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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

execution is wonderful. Don't let me
forget to tell you the tenor story. Of
course, one can't tell, but they do say
Mr.. G. shut down on the Friday night
rehearsals and the tenor is in Boston.
Then you'll hear Margaret Dobson's
review of Spencer"
Spencer! What SpencerP That
old English literature, fairy-tale Spen-
serP"
mo, goosie! Herbert, of course.
All about the unknowable and evolu-
/ ton. Ma and / ran through Spencer
last month. and of course, We'll en-
Joy the article. Pa shifts at the idea
of women comprehending such books,
but PAS so old-fashionedi By the
way, remind me to tell you of Miss
Dobson's Irritation with a foreigner,
and how angry her people were. They
want her to marry one of those rich
Dakota fellows
Where canI get Spencer I'm go
ing to try and improve myself when I
leave Washington.
Take my copy, dear; you can read
it on on the way home. Then, of
course, you'll want Browning. We all
study him."
80. dear, and you understand Brown
ing. too?"
Good gracious, no; nobody does.
That's the fun. He's lovely. We first
discuss and discuss, and try to guess
what he means. 1t is all so elevating
Ma and | have an elegant easel with
his portrait, and a shelf for his works.
A vase of flowers always stands before
it. Pa laughs at it. but then he has
no literary tastes. This grieves ma,
but she goes on improving all the same.
I'll show you the sweet scarf | en-
broidered for this easel. Nothing's
too good for Browning. Then you'll
hear Miss Stuyvesant play. She fin
ished music in Germany, and can get
more noise out of piano than Won
Bulow himself. See looks too Dutch
for anything-has lost all her style.
You will hear Miss Leland read a pa
per on 'Theosophy' and Miss Caring
ton does the scientific. I'm on for
recitation. Ma has gotten me an en-
pire gown that will SHOW off elegantly.
The exercises will soon be over and
you'll so enjoy the lunch and the swell
spring gowns"
81 mean to coax mother to give up
some of her fashionable parties and
organize literary society,"" said the
New York girl. II know it would be
grand. It's a shame for girls with
talent and brains to spend their lives
like buttert1ies.n
That's So" responded the Wash
ington belle, fitting her hat over her
eyes and pinning red veil on. This
sort of thing keeps me out of the COM
mon society gossip. Ma says I'm i'm
proved wonderfully already by asso-
ciating with intellectual and artistic
people"
And the two friends, gloved and
parasoled, set out to order flowers for
the literary lunch and buy ruches at a
bargain counter Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
1t Won the Writer a Thrashing.

The following is a sample of FRI
day afternoon composition which
Adam Biglier wrote while boy at
school. We may add that Adam
Biglier was soundly thrashed for it:
"a school ma am is verb because she
denotes action when you throw paper
wads at the girls. Switch is a con-
junction and is used to connect verb
school ma am to the noun boy. This
is compound sentence of which boy
is the subject and switch the object.
First person, plural number, hellish
case. A school ma'am is different
from boy; boy wears pants and
school ma'am wears her hair all
banged on the forehead. She puts
paint on her face and has some teller
come and take her home. Ma says
school ma am never gets to be older
than Is until she gets married. 1t
takes two school ma'ams all day to
cook dinner.-Preston Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
"PiSa the Dead"

'sPisa, in Italy, famous for its lean
ne tower, is called .'Pisa la Morte" by
the Italians; its commerce, once splen-
did, has been gradually taken from it
by LegAorn, and it has declined in
population and importance until it is
little more than place of resort for
travellers from all over the world, who
come to study its splendid architect
ural monuments of the middle ages
and enjoy its delightful climate.
The prosperity of Pisa, has. indeed,
received so great a blow that the city
is in state of bankruptcy. The
Italian public was lately shocked by a
statement that the town house or city
hall of Pisa was likely to be levied
upon by the city's creditors to satisfy
their debt. More lately still came
the news of another and even more
startling suggestion. One of the
members of the municipal council of
Pisa proposed lottery to raise funds
to discharge the debt, and, in order TO
offer a sufficient tempting prize to at
tract investment from all over the
world, he suggested that the famous
leaning tower should be the first prize.
IL pOSSeSS DIS Oue private property
the leaning tower of Pisa, which
has stood for more than 700 years,
would, this Pisan councillor thought
be distinction which all the world
would seek after. He did not indicate
what he supposed the owner of the
tower could do with it.
Fortunately, this original project
did not meet with favor from the Pisan
council, and some other way must be
found to meet the city's difficulty.
The decline of Pisa is largely due to
singular circumstance. In medieval
times it possessed fine harbor, Porto
Pisano, at the mouth of the River Arno.
With the cutting away of the forests
upon the Apprentices vast quantities
of earth, no longer held in place by
the protecting trees, were washed to
the plains below.
This wash gradually filled up the
harbor of Pisa. In 1442 its depth had
been reduced to four feet; a century
later only row-boats could enter it; it
was soon abandoned forever. There
are now no traces of this old harbor
and even its site is disputed. Pisa's
distance from the sea is now about
seven miles, TOutb'S COMPANION,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
New Process i'm Wiremaking.

Wire is now being manufactured
whether iron. copper, or brass-by a
new and greatly improved process,
and at a considerably reduced cost.
The machine devised for this purpose
consists of series of rolls in contin-
uous train, geared with common
driver, each pair of rolls having a
greater speed than the pair preceding
it, with an intervening friction clutch
adapted to graduate the speed of the
rolls to the speed of the wire in pro-
cess of rolling. The entire operation
of producing the smallest sized wires
from rods of one-half inch is done cold.
1t is alleged that this method obviates
the danger of unequal annealing and
of burning in the furnaces-in addition
TO this the wire being more flexible
and homogeneous than that made by
any ordinary method, and capable of
sustaining greater longitudinal strain;
in the case of copper wire there IS said
to be a greatly increased electrical
conductivity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Spraying Fruit Trees.

Garden and Forest approves of the
method of destroying insects in or
chards with poison spray, and says:
The most important accession to re-
cent horticultural practice is the spray
ing of fruit trees with arsenical poison
for the destruction of various insects.
No orchardist can afford to neglect this
practice. The codling moth, curculio.
canker worm, tent caterpillar, and
other insects are destroyed by this
operation, and sometimes three or
more species are killed by the same
application. Experience has shown
the best methods of applying the poi
sons, and we now know that the essen
tial points of the operation are to use
very dilute mixture, and to apply it
with great thoroughness. London pur-
pie, when pure. is better than Paris
green. and is cheaper. A pound of
the London purple to $50 or 800 gall
Ions of water is sufficient. Apply I'M
til the liquid drips from the foliage in
all parts of the tree. The apparatus
should be such that the liquid will
be driven with great force in a fine
spray. A gallon of liquid will cover
an apple tree twenty-five or thirty
years of age.
A single spraying of apple trees, if
the operation is not Immediately sue
ceeded by heavy rains, is usually suffi-
cient, although a second application is
always advantageous Two or three
applications should be made upon
plums, cherries, and peaches. and /
have met growers who make as many
as five applications. Even five appli-
cations are much cheaper and easier
than any other method of destroying
the curculio, and the practice is much
more effective. In young and open
orchards the spraying can be well done
with a machine which works from the
wagon wheel, but in large and thick
orchards, those most in need of treat
ment, the operator must stop at each
tree if the work is to be thoroughly
done. A tank or cask upon a wagon,
pump with much power, one man to
pump and one to drive and hold the
hose is profitable outfit. With such
an outfit two men can spray from 250
to 800 apple trees, 80 years old, in
about half dav. Pear trees are treat.
ed in the same manner as apple trees.
The mixing of flour with London pur-
pie, in order to make the poison
stick to the leaves, does not appear to
meet with much favor among practical
men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Mexican Senoritas.

The stranger in Mexico, especially
if he be young and good-looking, is
liable to be surprised, at his first ball
here, when some pretty senorita,
whom he has never seen before, trips
up to him with an engaging smile on
her face and something that looks like
an egg in her hand, and suddenly
SIN ashes the latter over the Uranium.
To one not acquainted with the cas-
carone custom it is startling, to say
the least. Luckily, however, the egg
has been robbed of its usual interior,
the contents having been emptied
through a small hole at one end. The
shell is then refilled with finely chop
ped tinsel and colored paper, with the
addition of sachet powder or some
dainty trinkets, after which the open
ing is neatly closed by bit of paper
pasted over it.
In the good old days of the Spanish
aristocracy the egg shells to be used
by the proud grandees at swell fam
dangoes was filled with gold and dia-
mond dust. Similar extravagances
are sometimes INDUCED in nowadays,
but rarely CaDetoG0n argus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Felix Adler on the Press.
Professor Felix Adler the anostle

Professor Felix Adler, the apostle of
ethical culture, says: 1.-The newspaper
is like the surface ripple; but it gives
US no insight into the depths of the
channel, or the strong currents that
flow beneath the surface. 1t is the
business of the journal not to write
history, but to write of the changes
that occur. The point that | would
emphasize is that these records of
changes should be supplemented by
the results of more profound study.
The relation between capital and labor
although not as strained as many,
would have US believe, is becomin O
more pronounced in our large cities.
The question of how to do away with
the tenement houses, with all their
brutality and reeking hideousness, is
also being pressed upon us. Now, the
newspaper has been defined as the
"narrator, advocate and weather-cock. I"
It's most important function is that of
being a weather-cock. The editor of
to-day does not attempt to influence
public opinion by advancing ideas, I'M
less he is sure that there are certain
sets or lotteries that will support those
IuodS. IL Se0IIs 10 ule budG iu0 HILLS
ters of the city are practically united
on the great moral question of the
day. / would, therefore, suggest that
an association be formed among the
religious and moral teachers Of this
city, and that they agree to work to-
gether through the press and in the
community on these great issues. If
they would agree on the same day to
discuss the same questions, the press,
which is ever ready to lend itself to
the best interests of the community,
would echo their words and reinforce
them n-Ne2D York Er
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29

his nome
"You may" said his neighbor. .tCal
whenever you like-to see Perry"
So it CHANGED that Bertram Lowell
spent many hours at the adjacent villa.
Perry never felt quite at ease with
the man who began the acquaintance
by scolding him, and if he stole of
to romp in the garden he was not re-
called.
Before many days had passed Ber-
tram was deeply in love with his pretty
neighbor, she could have read the truth
in his eyes, though no words had been
spoken.
He knew that, of all women, Edith
Morgan was the only one he would
care to marry. He hesitated to speak,
lest he touch sad cord, perhaps she
had not recovered from her loss, but
he was almost sure she cared for him.
He sat at his library window one
day thinking of her and wondering il
he dare confess his love, when Perry
appeared, perched upon the fence.
''I'm mad at her." he said, with a
nod over his shoulder ''She wouldn't
let me put on my white suit-so. I'm
going to tell you, for you'd know, any
way-when you saw him."
"Who?"
why, my papa, he's coming home
to-day. She told me to make believe
didn't have any, but l have, and
She"
"Perrym
As the call rang out the boy slid from
view; be was always appearing and
disappearing, like the imps in the gay
spectaculars.
Bertram sat there like one turned to
stone. What could it all mean? Edith
Morgan not a widowi-he could not
believe it. Why, then she had de-
ceived him and her husband both, for
had she not permitted him to love herr
Could it be she was a married CO.
quette? Perry's words condemned her
and Bertram felt that the child had
told the truth.
Ii he wanted further proof he had il
an hour later, when ne saw a tall,
black-whiskered man arrive at the villa
and snatch Perry in his arms. while
the boy cried:
ooh, papa, where's my candyP-
why, your whiskers are bigger!-what
did you see, anyway Did you get me
a pony"
The boys chatter fell upon Ber-
trans hearing like the cry of doom.
There was no shadow of doubt now.
Well, he would 60 away-that was the
only thing to do.
BY evening he had made his prepar-
atoms; he expected to take the early
morning train; shortly after s o'clock
the bell rang and note was brought
to him.
DEAR Mr.. LOWELL: Perry has confessed
to me that he told you of my little deception,
You see, took advantage of your error in
giving me the title of Perry's widowed moth
er. OF course / am neither his mother mol
a widow, but his fathers sister-the poor boy
has no mother. Will you forgive me?
EDITH MORGAN.
Bertram lost no time in seeking
Edith. After full explanations he told
her how he had suffered because of
Perrys interrupted disclosure.
But he brought us together, you
know" she said. eve can afford to
forgive him."
81 do" answered Bertram. ''But,
Edith, | am glad he is not your son."
Edith smiled. Perhaps she thought
the irrepressible Perry was sufficiently
related as it was. However, when
Bertram and his bride took up their
abode in the villa the following au-
tumn they were both too happy to OBJ.
serve a disturbing element in the be-
havior of their neighbours child
Family Sa0ry Paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
A Cautious Girl.

"One minute. mamma said young
woman. iii be down as soon as 1
have finished taking this photogra PHI
photograph of what?"
.'Of Georges last letter to me. In
these days of perishable writing fluids
it's just as well to be careful. -Aer-
chant Traveller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
The Fashion in Dogs.

The fashionable dog for 1889 is to be
the schipperke, or little skipper. He
comes from the Low countries and is
the old-time companion of the Flemish
bargee. He is black, with next to no
tail, and hard coat inclined to be
rough, and does not weigh over TWEEN
ty pounds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
Mrs. Hirb brad. s.You said Won kna,

Mrs. Highbred: '.You said you knew
all about the duties of dining-room
girl, | believe, Norah-how to walt
on the table and all that?" Norah:
"Faith, mum. and | do that. Haven't
| been livin' the last tin mont wild me
cousin, Moike Noonan's wife, who
kapes the boardin'-car on a railroad
construction train; and didn't wait
on the byes mesllf livery blessed meal9
I did thatp'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-29
FOR THE FARMER.
Comment to the Effect of Lime and
Ashes on Fruit-Some Prevailing Err
rors as to the Curing of Hay.

The Value of Creameries-Poison Spray
for Fruit InSects-Comparative
Value of Manures.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02
hon trs pelaxArs aIsplay, Ehich vas rsll

ton the Delaware display, which was rsiy
ereditable.
OF the New York papers the TribaAe said
Delaware sent one regiment OF Infantry and
q cavalry troop. Governor Bags rode At
the head OF the lins, tall. disabling hgure.
his long white hair floating In the wind
he lifted his nat constantly 10 response 20
the cheers he aroused, and was easily the
most conspicuous hsure In this division.
When Governor Riggs OF Delaware So
peared, said the Times, at the head Of the
troops OF bis atate, the hfst eedy which
came OF the state militia, the slsht OF bis
long white hair, uncovered a. he hcwst
gracefully rich, aud LETT, caused barss 81
APPLAUSE from the men and tutes
OF white hsudkerchisfs, the ehtliIsc
greats OF tho nhinelsnders, each provided
with an American tiaR, swslied tue sJnte
which Rrea'ei the venerable governor.
Tha World said: Governor Blexs was
the frat 0i the gaberna,nyial procession
and the clamor that gTes'ed bin vas tr1
m nioos, oae glddv young ofeaiute u
the audience waved her handksrcnls'
frantically Ia the air. This little stten-
tion was tho much for thH 1allanf GOV
err or and stopping bis horse forthwith h
towed to the vast like a knlshi arrzEi
The handkerchief ast was Duplicated By :
giddy creature on the opp1sio s'Rnd and
thu governor TUNED his attention 20 toe
east. His long white hair rpnrted In the
bre zs lice patrla cos as ne swept tec
ground with his hat From this moment
on 10 Tho second arch Governor Blgss 0;
Delaware held the finor OF attention.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02
rnILr-knsNERan.
s.subscribcr,s, query Causes JON
mont.

rsSuNHfftbth.h 0NF
msnt.
As our readers will remember; . ie..s .
was published In our columns law GAYS
ago, signed ''snbserihst whteh awe,s ~
some length upon asubisos o. Bsnara' ~
terest. and which contained several N
ouiries which will BE- found answered. 10
the following; =
To ths FSaor. Several days ago !
noticed q communications IN your paper
from "SubsorjbeF,h IN which eoneiaar'
able comment gaa INDUCED 10 eoncafn-
,nsy the pamphlets which are widely d'h'
ttibuted by Mesays. II II. Warner a Oo'
az Rochsster. N. Y. Therapeutics, aa
Ia we'll known, are published In ofuer
that the public may become conYersApt
with the symptoms ard growth OF a. ease
peculiar to the Kidneys, and which Is, u
must be admitted, the protective cause,
In a majority OF DISTANCES, OF other
organic disorders. The publishers OF
these pau hlets are also the diseoyerers
and manufacturers Of the noted Warper's
Safe Cure, which IL known to be the or,s
means for the prevention and cure OF kld'
ney Disease ns can be testified 10 ia every
community. 10 the pamphlets referred
TO there appear number of testimonials
from parties who speak in the highest
terms OF how they have 10 many instances
been restorpd to health by Warmers Safe
Cure, after havlug been given up BY do )
tors 10 die, AID ATTACHED 10 those state
menta are ths fac smile signatures OF the
parties themselves.
1 am personally aware that all the
testimonials published by this hrm are
genuine and are the voluntary statements
| OF persons who are anxious TO manifest
\ their gratitude for tho unexpected return
OF health and vigor which Wsrner's SAFE
Cure has brough, them. To make assur
ancs doubly sure, II can be added thai
Msssrs. Fl H Warner II Co., have fol
years, published standing otlsr Of
/ $5 600 to anyone who will prove to Of
4 impartial referee that any tsstimonie
published by them is not, so far as theJ
know, bona tide and absolutely true
\ What more does ''Subscribern desire Il
convince him, in addition to his owl
/ statement, that his neiehbofs all tell hin
that Warmers Sate Care has done NOR
good for them than they have received
from the doctors.
In visw. MIR. Editor, on the many per
sous who are sacridoed daily to the big
olry and ignoranca OF physicians VIII
persist In treating patients for symptoms
called consumption, spoplexy, brail
tr0nhies and nervona disorders, whei
the real GAUGE is disease of the kidneys
which should be detected and quiokl
eradicated by the use OF Warmers SAT
0urs-l maintain that the yalns of ,hoa
pamphlets, Which place in the hands Q
the public the means OF knowing th
truth, cannot DO over-estimated.
FAM PLAY.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02

ESQ Zephyr GimShams, xSc. !
Brand new. Ia twenty
handsome stripes, mostly
clusters. They carry the flag
Of Gingham quality into the
lowest.prlce camp such stuffs
ever reached. We have finer
Ginghams, of course. and
handsomer, but you'll pay
double or more for them. !
These Zephyrs are a manu-.
featuring as well as a trade.
triumph. America Is so close,
on the heels Of Scotland that
you'll look again and again
before you'll know which Isl
which 10 Glnghams--except
by the price tickets.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02
aFallamuEfys

PnII.ADELraIA, Monday, April 20, 1881
The Spring and Summer
Catalogue lillustrated) Is
ready. 1t will help you In or
derlng by mall. The book
will be sent free IL you ask for
it on a postal card.
What we did 10 February
with Combination r o b e 8
(plush novelty with plain TO
match) is outdone to-day In
every way hut one--the GUAM
tity 10 small. so small that a
week or two Is pretty sure to
wipe the whole lot out.
The February Robes went
for less than prices of the
plain material. You shall hare
these .Abyil Robes ia many
cases fer no mare than haifhe
cost Of lie plain material.
Light colors, medium and
Hight weights - Bengallne,
Wool Ba,iste, Cassimir, Me-
lange, Armures, Serges With
pushes that have sold from
81 SO to $3.50.
r ,bes for S.
Robes for IS
Robes for IS
Robes for $40
Robes for $I2 EEK,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02


gorge Schultz. aged 6 years. was acc,.
WIN rii w siiled on the Baun1re a po,emsc
Mtlt9@l htldRe over Gwynn's n .II4 an
H mUaHsY evening. Ile was walkipp on ina
.a fhii and was struck BY ina stena M I
train snd Enorked or, y ''o o'opa Oh .
{ RaItne roush weather in tho hsrbor .,
~ on Sunday. kuriI J4ih the
S u.st Q 9leer aud i've mon LEFT the American
s saiiS Bolt Ding Bllow to 20 on bosrd IN
aassGip % aha, Tks hoat canszed in mo q
,s,Aa'l "ad ne CHIEF oliiesr and one man
sstoo y, shaul,s, a wealthy ,a,ma, an
~ a.' ! 2 n, was fauad dead banging 70 "a a
re ntgk o. his re,idence IN Isf IN ~ .
!, ,u~ .s IA, tn sdpy mornirp. I'yiD,
, 9 ~ oeInfs a faw feet sway was IL
mag wife, who wgs shot throncS t ne
U ~ and fatally WOUNDED. David an IA
s.s saauiis, sons Of the old mar snd
sS Vteoas q Mss, slaulls, we're taIan ~
I ,s . and logged In jali charesa Vii, i.
e oSv sa.ine. ] is ALLEGED that IND eS rr,n
S1llal'ea sGlrlte iitst, and then II na Yna
wS oh ~ !. a,teGlptod to Kill his stepmoissr
ln M y ohlI Is yaArs ct age, to ursys,,,
nust,hns the estate, the two how ho, nas
: selves. '90uFe tne estate th6ns,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02

Floyd Rice eoiored, fell through the dome
OF thu Richmond Theatre 10 Richmond, W.,
Tuesday, while haniinr down an Amsfiesn
flag. and was instantly killed. This distance
was 20 feet.
Al q Meeting OF MethodIsi Episcopal min
listers In Baltimore, on Monday. the action
OF Postmaster general wsuamsker In clos
ing the Post oifiss Department Ia Washing
ton on sunduy was endorsed.