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Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-10
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-10

The Massachusetts senate has added to Its bad record by killing the bill requiring a sworn statement of election expenses. This measure was cordially endorsed by leading Republican papers throughout the State.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-10

Ladies Black Lisle Thread Hose, superior value, at 25c per pair.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
The Lasting Grief of Widows.

A young Tipperary widow. Nellie
McPhee, was courted and actually had
an offer from Tooley O'Shane on her
way to her husbands funeral.
"She accepted, of course" said
Grossman.
mo, she didn't" said Smith '"Too-
ley, dear says she, yer too late.
Four weeks ago it was I shook hands
wi Pat Sweeny upon it that would
have him a dacent time after poor Nc
Phee was under board. ;"
'Well," said Grossman, widows of
all nations are much alike. There was
Dutchwoman whose husband, Died
rich Won Pronk, died and left her in
consolable. He was buried on Copp's
Hill. Folks said that grief would kill
that widow. She had a large figure of
wood carved that looked very ike her
late husband, and constantly kept it
in bed for several months. In about
half year she became interested in a
young shoemaker, who took the length
of her foot and finally married her.
He had visited the widow not more
than a fortnight, when the servants
told her they were out of kindIing
stuff, and asked what would be done
After pause the widow remarked in
quiet way: MAYBE it is we'll enough
to shplit up old Won Pronk, vot ish up
stairs. "-Ne1U York. Mercary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Must Be a Rich Man.

With a view to laying proper basis
for the boys career, of teaching him
the great object of living, to make
money, he was told to acquire the
names of the richest men in the world.
The poorest are not easy to count.
Poverty is cheap, easily attained, and
it sticks closer than brother. So he
went home and asked his father. His
father told him Jay Gould, Wander
bilt and Rothschild, and sundry San
Francisco people, and he wrote them
all down on a piece of paper. Then
he added name he thought of HIM
self.
Are these right?" he asked, hand
ing his father the paper
'sYes-but who's this you've put
down? O'Grady?"
Yes. | guess OGrady must be a
rich man. everybody is saying he owes
ten dollars to him. =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Bound to Have Her.

miss Florry," said the employer,
you have been in my establishment as
bookkeeper for five years, and l have
raised your salary each year until now.
I am paying you all l can well afford,
and I am afraid I shall not be able to
raise the figures for next year any higher
than they are now-S1, 200"
You have been very kind to me, Mr..
Plummer," replied the young lady, ''but
l have been offered 81, 300 by Swagg &
Co. to take their books next year"
The underhanded sneaks. Trying to
take my employees from me, are they?
Well, they can't do It'll I'll give you
81, 400, Miss Florry, and you can snap
your fingers at Swagg g Co.
Fourteen hundred dollars is a liberal
offer, Mr.. Plummer, and [ am obliged to
you. but Shroat 6 Belknap sent me word
yesterday that they would pay me 81, 500
if I would go into their Office as head
bookkeeper."
'Shroat & Belknap, hey? They're a
pretty pair of sharks. They'll give you
81, 500, will they? FL see EN- in Los
Angeles firstP' exclaimed Mr.. Plummer
See here, Miss Florry, I'll do better
than that. I'll take you into the firm.
I'll marry you! Tell Shroat 8 Belknap
you are engaged. Hal hal FL marry
you, FlorryF'
30. Mr.. Plummer (demurely). thank
you sincerely for your offer, but l car
never be anything more than daugh-'
''Wha-whatP' gasped the head of the
firm.
81 have promised to marry your sor
Harry, Mr.. Plummer."
Red fire and slow curtain. Chicago
Trih7Lne
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
HIMALAYAN WOMEN.
How the Females of Indian Mountain
Tribes Dress.

On the slopes of the Himalayas there
are many curious tribes, says a CORES
pendent of the Denver Republican.
Some of the tribes near Darjeeling
reckon journey by the num-
Der of guilds of tobacco which they
chew upon the way, and some of the
most gorgeous specimens of HindoO
jewelry have seen [ saw on the Wo-
men of the Himalayas. | remember
one mountain pink who had fifty ru-
pees strung around her neck, and
whose limbs were loaded down with
silver. She had gold plates twice the
diameter of silver dollar upon her
ears, and her mouth was covered by
fiat gold nose ring. Some of these
Himalaya tribes would have one wife
to four men and polyandry is common.
Here at Bombay are the prettiest Wo-
men in India. They are the parsees.
With delicate, olive brown skins, they
are tall and we'll shaped, have beauti-
full eyes and fine intellectual faces.
They dress in silks of the most deli
cate colors and the dress seems to con-
sist of one large piece of silk, which
is wound around the waist and then
carried up over the body and the top
of the head, so that the face looks out
and the whole hangs in a beautiful
drapery. Many of them, I note, have
silk stockings and slippers to match
the color of their dresses, and they
are the brightest and prettiest women
| have seen. The parsees are sun
worshipers. There are only about
10000 of them in India, and $4,000 of
them are here in Bombay. The men
dress in long, preacher-like clothes of
black, with hats shaped like coal
scuttles and they are very fine looking.
Their dress, when not in business, is
often of the whitest of linen coats and
shirts. They are the best business
men in the world. They own millions
Of dollars worth of property here in
Bombay and are largely interested in
the trade of India. They are more
akin to the christians than the Hin
docs in their methods of living. They
believe in spending their money, dwell
N good houses and drive around in
fine carriages. They are charitable as
well as rich and some of the finest of
the public buildings of Bombay have
been built by them. They are of Per-
sian descent and have temples in
which burns the sacred fire of Zoroas-
ter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
The MilIionaire's Revenge.

We have a venerable millionaire in
town with the face OF Peabody, from
whom we expect great things in be-
nevolence by and by-say when he is
dead. But, meantime, he gives
precious little to anybody or anything,
so that he may have as much as posi-
BILE to give away, [ suppose. Being a
professional money-maker, he is not
generous person-no, nor even q
liberal one. He is constantly saying
and doing small and mean things
Among his many desirable bits of real
estate is fine double corner lot facing
three streets at the end of block in
the heart of the city. 1t is the only
vacant lot for blocks around. The old
gentleman has kept it empty even of
decent fence for years while he awaited
the gradual accumulation of the sun
earned increment" But recently he
has had quarrel with one of the
doctors whose offices line both sides of
the street at this point, and to pigue
his enemy he has leased this fine cor
ner lot to tombstone manufacturer,
who has promptly covered the lot With
tall and short monuments in all kinds
of marble and granite. All the doctors
are angry, some of them furiously. but
our future philanthropist only chuckles
quietly to himself. = Washington Letter..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
A Good Story From India.

There is a famous border freebooter
know as Tantia Bheel, who is the
cause of much trouble to the author
tiles. He has long been wanted, but,
like Scottish Rob Roy, Tantia does not
seem to stand much in awe Of the
powers that be. A body of native
police recently set out in pursuit of the
robber, and halted at a spot near one
of his favorite haunts. During the.
halt ''bafber" joined the police, and
his services were requisitioned by the
officer in command. The barber"
was, after the manner OF BARRIERS,
Ioquacious, and talked freely of the
dacoit and his doings. ''Ah," he said
at last, there is only one way of
catching Tantia." "And how is that?"
eagerly asked the officer. "In this
way" said the shaver, cutting off the
tip of the jemadar's nose, 81 am Tan
tia" Tantia bolted off into the jungle,
leaving that unfortunate jemadar
streaming with blood and frantically
calling his men to follow the runaway.
Pursuit was in vain. The barber
made good his escape.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Archaeological Discoveries.

In the excavations at Megara Hyb-
l@a in Sicily, now finished. there have
been discovered since last January 800
tombs containing vases, fine torso in
marble, an archaic head in limestone,
part of the old wall, four towers, a
gate, and other archaeological treas
ures. Also among the many findings
of the excavators at work by order of
the Greek government on the Acropo-
lis is the head in marble of female
winged figure, in relief, which DR..
Waldstein has identified as belonging
to the figure of Iris in the east frieze
Of the Parthenon in the British muse
UNI. A cast of the fragment has been
placed in the museum which fits ex-
actly. The American school at Ath-
ems has also made an important dis
covery. tifty-four lines of the famous
edict of Diocletian have been found in
P!ataea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Adventure With a Whale.

A few years ago while whaling in
Davis's straits, says writer in the
New York World, we discovered a
whale, manned boat, and rowed to-
ward it | threw harpoon and struck
the whale, driving the weapon deep
into his back. Overcome with ex-
element / sank down on my seat
Suddenly the whale gave jerk which
tore the line out of our hands and sent
me spinning through the air. | land
ed on the whales back not far from
the harpoon. 1 grabbed its handle.
The whale darted up the bay with the
speed of electricity. grew insensible.
When | recovered [ was lying on.
top of a small iceberg. L arose
and motioned to vessel which came.
sailing near by, was discovered,
and taken aboard. Who can describe
nv establishment when I found in tow
of the vessel the whale which | had
harpooned, and which was found float
ing down the bay, dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Lick's Flour Palace.

Mr.. Lick was never married, but,
like many of the bachelors, as Shaks-
peare indifferently called the members
of either sex, he had his experience.
One of his apparently unexplaina-
BILE freaks in California, says the Balti-
more american, was to build a mill
which was ceiled with mahogany and
other beautiful woods and finished in
the most expensive style.
There seemed to be no reason for
this form of extravagant folly until a
little romance of his early life came
out.
Before he went to learn the organ
making business he had been appren-
ticed to a wealthy miller in Pennsyl-
vania who had a pretty daughter.
Lick was comedy and plucky youth
and the two fell in love.
Full of hope and the prospect of
happiness the young man applied to
the girls father, giving him full
information as to both their wishes.
Whereupon the rich Pennsylvania
Dutchman became indignant and
secuted the idea exclaiming:
''Out, you beggar! Dare you cast
eyes upon my daughter, who will in
herit all my property? Have you a
mill like thisP Have you a single penny
in your purseP
To this TRADE the poor youth could
only reply that just then he hadn't, but
added that the day would come when
he would have mill compared with
which that one would be nothing more
than pig-sty.
He left the miller, but he never for
got the cruel words. So, after he had
become not only rich but millionaire,
he built this mill, and when it was
finished it had everything that could
have added TO the perfection of its ap-
pointments.
Its machinery was perfect and it's
walls and floor of the very highest
polish.
He was not able to bring the miller
to see the fulfllment of his boyish
declaration, but he had the mill photo
graphed in every possible way, within
and without, and although his old
sweetheart had long since been married
he sent her father the pictures and re-
called to him the day when he had
boosted of his mill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
He Was Once at the Top,

Sir" said man in Washington
Square, with lock of his hair pro-
truding through a hole in his hat,
''can't you do something for me this
mornin'?"
Guess not" answered the gentle
man approached.
Just little, pleaded the man with
the escaping tresses. 81 wasn't al
ways as low as this-I was at the top
of the ladder right here in this town
once"
sis that so?'
''Yessir, right on the top round; but
look at me now"
''Well. there's quarter to get some
breakfast So you were at the top of
the ladder at one timer"
''Yessir, went up an stole this here
coat I've got on while the bricklayer
was away to his dinner. Wouldn't
do it again for two cents-it's too
blamed hard work climbin' these ere
ladders. Good-by-hope we may meet
again. - Chicago Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
There's No Place Like Home.

| got into one of these houses in NV
walk through the town to-day. The
lower story had been filled with water
and everything in it had been torn out.
The carpet had been split into strips
on the floor by the sheer force of the
rushing tide. Heaps of mud stood in
the corners. There was not a yestioe
of furniture. The walls dripped with
moisture. The ceiling was gone, the
windows were out, and the cold rain
blew in, and the only thing that was
left intact was one of those worked
worsted notices that you always ex-
pect to find in the homes of working
people. 1t still hung to the wall, and
though much awry the glass and frame
were unbroken. The motto looked
grimly and sadly sarcastic 1t was:
There is no place like homen
A melancholy wreck of home that
motto looked down upon.-JohrsstoDn
Le.t-~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
sno scbooI rir1s smo1e7-

well, l should say they did. You
were never at girls boarding school
were you? Of course not-how could
you be? | used to go to one, and | had
q roommate. l didn't smoke then but
she did. We weren't allowed TO go out
alone to make any purchases, and so she
had to obtain the cigarettes surrepti-
tiously. How do you suppose she did
it? The boarding-school teacher had
son. He wasn't youth TO see any wo-
man suffer. He arose to the occasion
and so did the cigarettes, for they were
put on the end of cane and poked up
through the register, while the youth
stood below grinning like another Me-
phistopheles, at the ruin he was work
ing.
The girls have fad just now of
smoking when they take bath. 1t is
quite luxurious to lie in the hot bath
and let the rings of smoke curl above
your head. You have no idea how de-
lightful you feel afterward, but men
don't like US to smoke. They have some
stupid ideas on the subject. | don t
know whether it's because they are jeal-
Gus of our ability to do so or whether
it's sentimental prejudice, but 1t is GER
tainly fact, and even if man were
willing that some lady friends of his
might smoke he wouldn't like to have
his sister do so. Chicago Tri6une.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
Aerated Fuel.

Petroleum, which has been used for
some time in connection with raising
steam, is now rapidly coming into
vogue for heating, melting, and the
working of metals. For these pur-
poses some other medium besides
steam must be restored to for breaking
up the oil, and after devices without
number have been tried, the use of air
under more or less pressure remains
the most satisfactory. By this means
wagon-tires one-half TO one and half
inches are welded in one minute, and
car-axles. which with coal required one
hour and a quarter to heat, are heated
IN thlrty-hve minutes. At one furnace
alone the saving by the use of oil is
said to be 5000 per day, and another
company puts its saving in fuel at 90
per cent. One of the great advantages
of this mode of heating is the effect
produced on the metal operated upon,
which comes out improved by the pro-
cess. 1t works softer under the ham,
mer than when heated with coal, and
when hammered or welded the Stag is
worked out of it more completely.
What proverb best pleases the hatterp
Two heads are BITTER than one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08

know how to smoke charmingly. That
why called it decorative art. To be
done properly it should be done on d.
van. The girls get divan first and
then they buy a package Of cigarettes.
When a girl takes dinner at the house Of
a friend you will notice that instead OF
sitting down in the parlor after dinner
is over to chat with the respected par
ents they will excuse themselves and
softly slip upstairs. The same respected
parents do not dream of the occasion
for this decorous fight. Perhaps you
think they smell the cigarette smoke.
Not at all. No girl would be so stupid
as to let thing of that sort happen.
"How did it get to be the fashion,
why did it get to be the fashion
with men? Just because it is an agreea-
BILE thing to do. We couldn't talk all
the time, whenever we met. Or, at
least, we found talking dry. Smoking
and talking isn't so bad. I'll tell you a
secret. We have literary society. Ten
of US meet every Wednesday afternoon.
This winter we are studying Thoreau.
1t is very simple and very entertaining.
Twenty five per cent of the entertain
ment is composed of Thoreau, 20 per
cent of afternoon toilets, and 80 per cent
of cigarettes There are some jolly girls
in the club, and we say some good
things. The first two meetings weren' t
as pleasant as those that followed. You
see none of US had ever smoked. We
were certain that life wasn't satisfac-
tory, and thought perhaps smoking
might fill the blank. So we all agreed
to it. The first experience was rather
trying to all of US, and the second wasn't
much better, but after that we got on all
right
you would be surprised to see some
of the girls that do it. l know one
modest little thing that never dares do it
at home lest she shall be found out, so
she has taken to horse back riding.
When she gets out on the quiet country
roads she draws cigarette case out of
her pocket, strikes match on her sad
die, and rides along as jauntily as you
please. She is a demure little thing,
and no one would ever suspect her of
doing anything unusual or saucy. o, !
could tell you some funny stories, but I
won t.
Of course she was urged to, but she
wouldn't satisfy masculine curiosity on
the subject. She owned that she didn' t
like to buy the cigarettes. The clerks
stare so, she said. They ask ques-
lions to see how much you know about
tobacco and all that. If you dom know
anything they look superior. If you do
they look knowing. Men are fools
arrogant fools. What right have they
to assume that they hull be allowed to
enjoy all sorts of comforts with impunity
and to decide that women shall be crit
icised for doing the same things. I
know girl that broke her engagement
over cigarette. Her lover found out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
LOOKING FOR A HUSBAND.
A German woman's Experience at Castle
Garden.

This year." said Supt. Simpson, of
Castle Garden, to a New York Sun re-
porter, lis remarkable in having
brought us single exception to what
has always been the rule. A short
time ago woman came here looking
for husband. Before it has always
been men who wanted wives. She
was German, and big as barrel Her
cheeks were round and ROSY, she had
the muscle of an OK, and her eve was
sharp and business-like. She wasn't a
bit young, but had heap of energy.
She wore good clothes, owned farm
and had come all the way from Du-
luth, Mimi
"'What do I want him forp' saws
she. Why, what do you suppose 1
want him for? | haven't been shaving
all my life for nothing. No. sir: I've
got a farm, have pigs and cows and
horses on it. too. But ant going to
work myself into the grave, Not
much. l want husband, | do, and
husband that knows a good thing
when he sees it, and can run farm
and handle pillow and feed stock and
/ keep things going. What can you do
for me?'
81 suppose you want handsome
young fellow, says |, with red cheeks
and soft beard and blue eyes, hand
some hair and
Hold on says she interrupting.
Don't talk nonsense. | want man
that's man. with good muscle to him,
and broad back and heaps of stay;
one that can do good days work
and can do it over again the next
day
'''How would you like aSwedeP' says
1. Now, there's one over there with his
sister, He's just your kind, and young
and good-iooking TO boot
''She eyed the Swede awhile. He
was a good-looking fellow and power
full as an OK. He was sitting down
alongside of his sister, and had his
eyes fixed hard on his baggage.
"sIntroduce me- said she,
$50 | took her over and asked the
/ Swede his name and told him the lady
wanted to marry him. Well, sir, that
Swede gave one look and turned the
color of chalk. His sister took her
look and gave little screech and just
fastened herself on her brothers big
arm. The woman who wanted a hus-
band advanced to speak to them, and,
sir, they both started off on dead
run, the girl hanging to her brother as
if she was afraid of losing him. /
found out afterward that they thought
that /, being an official, was going to
force him to marry the German woman
by law.
THE Daluth woman was angry l
SUPPOSED"
'.Not bit She was there for BUSH
ness, you know. She just shifted con-
temptuously and began to look over
the rest of the stock. I'm afraid she
finally didn't get her husband unless
she selected man outside in the park
and kidnapped him."
There is no sentiment wasted in the
matchmaking in Castle Garden. The
men who 90 there for wives haven't
got hearts over-burdened with unoc-
cupied love and tenderness. They go
there to get a commodity. They want
wives in the German peasant sense of
the word. That is, they want to COM
bine cook, housekeeper, dairy maid
and Farmland in one person, and Sc
cure the undivided services of that per-
son for life at the cost of only board
and clothing. They go to Castle Gar
den filled only with this motive, and
when they get there they talk business.