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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Black Pearls.

It is not often that women have adj
mirable jewels and are not aware of
the fact. This story, told by a New
York paper, may or may not be true,
but it is worth repeating: When the
late Mrs. John Jacob Aston died she
left all her personal property, includ-
ing her splendid collection of jewels,
to her husband. When the late John
Jacob Aston was about starting for
Europe last summer he sent the prec-
ious casket of jewels as a gift to his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Wal
dorf Aston.
Mrs. Aston, who was in town only
to say good-by, sent the box to safe
deposit company unopened and then
returned to Newport.
During the summer she saw wo-
man at the Casino wearing black
pearls.
'Oh, I'd like to have some black
pearlsr' she exclaimed.
But you have all the Aston jewels"
Yes, but I've never opened the
Jewel case and don't know what's in
it."
s'Whatr' gasped half-dozen women
in various stages of collapse. ''Well,
you just send for it at once
The case was duly forwarded, and
therein. sure enough. were the cele-
brated Aston pearls, a set unequaled in
the world for size, color, and SYM
metrV
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

Gen. Crook was very fond of hunt
ing" said Lieut. Kennon, land was
one of the best shots / ever saw. When
he was young officer he always did
the hunting for his mess. In those
days sometimes the mess bills exceed
ed the officers salaries, and l have
heard Gen. Crook tell how they made
him caterer, and by his intimate knowl-
edge of the Indians economical meth
DDS of cooking and his luck at hunting
the mess was soon able to declare divi-
dends. | have been with him on many
hunting trips, and l never saw better
or a steadier shot. Sage hens are not
the easiest game to bag, and yet 1 have
seen him repeatedly drop a bird out of
a flock with each barrel; not only that,
he would kill a chicken every time.
His eye was so quick that while aim
ing he could select the chicks instan-
taneously. With all his experience
and trials Gen. Crook was as simple as
a child. He was strai ohtforward and
truthful and had no patience with con-
cealment or trickery. He never broke
his word to white man or red man.
W0ShingtO72 Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
THE MICRO-GRAPHO
An Italians Invention of Which Wonder
full Things Are Promised.

Away up skyward, in one of the mag
nifcent trade palaces so rapidly springing
up along Fifth avenue, there is a modest
little labatory of man soon to be we'll
known in the world of science. ''Gianni
Bettiri, Lieutenant de Cavalerie," is the
very unassuming inscription on the office
door. Let US enter and inspect the lieu
tenent's wonderful talking machine, far
more perfect, more simple and portable
than Edison's.
The object of Bettini's machine is of
course the same as the photograph, the re-
production of sound. But in Bettini's the
metallic sound is done away with and the
natural timbre of the voice almost perfect
ly preserved. Whisperings and aspirated
tones are reproduced with wonderful fdel-
ity. The inventor claims that it is a gen
eral molecular vibration which causes the
emission of tones from the instrument and
that the diaphragm is not essential, to prove
which he removes the diaphragm and stylus
and simply lays the end on an ordinary
screw driver On the revolving wax cylinder.
The table Itself appears to talk. almost as
distinctly as when the stylus and trumpet
were attached.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

that she lifted him clear off the ground !;
but Bon. was good grit. and chung to her
neck like d possum to a persimmon limb.
Now aire We satisfied" bawled the
Squire.
Il am eff Bony is.
I'm shore l feel mighty good over it..
n never kin furgit you, Squire
Don't ye furgit to come and do two
days work
We'll be thar day alter tormorrer, eff
the weather's ftten,' cried S'manthy.
''Ye mus come to see US, an bring
your Of omern to see my Of omern. soon s
we git fixed up, yelled Rony, with bow
legged swagger.
''Ye better git out, now, stiddier stop
pin thar, fur the oil man Slayback II cen
most maui the stuffin out n you ef he
ketches We afore he cools off lie gittin
another bite-look out, and as the happy
couple disappeared he landed another big
red-belly.
I drew up my hook, and cooter had
gnawed all the bait off while | was watch
ing the wedding under difficulties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS,

Sound travels at the rate of 1142 feet per
second, about thirteen miles in minute.
So that if we hear clap of thunder half a
minute after the flash, we may calculate
that the discharge of electricity is 81
miles off.
The berries of the maqui plant, small
evergreen native of Chill, where it grows
along the banks of mountain streams, are
being used to a considerable extent for
coloring wines ON the continent. France
is by far the largest consumer.
The discovery Of gold in a recent me-
teoric stone suggests some very interesting
queries 1t is commonly believed that
meteors are fragments of other worlds ac-
cidently thrown outside their usual orbit
into that CT the earth. The question is
whether this gold where il originated was
the cause of as much strife and contention
as it has for ages been on this planet.
Some of the conclusions of science would.
indeed, be appalling but for their practical
harmlessness. Thus, the geologist assert
that if the continents and the bottom of
the ocean were graded down to uniform
level, the whole world would be covered
with water a mile deep so much greater is
the depression of the ocean bed than the
elevation of the existing land
The great siphon in the new aqueduct
for the water supply of New York city is
considered a most wonderful piece of
hydraulic engineering. 1t conveys the
metropolitan water supply across the
Harlem at a depth of 3O7 feet beneath the
river bed. Certain advantages were gain
ed by this method over a stone Or steel
viaduet, which, it is believed will counter
balance its greater cost. Not the least of
these is the immunity from danger of
foreign attack.
DIR. Starr of London says that it is i'm
possible to draw any conclusion from the
size or shape OF the head as to the extent
or surface of the brain, and so as to the
mental capacity. 1t is absurd to Judge OF
I the brain surface by either the size of the
head or the extent of the superficial irregu-
lar surface which is covered by the skull,
without taking into consideration the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
How to Down a EOOdOo,

"You would be surprised if you knew
how many of the negroes still believe in
the power of the voodoo," says a police
surgeon to the Kansas City Times reporter
'They nearly all have the faith firmly
fixed in their minds, though they are more
careful about acknowledging it than they
used to be.
about two years ago | received a cali
from an old black man who said he had
been 'corjured' by some old woman in
Wyandotte, and he had been suffering
from pain in both arms and shoulders
ever since. He had been digging his yard
all over in search of the coffin this woman
was supposed to have heen buried there in
order to hoodoo him. and as the search bad
been useless he had became discouraged
and came to me as last resort.
Il sized up the case at once, aud gave
him prescription containing odoriferious
articles as cloroform, saltpeter, asafetida
and number of others, and told him to
place them upon a red hot shovel and
funnigate the place.
1.-The Latin names | used greatly i'm
pressed the old man, and when he got a
Whit of the villainous compound he was
sure there must be something miraculous
about that prescription.
HE came to me the next morning and
declared that he was thoroughly cured
and to the day of his death he ascribed
that cure to the march he made about his
house at midnight, carrying in front of
him this shovel with It's load of loud
smells. ="
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
BRUTALITY IN A PRISON..
The Whipping Post in the Missouri Peni
Tertiary.

A correspondent of the St. Louis Re-
public who has been there tells OF prl-
son punishment in Missouri. He says:
THE use of the lash in the prison is
common-too common to be of any pos
sible benefit in keeping order. A man
goes to the whipping post, not with the
feeling that he is being punished for
some infraction of the rules, but to
CRAFTY the ill-feeling of some guard
whose enmity he has incurred. Deputy
Warden Bradbury is the one whose
duty it is to WELD the rawhide. In the
middle of the room stands the whipping
post and stocks. The men stand facing
the instrument of torture, and the
guards report the conduct of their men
to the Warden. One complains that
one of his men neglected his work, or
was talking to a fellow-prisoner; per-
haps a prisoner was caught carrying
bread to his cell from the kitchen.
Deputy Warden Bradbury steps up
to the whipping post, pulls off his
coat, rolls up his sleeves, and in
caressing way picks up rawhide,
is all right.
The culprit is brought up to the
post. His hands are tied to the post
near the ground, leaving him in a
STOPPING position. His neck is placed
under the stocks, which are then fast
ened so that he cannot jerk his head
away. The Deputy Warden steps up,
and Selling the mans shirt, pulls it up
around his neck, leaving the bare back
exposed. The prisoner receives from
one to twenty-five lashes, according to
the offense and the number of times he
has been at the post. The Warden
tucks his shirt sleeves carefully above
his elbow, takes the rawhide in his
hand, plants his foot firmly, and with
full swing of his powerful arm, down
comes the whip with a swish and
crack upon the bare back of the pris-
oner Swish comes the whip again,
Ind the prisoner bites his lip to keep
from CRYING out with the pain, as such
a thing only increases the punishment.
Crack, the whip again and again strikes
the quivering flesh, leaving thick welt
along the skin, and as the force OF the
blows increases as the Deputy Warden
warns up to his work, the welts as
sumo first red, then blue hue, and
finally the blood trickles down over hi9
back in little streams. Again and
again the lash, soft and pliable with
the warm blood, curls around the naked
form of the crouching and shrinking
prisoner until either the allotted pun
ishment has been inflicted or else the
prisoner faints from the pain and tor
ture.
He is then given over to the care of
the doctors. From long practice the
whipping master can make the whip
ping more severe in a given number of
strokes on the person of one prisoner
than another. In case he wishes to
make the pain more intense, after one
half the strokes have been given he
goes to the other side of the prisoner
and makes a series of cross-cuts, MAX
ing number of bloody Ks on the back.
l have seen a prisoner faint from the
severity of the punishment and from
loss of blood. After the whipping is
over the prisoner is cared for, the blood
on the rawhide is carefully wiped off,
and it is ready for the next culprit.
When the whipping was done by an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Nicholas Knew What to Say.

Perhaps one of the grandest compli-
ments ever paid by one human being
to another was that rendered by Mich
olas the Emperor of all the Russas, to
Mile. Rachel, the celebrated French
actress. When she was introduced to
him she knelt; but the Emperor raised
her, and himself falling on one knee,
said: Thus should the royalty of
rank pay homage to the royalty of
Oenius.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
PORTRAITS OF VICTORIA.
England's Queen Was Apparently Very
Pretty in Her Girlhood.

In the room known as the Waterloo
chamber, says a letter from London to the
Philadelphia Telegraph, hangs the fine
full length portrait of George ", in MS
coronation robes, by Sir Thomas Lawrence
His majesty certainly made bad king, a
bad husband, and bad father, but he
makes an admirable picture. He knew
how to pose to perfection, how to show
up the symmetry of his hose, how to turn
his head so as to present the best points in
his profile to the spectators | imagine
that the vocation of an artist s model was
what he was best fitted for by nature.
In another room there is a full-length
portrait of Queen Victoria in her royal
robes, painted soon after her accession to
the throne and showing that the grim, old
dowager of the present day was a very
charming girl fifty years ago. The pecu-
liar sweetness of the large, blue eyes and
the pretty, rosy mouth, the bloom and
freshness of the fair, young face, ard
above all, the perfect moulding of the
arms and shoulders and the graceful neck,
make most winning image Of royal girl
hood. Had [ been Queen Victoria I think
of one of the most beautiful of my female
contemporaries, the Empress Elizabeth of
Austria would have remained content
with this portrait as my official likeness
and never would have sat to any painter
again.
But in the Waterloo chamber there is
portrait of the queen painted five years
ago, and severe-looking old lady she was,
in contrast to the grace and sweetness of
her youthful likeness. There is. however,
one quality about the queen which is never
lacking and that is her regal bearing. She
looks every inch the queen in the heavy,
somber robe that she wears to-day, as she
doubtless did in the crimson velvet and
ermine, the white satin and jewels of her
coronation dress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Bromine as a disinfectant is said to |

Bromine as disinfectant is said to be
coming to the front. 1t is an inexpensive
by product of the manufacture of salt,
selling at 70 cents pound, End in solution
containing one part in weight to about 800
of water, it may be used freely without eff
fecting any thing it may touch. A few
gallons used daily VIII remove all am
moniacal odors from stables. or few
quarts will thoroughly deodorize the entire
plumbing system of an ordinary house.
The undiluted bromine is stronly corros-
i've. and if it touches the skin causes a
painful burn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
A Cock-Fight in the Sanctuary.

A Panama correspondent OF the
Colon Telegram states that on Sunday
morning at the Wesleyan chapel, Just
before service band of men who
seemed to have been Colombians came
in the yard and several carried game
cocks in their hands. The oldest of
this mob a man with hoary locks. as
cended the steps of the chapel. and he
was soon followed by members of the
gang. The birds were put down and
a cock-fght followed, accompanied
with the usual oaths, noise, and curses,
and offers to bet, ETC."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
TIE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
THE HEAVENLY AIRS,
SUSAN COOLIDGE, IN CONGREGATIONAL

SUSAN COOLIDGE, IN CoSGREGATIoNAIIsr
Work is the fresh air OF the soul,
1t cleares the heavy brain,
Quickens the pulses of the mind,
Warns thought to action, and the blind
Ana sluggish will sunk into ease
vi ineffective lethargies.
1t stlrs to life again.
Grief is the cold air CT the soul,
1t chills and blights the flowers,
In urgent gusts is sways and smiles.
Freezing the source of all delights:
But roots grow strong by dint of storm.
And, when the spring awakes. they form
The growth of happier hours.
Love is the warm air of the souli
1t reacheth far and wide,
Clasping all life with healing touch.
Wooing the little into much,
Making brown branch and buried root
To bud and blossom and bear fruit
Like the sweet summer-tide.
Blow, heavenly wind, on every soull
And stir them constantly;
Sting US and quicken US and bless,
Relax not in thy urgent stress,
Till out of toll and love and pain
Full strength and stature we attain.
And are led home by thee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

A kind-hearted woman at La Crosse
bought five cords of wood and three
buck-saws and gave all tramps chance
TO earn meal. They stole the saws.
and boys stole the wood, and one dav
\ tramp entered the house of the k.-h.
W., scared her most to death, and stole
her watch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

DR.. Garretson is accustomed to illustrate
the materialistic tendency of the age by
an imaginary conversation with Western
farmer: why do you raise corn?'' ITO
feed hogs '.What for?'' TO sell them
and buy more land what for?'' ITO
raise more corn" What for? 80 feed
more hogs" What for?' ITO sell and
buy more land" and so on.
Fred Miller was found murdered at
Cincinnati. It's supposed his wife and
parmour did the deed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
The German Empress and Little Children.

The German Empress loves little
children She never fails to notice
every one she sees, and will often stop in
her walks and speak to them. Even grub
biness will not deter her from taking a
particularly fine baby in her arms, though
of course she prefers them clean. In re-
turn, childrens who always know their
friends by instinct are attrrcted to the en-
press, and the following little incident,
which occurred lately, illustrates this
A gentleman who passed daily between
and o'clock along the road that leads
from Berlin to Charlottenburg noticed a
little girl always standing at the corner of
the Hardenburg strasses, and at last he
asked why she did it. Because Of the
Empress, she answered. While
the empress was in Berlin, she drove
every day when it was fine toward Chariot
tenburg with her daughters, and at the
Hippodrome they got out of the carriage
and walked. Her majesty noticed the lit
tie girl always waiting at the same place,
and invariably nodded kindly in acknow-
ledgment of her courtesy, whereupon the
child went home beaming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

ttficiai VINO was intoxicated or upoer
the influence of liquor, the punishment
was always more severe. have seen
one of the officials stagger as he walk
ed up to the whipping post, and l know
he was greatly under the influence of
Eouor -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Vision of a Scene on Battle That
Was Absolutely Real.

In 1862, | lived in the Shenandoah Val
ley and was betrothed to Lieutenant in
the southern army, writes a correspond
ent of the New York Evening World. On
the I'd of July | expected him home, but
owing to the irregularity of our modes of
travel did not know at what time he would
arrive. waited until twelve o'clock, and
he did not come I extingulshed the light
and threw myself Upon the lounge.
| fell asleep, but awoke with start, and
found the room dimly lighted and the Lieu
tenant standing beside me, looking ghast-
ly pale and his uniform stained with
blood
jumped up and exclaimed: ''Oh, Tom,
what is the matter?''
He answered: Il am dead. Go tell my
mother and hurry to the field | was
mortally wounded, and knew you would
grieve less if you could find nay body. So
| crawled up on the hill, under a pine
tree to die
Then all was dark.
His mother and | went to the battlefield
and under an old pine tree we found him
dead, his uniform stained with blood, just
as had seen it the night before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

number of folds or the depth Of creases.
For little brain with many deep folds
may really, when spread out, have a
larger surface than large brain with few
shallow folds Psychologists will prob
ably dispute this theory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
Berlin's Electric Wires.

S;enens, the electrician, says that no
death has t,yer been caused in Berlin
by contact with electric wires. The
city's immunity from danger is due to
underground conduits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
TEA CAKES,

Rub 2 ounces of butter into a quart of
stirred flour, add tablespoonful Of sugar.
teaspoonful of soda and one of cream of
tartar, thoroughly incorporate these.
then mix with swo well-beaten eggs and
enough milk to form the dough. Bake in
shallow tins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
THE HOUSEHOLD.
FRIED POTATOES

Put two slices of fat ham in a pan with
half a sliced onion; when both are brown
remove them and put in the hot fat two
cupfuls of cold boiled potatoes cut into
small pieces; season with pepper and lit
tie salt, and serve hot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
CARROT PUDDING.

Mix one-half pound of grated carrot
with one-half pound of -four, ounces of
timely chopped suet, 4 ounces currants. 4
ounces Sul;ana raisins, ounces sifted
sugar and a tablespoonful of raisin wine
or Marsha. Mix with water and boil
three hours in q bap
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05

Open for Observation-Disclosures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-05
BROWN BREAD,

Scald one cupful of Indian meal. add tc
this one pint Of sweet milk and stir till
the meal is well mixed, three-quarters of a
cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful each Of
salt and soda, and graham meal enough to
make batter that will pour with great
difficulty. This makes one large loaf
Bake one hour and a half.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-02-06
Personal MENTION.

Miss Cora Fitch went to Cleveland
on Tuesday to visit her sister Emma, who
is sick with the grippe.
Mr.. Ed. Plant, of Allegheny Medical
College, spent Sunday with friends in
this place.
Phil 5. Close arrived in this place on
last Thursday after sojOurn OILS months
iu Buenos AyreS, South America. Phil
is looking well, and reports himself as
well pleased with that country.
Charles c. Carroll, of Newark, \. j.,
arrived home on Saturday evening, call
ed hither by the illness of his father.
Mr.. W. W. Cowen and bride returned
home on Saturday, and have been receiv-
ing the congratulations of friends.
Our Colerain correspondent, Miss
Addie Brown, and UniontOwn CORE
spOndent, Mr.. J. 2. Harvey, made THE
CHRONICLE pleasant call ON Friday.
F. NJ. Cowen, Esq, of Flushing, was
in town yesterday to see his sick brother,
Duane, who is reported better and on the
road to recovery.
d. II. Darrah, Esq, of Bellaire, spent
a portion of yesterday with friends in
this place.