He Differed With His Wife on a Matter of
Religion, but Still Was Happy.

Religion, but Still Was Happy
Arkansaw Traveller
ply sician while strolllng through the
woods near Jacksonville, Fla, heard Pc
culiar noise, and, locking about him,
discovered an old negro sitting on log,
humming tune. The physician ap.
preached the negro and said:
You seem 90 be happy, old man."
"Wall, sab, amt got nuthin' ter plain
erbout.n
$40 you know that yellow fever is rag
ing all around your"
Ought ter know it, san, when I dun
buried my wife yistidy."
"Then how can you sit around here and
sing?"
"Dis yere is Gods worl', aims iten
Il suppose So"
San 1 b'longs ter God, doan' I?n
eyes"
"Wall, eff de Lawd put it in my heart
ter sing, doan' see why 1 oughter keep
my mouf shet."
"Are you not afraid of taking the
fevers"
''Whut's de use'n bein' erfeered? Ell
de Lawd wants me ter take it, will, an
if He doan' l amt, OATS all; an, sides
dat, amt gwine ter take it no quicker
eff | sings. I lay you mer go round dat
town now, an you'll fin mos o de folks
Whut's got &c feber didn't sing err
tall.n
81 don't see," said the amused ply
siciaD, chow you can feel disposed to
sing when your wife was buried only yes
terday."
mo, sab; case you don't known dat
lady like 1 did"
didn't you get along we'll together?"
Didn't git erlong tergedder ez we'll ez
we did erpart, sahf"
'What was the troubles"
ooh, wall, sab, 1 is er Baptis' an she
wuz one O. dezs yere blind Meferdis. She
b'lived dat hingin' er little dab o. water
q er man would do de wuck fur him,
when all sensible pussons oughter know
dat eff he wanter be saved he must be
souzed in de bayo head an years. I tell
you dat wen dis yere plan o. salvation
| comes up man better not dodge de pint.
Eff John de Baptis' he got out in de
ribber down at the ferry an souzed folks
under de water wy doan see wy folks
wanster take de chance by bein'
spriRkled."
cold man, do you wait job of work."
mo, sab, kahn say dat | does"
"Isn't your name Reuben White?"
"Dat's my nomination, sah."
"Didn't I see you, some time ago, going
around asking for work."
"You mout; yes, sah."
'Why did you want work then?"
"Had to work den ter git suthin' ter
eat"
swell, but don't you have to eat now?"
"Yas, but I doan wuck fur it. Look
yere, you reckon Ise gwine ter wuck wen
de folks all ober the country is sendin
hams an foer an all sorts O. provisions
down yere? Is er cat gwine ter war her
self out scratchin' roun' after mice wen
oars er big piece o. meat lynn side her
Look yere, man, what sorter f0sipher is
you, nohow?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
A Chinese Boys Fortune.
The Culver.

No sooner js Chinese boy born into
the world than his father proceeds to
write down eight characters or words,
each set of two representing respect
lively the exact hour, day, month and
year of his birth These are handed by
his father TO fortune-teller, whose
business it is to draw up from them a
certain book of fate, generally spoken of
as the boys pat-tsz, or ''eight charac-
ters.n Herein the fortune teller describes
the good and evil which the boy is likely
to meet with in after life, aud the means
to be adopted in order to secure the one
and avert the other.
In order TO understand something of
the value of this document we must
glance at the Chinese method of reckon
ing time. There are only twelve Chinese
hours to our twenty four. Beginning
with IL p. N. to l a. NJ, which is their
first hour, their names are rat, OK, tiger
rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep,
monkey, coax, dog and pig. As every
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
Corn in Tight Cribs.

Mr.. B. J. Goodwin, Iowa, writes: Last
spring l asked the Prairie Farmer if it
would be safe for us to exchange our
open corn cribs for tight ones in which
to store our corn. / mentioned the fact
that one of my sons had used sight
building for the last three seasons with
good success. But had l waited few
weeks later before making the inquiry, l
should not have made it at all, for what
corn he did rot sell early in the spring of
the third season he had to handle, and
give a good airing to keep from spelling.
His three years. experience in storing
corn in a tight crib or granary proves
this If the corn, when husked, be fairly
dry, it will do to put it in tight build
ing, provided the weather be dry during
the fall, and the winter be a steady cold
one, followed by dTouth the next season.
But if the following season be wet, the
corn will not keep well. No more tight
corn cribs for Us.
The above letter contains matters i'm
portant to every farmer. Corn stored in
the ear may not be placed in tight cribs,
when it has only received the drying
natural to it's being on the stalk. 1t
often requires the whole winter to fully
prepare it for Smelling and Transports
t1on in tight cars. If the autumn and
winter are damp, it will often mold in
the center of wide cribs, and often in the
average seasons the chit or germ is killed
especially in those of alternate freezing
and thawing, and this from rupture of
the cells of the grain. The same cause
also renders the meal from such corn
bitter.
It is also we'll known that corn readily
absorbs moisture, and that unless kiln
dried before grinding, and placed in air
tight packages, it is apt to heat. In the
saving of seed corn, therefore, it is es-
pecially necessary that the corn be ripe.
dried thoroughly before it is frozen and
then kept in g dry place, and preferably
one where it will not freeze. So also,
corn intended for grinding into meal for
human use should be kept in cribs SO
narrow that it may dry equally and thor
oughly, and also flooring enough 50 that
no rain can drive in to dampen the corn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

In nearly every instance of contagious
diseases, careful Investigations have
proven the existence of microscopic
forms of life which have been christened
microbes. These infnitesimal germs are
not analogous in appearance. The pull
monary consumption miorobe is different
from the Asiatic cholera microbe. Scien-
tifc theories have been formulated in the
hope that some means might be found to
annihilate the power of these microbes.
On this point some very surprising dis
coyeries of vast importance to medicine
have been made. Vaccination has teen
tried to secure naturalization of the
force of these germs. But this method
has not resulted satisfactorily. A mum
Der of eminent scientists are now expert
menting in the effort TO devise some way
to destroy these germs which are harmful
to the human being.