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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
Ram and Eagle in Battle.
Franklin News .

A curious battle between an eagle and
a ram occurred on Pennsylvania farm
a few days ago. A farmer named Benja-
min Shifer, of Tunkhannock, Monroe
county, Pa, was blowing, when he no.
ticed an eagle swoop down and attempt to
seize lamb that was resting by the side
of its dam. The aim was faulty and the
eagle struck the eve, completely knocking
her down.
A ram in the flock attacked the bird,
knocking it down. The eagle rallied, and
when the ram started for it again, head
down, the bird fastened its talons in the
wool on the back of the buck and COM
menced to beat the now frightened sheer
with its ponderous wings.
When it had tired of this the eagle left
the demoralized ram and bounced upon the
lamb The ram again returned to the
fight, butting the eagle under its right
wing, causing it to drop its prey.
Then the fight between the bird and
animal was resumed with renewed vigor,
the latter being assisted this time by Mr.
Shiffer, who had arrived ON the scene with
fence rail.
AS soon as an opportunity offered he
swung the rail with unerring aim and the
eagle fell dead, its neck being broken.
The farmer loosened its talons from the
" DOL on the bucks back and threw it te
the ground when the ram again resumed
the fight, and after giving one or two
| more parting butts hurried off to joir
the rest of the frightened flock in corner
IF the field
The lamb was dead.
The eagle measured from tip to tip o.
wings eight feet four inches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
QUEER FUNERAL NOTIONS.
Eccentric Men Who Have Left Peculiar In
structions for Their Interment

The story is told of certain Frenchman,
says Cassells Journal, who had been a
great collector of coins. By his will he
directed that his obsequles should be per-
formed with every accompaniment alculat-
ed to inspire mirthful feelings. His body
was to be wrapped in tanned pigskin and
buried coffinless in a standing position up
on a pile of charcoal. Laurel branches
were to be carried by the mourn
ers, and on returning from the church
they were to throw open the chambers in
which his treasures were deposited, and ali
corners were welcome to help themselves as
they pleased to the contents. Itwas sore
disappointment to the public, however, to
find that before they were admitted the
servants of the deceased had decamped
with everything portable.
The wishes of curious character, who
was named Hilkington, better known as
Squire Hawley, were fully carried out a
few years ago at a place near Doncaster.
He was buried in his own garden, amid
the graves of the dead cattle, which had
been stricken down by rinderpest He
was laid out in full hunting costume, in
Guiding spurs and whip, and was placed
in a coffin weighing upward OF a ton,
which had to be lowered into the grave by
means of crane His old pony was shot
and buried at his feet, and at his head
were laid the bodies of his favorite dog
and an old fox. All his property was left
to his groom on condition that these funer-
al obseryances were fully carried out; in
default the estate was to go to the priest
of Doncaster for the benefit of the
Roman Catholic church. The groom. how
ever, did not suffer the bequest to himself
to lapse.
1t is related that certain crotchety old
Yorkshireman some years since left direc-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
PRE-GLACIAL TIMES.
Many Traces of Them Still Visible in the
AdirOndackS.

A letter from the Hackmatack camp in
the Adirondacks to the New York Times
has this paragraph: Most conspicuous on
every hand are the marks of that wonder
full glacial flood, which biologists tell us
buried the whole northern half of the Unit
ed States beneath its mountains of ice
ages ago. The signs of this food are
visible here in the peculiarities of Adiron-
dack scenery and may be recognized and
studied by one interested in the marvellous
WORKINGS of those forces in nature
which -elped form the hills and valleys,
and shifted great water courses from old
channels to new ones.
The section of a glacier in passing over
country is to smooth and round off the
sharp lines and angles of the underlying
mountains and hills, to form lakes and
waterfalls by damming mp the channels
of rivers, to scatter powders alongi5
course, and to leave long moran" o
mounds of water worn gravel and sano
behind it (Wright's lice Age in North
America
These conditions are all found to an un-
usual degree, in the Adirondacks, the
its long rows of rounded hills, its huge
IoOirtoCu oO"Ietc1o w Dt lOuIlu every ucIo
in the woods, its gravel mounds, and
above all, its innumerable lakes and water
falls which delight the eye wherever one
turns. This last peculiarly is, above all,
a 'g lacial sign, for lakes and waterfalls
are In all cases merely the result of glacial
action. 1t may appear strange to those
who have not thought of it before, but
south of the terminal line of the glaciers
an irregular line bisecting our country
from Long Island and the southern bound
airy of New York, through to the noun
tains of California there are no waterfalls,
(Wright's lice Age.':) And, thus lakes
being the result of glacial action, the exis-
tence of the intricate maze of Adirondack
lakes, together with some other consider
ations, has compelled biologists to look
upon our north woods as having been a
glacial centre, a scene of extraordin-
airy glacial activity and power in the ice
age, whose forces are even now displayed
in Alaska and Greenland.
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yielding to a naturally INDECENT DISPOSE
ton
During the session of the university, he
wrote his lectures On the night before the
morning he delivered them She sat up
with him and copied what he had illegibly
written on rough sheets. The gray dawn
of the morning often found the devoted
amanuensis hard at work. She was his
wise counsellor, and his playful, amusing
| friend He leaned upon her, loving and
approaching her, and that was the only
reward she cared to receive.
The late William E. Foster, one of the
most conscientious and industrious of
modern English statesmen. married Jane
Arnold, the daughter of DIR. Arnold, of
| Rugby For doing so he was expelled
from the society of Friends, which did
not tolerate mixed marriages.
Many years afterward, when he was
one of her majestY's ministers, he said to
a deputation of Quakers who had waited
upon him: Your people turned me out of
the society for doing the best thing l even
did in my life"
His wife was his constant adviser, to
whom he submitted the most difficult
questions, that she mis- ht guide him to
/ the right solution. In his library he
wrote at one table, and she at another, for
he loved to have her near him, even
when at york On social and political prob
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17

tions that on the day of his burial a great
public breakfast should be given in the
town where he might die, and that his
coffin, slung upon towels knotted together,
should be born upon the relays of men and
bumped" three times upon a particular
heap of stones, and that the ''Lamenuaticn
of a Sinner" should then be sung. A still
more important provision was made re-
garding the presence of mourners in the
churchyard. Every man, woman of child
who entered the ground with or after the
procession had to receive a dole of six
pence. Never before or since. we are told.
was that churchyard so full of people.
A Sussex gentleman named Jack Fuller
ordered his executors to bury him in a
pyramidal mausoleum in Brightline
churchyard. His reason for desiring to be
Enclosed in stone above ground was his I'M
willingness to be eaten by his relatives
process he considered inevitable, if buried
In the ordinary way. The worms" he
eat the worms and my relatives would eat
the ducks
A gentleman named Underwood left
t6, 600 to his sister on condition that she
had him buried in a particular fashion
Six gentlemen were appointed to follow
him to the grave, where they were to sing
the last stanza of the twentieth ode of the
second Book of Horace Mourning was
forbidden to be worn; no bell had to be
tolled, and no relation as to follow the
corpse. The six chosen gentlemen were
to be the only mourners. The coffin was
painted green, and the deceased was buried
with his clothes on. Three copies of Hor-
ace were placed in the grave with him, to-
gether with Bentley's Milton" and ID
Greek Testament. After supper the six
mourners sang the ode-alI being in
ctrict accordance with the will of the de-
coaca1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
WEIR VERSUS CONNOR.
The Spider" Did Him in the Third Round

BUFFALO, n. Y, July S.-The prize
fight between Ike Weir, TIE Spider. -
and James Connor, the instructor of the
Buffalo Athletic club, took place
tonight The men fought with
skin gloves. In the first round
Weir led the fighting and got in two
blows on Conner. although the latter
scored on Weir's left eye. In the second
Connors made a ferocious effort
to reach Weir, but failed.
In the third he tried it again with the
same result, and before he could recover
Weir stretched him on the floor with a
Highlander ON the jaw. He gathered
himself up but was too weak to
continue and the Spider soon sent him
back again with a smash in the mouth
knocking him out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
THE EARLIEST ANIMALS.
The Lowest Forms of Animal Life Viii,
Nature Reveals to the Scientist.

The Lowest Forms of Animal Life Which
Nature Reveals to the Scientist.
The earliest traces that can be found OF
any living thing are the remains of sea
weed and of the club MOSES that grow In
wet places Soon. however, animals ap-
peared, and the layers of SiIurian rock are
found in some places to be entirely compos-
ed of the shells of animals Sometimes
these shells are very small. but some are
larger than those of any animal now In
existance. Nor is it by any means certain
that small animals were created first.
Little and big seem to have existed
together. We find the shells of animals sc
small as to be invisible, except under the
microscope, side by side with shells four
feet broad. The framework of the tiniest
creature which helped to make up these
layers of rock is extremely beautiful.
The little coral animals commenced their
busy career during this age, building lime
stone reefs and making the beautiful chain
coral which can still be seen on the lime
stone cliffs in the western states. Another
kind of animal, related to the coral polyp,
and called ''crinoid" must have greatly
added to the beauty of the Silurian seas
We find its remains in the shape of a
curiously carved, six-sided body. From
each of five sides hly-Iike arm was sent
off, and the animal was fastened to the
rock by stem running from the center OF
the sixth side. Professor Agassiz called
them ''stone lilies
Other layers of rock are composed wholly
of the remains of queer animals called 'tri.
lobites.' They belonged to the same
family as our Holsters, and varied in size
from One-siXth of an inch to two feet In
length. There were two great depressiOns
running lengthwise in their bodies. which
divided them into three lobes. They had
also the same ring-like divisions running
around the body as are seen in Holsters.
They swan on their backs, and had the
power of rolling themselves into a ball.
Probably this was done to defend them
selves against some foe. Many were
caught in this position when the mud was
changed into rock, and kept for us to see
In other layers ofrock are found fossils OF
different animals of the lobster kind
Nothing like these old animals is found
now.
So many mollusks-that is, soft animals
with hard shells, Ike the oysters-then
swan in the water, that age is sometimes
called the Age of Mollusks. They were
of all sizes and shapes, and there were
millions and millions of them. There was
one, belonging to the same family as our
nautilus, which was four feet across
Another resembled nautilus unrolled L
was from ten to fifteen feet long, anc
measured foot in breadth.
The remains of fishes are found. for thu
first time, in some of the upper layers be
longing to this peroid. In Wales, in thu
land of the Silures, they claimed to have
found one layer composed entirely Of fish
| bones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

French doctors are reported to have dis
covered that the essence of cinnamon,
when sprinkled in the room of typhoid
fever patients, kills the bacteria within IL
hours and prevents the disease from
spreading.
To give an idea of the kind of telephone
cable which would be required to work
under the ocean it has been calculated that
the copper core would have to be as large
around as -four barrel, and the insulation
the diameter of a hogshead.
Epidemics, such as influenza, are said
to arise when the supply of ozone in the
air is insufficient. To counterfeit this
vocated the artificial supply of ozone to
the air of towns and thickly-populated
districts.
DR.. Weisman, a German biologist, is
trying to show that artificial notifications
of living forms can be transmitted from
one generation to another. He has cut
the tails off some 900 white mice in the
hope that they will breed race of mice
without tails.
Photography has apparently disproved
the theories of the old school meteorolo-
gists, who maintained that light
ming never turned back in its path. An
examination of lightning photography
shows that flash not only turns back
sometimes, but tangles itself into kind of
knot.
In the investigation in New York as to
electrical matters an expert declared that
the number of volts which could be used
without danger to life varies greatly. A
horny-handed man would be able to take
perhaps three thousand volts, while
another could not take five hundred.
Straw is now about to be employed on a
large scale for the making of gun-powder
The straw is pulverized, chemically treat
ed and then finished in granular form for
use. The new explosive is said to be one
hundred and fifty per cent stronger than
in equal weight of ordinary gunpowder
and much superior in every respect.
The prize of forty thousand francs offer
ed by the French Academy for some certain
test of death looking to the prevention of
being buried alive, was given to a physi-
clan, who announces that on holding the
hand OF the supposed dead person to a
strong light, if living, a scarlet tinge is
seen where the fingers touch, showing that
the blood continues to circulate, there be-
ing no scarlet when the subject is really
dead.
Color blindness is congential defect,
and is incurable. The man who was born
with it must submit to its limitations as
long as he lives, and is simply playing
ostrich when he tries to deceive himself OF
others into belief contrary to this. Some
color-bind individuals suffer under great
er disabilities than others, but true color
blind person is never sure to select either
green or red correctly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
Devoted Wives.

Disraeli dedicated one of his novels 'to
the most severe of critics-but perfect
wife. Once at a harvest home of his
tenants, he spoke of her as 1.-The best wife
in England In speech delivered at Ed
inburg, he alluded to her as THAT gracious
lady to whom owe so much of the happi-
ness and success of my life" Edmund
Burke, on the anniversary of his marriage,
presented to Mrs. Burke beautifully de-
scriptive paper, The Idea of a Wife, y
heading the manuscript thus: ''The
Character leaving her to fill up the
blank. He repeatedly declared that
every care vanished the moment ne en-
tered under the roof.
Mrs Dlsraeh was pretty little woman
voluble talker an much older than her
husband. Mrs. Burke was spoken of, even
by her own sex, as all that was beautiful
and amlable among women. But it was
not beautiful face nor refined taste. nor
mental culture that gave these two women
their wonderful influence over two states
men. The secret of their power lay in
their thoughtful devotion and intelligent
sympathy
Once Mrs. Disraeli rode to the house Of
commons with her husband, when ne was
expected to make great speech. On leav
ing the carriage he crushed her fingers il
closing the door. Without an exclama
ton Of pain she babe him good evening,
lest he might be so unnerved as to fail in
his speech, and went to her place in the
lady's gallery.
Mrs. Burke kept her husbands accounts
regulated his pecuniary transactions
soothed his natural irritation, and made
his home happy, that he might remain
free and elastic for his public duties.
The wife of Sir William Hamilton, pro
lessor of logic and metaphysics, also IL
Illustrated the devotion of self-denyine
love: She identified herself with hi
work, and by her energy kept him from
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
DAYS THAT NEVER RETUR N.

Over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song that is half sigh,
Like the sound of leaves when the wind swee
by,
Like the sound of breakers far away.
As they beat and sob,
As they beat and throE,
Till | hear voice in the distant roar
On the lovely stretch of sandy shore.
Over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song for the dying year
A song that thrills with an unshed tear
Thro the winter twilight, chill and gray,
As the breakers sob,
AS the breakers throb,
And hear the voice with its old refrain,
For the days that never come back again.
Over the strings of my harp to day
Floats song for my sweet lost youth
For, oh, would give in very truth
Riches and fame and power away
To dream once more
Those bright dreams DER.
sit is a vain regret - sighed the old refrain,
For the days that never come back again.
Over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song for the dying year;
song that thrills with unshed tear
Like the sound of breakers far away
How they beat and sob!
How they beat and throbl
And hear that voice with its old refrain,
For the days that never come back again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
THE GOVERNOR CENSURED.
The Senate Says He Had No Power to Veto
the Lottery Bill.

BATON ROUGE, July 9.-To-pight the
lottery matter was submitted to the Judi
ciary committee of the senate, which by a
vote of 8 to 3 made report which dis
poses of the matter. The report holds the
governor has, under the state constitution,
no power to veto a bill proposing an
amendment to the constitution. and
speaks rather sharply of Governor Mich
OILS action in so doing, saying in part:
Any infringement by the executive of the
constitution is alive with great and dis
tressing danger to the liberty of the people,
1t is resolved, therefore, that the veto of
the governor, which is without authority,
be returned to the house of representa-
tives and that the clerk of the senate fur
nish the governor with a copy of the reso-
luton. This report was adopted and so
the whole matter is disposed Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
BA DGER EDITORS CONVENTION.
Gov. Hoard and Mayor Peck Will Deliver
Addresses.

WEST SUPERIOR, July 8.-B. S. Price,
of Hudson, and E. w. Coon, of Edgerton,
the president and secretary of the Wis
consin Editorial Association, report the
completion of the arrangements for the
annual outing of the association. The
members will rendezvous at West SUI
perior on July 20. In the afternoon there
will be boat ride in the harbor and up
ST. Louis River. In the evening there
will be a meeting at which Mayor Patter-
son will deliver an address Of welcome.
Sam Shaw of the Crandon Republican,
will respond, and addresses will be de,
hvered by Gov. Hoard and Mayor Peck.
There will be vocal and instrumental
music. The next forenoon will be de.
voted to sightseeing. The members who
intend to visit Yellowstone Park will leave
at 3;45 in the afternoon in a special train
of Pullman cars, The trip will take
about eight days, four of which will be
spents at the park.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
Stepped on a Shadow,

One dark night, man who was about to
leave steamboat saw what he supposed
to be gang plank. but it was only a
shadow. He stepped out upon it and of
course fell into the water below. He
thought he was taking the right way, but
his thinking so could not make any differ
ence in the result so long as he really did
take the wrong way. Just so in matters
of far greater Importance You must be
right, # you are to avoid the evil conse-
quences of wrong-doing This man might
have put it to the proof, whether it was a
gang-plank or not, before trusting himself
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
A Wonderful Tree

The camanba is a wonderful tree, &C
cording to report made to the state de-
partment by Consul Burke, of Bahia 1t
grows in northern Brazil, near the ANA
zon river. Every part of it-root, branch
and TRUNKS available; it is indespens-
able for the natives in building and roof
ing their huts, making fences. ETC., while
the articles made from it supply them with
food, light and medicine It is a species
of palm tree, and grows in dry, sandy
soil. The bulb is strongly farinaceous,
and when dried and ground produces a
kind of farischa, used for food by the ma
tives, while the rootlets of the bulb are
used for medicine, possessing a strong
cathartic property. The trunk, while the
tree is young, contains a soft, oleaginous
substance, something like marrow; this is
good food for cattle, sheep goats and hogs
nj few years the wood becomes hard and
suitable for building purposes. The
leaves yields substance like wax, from
which candles are made, and there are
various other uses to which the tree is
put
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-17
A 100000 SUIT.
1t is the Greatest Case Ever Tried in Doug
lass County,


lass County.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July s.
Notice of suit was served today upon the
members of the Land and River Improve
ment Co., through the managers, and a
number of other defendants, of an action
begun by the heirs of the late George w.
Ewing. The suit is brought to recover
lots | and 2 in the southeast quarter of the
northwest quarter of section "A, township
40, range Il, commonly known at the
Sweltser tract and valued at something
over 100000. In the early days Of
Superior the land was entered by Madison
Sweeltzer and G. w. Irving jointly as
partners. The title for some reason
rested IN Ewing, and before the matter
was adjusted Ewing died. In the COM
plant it is alleged that after the death of
Ewing, Sweetzer transferred the land to
the Land & River Improvement Company.
This involves the greatest amount of any
real estate suit brough in Douglas County
and it will attract much attention.
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upon it. Do not be like him. but test your
beliefs and see if they are we'll grounded.
Many young man has been ruined by a
course of conduct, which at first he felt
sure would do him no harm Many man
has followed his own notions of what is
right, instead of taking Gods word as a
guioe. and awakened in eternity to find
that ne had stepped upon a shadow and
fallen.