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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-21
Pronounced Hopeless, Yet saved.

From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E
Hurd of Groton, S. D., we quote: "Was
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my lungs; cough set in and finally ter
minated in consumption. Four doctors
gave me up, saying | could live but a short
time. l gave myself up to my Savior, de-
termined if l could not stay with my
friends on earth l would meet my absent
ones above. My husband was advised to
get DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds. l gave it a
trial; took in all eight bottles: it has cured
me and, thank God, | am now a well and
hearty woman" Trial bottles free at ii.
Brandts drug store; regular size so cents
and 81.
Fargo Argus: The safe in the butcher
shop OF S. A. Watson, of Mapleton, was
tapped at an early hour Sunday morning
and about $500 in cash secured. There
is a bad gang of tramps camped on the
banks of the Maple river, under the rail-
road bridge. They have been there for
some three weeks, and do their cooking
in an old wash boiler. Numerous chick
ems and garden truck have disappeared
to replenish their larder. There seems
to be more roughs in the country this
year than honest men who desire work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
OVereating.

The habit of overeating is far too COM
mon, even with those persons who prac-
tice moderation in other ways. The day
laborer may habitually indulge in an
amount of food without injury which
would seriously affect a person of less
active mode OF life, because his heavy work
burns off the excess of food, but in most
cases the excess of food is not carried off
by a SO called bilious attack. and then, if
there is no work to burn up the supply,
what happens?
In some constitutions, dyspepsia, in
others an ever increasing bulk; now this
bulk disinclines to eXertion, SO that with
Increase of bulk less work is done, while
there is growing disinclination to ex-
srtion-even a repugnance in extreme
cases to any form of exercise. These cases
are among the most difficult the physi-
clan can treat, for the sufferer, though he
may wish for relief, lacks the energy to
End it.
AS rule, stoutness is connected with
errors of diet-errors of excess, perhaps
oftener than people are prepared to admit,
but often to errors of kind.-Hall's Journal
of Hpa1tb
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
improvements in Rolled Steel.

A protrac+ed series of experiments
made at Siemens' works, in England,
with the new process Of manufacturing
steel tubes, show conclusively, it is
claimed, a remarkable adaptation of the
system to the manufacture of pipes for
the conveyance Of water, gas and air at
high pressure, the manufacture of steam
boilers, boiler tubes, and especially for
bridge construction, owing to the light
ness and strength of the tubes of com
paratively thin steel, and which, it is be-
lieved, will enable the engineer of the
future to considerably increase the span
of bridges.
The simple as well as remarkable pc
culiarity of this process of shaping
metals consists in the fact that, instead
of avoiding any twist of the fbers, it by
one operation gives the greatest possible
twist to the fiber with corresponding
stretch of material. It moreover may,
assisted by mandrel, increase the outer
diameter of a bar, instead of diminishing
it, as do all other rolling mills, but the
tube produced by this new method is
generally greater in diameter than the
bar from which it is formed and thus
combining, as it does, all the various
systems of rolling, it is claimed to pos
sess the advantage Of construction in
which all hitherto Known rolling proc
esses represent part.-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Conscious Glover blossoms.

The subterranean clover has been
driven by its numerous enemies to take
refuge at last in a very remarkable and
almost unique mode of protecting its off
spring. This particular kind of clover
affects smooth and close cropped hill
sides, where the sheep nibble down the
grass and other heritage almost as fast as
it springs up again.
Now, clover seeds resemble their allies
of the pea and bean tribes in being ex-
ceedingly rich in starch and other valu-
able foodstuffs. Hence they are much
sought after by the inquiring sheeL,
which eat them off wherever found as
exceptionally nutritious and dainty NOR
sells. Under these circumstances the
subterranean clover has learnt to pro-
duce small heads of bloom, pressed close
to the ground, in which only the outer
flowers are perfect and fertile, while the
inner ones are transformed into tiny,
wrigghng corkscrews.
AS soon as the fertile flowers have be-
gun to set their seed, by the kind aid of
the bees, the whole stem bends down
ward, automatically, of its own accord;
the little corkscrews then worm their
way into the turf beneath, and the po3s
ripen and mature in the actual soil it.
self, where no prying eve can poke an
inquisitive nose to grub them up and de-
YOUR them.
Cases like this point in certain ways to
the absolute high water mark of vegeta-
bic ingenuity; they go nearest of all in
the plant world to the similitude of con-
scious animal intelligence.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
To Do AWAY with Exercise.


Too much dumbbell exercise is weari-
ness to the flesh, and matutinal swing
ing of the Inaian club becomes, sooner
or later, irksome. The idea of relieving
the tedium of daily exercise while in
creasing its benefits is a good one, and
it is now placed at the service of the
public in practical form. A polished
wooden box contains the appliances in
cidental to the ordinary exercising ma
chine, and is equipped, in addition, with
a magnetic electro apparatus capable of
transmitting an electric current to ten
or more persons at the same time, or be-
ing graduated to the endurance or pleas
ure of one person, so that while the vari-
Gus forms of exercise are being gone
through an electric current Of any re-
quired strength can be impaired.
1t is claimed that electricity can thus
be applied under impr wed and more
pleasant conditions than foxnerly in
many cases where it's use has been
proved to be most beneficial Attention
is called to the fact that telegraph OPP
orators, accountants, typewriters, plan
lists, and all whose work is apt to cause
muscular pains and stiffness in the hand
and arm, can by the use of this exercis-
ing machine reap twOfold advantage.
The machine has a bath attachment.
This is placed in a bath, and when the
foot is placed upon it an electric shock
of graduated strength is impaired to the
bather.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
The Time to Look After Hinges

This is the season of the year after the
spring house cleaning when the good
housekeeper looks about for derelict door
hinges and locks, castors uncertain of
their standing, and all the various other
small things about the house that need
attending to. If time is taken now to
attend to such small matters it saves
great deal of annoyance. Refractory
locks and hinges that merely work hard,
but are pot broken, may often be coaxed
into obedience by the use of a little ma
chine oil Examine castors that seem to
stand uneven and have them repaired.
There is scarcely any inanimate thing,
q wheelbarrow probably excepted, in de-
ference to its established reputation for
going contrary, that can cause so much
personal annoyance as a shutter Ex-
anime all these carefully when they are
washed at the spring cleaning, and see
not only that the blinds are all in place,
but that the shutters are hung true and
that they catch when swung back and
when shut. There are few earthly tor
lures to the nerves than can be COM
pared with the work of shutter that
bangs backward and forward
Examine doors and see that there are
none that sag. Even in a country house
which has been shut up for the winter
there are often many such trifing mat
tiers to attend to in the spring. In a
house that has been occupied all winter
there is always something that needs at
teption.-New York Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

and Of such strength that the laundering
of one of them through stress of weather
alone is well nigh inconceivable.
But when fog descends, then it is that
his face and manner change, and he who
has been the most sociable and gayest of
men suddenly becomes the most anxious
and taciturn. His seat at the head of the
table is vacant; look for him and you will
not find him, as in f. r weather, diverting
groups of girls tucked up in steamer
chairs on the promenade deck, but pacing
the bridge and putting a cigar which ap-
parently has not been allowed to go out
since it was lighted as the big ship backed
from her wharf into the North river.
Wherever and whenever it occurs fog is
a source of danger from which neither pru-
dence nor skill can guarantee immunity,
and whether the ship is slowed down or
going at full speed there is cause for fear
while this gray blindness battles the eyes,
With plenty of sea room the danger is
least, and it increases near land, especially
where the coast is wild and broken, like
that of Ireland and Wales, and where there
are many vessels as well as rocks to be
passed.-William H Rideing in Scribner's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
How the Coquette Acts.

1t is exceedingly interesting to watch
a pretty woman who is too refined and
too digniied to firt, and yet who loves
the admiration of men. One often sees
a masher, practicing his wiles in cars and
boats, encounter such a woman He
rivets his gaze upon her, adding to it
smile of admiration and approval. She
seems not to see him, yet instantly her
manner changes. She engages her COM
panion in an animated conversation, she
gesticulates, she smiles, she laughs-she
does everything that adds to her charms.
You see that she is acting, and that, very
slyly, she keeps assuring herself that her
admirer is continuing to look at her.
After all, what book is as engaging as
the study of our fellow men and women?
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
While H and Ivara engaea5 IN

While H and 1 were engaged in
our game we could hear the monotonous
appeal of the dealers. Make your game,
gentlemen, make your game. Red wins
and black loses" Suddenly bang, bang,
bang went the pistols in distant part
of the tent. The usual rush followed.
Bang, bang, again, and this time the
guitar dropped from the hands of one of
the unoffending musicians, who fell for
ward totae grurns with bullet through
his mex. Els fseads promptly under
took II carry hin past Us to the open
air. Our table was so near the side of
the tent that only one person at time
could go between it and the canvas.
H was standing in the way, Just
in the act of striking the ball with his
cue, when one of the persons carrying
the wounded man touched him, with the
request that he move to one side. He
turned, and saw the Mexican being sup.
ported by the legs and arms, the blood
flowing from his neck. Then, with the
coolest Indifference, he said, ''Hold on,
hold on, boys, till I make this shot"
Then, resuming his former position, he
deliberately finished his shot.-Dr G. B.
Gillespie in Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
A Remarkable Canadian River.

The Saguenay, large river in Canada,
falling into the estuary of the St. Law
renee, on the north side, about lis miles
below Quebec, is rightly reckoned as being
the deepest and most remarkable stream
in the world. Excepting in a very few
places, where great ranges of hills seem to
cross its bed, the average depth is 900 feet,
the bottom at the spot where it joins the
ST. Lawrence being over 600 feet below the
bottom of the last named stream. Thus
low point of rocks at the shore, or an
island, is really the top of a moderate
sized mountain springing up from the
mysterious depths of this deepest of all
rivers. AS the spring tides rise about
eighteen feet, the currents of this river are
violent and eccentric. In some places the
ebb stream runs four to six miles an
hour. The eddies along the shore are like
those Of a rapid, the undercurrent some
times laying hold of a vessel to turn her
about or to hold her in spite of all efforts
to escape.
Before the use of towboats on the Sag
uenay vessel left helpless by calm
sometimes drifted against some submerged
mountain peak, and, when the tide fell,
capsized in deep water. An anchorage be-
ing very rarely found, large iron rings
nave Deen SeG IN Gne rocks which ShON
themselves above the water, and vessels
often tie up to these 'hitching posts'' and
await a fair wind. The tide Of the Saguenay,
for some unexplained reason, advances
with extraordinary rapidity, thus, not
withstauding the fact that the ebb current
very rarely ceases to flow out of the river,
high tide arrives at Chicontimi only forty
Eve minutes later than at Tadousac, sew
or,tNr Nm, ba I 4
tide advances in the same time only from
Tadousac to Murray Bay, thirty-five miles
distant.-St. Louis Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
He Who Runs May Read.

In spite of declarations to the contrary,
it is possible to both read and write with
comfort while travelling if one knows how.
Pains in the head after reading on the
cars are due TO an unusual strain upon the
muscles of the eye, its focus being changed
almost incessantly, but with an occasional
rest the muscles will not find the work too
hard. So try the plan of reading for ten
minutes, and then for five minutes re-
viewing what you have read. But if
meanwhile you wish to look out of the
window, let it be the one on the other si-le
of the car, for to look out of the one next
you will require quick focal changes as
firing to the eye as reading.-Ladies' Hoi0e
Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Tried to Eat Forty-eirht RauauaS

A banana eating contest was the prin-
cipal attraction. A young fellow en-
ployed in the freight depot undertook to
eat four dozen bananas, one after an
other, upon wager amounting to the
price of the fruit He succeeded in
slowing away fifteen without much diff
Guilty, and although he did not appear to
be desperately hungry after that, he
persevered until the twenty third ba-
mana had disappeared down his throat.
At this point he retired from the contest
as gracefully as circumstances would
permit, and after paying the bills for
the gastronomic exhibition and the ba-
nanas which the audience had disposed
of, departed wiser if not sadder man.
-Keene On. H. Sentinel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Who TauntS You?

Now think q minute Is there not
some unknown person whom you are III
ways meeting in this great city without
any reason for it? | have asked a great
many people, and find that nearly every
body is haunted by some stranger. Just
at present [ am haunted by red headed
girl, who has frecl1les and a turn ur
nose and wears light gray dress. She
turns up at all sorts of unexpected places.
No matter where I go to lunch that red
headed girl is sure to pass me on the
way. Every day or two I meet her in
the ''L' car. [ change the line, but sure
as fate there she is. If I go out between
the acts at the theater that red headed
girl walks by. And SO it goes, until
now have got to absolutely dread her.
The worst of it is that she is a nice
looking girl and never seems to see me.
New York Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
New BreastpinS.

Large punches Of knotted ribbons in
diamonds make quite graceful looking
breastpin, as does a gray pear shaped
pearl in a bow knot of diamonds. But
one Of the most artistic looking brooches
is leaf shaped, of colored diamonds
There are five divisions, shaded from
white to brown, the stem in tiny dia-
mOnds
Marquise rings are in high favor,
though for those who have worn them
and are tired of them as finger rings they
can be set in bracelet; either leave the
gold band perfectly plain or have some
stones placed half way down on either
side, making a decidedly handsome orna-
ment
Some odd scarf pins are worthy of
mention. For instance, there is a bear
in gold with his fore paws through holes
in board, most torturing position.
Then a jockey cap in moonstone, with
the peak in b1illiants, is pretty.-Jewel-
ers' Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

neither guns nor pistols on their persons
The four survivors appeared at the open
ing in the position designated, but the
marshals were not satisfied with their
statement that Bob was dead, and CON-
PEELED the remaining members to go
back and bring the dead body into view.
This was done, and the outlaws were
bound and taken in charge.
In the cave was found the full evil
dence of their latest crime, the robbing
of the train. Money, jewelry and ex-
press wrappers were found lying on the
floor of the place. Two of the outlaws
received severe wounds, and the whole
party was nearly exhausted from want
of food and water.-Indian Territory
Cor. Denver Republican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
How False Eyebrows Are Made.

at certain factory number of young
women we're working at small tables, each
table covered with little instruments and
odd things, which only those who knew
the business could possibly understand
At one table two girls were threading
needles with fine, silky hair, and sewing
them IL little squares on thin, transpar-
ent gauze.
''Those girls" said the overseer, "are
making some of those beautiful arched
eyebrows you may sometimes see on the
stage. They are frequently worn by both
actors and actresses. These sewed on the
net are the less expensive kind, and are
only used Oh special occasions. The real
brow is very expensive, and can only be
made by a person of great skill.
"The patient sits here in his chair, which
very much resembles dentists operating
throne In this cushion to my left are
stuck a score or so of those needles you saw
being threaded. Each stitch only leaving
two strands of hair, to facilitate the opera
ton number of needles must be at hand
AS each thread of hair is drawn through
the skin over the eye, it is cut. so that when
the first stage of the operation is over it
leaves the hairs bristling out an inch or so,
presenting ragged, porcupine appearance.
Now comes the artistic work. The brow
must be ached and cut down with the ut
most delicacy, and a number of hours is
required to do it,
'Small as the eyebrows are, they are
very important in the makeup of the face
You have no idea how odd one looks when
utterly denuded of hair over the eyes. The
process | have described is painful, but it
makes good eyebrows and adds 100 per
cent. to the looks of a person who was
without them. 1t is, too, much better than
the blackening and cosmetics so many peo-
pie use, especially people who have mere
pretense of browss comprising only q few
hairs. "-London Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Mrs. Custer Calhoun,s Good Fortune.

Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, only
sister of the late General Custer, has
been appointed librarian in the state
library at Lansing, Mich. The selection
is not only wise one-for Mrs. Calhoun
is lady of much dignity and ability
but grateful recognition of the memory
of three brave men. In the Little Big
Horn battle Mrs. Calhoun lost more than
any other woman. The disaster of 1876
cost her the lives of her husband, Lieu
tenant James Calhoun, her brother, Gen
eral Custer, two younger brothers and a
nephew.
Since then she has supported herself
as an elocutionist and public reader, and
made a success by hard study, prose-
cuted for distraction as much as gain
At recent reading in Washington be-
fore the veterans of the United States
army she was surrounded after the en-
tertainment by the old soldiers, who
shook hands and expressed their love
and admiration for her brave brother, to
whom she is thought to bear striking
resemblance.-Chicago Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
PRISCILLA SPINNING,

Before her, on her knee, there lies,
Within the glance of those blue eyes,
The book whose antique. heavy notes
Call from the shapeliest of threats
A song to God, of thanks and praise
The happy heart is glad to raise
OF Priscilla spinning.
A well known step outside she hears,
TITS not the captain whom she fears,
But one whose honest life does move
Her heart to give to him her love.
He steps within-the die is cast,
Why flies the wheel so very fast
Of Priscilla spinning?
A stream of sunlight through the door
Lies brightly on the sand strewn floor;
1t almost reaches to the feet
OF her who sits in dress so neat,
In little cap and 'kerchief white,
With happy face all rosy bright,
Of Priscilla spinning.
With one small hand the wheel is sped.
The other holds the growing thread;
Nor yellow gold, nor precious gem.
Can more of beauty give to them;
The moving stream of pale sunlight
Can rival not these hands so white
OF Priscilla spinning.
John 8. Barrows in Good Housekeeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
A Rattlesnake at School.

The other day, when the teacher and
pupils Of district No. Z, of Clay township,
Auglaize county, arrived at the school
honse they found large rattlesnake
quietly dosing on one of the desks. The
lady teacher and the young scholars,
none over ten years of age, attacked the
reptile with sticks, when it suddenly
rose, ratified furiously and sprang at
them-the first evidence they had that it
was a rattlesnake. 1t put the scholars
to fight. A neighboring farmer was
summoned, who shot it, and the fright
ened teacher and scholars went back to
work -Ciucinuati EnGlirer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
WHEN THE CAPTAIN Is ANXIOUS.
Modern Steamships Have No Fear of
Storms-It Is Fogs That Alarm

Modern Steamships Have No Fear of
Storms-It Is Fogs That Alarm
1t is not when the seas come pounding
over the bows that the captains face
lengthens Even when it is necessary to
keep the passengers below, and the spray
is carried as high as the foretop, his conf
dence in his ship is unabated. His spirits
do not fall with the barometer, and thsugh
the clouds hang low and the air is filled
with singing moisture flying like sleet
from the kissing seat-even when boats
are torn out of the davits, and iron bits
and ventilators are snapped from their
fastenings like pipe stems, he has no mis-
giving as to the ability of the ship to
weather the gale or the fiercest hurricane
that can blow.
Give him an open sea, without haze or
fog or snow, and neither wind nor wave
can alarm him. He knows very well, as
all who are experienced in such matters do,
that the modern steamers of the great At
1antic lines are so carefully constructed