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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
FUGHSlAS,
The First One in England just Hundred
Years Ago.

Mr.. Lee nurseryman of Hammer.
smith in 1889, was the first to obtain
and increase this plant for sale SAYS
Good Words, and the traditional ac-
count of his good fortune in the mat.
ter may interest some of those who
now admire the fuchsia as a popular
garden flower. A hundred years ago
the vineyard nurserygarden near Ken
sington was as renowned for it's rare
collection of exotics as it had been at a
still earlier date for its fourishing
vineyard and the good wine made and
sold on the premises. One day a
visitor fond of plants called and was
shown ali the floral treasures of the
place by the proprietor himself. "Ah.
Mr.. Lee" said the visitor at parting,
81 saw wonderful plant Towering in
a cottage window at Mapping the
other day, with dropping crimson
flowers and buds like coral ear-drops,
and L have seen nothing so beautiful
In your greenhouses to-day" The
great nurserymen was little piqued at
the idea of anything in window being
compared with his choicest dollhouse
raritles, and curiosity prompted him
to make minute inquiries, the result
being that he drove down to Mapping
the next day and there, sure enough,
in the window of humble dwelling,
was the first fuchsia he had ever seen.
Half beside himself with the exultation
of such beautiful discovery, he soon
introduced himself to the owner of the
plant, who told him that her Jack the
sailor had brought it home with him
on his return from South America,
and that, poor as she was, nothing
would induce her to part with the
plant, or, as she called it, "her keep
sake" After some persuasion. how
ever, Mr., Lee induced her to let him
take away the plant and in return he
emptied his pockets of all the money
he had about him Several guineas),
at the same time promising that a
plant should be returned to ner after
he had succeeded increasing it from
cuttings or slips. And so from the
cottage window of Mapping the fuchsia
was brought to the aristocratic side
of London, and the story spread, and
the highest and fairest women in En-
gland drove TO the great nursery at
Hammersmith to see the prize.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
A Girls Toilet Articles.

A sensible girl will not keep lot of
cosmetics and drugs on her toilet-table.
but there are few articles she should
always have in a convenient place.
She should have an array of glass
stopped bottles containing alcohol,
alum, camphor, borax, ammonia, and
piyceriue or vaseline. A little cam
phor aud water may be used as a wash
for the mouth and throat if the breath
is not sweet. Powdered alum applied
to fever sore will prevent it from be-
coming very unsightly and noticeable.
Insect stings or eruptions on the skin
are removed by alcohol. A few grains
of alum in tepid water will relieve peo-
pie whose hands perspire very freely,
rendering them unpleasantly moist.
A few drops of sulphurc acid in the
water are also beneficial for this pur-
pose. and are also desirable for those
whose feet perspire freely. We should
always recommend care in the use of
scented soap; in many cases the per-
fume is simply a disguise for poor
quality. A good glycerine or honey
soap is always preferable. OF course,
one may rely on scented soap from a
high-clasS manufacturer, but it costs
more than it is worth. In addition to
the soap for bathing, white CASTLE
should be kept for washing the hair.
Occasionally little borax or ammonia
may be used for this purpose, but it is
usually too harsh it its effects.-Hatt 5
Journal of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
DR.. Brown-Sequard in Boston.

Now that the newspapers are talk
ing of DR.. Brown-Sequard and his
elixir, stories of his experiences in this
vicinity are in order, says the Boston
Courier, and some of those which are
told are droll enough.
1t may be remembered that one of
his ideas was that the nervous condi-
ton of person could be judged by the
susceptibility of the skin, and this he
tested by the distance apart at which
two pin-pricks merged themselves into
one to the sensation OF the patient.
This method he used with considerable
success, being not infrequently called
IN as specialist in complex cases of
nervous disorder.
On one occasion, it is said. he was
called upon to go to the suburbs of
Boston to see young lady who was
suffering from some nervous trouble,
and was left alone with the patient to
make his examination. After a time
which seemed to the family rather
long he came downstairs with very
serious face and informed the family
that he was extremely sorry to report
that the vitality of the girl seemed so
low that there seemed no possibility of
her rallying. They were thunder
struck, as the case, though obstinate,
had by no means been regarded as
serious one. The family physician,
who had been unable to be present,
was sent for in all haste. He assured
the frightened relatives that there was
some mistake, and proceeded to 60 up
to the chamber of the invalid to hear
her account of the examination.
"That man you sent here" she an
nounced almost before he could ask
her, twas a fool"
He is nothing of the Sort" was the
answer! she is a very able specialist. "
"Well," she said, 81 know he acted
like fool. All he did was to stick
pins IN my back and ask me if it hurt.
OF course | said no."
The physician was too much amused
to be angry, but the conclusion of DR..
Brown-Sequard was at once explained,
to the great relief of the family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
How Parrots Destroy Sheep.

You have no doubt heard of the
great rabbit scourge in the provinces
of Australia. and how the Government
of New South Wales has offered a re-
ward of 1925, 900 to any one who will
invent some effectual means of Kidding
the country of the pestiforous little ami
mails. Thomas w. Knox, in his last
book of travels, tells us about the
parrot scourge there, which is almost
as destructive to sheep as the rabbit
scourge. When the sheep farmers first
established their stations among the
mountains there were fiocks of green
parrots living in the glens and feeding
entirely on fruit and leaves. They
were beautiful birds and nobody sus-
pected any harm from them.
After time it was discovered that
many of the sheep. and they were in
variably the finest and fattest of the
flock, had sores on their backs, and all
ways in the same place, just over the
kidneys. Some of the sores were so
slight that the animals recovered, but
most of them died or had to be killed
to end their sufferings. The cause of
these sores was for some time
mystery, but at length herdsman on
one of the high ranges declared his
belief that the parrots were the muir
derers of the sheep. Investigation
showed that in the severe Winters the
parrots had come at night to the gall
lows where the herdsman hung the
carcasses of slaughtered sheep and
picked off the fat from the mutton.
showing a partiality for that around
the kidneys.
How they ever connected the car
cases with the living sheep is a SUBJ
ject for naturalsts to puzzle over, and
especially how they knew the exact
spot where the choicest fat was found
in the living animal. 1t seem that the
attacks began within few months
after tie parrots had tasted mutton
at the meal-gallows. They are gradu-
ally being exterminated, but the saga
cious birds that formerly came with
out fear into the presence of man now
venture out only at night. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
The Old Fiddler.

When de corn am gittin' ripe an de wheat am
gebbered in,
An de moon in de sky am hangin' low,
takes down my fiddle an we talks awhile
terger',
AS we sots in de little cabin-do'.
De f1ddle's CROWN weak, put it pear ter I'M
dersron'.
AS it CULVER an it sigh neat de bow,
An it struggle mitey hyard, but it cyar' not
git de SCUM
Oh de music oh de long. long ergo.
For de life seems ter gone right clar outer
Money Musk"
An we nebber git "Ole Zip Coon" ter go:
An de white folks nebber arsk fer de pore ole
man now,
Like dey ulster when dey darnced long ergo.
1t am lonely sometimes, an my hyart is nigh
ter break,
For de wea ness OBJ waitin' here below;
An aspect dat De Marster when he call for
all de res
Muster somehow hab fergit Uncle Joel
But he'll member some day, an de time am
boun't come,
When l hear de angels calm sof an low;
Den Marster keep de hyarps fer de white folks
when dey rive,
An lebe me jes' my fiddle an my bow.
Den, Dinahl oh, my Dinah in de bright golden
LAM
IN de fel's whar de crystle waters flo
We will walk while play de ole tunes dat we
When de corn was gittin' ripe long er-goI
Adelaide Preston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
"Sunset" COx's Bear Story.

''In the Yellowstone park" said
Representative Cox to a Washington
correspondent of the New York World,
''the scriptural prophecy about the
lion and lamb lying together is paral-
leled if not fulfilled. If the lion and
the lamb don't lie together at least the
bear and swine sup together and all
the animal kingdom are on fairly
friendly terms. The hunted beasts out
side the borders of the reservation seek
its security, and when they feel the
protection of the government thrown
around them they ease their headlong
speed and breathe in the fresh air of
freedom. | can't tell how they know
it: they can't read the posters that are
stuck up warning hunters, but they
somehow realize that the arm of the
government is thrown around them
when they get into the national park.
when Mrs. Cox and | were at an
inn in the park they told US of a big
bear that came down every evening
Just before sunset to eat the swill that
was thrown out 10 the hogs. The hog
pen was about mile back of the
house, in the woods, and this bear
swill, and would go away content with
out eating any of the little pigs. As
he did not leave much food for them,
perhaps they never got fat enough for
his taste. While we were at dinner
they told US that the girl who was
waiting on table had met the bear in
the path near the pen. She was carry
ing a basket of clothes from the wash
and had the clothes on her head. She
said she was not afraid, but | suppose
she was modest girl for she dropped
her clothes and ran. Mrs. Cox and I
had a suspicion That they were fooling
US, but if there was a bear we wanted
to see it. So my wife and | went out
by the hog-pen to see the pear. Sure
enough we met him in the woods-a
great, big fellow. He gave a side
glance at US and shuffied off as if he
were about to run away. We were
about twenty yards away from him
and quickened our pace to advance on
him. He suddenly changed his mind
about running. and we changed our
minds also. He turned toward us and
growled. | remarked to Mrs. Cox that
as she was getting fat and could not
walk as fast as formerly it would be
just as well if she'd turn back toward
the hotel. Then / modestly followed.
She walked much faster than thought
she could"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
1t Means a Higher Appreciation of Life
and Its Blessings and Duties.

The higher education of women,
once frowned upon as waste of in
structive effort, has become so we'll es-
tablished as an institution that few
whose opinions are valuable can be
found to question its desirability. The
moss-covered objection that higher
education would take from women
many of her simpler and more ingen-
ious charms have been shown appro-
priately to be moss-covered. The
right kind of woman, like a flower
garden, is the more attractive the
higher her state of cultivation; and
when one is found in whom blossom
the beautiful flowers of modesty, truth,
natural strength of character, and
love of the noble duties of life it takes
nothing from her original beauties
to set the blossoms of art beside them.
In all walks in life intelligence has
taken and is taking the work of sub
jugation out of the hands of mere
force. Knowledge is the chief aid of
all manipulation and effort. Ignorance
assisted only by force is Intellectual
nowadays. The man whose physical
strength half century ago enabled
him to pull a stump up by the roots
would have no opportunity in a con-
test to-day with the mechanical stump
puller. The machine has no brains,
but it nevertheless represents brains.
The farmer who to-day studies the ma
ture of his soil, rotation of crops, fer
tilization, and kindred subjects can
make more out of an acre and go
haftar I,oeeoI L.
plants and sows and reaps on a
dozen acres by moon-fancies, or super
stitiously does his work with reference
to the song of the tree toad and the
direction in which the grasshopper
leaps.
And if education-knowledge of the
sciences and things in Nature that
once were generally occult-is a good
thing for man and makes his work
easier in a thousand fields. it is just as
surely good thing for woman.
The true woman-the woman in
whom the sweet springs of domestic
instict and homely affection are well
grounded-never will be anything but
a true woman, no matter how her
mind may be broadened or her brain
Cells ueNelopeu oy sluuy. WIFI ner IL
will always be a refining process. a
making brighter and more attractive
of metal originally valuable. The wo-
man of this kind who is graduated
from college and enters the sphere
of life which woman has always orna-
mented can take her knowledge of
chemistry to the kitchen; can modify
her apprehension of the science of
government and apply i to the home,
and can use the arts she has acquired
for the adornment of her habitation.
The higher education of woman
means higher degree of surround
in@s. a higher degree of happiness,
and a higher appreciation of life and
its manifold blessings and duties. As
woman rises in the scale of being she
lifts those connected with her. Higher
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
So He Asked the Conductor, Who Told
Him All About 1t.

He boarded an Eighteenth street ca
BILE car at the junction and took a seat
in an unconcerned way as if he had
always ridden on cable cars and knew
all about them, says the Kansas CITY
Times. When the conductor came
around he took out his pocketbook
and said: Il want to 90 to Independ-
ence.n
"Well, you are in the right place if
you know the com 3ination; fare,
please"
Tell me how much it is to indie
pendence and you'll git her, shore; l
didn't come to town broke; just name
your tggers, mister
Give me cents, will you; can't
wait to explain"
Excursion rates, by gosh; cheapest
ride | ever Feard Of he said, turning
to a man in front of him. Ten miles
on a dummy and two cable rides!"
Then he carefully murmured under
his breath, 'Main to Twelfth, Twelfth
to dummy, dummy to Independence.
"Say!'' he jerked out, yanking the
conductors coat, ''where do you meet
the Twelfth street cars?"
cat Twelfth street," mildly answer
ed the conductor with a pitying
glance. Evidently the young man
had rehearsed his directions until he
could say over the route without
mistake of hesitation, but when the
train reached Twelfth street and the
conductor sang out the number the
young man sat still until reminded by
his nearest neighbor, who was going
the same way, that this was the place
to change. Once on the Twelfth
street car he felt more at ease and al
lowed his thirst for knowledge to over
come any difidence that he might
have had concealed about him, and he
interviewed the gripman.
Rope pulls this thing, don't it?
Wire rope with ends fastened together
and running over big wheel at both
ends, eh?"
Yes"
'Well. say now. it's easy enough to
see how they can stop cars at regular
places like street corners, but how do
they stop one when the other goes on?
And, say, when that woman back there
wanted to get on just half way be-
tween streets. how aid you send word
to the office to stop so durn sudden9"
"NOw, that fellow, said the kind
hearted gripman, after the young man
had reached the dummy depot and
had looked IN vain for transfer to
Independence, sis good fellow and
I'll bet on it. Call him green if you
want to, but I'll bet he knows some
things right now that we don't know.
and Lord knows if gripman and
reporter don't know it all it's bad
chance for people that don't circu-
late"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
A STUDY OF WOMEN's FEET.
The Collection Made by Amateur Pho
tographer at a Southern Resort.

Yesterday morning an amateur pho
tographer exhibited to a Times repor-
ter series of twenty-six photographs
taken by him at st. Simon's island.
Most of them showed the counterfeit
presentments of surf bathers on the
beach in front of the hotel st. Simons.
A popularity about them was that in
every case except one the upper part
of the figure was blurred beyond re-
cognition, while the feet stood out in
startling proportions, By way of ex-
PLANTATION the photographer said:
81 was green hand with the ca
mera, and somehow or other couldn't
make the thing work so as to take a
perfect picture. But just look at these
feet! They are large, but their outlines
are perfect. Since the photographs
have been in my possession | have been
making a study of feet. For instance,
look here. You see this is a naked
foot. 1t belongs to a young lady
whose home is in Atlanta. These lit
tie bumps on the toes are corns. If
you'll examine closely you'll observe
that there are seventeen of them.
Don't you know the young lady pre-
ferred sitting down to standing up?
These corns were made by tight shoes.
The unfortunate owner of the feet be-
longs to that large class of women,
who, when they buy shoes, fit their
heads instead of their feet"
The reporter picked out photo
graph which showed a pair of feet
clad in slippers. 'aVhose are thesep"
he asked. ''They belong to a Madison
girl" was the reply. "You never saw
feet more perfect. By the way, want
to call your attention to the discovery
I've made. There are the feet of
blonde. You never see a blonde whose
feet are ugly. They may be large, but
they will be shapely. There's one
small corn down there on that little
toe, but it serves the same purpose a
piece of black sticking plaster serves
on a white FACET brings out all
latent beauties. The owner of these
feet was one of the most popular bellies
pletely captured the hearts of the Col
umbus guards, and [ am told will be-
come the wife Of member of that
company in the fall"
Among the photographs was one
which displayed an extremely hand
some figure and feet just as perfect as
Juno's. The reporter was sure that he
had in his hand the picture of charm
ing Atlanta belle, or one of Macon, or
one of Brunswick. "Who is thisP" he
inquired. swell, that might be Queen
Victoria's youngest and handsomest
granddaughter" was the reply, "but
1t isn't. That is a nurse who was at
the Hotel St. Simons with a prominent
Atlanta family"
The last photograph examined
showed pair of feet incased in tan
colored low quartered shoes. Whose
are those?" he asked, expecting to
hear the name of some famous belle.
Chose" replied the photographer,
care the feet of an insurance agent.
l think his name is Sheppard. Bra'as-
Oick (GG.) Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
The Grant of the Sioux.

Custer, ''the largest county in the
United States" as the residents like to
describe it, contains 1860, 920 acres.
1t is $50 miles across from east to west
and 125 miles in width from south to
north. just west of it and attached
for judicial purposes is the Crow In
dian Reservation, half as large as
Custer county proper. Southwest
from Miles City, which is the county
seat, is a spot of historic interest, in
Dictated on the maps of the county by
a pair of crossed sabers. 1t is the
site of the battle of the Little Big
Horn, where Custer, ''the white chief
with yellow hair" and his force were
overwhelmed, and. to a man, slain, on
the 25th of June, 1876. The other day
the dispatches described the efforts of
the Sioux Commissioners to induce the
Indians at Standing Rock to sign the
agreement selling half of their reserva-
ton to the Government. The Com
missioners talked. The Indians lis
tened and said nothing. Mention is
made in the dispatches of the presence
and silence of Gaul. Gaulis the Grant
of the Sioux Nation. Sitting Bull and
Red Cloud, everybody has heard of,
but Gaul, the silent General of the
Sioux, is scarcely known abroad. Yet
in this part of the country where, bit
by bit, the Indians version of the Lit
tie Big Horn has been obtained, it is
known that Gaul's generalship was
what wiped out Custer and his 500.
Gaul is not statesman OF a politician,
but he is the greatest copper-colored
General of the age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
THE LATEST GREAT INVENTION,
A Wonderful Machine Which May Revo-
lutionize Newspaper Art.

''This is machine that is to revolu-
tionize newspaper pictorial art" ex-
planned Mr.. Ginochio. at is filled
with clockwork and operated by
strong electric battery. Its mate is at
the other end of the line. Now, you
can write signature or letter, and
it will transmit either. with the identi-
cal characters formed with your pen.
But that would be nothing new. Au-
photography has been known for fully
ten years, but this will carry out the
autotelegraphic idea to the fullest ex-
tent. You can write as you please
thousands of words if you like, as
newspaper men and others frequently
have to do-and this machine will
chew it up-that is transmit it-as fast
as you can write. Indeed, the writing
can be done on continuous roll, and
when score of lines are written, the
top of the roll can be fed to the ma
chine while the writer continues filing
up the rest, and without tearing the
roll. 1t can be regulated so as to keep
pace exactly with the speed of the
writer; and by the time he has finished
the machine will be on the last lap
and will end its task almost immedi-
ately. The newspaper or other office
receiving the matter will thus have it
In the writers own handwriting and
within few moments after it has pass
ed out of his hands"
''But how is it proposed to transmit
pictures?"
"By the same method. The paper
to be used will be washed with weak
solution of chloride of calcium. which
will make it conductor. The ink
will be the nonconductor or insulator.
The pictures will have to be reproduce
ed with the pen and ink at the point
of sending, and with this as the only
delay they can be transmitted without
difficulty, every line aud shadow be-
ing reproduced with extreme fidelity"
Have you tested the machine?"
81 have and found it work like a
charm. So long as the clockwork
keeps running it cannot get out of
| order. The machine is designed es-
pecially for the use of the daily press
and will enable our newspapers to
produce accurate and excellent pic
lures of events in the issue Immediate
| ~ following, instead of, as now, wait
ing day or two for the artist. You
can readily understand how such an
instrument could be applied on a leas-
/ ed wire, where voluminous press re-
ports have to be sent daily and night
| ly. Every reporter could then be his
own operator. - PHILADELPHIA Press.