Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-31

The latest doom-sealer hobs up at Lou
sville Holy writ and science are blended
in his theory of an early annihilation of
the world. and he holds that the Almighty
is preparing for the final operation with
preliminary cyclones, tornadoes and other
death dealing messengers.
PAPER that discusses household mat
tiers asks: What shall we do with our
servants?" That depends. In this part
of the world we send some to the legls-
lature and some to Jail The balance
we permit to take day off eight times
week
A NEWLY married Hindoo girl is inter
dicted by CUSTOM when living under her
husbands roof, from talking to any one
but her young sister-in-law or brother-ln
law. A suicide has been committed by a
little Hindoo wife in village in Burdwan
for the pathetic reason that she could
find mo one to talk to or play with. -
1HE CeDSuS DuI6du dG w 10
now busily engaged in counting the re-
turns from all over the country. 1t is es-
timated that the total population of the
United States will foot up to something
like sc. 900, O0O The rate of increase in
the West and in some parts of the South
has been very rapid, although, if one-half
e n
the enumerators are true, there must be
good many persons left out OF what Mr..
Mantilini would call 1.-The demnition to-
tai. !" A million a day is the rate as which
the Census Bureau is progressing, so 1t
will be two months yet before the result IS
definitely known Meanwhile it is obvious
that we are big enough to wait patiently.
WHILE Pasteur institutes for the scien-
tifc treatment of hydrophobia are being
established in the large cities, the mad
stone still holds its own in the rural dis
tricts. If the granger when bitten by a
pad dog can obtain a maidstone, he seems
think himself just as well off as If he
should 90 to Pasteur institute and be
cured The maidstone is just now almost
as actively engaged in the treatment of dog
bites as the scientific doctors. And it is
only fair to say that people to whose
wound it is applied seldom suffer from
hydrophobia Whether this is due to the
efficiency of the stone or to the sound health
of the dog is another matter. At any rate,
the belief that the maidstone is possessed
of magical curative power is still a very
common superstition.
The Wisconsin Prohibitionists in the
State convention at Madison, Tuesday,
nominated DR.. Charles Alexander, of Eau
Claire. for Governor, and a full State
ticket The usual resolutions were passed
denouncing the liquor traffic, demanding
legislation in favor of the farmer and fav
oring woman suffrage. There was some
excited oratory over a plank in the plat
form indorsing the Bennett law, the up
shot of which was that the reference to the
law was stricken out. L. C. Richmond, a
prohibition leader for years, bolted the
convention, and there was a vigorous kick
from the supporters of the Bennett law on
account of the refusal to endorse it.
The Alliance has now captured the reg
ulars democratic nomination for governor
in two southern states, Georgia and Ten
nessee. The convention at Nashville has
just nominated on the 25th ballot, John
B. Buchanan for governor. Mr.. Buchan-
an is little over 40, a farmer, president
of The state alliance. and an officer of the
agricultural wheel, an organization SINH
lar to the alliance He has been the can
didate of the farmers from the first, and
went into the convention with nearly half
the delegates pledged to him. The pre-
liminary canvas has been close V contested
and a great deal of bad feeling has been
developed among the supporters of the
leading candidates.
THIS ear has deem full of disasters,
causing loss of life. The cyclone began its
deadly work in Kentucky January Is, with
d loss of II lives. The next catastrophe
was February %, when IS were killed by
the flood at Prescott, Ariz. T.; then March
q, 440 were killed by the Louisville cy-
clone; April 6, II by floods in the SOUTH
April %, Is by cyclone in Arkansas;
June 5, Is by cyclone in Nebraska; June
II, II by cloud-burst in Kentucky: June
so, II by cyclone in Northern Illinois.
To these the present month contributes the
Minnesota disasters, with the loss of some
100 more lives. Steamboat explosions,
railway accidents and fires have added to
the account. The loss of life from these
causes is not less than 300 to 800 up to
date this year.
WHEAT growers in North Dakota are
considerably alarmed over the report that
elevator companies in the state will refuse
to store grain this year. Heretofore nine
tenths of the crop of the state has been
bought by the elevator companies upon