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The morning news., 1891-11-20

The battalion drills of the regiment have
been renewed since the cool weather begun.
Col Mercer is fast bringing the companie:
up TO an excellent disciplined condition.
The morning news., 1891-11-20
Smoke. But No Fire

The Guards are talking of target contest
| for THANKSGIVING,
The morning news., 1891-11-20

Nelson said last night that the idea that he
is an extreme high churchman is a great
mistake, as he is just the opposite, an extreme
low churchman. The gentleman said he SUP
posed Rev. Mr.. Dodge's objection, iu the
diocesan convention, to DIR. Nelson on the
ground of his beilg al extreme high
churchman was an ironiclsm. 1t would be
some hidg new for Mr.. Dodge to object to
any man on the ground of high church
manShip,
The morning news., 1891-11-20

The Oglethorpe Light Infantry, as already
announced, will celebrate Thanksgiving
with target practice and prize drill and
hop in the evening. Tri-weekly drills are
being held for the celebratien.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

his velvet coat with his lace ruffles and
his silk-clad legs. Master Harold is lit
tie prince who has escaped from the tower,
or Mistress Priscilla, in her quaint gown
and white cap, has slipped out of Sir
Joshua REYNOLDS loving hands into the
circle of today. And they are all very
dear and charming, no doubt, and they
crafty our eyes and our tastes as well as
our hearts.
But perhaps there is place for another
thought, one that goes back of the apprecia
ton and pleasure of the grown-up folk. A
thought for the child. Children are
often more sensitive than older persons
imagine to any eccentricity in the gar
ments. The curious inspection of pas
sers-by on the streets, the outspoken
words of the comment which gazers some
the object of them is ''only child these
has not an understanding Of the real
beauty of its dress, such as would comfort
and sustain the soul of the mother under
the most searching scrutiny of her own ap
parel. The child only gathers that it is in
some way eccentric. and feels shy dis
tress. Not all children feel SO, to be sure,
but just as there are men and women who
prefer the immunity of a conventionality
that they know to be inartistic, so there
are many children who would prefer being
less picturesque for the sake Of being less
observed.
And this is heaIthful The instinct to
avoid comment is one that mother should
respect and encourage in her child In every
possible way. To disregard it IS to in
II { L ~
which is the most unlovely trait in child
had
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

of 80, and, but for an accidental cold,
might have lived many years longer, as
only few days before he died he shoulder
ed two-bushel bag of grain and put it iD-
to customer S wagon, with a significant
wink at several young men who were loung-
ing at the door of his grocery.
through life by Mr. Ingraham are worth
rejecting upon.
He did not believe in the loose custom
of the young men of to-day of changing
his boarding place often, for he boarded in
one family continuously for sixty years,
and slept in one room throughout the
whole time He was stranger to arsenic
poison, for he had discarded wall paper as
foolish luxury
He always slept in a cold room and
opened the window literally before retir-
ing, without regard to the temperature.
He was true to the modest candle Of his
forefathers, believing that gas, electric
light, and other artificial schemes of illumi-
nation were destructive to the eyes. Up to
the time of his death he could read fine
print without glasses. In fact pair of
glasses never sat on his nose.
He never wore piece Of undertaking of
any kind in all his life, nor anything
around his neck: nor did he ever wear an
overcoat.
Last but not least, he never had on a
pair Of socks In his life.
Mr. Ingraham was no miser, but gen
erous, genial, and kindly man. He gather
ed up fortune of over 100000, enjoyed
life and died sereneiy happy, never hav-
ing called for the services Of a phsician in
all his life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
Rnffer Milk fnr Horses.

The Christian Intelligencer is authority
for the statement that dairyman in Eng
land has been giving his horses butter
milk to drink instead of water Each
horse gets his ration daily throug the
year, and the system having been con-
tinued for eighteen months and found to
answer in a most satisfactory manner, it
is not likely to be abandoned. There can
be no doubt, a contemporary remarks,
that the valuable solids in the buttermillz
do the animal very good deal of good,
and prevent the necessity of such large
corn feeding as some practice, while there
is at all times healthy smack about the
article which leads many people to use it
There is no doubt that buttermik is good
for horses. In the United States it goes
to make pork. and also sometimes to sober
up old topers. Also, ccordlng to an
hish adage, "buttermilk and praties
make strong men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
The FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
NATURE.
HOWARD HALL.

From Nature we have coldly stood aside,
And gone our ways with all-suficing pride,
her quickened soil a seed we slit,
Take the ripe fruit nor marvel DER her gilt.
She is our own dear mother. She and we
Are one magnificent totalty!
Through us Earth wheels sef-conscious On her
track,
Our eyes are hers; they gloss her glory back.
Through us she sees her charms unfolded far,
Green waving world and glitterlng sea and
Through us she sees her still streams glide in
grace,
And looks her bIushing flowers in the face.
In man g aspiring soul she yearns and strives,
And through his cunning hand her craft con-
trives
Direct as dawn, or dew, or flowers, or fame,
Out of Earth breast her vast cathedrals came.
Dost think her silent? Strain the anxious ear
Unto her breast nor any answer hear
You, /, all is her speech-the poets lines,
The players touch, the dark sea sounding pines.
Even as the wind through, Asia's forests
roared
Not less from rapt Isaiah's tongue she poured
(Stll sounding like a sea-times's shores along)
His fiery and forever living song"
All sounds are hers-the VOLS ponderOus pain.
The patter of the millionfooted rain,
Through reed and roaring brass her breath is
blown;
The organs monster music is her own.
Along Beethoven's sea of soul did ride
Her splendid waves of passion and of pride.
She brought forth Dante's hell-dee, heayen-high
rhyme
To cheer her as she lonesome swep sublime.t
-Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
WOLVES OF THE SEA.
The Ferocity of the Grampus While in Pur
Of RreE

The Ferocity of the Grampus While in Pur
suit of Prey.
Not satisfied with the harm it can dc
alone. the otca secures the aid of two OF
three of its fellows, and then the little
pack of monsters starts on an expedition
Everything is game to them. If school
of dophins comes in sight, away go the
fierce sea wolves In hot chase, says a
writer in St. Nicholas. The frightened
dolphins dash madly through the waves,
urged to their sw;ftest speed by terror;
but grimly the ravenous pursurers close
upon the flying quarry. Perhaps a great
Greenland whale may cross the path OF
the marauders. Huge as it is-the
largest of created beings-it has no terrors
for the blood thirsty pack. They dart
about the giant with lightning velocity;
now in front, now underneath, now or
the sides, until the bewildered monster
with a lash of his ponderous tail. turns
his mighty head downward and seeks
the oceans bed, Vain efforts His tor
mentors follow him apparently with fer.
ocious glee. Up, up again, rage ane
agony lending added strength, till the sur
face is reached and all that bulk of flesh
shoots out of the water and then falls with
ponderous crash, dashing the boiling
waves asunder, Still the agile foes are
there. They leap over his lead, high il
the air, and dive under him. They rusl
at him here, there and everywhere. HI
opens his huge mouth to engulf them
They only mock at the danger. and soo1
wounded in hundred places, weakened
and poweress, the whale succumb5.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
l. S. SIP. &U.P
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail-
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders OF
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the "Lake Superior, st. Pail &
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, Or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PasengerAgent, St Paul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
EYES OF DEEP SEA FISH.
Peculiarities of Sight of the Variou
Species of the Deep Sea Creatures.

Peculiarities of Sight of the various
Species of the Deep Sea Creatures.
Now as we go down in the water we
find at each depth that the effects produc-
ed upon the eyes of fish are steadily pro-
gressive lin one direction or the other.
Species that live at a depth of eighty
fathoms have the eye already great deal
bigger that their nearest representatives
who live at or near the surface. Down to
the depth of 200 fathoms, where daylight
disappears, the eyes get constantly bigger
and bigger.
Beyond that depth smaI-eyed forms SET
in, with long feelers developed to supple
ment the eye. Sight, in fact, is here be-
ginning to atrophy. In the greatest
ably sses the fish are mostly blind, feeling
their way along entirely by their sensitive
bodies along over the naked surface OF
rocks at the bottom. Some of them have
still external relics of functionless eyes;
in others the oldest and most abysmal
species, the eye has altogether disappeared
externally, though its last representative
may still be recognized, imbedded deep IN
the tissues of the beds.
But many deep-sea fish have a curious
system of hollow in the skull or along a
line on the body which secrete mucus or
slime and this slime often involves them
completely, as in sheet of jelly, from
head to tail. STANCE to to say, it is phos-
phorescent. Moreover, many other deep
sea species have two sets of organs buried
in their skin consisting of round, shining,
opalescent bodies, very closely resembl-
ing mother-of-pearl. One sort are large
and oval and are placed IN the head not
far from the eye; the other kind are small
and arranged in a series along the body
and tail, pair usually answering to each
joint of the backbone. All Of them are
abundantly supplied with nerves, and
they seem to be organs for the production
and perhaps also for the perception of
phosphosescent light. If so, we may sup
pose that each such FISH goes about like a
string of glow-worms or train of lighted
cars, all the organs along his side or tail
shining family in the dark, somewhat
after the fashion of luminous point. DR..
Gunther suggests that IN certain cases the
phosphorescence may be produced in a
sort of back chamber of the organ and
then emitted in particular directions
through the lens in front, precisely as a
policeman flashes his bull's-eye on any
point.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
COUNTRY VS.. CITY.
Country Life for Many Reasons Preferable
to Life in the CITY.

Country Lie Tor many Reasons Preferable
to Life in the City.
It must be admitted by all careful observ-
ers that the chances for securing a fairly
satisfactory living and forgetting some en-
joyment out of life are as good in the
country as they are in the city. Farm
life in the East offers on opportunity for
the requirement Of great wealth, and on
the other hand it shows few cases of sub
ject poverty. Thousands of eble-bodied
men and women are idle and hungry in
the large cities. How many are in the
same condition in the country an unsup-
piled demand for labor at renumerative
wages, while hundreds seek in vain for
employment in the city. The remedy does
not lie in the tariff reform or in robbing
the rich to give to the poor. 1t lies, in
parl, in teaching the unemployed and
poorly employed in the cities thai life in
the country, even with its unremitting
toll and insulation, is better for body, for
soul and for pocket-book than is their pre-
carious existence in the cities. To-day
one in hundred may make a fortune
without labor, but to the other ninety nine
success. or even modest living, comes only
bv worth and by work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
FARM NOTES.

Arrange for a good kitchen garden.
Get ready for pruning, grating, etc.
Clean out the outlets of surface drains
that may be DISTRACTED.
Feeding sulphur twice a week will in
many cases cure hens of feather pulling
Do not forget that the Englishman pro,
duces a high grade of mutton, and dc
not forget that his mainstay in doing it is
turnips.
Begin now and secure the seeds of your
garden vegetables. Do not wait until you
are ready, only to be delayed by the mails
or some other cause.
No matter how we'll fed the stock may
be, the greatest gain is secured when the
food is varied A mess of green food may
contain but little nutrition, but it may
promote the appetite and induce an AMI
NAL to consume more food.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
THEIR BUSINESS TRAINING
The Different Calling, of Two Men Beige
Different characteristics.

! The Different Calling, of Two Men Beget
Different characteristics.
His smile was warm enough to change
| the course of a cold wave, and as he
entered the restaurant half dozen men
greeted him.
He replied to every greeting, and to
! him every one was Jimmie, Charlie and
Bill; no one was Mr.. He inquired after
Jimmy's wife, Charles success with little
8 Eyer in wheat Bills last born, ETC.,
and finally settled down at table where a
party was just finishing its repast. He
gave an order that showed he had a good
appetite, told story or two, ano suggest
ed that "a Titles omething to wash the sup
per down" would be good thing, says the
Chicago Tribune.
And about this time a young man at an
other table asked his companion who that
jolly fellow was.
''rom Davis" was the SURPRISED reply.
| Don't you know him? thought every
| body knew Tom. Most popular fellow be-
tween here and New Orleans. Every
body likes him, and he sells more goods
than any other man in Il e territory. It's
| his manner does 1t.
| A little, wiry sharpfea5ured man enter
! ed, bowed coldly to the party Tom was
with, took a seat in a corner by himself
and ordered plate of soup.
'Hello. old skin flint called Tom.
'Have something with US
No, replied the man shortly.
"Open your heart once, old surface and
buy round yourself exclaimed one of
the party.
IF you d open your heart more for your
creditors you wouldn't do it so often for
your friends was the quick report,
made in the spirit of bitterness, not hum
| or.
It compelled the young man to ask his
companion if he knew who that man was
also.
Jenkins" was the reply. "Meanest
and coolest man | ever met. | don't be-
lieve he has friend in the world. y
"What's his business?
Collects the money for the goods Tom
SELLS
Good col!ector?'
"Well, l should say So
His manner does it, too, l suppose?"
81 suppose so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23

| the boring of an artesian WELL Hundreds
of such fertile spots have been made and
| the French engineers are still busy in this
profitable enterprise As regards the COM
parative dimensions of these European
claims TO African territory, it may be
briefly stated that England holds about
two million square miles. mostly good
territory; France about two and a half
millions, largely desert; Germany about
one million, much Of it of little value; the
bic; Portugal, half million, much of it
excellent; ard Italy about one-third of a
million, embracing probably much good
land
IL it now be asked, what steps are being
taken by European nations towards the
control of their African possessions, it may
be answered that these claims as yet exist
largely on paper only,-the keep off"
is being done to render them actual.
and the Congo, fortified trading posts ex-
ist along these rivers, and railroad is be-
ing built from tie mouth Of the Congo to
its nayigable upper reaches. A second
railroad, to run from Mombasr, in British
East AITlCd, 10 IHe fIctorld N ydHId, was
inaugurated August 26, 1890 Lakes Vic
toria, Nyanza. Tanganyika and Nyassa,
and possibly by railroads between these
lakes. A third and more ambitious pro-
ject is entertained by France, that of
building railroad from Algeria to Lake
Tchak, across two thousand miles of des-
ert. A route has been selected for this
road which is to start from Constantine
and Biskra in Algeria. 1t will, when
built, doubtless become the channel of an
extensive commerce, from the old GASES
and the new ones that are being formed,
and from the Lake Tchad region of the
Soudan.
These are but preliminary steps towards
the consolidation of the European posses
sions in Africa. Others will follow as
necessity demands them, and the next
quarter of century will probably see the
whole of Africa covered by European
claims, the slave trade extinguished, and
a great portion of the Dark Continent"
opened up to trade and the influence of
civilization, with the possible beginning
of an active European colonization,
and the replacement of the existing
barbarian governments by more en-
lightened and peaceful political condi.
tions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
Expense of Eve green's.

Expense is urged as an objection to
raising evergreens, 1t might have been
urged as such years ago, but the skill of
propagating this class Of trees has become
great, and it is more generally known
how to grow them from the seed. This
has cheapened them and brought the
planting of everereens within the reach
of everyone who has any hold on the soil.
The price of a hundred evergreens ten years
ago will now buy thousand. The
younger they are bought the cheaper they
are. All Anticipated to the contrary not,
withstanding, there is no easier, nicer,
more satisfactory and inexpensive work
than transplanting young evergreens. All
cost in evergreens now is time and labor
instransplanting and transportation if got
ten from "a distance, AND the list of grow,
ers now show that these have been re-
duced to q minimum. At prices which
growers offer them now anyone having
any enthusiasm or inclination toward
tree planting should not ignore ever
greens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches OF latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman vestibuIed Drawing
Room and Tourist Sleepers via the Northern
Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Port
land, Ore, and Tacoma, Wash.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
affording unequaled service to and from Waukes
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis, and Ironwood and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets, sleeping reservations, time
tables and other information, apply to agents OF
the Line or to Ticket Agents anywhere In ths
United States Canada.
s. R. AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
Wis.
J. M. HANNAFoRD, Gen1 Traffic Manager, St.
Paul, Mimi.
a. C. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Genl Passr and Tkt Ag't
Chicago, III
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
PLENTY OF TIN.
A Miner Gives His Observations on the
Home Product.

Shortly after the passage of the McKin-
ley bill there was quite vigorous debate
as to whether or not there were really any
tin mines in this country, and especially
in the Black Hills of Dakota. As Corn
ishman by birth, and worker in TN mines
for over ten years, when a boy and young
man, read the discussion with interest,
and last mouth having occasion to go into
the new states in the northwest, took a
days journey and saw the alleged mythical
tin mines at work. Scores Of Cornishmen
are working there and the tin seems ex-
actly the same as the southwest England
article. The weather prevented any great
activity while was there, but considering
that the miras have only been sunk 400
feet, the product is remarkable. Tin in
paying quantities is seldom found so near
the surface as this, and when the usual
depth of 600 or 700 feet has been reached,
a genuine surprise Will probably be forth
coming.-A miner in st. Louis Globe Dem
OpJ,uf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
Well Fed Soil.

The soil must be r fed literally j. if i it is
depends on its soluble plant food and
the treatment given the crop; As IS sq 4h
kind of plant required by his soil. To
farm in an intelligent manner the farmer
should know what the soil needs, but also
the requirements of the crop to be grown
thereon, in order to produce the greatest
amount at the least cost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
TOBACCO.

What a virginian says of 1t and the Tariff
The New York Sun of March II prints
an interview with typical Virginian, >
a representative Of large tobacco house
of Richmond, from which we extract as
follows:
The tobacco industry of Virginia is a
great one, and is constantly growing great.
er. In Richmond alone we have forty-seven
factories. The output of the smallest is
half million pounds annually. 1t is a
fact that about 10 1000 men are employed
in these factories, and that. except the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
FAILED FOR 81, 100000.
A Kansas City Investment Company Goes
to the Wall.

KANSAS CITY, April 16.-The Winner
Investment company, through its presi-
dent, VIM. E. Winner, made an assign.
ment late this afternoon. No schedule of
the liabilities and assets was fled. The
company was capitalized for S700,000
originally, but about year ago the capt.
tai was increased by 100000 worth Of
stock. The company has been dealing in
bonds and mortgages and other securities,
with branches in New York and Bosten
where the great bulk of securities were
disnnSea of