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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
r,,,rpv op nosroy WOOL DEALERS.

Roston. Feb l1.-w. NJ. Browne & Co. wooldealers.
No 1tA Federal-st have failed. The liabilities are
said 10 be about $4,000. Of which $4,000 are Tor
u arch andse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
PROPOSING no curb THE FRENCH PRESS.

Paris, Feb 1.-The committee Of the Senate today
discussed providing that persons publishing
slanderous and offensive personal statements shall be
snInmary dealt with by the Correctional Tribunal
". Guyot Qessaigne. the Minister Of Justice. said
he regretted that urgency wat not demanded for tho
measure. 1t high time to stop the outrageous
language Of portion Of the press.
In consequence of the Minister'S remarks the COM
tttee by vote of 1D2 to 63 agreed grant urgency
for the bin which was afterward passed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12

Berlin, FEB. 1.-The resumption here Of tho SIT
anzs OF the conference conserving Samoa Will prob
hbiy be delayed for several weeks awaiting the ar
r1val OF special commissioners who, u 10 expccHo
xfil BE- sent from Washington
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLANl

London, Feb. 11.--A shock Of earthquake was felt
TO-DAY at Bolton and Manchester. No damage
done.
The earth trenoTs extended to Wigan, blackburn and
Stockport They were accompanied Dy fopessoa
mmblinE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
AxwoRrRY,s CANADIAN INVESTMENTS.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb I1.-Thomas Axworthy. the city
treasurer Of Cleveland, Ohio, who fed from here last
fall after approprIatng nearly half million dollars
has bought large block of resI estate at Sault 6te
Marie, Ont friend of his says Axworthy leaves
Toronto IN few days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
THRKE NEW CARpINALs.

Rome. Feb i1.--At the conslstory today, the Pope
nominated for the Cardinaiate Monslgnon Macch and
pannbaje. and the Archbishop of catania
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
AN AMERICAN BRIDE FOR BouLANeER.

St. Louis. Feb lis The Republic" this morning
announces that 1t has good to believe that IL
General Boulsnger obtains divorce from HIS wife no
win shortly thereafter marry tho divorced wife Of
Joseph D. Lucas Of this city. The LADY IN question
-ree before MARRIAGE Miss FANNIE kcLar@n. daughter
Of Colonel Charles McLaran. Of the old and
prominext citizens Of st Louis The union with Mr..
Lucas, whose father, james H. Lucas. the
wealthiest man In this city before his DEATH an
unhappy one, and she obtained divorce year or
two ago. since when she has been in Europe and IS
now IN Italy. Shc Is handsome and accomplished
woman and first met the General I'm New-YOrk In
1881 at reception given to the delegation Of French
notables who came TO this country to participate In
the celebration Of the centennial Of the battle Of York
town Later he met her again In this city, and 1t IS
sald that he has improved this acquaintance since
Mrs. Lucas has been IN Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12

killed by Of the attendants as others have been
and the coroner OF Johnson County has come mere
| to mako an investigation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12

KILLED HIS FIVE CHILDREN AND HIMSELF
Vienna, Feb 11.-A goldsmith in this city has pol
Soned his five children with cyanide OF potassium.
After administering the poison to the children no took
some Of II himself and died In great agony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
FRINGE ALEXANDER SHARPLY sNUBBED

FKINDE HLfAHIVOE 5ftAhfB1 bNObbEO
Berlin, Feb 11.-Empercr William has officially
Informed Prince Alexandes OF Battenberg that he
does not desire BIS presence in Berlin either in con-
nection with the settlement of the affairs OF his father.
the late Prince Alexander Of Hcsse, or any other
business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
rrr aTBg TIMEss IN IRELAND.
THE SAMOAN CONFERENCR

London, Feb. 11.-Mr Psrneli VIII bring an action
far hbei against The Tines in tho Irish courts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
rscHronRIN aETs HIs FIFTH oAME

Hxvena. Feb. 11.-The eleventh game In the chess
tournament between Steintz and Tschieorin was won
By the latter, making bis hfth victory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12

o. the eleven games that have been played IN tho
nae ~ Hsvsas steipits has men stx and xachiEs''9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
A soUDANEsE TOWN DESTROYED.


Cairo, Feb. 1.-THE soudanese have evacuated
Handoub. They destroyed the town by fro.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
SINCE LITTLE WESLEY WENT"
JAMES wHITCoMB RILEY.

SEM. little Wesley went, the place seems all SO
strange and still
Wy / MISS his yell q Gran pap!' as I'd miss
the vhipperwi1..
And to think ust to scold him fer his everlastin'
noise
When 1 on'y rikollect him the best o. little
boys!
L wisht a hunderd times day at he'd come
trompin in
And ali the noise he ever made was twict as
loud agin!-
1t I'D seem ike some soft music played on some
fine instrument,
'Longside o. this loud loneSomeneSs, sence little
Wesley went!
OF course the clock don't tick no louder than it
ust to do
Yt now theys time it pears like it nd bust it
And, let a rooster, suddent-like, crow somers
clos't around,
And seems eff. mighty nigh it, it 'ud lift me off
the ground!
And same with all the cattle when they bawl
round the bars,
In the red o airly mornin', er the dusk and dew
and stars,
When the neighbors' boys at passes never stop,
but jest go on,
Awhistlin kind O. to theirse'v's-sen little IVES
ley's gone!
common late,
A-bilin pears er soInepin, and set and smoke
and watt
Tel the moon out through the winder don't look
And things keeps gttin' -stiller-stiller ali
the time,-
I've ketched myself a-wishin' hke-as clumb
ON the cheer
To wind the clock, as hev done for morn fifty
year
A-wishin' at the time he'd come for us to go to
bed,
With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence
little WeSley'S deadl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
The Old Homes Are Best.

If one runs over the list of the persons
known to him he finds very few of more
than 40 years living In the houses in
which they were born. OF the twenty
houses built more than fifty years ago
nearest my own home, only one is lived In
by the family by which it was originally
occupied, while most of the others have
had numerous successive owners or tenants.
OF my own friends near my own age there
are but two or three anywhere who live In
the houses which their fathers occupied be-
fore them. This lack of hereditary homes
homes of one family for more than one
generation-is novel and significant fea-
ture of American society. In Its effect on
the disposition of the people and on the
quality of our civilization it has not re-
ceived the attention it deserved. The con-
ditions which have brought about this
state of things are obvious. The spirit of
equality, and the practices, especially in
regard to the distribution of property, that
have resulted from 1t; the general change
of the standard of living arising from the
enormous development of the natural re-
sources of the country, and the consequent
unexampled diffusion of wealth and
material comfort; the rapid settlement of
our immense territory, and the astonishing
growth Of our old as well as our new cities.
have been unfavorable to the existence
of the hereditary home There Is scarcely a
town In the long-settled parts of the North
ern States from which a considerable Dor
ton of its people has not gone out in the
course of the past fifty years to seek resi-
dence elsewhere. Attachment to the native
soil, affection for the home of ones youth,
the claims of kindred, the bonds of social
duty, have not proved strong enough to re-
sist the allurements of hope, the fair
promise of lettering fortune, and the love
of adventure. The increasing ease and
the vast extension of means of communi-
ton between distant parts of the country
have promoted the movement of the
population Charles Eliot Norton in
Scribner's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
The Wealth of Pirates.
Chicago Herald.

1t is reported that a large number of the
people of Connecticut are engaged in
searching for the money supposed to have
been buried by Capt William Kidd on the
coast of Long Island Sound Many per-
sons have been engaged In similar enter
prises all along the Atlantic coast for the
past two hundred years. Most of the
small islands on the coast of New Eng
land have been dug over with the expecta-
ton OF finding treasures secreted by the
prince of pirates. For nearly fifty years
operations were conducted ON the left bank
of the Kennebec River, nearly fifty miles
from It's mouth. At one time many old
sailors turned tramps and managed to OBJ
tain a living by selling secrets in regard
to the hiding places of Capt. Kidd s
money. A few of them pretended to have
copies Of confessions of some of the crew
of the gallant captain, while others show
ed charts with strange markings, which
they said were directions for finding the
sacred treasures. One of the most enter
tanning of Poe's stories pertains to chart
of this kind Many of the persons en-
gagged in digging for Capt Kidd's money
spired dreamers. Others were guided by
the information derived from old tradi-
tions. On one island on the coast of Maine
as they are in the gold and silver mining
1t is almost needless to say that none OF
them 'panned out well.
The most probable reason why none of
the money buried by Capt. Kidd was ever
found is that it is not likely that he ever
buried any. Perhaps the reason that he
did not bury any was that he did not have
large amount at any time to ''salt down.
Pirates, like most sporting gentlemen,
were high livers On shipboard they were
not content with fare of hard tack, salt
pork and dried Goldfish. When On shore
they were gay and festive set of chaps
They drank costly wines and smoked the
best of cigars. They were ''hale fellows,
well met. and were always ready to treat
the crowd" They had numerous acces-
SORES on land, whom they supported in
good style. 1t cost no small sum to fit out
and equip a piratical craft. It's regular
running expenses were large. The bust
ness of pirating is not always prosperous
even If it is carried on by enterprising per-
sons who have had much experience. 1t is
a risky occupation In more senses than
one.
In recent times pirates have confined
their operations to the land. They have
robbed stage coaches and railroad cars in
stead of ships. They have obtained large
sums of money, but they have not had
much to bury or to put in bank. Jesse
James was the most enterprising and sue
cessful of the lot, but he left no estate, and
his widow was obliged to exhibit herself
in dime museum to get means for her
Most of our other native land
pirates have died as poor as country min
listers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
IN the World of Science,

Some years ago M. Sorel, a French
chemist, discovered that the oxychloride of
magnesium possessed hydraulic" quail
ties in a remarkable degree, and he uterlz-
ed it as the basis of the Sorel stone, which
exceeds the hardness of any other artificial
stone and is now used mainly in making
emery wheels.
Iron ore is produced in twenty-nine
counties of England and Wales, twelve
counties of Scotland and in one of the pro-
vinces of Ireland. The production has
fallen off seriously during recent years,
and some of the older centres of produc-
ton are beginning extinct, if they are not
so already.
The remarkable floating island of
Derwentwater, England, the periodical APP
pearance of which has given rise to so
much speculation, has been declared to be
the highest part of great blistered-like
upheaval of peat, which here forms the
bottom of the lake.
In France an extensive series of investi-
cations has led to the conclusion that the
sardlnes of commerce are young fish not
yet arrived at maturity, and, as a rule size
is no clue to the state of development.
EntomOlogists state that there is reason
able hope that a scientific plan will be
devised whereby whole tribes of noxious
insects may be exterminated by the arti-
fetal multiplication of their innoxious
enemies.
The new alternate current motor lately
experimental with at Buda-Pesth shows
an electrical efficiency of 90 per cent. And
a commercial efficiency of 80 per cent.
Grancher and Deschamps have shown
that at the end of five weeks typhoid
bacilli may reach a depth of sexteen to
twenty inches below the earth S surface.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
The Cause of Mirage.
TIL Co,,oI -, T.

There are days on which, in certain
weather, and despite the curvature of the
earth, the distance of visibility is doubled,
or more than doubled This phenomenon
is explained to Us by well-known law of
physics. If we throw coin into an empty
vessel, it viii be hidden by an edge of the
latte, at certain distance: but If we fill
the vessel with water, the coin viii become
visible We have here a case of refrac-
ton, such as is explained In elementary
works ON physics. Every one also knows
the theory of the mirage put forth by the
celebrated Monge, who explains the phe-
nomenon as due to diminution of the
airs density In contact with the super
heated earth A contrary theory will ex-
plain the mirage at sea. While the sun is
making the atmosphere extensively. hot the
sea and the strata of air In contact there
with remain relatively cold, and these
strata become superposed In the order of
their density. A luminous ray emanating
from the sea will pass from one stratum
into another of less density. there will be
a refraction, and an object beneath the
horizon viii be seen above it. This theory
supposes two conditions, to wit: A heat
ing of the atmosphere while the sea and
the earth remain relatively cold, and
calmness of it to permit its strata to be-
come superposed In the order of their
density. 1t is precisely when these two
conditions are fulfilled that the phenomenon
Of the mirage occurs. On such days ships
rise instead Of descending In measure as
they recede. As the horizon is perceived
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
PATENTS AND PROGRESS.
Marvellous Changes Wrought by Inventors
i'm Half Century.

One need not be very old to have dis
tinct recollection of his daily life, its con-
ditions and environments, fifty years ago,
when the patent system of the United States
was In It's early infancy, says the Inventive
Age. Then the country was almost entire
ly agricultural, for our grand career In
manufactures and the Industrial arts was
just beginning. 1t virtually began with
the patent systematic creation of the pat
ent ofice-and 1t has actually kept pace
with the development of that system, so
that this magnificent progress stands as
the indisputable result of the system. In
other words we owe our splendid achieve
ments In manufactures and the arts to the
stimulus thst the patent laws have given
to invention.
Fifty years ago most of the people of the
United States were clothed from the pro-
ducts of the domestic spinning-wheel and
hand loom The itinerant shoemaker went
from house to house, setting up his bench
and plying his vocation In the farmers
kitchens There were no planing-mills;
no shops for the manufacture of doors,
sashes, or blinds All the work of the
builder, including carpenters and joiners
work. was done by hand. The carpenter,
if a good one. got 81 day. Goa! was con-
stunned but by few families ever in the
large cities, and by nobody in the smaller
towns. The tailors, like the shoemakers,
came to the house and made into clothing
the cloth woven by the mother and
daughters. with a little help from the full
ing-mill, that was generally near the grist-
mill of the neighorhood. The railroad
and telegraph had not yet added their
powers to the forces of civilization. This
year. 1889. is no more like 1889 than the
hand-loom is like the cotton factory.
Better fifty years of Europe than cycle
of Cathay." Better one year of the life
that is lived under the new conditions than
any number of years of the hard existence
that was drudged out under the old con-
ditions. 1t is only the hopeless pessimistic
soul, the constitutionally incurable grum-
bier, that does not recognize the blessings
that have come with the march of inven-
ton. For all these. let it be borne in mind,
we are indebted to the system that has foster
ed invention and secured to inventors the
right to enjoy the products of their own
brains and hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
ENVY AND CHARITY CONTRAsTED.
MRS. ANNA S. MccurcHEoS.

once let foul envy share thy breast
Anu II snali prove woful guest,
Eor the sun shall shine less bright
because the righteous shares ifs LIGHT.
10 tnee the birds shall SING less sweet
Tercnance with JOY his ears they greet:
Inc mowers that gaily deck the earth
For MN contribute to life,s worth.
TO you their blossoms potbinry taaot,
Though jeweled with ioy he ascb
Inc million sounds of harmony
Shall rancorous discord be to fhaa.
The melody thou callest din
Is mnslc TO his soul within.
No woods nor valleys, hills nor dallas
No balmy breezeS nor the gales
Nor all that natures charms disclose
Can yield thy turbid soul repose.
But where the heart is warm and bright
1t baSketh in loves pure delight:
Its sweetest eSSense is a song
Ihat thrills with rapture all day long:
1t leads with love along the road.
From nature up to natures God.
Thou OF pure heart a charge receive
1t is an amulet give:
Keep thou thy life as pure and bright
As when thine eyes first saw the light:
Keep thou thy cloak of love about
Thy path excluding envy, doubt"
God shall not let that mortal shine
whose feelings jar 'gainst things divine.
But he who fosters in his breast
Love for his kind" is ever blest,
And peace within his soul shall be
His pledge of Immortality
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
A Last Farewell.
San Bernardino Times-Index.

a little girl of Los Angeles, Cal, whose
family was about to move to Arizona, and
who had heard that country spoken of as
forlorn and particularly God-forsaken place,
was saying her prayers at her mothers
knee the night before their intended de-
parture. She said all that had ever been
taught her. and then with peculiar empha-
sis, she said: And now good-by. God,
for tomorrow we are going to Arizona -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12

by direct visibility, a ship is finally seen
above the horizon as if it were suspended
in the air. If atmospheric conditions were
favorable, a second ship would be seen
above the first. ETC. Certain mariners
worthy of credence have assured me that
they have seen as many as seven superposed
ShinS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
Ventilation of Milk-RoOms.
National Stockman.

The ventilation of milk-rooms is gener-
ally less philosophical than that of stables.
The end sought In the two cases is entirely
different, and the provision for a strong
current or draft of air is as uncalled for,
and even injurious, In the one case as it Is
Indispensable In the other 1t seems to be
forgotten that currents of air only reduce
the temperature in proportion as they cause
evaporation, and this is just what the
dairylnan does not want 1t dries the curd
of the milk into fakes, which adheres to
the cream, producing what are known as
''hecks,' those very undesirable white
specks in the butter. We repeat that air in
the milk-room, unlike that in a living
room, does not require to be constantly or
even frequently changed, and it exerts a
far better influence if left undisturbed, es-
pecially In warm weather Milk-rooms,
therefore, should be ventilated only from
above, and one opening is sufficient for all
practical purposes. Were the prevalent
notion true, which it is not, that the air
in such room is likely to become PERM
cious in some of its influences, the open
ing of the doors several times day would
dispel all such influences. That it is de-
sirable so to ventilate the room as to evap-
crate the moisture in and around it is
another fundamental error. A quantity
of water or ice upon the floor exerts a cool
ing influence just in proportion to the
evaporation produced, as we have already
said, of the current of air; but it is not de-
sirable to cool one portion of air and at
once drive it off, to be replaced by another
drier and warmer portion. Such an opera
ton might well be called an attempt to
''cool all outdoors, instead Of the milk
room alone. The moisture of the air in
the milk-room is not In any respect unfa-
vorable to the production of cream and
butter.
A letter of Buckles has been published
giving his list of the really important auth
ors whom the world has produced, accord
ing to his Judgment Excluding physical
and mathematical works, he specifies as the
principal original writers Homer, Plato,
Aristotle, Dante, Shakespeare, Bacon,
Descartes, Hegel, and Compile; Mills
Logic" Smiths Wealth of Nations"
Nautilus on Population. and Ricardo's
Political Economy, . with Don Quixote,"
the Pilgrims Progress" and Goethe's
Faust The Romans, it is added, pro-
duced nothing original, except jurispru-
dence Their philosophy they stole from
the Greeks and spoiled it.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-01
W. C. T. U. COLUMN.

Tn the case of Collins VS.. Hills,
,,aokuk, the Iowa supreme court has
decided against the liquor-dealers.
"a strong and influential COM
,.too has been formed in Bombay,
I TnSio, for organizing and prosecut-
mo temperance work."
nTbe British government, through
poron de Worms, has intimated
ihot If will do all in its power to
snnnress the liquor traffic in AT
rica."
wisconsin legislators refuse to in
.ostioate the northern dives, prob
ohlv for the same reason the nation
= government refuses to investigate
the liquor traffic.
uFrom across the seas comes the
encouraging information that the
Dublin authorities have confiscated
+housands of Zola's work, and in
London there is a fine for publish
inc them. May the good work
snread until it shall embrace the
destruction of all pernicious litera-
ture."
uTbe Union Club, the leadin G
srorting organiza Jon of Germany,
hos decided not to hold races on
sunday. This action was taken in
conformity with the desire of EN-
noror William whose seriousness of
character is making deep impress
sion upon the minds of all classes of
his people"
The w. G. T. U. of the first dis
trict of Iowa, has filed articles of in-
corporation with the avowed deter
mination Of destroying by all legal
means the traffic in intoxicating
LIQUORS. The various temperance
alliances and municipal authorities
of Iowa are taking active interest in
the enforcing of the prohibitory
law, and Governor Larrabee is
showing a disposition to give them
the support Of the state government.
u. P. -