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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
HIS LEG PANIED HIM.
Suffe ring of a Person in the Limb Removed
from the Body.

That reminds me-" said the man who
is always being reminded of something.
what is it that reminds you, and what
OFF"
This item about man having his leg
buried the other day. | wonder if he viii
have the same experience as a friend of
mine Strangest thing | ever heard of.
You see, this poor fellow had suffered I'M
told agony for a year or more after injur-
ing his right leg by falling down stairs,
and finally the member became SO diseas-
ed that amputation was necessary. The
man nearly died under the operation,
though that is not the interesting part of
the story. The removed portion of the
leg was taken away and buried. 1t is we'll
known to surgical science that when a man
has had a limb cut off he still suffers,
pain, which amounts to the same thing,
in the part of the member removed. 1t
was 50 in this case, and as my friend
came back to consciousness his constant
complaint was of the most severe pain In
the buried foot There is something
pressing upon it, he would say, In what
seemed delirium. It's packed too tightly
Now the sufferer knew nothing of
| where or how his lost limb was buried,
but, as a matter of fact, it had been
swathed in lot of hay, packed tightly in
| box, and the whole put under ground.
| Day after day went on, the suffering of
the man with buried leg and foot grew
intolerable, until finally he begged his
brother to dig up the piece of lifeess flesh,
remove its wrapp'ngs and change its posi-
! ton in the box. Only sick mans whim,
thought the brother, who was nursing the
unfortunate fellow. Still, why he could
never explain, he too was seized with
fancy that if he were to do as the invalid
wished, and then tell him about it, the eff
feet might be relief to the sick mans
mind. It's all nonsense, of course, he said
| to himself, but he went one night, just the
same, dug up the limb, relieved it of its
wrappings, turned it over in the box, and
buried the grewsome thing again, think
ing the next morning he would tell his
brother all about it. The first thing his
brother said to him when he saw him was:
something queer happened last night.
What was that?' well, you know what
| have been telling you about my buried
limb, how awfully it ached, and how it
felt as if something was pressing upon it.
Well, just about 10 o'clock last night,
when the thing was aching its worst, |
all at once felt a relief. The pain was
completely gone, and | nave not felt it
since.
1.-The brother was astonished beyond ex-
preston. 1t was just exactly five minutes
before 10 O'Clock on the night previous
that ne had changed the position of the
buried limb, and he had not told living
soul of what he had done. Rather curious,
ism t Il ?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
CRIME.

Eli PEELER was locked up in Jail at
Dongola, ILL.,, while drunk. He set fire to
his bed and was burned to death.
DURING school election at Leadyille.
Colo, deputy sheriff. while attempting
to arrest man, was shot dead by his in
tended prisoner.
POLICE officer Hugh Burns, who resides
on West Fourteenth street Chicago, shot
his 12year old daughter Thursday morn
ing. Burns is insane.
AT New York Joseph Barondess, the
lead r of the striking coal miners, vino
was convicted of exhortion, was sentenced
to state prison Tuesday for one year and
Line months.
EDWARD c. Gedney, president of the
North River bank of New York. and cash.
Ter Frank Ingersoll have been arrested,
charged with classifying the quarterly
report of the bank make on June IA, 1890
ANOTHER collision between the coke
workers and the guard of deputies oc-
Cured at Uniontown, Sunday. One of the
strikers was killed and another mortally
wounded.
A MAN known only by the name of
Wilbur, shot and instantly killed woman
named Laura Ida Brevet in the Excelsior
concert saloon in New York Tuesday
night, and then shot himself
2 AT indianapolis, Ind, Minnie Whit
taker, fifteen year-oId girl, committed
suicide because her father was sent tc
prison for perjury.
The Bay State shoe-fastening machine
company of Boston has been wrecked by
some of its directors, the deficit being
S147,000.
MRS. J. NEVILLE was found dead in he1
home in Philadel phia. The floor and the
walls Of her room were spattered with
blood, and the woman had apparently
been dubbed to death after a hard strug-
gle. Her husband has been arrested.
BERNARDO BLAMcETTI, the editor of a
rabid Italian paper in New York, has
been indicted for perjury. In a recent
lawsuit Blambetti swore that he had never
been convicted of any crime. but the au.
thorities have evidence that he has been
three times sentenced to prison for forg-
cry.
BOB" FERGUSON, a local prize fighter,
assaulted Father Hishen, a Catholic priest,
in the Stock Yards district of Chicago,
and was with difficulty saved from mob
that wanted to lynch him. He is now I'M
der arrest.
The body of DIR. Edward A Rose was
found near Huntsville, Ark, Sunday
There was bullet hole in the skull and a
pistol near the corpse. The body was
badly decomposed. Dr. Rose has been
missing for nearly week and whether
his death was caused by murder or suicide
is mystery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

Novel Sun Dial Made of Foliage, by Which
Times Flipht is Marked


In previous article the beautiful adap
pose of marking the fight of time was
ogy accomplished by florist of New
Orleans, La. and was decidedly clever in
its way. In that case the time of day was
flowers, which attained their highest per-
fiction and beauty and out the hours in
Dictated by the numerals which they
formed
The conditions were indispensable to
the reading of time by this clock. One
was sufficient familiarity with the flowers
employed to discern the attainment of
their highest state of perfection, and the
other was dag suspicious for floral dev-
elopment.
The most recent Theological achieve
ment in landscape gardening is that one
of the florists in charge of the fora
of the public parks in Chicago While
his work is not of the same order as that
previously described, the result of it is a
more accurate and less complicated time
piece.
The flower bed is laid out on the points
of the compass, in the form of huge
semi-circle, and foliage and flowers are
grown in such manner as to render it
a perfect sun dial, or as, the classical in
ventor expresses it. SOILS clock" A
slab of stone of proper shape is set in the
centre of the dial, and casts che shadow by
which the time is read
The idea is not strictly novel one.
Sun dials, composed of growing flowers
and foliage, have been made in Europe,
and it is not improbable that in the days
of the gratest popularity of those time
pieces floral ones were frequent occur
rnncp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The total loss by the Pittsburg fire will
be $500, 900; insurance, 100000.
FIRE in the stock house of the Pioneer
furnace at Negaunee, Mi1h., early Tues
day morning destroyed $1,000 worth of
property.
AT New Bedford, Mass, 700 bales of
cotton were on Wednesday destroyed by
fire.
GREAT damage is being done by forest
fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa.
The fve-year-old son of John Banker,
of Aurora ILL.,, fell into a tub of water and
was fatally scalded.
The barge Atlanta foundered when off
Sable Bank, Monday, and FIVE of her crew
were drowned.
The shops of the American Wheel COM
pany, at Sidney, Ohio, were destroyed by
fire Wednesday morning. The loss is
100000.
ALLIsToN, Ont, was almost completely
wiped out by a confagration Friday. The
loss is estimated at 100000. Not gro
Gerry or dry goods store is left in the town.
A $4,000 fire at Pittsburg Tuesday
night destroyed the Pittsburg female COL
lege, the new Arbuckle building, Vogels
& Co. s storage warehouse and Hoeveler &
Co.. S pork packing house.
AT Paducah, KY, Sunday night cy-
clone wrecked and damaged over a hun.
dTed building and injured a number of
persons.
LYLE, Mimi, was almost DESTROYED by
fire Sunday morning. Four blocks, en-
braeing the leading business houses of
the town, were burned, entailing less of
$40, 900.
SUNDAY afternoon Frank Williamson
and child were drowned by the overturn-
ing of wagon while fording the river
west of Osawatomie, Kas. The man s
| wife was rescued.
AT Rochester, n. Y, Monday morning
two-story frame building burned, and
Herman Stephanski and wife persisted.
The other inmates had narrow escape.
The FIRE originated from lamp explosion.
| A TROY, n. Y, dispatch says, fire in
| the steel works at Breaker island caused a
loss of 100000. Several Westinghouse
engines we're destroyed. Nearly 1000
people were deprived of work.
| THREE men were drowned Monday at
the outlet of Braddock's Bay on Lake
| Ontario They were at work on the Mani
ton Beach railroad building a drawbridge
over the outlet.
WHILE Minnie Peters of Galesburg,
was pouring kerosene into the stove
Wednesday her clothes were ignited by
the fash of the oil. She was horribly
| burned and died the next morning.
AN explosion occurred Thursday morning
in the Ocean mine, seven miles from
Clarksburg. w. Va. Four miners were
killed and several others injured.
A FIRE was started on the prairie near
Ruthven, iowa, Friday, which raa On to
the premises of Mr.. Ennis, burning his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
TIE CONGO FREE STATE.

The lecture engagements of Mr.. ii. M.
Stanley in this country are said by the
New York Independent to have been "a
great financial success" The same paper
adds: His parting word to the land of
his adoption is an appeal for the Congo
free state. BE says the state is construct
ing a railroad along the Lower Congo,
which will open 5000 miles of water to
easy navigation; it has put fiotilla of
thirty steamers on the Upper Congo, and
has wrought great improvements among
the cannibal tribes of the great interior.
One of these tribes, the Bangalas, are now
being used as policemen and soldiers. The
railroad along the fall of the Lower Congo
will be completed in 1894, and will do the
work of rs 000 carriers, who will then be
released for other important wo1k. The
state appears earnestly DESTROYS to put
an end to the slave traffic, and to use Its
disciplined force of natives" in this service.
To meet the expenses of this it needs
authority to levy duties on commerce for
revenue. action of the congress held 1T
Brussels last year was intended to author
lie such levy, but it needs ratification by
the several governments participating,
and in such ratification our own govern
= ent is especially slow. Ours, as the In
DE- pendent says, was the first to recognize
the Congo Free State. " and we wholly
agree with the paper named that it
Fought to have been the first to ratify the
humane action of the Brussels congress. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
A TURKS JUSTICE.
The Means He Employed to Secure for a
Poor Man His Justice


Ahmed Vefyk Pacha, the Turkish scholar
and statesman who died few days ago,
had been ambassador to Paris and grand
vizier, and was the subject of many pleas
ant stories.
1t is related, for instance, that when he
was governor of Broussa a rich man had
Judgment pronounced against him in favor
of poor man, the latter, owing to the
brides of the rich man, could not obtain
execution, and complained to Ahmen
Vefyk. After explaining his case, Ahmed
saw the debtor riding up to the conak upon
beautiful Arab horse. He ordered the
creditor to sit down, called a messenger,
and whispered to him. The debtor en-
tered the room, and was surprised at the
exceptional cordiality Of she pacha, who
invited him to sit down, to take coffee, and
to converse. Presently when he rose to
leave the pacha pressed him to remain,
and kept him upward of an hour, until,
indeed, messenger entered the room and
placed small bag ON the table before
Ahmed. When the debtor next rose,
Ahmed took the bag from the table and
have it to him, stating, This is yours.
You owed so much to this poor man. |
have sold your horse, paid him. and this is
al bategnce belonging to you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
Why Their Noses Are Cold

Everybody is aware that dogs nose is
always cold, hut very few people know
why. The cartilage composing the outer
surface of dogs nose is almost destitute
of blood vessels. but plentifully supplied
with glands which exude a watery secre-
ton that, by its evaporation, keeps the
nose below the normal temperature. The
dogs sense of smell is located in the
nerves within the nostrils, and it is prob
able that these are kept in better condi-
ton by the low temperature of the carti-
laginous tip of tie nose. The state of the
dogs health is at once indicated by his
nose, for no dog with hot, dry nose can
be healthy, and one of the first signs of
rabies is dryness and heat of the nose,
for these symptoms indicate fever, and
fever is the beginning of hydrophobia.-
Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
A FAIR EGYPTIAN BRIDE.
She was Acknowledged, Rosy-cheeked
GracetuI of Form and SunnIe IF Limb


Graceful of Form and Supple of Limb
1t was IN the Barrage, the famous bridge
or double wier, the eastern part spanning
branch of the Nile. 1t was there that the
late Khedive built a lovely palace and still
more lovely garden, which he, perhaps,
graced with his presence one In his life
and left to decay, just as all Egyptians
have done since the world begun, never re-
newing, never reviving, but building as a
child would build a toy house, to pull down
and begin another. An American en-
gineer, one of the half dozen retained in
office, has charge of the bridge, and it is
he who walks under the shadow of the
palms, and gathers the wild roses and eats
the golden oranges that, whether or not,
blossom and bear fruit in the deserted
garden.
1t was from the balcony of his house, a
part of the old palace, looking out on the
beautiful, blooming country, the green
fields, the lovely, mysterious river, that We
saw cavalcade approaching, and heard
the sound of the lutte and pine. cit is a
fantasia" exclaimed our host; a fan
tasia meaning any fete or fiesta. Down
the long white road they came, a process
sion Of horsemen On white Arabian steeds,
the last man dressed in handsome ralment
and bearing himself with the proud air OF
one upon whom all eyes are fixed. Next to
him strobe groomed and caparlsoned
camel with a rich blanket and an en-
broidered saddle, and after this another
camel with even more gorgeous trapplngs,
who bore rich palanquin, curtalned ON
every side with gold and crimson hang
ings. Within sat the bride. Following
the bride were three other camels, on
which were seated yelled women, and then
came train carrying household
furniture, bedding, stuffs, chests pots and
pans, and all the various appurtenances
essential to housekeeping in an oriental
country.
1t was the brides coming to the hus-
bands house, the last day of the wedding,
and the conclusion of the seven days
feasting. In few hours he would for
the first time lift the veil and see whether
indeed what his mother has told him is
true; whether she is almond-eyed and
rosy-cheeked and supple of linib, and
graceful Of form; whether she has voice
like the cooling of dove, and is learned
in the making of bread dakkah, for not
one glimpse of her face. pot one word
from her lips, has ever been vouchsafed
him. Poor fellow! Do those brilliant
curtains shroud lovliness or deformity?
Has the mother been won over by the pile
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
HUMAN BROTHERHOOD.

One of the great problems given us to
work out is human brotherhood. Our
vast territory, our great variations of eli
mate, soil and wealth, encouraging every
form of industry, agriculture, mining,
manufacture, commerce, domestic and in
ternational; our heterogeneous population,
made up of every race, color, tribe, tongue,
nationality and religious opinion; our
great social differences, nowhere greater
millionaires on the one side, masses OF
pauperism on the other; our perpetual In,
termixture of classes, facilitated by the
modern ease of locomotion, by the univer.
sal circulation of the newspaper press, by
a common school system Of education, by
the absence of hereditary barriers and
the easy passing of men from one class
into the other; the rapid increase of ou1
great cities, and the consequent massing
of populations in centeTs; the perpetual at
triton of men of various classes, charac
tiers, avof ations, temperaments, and faiths
against each other; our political institu
tions throwing all together in one great
debating society at every political cam
paign, and making the subject of yester.
day the ruler Of tomorrow, and the ruler
of vest arday the subject of tomorrow; the
problems Of our national life, the race
question, the immigration question; the
various ferns of the industrial question
all these are elements entering into ano
constituting one great problem Of human
brotherhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
Too Much Misunderstanding.

There is nothing more agreeable to a
warm-hearted man or woman than cor
dial hand shake with friend, but there
are circumstances under which even hand
shaking is surpe1huous and undesirable
For example, take reception by some
prominent official in Washington.
Say there are thousand people in at
tendance. Each shades hands with the
time for departure comes, 10 visitor feels
at liberty to leave without bidding the
hostess goodby with another hand-shake
By the time everybody has gone the host
ess will have shaken hands at least 1000
times, and feels as tired as laborer after
days work.
Here is an opportunity for reform
that will be agreeable to large number
if hospitable people in Washington and
elsewhere as we'll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

of stuffs and the earrings and
bracelets to fancy beauty where there are
only riches? 1t has happened so in other
lands.
But the bride-have no plying words
for the bride, who is also supposed to be
ignorant of the hneaments of her hus-
band2 The bride is woman. There are
windows, though lattice windows, in the
house in the village over the plain, ard the
brown eyes were never darkened when,
yelled and shrolded, she went to the
mosque or well. We may be sure the bride
has seen him many day and oft, and
| loved or hated him after the fashion
of women who, Heaven be praised,
do not need a century of contemplation to
make up their minds whether. to like q
| thing or not .-Hartford Courant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
Changing Defeat to Victory.

The genius Of Sheridan at Winchester changed
defeat to victory. So when feeble adversaries il.
the shape of inefficient remedies fail to stay the
progress of that obstinate and malignant foe, ma
Iaria, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters turns the tide
drives the enemy back. Nothing in naateriu
n'edica, or out of it, compares with this OPP
ponent of every form of maarial disease.
Chills and fever, dumb ague, bilious remittent
and ague cake-it matters not-one and all are
extirpated by the Bitters. To take course Of the
great preparative in advance of the malarial sea-
son, is to buckle on, as it were, armor of proof
which defes attack. So fortified, SO protected,
you shall be scatheIess. Remember, too, that the
Bitters Is an eradicator of liver complaints con.
stipation, rheumatism, kidney complaints and
dyspepsia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

THE United States is the greatest pro-
ducer of silver, gold, copper, and lead in
the world. 1t is safe to predict that be-
fore the next century begins this country
will be the greatest producer Of all metals,
valuable minerals, and precious stones,
with the exception of platinum, diamonds
and possibly tin. Our annual mining
products is about $550000,00O We
produce $38,000,OO0 in gold and $54,0O0,-
600 in silver. England's yearly produc-
ton in coal is 100000 tons, ours is
13O,OO0,OOO. In quiet way more money
is being made in legitimate mining than
there ever was scattered broadcast in
bonanza days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
HONEY CAUSED 1T.
A Persian Cumulative Story Ending ia
Disaster

A hunter finds some honey in the assure
of rock, fills jar with 1T, and takes it
to grocer. While it is being weighed
a drop falls to the ground, and is swallow
ed up BY the grocer's weasel. Thereupon
the nuntsman's dog rushes upon the
weasel and kills it.
The grocer throws stone at the dog,
and kills him. The huntsman draws his
sword and cuts off the grocer's arm, after
which he is cut down by the infurlated
mob of the bazaar. The governor of the
town, informed of the fact, sent messeng-
ers to arrest the murderer.
When the crowd resisted troops were
despatched to the scene Of the conflict
whereupon the towns people mixed them
selves 40 in the riot, which lasted three
DAYS and three nights, with the result THAI
10000 y men were slain. All this through
drop of honey.
The London Lancet relates number of
unmistakable case of eczema produced from
gathering leaves of the Virginia creeper
The effect, rash, heat and irritation Of the
skin is the same as that caused by ivy
and dogwooa on some persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

BRASS which has been rendered hard by
compression may be tempered the same as
steel. To do this piece of polished steel
is placed on the article to be tempered,
and heat is applied so as to affect steel and
brass equally. The temper of brass will
be indicated by the color of the steel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

GRAvEsis rather suggestive name for
doctor; and there may be more than
mere chance in the arrest of that Provi-
dence physician for poisoning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
WASHING TON.

The next regulations and appliances for
the inspection of meat for export will be
ready to issue as soon as Secretary Rusk
returns to Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

barn with ten head of horses While en-
deavoring to save the horses 20-year-old
son was caught in the flames and burned to
death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

THE attempted lynching of man in
the streets of New York the other day
should suggest to the journals of the
effete east that Judge Lynch jurisdiction
is not confined to the west or south. A
man who had seriously assaulted 16-
year-old girl was seized by a mob and
rushed to lamp post for execution, when
the officers arrived on time to prevent
further proceedings. This would not occur
in the streets of the toughest mining
camps in the west.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14

A GERMAN inventor has devised new
material which is intended as a substitute
for leather in many of its uses. This ma
terial consists of panels of wood with wire
netting between, the whole being glued
Together under heavy pressure The sheets
thus made are said to be very tough and
pliable, and suited for making trunks and
other uses that require strength.
CRor conditions are very promising
President Van Horne, of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, says there is a greater
acreage of wheat in the northwest this
season than ever before, while Jay Gould
says his trip to the west made him feel
very hopeful. He found crops in fine con-
dition and prospects generally encourag-
ing In the Dakotas a great yield is antic-
ipated. A foreign war only is needed to
offset the fall in prices that the vast sur
plus will likely produce.