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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
TURNED TO WHITE MARBLE.
Wonderful Feat in Embalming Which
May Revolutionize the Art.

Wonderful Feat in Embalming which
May RevoIutionize the Art.
A petrifed human bodY-a body
which has turned from flesh to white
marble as hard and firm as the stone
itself. This is the vc.Y strange and
exceptional sight in tne undertaking
establishment of T. X. Bliley at
81 South Pryor street. says the At
lanta Journal. 1t is a case which will
be spoken OF and treatises written
upon in future works upon embalm-
ing.
The body is that Of Edward Sound
strong, formerly the chemist OF the
Atlanta Perfumery Company. Forty
five days ago Mr.. Soundstrong died
and his remains were taken to Mr..
Bliley's Office to be embalmed. Tha
dead chemists wife was in Sweden,
his native home, and she requested
that his body be embalmed, so that
she could come across the ocean and
look upon his face again.
The body was embalmed by Mr..
Bliley himself. Some days ago hs
noticed that the flesh was crystaliz-
ing. The fluids used in embalming
are exceedingly poisonous, and, al
Mr., Soundstrong had died from mer.
curial poison, MIR. Biiley believed
the action of one poison on the other
was producing the strange result
Gradually the face of the dead man
became whittier and whittier, harder and
harder, until now it is nothing but
white stone, as white and firm as mar
BILE. Mr.. Bliley is an undertaken and
embalmer of long experience, but
never in his life, he says, has he
either heard of or seen such an
instance as this one.
The bereaved wife of the dead
chemist has reached Atlanta, after
her long trip from Sweden. and has
looked upon the stone face of her
dead husband. Her grief was pitiful
to see. Next week the body will be
taken back to Sweden, where it will
rest under the sod of his native land.
How 1t Seemed.
Ills better to laugh than be sigh.
ing" is good philosophy, whether for
civilian Or soldier.
Gen. Sherman, during his march to
the sea, used to 60 out of his way to
avoid bridge. At any rate some OF
his soldiers thought so. He was very
fond of wading, One day the army
was to ford a river, and for several
miles before the men reached it they
waded knee deep in swamps.
II say, Bill" said one fellow to
another, Il guess we struck this river
lengthwise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
An Oregon Wonder.

Blowout mountain, up in the Cas-
cades above Bre1tenbush, Oregon, is
Enthusiastically one of the wonders OF
the Cascades, consisting Of about 500
acres of granite rock piled up in
every conceivable shape. From all
indications it has been caused by an
accum ulation of gas below, which,
bursting out, threw the rock into the
canyon forming a beautiful lake from
twenty to thirty rods wide and hail a
mile long. in which abound myriads
of trcpa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
Nine. NordicaFs Art Treasures.

Nine. Nordica, who is very fond of
pictures, has (the London correspond
ent of the Birmingham Post hears)
just commissioned friend to make an
important purchase for her in Italy.
Some time ago she visited the coun-
try house of an old Italian family near
Florence, and was much pleased there
with a fine collection of pictures. The
family have suffered some pecuniary
misfortune5 and are selling of the
collection. The prlma donna will
probably become the purchaser OF two
fine Raphaels. which are regarded as
the gems of the collection,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
Pecked to Death by Albatrosses.

A singular story is told by the
master of the sailing ship Linnet re-
Gently at Singapore. When the ship
was off the island of ST Paul's one of
the sailors accidentally fell overheard.
Every effort was made u rescue the
man. but before the boat which was
Immediately lowered could reach him
g NUMBER of aibatrosses mad bounced
upon mis- head and with their ponder
Gus beaks pecked him to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
Strange Telephone Wire.

Whether we shall ever be able to
see our friends at a distance, as we
now talk with them, is something for
tho eoienco of the future to determine,
but if we ever do so it will doubtless
be through the mysterious connection
between lighh, electricity, and the
element seleniu1n.
Selenium belongs to what is known
as the sulphur group of elements. 1t
is remarkable for the wonderful prop
erty by which its electrical conuuc-
Jivity varies according to the amount
of light falling upon it, just as the
chemical relations of silver are
altered by the same means.
By this singular property of selen-
ium Prof. Bell was enabled to con-
struct an optical telephone, and actu-
ally transmitted words and sentences
between two distant points which
were not connected in any way except
by beam of light, which faithfully
carried the vibrations of his voice to
a selenium disk, by which they were
transformed into electric energy and
reproduced in an ordinary telephone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
FEMININE ARTISTS IN PARIS.
! In Some Cases They are Charged Double

In Some Cases They are Charged Double
Fee and Given Half instruction.
Until recently, says Miss Marie
Adelaide Gelloc, in Murray's Maya
zine, d woman who wished to become
an artist in the French capital found
her way beset with almost insurmount-
able difficulties. There was literally
no studio in Paris where lady students
colud study under the eye of master,
except by taking private lessons at
prohibltive expense. Charles Chap
lin was the first to start a ladies'
studio. Carolus, Duran, Dubufe and
Cabanal followed suit. and then in the
year 1856 arose M. Julian OF his
seventeen studios seven are given over
to women. Miss Belloc describes the
interior of Julian's ladies' studios and
declares that he has deserved the
gratitude of her sex, but incidentally
she mentions that he demands double
fee for women and in return only gives
them half the teaching given to the
men working in the studio. Among
the other ladies' studios which she
passes in review are those of Colo
Rossi, Lazara Aublet at Passy Bouvre
and others. The Julian and Colo
Rossi system has caused most of the
best-knOwn artists to close their
ALTERS again to women. They find 1t
more lucrative and agreeable to de-
vote morning twice a week to 60
out and teach a class of women than
throw up throw open thesr studios to
the gentler sex.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04

Gam bling at Ostend this last season
has been so open and heavy as to ex
cite general criticism on the continent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
THE DUNBAR VERDICT.

The Ceroner's jury at Dunbar returned
verdict yesterday. 1t is plain, straight
forward document. The jury finds that the
explosion by which the thlrty-three miners
were killed was caused by John Kerwin
opening a drill hole, in an unlawful manner,
under the direction and by the order of
Superintendent Robert Lang. This state
ment is clInched by the jury's finding that
Superintendent Lang is criminally respon-
sible for the accident
In such case as this the jury must be
presumed to be the best judges of the evil
dence. It is q terrible charge that now
rests at Mr.. Lang's door. but the evidence
certainly prepared the public for verdict
censuring somebody Tor the carelessness dis
played in the operation Of the mine. The
jury has fixed the responsibility to certain
extent; the Righteousness of their findings
will be tested in the courts OF law. No
doubt suits will be brought for damages,
and possibly the criminal charge will be
pushed. The probability is, however, that
the civil suits will alone be entered.
The verdict will have served an excellent
purpose If il shall lead to greater careful
ness in mining, and to the strict enforcement
of the laws made to save miners lives. Now.
that attention is once more called to Dun
bar, it is we'll TO repeat that there is
sore need Of money among the families Of
the dead miners. As will be seen elsewhere
the relief fund is exhausted, and many
mouths hsve still to be filled and many suf-
fering mortals to be clad. The appeal
should NOT be made in vain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12

urgent need for canals should be first met.
1t is an evident axiom that the first need is
for the connection of natural water routes
which have no natural communication. The
canal from Lake Erie to Pittsburg would
connect the Great Lakes with the river
system; while that from Philadelphia to
New York would only shorten the existing
ocean route, which is open every day in the
year. A trsns-AllegbenY canal would make
direct route from 10000 miles of river
transportation to the ocean, while the sea-
coast canals would only parallel the ocean
routes. The freight traffic from Western
Pennsylvania to the lakes is of
greater importance than that between
Philadelphia and New York. and would
be infinitely enhanced by cheapening of
so per cent in the freightage; while the Phila-
deIphia project would only cheaper treights
to the extent of the lessening of insurance
by the avoidance of the risk of open sea
transportation.
The revival Of discussion upon new and
enlarged canals is healthy indication. 1t
shows that the public is beginning to per-
ceive the vital error that has been in the
neglect OF its waterways for the past forty
years. Such projects also impress upon the
public mind the fact that united and intel
ligent work can restore the neglected and
strangled systems Of water transportation.
With full agitation there Is little doubt that
the time will come when all interests will
pull together in support of comprehensive
and adequate system Of internal water
transportation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
sPENCER,s FALSE INDUCTION.

Mr.. Herbert Spencer, in a recent article,
comments upon case where a woman has
made an exhibition of high scholastic powers
in way that shows his own preconceptions
of the subject of female culture to have
more influence with him than an impartial
examination of the facts. This is not an
unusual disposition, perhaps, but it is one
from which the great apostle of scientific in
quiry ought to be entirely free. With regard
to Miss Constance Naden's Heslcp Medal
Essay on the Inductive and deduetive phil
osophy, which has just been published, Mr..
Spencer observes that she cannot let pass
the occasion for remarking that in her case,
as in other cases, the mental powers so highly
developed in a woman are in some measure
abnormal, and involve physiological cost
which her feminine organization will not
bear without injury more or less profound" 4"
This is an equal mixture of physiological
and philosophical fddlestick. 1t is q
striking instance of the inaccuracy which
may utterly vitiate the accuracy Of induct-
i've logic that one of its supposed masters
can commit the error of arguing from one or
two cases where women have broken down
under severe mental effort, that all women
must do so. Men have broken down under
similar stress; but Mr.. Spencer would be
quick to appreciate the utter lack of logic
involved in concluding that the masculine
organization will not stand the strain of
study necessary to attain high scholarship.
Practical demonstration, akin to that
which Stephenson furnished of the posi-
bility of railway transportation, is rapidly
demonstrating that most of the opinions
about the inability of women to rival men
in mental attainments are based on preiu-
dice. There are none of them more entirely
baseless and preconceiyed than this one
which Mr.. Spencer lays down as a dogma,
that 1t will involve a physiological injury
to the feminine organization for women to
learn science and logic. 1t is true that most
women are as illogical as Mr.. Spencer
shows himself to be, in this instance; but
that has been abundantly demonstrated to
be the fault of feminine education. The
best evidence OF the baselessness of Mr..
Spencer's dogma is the fact that the edu.
cational institutions where women receive
the higher education are not more afflicted
with the physiological weakness supposed to
be characteristic Of the feminine organiza-
ton than the social circles where women
live according to the fashionable couyen-
tionalitiesy Vices of dress and erroneous
habits Of life have for generations made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
NOT LIKELY.

If there Is any foundation for the report
that the Flood Commission intends to use a
portion of the funds in its hands in publish
ing history Of the food, the JOhnstown
people are entirely justified in their protests.
In that contingency others than the Johns
town people would have right to protest.
The money was contributed by the donors
for the aid OF the sufferers, and not even the
severest stretch of the term could include
the publication of history of that event
within the field of relief. Statements of re-
eeipts and expenditures are of course among
the necessary expenses of accounting; but
the cost of publishing any history must
come from those who rely upon the sales to
reimburse them.
With that preface it is pertinent to in
quire what foundation there is for the report
that this is to be done? At present there is
no reason for regarding the story as more
than one Of the baseless rumors of which
the Johnstown work has been so prolific.
No action of the Commission has authorized
any such publication. Some members Of
the Commission have given their personal
Endorsement to history of the food which
has been published for some time; and the
need of personal inducement to further lit
erary enterprises of that sort is not at all
apparent.
We hardly think that the Commission en-
tertains any such idea as is credited TO it BY
this rumor. The strongest reason for this
opinion is that it is not within tine scope for
which the funds were placed in the Com
mission 8 hands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
AN OFT-REpEArEp Lesson.

The Argentine Republic is having an ex-
perience which has been common enou gh in
times past; but which calls for constant
repetition in order to keep its lesson fresh in
the popular mind. That South American
government has been enjoying q boom Of
imitation on borrowed money for several
years. Now that the day Of payment has
arrived it finds itself IN O dilemma. Being
unable to pay, as is usual in such cases, it
does the next best thing. which is the stereo-
typed resort OF aggravatipg matters by try
ing to float more debt.
An addition of a hundred millions more
to the paper currency has been authorised
"for the purpose of relieving the financial
situation" The relief is indicated by
the advance of the premium on gold to 202
per cent, which means that the Government
is putting out paper dollars at one-third
their face value. If this paper is ever re-
deemed the Government will have paid q
long price for its initiation; il ii is not re-
deemed, the people will lose the SO per cent
of value which they have given in exchange
for the inflated currency.
This state of affairs of course only repeats
the old lesson that the one way to maintain
solvency is to keep expenditures below In
come and to apply the surplus to the re-
demption of debt while there is any to re-
deem. This lesson has been repeated times
without number. Very recent examples,
both on the large and small scale, have been
afforded by the success OF the United States
Government and of Pittsburg's city gov
ernment in reducing their debts and raising
their credit to the highest level. There is
no present indication of change of this
policy on the part of our city; but the poll
ticians of national influence seem to have
forgotten the old lesson; and are doing their
best to leave the Cover nment with deficit
concurrently with cheapened money and a
general era of extravaganza.
Perhaps the example of the Argentine
Republic will call halt We hope so; but
the general evidence of politics is to the ef-
feet that no country is able to learn from
any other experience than its own; and it is
not always able to remember the lessons of
its own experience for more than two con-
secutive decades.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
POINTS IN STATE POLITICS.

PHILADELPHIA Times Qnd.): It doesn't
bother the Republican candidate that he has
never run before, but that he may run behind.
WILLIAMSBURG Sun (Dem.): For party
that expects to roll up $4,000 to $4,000 majority
the Republican State Committee is getting to
work with. an earnestness and an earliness that
belle their fulsoms professions Of an easy vic
tory.
TIrusy1LLE american Dem.): Mr.. Della
mater, it is said. has already begun his canvass,
and proposes to 60 himself from house to house
all over the State. When his tour is finished
he will be footsore, and perhaps slightly dis
gusted.
NEW YORK Press (Rep.): The bitter tight be-
tween Wallace and Scott for control OF the
Democratic party in Pennsylvania has made
Mr.. Delamater's path to the Governorship
fairly easy, although it may be somewhat
thorny.
PHILADELPHIA Record (Dem.): As the con-
test in Pennsylvania is to be largely a Campaign
Of Independent Republicans against shame
less manipulation of "one-man power" the In
dependents should make no delay in efecting
thorough organization.
BRADFORD Era Qnd.): Governor Beaver
should rake the stump in behalf of Mr.. Della
mater. If he should come up this way and tell
the people that no coal trains would come over
the Kinzua viaduct in case OF Mr., Pattison's
election, as he did once upon time, it might
place Tnede Barnsdalrs prediction Of 900
Democratic majority in Mexican county beyond
the possibility of doubt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
PEOPLE YOU READ ABOUT.

ALBERT LINCOLN SMITH. an American, has
taken the degree Of Doctor Of Chemistry at the
Berlin University.
REV. E. r. ATwILL, D. D., Of Toledo, o.,
will In September be consecrated as the first
bishop Of the new Protestant Episcopal Diocese
OF West Missouri.
IT Is rumored that John D. Rockefeller and
number Of other rich men have agreed to sup
port newspaper enterprise In aid OF the anti
saloon temperance movement
MR.. AND MRS. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN will
visit the United States about the end Of Aug
ust In order to spend September and portion
OF October IN America when the weather is at
Its best.
Mr.. w. ]. FLoRENcE. the distinguished
comedian, is In London. Mrs. Florence has
spent the past six months In Europe for the
benefit of her health, which is entirely 70.
established.
SETH Low used to think he had the shortest
name in New York until he saw Max Ans
sign in Greenwich street the other day. Mr..
OF, the pieture-framer, has New York's short
est surname.
JEFF DAVIS still speaks from the tomb His
private correspondence--and there is any
amount OF It, for he was q fluent man--will be
gone over and the letters adjudged worthy, will
DC puDhSne0.
GENERAL WILLIAM 7. SHERMAN has ar
rived at Cape May accompanied by General
Sewel. General Sherman is stopping with his
daughter, Mrs. A. n. Thackara, at her Colum-
bia avenue cottage.
MAJOR PoNE announces that he has con-
cluded arrangements with Sir Morell Macken-
zie, Professor Bryce, and Mr.. Stanley to leo
ture in the United States. He is to pay the two
first named $500 lecture.
JUSTICE STEPHEN ]. FIELD has one of the
finest houses in Washington. He loves to live
handsomely, but fortune has not been overly
gracious to him. He is the least wealthy of
any judge on the Supreme bench.
MRS. MAERTENs the American lady who in
vented the elegant and comfortable "hamac-
chair which was exhibited and received cor
dial support at the Worlds Fair at Paris, is
now showing her invention at the French Ex-
hibition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
AST The BUSINESS OFFICE Of THE DIS
PATCH hes been removed to Corner Of
SmithfieId and Diamond Streets.
THE CANAL REVIVAL.

The practicability and importance Of i'm
proving our routes of internal commerce by
the construction of ship canals is impressing
itself on the minds of the people every
where. One of the latest evidences is fur
nished by the publication in Philadelphia
of plan for connecting that city with New
York by a ship canal. The plan proposes
to utilize part of the present Delaware
and Raritan canal and to excsvste a new
line for the rest OF the distance between
Raritan Bay and the Delaware river at
Bordentown. The cost of the canal is esti-
mated at So. .00O, 900.
Two phases of interest to Pittsburg are
presented by this proposition. The first is
that it is agitsted in quarter
which has heretofore shown a dispo-
sition to turn the cold shoulder
to Pittsburg's canal schemes High
authority in the place where we have heard
the story that canals have outlived their
usefulness, deliberately takes the opposite
attitude upon a canal scheme that would
accrue TO the local benefit of Philadelphia.
This shows the emptiness of all such argu-
meuIk aGalusI Iuo EclusbdbcIueub Vi Tue
canals. 1t indicates that opposition of this
sort is due to the narrow and local views
which the corporate policy has artfully
made use of to hamper canal schemes. It
permits the conclusion that when those in
every part of the country who perceive the
importance of improved and adequate water
ways, lend their aid to all such projects of
real national importance, the hope of prog
ress will be multiplied by an infinite factor.
d. Another phase of the question is pre-
sented by the relative Importance of this
project and that connecting the Delaware
and Chesapeake bays, with those which
Pittsburg is agitsting. 1t should be under
stood that this section does not antagonize
projects for interior waterways parallel to
the seacoasts. On the contrary, such pro-
jects should he recognized as ultimate de-
velopments Of the policy OF internal i'm
prOyement by ship canals. But it should
be part of that policy that the most
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
WITH THE POINTED ENDS UP.

Poet (in despair)-Wife, the wolf is at
the door, What shall we do?
Poets wife--Go up on the second floor, lasso
him with the clothes line, and wen cook him.
Life.
"Ima g'ada da coppa go to slesps," said
the italian peanut vender.
s'why so, Dago. - asked the messenger boy
''Coza. When coppa sleepa no eata peanuts
withouta paya. ."-Chattsr.
"why don't you wear your glass eye now
as you used to do?' asked tne humorlsrs wne,
addressing her husband.
.lBecause It hurts me Ia my profession, love-"
Hurts you in your profession. Why, how can
that bc?''
Courier.
Hoffman Howes-See here, cutter, these
.-orsors are too confoundedly shortl
Crtter-All right; II you want to look like the
.,otnes of our public men III lengthen 'em
Hoffman Howes-H'ml guess they'll do, ater
aIl.-Puck.
"You see," remarked the amateur angler,
1--WE left the hotel with lunch hamper, two b Of
ties Of rye and our fishing tackle. -
''Have pretty fair sport9'' ventured the guest.
"Fairl Glorlousl Only at the start some In
fernal tramp went to work and stole our
Hamper, eh?''
''oh. no, not so bad as thati Only our fishing
tackle.''-Americdr Grocer.
''This is the fast train, isn't it?" asked
reporter of passenger on q derailed car.
1T seems to be, - replied the latter who wanted
TO meet pressing engagement, but had to walt
until wrecking outfit had been sent for.-CH'-
cago fptsr-OceGR.
Julius Sniff (recovering from the col
lision) -wut's de number OBJ dat hack9
A Sympathizer-I suppose you want to prosecute
the driver, don't you?
Julius smiif-No, ] wants ter play policy. DO
hack done killed my wife, amt it2-SVtings.
A fellow thinking to appear smart, en-
tered a notion store on sixth avenue the other
day, and said to one of the salesladies. 'EVer
have any call for husbands here?f'
''oh, yes, occasionally. Are you looking for
market?"
ssNes,'' said Smarty.
',An right. step right up on the lO-sena
counter. ',-S0tfn1s.