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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Men Generally DO Not Fear to Dle.

Sir Lion Playfair, in a letter to
Junius Henri Browne. author of a
paper with the above title says: "Hav-
ing represented large constituency
(the University of Edinburg) for seven
teen years as member of Parliment, l
naturally came in contact with the
most eminent medical men in England.
l have put the question to most of
them, Did you. in your extensive
practice, ever know patient who was
afraid to die?' With two exceptions
they answered No
lone of these exceptions was Sir
Benjamin Brodie, who said he had seen
one case. The other was Sir Robert
Christian, who had seen one case, that
of girl of bad character who had a
sudden accident. | have known three
friends who were partially devoured by
wild beasts under apparently hopeless
circumstances of escape. The first was
Livingstone, the great African traveller,
who was knocked on his back by lion,
which began to MUNICH his arm. He
assured me that he felt no pain and
that his only feeling was one of intense
curiosity as to which part of the body
was Rustem Pasha, now Turkish Am
bassador in London. A bear attacked
him and tore off part of his arm and
shoulder. He also assured me that he
had neither pain nor fear, but that he
felt excessively angry because the bear
-grunted with so much satisfaction in
munching him.
1.-The third case is that of Sir Edward
Bradford, an Indian officer now oc-
cupying high position in the Indian
Office. He was seized in solitary
place by tiger, which held him firmly
behind the shoulder with one paw and
then deliberately devoured the whole
of his arm, beginning at the end and
ending at the shoulder. He was posi-
tive that he had no sensation of fear
and thinks that he felt a little pain
when the fangs went through his hand,
but is certain that he felt none during
the munching of his arm. THE New
Idea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Uncle Seth's Preference.

I'd hate to be a President-by gum, wouldn't
take it,
The Presidents cake is always dough, 'ithout
no chance to bake it;
The papers they all call him nameS-a mis-
creant an villain,
A man whose moral capital amt ekul TO
shillin'
The Emperor of Germany is allus in hot water,
An never seems to do a thing that BISMARCK
thinks he oughter.
The King of Austry's all broke up, the queen
hez clean gone crazy,
She yells and cries from morn till night, an
raves and won't be aisy.
An they say the Gar of Russia doesn't dance
to pleasant toons,
For he wears sheet-iron westkitS an cast-1ron
trOuserloons;
His jacket must be made of tin before he'll
dare to trust it,
His beaver is an iron pot so tough bomb
can't bust it.
His bedroom is iron safe, cannon-bau can't
crack it,
In which he craWls before he dareS to jest take
off his jacket:
His bedstids made of tempered steel, as hard
as he can stan it;
His bed quilts made of hammered zinc, his
pliers made of granite.
An so 1 amt no candidate for President, King,
or Kaser;s 49,
I'll stay to hum an feed my pigs, an live 18th
Ann Eliza.
An we don't want no crowns an things to
plague an aggravate US;
Wen do our chores an tend the shotes, an hoe
our corn an taterS.
s.. w. Foss in the Yankee Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Mormon Tithing Scrip.

Ifyou 60 into the principal Office of
the tithing-hOuse, says Salt Lake
City letter in the st. Louis GL0be-DenlO-
crdt, you will see a tall, young man
handling what looks like money. He
is behind counter and the counter is
protected by a high railing. The man
chances through the window, then looks
down at the bills, and goes on thumb
ing them like bank teller. He goes
to and from big safe, carrying bum
dies done up just as bills are, with lit
tie bands of brown paper pinned about
them. Sometimes the young man
doesn't stop to count, but takes the
amount on the brown slip as correct
and passes out the money. This is
Mormon money. 1t is the tithing
scrip. 1t is used to facilitate the hand
ling of the grain, and hay, and live
stock, and produce which come in. If
you pick up one of these bills you will
find it very much like bank note in
appearance. In one upper corner is
the number of the bill. In the lower
left-hand corner is the in hoe signo of
Mormonism, beehive.
The face of the bill reads: 'Gen-
eral tithing Storehouse. Good only
for merchandise and produce at
the general tithing storehouse, Salt
Lake city, Utah" Each note bears
the signature of the presiding bishop.
On the back is the denomination again
and vignette of the new temple at
Salt Lake City. The back also bears
the wording: This note is not cur
rent except in the merchandise and
produce departments of the general
tithing storehouse." The engraving is
well executed and the printing is well
done. The bills vary in color There
are greenbacks for one department of
the tithing house, brownbacks for an
other, and so on. By using this scrip
the church is able to create a market
for considerable quantities of the tith-
ing. The scrip is given out in dis
pensing charity. 1t is used for paying
for work on the temple so far as the
workmen can make use of it. EN-
ployes of the tithing house receive their
salaries of allowance partly in scrip.
In numerous ways the Mormon money
gets into circulation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
A Surprised Book-Buyer.

The Maine Farmer tells story of an
old-time trader in Augusta who long
since passed away. Happening into a
book auction sale in Boston, his atten-
ton was at once attracted to the taking
title of a book which the auctioneer
was then offering, and which he an
nounced as Saving Interest" This
was just the book he wanted. Turning
to friend he remarked that he had
probably lost hundreds of dollars in in
terest, and if there was any way to
save it he wanted to know it. So he
bid good round sum and the book
was knocked down TO him. Judge of
the surprise of the old man when on
opening the volume and reading its
full title he found it to be Saving In
fnr hrisU.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
GIRLS AS CYMNASrS.
They Should Be more Careful When Fxer-
cising or They Will Hurt Themselves.

''Girls should never be allowed in a
gymnasium unless they are in charge
of thorough master of calisthenics
and gymnastics" said professor to
reporter for n. 7, Mail and Express
recently. ut may seem strange to say,
but the girls are more daring and much
more reckless than boys when they get
the athletic fever. 1t seems to be very
catching nowadays.
''Only a short time ago young lady
came into this gymnasium. She had
never been in gymnasium before. As
soon as she got her suit on she was try
ing to pull herself up horizontal bar,
and before | could stop her she had
strained the tendons in both arms and
couldn't come back to exercise again
for nearly three months.
Girls have to take a much more
systematic training than boys. They
are not so strong, and have to be treat
ed more tenderly. There are hundreds
of ways in which a girl can hurt her.
self in a gymnasium unless she is very
careful. She can strain her arms and
hands by too much exercise at any,
thing. She can sprain her back by
jumping too far on the spring board.
Il have known girls to spraIn their
toes in the running high jump even
when the bar was only foot from the
ground. High-heeled shoes press the
toes downward, and girls who wear
them always land on their toes when
they jump, instead of on the ball of the
foot"
What exercise should girl prac-
ice at home?" asked the reporter.
Gymnastics, to be healthful, should
only take portion of the strength of
ones muscle, and the constant exercise
of these muscles is what develops them.
I have seen some delicate girls exercis-
ing with tive-pound dumb-bells, when
some of the strongest athletes of the
country only use tWo-pOunders. A
girl who wishes to expand her chest can
do so if each morning after her bath
she will stand erect, feet together,
shoulders back, arms straight down,
and take twenty-five full, deep breaths.
Better begin fifteen times the first week
and then gradually increase it. Keep
up the increase until it reaches the
number of fifty. By that time her
lungs will be much stronger and the
chest will begin to expand. A round
shouldered girl can become straight by
moving the shoulders and arms back
ward in regular motions till the elbows
are only few inches apart. Let the
first exercise be twenty times and in
crease it until 125 times can be done
without fatigue. The throat can be
made round and firm by judicious ex-
o,oica Of tba hood ,noEo INV +hrOo+
then forward slowly, and then from
side to side in the same way.
There is no reason why any girl or
woman not deformed and about 25 or
80 years of age should not have grace
full and well-developed figure. and
gymnastics will give it to her, but not
unless she is taught them properly"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Backed the Horse Of His Dream.

81 have had two times in my life
when wanted to kick myself real
hard said a well-known local sport
ing man whose word is good as law,
and who tells this story only on rare
occasions.
Zone of them maintain religious
secret even to this day. Only my wife
and | know of it. When she peaches
on me | give 1t away
What was the other?"
II was travelling the grand circuit
in 1885, and on pleasant morning
landed in Hartford. That night had
dream. l saw field of horses.
There were eight starters. A gray
horse had the pole. He was a trot
horse. His action was like clock work.
| shall never forget how he tossed his
head and shook it. He had what SEEM
ed to me to be perfectly white name
and tail and the nigh hind foot was
also white. / seemed to see the whole
race in its preliminaries- gather
ing of horses and the scoring, and to
see them break away at the word. I
kept the eye of my dreams on the gray
horse, but a peculiar thing always
happened. He faded out of my sight
as he turned the quarter and reappear-
ed only about hundred yards upon
the homestretch, and always well in
advance of the field from there under
the wire, trotting like ghost without
clink of metal on the turf. I've been
to many horse races, but never any
that equalled the trot of my dream and
the action of the gallant gray. / saw
the gray win three heats, fast time in
each, and when l woke | wanted to
go right to sleep again, for l had been
finding money on the gray all night.
Il went to the track that afternoon
thinking little of the dream. Afield of
horses was scoring for the word when
/ got there. was talking with friend
when | casually asked: How many
starters?'
Eight said he.
MY heart jumped. 1t was the num-
Der of the dream.
"'A gray in the lot?' asked I, little
supposing that the answer would be as
it was.
"'Yes, was the reply; 'and he's
clinker! White name and tail, and
white off hind foot. Funny looking
heastr
81 turned to the track, 1t was my
dream. / never saw anything more
natural. The Hartford race course was
familiar to me for years, but here was
a race course born out of dreamland,
every feature reproduced with gray
winner at the pole"
Didn't you back himP What makes
you kick yourself?"
Gentlemen" said the talker solemn
ly, dreams are but vagaries. / back
ed that gray and l walked home. You
know | said he finished first in my
dream. Well, he did. He finished
first in two heats, but from the quarter
pole to the homestretch he ran every
inch of the way, and, if you will re-
member, didn't see blamed portion
of that part of the race in my sleep.
The sucker was set back in the first
heat and distanced in the second for
running, and, while he could trot like
ghost, he'd rather run. The next
time | back a dream race I'll see the
whole of the blamed thing or I'll buy
the short end of the pools and run
amuck. "-Le2OiStO71 Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
A Great Irrigating Canal.

The great Bear River Canal in Utah,
for the construction of which $2,000.-
600 has been provided. is expected to
be one of the most extensive irrigation
works in America. To get the river
along the side hill along Bear River
canon and out on the plain near Ply
mouth will necessitate moving 220, 900
cubic yards of solid rock, 10000 cubic
yards of loose rock, 1928, 900 cubic
yards of earth, and digging 1920 feet
of tunnel. This canal will irrigate
200, 900 acres in Salt Lake Valley and
5000, 900 on Bear River, increasing the
value of the land to $50 per acre: while
fencing, building, and tillage are ex-
pected to double this valuation in a
years. Bear Lake is in Southeastern
Idaho. The reservoir for this canal
covers $50 square miles, and the canal
will secure the irrigation of a territory
extending to Ogden.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Ben. Franklin Responsible.

Ben. Franklin is to blame for the
sordid and partial view of success that
prevails in this country. Franklin,
though himself not a parsimonious
man, dinned maxims of parsimony into
the ears of the American people SO per-
sistently, and did it in such a forcible
way. that he succeeded in ingraining
the thought of the American people
with an eminently materia philosophy.
The moral of it all is save, save, save
for rainy day. By dint of everlast-
ing repetition of the vision of the rainy
day that has got to be laid up for Ben.
Franklin has succeeded in taking all
the sunshine out of the days that are
now rainy for hundreds of thousands
of people Boston Transcript
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
A Voting Machine.

A Rochester On. Y man has in
vented a voting machine. The chief
points about it are that it provides a
private booth in which but one man
is admitted at time and which can
not be entered by another until the one
who has gone to vote leaves the booth,
his exit unlocking the entrance door so
as to admit the next voter. The booth
is five feet square and seven and half
feet high. This is divided by an up
right quarterback steel partition, thus
making a narrow private compartment
one foot by five feet for the conceal
ment and security of the mechanism
and counting registers, thus ewing a
separate private room or v0;cI,s COM
partment four feet by five feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
From Grave to Gay.

An anecdote of startling character
is related by Mrs. Coils in her book,
"a Woman's War Record" just pub
lished 1t is intended to illustrate the
recklessness which took possession of
the men when every day brought them
face to face with death. 1t was at
ball given during fine winter at head
quarters. ''Well do l remember"
writes Mrs. Coils. expressing my
sympathy to distinguished cavalry
General for the loss of his only son, to
which the gallant sabreur responded:
Yes, madam, very sad! very sad! He
was the last of his race. Do you waltzP'
And away he went to the exhilarating
music of a dashing galop, leaving all
melancholy far behind him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
How She May Be Recognized.

We have, in our time, adverted, re-
verted, and animadverted to the fact
that when young lady puts on her
fall ulster and her Derby hat one cam
not tell whether to offer caramel to
her or to beg hunk of tobacco from
him. The girls and the boys have
way of getting themselves up SO much
alike that we have until now been un-
able to tell t'other FIN which. How
profoundly we, at the present writing,
rejoice may be imagined when we say
we have at last solved this vexing
problem, mastered this perplexity
And it is simple. too, when you go at
it Alright. All you have to do is to
watch the person pass a plate-glass
show window. If it is a man he will
sidle along sort O. sheepishly and look
to see if anybody is watching him; then
if the coast is clear he will take quick
sly peep at himself in the rejecting
window and, lest possibly somebody
may be watching him, he will look up
and down the front of the building as
if all he wanted to know were whose
store this might be. If it is woman
she will look squarely into the window,
stop, look at herself leisurely, calmly,
turn clear around to see that every
thing is all right, give this hitch and
that yank, press it all down smooth
ly, and sail on, conscious that she has
not shown any of that petty little van
ity that the man displays when he
wants to look into mirror and dares
not have it known that he wants to.
A man doesn't object to being alone
NTH q ,,,;,r.or bIIt when If come IN
standing before one right out in pub
lie and confessing that it is a pleasure
to look at ones self it takes woman
for that. And this is how you can tell
them apart Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Dear Little Buttercups.

Siam is the land of the short-haired
girl. All of the women of this country
wear their hair from one to two inches
long, and their locks stand up like
black or gray bristles out of their
cream-colored faces. A Siamese but
tercup of sixteen, with her plump. yell
low cheeks. her bright, black eyes, and
her 1.-THE, symmetrically formed frame.
loosely clad in the Siamese sarong, is
a beauty, notwithstanding her black
hair is short and her teeth are red
dened with betel-nut chewing. She is
as straight as an arrow, and is as grace
full as a gazelle, and her hair makes
you think Of the saucy page boy of the
stage. -PlliiaCeipl1j0 Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
She Had Visited Rome.

The friends of pretty young girl in
one of the suburban towns are telling
under their breath the follow story:
The young woman, who is noted for
her pretty face and winning ways rather
than for her gifts Of mind. has just re-
turned from personally conducted
tour of several months in Europe.
land you visited Rome. OF course, )"
said friend on her first morning call.
Let me see" unused the young girl
deeply, Ibid we visit Rome? Mamma,
did we visit Romeo"
why. child, l don't just remember,
but it seems to me that we did; let me
SEE
20. yes, mamma" broke in the
daughter, Il know now, of course We
did. Don't you remember Rome?
Why, that was where we got those
lovely cheap stockingsr'-N Z. San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06
Spanish Postage Stamps.

Postage stamps from Spain are
unique in the record of philately- They
bear the impression of the infantile
countenance of his majesty, the young
est ruler of to-day.
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-26

The legal fraternity of Spain and France
are considerably exercised over a case that
has lately arisen In the former country. A
Frenchman living In one of the southern
cities murdered relative and to avoid the
consequences of the act fled across the
boundary into Spain. He did not feel Sc
cure even after putting the national bounda-
ry between himself and his crime, and de-
cided to secure advice of counsel in regard to
the likelihood of his being extradited. He
went out on the street aud wandered about
in search of lawyers office. Presently he
spied sign ana went In. he swore the
man Of the law to secrecy, gave him large
retainer and then unbosomed himself, in.
quiring about the probability of his extradi-
ton. The lawyer informed him that there
was very strong probability of such action
and the fugitive took himself off. 1t hap
pened that the lawyer was the public prose
cutor OF the district and that he had a con-
science. He felt that he could not con-
scient;ously let the man 60 free and there
fore arrested him. The national bar asso-
citation is now trying to decide whether or
not he did wrong, and has invited the news
papers of the continent to assist them. The
popular belief among the latter seems to be
that the prosecutor was wrong, in that be
was not supposed to seek to punish the es-
capped criminal of another country until the
foreign authorities sent requisition for the
criminals arrest, and thus brought the
crime to his official notice. The confession
of the fugitive was not made to the lawyer
in his capacity of public prosecutor and as
such officer he was not supposed to know of
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-26

The city authorities of Berlin seem to
have discovered something that correspond
ing officials in this country have been slow to
note, that large hospital drawing
patients from all over large extent of coun-
try Will give an apparently high death-rate
to what Is in fact remarkably healthful
city. They lOok askance at the great crowd
OF consumptives and others suffering from
serious diseases drawn from all parts of the
world by the hope of securing relief at the
hands of DR.. Koch and have given notice to
all unlicensed sanatariums. hotels. etc., etc.,
that consumptives and other patients suffer-
ering from infectious diseases. who may be
stopping at such places, must depart within
eight days or the places will be closed
At first sight this seems to be harsh in
reference of the government with the pri-
vate rights of people, in the hope of making
alower death rate. But as matter of fact.
it will have a beneficial effect upon the pa
tients. DIR. Koch does not claim to have a
cure-all. In fact he has repeatedly said that
he could not guarantee cure at all and that
patients who came to test his injection did
SO at their own risk. The authorities by dis
couraging the pilgrimages of people often
times in the last stages of diseases will un-
doubleday save more lives than DR.. Koch
can at the present stage of his investigations
with the curative agent
The Portland daily press., 1890-12-26
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IL Will receive the accounts of Corporations.
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$500 Colorado spris 9.. dol, Rapid "
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s25,o0o Crawfcrd.yilie, Ind, water
$4,000 sciote Water Co., of Marion,
$1,000 Pierre Water Work. Co., 20; OF Us
$4,000 Denver Water Co., of Denver,
$4,000 Detroii BAY Oily isaiiroad
s20.0OO Cape Guardian soaihwesiern
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Prices on application, Correspon dence invited.
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