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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-24
REMNANT

An immense quantity Of Short
Ends Of Dress Goods of every deS-
CriptiOn that have been made by
us, which guarantees them as TO
quality, MUST BE SOLD during
January.
You can also buy for a dress the
best qualities during this month
at prices of Inferior goods.
Don't fail to look over the Bar
gains i'm Dress Goods and REM
nantS at
G. v. S. QUACKENBUSH & co.,
Cor. Broadway 4 Third st.,
TROY.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-24

A Or JUN OlbLE I Deceased.
STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate Court
District OF Bennington. IS. held at Probate Of
nee in Bennington within and for said district. on
the 18Th day Of january, A. D. 1889.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
Things to Escape From.

From the man who knows it all.
From the slattern and severely
clean.
From tailor-made gentlemen every
where.
From all whom dogs and children
dislike
From ''clams" that like muddy wa
ter best.
From the bar-room actor who ''sup-
ported Forrest"
From all who 'ssay" their prayers,
but never pray"
From press agents, society actresses,
and would be stars.
From the creatures that write nasty
books or read them.
From dealers in antique" who make
their own wares.
From dealers of all kinds who call
dishonesty cuisines.
From public libraries that never buy
a book worth preserving.
From the three Ps-plumbers. poll
ticians, and neighbors' pianos.
From policemen who can not see be-
cause they are paid for not seeing.
From the man who speaks of an
others alleged vices with tears in his
eyes.
From prima donnas who can not
sing and seryant-girls who think they
can.
From people who rush to the seaside
in summer, but never take a bath at
home.
From mothers who turn the chill
dren into the street to "keep the house
tidy"
From cashiers who affect the style
of millionaires and go to Canada or to
Jail.
From wives who think that hus-
bands were only made to work that
they may spend.
From the dudes" who hang around
state doors and from ballet girls off
the stage.
From shop girls who Judge lady Gus
toners by their clothes and treat them
accordingly.
From "blemishes" upon manhood
who give ''swelr' dinners to "blotsn
upon womanhood.
From authors who pay for the publ
cation of their books and give the pub
fishers the profits.
From Americans who have never
seen their own country, but 90 every
summer to EUROPE. y Philadelphia
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
The Cranks We Have Always with Us.

The crank who knows it is sure death
to do this or that is around this year in
the usual numbers. When the hot
spell struck us in early July he shouted
at the top of his voice that no meat
should be eaten until fall. The peo-
pie, remembering, perhaps, that an
clients ate meat regularly, and that
few of them, at least, escaped prema-
ture graves, went on eating meat as if
nothing had happened. After waiting
for time the crank changed his tune.
If the people were fools and wanted to
eat meat in the summer time he
couldn't help it; but he didn't intend
that they should breathe night air.
He showed by figures and theories
without end that every man who
breathed night air was morally GER
tain to die. Many of them had an
ticipated that end, and so they went
right on breathing night air as before.
1t was the only air they could breathe
at night, and they reasoned that it
would be better to breathe that than to
suspend operations until morning. AS
a general thing the people have more
sense in such matters than even the
crankiest cranks. -PhiLGdelphiG In
quirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
"A Model Postofnce.

A new Postmaster was appointed
last Spring for one of the villages be-
low Atlantic City, on the Jersey coast.
and about June l people began to
write to the two hotels there for
rooms and rates. Answers were re-
ceived from only small per cent. of
the letters, and great deal of anxiety
and trouble was the consequence.
Among others who finally went down
to see what was the matter, was
Philadelphia broker, and upon reach
ing the town he went directly to the
post office. 1t was a little 7x9 affair
in the rear end of grocery store, and
after introducing himself the broker
said:
Il have written several letters to
the Seaside Hotel here and received no
answer. | have several friends who
also make the same complaint"
GLOW long ago was this?"
about month";"
''Ah! yes, well, your letters proba-
bly, went to the Dead Letter Office
''But why? Were they not called
for?"
"Oh, yes, but | started in here deter
mined to do my duty. The last post
master was removed because he hadn't
sent dead letter to Washington during
his whole term of office, and during
the first four weeks of mine | sent off
ninety-six. I've got about fifty more
to go to-day, but after this shall hold
up for awhile and deliver all that come.
Pm going to run this office bang up
city style or Pm going to get out.
Good-day, sir
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
My Old-Fashioned Girl.

AS the clock on the stairs ticks the minutes
j sit with my pipe at the close of the day,
And in the light smoke-wreaths that softly
arise
Are numberless visions in fancfful guise.
In Sun-bOnnet Olden dreamily see
Two roguish blue eyes glancing shyly at me,
The incense arises in one lazy curl
Enframing the face of My OId-taSh1oned Glfl.
I look once again in her soft azure eyes
Live over our meetings meath Junes tender
skies
AS we stroned side by side down some shadowy
lane,
Or skirted the acres of rfpening grain,
While if I-but harken. hear even yet,
Her fairy-like steps in a dim minuet,
And there comes from the smoke in a delicate
whirl
The willowy form of My old-Fashioned Girl.
Ihear the sweet voice that I heard years ago,
And her hand touches mine as we pass to and
When we meet for an instant in old Money
Musk,
Or 1 tenderIy clasp it at mfdsummer's dusk.
And each haunting vision in fragrant dis
Grows fainter and fainter and finally dies.
Yet one face is left me- as pure as a pearl,
The face Of my darling-My Old-Fashioned
Girl.
In the sweet little miss who climbs up on my
knee
To kiss grandpa goodnight there is some
Unseen BY all others, deep down in her eyes
A something within them that half hidden lies,
She wonders perhaps why / hold her small
hand,
But if / should tell her. she'd not understand
That grandmother yonder, beyond the smoke 8
curl
Was once and to-day is, Ny old-Fashioned
Good housekeeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
She Had the "Buck Fever.o

This episode of deer-hunting in the
Adirondacks is told by correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Press. A young
man in camp on a small secluded lake
was hunting the river that ran close
by. AS motiOnless as a statue in the
front of the boat, with the BULLS
lantern throwing its light over his
head, and his guide in the stern pad
ding without the slightest noise-as
is wholly necessary-the young hum
ter had his eyes fixed on the shores for
the unwary but sensitive deer. Sud-
denly he saw ball of fire directly
ahead of him. He raised his rifle and
was about to shoot, when his common
sense reminded him that no animal
could have such an eye as that. Hard
" had he lower his rifle when a sharp
crack pierced the air, the lantern over
his head came down upon him and he
was left in darkness. His guide call
ed out in language more eloquent than
poetic to whoever had fred that shot
not to fire another. The next instant
a boat ran up alongside of the Young
mans and in the bow of it he discov-
cred fne-looking girl with jacket
DuJLOu6u u y dOOuG Hef ears. peak
cap pulled down over her forehead,
and rifle balanced across her knees.
He laughed at the idea of her shooting
the lantern off his boat, but she was
almost in Mysteries.
''Im so sorry and ashamed" she
said. 81 never shot a deer and / sup
pose l had the buck fever and didn't
know lantern from the moon. Can
you ever forgive me, sir?"
Of course she was gracefully for
given.
.'Oh, I'm living at the little hotel
down on Big Upper lake, and my
guide brought me up tonight. My
brother is going down the river. and
will meet me at the carry after we
have finished hunting"
81 think I'll be down to the hotel to-
morrow" said the young man.
''But you won't tell on me, will youP"
cried the girl.
That depends" replied the youth.
The young man is now down at the
hotel every day, for the girl who came
near killing him is the belle of the
neighborhood, and they are holding
prolonged dialogues about deer-hunt-
ing-or something else.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28

the name of Nelson a. Schimisichile-
witt was drowned in hole in the ice
in the River Neya, in Russia, recently.
Nelson should have taken the pre-
caution to have tied one end of his
name to tree on the bank before he
trusted himself on the ice.-SpTiiaqfetd
Republican.
Colored Parson-..An' de text saws:
AN he shall separate de sheep from de
goats. Now, bredrun, cast no re-
Election on dis yere congregation; but
KNOWN it as do, I am oh de 'pinion
dat on de day O. Judgment de goat
market will hab a boom. "-DrdkeS
Magazine.
Papa, what is a doubtful state?''
asked little Freddy. who had been look
ing over the political news. Marriage
is doubtful state, my son. answered
Brown with humorous twinkle in his
eye as he looked at his better half.
Don't you think so, Mrs. Brown?n
mo, | don't think it is a state at all, !"
she answered. TO me it always
seemed ike a terror-tory." Brown was
silent. Call
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
Japanese Dancing Girls.

The japanese girls! All! they are
the clou Of the exhibition after the
Eiffel tower, says a Paris letter to the
Panama StGr and Herald They are
more talked about than the colored
fountains, President Carnot or Bou-
LANCER. Rider Haggard ought to
they have look of being related to
Cleopatra. They are still in their
teens, and promise never to quit them;
they are yellow. Egyptian, and have
an extinct-active volcano air. They
have the eyes of vipers and the eye
balls of the tiger. Their dance move
ments are supple; they are as cold as
serpents, and as impressive as they are
enigmatical.
They dance in bare legs, and ditto
busts; favor not accorded to occi-
dental ballerines; they have a kind OF
GRECO Prussian helmet or a head
dress, full of gold and feathers, form
ing kind OF cockatoo diadem or back
hair comb. Antiquarians swear they
resemble the captives taken during
the siege of Troy. They seem to have
been born homeless. They can twist
their forearms at the elbow joints
round like a Catherine wheel, and can
apparently move the upper part of
their bodies-the bust-like the revoly-
ing wax beauties in the shop widows of
capillary artist. A philosopher re-
marks they are strong proof of the
--l.rsltY of inhabited worlds
Housemaid (new to the instrument):
"Somebody ringin' at the hellophone,
marin. "-Harper's Bazar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
1t Was a Great Tree.

An Elmer, Ore, paper publishes the
following remarkable story: ''E. G.
Stamper, a citizen of Elmer, has just
completed working up a fir tree which
grew on his place adjoining town. He
received $12 for the bark; built frame
house 14x20, s feet high. with shed
kitchen S feet wide and 20 feet long;
built woodshed 14x20 feet; made $50
fence rails 10 feet long; made 334 rail-
road ties and 500 boards 6 inches wide
and feet long, and fifteen cords of
wood, feet wide and feet long, all
from one tree, and has a part of the
tree left. :"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
CHARLES A. DANA'S HOBBIES.
Washington Correspondent who Prob
bly, Knew What They Were.

A tradition of Washington newspa-
per row in connection with prize-tig hts
concerns no less distinguished an editor
than Charles A. Dana, of New York.
Two things in which Mr. Dana is esDec-
tally interested are pugilism and
dueling. They amount almost to
mania with him. OF hundred arti-
cles submitted to him on subjects
ranging from mushroom culture to
amending the constitution of the re-
public, the one whicn he would select
for his most attentive reading would
be an account of the latest ''scrapping
contest" between two middle-weights
out in Indiana. At one time, says the
Washington correspondent to the
Hartford Post, the San had a we'll
known journalist as its Washington
correspondent, who made it's news
columns noteworthy by admirable re-
ports of the proceedings of congress
and serious work of the executive de-
partments. His letters and dispatches
were extensively copied, and adver-
tised the paper in very profitable
way. One day this correspondent APP
piled for leave of absence and was
granted it, man from the local force
of the home office being sent over to
take his place. The youngster was a
green hand at the class of work done
in Washington. He had seen almost
nothing of legislation in any of its
phases, and the routine and personnel
of the executive departments was
wholly unknown to him. Rather i'm
portant events were on the carpet at
that time, and he was painfully con-
scious of his incapacity to do them
Justice. While he was thus blunder-
ing along, news reached him that
duel was among the things of the near
future in Richmond, Va, where two
leading politicians had passed lately
from words to blows In one of their
disputes. A bright idea seized him,
and he dropped everything and bent
his steps toward Virginia's capital. A
fair supply of brass stood him in good
stead. and he found his way to the
principals in the affair, and managed
to get enough material from them for
a column of spicy interview in the
next days's San. Next morning. soon
after daybreak, the parties met in
wood a short distince from the city
and exchanged shots. The cores
pondent had not been invited to the
entertainment. but he was there all
the same, having logged the footsteps
of everybody concerned and sat up all
night to be sure and miss nothing. He
perched on fence at a short distance,
noted every word and look, every mo-
ton of hand and eve of the duelists,
their seconds and their surgeon. That
afternoon he manged to get another
interview with each principal, and the
next mornings Sun contained not only
the exclusive account OF, the occurrence,
but one so admirably circumstantial
that, when Mr.. Dana read it in print,
he sent for his managing editor.
..Who did this Richmond dueI?"
'.Mr. Blank"
What is he doing down there?"
I though he was local reporter"
'.He was sent to Washington to take |
the place of Mr.. Dash, who has gone
off for his vacation. / am sorry Blank |
should have neglected his duties just |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
A Touching Incident.

A touching incident was that of Mrs.
William Nichols, a brilliant and much
admired lady of Bath beach, who had
been suffering for some time from an
affection of the eyes, says the Brooklyn
Citizen. She was led to fear speedy
change for the worse, and Immediately
consulted her physician. An eXamina-
ton discovered a sudden and fatal fail
ing in the optic nerve, and the infor-
nation was impaired as gently as pos
sible that the patient could not retain
her sight more than a few DAYS at
most, and was liable to be totally de-
prived of it at any moment. Last
Tuesday the afflicted mother quietly
made such arrangements as would oc-
cur TO one about to commence so dark
a journey of life and then had her two
children, attired in their brightest and
sweetest costumes, brought before her;
and so, with their little faces lifted 10
hers, and tears gathering for some
great misfortune they hardly realized,
the light faded out of their mothers
eyes, leaving an inetfacable picture of
those dearest to her on earth-a men,
DRY of the bright faces that will console
r. - MANY dark hour
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
The Butcher Bird.

A Scranton man who had observed a
butcher bird carrying off bumble-bees
and sparrows finally traced the bird to
a large thorn bush hard by the river
bank, nearly half a mile away. I'm
paled on the sharp thorns he found
thirteen beetles, eight bumble-bees, five
shriveled mice, and the skeletons of
seven English sparrows. While he was
making this interesting discovery of
the butcher birds nice and accurate
work the master of the bush suddenly
appeared, circled about the spot a num-
Der of times. piped spitefully at the in
truder, and seemed to be greatly
afraid that the man was going to dis
turb its choice and neatly arranged col
lection OF things
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
Made Himself Unpopular.

A gay young fellow, with dazzling
blazer and tennis racquet in his hand,
was sitting in Sixth avenue elevated
car the other day, evidently on his
way to the Central park lawns, SAYS
the New York Tribune. A fat old
worklng-woman entered with a big
bundle, followed by a pretty and we'll
dressed girl. The tennis pIaver arose
quickly and offered his seat with bow
to the girl. With a hearty ..Thank
you, my son." the old and perspiring
one Topped into 1t. A look of tired
disgust spread over the face of the
youth, but his ordeal was not over.
An old man on the other side of the
car began in a loud voice: Now.
that's just as it should be. This sys-
tenn of men giving up their seats in
public cOnveyances to women is not
carried out on proper lines by most
people. and when l do see the right
thing done it pleases me. / am an
old man myself. but when see an old
woman (here the big woman bridled
up) or middle-aged lady. who is evil
IDENTIFY very tired (here she smiled and
leaned back), or one that is too fat to
stand at all without discomfort (here
she gave a snort and looked as if she
would like to be in his hairy, l give
her my seat; but when it is the case of
a woman who is out simply for her
pleasure. to whom ten minutes lost
time is nothing, if such one pushes
her way into crowded train, expect
ing some tired man to give her his
seat instead of waiting for another
car, as she should (here flash of
scorn from the girls eye), then I let
her stand as this young man has sem
sibly DONE" If the old man had not
got off then. either the tennis player
or the fat woman or the girl would
have certainly done him harm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
Engineering Exploits.

1.-THE engineering exploits at the
Paris exhibition" says the New York
San, violate in many cases what
might be called axioms. An arch has
always been rigid at its crest, tower
broad. thick, and solid at its base; and
just in proportion to the span of the
arch or the height of the tower have
the keystone and base been ponder
Gus. In the hall OF machines, with a
truss-arch span of 500 feet, the crest of
the arch is in no way united, but the
two elements of the arch simply lean
against each other, TRAVERSE steel
roller receiving the enormous pressure
of contact. The base of the arch, in
stead of widening out and being heavi-
ly grounded in masonary to stand
lateral stress. comes down to point
and rests directly on a cast-iron plate
with circular bearing: These au-
daciOus contrvanceS are to permit ex-
pansion and contraction, and the
whole vast roof, over sixth of mile
long, rises and falls with every change
of temperature.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
A Costly Tomb.

John Grouse, a Syracuse millionaire
grocer, who died recently, was laid in
what is probably the most costly tomb
in the country. The structure is of
solid granite, every stone being per-
feet, The stone run through and
through the walls, and each has been
fitted to its place with mathematical
precision. The masonry outside as
well as in is as delicate as joiner work
in the strictest sense. Nowhere in the
roof is there a vertical joint exposed to
the sky, thus preventing any possibili-
ty of leak, so often found in such
work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
The Disappearance ofDeserts.

What were supposed to be deserts
are rapidly vanishing before the adj
vance of civilization. There was a
time when the United States had one
of no small size, when it was considered
that all the land west of the Missouri
river was barren waste. The farmers
of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota have
disposed of much Of the great American
desert. Once upon a time large pOr-
ton of the interior of Africa were be-
lieved to be arid and uncultivabe. Now
we learn that they are fruitful and well
populated. The interior of Australia
has been held up as an awful example
of a bowling wilderness, destitute of
water and of animal or vegetable life
That illusion is now being rapidly dis
PEELED. Recent explorers report that
inner Australia is no Saharan waste
and that though uninhabited, it can sup
port large population. There ore
grassy plains, large lakes, and also
traces of gold and precious stones. A
north and south railway is now being
made through the center of Australia,
and doubtless with its completion the
last trace of the desert will vanish. The
iron horse is a wonderful dispeller of
illusions of that kind. The truth is,
that there are vast regions in America,
Asia. and Australia which are barren
from the standpoint of primitive and
ignorant agriculture, but which, when
taken in hand by the educated farm
er of the present day, with his i'm
plements, develop into fertile fields and
pastures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28
Sports in Scotland

An English paper says the value to
Scotland of the opportunities for sports
is very large. The deer forests OF
which there are 100, covering 5000
square miles Of land useless for agri-
culture. rent for 100000 annually;
E12, 500 of this goes to the local taxes.
If any forest fails to be rented the
whole neighborhood feels it greatly in
the diminished amount of money ex-
pended there. The grouse moors rent
for 9440, 000 and pay E65. 600 in takes.
Most salmon rivers are let with the
moors, but some are rented alone and
add a considerable sum to the total al
ready given.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-28

at this busy time and gone down TO
Richmond without permission, but
suppose
'.Nelect his duties?n roared Mr..
Dana. Raise his salary SIS a week
and tell him his place is permanent
That's the kind of man we want in
Washington. He did right in assum-
ing the responsibility. Ittakes born
journalist to make choice between a
stupid batch of government news and
a frst-class duel story like that"