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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
She Was at Fault.

On a Brooklyn surface road one day
among other passengers in the well filled
car were a gentleman and young lady,
strangers to each other, seated side by side.
The gentleman was of refined appearance
and carefully dressed, and was apparently
absorbed in his newspaper. The young
lady, it was noticed, became somewhat
restless after time, and once or twice
moved somewhat impatiently away from
her next neighbor. Finally she arose
abruptly and asked the gentleman on the
other side to change places with her, which
he promptly did.
Her action was noted by other occupants
in the car, and the spirit of chivalry in
every masculine breast was awake and
alert, suspecting some annoyance to her.
Indignant glances were directed toward
the presumably offending man with the
newspaper, until through the peculiar
magnetism which impels one to return a
persistent gaze, he became conscious of the
surrounding disturbance. He glanced up
from his reading, saw the angry contempt
depicted on his neighbors' faces, noted the
change of place on the part of the young
lady, and rose to the situation. With a
bow and twinkle in his eye, he leaned
over and addressed his recent seatmate:
MADAM, / ask your pardon; this arm
can do you no harm"-as he spoke he
raised it with his other hand-''it is the
only substitute have for the one left at
Plymouth, down in the Carolinas."
All present at once saw that he spoke the
truth. Intently reading his paper, the
simulated hand and arm had, unconscious
ly to their owner, sagged and pressed
against his next neighbor. Everybody
smiled little, and very soon the young
woman took occasion to leave the car
New York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
ApoIoeies from the Barber.

ga great deal has been said about the
talkativeness of barbers," said a veteran
wielder of razors, "but if those who try to
be funny on that subject were better posted
they would find a reason for it other than
the mere loquacity of the barber. We dis
covered long ago that it was infinitely
easier to handle customer when we could
get him interested in conversation. This
is particularly true of a nervous or f1dgety
man, who, if the operation goes on in
silence, becomes restless and growls at the
razor or objects to the way in which he is
being shaved The talk takes his mind
away from his face, so that he is often sur
prised to find the work finished when he
thought it had scarcely begun.
''You have probably noticed that bar
Der never gets into an argument with q
customer, but that his opinions vee1
around, like a weather vane, to suit those
of the particular man upon whom he may
be operating at the time. The converse
ton dodge is merely one of the tricks of
the trade. Customers who show by their
manner that they prefer to be alone with
their own thoughts while under the razor
are never annoyed more than once by the
talkative barber.
''Of course there are few younger mem
bers of the tonsorial fraternity who use
little Judgment in talking to customers,
and no one is more amused than their fell
low BARRIERS when they get set back from
some irascible tempered victim of their
gable. The facetious young man who
used to put small corks in his ears or put
on a pair of ear muffs when he climbed
into the BARRIERS chair seems to have be-
come extinct. New York Telegram.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The Doctors Died,

The deadly patient for once takes the
place of the fatal doctor About two years
ago woman presented herself at the Man
haitian Eye and Ear hospital, New York,
for treatment for catarrh. Two days after
ward the doctor who treated her died sud,
denly. Six months afterward the woman
went again to the hospital, and the doctor
who attended her died of heart failure two
days later This second death caused the
woman to be called ''the fatal patient"
and the physicians jokingly said she would
kill the next one who treated her A short
time ago she went again to the hospital,
and expressed fear that she might not be
treated because of the ill luck that attended
her visits. DR.. David Phillips laughed
at this suggestion, but two days after he
operated upon her he was found dead in
bed. The woman has perhaps not yet fin,
ished her deadly career, and the doctors
are wondering who will be her next victim. !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
An Old Virginia Estate,

Westover House, with it's broad facade
of red brick, it's steep slated roof, and it's
glorious row of overshadowing trees
stands amid close shaven lawns and wide
encompassing fields of wheat and clover,
close to the rivers edge. These fields are
today the pride not only of their owner
but of the state. One does not readily for
get drive over grassy roads behind fleet
Virginia horses, skirting on one side
the fence inclosing 40 acres of growing
wheat, a vast STA If living green rippled by
winds of May, but showing neither dimple
nor ridge in the soil below, and on the
other clover as rich, wherein stand Jersey
cattle knee deep in purple blossoms amid
the booming of inebriated bees.
The mansion and estate, more fortunate
than many others in being admirably kept
up, convey to modern guests some of the
same impressions carried away by Chastel
lux, the airy marquis, who, as he jour
neyed through Virginia at the close of the
Revolutionary war, threw kisses from his
finger /. to kindly entertainers At
Westovur The Frenchman broke into paans
over the great extent of rich acres, the
happy slaves, the elegance indoors, the
sport, the surgeons and the wall of honey
suckle covered with humming birds.
Seen through the hall, always open in
summer weather upon outer flights of
quaint three sided steps of stone, the great
gates, surmounted by the martlet crest, dis
play their iron tracery against a back
ground of wheatfelds girdled in by woods.
To the right and to the left of the door
upon the river front the avenues from the
boat landing are cut off for vehicles by
smaller gates of delicate design, wrought
in England 200 years ago. their hinges
moving stifly in the embrace of the roses
and the wistaria of yesterday. The line
of trees whose tops caress the dormer win
dows of the roof has grown up since the
founding of the house. Some of them
have survived war, fire and lightning
stroke.-Mrs. Burton Harrison in Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
People in Hotels.

Speaking of the peculiar hotel life led by
many people in American cities, an old
hotel man says: "There are twenty people
living in hotels now where one lived that
way ten or fifteen years ago. This is what
has revolutioniZed the hotel business.
Formerly hotel custom was almost alto
gether of the travelling class. AS soon as a
man concluded to remain in any place a
week or two he would get private rooms.
Now the substantial custom is from per
manent guests. They pay all the way
from ten to one hundred dollars week
some even more-for the quarters thus oc-
cupied. This is independently of meals,
which cost more money in many cases.
Five to ten thousand year is not an eX-
travagant price to pay for a suite of de-
sirable rooms in a good hotel.
1.-The hotel service is very much improved
by this permanent business. The accomo-
dations all around are much better than
can be had in private house, and with no
responsibility or bother whatever yes,
and for less money 1t is only question
Of hotel grade, and this is settled by the
pochetbook, though just now everything
is full and running over. When the new
hotels are finished there will be rush for
rooms. | understand that many suites
have already been engaged from the plans
before the cellars are dug These are, oil
course, by permanent guests. New York
Letter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Electric Shadows.

If you ever observe it, the electric light
is responsible for many grotesqueries
nightly painted on respectable walls and
matter of-fact sidewalks Shadows are
only shadows, but they give one the shivers
sometimes, especially at a late hour, when
honest folk are supposed to be in bed.
Giants of despair then stretch out long
arms at the corners of silent streets, and
strange profles are thrown against the IN
conscious houses, and weird traceries of
dancing branches make the pavement rise
and fall in style that must puzzle per-
son who knows he is sober. Alone, With
out the presence of humanity, these cleo
trio shadows lend the sleeping city mys-
tic animation that even conventional
moonshine fails to dispel. The sputter,
the swish of the lights, too, add to the I'M
canny effect, and their fluctuations would
in time drive the sane mad if thought was
taken of them. Luckily, man can accus-
torn himself to almost anything.-Boston
Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

bundle of clothes, two packages of lichee
nuts and paper of oranges
A middle aged woman, who had likely
been tramping the stores all day, came in
looking very tired, and glared up and down
the line and grabbed strap The men
wouldn't notice her; they just wouldn't
They glued their eyes to their newspapers
or out of the window The car started,
and nobody moved.
Then the homely, yellow Chinaman took
his bundle of clothes from the floor, got
his packages under one arm, gravely sa-
luted with the other and hung himself up
by strap while the middle aged woman
took his seat.
Cinnamon pinch the feet of their women
and don't let their intellects have play, and
all that, but somehow the other passengers
in the car didn't seem to think half as
meanly of the barbarous Chinaman as they
did of themselves the rest of the trip
New York Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Tn tho nenfbS nf tho Sea

At depth of $500 feet the temperature
of the sea is uniform, varying but trif1e
between the poles and the equator. In
many of the deep bays on the coast OF
Norway and other Arctic countries the
water often begins to freeze at the bottom
before it does at the surface. At the same
depth $500 feet) waves are not felt.
Waves do not travel-that is, the water
does not move forward, although it seems
to do so; it remains stationary. 1t is the
rising and falling that moves on.
The pressure of the water increases rap
idly with the depth. At distance of one
mile the pressure is reckoned as about one
ton to the square inch, or more than 13a
times the pressure of the atmosphere.-St.
Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
THE WAR AS WE SEE 1T NOW.
The Impov+ant Part That Steam and
Electricity Played in 1861.

ELECTRICITY III IoOls
1t may safely be admitted that if the con-
ditions of warfare had been the same in
1861 as they were in 1915, or, in our judg
ment, as late as 1850, the prediction of Ma
poleon and Palmerston of the failure of
the north would in all probability have
been fulfilled.
But the conditions were not the same.
Steam and electricity had in the interven-
ing time asserted their power, and had
rendered possible for Mcclellan or a
Grant what had been impossible for a Ma
poleon. 1t was found that the capacity of
a territory, through which it was proposed
to move an army, for the task of support
ing that army might generally be dsre-
garded. 1t was found perfectly feasible to
maintain large force for any length of
time in regions where no subsistence of
any sort or kind was furnished by the soil.
1t was found that water transportation
of men and supplies was as certain and
uniform, as much to be relied upon, as
transportation by land; that the winds and
waves of the ocean and the strength and
direction of the flow of rivers could equally
be ignored when it was proposed to trans
port troops or subsistence or ammunition
to given spot.
1t was found that blockade maintained
by steam vessels, though not absolutely
perfect, was far more certain and con-
slant check On foreign intercourse than
could be effected by any employment OF
sailing vessels. By the telegraph all avail
able resources could be utilized without
the loss of "a moment, and all information
instantaneously communicated to or from
headquarters to or from any part of the
theater of war.
In other words, machinery had in the
progress of time become one of the great
factors in military operations, and its in
PRODUCTION worked as marked a revolution
in the practice of commanders on land and
sea as it's adoption for purposes of manu-
facture or Of intercommunication had
worked in the world of business and or
binary life. And, what was of the great
est Importance to the north, the advantages
of this great change in matters of warfare
were absolutely at the call of the stronger
and more wealthy of the two combatants.
John G. Ropes in Scribner's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Indians and Mountain Ranges.

The comparative study of the last two
census reports makes it probable that the
North American Indians will soon dlsap-
pear from the unhappy hunting grounds
of the treeless west, but that few speci-
mems of the aboriginal race will survive in
the highlands of the southern Alleghanies,
There are some sixty families of Cherokees
in the mountains of East Tennessee and
western North Carolina, numb Der which
has remained about the same in the last
thirty years, during which time the west
ern tribes, with few exceptions, have de-
creased from 20 to 35 per cent.
High mountain ranges have indeed
proved the best refuge of conquered races.
The Basques of the Spanish Pyrenees are
the last representatives of nation which
once seems to have inhabited the larger
part of southern Europe; the original in
habitants of Scandinavia still survive in
the hills of Lapland, and the upper eau
casus shelter the remains of at least six
different races that have disappeared from
the Iowlands of the Old World.-Philadel
phia Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The Polite Chinaman.

Somebody should collect the literature of
the car seat There are volumes of it fugi-
tive in newspapers and humorous sheets,
and mostly of a nature to interest the future
student of human nature when car straps
shall have been abolished and boorishness
is unknown.
When this coming historian begins his
valuable labors trust he may find place
for such an incident as l saw On the Brook
Ign bridge the other day.
1t was in the evening. Brooklyn people
were still going homein large numbers. the
car was full and most of the passengers
were men. There were sixteen of them in
a row on one side of the car, and in the
middle sat yellow Chinaman. who had q
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

forget themselves in the desire to encOur
age and sustain each other. 1t is incredi-
BILE that the four men lived in this position
| for three hours, when they had drifted
near enough to the shore to enable their
cries to be heard by three or four fisher
men. Gallant young Joseph Cardian at
once undertook the rescue in a small skiff
His companions told him he was only go
ing to his death, as a formidable array of
breakers, thick with ice, was crashing upon
the shore, with a rough sea beyond.
The young man knew no such word as
fail, and though often all but swamped
finally managed to force his frail craft out
to the wreck. Young Marshall was by
this time almost dead and Chambers and
Lasley-the latter suffering terribly from
an injury to one of his legs-nobly insisted
that the keeper should take the first
chance and with his son endeavor to reach
the shore. Young Marshall feared the
skif would not hold two, and begged his
father to go first. $50, father" said he;
don't mind me-" These were the brave
boys last words. He was dragged into the
boat by his father and Cardian, where he
lay still. As the skiff neared the shore it
was capsized in the breakers. The three
men seized it, but in moment Cardian
perceived that it would not hold them all,
and, shouting to the others to hold on,
bravely let go and struck out for the land
In a few moments the wretched father
saw his son release his hold and 60 down
Himself near perishing he lost conscious
ness, and clnging with death grip to the
boat was washed ashore. Cardian mean
while was battling like hero with the
sea, sank three or four times, and was
finally dragged out from among the ice
bergs and breakers unconscious. The fish
ermen secured the boat, and carried the
| inanimate bodies out OF the reach of the
waves. Who was to volunteer to make a
second effort to rescue the imperiled men
beyond the breakers? Without word AL
fred Cardian, eighteen years old, turned
from the apparently dead body of his
brother, poured the water out of the skiff,
launched it and dauntlessly put out to the
rescue. Having reached the capsized boat,
| with prudence equal to his heroism he
decided TO take only one man at time.
Chambers begged Lasley to go first, and
! Lasley consented on account of his injury.
| Young Cardian and Lasley reached the
| shore, and the boy instantly returned for
Chambers, who was also safely landed. 3
Hours of hard work restored Keeper Mar
shall to consciousness. To each of the
| heroic Cardien boys was awarded the gold
! medal, never more worthily bestowed. If
| there ever was an epic of peril and of res
! cue this was one ROBERT GRAVES.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
A Powerful Simile.

Among the clever stories retailed at the
Beefsteak or the Garrick, is nice one of
the ford lawyer, who was counsel in an
action for libel brought by a provision
merchant against a local newspaper. He
said in his address to the jury: MY client,
gentlemen, is a cheesemonger, and the rep
utation of a cheesemonger in the city of
London is like the bloom on a peach
Touch it and it is gone forever. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
The .IaM Of an Otter.

You can find an example of natures
adaptation of the jaw to use in the case OF
certain carnivores, like the otter-a big
weasel that has acquired aquatic habits.
The jaws of such beasts are so fixed in the
sockets that dislocation is impossible. In
some instances you cannot, even after the
animal is dead, separate the jaw from the
head. This arrangement is evidently de
signed to enable the beast to bite to the
greatest advantage without danger that
the chewing apparatus will come loose
Exchange
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
Critics and Actors.

Mr.. Outskirts Ito wife, who is driving
some chickens out of the yard)-Well,
don't see why woman can't throw a
stone. You haven't come within forty
feet of one of those hens.
Mrs. Outskirts-I dropped my sewing in
order to drive those hens out, and I think,
instead of standing here criticising, you
might &C in and thread few needlefuls OF
silk for me.-New York Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
"A New Tax.

A Danish functionary of state, DESTROYS
of improving the financial condition of his
country, proposed to Sturensen, the prem
Ter, to lay tax on human intelligence.
'The more intelligent the higher the tax,
and less in proportion, said our economist,
and continued, You will see how eager
the folks will be to pay the higher scale Of
taxes
quite right" said the minister, land in
acknowledgment of your ingenious sug-
gestion, you shall be the only one exempted
from the taX."-Das Buch fur Allie
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS
THOMAS B. CONNERY AND HIS
FORTHCOMING NOVEL.
He Is a Journalist by Profession, and
Has Been a Diplomatist, but Now
Proposes to Make Fame as a Story
Writer.
Especial Correspondence.1

NEW YORK, June 15.-Scarcely had Mr..
Connery's novel descriptive of certain life
in the Mexican capital appeared from the
press when the announcement was made
that he had new work of fiction under
way, and that it will appear in time for the
summer readers. Mr.. Connery's latest
novel is reported to be story of life in
New York city, and the plot is based upon
some of the dramatic incidents in political
affairs, of which he became cognizant when
he was busy editor here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

Vegetation in the Alps recedes from year
to year. Alpine roses were at one time
found at an altitude of 1900 feet; now they
are seldom found higher than $500 feet,
and are stunted at that. Various species
of small fruit which used to be gathered
800 feet above the level now are rarely
found beyond two-thirds that height.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25
In 147O detachment of fifteen men sent

In 1470 detachment of fifteen men sent
from Canterbury for the Calais garrison,
and others for London, were supplied with
red ''jackettis" of cloth, at three shilliugs
yard, and having on them "roses of white
karsay" as badges Henry VII in 1885 in
stituted the yeomen of the guard, and they
were the nucleus of the present standing
army of England. Their dress, as it still
continues, was red