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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
EcuadOr's Ancient Civilization.

Here in these mountains, until the
Spaniards came, in 1854, existed a civil
cation that was old when Christ was cru
cifed-a civilization whose arts were
equal to those of Egypt, which had tenn
pies four times the size of tbs Capitol ct
Washington, from single one the Span
iards drew twenty thousand ounces of
solid silver nails, and whose rulers had
palaces from which the Spaniards gath
cred an unmeasured quantity o. silver
and gold. Here was an empire stretching
from the equator to the antarctic circle,
w-lled in by the grandesu group of noun
tsins in the world, whose people knew all
the arts Of their time but that of war, and
were conquered by 213 men under the
leadership of Spanish swine herd, who
could Leither read nor write.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

THE Local Government bill, which has
recently been carried through Parliament
was strange in some of its details. The
compensation clauses to owners of pub
lie houses whose trade might have been
stopped under some system as local OPP
ton would, according to Mr.. Labouchere,
who is the most original of English politi-
cal thinkers, have amounted to fifteen
hundred million. Mr.. Labouchere's OBJ
lection to this, apart from the prodigi-
Gus sum, was that it would have gone in
to the pockets Of the brewers and specu-
lators in inns. It seems that tho public
houses in England are owned by sort of
brewers trust, the lessees being little
more than care takers. And as these
large breweries are becoming limited
companies they can become trust more
powerful than any We have in the United
States. The old inn, which was the keep
er's home, and where there was always a
friendly freside welcome, the inn we read
about in the old novels and see in the old
comedies, and which was one Of the
charms of travel IN England, hes passed
away before the railway. Steam has de-
stroyed many things, but nothing that is
more to be regretted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

4 strip of country IN the southwestern
part of Potter county, Pennsylvania, Is
known as Black Forest. In ths Southern
part of the forest is an immense black
snake den. Some that have been killed
measured IL feet. They are of the con-
strictor species, and not poisonous. Last
week Charles WOlftng, a blacksmith, and
friend saw one stretch itself across the
road. On attacking him it wound itself
about Wolfing's body and pinned one of
his arms to his side. His right arm was
rice and he seized the huge snake by the
neck with his right hand and shouted to
mis- companion to come to his aid. The
latter hurried back, and while WolfiDg
held the blacksnake's head at arms
length his companion beat it with club
unit. it relaxed its coil about the black
smith and was killed. This snake which is
now being prepared for shipment to the
Smithsonian Institute measures Ia feet
and inches, and is believed to be the
argess OF its kind ever killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
From Birth to the Grave

We carry with US certain kysical traits, as we
do certain mental characteristics. Insomuch
that psychologists have striven to designate by
generic titles certain temperaments-as the bill
ious. the nervous, the Emphatic. The individual
with salow complexion is set down as bilious,
often rightly so. If the saffron in the hue of his
skin is raceable to bile in the blood its presence
the wrong place instead of the liver, will also
be evnced by fur the tongue. pain beneath
blade, sick headache, constipation, aatulence
and digestion. For the relief Of this very M
mon, but not essentially perilous ompIaint,
than hoStetter'S Stomach Btters, which is also
beneficent tonic and strength promoter, and a
widely esteemed remedy for and preventive of
troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

The French census report $50 persons
who were 100 years old or over, but M.
Levasseur, who has been Investigating the
matter, reports to theAccademy of Science
that sixty-seven of these were only "be-
Heved" to be so by their relatives, and
that there were only sixteen whose age
could be proven to be over hundred
wears by authentic documents. He esti-
mates that there are over fifty gentleman
ians in the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

PHILADELPHIA is said to be more over
crowded with lawyers than any city in
the country. This state OF affairs result
ed in the judges few weeks ago raising
the course of study for students from two
to three years. It is thought this will
raise the standard of excellence and di-
minish the annual crop of attorneys. Since
January 1st, 1875, the orphans court in
Philadelphia has sworn in 1000 new law
yers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HIM.
And Yet Was Not the Youth That Was Feeling
the Potatoes

And Yet Was Not the Youth That Was Feeling
the Potatoes.
A few months ago a we'll dressed young
man, about Is years Of age, stepped into
prominent Main street restaurant, said
be was broke and wanted to go to work,
says the Butte (Mon.) Inter Mountain.
The genial night clerk was instantly
struck with this declaration, together
with the appearance Of the young man,
and said:
You better quit your fooling and get
inside and peel those potatoes you start
ed att
81 don't belong here, Why, what's the
matter with you anyway" returned the
stranger.
What! Amt you the boy that's been
working for US the past Year," queried
the clerk.
'sNo sill; ! am not"
'sWell you are his ghost then, for if you
amt the dead image OF John Poner that
works for Us, I'll eat my hat"
"Poner, did you say?" asked the young
man, who was beginning to get little
nervous.
''Let me see him. That's my name.
Maybe he's my brother that L have been
lOUhluS lOE, IcI OiS lnsb 81 Jonis'
The clerk told him he he was busy now,
but to sit down and he would sent him
out. The boy who was peeling potatoes,
came out soon with large painful ia his
arms. He saw his brother, dropped the
potatoes, and the twins fell fondly IN
each others embrace.
They were wonderfully alike in appear
ance. The brother who hes just arrived
is named Phillip Poner. They are both
from Chicago. Phillip says he has been
all over California, Texas, Arizona and
New Mexico is search of his brother to
take him home, end now that he has
found him he will stop here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

JUDGE JOE HOLT, VINO was in Buchan-
ans cabinet and was afterward Judge
acknowledgements, is leading very lonely
life in Washington, according to cor
respondent, who describes him as driv-
ing through the streets on his way to
market on an old broken down vehicle,
the driver being a roughIooking old
colored man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
hnliSm.

Rev. Dr.. Buckley in the Julv Century
contributes an article under. the title of
Dreams, Nightmares and S0mnambu-
lism," from which we quote the follow
ing:
Somnambuiism, in it's sim plest form, is
seen when persons talk in their sleep.
They are plainly asleep and dreaming ;
yet the connection, ordinarily broken, be-
tween the physical organs and the images
passing through the Mid is retained or
resumed in whole or in part. 1t is very
common for children to talk more Or less
in their sleep; also many persons who
do not usually do so are liable to mutter
if they have over eaten, CIR are feveli5h or
otherwise i'll. Slight movements are
very frequent. Many who do not fancy
that they have ever exhibited the germs
of somnabuIism groan, cry out, whisper,
move the hand, or foot, Or head, plainly
in connection wi h ideas passing through
the mind. From these inc1pient mani
festations OF no Importance somnambu
lism reaches frightful intensity and al
most 1nconceiyabIe com pllcations.
Somnambulists in this country have re-
Gently pcrpetuated murders, have even
killed their own children; they have car
clocks, ignited CONGREGATIONS. A carpen-
ter not long since arose in the night, went
into mis- shop, and began to file G saw; but
the noise of the operation awoke him.
The extraordinary feats of somnabuIists
in ascending to the roofs of houses,
threading dangerous places, and doing
many other things which they could not
have done while awake have often been
subject of close investigation. Formerly
it was believed by many that If they were
not awakened they would in process Of
time return to their beds, and that there
would not be any danger OF serious acct
dent happening to them. This has long
been proved false. Many have fallen out
OF windows and been killed; and though
some have skirted the brink of danger
safely, the number of accidents to sleep
ing persons is great.
Essays have been written by somnam-
bulists. A young lady, troubled and anx
ious about prize for which she was to com
pete, involving the writing of an essay,
arose from her bed in sleep and wrote a
paper On a subject upon which she had
not intended to write when awake; and
this essay secured for her the prize. The
same person later in life, while asleep,
selected an obnoxious paper from among
several documents, put it in cup and
set fire to it. She was entirely unaware
of the transaction in the morning.
Intellectual work has sometimes been
done in ordinary dreams not attended by
somnambulism. The composition of the
'Kubla Khan" by Coleridge, while asleep,
and of the Devils Sonata" by Tartinl,
are paralleled in small way frequently.
Public speakers often dream out dis
courses, and there is a clergyman now
residing N the western part of New York
State who, many years ago, dreamed that
he preached a powerful sermon upon
certain topic, and delivered that Identical
discourse the following Sunday with
great effect. But such compositions are
not somnembulistic unless panied
by some outward action at the time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
NORTHW ESTERN CROPS.
The Wet Weather Has Retarded the Harvest
Fortnight.


ST.. Paul, Minn.-Crop reports to the
Pioneer Press agree that the cold, wet
weather prevailing in the northwest dur
ing the past week has retarded the growth
of wheat, and will delay harvesting, al
ready a fortnight late. Waite some wheat
has been cut in southern Minnesota and
Dakota, tho general harvest along the
Manitoba and the Northern Pacific roads
will not be under way until the 20th or
255h, and in places a week later. In the
DEVILS Lake region wheat will not be cut
before September. Reports in this region
have been much exaggerated and any
damage yet done is triflng. Damage by
wind, rain and hail has been local and
limited in area. The crop in Goodhue
county, MINI, has been quite ruined by
chinch bugs and these pests have done
slight damage in few other places.
While it Is yet early to estimate the crop,
it is thought it will at least be an average
one. Hay has suffered from beating rain
but all correspondents report corn in fine
condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

one with whom he has had business trans
actions, even to his church. His down
fall Is attributed to an overwhelming
passion for gambling in stocks.
IT has just been learned that mali
robbery was committed on the Missoufl
Prolific road between Jeferson City and
st. Louis, August 4, in which over S17,-
600 was stolen, OF which So, 600 was from
the Missouri state treasury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

The State Department is informed that
the newly appointed Minister PleniPoten-
tiary from Persia to the United States
will arrive at New York with his suite
about the middle of August. His name
Is Hadj1 Hosseim Kouli Khan Mohamed
ell Yasari, and he don't care who knows it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

The attendance at the Michigan Agri-
cultural College is greater than ever be
fore, and it is thought that 400 students
will be enrolled neEt year. Fifty-one
graduates of the institution are presi-
dents or professors in other colleges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

The Piutes of Lincoln county, Califor-
mia, stoned an Indian doctor to death be
cause some of his patients died. Now
they have learned that all who died have
taken a white doctors medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

The business portion of Suffolk, Va,
was swept away. The burnt district sx-
tends from Main and Bank streets on the
north to the Norfolk and Western Depot
Oh the south, and from Ballard d. Smith
corLer on Washington square west to the
Suffolk Lumber Company on the east.
A large ,mber of dwellings we're burned
Cardinal Manning says that "London
is desolation beyond that of any other
CITY in the civilized world"
Ninety-two heeces of wool were stolen
from the barn of Mrs. John Stozer, near
Columbus. The thieves, who drove
team, were tracked almost to Watertown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

Of course any such fault in the valves
makes tho action of the heart irregular;
it's muscular strength is impaired and
sometimes it's walls become dilated and
fabby and thus the irregularity of action
is increased and the heart even is liable
to fail in its action altogether. General
Sheridan was subject to these attacks of
heart failure, the results OF the enfeebled
condition OF the organ itself. But 1T
is not confined TO the heart alone. If it
does not work evenly the whole circula-
tion becomes deranged. The congestion
in the lungs oauaes backing up SO to
speak, of the blood in the veins, and the
two great internal org ans which, in addi
ton to the lungs, are concerned in the
publication of the biood-the, liver and
the kidnets-wiIl also become congested
and diseased.
It is also plain that the converse of
this would be true and that disturbance
OF the liver and kidneys, impeding the
free passage of the blood, will likewise
disturb the general circulation and by
laying additional effort upon the heart
lead to or increase the disease of that Or
gan. As matter of fact, disease of the
heart and disease of the kidneys are
found to be very closely associated, SO that
it is sometimes questionable which is
antecedent and which consequent. This
question need not detain Us now. II Gen
eral Shsridan's case the kidneys are
krown to have been very seriously dis
ordered and it is probable that his liver
also vas in state that made the portal
circulation irregular snd increased the
difficulties of the heart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

General Sheridan's condition was so
bad when he first recognized his own Gan
ger that the hopes of his actual recovery
have never been great, though it was al
ways possible to hope that his life might
be prolonged, by extreme care and watch
fulness, for an indefinite time. This was
no more than hope, but it was one to
which it was the duty of his physicians to
cling, though they never ceased TO regard
him as in imminent danger. Even had
he survived the summer and advanced a
little further in general strength, he still
would have been cons tantiy in the pres
ence of death, and it is almost certain
that sooner or later death would have
claimed him in this same sudden way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

Albert H@gly, employed in the Case
Thresher Works, Racine, fell down an
elevator shaft, receiving injuries that will
prove fatal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

j. D. Wilcox, proprietor OF the Port
land, Ore, Daily News, is charged with at
tenn ptirg 20 blackmaD a woman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

When the circulation is impeded from
any of these cases, and the blood damned
up, as it were, in the capillaries, the
watery part of the blood often exudes
into the tissues, producing oeaene, or
dropsy. Il will be understood from what
has been said that dropsY may result
from disease Of the heart or disease of
the kidneys or both. General Sheridan
does not seem to have suffered much from
general dropsy, though some swelling
of the extremities was reported, but on
more than one occasion there was severe
oedeme OF the lungs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
SHERIDAN'S CASE.
Some Elementary Facts in Physiology
For the General Reader.
Man is Fearfully Made.

To understand the cause OF General
Sheridan's death it is necessary to know
something of the structure and functions
of the heart aud other organs circulation.
The heart may be roughly compared to 8
ball syringe, Ia which the compression of
the rubber ball sends a current through
the tube at one side while its expansion
admits fresh current through the tube
at the other side. Thus the muscular con-
traction of the heart sends the blood
pulsat1ng through the arteries which
ramify in every part of the body, TO re
turn again through the VEINS 70 the heart.
But the blood as il comes back TO the
heart is not fit to be ssnt ont again until
it has been purified by contact with the
air IN the lungs, snd therefore the heart
is double instrument to carry On this
double circulation, its two halves having
no direct connection.
The blood returning through the veins
is emptie6 into the right auricle or upper
chamber Of the heart, whence it passes
through a three -leaved valve, called tri-
cuspid, into the right ventricie, or princi-
pal chamber. When the heart contracts
the valve closes and the blood is forced
lungs. The arteries ramify infinitely all
over the air cells of the lungs, which are
something like sponge, and this ex
posure to the air purifes the blood. It
returns through the small veins which
gradually unite into one large vein, and
through this the fresh blood enters the
left aurioIe of tbs heart. From this it
passes into the left ventricle, the passage
lal hx To- ALL 4 a
mitral, because its form resemble bis
hops mitare, and the next pulsation
sends it through the aorta, the main
trunk of all the arteries, out into the
general circulation.
The mouth of each of the large vessels
entering Or leaving the heart is also
guarded by valve, but the two great
valves are the tricuspid and the mitral.
Like all valves, their Office is to allow free
passage in one direction only. It will
be easily understood thai if any Of these
valves be out of order, the heart Will do
It's work imperfectly and the circulation
will become IRE gular. The valves are
liable TO structural change. Sometimes 4
little olot will form upon one of them by
the coagulation of fbrine from the blood
constantly flowing past, and in other
ways they may become so affected that
they either obstruct the circulation or
fail to prevent backward flow. Sup
pose that the mitral valve does not shut
close when the heart contracts. Instead
of the current of blood flowing evenly
into the arteries, part of it will be
forced back into the auricle or vestibule
of the heart, checking the flow of fresh
blood from the lungs and causing con
gestion of those organs. This is what
happened in General Sheridan's case.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-03
CASHIER $4,000 SHORT.
A Columbus Bank Suspends-Throngs
of Depositors.

COLUMBUS, o., April 2S.-There is
considerable excitement here to-day in
financial and business circles. A morn
ing paper published statement con-
cerning the shortage of /. w. Corzilius,
Cashier of the South End Bank, which
was placed at SIS, 900.
The bank is patronized largly by
small depositors, mostly Germans. The
publication, although assurances of the
banks ability to pay dollar for dollar
were given, created a stampede among
the depositors who were waiting for the
doors to open.
The depositors continued to flock to the
place, and the crowd sWelled to such
proportions by 10 o'clock that the room
would not hold them, and large num-
ber collected at the corner of Rich and
High streets, in front of the bank to
discuss the situation. ..'
For half an hour all checks were
paid, but the officers concluded to sus-
pend payment temporarily. A notice
was posted to this effect, with q pledge
from the Directors of their private
means to pay every depositor in full.
The suspension only increased the
clamor among the waiting depositors
for their money.
Other banks offered to loan money
and one sent $40,0 900 to the embarrassed
institution and the suspension of pay
ment is looked as one of the mysteries.
P. w. Corzilius, the Cashier, responsible
for the trouble, was in Cincinnati last
night.
The Directors having discovered that
he had overdrawn his account, suspend
ed him several days ago and he imme.
diately left the city. The shortage was
first estimated at $4,000, but it is be.
lieved to be much larger and will pro.
badly reach forty thousand.
The bank has mortgage on the pro-
perty of Corzilius for $3l, 900 to secure
1t against loss.
Later--The Directors, after meet.
ing, state that the shortage will reach
$4,000. The bank will suspend for q
few days until meeting of stockholder:
is held; but the assets of the institution
are ample to pay in full all depositors
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-03
THE FLOOR GAVE WAY
And Four Hundred People are Pre-
cipitated Twenty Feet-Many
Killed and Wounded.

BELLEFoNTAINE, o., April 27.-A
terrible accident occurred at Rushyl-
vania, this county, last night. A school
exhibition was in progress in Brock
mans hall, situated in the second story
of a brick building. The hall seats
about 400 people and was crowded to
its utmost capacity.
Suddenly, without the slightest warn
ing, the floor gave way with frightful
crash and the entire audience went
down in a surging mass to the ground,
a distance of 20 feet. Many women
and children were killed and wounded.
Every public conveyance in the town
has been pressed into service, and ply
sicians and help have responded to ap-
peals for aid in the greatest hoste.-
Several were taken out dead and at
least so are wounded, many of them
seriously. The walls did not fall in or
the calamity would have been much
worse. A number of ladies and chill
dren were taken out, some of them
unhurt, with their clothing torn COM
pletely off of them. So far as known,
the killed are as follows: Mrs. J. r.
Alexander, wife of the minister; Miss
Garwood, of Bellefontaine.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-03
BODIES TURNED TO STONE.
Singular Petrifying Qualities Discov'
cred in a Pennsylvania Graveyard.

HARRISBURG, PA, April 2S.-Eliza-
beth. Allegheny county, has a ceme-
terry, the ground of which has peculiar
qualities for the petrification of bodies
inferred there. During the past few
years several disinterments have been
made in the cemetery, and in every
instance the bodies were found in differ
ent stages of petrification. Some were
entirely turned to solid stone. In
Others the process was yet incomplete.
A few days ago the remains of two
children of A. B. O'Neil were exhumed
for removal to another cemetery. The
younger child, who was three years old
when he died, and has been buried
seven years, was entirely petrified, and
the features, limbs and body were as
we'll preserved as if they had been
chiseled from marble. The older child,
who had been three years buried, was
partially turned to stone, and those por-
tions not yet petrified showed no sign
of decay. The body of the younger
child was accidentIy tapped with a
hammer, and it gave forth clear me-
tallic ring. The ground is stiff yellow
clay, thoroughly saturated with water.