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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
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 small hole at one end. The
she'll 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 Capetoa0aa argus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Thomas III. Benton's Pluck.
/ witnessed this incident in the

l witnessed this incident in the sem
ate, in which Thomas II. Benton
played prominent part, writes Han
nibal Hamlin. Senator Foote, of Mis-
sissippi, had assaulted him violently
daily until Mr.. Benton deliberately
arose one morning in the senate and
declared that if the rules of the senate
were not enforced by its presiding
officer he would take the rules into
his own hands. He notified the sena-
tor from Mississippi that 'sif he con-
tinues his personal assaults on myself,
| will take care of myself"
Well, l was quietly writing one
morning when my ear told me that
Foote was pursuing precisely the same
course of proceedings as the day be-
fore; the chair of Benton on nv left
was thrown back with great violence
and he passed me in the area and went
toward Foote as though he had pur-
pose in his mind. l never doubted
that he had.
Foote glided out from his seat down
amid the senators, taking from some
part of his person pistol and attempt
ed to cock it. 1 suppose it was one of
that kind of pistols that had a guard in
the rear, and he had forgotten to pull
the guard around and couldn't cock
it; but when he was passing down and
trying to use the pistol, Benton literal
ly tore his vest open and said.
Senators, stand aside and let the
assassin shoot"
We'll, the assassin finally reached
the seat of Daniel S. Dickinson, of
New York, who disarmed him, and
there was cry all over the senate,
No quarreling! No quarrelingr'
Benton had returned to his seat, and
with the dignity of a Roman he said:
Mr.. President, [ never quarrel. l
have sometimes fought, and when I
fought, l fought for a fureralm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Leprosy in India.

81 do not think" says a man who
has passed quarter of a century in
India, ''that the report of the death of
brigadier general of the English
army in Hindoostan of leprosy is to be
relied upon. | suppose there are
many kinds of leprosy, and some of it,
like the disease spoken of in the Bible,
may be very infectious. Certainly
Father Damien died of leprosy in
Molokai, communicated to him by the
lepers around him. But lepers are
very common in India, especially in
the central and northwestern provin-
ces, and, though every one tries to
keep them as far from him as possible,
nobody has the slightest fear of being
inoculated with the disorder. 1t seems
to be almost entirely confined to the
natives, and they usually make their
living by it. They are all beggars
and ride about on small ponies solicit
ing aims.
''The doors of the Indian bungalows
are always open, and when a sahib
looks up from his breakfast and sees
one of the horsemen sitting in his sad
die, almost naked, and looking hides
cribably wretched as he holds out his
hand in silent supplication, he is apt
to be willing to part with coin to in
duce his unwelcome visitor to move
on. In fact, the leper won't go until
he receives something. He might, I
suppose, be driven away with stick.
but nobody cares to fagellate him and
he make a great deal of money. 1
never saw a white man with the dis
ease, though believe there are few
isolated cases. 1t is not necessarily
fatal. and lepers who looked as though
they must soon die of old age, have
told the that they were born with it"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
From Nature Up to Natures God.

When one is out in the woods and
the dark night falls, and the stars peer
through the trees, and the night wind
dies down to faint sigh, and every
thing is hushed so that the crack of a
twis far in the forest comes sharp and
clear to the ear, one knows and feels
there is God who loves the world and
humanity. / don't believe the people
who live in the woods ever lose this
sense of divine power. The wood
chopper, whose ak goes all day long
and only stops when the birds have
gone to roost and the sun has set, goes
to his little hut and falls asleep with
the odor of the pine, the murmur of
the stream, the rustling of the trees
telling it all around him. Great
nature never sleeps but its sounds at
night sooth men to rest, and its sun
light, and its chirping of birds, and its
myriad noises of active life make him
as part of it. One cannot be alone
in the woods or by the sea. Even
the little chipmunk seems to talk, and
the bee huns a conversation, and the
wind comes and whispers in his ear; and
by the sea the waves forever and ever
bring him thoughts and pictures that
neither books nor men can put into his
mind.-.Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Change as an Appetizer.

Mrs. Brown-"Is this hotel on the
European plan?"
Mr.. Brown Tin preoccupied tones
from behind his paper)-"Yes, my
DEAR"
Mrs. B.-"I am not feeling hungry
this morning. think I'll just take
some coffee and rolls"
Mr.. B. Qaying aside paper)-"What
were you asking me, my dear? On
the European plan? No; it is not"
Mrs. B. Ito waiter)-"You may
bring me me an omelette, some shad,
mutton-chops, with a bit of bacon,
baked potatoes, rolls, and coffee, and
some griddle cakes, and up."-Har-
per's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

FARRINGFoRD HOUSE, ISLE OF WRIGHT.
FitzGerald wrote to Archbishop Trench,
but hope people will be found to re-
member some of the things he has said.
Again, Il hope that others have remem-
bered and made note of A. It's sayings,
which hit the nail on the head. Had I
continued to be with him, | would have
risked being called Bozzy by the thank
less world, and have often looked in
vain for note book | had made of such
things"
OF these fine sayings very few unfor-
tunately are preserved by FITZGERALD.
The rule of shrinking modesty which he
made for himself he respected also in
the case of his friends, and he expressly
says that he destroyed all his letters
from Carlyle, Tennyson, and Thackeray,
because | could not leave anything of
private personal history behind me-
There is, however, one saying of Tenny-
son which FITZGERALD repeated:
Il dare say l may have told you Che
writes apropos of Raphaers Sistine Ma
donna at Dresden) what Tennyson said
of the Sistine Child, which he then knew
only by engraving. He first thought
the expression of his face Gas also the at
titude) almost too solemn, even for the
SA1lsA NtbAlll DuN SOl1SlAluS d1bOAy NhOh
A. T. was married and had son, he
told me that Raphael was all right, that
no mans face was so solemn as child S
full of wonder. He said one morning
that he watched his babe ''worshiping
the sunbeam on the bedpost and cur
tain -
''Thackeray's friendship with Fitz-
Gerald was even warmer thar Tenny-
sons Not long before Thackeray died
his daughter asked him which of his old
friends he had loved most. why, dear
old Fitz, to be sure he replied, land
Brookfeld." In 1852, also, when Thack-
cray sailed for America he wrote let
ter of farewell TO his dearest old friend"
full, as FITZGERALD said, of noble kind
ness" and asking him if anything should
happen to act as literary executor. Fitz-
Gerald, on his side, loved Thackeray
deeply, and his letters abound in pleas
ant glimpses of the great novelist. Here
Is one of them:
I'm the meanwhile old Thackeray
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
He Was Not Flowing.

The old storv-books made US believe.
says the Memphis appeal, that April
20, 1775, Israel Putnam was blowing
in his field when messenger arrived
in haste with news of the battle of
Lexington, and that the hero farmer
unyoked his oxen and left them to
their fate, mounted a horse, and was
off to the north without SO much as
saying 'good-by" to those of his
house.
And were we not brought up in the
belief that this line,
''They left the plowshare in the mold
was inspired especially by his case.
And have not we, all of US, ever
since our childhood been familiar with
pictures representing him blowing,
clad in frock as long as a night
gown, which no farmer could wear at
any kind of work without imminent
and unacceptable peril of being tripped
up at every step he took-to say moth
ing of turning a furrow, when he
would be indeed fortunate if he did
not find himself under the plowshare?
And to know after many years that
there was no plow in the case-to find
out that that, too, is myth!
1t was, indeed. the day after the
fight at Lexington, IN the morning,
and Israel Putnam was at work on his
farm in Pomfret, Conn.,. SAYS a writer
in Vide AlUake. But he was building
a stone wall, with his hired men, and
he had on leather frock and apron
the frock must have been a short one;
fancy one of that material comino To
his heels! He took off the apron, but
did not wait to change the check shirt
he had worn in the field, and was eff
without delay. He rode the same
horse 100 miles in eighteen hours, and
reached Cambridge at sunrise the next
morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Two Daring Souls.

81 say, old chappie," remarked the
exquisise creature in burst of conf
dence, Il want to tell you of an awful
scrape got into to-day. Tom was in
It. too. We were going out to lunch.
you know, and we couldn't find our
gloves. A fellah couldn't think of
going out to lunch, you know, without
his gloves to carwy in his hands, you
know, and by gwacious, we were half
afwaid we'd starve to death. 1t was
awful, don't you know; but justas we'd
about resigned ourselves to our terri
BILE fate, Fwank came along. Fwank
is fellah of illimitable wesource,
don't you know, and he loaned US his
gloves. We each took one, and car
ried them in our hands, for all the
world as if we'd had a pair apiece.
1t was an awful narrow escape from
starvation. 1t makes me twembls
when | think of it."-BoSton Tran
eo1iYt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

laughs at this (''this, by the way. was
the anger of certain log-rollers of the
day.; and goes on his own way, writing
hard for half dozen reviews and news
papers all the morning; dining, drinking
and talking of night; managing to pre-
serve q fresh color and perpetual flow of
spirits under a wear and tear of think
ing and feeding that would have knock
ed up any other man | know two years
ago, at least
The beauty of his Conan" is all, OF
nearly all, his own-how much his own
every fresh translation suggests, and
Mi. Wright also shows in his notes. All
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
A photograph of an Arctic MIRAGE

A photograph of an Arctic mirage is
said to have been received at San Fran
cisco from Prof. Richard D. Willough-
by of Alaska. 1t was taken at Glacier
Bay and represents mysterious aerial
city. In the foreground is a graveled
walk, stone fence, a rustic seat and
child at play. Beyond the stone
wall are the roofs of houses and clumps
of trees. In the distance are the half
completed towers of a cathedral, to-
gether with several tall public build
ings, while far away, enveloped in
what appears to be cloud-like at
mosphere, are tall smoke stacks and
the towers of churches. tt lyle of
architecture is decidedly modern. Some
persons who see it denounce the pic
ture as a fraud, but some of the best
informed people regard it as genuine,
Prof. Willoughby is said to be man
of high character.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

FITZGERALD was the friend of Tenny-
son and other literary celebrities of the
time, and he was the author of a transla-
ton done divinely WE'LL" of the Per
sian poet, Omar Khayyam. FITZGERALD
intrusted his letters and literary remains
to Mr.. Adds Wright; and the three vol
umes which Mr. Wright has made out
of them are now before US. They en-
large our knowledge of FITZGERALD in
the two aspects of him mentioned above,
and they show him in the fresh light of
a most charming letter-writer
FitZGerald's letters are deeply inter
esting, in the first place, for the friends
of whom they give US glimpses, and
more particularly of Tennyson, Thack-
cray, and Carlyle
The poet-laureate, on hearing of Fitz-
Gerald death, wrote to the late SiI
Frederick Pollock: Il had no truer
friend; he was one of the kindest of
man, and | have never known one of so
fine and delicate a wit" FitzGerald' S
letters in their turn show the warmest
admiration both for Tennyson's genius
and for his character, and the following
extracts will give some idea of the terms
on which they lived.
ALFRED Tennyson stayed with me at
Ambleside. will say no more than that
the more | have seen of him the more
cause have to think him great. His
little humors and grumpinesses were sc
droll thatI was always laughing"
I'VE have had Alfred TIE nnyson here;
very droll and very maynard; and much
sitting up of nights till and 3 in the
morning with pipes in our mouths, al
which good hour we would get Alfred tC
give us some of his magic music, which
he does between growing and smoking
and so to bed"
But highly as FITZGERALD appreciated
Tennyson as poet, he seems to have
been even more impressed with his
friends conversational powers. ''Tenny'
son never writes letters or journals. /"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Florida Sponges.

The Florida sponge fishermen de-
tect the presence of sponges by means
of a waterglass. which is a simple
contrivance, being circular piece of
glass inserted in the bottom of a buck
ct. The bucket is thrust into the
water, and looking through the glass
the sponge-hunter can clearly dis
tinguish any object on the bottom of
the sea, even if the water be rough.
The sponges are gathered with a pole
from eighteen to forty feet long, with
a three-pronged iron claw st the end.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
1t Won the Writer a Thrashing.

The following is a sample of Fri
day afternoon composition which
Adam Biglier wrote while a 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 a 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 ans all day to
cook dinner. Preston Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Knew What He Wanted,

''Is there anything | can do for you?"
asked Mrs. Cumso, tenderly, when her
husband was suffering from seasick-
nesr. ''What do you want?"
81 want the earth, gasped Cumso,
as he again leaned over the rail.-New
York San.
This years peach crop is estimated
at 2,79S, 900 baskets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
What She Liked.

"What do you like best?" said Mr.
Dify Dent to his girl, as they stood
together at the soda counter. ''Oh,
like ginger ale," she answered, ''ano
champagne. Anything that-that-
that She didn't finish, but shs
blushed, and Diffy popped that night
Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
TENNYSON AND FITZGERALD.
Old Fjtz and His Friends-Tennyso
Thacxeray and Carlyle.

Old Fitz and His Friends-Tennyson
Thackeray and Carlyle.
The following lines by Tennysor
(Which were prefxed to his ''Toresias'
volume) embody all that has hitherto
been known to the world at large about
Edward FITZGERALD (the man of whom
the Poet Browning wrote so BITTERLY:
Old Fitz. who from your suburb grange,
Where once tarried for while,
Glance at the wheeling orb of change,
And greet it with a kindly smile;
Whom vet / see as there you sit
Beneath your sheltering garden-tree
And watch your doves about you fit
And plant on shoulder, hand and knee
Or on your head their rosy feet,
AS if they knew your diet spares
Whatever moved in that full sheet
Let down to Peter at his PRAYERS:
Who lived on milk and meal and grass:
but none can say
That Lenten fare makes Lenten thought
VINO reads yeur golden Eastern lay,
Than which / know no version done
In English more divinely well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

his own, too, is the fine criticism wnIcn
gives so delicate an aroma to his letters.
Indeed, we know of no recent book
which can be so confidently commended
to every judicious and genuine lover of
literature. Pail Mall Gazette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
Distinctive Facts Wanted.

Mrs. Mover: ''What! Don't you re-
member Blank street? Why, we went
there two or three times to look for
house." Mr.. Mover: HUH Name
some street we haven't been to, look
ing for houses, and perhaps I'll re-
member it."-NeW York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
In the Bookstore.

Clerk: 81 did not quite catch the
title you asked for, madame. Mrs.
Boominoil with asperity): Il asked,
sir, for copy of The Aristocrat at
the Breakfast Table Of course
don't need book of that nature from
which to CLEAN notes regarding the
correct etiquet of the wealthy at their
meals, but like to glance through
such publications for my own amuse-
ment. Clerk (half heartedly and with
a trace of bewildermenD: ''Was the
authors name Holmes. madameP''
Mrs. Boominoil: Yes, sir, | think il
was. "-Puc6.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

Mistress: "How is it your sweet
heart doesn't visit you any moreP"
Beasy (the cook) His wife OBJECTED,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15

ST saw singular metamorphosis
the other day." said Pippins. well,
what was it?n asked Bilsby. 81 saw
a man turn into a saloon"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-13
"Nice BOulanger."


On his campaign'placards, in Paris,
Gen. Boul4nger asked the electors il
they wanted "to remain 4 years Ions
ger under the yoke OF corrupt intri-
guers and specializing politicians. "
If so, he said they should vote for NJ.
Jacques, "the candidate for Clemen.
ceau, Ferry and Floquett.' Of the
three statesmen at whom he thus has
his fipg the first is the man who or.
iginally pitchforked General Boulan.
ger into official notoriety and but for
him the brave General" would never
have been heard of outside of France.
The second is the man whose rep, at.
ed challenge to a duel General Bou-
LANCER was too cowardly to accept.
The third is the RUSTY old lawyer,
unskilIed at arms, who spitted Gen.
eral Boulanger, like rat on a stew.
er, when that would-be Dictator was
finally egged into fighting him. AL.
together, the Generals "reminiscences
Of the three cannot be particularly
gratifying to MS vanity.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-13
LADIES IN FEEBLE HEALTH
FROM ANY CAUSE

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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-13
TOaCigarettG.

DETAINED, Denounced, despiced, de-
scribed,
Thou fragrant, fragile, dainty
thing;
How could in thee such har n abide!
For me | End not such, bring
A devotee's best offering,
Which is: Though s. orned by 9TH
er eyes,
Whose owners on three curses fling
Ill puff the ever to the skies!
A deft and fairy finger tied
Thee with that silken bit of string,
And smoothly laid thee side by side
The send thee ON thy journeying,
While others take the time to sing
Of pipe, cigars, thy virtues cries
For one who to your cause will cling;
Ill puff the ever to the skies!
Hnh slippers and an arm chair wide
And thee above may head thy
ring
What then care l what may betide
Thy springtime incense hoyering!
Brief as thy hour; short as thy swing;
Before thy waning moments flies
| pledge thee this last Offering:
I'll puff the ever to the skies!
ENVOY.
Alas, how grievous have I lied.
Dead is thy fire, thy cold stump
lies;
Your virtues left you when you died;
cannot puff you to the skies.
Chicago Times.