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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

New YORK State is ruled by bachelors.
Gov. Hill, his private secretary, Col. Will
liams, and now the new secretaryof state,
Frank Rice, are in a state of single bless
edness-all of which may account for the
.~sgoing-on" there.
THE latest news from Berlin is that the
Kaiser and the Gar will meet in April,
and Austria is scared about it. The cor
respondent neglects to mention an occa-
sion of moment in the last twenty years
when Austria wasn't scared. She exists
on sufferance. Her best territory would
have been gobbled long ago by her big
neighbors if they could have agreed on the
terms of division.
THE faith cure crank is of no particular
state or creed. The Brooklyn father who
permitted his child to die of diphtheria
rather than interfere with the faith process
has a parallel in a Massachusetts father
who refused medical aid to a daughter
suffering with typhoid fever, and persists
n the faith cure. The only result thus far
s that the mother Of the girl has taken the
disease, and must also take her chances
without medical help. Should the daugh
ter or wife die the crank can be held for
manslaughter; but, unfortunately, as the
law now is he cannot be reached unless
death ensues. The chances are that the
legislature of Massachusetts, will remedy
this defect at its next session.
No ONE seems to know where the infor-
nation comes from, but the spectators on
European affairs are discussing the effect of
Prince Bismarck credited policy of bring
ing all of the German-speaking people I'M
der the flag of the fatherland. This would
mean the dismemberment of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, and an alliance of Ger
many with Russia upon a basis of race de-
limitation. The German Baltic and the
German Austrian provinces would go to
Germany, and Russia would occupy Galicia
and the Balkin country, and thus lay the
foundation Of that ~pan-Slavic empire 50
long the dream of the Romanoff house.
Hungary might become independent, and
the Hapsburgs would join Dom Pedro in
Portugal. 1t is a fine scheme, and Will dc
for the holiday season. S~peculations will
continue, however, so long as Austria re-
mains the weak point in the triple ALI
ance,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

Yesterday afternoon four young men
were arrested at Boston, on suspicion of
being concerned In the bold robbery of c.
A. Keene's jewellery store the previous
evening. In their possession was found a
cold steel chisel.
The Liberty Silk works, at Nos. 617-625
West Fifty-second street, New York. were
destroyed by a fire that involved losses to a
number of manufacturing concerns aggre-
eating 1926, 900. The losses are covered
by insurance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
IucIxv Memnhis Man.

Unon the principle that none but eagles
Sc r with eagles, the appeal reportorial CAPT
t st yesterday sought out Mr.. Chas. E.
". Ia, the extent of whose good fortune
is only excelled by his handsome appearance.
Mr.. Woodson was the lucky holder of a one
fortieth part of ticket No. 98,455 in the De-
cember drawing of The Louisiana State Lot
terry which drew the capital prize of 100000.
The appeal commissioner found Mr.. Wood
son hard at work at his desk, in the office of
the ~well-known retail dry goods establish
ment of Hunter Brothers, corner of Main
and West Court Streets. The Appeat re-
porter approached him with the figuratiye
question: "Well, Mr.. Woodson, / suppose
your ship has come in? How is that,
the idea, continued: "Oh, yes, sir; / made.
the rifle the last drawing" In reply to
further heterogeneous, Mr.. Woodson elab-
Grated: 81 held the lucky number, deposit
ed it with my bank, received the returns
($15,0 00) promptly, and have not yet decided
what Investment 1 will make.''- Memphis
(Tenn.) AppeaL, December 28.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

says that the blizzard reached that sec
ton at 2 o'clock yesterday morning and
the snow is now eighteen inches deep.
The temperature at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning was S below zero. and many fam
lilies in the country were suffering. Some
people who have been living in dugouts
near the southeast corner Of the county
are supposed to have frozen 20 death.
BEARDsLEY, Mimi. Jan. 15.-A snow
storm with a blizzard attachment struck
this section early this morning. The drifts
have piled up In some places as high as
twenty feet. A piercing north wind ac-
companied the storm, and the mercury is
below zero. Train and wagon traffic is at
a standstili.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

with LOCAL APPLICATION, as they can
not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
a blood or constitutional disease, and in or
der to cure it you have to take internal rem
edies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, and acts directly On the blood and
mucus surface. Halls Catarrh Cure is no
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by one
of the best physicians in this country for
years, and is a regular prescription. 1t is
composed of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers, acting
directly on the mucus surface. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
catarrh. send for testimonials free.
Z. j. CHENEY d CO., Props, Toledo, G..
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
For the first time, it is said, since their dis
coyery, the Straits Of Mackinaw are free
from ice at this season of the year, aud if
the government had not put out the lights
for the winter, vessels would pass through
as usual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
Through the Cigar Factory in Seville.

One of the sights of Seville which no
tourist misses is the cigar factory, In which
the Government employs about five thou
sand women and girls. The showing
about of visitors is accordingly looked up
on as a regular source of income by the
porter and the matrons. After getting
permission to enter you are placed In
charge of a matron who shows you through
her own department, and then passes you
on to another, and so on, until your stock
of pesetas and half-pesetas put aside for
fees is exhausted. These matrons accom-
pany the visitors, not in order to prevent
the girls from flirting with them nothing
could do that, but to see that no tobacco
or bundles of cigarettes may disappear.
Before entering each room a bell is rung
to warn the girls who are In great
deshabille ON account of the heat, to put
on their wrappers, and as the door opens
scores of round arms and pretty shoulders
are seen disappearing, while several hun
bred pairs of coal-black eyes are fastened
on you. The passages are lined with
cradles, and the poor young girl-mothers
to whom they belong implore us with eyes
and bands for a penny for the Murillos of
the future lying In them. These girls are
more frank than subtle in their firtations.
l. IlClC II nOb OIIC III III OIOWd IL Will IlOb
be Immediately conscious of a mans gaze
fixed on her, nor will she be the first to
turn her eyes away. Some will wink, and
even throw a kiss from a distant corner at
the rich Inglese) all foreigners are sup
posed to be wealthy Englishmen). They
are a merry lot, ON the whole, these poor
girls, the cleverest of whom make only two
pesetas, or forty cents a day, for which
they have tO foil twelve or fourteen hours
in a tobacco-reeking atmosphere. Not
that they object to the tobacco at all. They
are allowed to smoke if they wish, and
many make use of this privilege.
They are remarkably deft at rolling the
cigarettes, but not all seem eager to make
as many as possible; for some are idling,
and others are asleep; but no one cares, as
each is paid according to the number she
rolls.-From THE Beauty of Spanish
Women by Henry T. Fink, in January
ScIibner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
A Pennsylvania railroad man saws youn

A Pennsylvania railroad man says young
men are selected as drivers of the locOmo-
tiVes on fast trains because old men co not
have the nerve to stand the strain of the ter
rible speed of these trains, and even the
n~erviest young man gets afraid of them
after awhile. Then they get to letting up a
little in speed, the trains run behind time,
the engineers are given other runs and new
men are put on in their places.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
The Struggle for EmpIoyment.
New York SIM

New 1Ork sun.
1t is curious how the most dangerous
trades are overrun by applicants for work.
The electric light companies never find
difficulty in securing all the men they want,
in spite of the fact that the dangers of
their business have been so thoroughly ex-
plotted by the newspapers and by recent
events. Workmen In the wallpaper fac
tories frequency joke over the tradition of
their trade that a mans life is usually
shortened at least ten years by his work.
The same thing is true of men who handle
leather papere and whose lungs become
coated with the dust arising from them.
In certain factories the air is laden with
tiny brass filings, which also hasten the
approach to death. But probably the
most peculiar advertisement ever printed
In a newspaper appeared in a Connecticut
paper recently. 1t was signed by a firm
of tower builders. 1t called for a man to
work on s~catfolding, aud wound up In this
manner:
Applicants must be young and strong
and courageous. We warn all seekers for
this job that it is of a most dangerous ma
ture and that few men continue in it more
than a few years. In fact, it is almost
sure death to the workman who follows
this occupation"
The fact that the advertisement was
withdrawn in a few days would indicate
either that applicants were not frightened
away by its prediction or that they were.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16

At the democratic caucus at Annapolis
Sen. Wilson was unanimously nominated
to succeed himself as q. S. senator.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
Passing Glimpse Of a Famous
Woman.

This womun who aweeps By in ia
guy crowd on broadway Was 5 8
nous beauty In her day. She i ~
good looking. Her fncr Il srssl
stouter and there are wiuklcs on VI
brow and crows ieet Ia her ehtstb
hut Il i still a facc that would v
noticed In a crowd. Ii u Airs. Hats
Chnse Spr guV
THIS ones famous beauty, Whs
welded murc power In Anegisa
politics. perhaps, thnn any oihE
American woman has ever dous, y
going down the hill Of life IN a Qust
easy way. She cumes 10 Ncw icfS
occasionally TO VISIT friends. but hsF
home II IN Washington. She i 40
longer the gay butterfly Of iashlcA
and her dresses, while iashionahs
md well made, have not the dasa
that made her so much talked ab0ai
in ante-bellum DAYS.
Her life In the national capital rs
simple one. There il none II thelut
7 ury pt EslgCwood that Characteriisi
her llir during her fathers earsss
But she Is happy. nevertheless, icr
her children nte growing up aFUuna
her, aud she looks on calmly atts
progress Of events with smiling iaet
Tho White House has passed uil q
her mind forever. II was 40 isa
dream mt beat. But there ID sus
shine Mt Edgewood such us this wor
an could never have found had ~
become the wife OF q president OF ~
United Statcs.-New York Mail o.
Express.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
ALEoAcY.

John @. Whittier writes thlA as "A Leg
Acy" ia the Independent. Beautilt lnes'
and worthy OF his eightteth anniversary
Friend OF my many years.
When the great silence falls At last on me,
Let me not leave to pain and sSdden tn9'
A memory OF tears.
But pleasant thoughts alons J,
OF one who was thy friendships honofea
guest
And drank the wine OF consolation preSsed
From sorrows OF thine own.
leave with thee ~ sense
or hands upheld and trials rendered less
The unselish Joy which is TO helptulness
Its own great recompensei
The knowledge TINT from thine,
As from the garments OF the MASTER stale
CAlmness and strength the virtue which
makes whole
And heals without q sign;
Yea, more tho assurance strong
That love, which fails OF perfect utteranee
here,
Lives on to ill the heavenly atmosphere
With its immortal song.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
a Story for Young Men,

There Is moral in tho following
story; II is true, and II lie applicable
TO every position in che commercial,
literary or professional world. y
will apply to tho most eminent las.
yer and 10 the clerk in a corneT
grocery. A young st. Paul mas
applied to well known merchant "a
TINS city Tor the place OF assistant
bookkecpcr He was asked Whas
salary he expected, aud replied;
Eighteen dollars n week. /"
We had decided not to pay moFs
than fifteen, demurred the merchant
well, SIR" answered the Young
man, frankly, 81 need the place, but
you nust remember / should wors
Just as hard ifyou paid mo but IS >
week.
IAN right, sii'' replied the msf.
chant, with annpproving smile, "yon
are just the kind OF man we want
Goto work tomorrow at $50 q week. !
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

"Ah, good afternoon, Miss AZ.
Would you like little slsish. MAJ NV
aiternoon--it IL SO pleasant! sha,ss
be so happy" letting his dark -.
rest on her trim figure. "a
"eThank you. Mr., Tremai,.
should be--delghtedl" she ansr
her merry blue eyes fall beneath II
more ardent ones.
They are riding along an extrsn.
lonely road aud Dick Tremains ny
in the horses.
Mamie" bending over her =.
taking her gloyed hands in his -.
not you guess why brought YOU 4,
this aiternoonl"
"For A."
She was going to say sior a IA. :
but the words die ON her lips A n.
sees his lace. and she turns her bsa1
Mamie, Darling, could you love 4
old. stern man like me well enon,h !.
live with him aiwaysl | think ~
have bewitened me. Tor | cannot n
you out of my thoughts. Is Il "a 4.
no? probably this is abrupt. bat ~.
men get my ace they ara usually =.
patient. For Gods sake child dost
keep me la suspense.
His breath comes in quick, labo,a
gasps. and his deep, grave eyes n.
fixed intcntly on the hall-tuFHsd ~,
OF Mamie.
III say yesf" turning 10 him a..
tioningly and yelling her misehisgeas
bonny eyes.
"l'li DO the happiest man IN Gog,
universe" snatehing her in his Asu,
and kissing her.
And il say nor"
"Iii blow my brains out "a
won't either, shall publish our hss
/ romantic meeting"
That was tho first illusion b "a.
ever made in regard 10 Petsy GFsss,
eFrand.
''I'hsrel ! shall not marry ysl
nov
Not Il l get on my knees and eoal
for u week." DO asked. a merry tsa
kie ~ his eyes and q suspleiea
twitching around his mouth.
She flashed him u quick. shans
glance
ibid you hear me say that, goo,+
II heard everything. sweet"
~ might Just - well snrreHles, "a
TremAiae. for have no opinion. e
particle az respect Tor myself as4
can dispose Of myself 30 readily.
ought 10 BE thankful"
"les. for even | might chanss q
mind. q darling"
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
coIored oIrIa can Get WhIte.

Among the curious incidents OF ths
thunderstorm which played such hav'
oc In the Interior % iae9 Jersey %
Friday nonehas caused more surprise
thana freak Of tho lightning. On that
Day the residence OF MIR. r.. NJ. Riley,
cashier of the Cumberland Bank, On
west Commerce street, Bridgetonl
was struck by lightning, The fluid
ran down the chimney, struck IN iron
screen which was three or four feet
away from the fireplace, and then
passed to the arm OF the cook, o cor
ored woman, who was standing nenf'
she says she did not feel the slbcs.
Tbs fuid entered her wrist and pass
CD out other elbow, turning the flesh
o snowy Wilderness. Her arm was
only slightly burned, and otherwise
shesuliered no pain at all. The doe.
Tor who attended her says that in OIL
probabilityher arm between the wrist
ana elbow will remain white. --New
York Journal.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
POEMS VERSUS PEANUTS.

My love brings poems Thursdny nighta
And peanuts every Monday;
He writes from early morn till eve,
Except, of course, on Sunday.
He sings o. sweetness long drawn out,
OF hopes cut through the middle,
And once he tried to weave in rhyme
The hoary Sphinx's riddle
He's very gay, then taeituru,
And scathinGly sarlonic
When doetizing Plato's school
CHATS where we get ''platonIe J.
For themes he seours the country through
From 'Cisco's hay TO Fundy's,
But really, if the truth were told,
I'D rather see him Mondays.
Dewitt c. LOCKWOOD in the April CENTURY.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

FORTY years ago the farm lands oil
the United States were not on an aver
age more than half as valuable as they
are to-day. The proportion of debt to
the earning power of farm lands was
much greater forty years ago than it
is to-day. Apart from wheat there is
not farm product ranking as staple
that does not command better prices
now than it did forty years ago.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

The practice OF the sweaters is an
abomination, and should not be toler-
ated. They obtain contracts with
manufacturers at low rates, and sub-let
the work by the piece to starving peo-
pie who must work for what they can
get. even though it be mere pittance.
The wages OF seamstresses and the
lower grade of tailors are too small to
be shared with an employer whose
main purpose it is to squeeze from his
A'help' share of the money they
earn SO that he may grow rich while
4hey. grovel for bare existence.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

The cotton crop OF the world is
about 1900. 600 bales, and our south
ern states produce 1000, 900 bales of it.
If cotton is not still king in this coun-
try it is at least an honored member
of the royal family.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

DR.. KING, Notwithstanding to
a distinguished statesman of China,
is an American woman. She has an
extensive practice in Shanghai and
her surgical operations have attracted
wide attention. She can write q pre-
scription without adding a postscript
In IL
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

IT would be an interesting study for
the psychologist to inquire what is the
influence which irresistably induces
every American representative in Eng
land to slop over when he gets into
England in declaring the loyalty OF
this country to English customs and
even To English royalty and aristoc-
g.aaV
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

A FRENCH literary man is workin g
off superiuous fat in accordance with
a startling plan. He permits surgeons
TO fay him in places where nature is
padding him too freely. and cut away
chunks OF adipose tissue. The last
time he submitted to the operation he
got rid OF four and three-quarter
pounds of fat. This is revolving
method of reducing weight that will
never become popular.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

WHAT we need is a just law i'm.
partially enforced exclud ing people
not because they belong to this or that
race or nationality. but because they
are personally undesirable as ingredi-
ents OF American society.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

IT will not be denied that the
farmers OF our day all over this coun-
try have some things to complain of.
embarrassments not inherent in the
industry itself, but growing out OF
certain commercial and economic con-
ditions affecting them at certain points
quite seriously, still, comparing the
condition OF the farmer of 1890 with
that of the farmer of 1850 or 1860, a
marked improvement in agricultural
conditions is clearly discernible.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

THERE are more acres of land paid
for according to the population to-day
than they were forty years ago.
There is less debt per capita among
the farmers of this country to-day
than there was forty years ago.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

j. w. MARSHALL, who first discover
ed gold in California and laid the
foundations of the legal fortunes OF
others, must be highly delighted as he
looks down from paradise and oeholds
a fine bronze statue OF himself which
has been erecIed at Coloma. Cal.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

A DOCTOR who described paresis as
hardening and shrinking of the
brain added that no newspaper man
ever died of the disease. As paresis
is caused mainly by mans restless
rush for money, the newspaper man
could not catch the disease if he tried
for he never sees money enough ahead
IN rush for
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

SHoEMAKING under cooperation and
the system of division of labor has
been wonderfully improved. 1t used
to be. under the system of make-tae-
whole thing-by-myself, that you would
have to pay extra if you were SO
aristocratic as to insist on having
rights and lefts.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

The greatest interest in the census
will lie in the exhibit of souls, the ma
tional aggregate, the comparative
standing of states. the settlement of
civic rtvalries, but back OF this vast
amount of data which the intelligent
mind will comprehend and turn to
good purpose.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

PITY the potato bug. He is in about
as sad plight as newly elected
mayor. The state entomologist OF
New York says there are now twenty
Eve different kinds of parasites hunts
ing the potato bugs in that state.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

The impression seems to be gaining
ground that considerable number OF
those who are clamoring for an eight
hour work day. do not work even an
eighth of an hour, except with their
laws
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19

YALE is not unmindful of the honor
conferred upon it by its illustrious
president. Theodore d. Woolsey. The
university will erect handsome
monument to his memory next year.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
Six months Inter

TTLTNT.
o,, q a, oasslll,ng team and iauntv ,itt,o
cutter mats in front OF Lawvsr hue nv"
soh 8 residence. A very Tai Dur Iur.
man alights and rings the hal, uars s
tne door Is opened by Lawvsr p nnu
TONS pretty daughter. Mamis.' our
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-03-08
AFAcTORY CLOSED.
Nearly Eleven Hundred Bills the Result
of "a Session.

Nearly Eleven Hundred Bills the Result
of a Session.
The Legislative hall doors were shut in
the Capitol yesterday.
\ few clerks fingered, the law makers
had left. A man was washing out the ink
stands In the rotunda. Some of the whilOm
contents have been placed where they can
not be wiped out Perhaps the stains will
live 10 hamper the future political aspira-
tons of those who INDUCED TOO layishly in
making them.
Committee Clerk Christian was at work
enrolling joint resolution TO be forwarded
60 the Maryland Legislature. 1t bore refer
ence 60 the boundary line between Virginia
and MARYLAND. There was sweeping and
busting going on, and musty rat holes in
closets were being cleaned out preparatory 10
receiving legislative trash. SpittOons were
disappearing. window glasses washed. and
a general setting in order Of the old Capt.
tots legislative halls was being pushed
ahead, In a slow, mechanical sort of way.
In few days the old hum-drum look OF
things will settle down upon the face of at-
fairs there. and remain Owl-like and solemn
until another Legislature shakes IL from its
sleep,
",iow many bills have they passed, Mr.
BiggerF
II wished they had all passed from my
hands 10 the prnter's," said M. Bigger,
and continuing, in answer 20 the question,
he said: "About eleven hundred in ALL"
The Is more than any previous Legisla-
ture has done, and IL is possible that in so
much chah there is less wheat than is
usual.