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RlGe eLADIEsl LADIES' LADlESl
s0 Mrs. McCafferty Is the only hat and
bonnetframe manufacturer In the city. Call
and see her new shapes Bleaching and
pressing. Straw and felt hats altered to the
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
A Small Shrill Voice.

A curious incident occurred few
Sundays ago at old Trinity, says the
N. Y. Star. The actors were two
well-known and wealthy society ladies.
1t was at a morning service and the
church was crowded. During the early
part of the service-the psalter and re-
sponses-they had maintained an at
titude of rapt devotion, with profound
ly solemn faces and bowed heads. The
tie deum was arranged to long and
unusually elaborate musical accom-
paniment, and these ladies had re-
manned seated. The lines Let us
never be confounded" were sung with
a flourish and an operate staccato
which came to sudden and pro-
nounced close. The silence was
heightened by the loud burst of har-
mony which had preceded. There was
no gradual dying away, but quick.
petrifying stop. And in the solemn
hush, came the words:
But, my dear, we fry ours in butter"
Mr.. Dix raised his hand in a quick
gesture Of horror; an acolyte laughed
aloud; the faces of the congregation
variously expressed amusement, cha
grin, and anger, and amidst the COM
motion which ensued the very charm
ing Mrs. was borne, faint and
sick, from the church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Flies in Winter.

"Where do the flies 90 in winter
| time? is question often asked. said a
| minister the other day to New York
Tribune writer. Il have no doubt
many of them find out-of-the-way
places to lurk in till warm weather
| comes again, and many of them are
nearer us all the time than we perhaps
| suppose. ! remember once, when on a
visit in the country, going to the house
of well-to-do farmer, where | was
| put to bed in the spare room,' as the
guest chamber is generally called-a
room that in many farm-houses is
| never used, opened, or aired more than
once in a twelvemonth; it's bed-clothes
in winter time are cold and even damp
as the grave. its whole appearance is
inexpressibly neat and chilling, and
the visiting preacher nearly always
catches a bad cold in it. I learned
from experience to 60 to bed in these
rooms with nearly all my clothes on,
and, after having parted with most of
the warmth in my body in partially TAX
ing the chill off this particular bed, I
| began to doZe.
Il dreamed after while that I heard
seemed to come nearer and nearer till
l felt sure it was in the bed with me.
l awoke in a cold perspiration, but still
the Kissing continued, and certainly
proceeded from the bed, though it now
seemed not so much like the noise made
by snake as that made by humble
bees. Rather alarmed now 1 leaped
from the bed, lighted my lamp, and
tore off the quilts. Nothing out of the
way was visible, and yet the buzzing
continued. pulled up the edge of the
big feather bed which lay upon
straw mattress, and there, TO my sur
prise, I saw hundreds of sluggish flies
which had crawled in there to hibernate
when cold weather came and had been
thawed out by the heat of my body and
the extra warmth that had crept into
the room by the door being opened into
the hallway of the house. Not wishing
to wake anybody I pulled the feather
bed out into the hall and slept on it
there for the rest of the night. Iopen-
ed the window of the room and closed
the door on my strange bed-fellows
and the frosty atmosphere soon made
short work of them"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
GriSwOid Crushes a ROwdy.

What an interesting volume the life
Of A. Miner Griswold would make! He
is the last of the first generation OF
American humorists, having come into
prominence under the quaint title of
The Fat Contributor, when ARENAS
Ward had just sprung into fame. At
that time, Bret Harte, John Hay, Mark
Twain, Max Adler and Petroleum Y.
Nasty were unknown. Unlike most
writer's of fun, GriswoId seems never
to have lost his grip, and does as much
work to-day as he did thirty odd years
ago. His labors have been very sue
cessful and have paid him handsome
profit.
During his lecture tours. says writ
er in the New York Star, which filled
the better part of eighteen years. he
had many curious adventures. One
night while lecturing IN very demon
allied Western village he was con-
stantly interrupted and insulted by the
town bully a desperate who had killed
number of men. The doorkeeper and
usher were afraid of the fellow, who
came for the avowed purpose of break
ing up the entertainment. Griswold
finally lost his patience, and, stopping
short in a sentence. said to the rutfian:
my dear sir, either you or l must
leave the hall"
The man leaned back in his chair and
smilingly answered.:
WAL, young fellow, l guess you had
better quit"
The lecturer stepped back, and then,
running forward at full speed, leaped
from the platform full upon his adver-
sary. What with his speed, big weight
Q9O pounds) and the height of the
rostrum, his impetus knocked the
man senseless, and smashed the chair
in which he was sitting. He was car
ried out hopeless wreck, amid loud
applause, and Griswold returned to the
platform and finished his lecture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
The Great Hudson Bay.

A Canadian surveyor who was en-
gagged in an official expedition to Hud-
sons Bay in 1885 an 1886 saws few
people have any idea of the resources
of this great sea. Its shores are the
haunts of the musk OK, the moose, the
reindeer, the red deer, the white bear
and his black brother, the otter, the
beaver, the mink, the black fox, also
the silver, gray, and white varieties,
and other valuable fur-bearing ami
mails. Its waters are teeming with the
most valuable varieties of water man.
mails and fish. He has seen the bay as
far as the eye could reach appear one
undulating mass of white porpoises
Both the hides and oil of these are very
valuable. In some parts of the bay
and in the straits the shores of the isl.
and are swarming with walrus. 1t has
been reported by professor Bell that
one island on the east coast was found
to be thickly strewn with the ivory
tusks of the walrus. The tusks are
valuable, though the chief value of the
walrus lies in the hide, which weighs
on an average 800 pounds, and is worth
from 10 to 20 cents per pound, -Ameri-
can Ld7lQter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
The Family Names OF Women.

There is a lawyer who does a great
deal of real-estate conveyanciDg one Of
the chief whose grievances in life is
the scant respect that women show to-
ward their names. The fact that a
certain alteration takes place in the
name at marriage destroys. so he
claims, whatever regard woman might
be expected to pay to an exact render
ing, and the fact that any legal signiti-
canoe can in any case attach to the
form seems to be quite beyond the
grasp of the average feminine brain.
If girl baby is christened Elizabeth
she will sign herself when called on to
put her name to a deed after she is
grown, Lizzie, Lisa Elise, Lisbet, or
Lisbeth. according to which diminutive
happens to be her favorite for the year,
and will omit her middle name, give it
in full, or by initial, or sign instead of
her own her husbands name, accord
ing to her sweet liking. The task of
the lawyer who has to trace up half
dozen of these signatures to make sure
that they all refer to the same person
is not calculated to make easy the task
of his wife who has to soothe his ruffled
temper with good dinner. That the
married woman should in all cases re.
tain her own family name. preceding it
by her given name and following it
with her husbands family name is the
lawyers plea if he is to be saved from
insanity. Frances Folsom Cleveland,
Julia Dent Grant. Louise Chandler
Moulton, Julia Ward Howe, Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, and others set in this
respect good example.-N Y. Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
HOuSe-CIeaning.

Take one room at time and hav
the work done quietly in the off days
in which there is neither washing nor
ironing nor the usual cleaning. Begin
at the attic and clean downward, i. e.,
providing there be an attic. All city
houses are not supplemented. If not,
then upon room or closet used for gen
eral storage of trunks and incidentals.
Spare not the purifying elements. Let
every corner be laid bare; stint not the
calsomine or chloride. There are times
when brown soap and a sound scrub
bing-brush are better than sermons,
and this occasion is one of them. Then,
after the cleansing process is quite
complete, see that no unpurged odds
and ends fiud Judgment; overhaul re-
positories for rags, paper and matches.
Half dozen wall pockets or reti-
cules. made of cretonne, drawn with
colored tapes, will simplify the bust
ness of caring for the fragments. Each
receptacle should be labeled, every bit
of string and vestige of old soft linen
should be garnered; sickness brings
needs, and this trying season has
taught housewives the efficacy of saw
ing every scrap of material.
Having completed the garnet or store
room, the offal from apartments may
find Judgment in their proper reposi-
tories.
Take each floor in its order after the
closets are ov erhauled and arranged; a
room at time, say one each week, so
that the regular household routine be
not interfered with.
If the carpets are worn and dinged
rip the center breadths and turn the
outer edge toward the center; and re-
fresh with a border en- suite. Then
wipe with a CLOTH wrung out CT alum
water; and frequently sweep after a
sprinkling of tea leaves.
A fresh covering of cretonne will re-
fresh dingy chairs, and all classes of
curtain draperies are so cheap that
even when economy is necessary one
need not do without hangings at doors
or windows. They soften hard out
lines and tone the glare of light, and
should harmonic with the general
character of the furnishing HOnadna's
Illustrated World
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
st. Peters Wonderful Dome.

If we happen to be at church on
Thursday morning, when the public is
allowed to the roof and dome, or, if
we have written permission. any day
will do, we will make the ascent. A long
series of very easy steps brings us to the
roof, which is of great extent, and has
on it small domes. and also houses in
which workmen and other persons en-
ployed in the church have their homes
Above this roof the great dome rises to
the immense height of 3OS feet.
Around the outside of it we see strong
iron bands that were put there 100
years ago, when it was feared that the
dome might be cracked by its own
enormous weight. There is an inner
and an outer dome, and between these
winding galleries and staircases, very
hard on the legs, lead to the top which
is called the lantern, where we can 90
out on the gallery and have fine view
of the country all around. Those who
choose can go up some narrow iron
steps and enter the hollow copper ball
at the very top of everything. When
we look at the ball fro n the ground it
seems about the size of a football, but
it is large enough to hold sixteen per.
sons at once. On our way down, be-
fore we reach the roof, we will step
upon an inside gallery and look down
into the church, and as we see the little
mites of people walking about on the
marble floor so far beneath US we NAV
begin to wonder, that is some of us, if
those iron bands around the outside OF
the dome are really very strong, for if
they should give way while we are ur
there-but no matter; we will 60 down
SoOu.-C Catholic Youth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Beauty Only Skin Deep.

A few days ago young girl, beauti-
full in form, feature and dress, sat in a
Madison avenue car, says the n. Y.
Evening San. Directly opposite sat a
poor child of about the same age, shah
billy clothed, with a stumbling BODY,
slightly deformed as to the shoulders,
and an exceedingly plain face which
bore the lines of suffering and want.
Her eager eyes were fixed on the face
and figure opposite her with devour-
ing, pathetic look that showed how
keenly alive she was to the exceeding
beauty of beautiful body. The object
of the gaze began to grow uneasy IN
der its intentness and tixity, and finally,
looking the girl coldly in the face. she
leaned partly across the aisle and said:
We'll. Miss Impertinence. if YOU have
looked at me long enough, will you be
kind enough to look somewhere else
I'm tired of it,
The poor child grew first red and
then white. A lock of keen pain came
into her eyes, and then tears, and as
she turned away she said softly: Il
was only thinking how beautiful you
are -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29

pllcated affair. 1t has fangs for hold.
ing its prey, masticatory organs fo1
bruising its solid food, and a sucking
apparatus for taking up the fluids.
Quite as complicated is the mouth OF
the mosquito, which consists of the
lances, the saws, and pumping tubes.
The leech has three saws, with which
1t does good service in the phlebotomy
line.
The woodpecker has three-barbed
tongue like Fijian's spear, with
which it draws out the worm which il
has excited by its tapping.
The clam feeds with siphon and the
oyster with its beard.
Strange and curious as some of these
modes of feeding are, however they
none of them compare in simplicity and
effectiveness with that practiced by the
tapeworm. This creature has neither
mouth nor stomach, but just lays along
and absorbs the already digested food
through its skin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
AN ODD KIND TELESCOPE,
How to See What Is Going On in the
Water.

No doubt good many of our BOYS
and girls are ignorant of the fact, saws
the n. Y. World, that they can, with
very little trouble and at almost no eN
pense, construct an instrument with
which they can plainly see what is 90.
ing on under the water over which they
sail their boats. The very idea of such
thing is attractive, and we propose to
tell you how it can be done
The water telescope may be made OF
wood or of tin, whichever you prefer,
and we will describe both. The tin is
better, because it is lighter and more
easily handled. Its manufacture is
very simple. Get tinsmith to make
for you funnel-shaped lin horn about
three feet long. 1t should be eight OF
ten inches in diameter at the bottom,
and broad enough at the top for both
eyes to look into. Into the bottom put
piece of glass, cut to fit. and make it
perfectly water-tight. Leave the top
open. The inside should be painted
black to prevent the reflection of the
light upon the surface of the tin.
Around the outside of the bottom solder
on several sinkers to offset the buoy
ancy of the air in the water-tight horn
and make it easier to submerge. If it
is not convenient to get a round piece
OF glass, have the large end made square
and use square glass. That's all there
is of it. and when you sink the instru-
ment down into the water and put your
eyes to the small end, you will be per-
fectly astonished at the plainness with
which you will see all kinds of fish and
water animals swimming around in 3
state of nature.
A wooden water telescope is made of
long, square, wooden box, say ten
inches square at the large and four or
i've inches square at the other. Make
all the seams water-tight by means of
putty and paint. Put piece of glass
in the large end and leave the small
end open to look into, as you do with
the tin instrument.
great many of you 90 on boating
and picnic parties, and you can imagine
how much such contrivance would
add to your amusement and pleasure,
to say nothing of the instruction derived
from studying the inhabitants of the
water at home.
Using IHe PIlHclDle OF water tele-
scope, well-known naturalist had a
boat made with a glass in the bottom,
through which he could see every
movement of thousands of fish as they
swan along through the clear water.
Fishermen in Norway use the water
telescope at their work with the best
results, sometimes discovering a new
kind Of fish that might otherwise have
escaped their notice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Curious Facts Respecting Man.

Every adult man has 1,40O square
feet of lung surface; or, rather, the
mucous membrane lining the air cells
would, if spread out on smooth plain
surface, cover an extent equal to the
above figures.
A man breathes eighteen times a
minute, and uses 5000 cubic feet. or
about 375 hogsheads. of air per hour.
The weight of the heart is from
eight to twelve ounces, and it beats
about 100000 times every twenty-four
hours.
The capacity of the stomach is about
five pints; it daily produces nine pounds
of gastric juice for the digestion of
food.
An amount of blood equal to all the
blood in the body passes through the
heart every seven minutes.
The work performed by the heart is
equivalent to raising it's own weight
ZOO feet each hour, the strongest
machine yet built by man can only
raise its own weight to a perpendicular
height of 2, 700 feet per hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Better than Children.

Almost every driver of a brick or
dirt team passing through the streets
sits with his head down and lets his
team take their own sweet will, know
ing they are big enough to run over
everything but a street-car. On dirt
team going up Cass avenue the other
day, says the Detroit Free Press, the
driver seemed to be asleep. but this
was only a sham. He was figuring on
how many teams he could make crowd
the curbstone to get past him. Woman
scolded and men swore, but he gave
no heed. At length one-horse wagon
came along loaded with dry wood
ashes. The teamster saw it afar off
and made for it to run it upon the side
walk The other driver saw through
the scheme and as the vehicle APP
preached he wheeled across the course
of the team. damned the two horses to-
gether SO that they turned sharp and
upset the wagon, and at the right mo-
ment he worked his shovel and let the
gale sweep off a bushel or so of ashes
over the other rig.
1t was Il grand success. The dirt
wagon was broken, its load dumped on
the street, the driver got a sea p wound,
and the horses broke the harness all to
pieces before they stopped kicking. In
addition everything was white with
ashes. The two men glared at each
other moment, and then the ash man
inquired:
Am l the man you have been lay
ing for all winter?n
Say! say!" gasped the other through
the ashes on whiskers and mustache,
II took you for a basket phaeton with
two children in it. Blow my blooming
eyes, but l must be getting nearsight-
edr,