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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
Electricity for Tanning.

Persians have for ages believed in the eff
cacy of electricity in the preparation OF
leather AS the Persians have been, Of
course, entirely ignorant Of modern scientific
methods for obtaining or utilizing electricity,
they have sometimes exposed their leather on
high places, especially on Mount Elwend,
near Hamadan. This they do precisely be-
cause such elevated spots are most exposed to
electrical storms, aud they affirm that light
ming Tor electricity is valuable agent 10 the
curing Of leather. -Exchange.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13

That man likes beauty goes without say
ing, as that bee likes flowers. But as the
bee only hutters about a flower which con-
tains no honey yielding property, SO man
only hovers a brief time about the beauty
without wit or charm
A man likes awoman to be capable of talk
ing well at times, but he does not care for a
garrulous girl He likes TO be listened to
himself, ard objects TO the girl who monopo-
liZes the conversation almost as much as to
the one who does not talk at an.-Ella
Wheeler Wilcox.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
American pIachlnery Abroad.

It is the tendency in this day and age to
slight things, aud IL is this tendency which
hurts American mechanism abroad. A saaa
just returned from South America told me
that no American machinery could be sold
there in competition with English. While cur
steam engines, for instance, were better I'm
ished and more adapted 10 the work demand
Ell, something was always getting out Of or
der, Gaws being revealed, and no one could
depend upon them. fhey were made 10 sell
mot to last-Detroit Free Press
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
Are You at Home Nights ?

One of the problems which a reporter on a
morning paper has to deal with, is the trouble
of finding at home the man whom he is as
signed to interview Assuming 100 to repre-
sent the certainty of finding the person
sought, Montreal reporter, after long ex-
perience, has estimated the chances very ac-
curately as follows: Clergymen, on Monday
and Saturday nights, SO, other nights, 40;
old lawyers, IS; young lawyers, unmarried,
25; capitalists and bankers, 75; clerks living
at home, 20; clerks boarding, 10; merchants,
co; mechanics, 70.-Toronto Empire.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13

In South Carolina two superstitious colorcd
persons, 50 1t l. reported, becoming fright
ened by the darkness which preceded a storm,
family. -
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
MEN AT THE THROTTLE.
ALL WHO STICK IN TIME OF DAN
GER ARE NOT HEROES.

An Old Engineer Says 1t lie Often Safer
Not to Jump-some Interesting nlustra-
tions of His Theory-The Fate OF 'Doc''
Simmons.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13

Old Time Misses Ideas About 1.-THE First
Smile and the First Cry as Signs of What
Is to Be-Rules for Producing Imitation
Dimples.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Take good care of the corn fodder. We
give this advice every year. 1t is a grand;
good fodder for sheep.
Secretary Sessions estimates that Mas
sachusetts produced under glass last year
$500, 900 heads of lettuce and 100000
cucumbers
Professor A. J. Cook, practical apiarian.
after trial of all bee sting remedies he
ever heard of or saw suggested. recon-
mends ammonia as best.
One of the very finest fertilizers for
melons is old bones. gathered and reduced
by placing them in alternate layers with
ashes the year previous to using them.
Never forget that wood ashes are a
capital fertilizer. They are not usually
washed, but they are not very Intelligent
~ applied, Some claim that they aid in
keeping the soil moist. They are better
and cheaper than the commercial fertiliz-
ers
Feeding broken oil cake to fowls twice
a week will often promote laying, when
other foods fail to give good results. 1t
can be obtained from the Iinseed oil works
in any large city and at price that will
pay to keep it on hand 1t is beneficial
to horses, cattle and hogs as well, and some
farmers keep it for this purpose and for
get the chickens-don' you. There is
much to learn about fowls; Hhat they re-
qulre as food and how to feed it, every
farmer must learn to be successful.
According to a recent report received
from W. c.. Garrard, secretary of the
Illinois state board of agriculture, during
1889. 204, ia feet of drain tile were laid in
Illinois. This is los, 400 feet less than
was laid in 1888, but the state is pretty
well tiled now. except in the southern di-
vision where there are only two feet of
tile to each acre of cultivated ground.
There are now in the state 522, 306, 526 feet
of tile, or an average of 81 feet to each
acre of cultivated land. In the northern
division there is an average of twenty-four
feet of tile to each acre of cultivated land.
and in central Illinois forty three feet.
The best tiled county in the State is Platt,
where there are 208 feet to each cultivated
acre.
Prof. Sheldon says the proportion OF
butter IN milk was much more easily in
fuenced by changes Of food than was the
proportion OF caseine; so that it followed
that the heterogeneous was more constant
than the heterogeneous matter. Thus
the improvement of milk was more in the
direction of an increase of cheesy matter;
therefore the high feeding OF cattle was
more advantageous when the milk was
used for butter than when it was used fol-
cheese. On the Derbyshire hills it was a
common saying that 1.-The poorest land
made the best cheese Paradoxical as
this might be it was equally tue although
it assumed that the poor land was sound
in that it required no artificial damage
Cheese produced upon such land as this,
properly r4ade. would be better thar that
produced on rich land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
TIE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Said Farmer Jones in a whining tone.
To his good old neIyhbor Gray:
i We worn my knees through to the bone,
But 1t amt no use TO pray.
"Your corn looks twice as big as mine.
Though you don't pretend TO be
shinin light in the church TO shine,
An tell Salva:ions free.
''I'ye prayed to the Lord thousand Times
For TO make that ere corn grow:
An why yourn beats ii so ana climbs.
Tdgin deal TO know.
Said Farmer Grey TO his neighbor Jones.
In his easy, quiet way,
when prayers get mixed with lazy bones,
They don I make fgrmin' pay
Il mix my prayers with little toll.
Along in every row:
An | work this mixture II the soil
Quite Wig rous with hoe.
''An' I've discovered, though still in sin,
As sure as you are born,
THIS kind of compost we'll worked in
Makes pretty descent corn.
$50 while I'm prayin use my hoe.
An do my level best
To keep down the weeds along each row.
An the Lord He does the rest
''It's well to pray, both night an morn,
As every farmer knows;
But the place to pray for thrifty corn
is right between the rows.
"You must use your handsiwhile praying thong
II an answer you would get.
For prayer worn knees and rusty hoe
Never raised big crop yet.
iAn' so I believe, my good old friend,
II you mean to win the day,
From blowing clean TO the harvest's end
You must hoe as we'll as pray
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
Farm Work in Lowery Weather.

During lowery weather, when the chief
operations Of the farm can not be prose-
cued advantageously, there are always
Incidental jobs that may be done, provid-
ed the work is kept in mind and a pur-
pose to execute is entertained
In many fields appropriated TO pasture
more than half of the ground is occupied
by large bull thistIes, rank ragweed or
punches Of dry and tough grass that no
animal will eat, When one is in doubt
as to what Job to do next, send helper
with the HORSEPOWER (or the grass scythe)
to cut down all weeds and dry grass
in the pasture feel s. In few days young
and tender heritage will spring up, where
the grodnd afforded nothing but thistles
and dry food that hungry goat would
not eat.
When storms prevent going through
the fields summon every idle bel per to
clean the barn and carr1age-house. Let all
the cobwebs be swept down. Take out
the window sashes from the frames and
wash every part clean so as to let in the
light. If the wood work needs painting,
fill the holes and cracks with putty and
clean houses; why should not men clean
barns? Send a helper With good broom
into the granery and let him clean every
bin, side and corner.
When fruit trees of any kind grow too
luxuriantly, clip off with shears or pru-
ner at the end of a pole, two, three Or
four inches of the twigs that have grown
the present season. By arresting the
growth of wood the sap will be diverted
to the development of fruitbuds, from
which the crop for next year must be pro-
duced.
Don't leave home on every lowery day
and tritter away valuable hours at saloons
and places of public resort, when there is
so much work to DE done about the prem
ises Make memorandum of little items
of work to be done on rainy days. Sup
pose you should get wet littie-rain will
not injure you. Your toes, fingers and
nose will not dissolve like sugar.
Grind and whet the grass scythss: grind
the axes and file the saws. Purchase q
saddler' awl and some lacing strings and
take few stitches whore lines, traces and
other straps have begun to rip. A stitch
In time will often save ninety-nine. and
avert a runaway; and perhaps some fatal
catastrophe which might have been pre-
vented by few minutes work on a low
cry day.
Ali implements that are to be used no
more during the present season should be
washed clean and wiped dry, and the iron
work should be oiled to prevent rusting;
then remove the wheels, or certain parts,
and store them in the upper part of some
outbuilding, where they will he secure and
out of the way.
In most barns there is broad area of
vacant room in the attic. Procure few
stiff poles to extend from beam to BEAM
On which lay some loose boards, and you
will have an excellent place to store many
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09

tools and implements In many instances
the weather-boards have shrunk so that
there are large cracks between them. Now.
when they are dry and have ceased to
shrink. remove them. join the edges and
replace them Overhaul and reconstruct
stabledoor that is full of cracks Make a
cold-chisel out of an old fiat file for cutting
off the nails. Heat one end of the file in
any fire to cherry-red color mot white
heat). Then cool about one inch of the
edge end in cold water That edge end
will then be too hard for a coldchisel
Watch the different colors of the steel; as
soon as straw color is seen at the edge,
plunge the entire Ale into the water. and
the edge will be hard and tough, aud will
cut iron without breaking.-Country Gen
tlemap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
GOLDEN GLIMMERINGS.
jewelers. Review.

Little iewe ed globes are admired as
watch charms
The large satin-fnish heart-shaped
silver lockets are again sought for.
A large hook and eye in gold is an ex-
ceedingly popular form of brooch.
Little tiny mirrors hidden in silver
lockets are now sold to be worn as watch
charms.
A wishbone of gold inclosing an emerald
set clover is late conner in brooches of its
class.
= Two hearts, one traced in diamonds and
the other in rubiess, combine to make an
affective ring-setting.
A little russell shoe done to perfection in
enamel, with tiny silver buckle, is on the
scene as scarf pin.
A late Introduction in watch charms is
an ivory barrel kept together by golden
hoops set with garnets.
A deep red poppy in enamel. with a dia-
mond sparkling amid its petals, forms a
pretty design in flower pins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09

why don't you continue to fish," asE;
one Of tie bandits Of him.
All don't know answered he ct
Russian government furnishes US W
pacht 1Te1ji to make nets, Cut we give it
he l. uoISes or con7'tion tht they ST..
& n for Us UnIol s:Iattely. t-.c most fa2.
isAcl among US eat all at the beginning @.
the wi1tcr.7
The L2moute wore SUSPENDED from hi
neck an enormous silver medal. the gift O.
the Gar. received 5 reward FOR the -
sistance he had ren Tered rs coua5rylne,
during enc of their periodical famines.
These spring famines are the scourge OF
Siberia. This medal, strangely placed on
the bosom Of a brigaud, won for the entire
band a great deal Of respect from the ma
tives
The GhiIiak fisherman was native of the
lower Anoor country, forced to fee after
having slain one OF his relatives who had
stolen from him the flint of his gun. He
feared, not without reason, that the friends
of the defunct might retaliate according 10
the Ghili2k code-an eye for an eye AM a
tooth for a tooth This barbarian, who was
very superstitious and inclined to idosatrv.
had been baptized in accordance with the
Greek rite, and wore about MS neck several
little metal crosses. His name was Mich
aelof
As to Ivan. that former Cossack had aban.
doned the post of the region of the Amoor.
where he lived as a soldier-laborer, coloniz-
ing the country. These Cossacks owe a
service of fifteen years, for which they re.
ceive an annual salary Of about two dol rs
and a quarter, the government furnishing
them, in addition 18th rations of black
bread and, sometimes, of tea. Their nour-
ishment consists Of salmon which they
must catch themselves, and which, with diff
ferent wild fruits ana the bark and roots of
several Ii Is of trees, forms diet but little
varied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
CHAS ELDRED ARRESTED.
The Ashland Tough is Charged With Rob-
berry Committed Near Hurley.

ASHLAND, Wis, Oct. 4--"Charley"
Eldred an all-round tough and ex-deputy
sheriff of Ashland county Was arrested
late this afternoon, charged with having
drugged and robbed the keeper of a house
of ill-fame near Hurley of $3.50 and $3.50
gold watch. he says he is not guilty.
Edred gained much notoriety in con-
nection with the Curran trial. He was in
the employ of the defendant. While chief
of police of Hurley, in the palmy DAYS Of
that town, he committed an assault on a
woman Other crimes are laid to his
door
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
TURNED TUE FIRST SOD.
Work is Comm enced on the Great Niagara
Tunnel.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Oct. A. The
ceremony of turning the first sod in the
work of constructing the great tunnel,
which the people of this place hope will
change Niagara Falls from mere summer
resort into great manufacturing center,
was performed this morning. The first
shovel full of earth was lifted at twelve
o'clock by Captain c. B. GaskiIl, followed
by the officials of the tunnel company and
me cC obstruction company. Hon. T. V.
WEIGH, superintendent of the state reser-
walton, made the address. About 10000
persons We're present and as the first sod
was turned all the steam whistles were
started blowing and the churches and fire
bells ringing. The day is being observed
as a general holiday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
Ransacked a House.

MARKEsAN, Wis, Oct. A tramp
entered the residence of A. j. bradbury.
last evening, and in the absence of the
family ransacked the house and carried
away valuable gold watch. but overlooked
a large sum of money that was in a vest.
Marshal Cooley was notified and about
midnight captured his man. The watch
and several other articles were found on
his person. His examination will be held
before Justice Lambert today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
weyerhauser VIII Not Move.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. Oct 4-People
of this city are now of the opinion that
Weyerhauser does not intend to move his
big mill from this city, as he is making
money in it since receiving assurance that
they do not feel so badly over losing the
Pool headquarters. as that takes but a
few people with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
Burned to Death.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Oct. 4.-The
4-year-old daughter of A. Shafer, of the
town of Lafayette, was burned to death by
playing about pile of Rubbish On Friday
of this week
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
Hop Sing Sentenced.

MILWAUKEE,, Oct. 4.-Hop Sing, the
lecherous chinaman. was fined 500 and
cost and six months impris onment. Pau
line Bartsch and Lizzie Risch, the two
girls we're sent to the House of the Good
Shenard
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
BURGLARY Near Palm yra.

PALMYRA, Wis, Oct 4-Burglars con-
tinue their Operations at Oak Hill. G.
Braun has lost twenty gallons of new wine
from his creamery building. Busseyville
postoffice is also reported to have been
burglarized of 300 In money and stamps
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
WISCONSIN IN A NUT SHELL.

DIG. Cheever, 60 years old, of Clinton,
is held in 81 900 bonds for misusing an es-
tate of which he was the executor.
Wisconsin druggists have organized
mutual fire insurance company, because
insurance companies rate drug stores as
extra hazardous risks.
In is estimated that the hop crop in TIE
immediate vicinity of Stevens Point, in
ending the towns of Stockton, Sharon
and Plover will bring fully SIS, 900 this
year.
Daniel Morrow Crowley, who is well
known in the vicinity of Green Bay, met
death at an electric light station at Little
Rock, Ark. One of the arms of a clutch
wheel struck him on the back of his head.
Nineteen years ago Wednesday, Octo-
Der 8, 1871, occurred the terrible Peshtigo
fire which consumed every building in the
place and destroyed so many hundred lives
of persons living upon f rms in tne Sugar
Bush.
Rhinelander is reveling in a murder
mystery. The bones Of some poor unfor-
tuuate in a swamp near there point dark
ly to a murder most foul.
Trouble among the coal beavers in Ev-
ansvile caused the Chicago & Northwest
can to place their sheds in charge Of a
gang of Baraboo men.
The potato crop In the vicinity of Au-
gusta is yielding better than expected, and
large quantities are being shipped daily.
Farmers are pleased over the outlook The
price paid is from so to 50 cents per
bushel
Senator Spooner opened the campaign
for the republicans of Milwaukee in a
speech Friday night.
The three Whitefeld brothers, who con-
fessed as murders IN Oregon. were resi-
dents of Eureka few years since. Their
parents were very intelligent and respect
able people. G. P. Whitefeld was Uni
tartan clergyman there and his wife an
accomplished teacher in the schools.
Capt Wheat, who was recently expelled
from his postmastersihp of the house,
has returned to Racine,
Receipts of the Sheboygan county fair
were $1,000.
James Madden, Of Pewaukee shot ono
foot almost off while hunting squirrels and
walked home on the stump.
Laura Harvey, of Oshkosh, has written
novel called 100 Late to Recall; or,
Past Redemption.
Litigation complicated and long drawn
out promises to result from the Hoxie &
MeIlor failure at Amigo The assignee
has served a summons that will result In
proceedings to test the validity of the at
tachment of the Michigan property of the
firm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
GORDON E. COLE DEAD.
A Prominent Minnesota Man Passes Away


MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. News has been
received of the death in London of Hon.
Gordon E. Cole. of Fairoault, Mimi. He
was for many years republican leader In
this state and was one Of tn. most widely
known men in the northwest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09
CHAPTBR xvIrI.-Ar THE MERCY OF HURRI-


The chief of police was seated, as on the
preceding days in NJ. Laf1eur's marta The
fagitiyes were fast leaving in the distance
the settlement where they had been so hos
pitably received
Why had not Yermac followed up his res
olution to betray thems Because the chief
Metek, upon whom he had counted had not
returned. He had been compelled to re-
sumo the journey with his companions
without opposition, seeming a very unim-
portant parsonage beside the all-powerful
chanan
The nartas We're speeding along tt very
steep right bank of the Kolima. going in the
direction of Nijni-kolimsk, the travellers in
tcH,ilg u pass It's last Russian station.
Yernac thought he would be set at liberty
when the fugitives reached the frontiers of
the country of the Tchouktchis.
In the middle of the day, the weather sud-
denly changed; grayish mists arose from be-
hind the wooded hills left by the travellers
on their right.
These mists indicated the approach of a
pourga, a tempest peculiar to the Siberian
regions and one of the greatest obstacles to
awinter journey across the solitudes Of
snow. Ike the norther of the southern
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09

CHAPTER xIx.-LADIsLAS AND THE GOLD-RoB-
BERS.
When the band Of gold-robbers to which
Yermac's son belonged quilted the neigh
borhood of the consumed forest of o.
trovoye. leaving for dead the chief of police,
Dinitri assumed the command of it.
The young man told the truth when he
assured his father that he had participated
neither in the assassination of Major Dob
son and his servant nor in that of the Rus
sian khabarof. The band had been renew
ed several times and, when it attacked the
chief of police, there remained of its former
members, upon whom the stigma of the
murders rested, only the chief Koskintine
shot and killed by Yermac.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09

Iney claim that the meat Is much improved
by this process.
Old Ephraim and the other Tunguse were
capable of eating the horse before the break
ing up of the encampment
The latter, named Avaram, with bronco
skin, very prominent cheek bones and small
eyes black and bright as those of the Tar
tars, belonged to a Tunguse group of the
southeast of Siberia. Entirely clothed in
reindeer skin, his chief garment was kind
OF large fur overcoat, open in front. To its
neck was attached, to be used at need,
species of very gay hood-a malachi-made
of the skins of red, black and gray foxes
arranged in alternate bands with border
of sea otter fur: tight-titting skin breeches.
with the hair inside, covered his thighs; his
feet and legs were enclosed in reindeer skin
boots with seal skin soles, reaching above
his knees.
This Tunguse had joined the band of gold
robbers in the hope of gaining with it suifi-
Gent to pay the price Of his betrothed, the
daughter Of one OF the golovas or great
chief of his tribe, a rare beauty whom he
had obtained at the eXorbitant figure of a
hundred reindeer-a yeritable fortune.
Among the Tunguses of the southeast, the
price of woman varies from one reindeer
to hundred They tell. however of beau
ties of an inferior order obtained for pipe
of tobacco. These circumstances do not
prevent the marriages from being celebrated
by a Russian priest.
The other bandits, after having killed
passably foundered reindeer, roasted steaks
cut from the animal; the Koriak and the
Lamoute, on their side, prepared soup
with the contents of the reindeer's stomach.
This Koriak was a young man. the sole
survivor Of a family dead of hunger. When
he related to his companions that each year.
at the close of winter, famine decimated the
inhabitants of Toumane because at that
time, the supply of fish caught during the
summer gave out: