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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
How q Duke Spends His Money.
Paris Dispatch

Brilliant novelists aud drametists
would undoubtedly fnd subject worthy
of study and description in the person of
the Duke of Mondelfi, an opulent NAM
Der of the opulent Russian colony in
Paris. The duke leads a life which re-
sembles to a certain extent that of one
of those Roman emperors or Oriental
potentates described by historians. He
lives in splendid hotel in the
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne with his
mother, Princess Woronzoff, who was a
sister of Prince Nicolas Toubetzkoi, and
a member of the household of Count
Woronzoff, one of the Emperor Alex
ander's court marshals. The duke of
Mondelf is reputed to have 100000 a
year, most of which he manages
to spend IN magnificent man
per. He never goes to bed until
daylight does appear end he generally
get up at 8 O'Clock in VIE afternoon.
After a meal, ard exten ded at full length
on sum tuous divan, hs receives his
friends and visitors, his mother, the
princess, being present at the levee. On
these occasions the duke wears either a
superb dressing gown in ivory colored
plush, lined with satin of the hue of the
peach and garnished with silve
braidins and ornamented with
jewels, or an ample jacket of
heliotrope velvet, gold braided and clasp
ed together with -ducal coronets studied
with brilliants. While conversing with
his visitors the host, it is said, toys with
precious stones and diamonds OF rare
value, but polished and uncut. In the
intervals Of conversation band of Ne
apolitan singers MARBLE the melodi-
GUS airs of sunny Italy; and these
are succeeded by Tzigane musicians
who make the ducal halls ring with their
native, wild and diabolical strains. After
each musical performance the leader of
the band approaches the dIvan, kisses the
hand of the most noble master of the
house, and receives his orders for the
next moroccan of demoniac music. Later
in the evening the duke repairs
to a splendid cafe on the boul-
evard, where he dimes with his friends
and listens once more to the
fddIers, to whom he distributes bountiful
largesse in the shape of fstfuls of louis,
while his guests quaf liberal bumpers of
sparkling champagne in his honor. Such
is an outline of the ordinary life of an
atistocrat in this capital, which despite
its spartan republicans and the lamenta-
tions of those who praise past days, is
still evidently rendezvous of the gay
and the luxurious.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
News In Rriet.

A SALT palace is projected at Salt Lake.
The national debt was reduced by 81
100000 in October.
The author of the letter to West is
said to be James Cosner, lawyer Of Po-
mona, Cal.
HELENA, Mont. Cor rectsd returns
give Carter (republican delegate) 4,50O
majority.
LINCOLN (Neb.) man travelled to Cali
fornia, journey of over 1880 milee, to
see an old enemy executed.
HANNIBAL HAMn1N may often be seen
mounted on load of lumber, smoking q
brier pipe in company with the driver, at
his home in Bangor, Me.
HENRY d. HARLAN, who has recently
been appointed Chief Justice of Mary
land, is only thirty years old, and is
probably the youngest man in the conn
try to hold such an Office.
The Iowa Railway commissioners de-
cfded that the railroads Disseminated
against jobbers of Davenport and Bur
lington, and ordered the Commissioners
schedule to go into effect.
A POPLAR tree, eleven feet and eight
inches in diameter and 240 feet high, WAS
felIed recently near Taylorsville, Ohio.
It yielded from $4,000 to 10000 feet of
lumber.
EDITOR BURBANKs of the New Orleans
Picayune, has eleven children, seven
horses, pack of dogs, pet camel, six
parrots, steam yacht, an orange grove
and $2,OO0,000.
TnK heaviest snow-storm ever known
so early II the season in that region was
progressing Friday in Kansas and West
ern Missouri.
STEPHEN BRoDIE, the New York ex-
newsboy who jumps from high bridges,
ieaped from the new railway bridge over
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsle 215
feet, and injured himself so badly that he
is not expected to survive.
New YoRK.-An examination of the
clearance papers of the steamer Sag
NAV, the supposed blockade runner
bound to Hayti, shows she carried 129
cases of rifles, 35 cases of belts, 8 cases of
paper for cartridges, cases of drums, 43
bars o lead, 703 cases of cartridges and
Ito kegs Of gunpowder.
MANITOBA seems dessine ed TO become
famous for barley. The Winnipeg Board
of Trade reports that the crop OF last
season in the province amounted to q
O0O,OOO bushels and large proportion of
the grain sent to Ontario graded as No.
L, weighing 40 to 5315 pounds to the
bushel, whereas the highest standard bar
ley of Ontario weighs only Al TO 40
pounds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Across ne Continent

From the Atlantic seaooard daily journey thous
ands Of immigrants, hosts of snterprisins tour
lists for pleasure, occasional European seekers
for material for hooks on America, multtudes of
hardy native ana foreign agriculturists and arti-
zans, all eager, all expectant, but all unaccus-
toned to the new climate of the frontier. and all
unft-unleSs protected with medicinal safe
guard-to encounter malaria, the chief foe to
health in regions pewsy cleared and opened up
for settlement These western-bound travellers
will find in Hostette-'s Stomach Bitters the
safety from malarial infection they might vainly
seek from other sources Tried in all parts of
the world, under eIigeucies the best fitted to
show its value, it has failed nowhere under the
most exacting conditions In so many lands is it
in request that the demand for it may well be
termed universal Not onl7 malaria but consti-
patton, dyspepsia, biliousness. rheumatism. de-
are thoroughly relieved by it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Cheap Refreshments in Paris.

Pail Mall Gazette: Paris is trying AZ
experiment which has long ago been
found to answer in Italy. On one of the
boulevards a new establishme has been
opened for the personal comfort OF
Parisians. You can wash your hands
have Your clothes brushed You can
write your letters. Paper, pen, ink, ETC.,
are at your disposal. II one room are
all the newspa pers-not merely of Paris
and the provinces, but of all the great
continental capitals. A third room is de-
voted to works of reference, encyclo-
pedias, dictionaries and directories.
There are telephone and a postofice,
and eli this is open to any passer-by who
pays half a franc admission.
The Italian idea did not go quite so far
but it some res pects it was more useful.
It IVES not private speculation, but
government concern. in fact, 1t was part
CT the working of the postal system of
the country. You said a penny entrance
fee and found all the means of writing
and all the information yon might need
at hand. You buy paper at cost price
and have the use of writing material
gratuitously. The French institution is
speculation, and if the building just
opened on the Boulevard Montm artre
succeeds, no doubt we shall see others
established all over the capital.
The Mexicans are trying to kick up an
other quarrel at Elpaso, Texas. They
are trying to change the channel OF the
river 10 ~ to wash away ths American
shore. The Texans are excited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
An Intelligent Monkey.
Pittburg Dispatch.


The faculty of imitation is often shown
in the sim plest actions OF mankind.
Nearly everybody is prone to imitation
In some avenue or other. Our ancestors,
the apes, perhaps. left US this character
istic tendency. There is no trait SO
strong in the makeup of the average
monkey as the love of imitation.
A few months ago | remember seeing
an aged and excessively ugly ape solemn
ly seated in a cage at the London Hoologl
cal gardens reading torn newspaper
sheet. He occupied corner away from
the noisy crowd of his own race, who
swung and fought and screamed In the
center of the big prison, with the paper
on his knees and his hands clasped
around his blue muzz!e. He never lifted
his eyes from the paper, and the younger
monkeys seemed to understand that they
must not disturb the student.
called keepers attention to the
spectacle, and he said: 1.-THE old brute
has only recently taken up the trick.
Lately I've been in the habit of reading
the morning paper close to his cage in
the forenoon when there are not many
visitors about. The monkey whom we
call Tom, has no doubt watched me care
fully, and when came near the bars this
afternoon he begged piteously for the
paper held in my band. gave him
sheet, and he's been reading it ever
sinceo
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Traffic in Peasant Girls, Hair

Some interesting facts are told us in
society pa per this week about a human
hair market which Is held every fortnight
at Morlans, in the Pyrenees. Hair deal
ers flock hither from all parts of the con-
tinens to buy the hair of the peasant
girls, who get from three to twenty francs
By the sale of their locks. The most
valuable colors are pure white and
virgin gold, the former being worth
nearly 500 francs an ounce, while 1t
is said that the Empress Eugene
once gave 1000 francs an ounce for
braid of golden hair that exactly match
ed her own. Let ladies who are pos.
sesssd of this lovely heir of the color of
"ripe corn" be careful of it; they will
find it difficult to repair the ravages of
time, for, we are told, there are orders for
all the golden hair that can be found for
five years to come. 1t is also interesting
to know that ladies pose essed of fine hair
often cary from fifty to seventy-fve
miles of it on their heads. No wonder
that they sometimes suffer from headache
from the weight of their tresses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Criminal.

IN political riot st Portsmouth. Va.
between negroes and whites, forty shots
were fired and three white men were seri-
ously injured.
I. PRovENCHER, an election Judge ar
San Rafael, n. NJ. was killed while trying
to protect the poll books from a mob.
IT is reported that one j. G. Cole, of
Chicago, was arrested Thursday at Gin
ton, Iowa, charged with forgery.
Fritz CRAVEN, weelthy farm ar in Oak
Greek township, Wis, was found muir
dered in his barn, and his son August has
been arrested on suspicion.
MRS. ScoTT, of Dawn township. Ont,
driven insane by her husband, who habit
TALLY came home and abused her, beat
him to death while he lay on bed in 8
drunken stupor.
A MAN is in custody in an obscure and
isolated portion of West Virginia who ap-
pears to answer the description OF Tas-
colt, the murderer of Mr.. Smell, of Chi
cago, for whose capture large reward
has been offered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
ELECTRIC SPARKS
Fires And Casualties.

DPBTHKRIA is prevalent at Gglesburg,
ILL.,, and the schools have been closed.
WIRES Bank, Douglass, Kas., failed
recently, with liabilities, $65,000; assets,
$4,000.
FIRE ct Centerville, Wis, destroyed
Seheibe's brewery. Loss, 100000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
JACOB WELLHAUER's Wholesale grocery
store at Milwaukee was burned. Loss,
$75, 600; insurance, 10000.
A MAGAZINE of nitro glycerine exploded
at Shannopin, Pa, an oil town near Pitts
burgh, shaking the earth for miles around
and wreoking many buildings. No one
killed.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind The paper aud
bag mills of the Indiana Paper com
pany at South Bend were destroyed by
fire Thursday. The loss is 100000
and the Insurance $4,000, which il
chiefly in eastern companies.
FIVE excursionists, bound for the
Macon (Ga.) fair were killed in a wreck
on the Savannah and Western Road near
Ellavllle, Ga. About dozen others were
injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Bodies Dried in the Air.

There are on exhibition in the rooms of
the state mining bureau at San Francisco
four "dessicated human bodies" that were
found by Sig. S. Marghier in sealed
cavern at an elevation of 1000 feet on the
eastern eide of the Sierra Madre noun
tains in Mexico. The bodies were found
in a sitting posture, with the hands
crossed on the breasts, the heads inclined
forward, and facing the east. Two adults,
male and female, were eide by side, and
by the side of the man was boy aud
girl by the woman's side. The bodies
were apparently dried by the cir, no en-
balming process being used. They are
not like any known Indians of today, the
hands and feet being particularly small,
and the woman's hair brown and silken.
The woman's forehead is large and the
reasoning powers were apparently well
developed. In the lobe of each ear is
piece of hollow reed. The burial gar
ments are of cotton, hide, grasses apd the
bark Of willows. In addition, the little
girl is covered with the skin of some an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Sguire Hobbs Precepts

We never thoroughly know man until
we hear him laugh.
Despair is the gateway TO insanity.
Argument will pull a wise man down to
the level of fool, but never raises fool
up to the plane of wise man.
Fame, like lightning, generally strikes
the man who is not expecting it.
Originality is the faculty of adapting
an CID idea TO new occasion.
When a man ventures an opinion he
will find some one who opposes it.
Hence a man without opposition is man
without opinions.-The Century Bric-a-
Bcac.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
STRUNG UP THREE TIMES.
Man Who Was Almost Lynched Tells How
He Felt.
Ohio State Journal.

Ohio State Journal.
There are several prisoners IL the peni-
Tertiary who know okly too we'll what it
is 10 be drawn up slowly by rope around
their necks for time. Several of these
were called and related some OF their
thrilling experiences for the benefit of
the State Journal and others. The most
interesting case was that of Frank B.
Mason, the paroled prisoner, who was
brought from West Virginia last week by
Mr.. Cheeringten.
1t Will lie remembered that he was
strung" up three times by q mob in the
@Ilos OF West Virginia, about forty miles
from any railroad. He was suspected of
stealing S43 from 8 store in Calhoun
county, and was captured in Roane coun-
ty by "posse' of horsemen, who lev
eled their guns OF him just as he was en-
terlng cornheld. He was thep subj ect-
ed to variety of inhuman treatment,
which would make a Hercules shud6er,
with view to making him confess.
He said: "At dusk [ YVES taken out of
the jail to a beech tree about fifty rods
away. They threw the rope over limb
and swung me off over little embank-
ment. The pain at first was terrible, but
soon stars fitted before my eyes. There
were more than a million of them it
seemed to me, moving in every direction.
Then l began to see oil the different
colors imaginable, blending in the most
beautiful and fantastic outlines. I tell
| you, if you had a thousand paint brushes
and all the paints in the world you could
not make SO many pretty colors. This
sensation was very pleasant, and
| thought vas in dream. | don't know
| how long hung, but my most severe
| pain was just as l was coming 10 my
senses again. I shook violently, and it
seemed as though it would kill NE. The
third time they let me down they -four
ished reyolvers IN my face and said
! 'We'li shoot the - - and not
let his friends cut him down again.
thought all the time that they intended
to hang me for good, and sent fars-
we'll word to my mother. l thought they
would hang me if confessed. After
this they bound me tightly with ropes
and took me Ave miles in the rain. The
ropes we're contracted by the water so
much that they left black and blue prints
all over my body and arms"
| Mason was sent up from Noble county
on seven year sentence for burglary
and was paroled April 90, 1888. Deputy
Cheerington confirmed bis statement
| about his treatment in West Virginia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

the cause of the little building being the
object of SO much attention, but the
material of which il is constructed
makes 1t novelty. It is made entirely
OF paper. The store is owned by August
Sincova, and was built by a Frenchman
named Smith Spelled, of course, in the
french way J, who is agent for the paper
OF which 1t IS constructed. The rafters,
the Notwithstanding, the roo. and the
hoormg are all made of thick, compress
co paper boards, imperv1ous to water and
as durable as wood. The house cannot
catch on fire as easily as wooden build
ing, because the surface of the paper Is
smooth and hard. The building is used
as store by Neal Kelly, who says he
hnds 1t warm IN cool weather and com
Portable when the weather is warm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

THE excellent quality of Oil TO be found
in Kentucky in the vicinity of Barren and
Edmonson county has long been known
but no decided attempt has been made to
work the field since the war, because the
owners were financially unable TO operate
it to any extent. Before the war the
southern planters on whose land the oil
wells are situated, went heart and soul
of becoming wealthy, as the field was
turning out TO be a great one. The war
caused temporary suspension of the
business, and the fall of Richmond closed
it up entirely. The depletion of the
Pennsylvania oil fields has called attention
TO the Kentucky fields, and syndicate of
Pittsburg capitalists has sent prospect
ors into that region to ascertain how
much land can be leased, the terms, etc.
Their instructions are TO secure all the
territory in the oil fields that the owners
are willing to lease at reasonable rates.
1t is thought that they will not have
much difficulty il coming TO terms, as
the farmers and planters are very anxious
to have the territory developed. The
field is somewhat isolated as far as rail
ways and pipe lines are concerned, but
the Pittsburg syndicate propose to build
tanks and pipe line connecting with
q station on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. Samples of crude oil have been
tested by experts, and the product is pro-
nounced equal in every way to Pennsyl-
va.ia oil
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
The Persian Minister at Washington.

Hadii Hassein Khouli Khan, Persian
ambassador at Washington, always sleeps
with his hands resting in pan of cold
water. He got into this habit partially
because he has been used to u warm
climate and could cool his, blood in this
way, and also because in Teheran 0s-
quitoes are great pest. Hadji claims
that mosquito will not bite man who
has both hands plunged in water. He
asserts that il is heated blood which a
mosquito desires, and that person
whose veins have been slightly chilled
offers 10 attractions to the pernicious
insect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
IN GENERAL.
DEATH IN A COAL PIT.
Kansas Adds Nine Horror to the List of Dis
aStefs.

Kansas Adds Nine Horror to the List Of Dis
asters.
KANSAS CITY.-The Journal special from
Pittsburg,s Kansas, says: The most dread
full disaster III the history OF Kansas oc-
CURED at O'Clock Friday morning.
When tbs men were pre- pairing TO leave off
their work e5 shaft No. 2 at Frontenac a
suburb Of Pittsburg, terrible ez plosion
was heard that shock the earth for a great
distance and completely shattered the
shaft. Upon investigation, it was found
that one hundred and sixty men were
within the mine at the time of the explos-
ion. Being 112 feet below the surface, it
is almost certain that all are dead at this
writing. The only two exceptions were
two men who were in tie car coming up
and being near the top of the shaft, man
aged to escape. Pittsburg is in the
center of the coal mines OF southeastern
Kansas and is about 100 miles south OF
Kansas City on the Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
MRS. GOULD DANGEROUSLY ILL.
She Suffers a Stroke of Paralysis.

NEW YoHK, Nov. S.-The Tribune says.
Mrs. Jay Gould is dangerously sick and
her ply sicians are unable to encourage
hope of her recovery. She suffered a
stroke of paralysis on Tuesday and since
that time her condition has been regarded
as desperate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
THE ANCESTRY OF SATAN.
The Question Discussed by Learned Jewish
Rabbi.
Menorah Monthly.

Taking the word Satan in it's specific
sense, as proper name, we find it In the
Bible signifying a spiritual invisible
being, whose vocation is to tempt and
misIead mankind and who delights in
mars destruction ard degradation. In
tae book of Job, Satan ia described IS
being familiar with the Almighty: "And
the Lord said unto Satan, whence comest
thou" Job l., y. During the reign of
David, Satan is reported TO have worked
against Israel. "And Satan stood up
against Israel" Chronicles xxii.) When
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
A House Built Of Paper.
Atlanta (Ga.) Journa

There is paper house in Atlanta. No
wood, brick, iron or other material is
used about the building. At 1O8 Deoa-
tur street neat little store, painted
sky blue, has attracted considerable at
tention recently. The gsudy color is not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

LORD SAoKvILLE is brotherin-law to
the Dukes of Bedford and Derby, both
liberal unionists upon whose support
Salisbury relies to keep him IN power.
Thus self-interest May have kept the
premier from recalling the British min
lister from Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

Mrs. FRANK LESLIE is responsible fer
the declaration that the reign of Paris as
the mistress of fashion is at an end. Lon
don, Mrs. Leslie thinks, will hereafter set
the styles for women as well as for men.
From present Indications, however, the
weIl-known editress is not entirely cor
rect in her estimate, as all of this sea
sons toilets which have yet been shown
have cor from the Partisan f. Hhion-
makers.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-10-26
PERSONAL,

Mr.. n. H. Frohlichstein, of Mobile, Ala, ,
writes: l take great pleasure in recon-
mending DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, having used it for a severe
attack Of Bronchitis and Catarrh. 1t gave
me instant relief and entirely cured me
and have not been afflicted since. | also
beg to state that ! lad tried other rene
dies with no good result Have also used
Electric Bitters and Dr.. Kings New Life
Pills, both Of which can recommend.
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, is sold on posi-
tive guarantee. Trial bottle free at Lee,
johnson & Cos. drug store.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-10-26
W E.ECIie ,

Colonel D5chery says the convention
that nominated him was as noble body
of men as ever assembled in our State.
1t was full of negroes.
Mr.. Robbins, a delegate from Watauga
county, says that. though he had been
Republican, there was 50 ''much negro IL
the convention" that ''frequently 1t was
impossibIe for a white man to get the
floor or to obtain a respectful hearing.
The result was that Mr.. Robbins stomach
turned and he threw up all the Radicaiism
in him forever.
Judge Russell was also delegate tC
that convention, and ran for President oi
the BODY. but though he thinks the negroes
are generally ''sayages" they did not turn
his stomach at all, and he still thinks they
are entitled to everything a white man is
entitled TO.
Negroes, even though savages, dom
turn Judge Russelrs stomach. Not much
It takes something worse than negroes
swith all the words imply" as Mrs. Til
ton said, to turn his stomach In fact
it may well be doubted whether suffic
lent political ipecac for that purpose ha
vet been discovered.