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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

ALTHoUTH workipgmen as class are
product of later days, they already form
a very noticeable percentage of the great
body of workers of both sexes, while the
annual increase of women's enterprise
upon some specific employment is re-
markable. In Great Britain and Ireland
alone there are something like five mil
lion women who are regularly engaged
in one or another of the numerous trades
and professiops-tha is, the number of
workingwomen in the British isles is
equal to the entire population of Ireland
and somewhat in excess of that of Scot
land and Wales combined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
A Remarkable Story.
London Times

A romantic story is that of Mr.. John
Farmer, the musician and organist of
Harrow School, England. DIR. Farmer
owes his career III a large measure to the
energy OF his mother, who, discerning the
boys ability, insisted that he should be
sent to Germany for course of study.
When he came back he was very ambi-
tious, and moi meeting with all the en-
couragement that he desired from his
father, he determined to return to Ger
many. Funds, however, were wanting,
for he was but youth, and these were
supplied by the generosity of his sisters,
who clubbed their pocket money for the
purpose. But the amount was made
quate, and poor John had &c tramp the
lest part of his journey. He arrived at
Leipsic. It was ON she afternoon of the
concert that was TO be given by some of
the acquaintance in the Conservatoire,
and he eagerly seized the chance of sing
ing at it. He sang so well that The au-
dience was delighted, one lady was so
pleased that she sent her little daughter
with a present of money to the English
lad. That was John Farmers first &C.
quaintance with his future wife, who has
now become an exceedingly charming
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
GALLANT YOUNG BANDITS.
Some DimeNove Reading Boys Dig Cave
and CAPTURE Two Girls

Some DimeNoveI Reading Boys Dig IA Cave
and Capture Two Girls
A gang of novel reading boys have had
q regulation Tom Sawyer bandits cave in
g vacant lot at 103 Walnut street for some
time past. The grade of the lot is slight
ly above that of the street, and on it are
a number of empty wagon-boxes. On
der cover of one of these boxes Johnny
Wilson and Charley Hansen, two 12year-
old boys, commenced to dig the entrance
to a cave. After school hours for mum
Der of days they worked away, until a
long passage leading under the side walk
and a large cave was finiGhed. They fit
ted up this cave, after the manner pre-
scribed in novels, with easy touches and
many rugs. After furnishing the cave
they organized gang, swearing in five
boys with hot-poke ceremony. These
boys together are charged with stealing a
number Of articIes-blankets, rings, rugs,
and live chickens among the rest. But
the strangest thing they did was to take
captive two young girls, Jessie Thomas
end Edna Holton. They kept them in
the cave as Queens" several afternoons.
The girls wore the. stolen rings and help
ed to eat the stolen chickens. Officer
PhilbrIck, Of the West Lake street sta
ton with his partner, arrested Wilson and
Hansen yesterday, and will arrest the
others. The offense for which warrants
were made out for their arrest was the
stealing of six chickens of rare and
valuable kind from fancier. The boys
sold four OF these chickens for so cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
A Natural Trap.
American Magazine.

What a glorious natural trap it was in
to which Burgoyne marched his glitteripg
columns! Here, in this vast, natural am
phitheater, stretching fifty miles or more
east and west, north and south, from the
Green Mountains to the Righteousness,
from the Adironacks and Lake George
bills to the Mohawk and Catskills-sug-
costing, as some suppose it was, great
inland sea-what better place could there
have been for decisive rally and a de-
cisiye victory for Independence? Had
Burgoyne known or appreciated the tenn
per of the colonists In this region, sons
of the followers of Miles Standish or
Roger Williams, as we'll as hardy Scotch
or sturdy Dutch had he known the beacon
fires on Willard and Bald mountains
could summon such an array of farmer
soldiers, he would not have talked lightly
in the London clubs Of "parading through
America with ten thousand men," Even
the encircling mountains seem to con-
spire to resist and hem in an invader.
The numerous wooded ravines, gullies
and intervales, that line the upper Hud-
son, offer admirable opportunities for
successful defense and retreat if Eeces-
sary; while tbs high grounds back of the
river afford great advantages for artillery
and for fanking an enemy pursuing, as
Burgoyne did, the low road along the
river. These natural advantages, with
the fact that the enemy's movements
could be plainly .watched from across the
river, contributed greatly to the success
of the Americans ct the battles of Bemis
Heights and Saltwater.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Eat With Comfort and be Happy.

II is by no means uncertain, but on the contrary,
well ascertained fact, that upon the well being
OF mans stomach depends that modicum Of hap
piness which is vouchsafed to him in this world.
Dyspepsia, the foe of all others to the stomach's
tranquility, and most to be dreaded, is COM
plant to the preliminary relief and eventful
cure of which Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
specially adapted. 1t enables those who use it
with reasonable degree Of persistence to eat
with relish, because it imDarts healthful appe-
tite; to digest with ease, because it strengthens
tle stomach; and to assimilate the food which is
eaten and digested. thus beneftting health, pro-
noting flesh and sustaining the exercise of the
physical and mental faculties. 1t, moreover
Facilitates the secretion of healthy bile, actuates
without discomfort the habit Of body. and tends,
when taken upon retiring, to produce healthy
slumber. Malaria is conquered by it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

DIR. TANNER, who made himself go
famous by his long fast, has returned to
New York. He has been studying 'Sus-
pended Animation" or Counterfeit
Death" and advocates a theory that a
large number of people are buried alive
annually. He says he may at some future
time permit himself to be sealed up in an
alright coffin and laid away for length
of time, such as he may designate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

IT should not be forgotten that the
greenbackers are in the field as of old,
but this time with only declaration and
without ticket. Seven of them met IN
national convention at Cincinnati, Thurs
day, and resolved the same old resolve,
that a scarcity of money is national evil
and the root of all evils. Thereupon, an
adjournment was made without day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Need of Remodeling Our School System.

I expect to meet with much opposition
when I declare my conviction that our
public school system will sooner or later
have to be radically remodeled. 1t is an
academic system-a university currlcH-
Ium On a restricted scaie-similar in kind,
differing only in degree. The culture
which 1t iinparts is academic, a7d has but
small reference to the life which the
great majority Of the pupils will have to
lead. 1t kindles an ambition in them
which, in lime cases out of ten, is des-
tined to be disappointed, and engenders,
as consequence. discomfort and dis
affection toward the State which fails to
satisfy the expectations it has aided in
arousiEg.-Prof. II. Fl. Boyesen IL the
September Forum
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Extent of Food Arbitration.
American Analyst.

The hopse committee on Agriculture
recently, in reporting a bill to prevent
the manufacture or trans portetion or
adultrated articles of food, drink and
drugs made IN one State and intended 70
De sold in another, gave the following in
dor5ment to the views so often expressed
by the American Analyst in relation TO
the dangerous magnitude of the adultrtioD
evil: This state of facts amounts not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

CARL ScHUBz gives fresh evidence of
his Americanism by defending our in
stitutions from an attack in German
paper. In reply to the assertion that a
presidential election in this country is
"merely an affair of money" he says,
the American nation is staunch, great
hearted and self-respecting."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN,.

THE president Of the British assocla-
ton for the advancement of science is an
enthusiast on electric railways, end In a
recent address predicted time when
there would be no steam engines except
In r,useums as curiosities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

The longest straight reach Of railroad
IL the world is on the new Argentine
Pacific line. Il is 211 miles in length.
without single curve; nor Is there
bridge upon il, nor single opening
larger than al ordinary culvert; no cut
deeper than a yard and no sill" more
than yard high. There being little or
no wood along the line, iron ties are en-
ployed almost exclusively.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

Two men were killed and five seriously
injured by the explosion of a saw mill
boiler on the Missouri river, near Blair,
Nebraska.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27
Serving an old friend: Young man Ito

Serving an old friend: Young man Ito
editor )-"I sent little poem here yester-
day, sir; my name is Waffles." Editor
"Oh, yes. Are you son of Mr.. Monta-
que b. Wafies?" Young man-"Yes, sir"
Editor -s'WeIl, destroyed the poem my
seif-burned it up and buried the ashes
ten feet deep. Your father, young nan
with emotion) and I ere old boyhood
friends, and l love him as brother.
Bless the ola boy! Tell hin what have
done for .n-Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-27

A German remedy for swollen fest,
which should prove useful to policemen,
mail carriers, printers and others whose
business keeps them on their feet all day,
is composed of parts salicylic acid, 10
parts sterch and 81 parts of pulverized
soapstone. This, sifted into the shoes
and stockings, keep the feet dry and pre-
vents chafng.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
Everybody Knows 1t.

The Troy Telegram says: eyes sail
an old and experienced hotel clerk yes
teriay. 81 can tell Il bride and groom
ut glance. For some reason or other
they all seem ashamed to have it known
that they are newly married, and they
all try to give the impression that they
are comparatively old stagers, as it were,
but it's no use with me. l see their old
trunks-to come with new ones, You
know, would be to advertise the fact that
they had just been weddcd-and laugh
outright when receive letter from a
bridegroom saying, Myself and wife
will be at your house on Wednesday
night between IL and 1o'clock. Our
luggage will arrive during the afternoon,
but we will not arrive ourselves until
after the theatre Then i watch and
see them come in with bundle of UNI
brellas and capes, hat box, and n
couple of valises, which 1 have no hest
fancy, of course, in believing that they
took to the play with them. How do |
tell bride and groom! Well, there's
something about the way they look OF
each other when they are together, and
when the newl married man is by him.
self can tell by the manner in which he
uses the two words my wife, He is moi
used to the combination. and they sound
rs unnatural to me as they do to him
solf."
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
THE NIAGARA ICE BRIDGE.
A Daring Connecticut Girl the Firsl
of Her Sex to VENT re Across.
From the Buffalo Courier.1

One of the finest and largest ice
bridges that Niagara has ever had III
many years formed in the gorge IN front
of Prospect Park Monday morning
abont i o'clock. 1t extends from IN
front of the Canadian falls to q point far
down the river in front of what is COM
monty known as the pleasure grounds.
1t has all the appearance of being firmly
locked, and looks as if it had ''cOme to
stay." The greater body of ice is most
firmly locked in the widest part OF the
river. and those who have seen many
bridge formations say this is favorable
to its staying for some weeks. In places
it is tossed many feet high, and the
mountainous ridges run mall directions.
One ridge far out in the centre has
pole stuck up on which waves q hand
kerchief placed there by the nervy fell
low, McCloy.
Standing on the cliff it is q beautiful
sight, but to be fully appreciated it
must be viewed from below, when all its
roughness and beauty can be better seen.
| The first one to cross it was Thomas
Conroy, who passed over from this side
to the Canadian about o clock yestcr-
| day morning and returned accompanied
by jack LIE Blond. The first lady who
possessed Sufficient nerve to undertake
the journey across was Miss Mamie L..
Edwards Of Bridgeport, Ct, who cross
ed from the Canadian shore to this side
about 3 o'clock this afternoon, in CON-
pany with William Edwards of Niagara
Falls, Ont, whose lest she is. After
crossing Miss Edwards visited Goat Isl
and SO as to get river view from all
points of the bridge of which she has the
honor of being the first lady to cross.
1t is surprising when one looks back
to see how near the same time in the
year these formations have occurred. In
1888 the first formation was on Jan. ID.
and the second on the Odd, both on Sun
day night. The second formation re-
NAMED thirteen weeks; when it carried
away over 100 feet of the inclined rail
way building. The Park company, who
were then in possession, cleared away
the debris and cut tunnel through the
ice by Is feet and about IS long, SO as
to reach the bridge proper. When this
great jam came Jack McCloy was living
on the Canadian side. His house wa.
carried quite away and tipped over. A
clock that fell OF the shelf had stopped
Mt - 25 q. m. Tho reason SO mucl
damage was done was that the water wa
very high and strong ice bridge al
really blocked the gorge.
| The last bridge previous to the pres
ent formation was in the winter OF 1884
IS. and remained eight or ten weeks
This is the first bridge since the Stat
has been in possession of the reserva
ton property. The ice mount iii has
attained q good size, and a trip to TIN
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
MAKE 1T RAIN WHEN YOU LIKE.
Artificial Electricity Trained to Pro
duce Natural Showers.

The remarkable powers and adaptable.
ity of the electric current to the uses OF
society have been further demonstrated
by an invention " hich las ut least the
charm of novelty. lHis is nothing more
nor less than pat - to open the win
dows of heaven Mt t!.e .Iill of man, and
Michael Cahill, NJ. ID. of San Francisco
is the inventor.
81 expect to see the sage brush deserts
of Nebraska and Nevada under cultiva-
ton and affOrding pasturage for thOus-
ands of cattle in few years." said the
doctor.
"By what extraordinary means do
you intend to tap the clouds and inter
fere with the laws of nature" queried
the reporter.
'Simply by condenser or captive
balloon and an electric cable placed
wherever the rain is required. l have
long believed that rain could he produc-
ed by artificial means, and lave work
ed at this hobby of mine for several
years-ever since l left college, in fact.
You see, first of all. vapor rs it ascends,
receives heat from the solar rays, which
also impels it upward until restricted by
the cold. The vesicles or dewdrops,
being crowded together, become electri-
fed and float on the air at an altitude Of
from 1900 to 5000 feet, and all that is
required then to produce rain is to in
tercept the vcsicles by artificial means.
What have invented is condenser of
peculiar shape and construction and
connected with the earth by an electric
cable. Whenever the vesicle comes in
to contact with the condenser or cur
rent, they are broken up and the water
forced to the ground with great rapidity.
The rain will he produced by the law
that causes condensation on u window
pane. The surface of the glass is Gov
cred with microscopic points, and on
becoming chilled the layer of mir next il
falls, allowing the yapor to flow on to
the points and thence to the ground"
"You will require a gigantic balloon
for such q purpose, was suggested.
Oh, no. A condenser of about two
hundred feet in diameter will bring down
something like 25,0J0, 900 gallons day
and as much rs would irrigate almost
half of this State. The volume of water
can be preserved or formed into rivers
whichever may be desired.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
Could Drink 1t.

A story is told of the heroism display
ed by kentucky colonel-a real colo
mel, who was out soldering with the mar
rator. During the absence of the regi-
mental surgeon one day the colonel was
seized with diligent discomfort in the
region of the sword belt, and he was al
vised to drink a s,oundrelly potion
compounded ofturpentine and water.
He took il down with never wink.
Chow did you like it, sirl" asked tho
major, with mock solicitude.
"Bah-it is nothing" said the hero OF
the performance "a TRANQUILITY as he
would have described tie loss OF leg
by cannon shot; ~ could drink !,
without the turpentine." AashriUt
.1GeficIn.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18

A STORY comes from Honolulu that
after Queen Kapiolane and her daugh-
ter cot home from their recent trip to
Europe they caused to be put into shop
windows pictures of themselves taken III
London in the superb court costum
that they had bought in Paris. A native
mob passed resolutions denouncing this
breach Of Sandwich island customs as to
clothing, visited all the shops where the
pictures were displayel, destroyed the
portraits, and then went to the palace
and demanded that the costumes them
selves be delivered to them. The royal
ladies had to yield. and saw the triumphs
Of Worth torn in pieces by the mob. A
promise was then exac.ed that the Queen
and Princess hereafter would wear only
the native costume, and the mob broke
up.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
How Snow Sheds are Bait.

The Truckce New Republican says:
Snow sheds to cover the railway track
have been built at points on the Central
Pacific ROad where it crosses the Sierra.
As the trains bound Fast leave Emf
grant Gap they ran through one con-
tinuous she'd for So miles. The purpose
of the sheds is to prevent the track be-
ing buried under falling and drifting
snow. They secure this end, but are
themselves the occasion of great incOn-
venience, such as the noise, the loss OF
view, and the continuing of the smoke to
the train. There is nothing peculiar IN
the construction of these sheds, which
have to support only the burden OF the
snow. But on the line of the Canadian
Pacific, where the road crosses the Rocky
Mountains, sheds of different con-
struction are needed. Before the road
was completed observations i'll the
mountains showed that ayalanchcs must
he provided againts. \ single avalanche
covered the track for distance of 300
feet and to the depth of 50 feet. The
results of these observations was that
the company built four and hall miles
OF snow sheds Mt an enormous expense.
The sheds were constructed as follows:
On the high side of the mountain slope
crib filed with stones is constructed
Along the entire length of the shed and
on the opposite of the track timber
trestle is erected; strong timber beams
are laid from the top of the crib work to
the top of the trestle four feet apart, and
at an angle representing the slope of the
mountain as nearly as possible. These
are covered over with fourinch plankin9
and the beams are braced on either side
from the trestle and from the crib. The
covering is placed at such height as to
give Fl feet Roadway from the undel
side of the beam to the centre OF the
track. The longest of these sheds i:
800 feet.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18

A FRENCH dandy went into photog-
rapher's to get his picture taken. When
the job was done he refused to pay, on
the ground that the picture did not look
like him, and he left the establishment.
Next morning he passed by the place
and saw his picture hanging in the show
Ease, and En,ler it were the startling
words in big letters, "The biggest fool
IL the whole town" He rushed into
he store and abused the proprietor.
''But, my dear sir, said the latter,
since the picture doesn't resemble you.
what in the world are you complaining
tbout}"
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18


How fresh in my mind the days Of my
sickness,
When tossed me in pain, all f vcrod and
Sor":
The burning tic nausea the sinking and weak
And even the old spoon tina; my medicine
bore.
The old silver spoon, the family spoon.
1hr ck-cnanhct spoon that my medic ne
bore.
How 10th were my feycr-parchcd lips to re-
tevc il.
How nauscous the stuff that il bore to my
tongue.
And the pain at my inwards, oh. naught could
relieve IL.
Though tears of DISCUS from my cyehalls il
wrung.
The old silver spoon, the medicine spr on,
How awful the stuff that it left on my
ton ne.
Such is the effect Of auseous, gripping mcdi
iciurS which make the s!ck-ronm a memory a.
horror DR. Pierre : Peasant furgatlV' Pc
let's on he contrary. are small. suEar-coa'c,i
easy to take, purify vegetable and petfcCtl.
effective. - cents vial.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18
SDonf Mnrry Himi"

HE Is such a fickle inconstant fellow, you
will never be happy with him." said Esther's
friends when they learned Of her engagement
10 a young man who bore he reputation Of be-
ing a firt. Esther. however, knew that her
lover had good qualities, and she was willing
TO take the risk. In nine cases out OF ten II
would have proved mistake: but Esther was
an uncommon girl and to every ones surprise
Fred III ide model husband. How was II,
Well Esther had a cheerful, sunny temper and
a great deal of tact. Then she enjoyed perfect
health and was always so sweet. neat and
wholesome that Fred found his own home
mr a. pleasant, and his own wife more agreea.
bic than any other being. As the year passed
and he saw O.her women Of Esther's age grow
sickly, faded and querulous. he realized more
and more that he had "a jewel Of wife
Good health was half the secret Of Esther
success. She retained her vitality and good
looks because she warded of feminine weak
ncsses and ailments by the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
Nice, Italy, is suffering from the effects III TN
eartbouake Few visitors are going there.
Richland beacon., 1888-02-18

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