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The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Why Girl. Cannot Throw.

Boys from time immemorial have made ail manner of sport on the sub ject of the inability of girls to throw stone. They suppose, of course, that it is matter of kHsek and pIac- tice, and that girl could really hrow stone with as much force as as boy if she ''knew how" and threw as many. A medical author ity suggests another reason:
 The difference between a girls throwing and boy's is substantially this: The boy crooks his elbow and reaches back with the upper part of his arm about at right angles with his body, and the forearm at an an- gle of forty-five degrees. The direct act of throwing is accomplished by bringing the arm back with sort of snap, working every joint from the shoulder to the wrist.
 The gir, throws with her whole arm rigid, while the boy with his whole arm relaxed. Why this marked and unmistaksble difference exists may be explained by the fact that the clavicle or collar bone in the feminine anatomy is some inches longer and set some degrees lower down than in the masculine frame.
 The long, crooked, awkward bone interferes with the full and free use of the arm. This is the reason why girl cannot throw stone. Youths Companion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30

on Wednesday following. The Abels family procured a warrant for his arr rest. Dobson, on hearing of the warrant, went to the Abeis house on Wednesday night. On being refused admittance, he broke in the door, vowing to kill the whole Hay out. v The first woman he met at the thresh- hold, and cluhbed her to insensibiiity with gun. He re-entered the house, aud, after knocking Nancy Abels (white) down, shot and killed her instantly when she attempted to arise. The other inmates made their es- cape. After an absence of some four or five months, Dobson returned, and was arrested and convicted of murder in the first degree. The mur- der occurred in Franks township, St. Francis county, where all parties lived.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Ironwork in India.

India was the first country which turned iron into weapons. Persia bor- rowed the art from India. The Rig veda. which is the oldest record in the world, gives evidence of this; so do also the Astras and Sastras of the Dhan- urneda, and during the early part of the Christian era the Indian blade was the most used throughout the eastern and western world. This art reached it's greatest perfection in northern h. dia, the Punjaub, Nepaul, Rajputana, Gujarat and other provinces, where they still make beautiful arms; also in Hyderabad, where English art has not penetrated so deeply. Nineteenth Cen tury.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30

I knew 1t was going to burst. Then think of 1t The very next night some kind of patent kerosene lamp was sent me as present, and the donor lit if, explaining to me the method of working 1t. Such was my nervousness that l never knew he was talking to me. Later, after somebody had extinguished the lamp, I tried to reason out to myself what a poltroon I was. We get hardened in time, but I assure you nothing could ever induce me to light or ex- tinguish kerosene lamp. An enemy armed with kerosene lamps would drive me of the field. should be panic personified.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
ONE woMANs QUESTIONS.
rhsy sufioe to Make Six Men Risk rh.i

They Suffice to Make Six Men Risk Their
 Souls.
 A woman wearing a macintosh and carrying an umbrella stood at the ticket window at the Barclay street ferry the other day. Six men were behind her in fine. A boat was due to leave in about two min utes.
 .'Do boats leave here for Hobok- en?" she asked, and the man inside answered "Yes.'
 "How long will it be before the next one goes?"
 About minute," was the reply.
 ''Does the boat go straight to Hoboken?" asked the woman.
 'sYes," said the ticket seller.
 "How long could I wait in Ho- boken before there was another boat back?" asked tho woman, while the men behind grew nervous rapidly.
 "As long as you please," said the patient ticket seller; ssthey are going and coming all the time"
 "Could I get from Hoboken to Jersey City without coming back here?o
 s'Yes; street cars run regularly" was the answer.
 Would it be quicker to go by a car or come back and take ferry to Jersey City2" she asked.
 'I don't know,'' was the answer. Then the ticket seller asked impa- tiently, "How many?"
 How many what?" said the wo- man.
 "Tickets. How many tickets do you want?" The bell was ringing for the boat to move, and the men in line were swearing.
 II don't want any tickets,'' she said. My sister lives in Hoboken, and if thought I had time to go and see her and call on my brother's folks in Jersey City I was going over tomorrow. ."-New York Times.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Seven Mllllon. on a square Mile.

A statisticisn says: ''Few are aware of the vast number of people that can be placed on small tract of ground. When we speak of mill lions of men we are apt to picture to ourselves an almost boundless mass of humanity, yet million of people, standing closely together, each not occupying more than four square feet, could be placed on patch but little more than a third of mile square, A square mile will accom- modste z ,965, ,000. A that rate the whole population of the United States would hardly cover nine miles square and the whole population of the world could stand on two town ahipe
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
The Badger.

The badger, poor beast is getting scarce, more's the pity, from the ami. maj collectors and the naturalist's point of view He generally manages to dis pense with the observation of the lat ter, for unless his ways are we'll known he will escape from place that might have been supposed strong enough to hold rhinoceros. All his family have been excavators from the beginning on the most scientific principles. Unless you take the greatest precautions he will dig himself out and get away in quick time. He is most quiet and or derly being. and contented one, too, if let alone. for as a rule he is fat. - Popular Science Monthly.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
A Terror to the General.

Several anecdotes are given in Har- per's Weekly illustrating Gen. John ston's indifference to danger in bat
 tie, and then this citation Is made of bis opinion regarding 8 familiar household utensil: II am the most timid man in the world, and dread fully afraid of kerosene lamp. The other day servant put one in my room. l was but half dressed, and 1 hurried out as fast as could run.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Testing Hank Clsrks.

l was in a book store in Nassau street a few days ago talking abC ut a new etching of Lowell, when tall, gaunt youth rushed in, watch in hand, and so out of breath that he stuttered.
 'Mr. M---, MT. Pliny wants this book immediately, so that he can take it with him when he goes on the 4:30 train," and the youth handed he dealer slip of paper on which was written, "The Life of Adams Father; bound in half calf."
 'We haven't it in stock now, but you can get it al Scribner's, ]" said Mir. M, at the ssme time wink jug slyly at me, and adding, as the youth sped out into the street:
 That is the way - x Sons, the bankers, test the brilliancy of their new clerks. The Life of Adams Father has been in existence as joke these fifteen years, and one clerk sought for it for four hours be- fore he found mot the book, but that he was dull fool. '--Critic.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
she Ns,er Hna sssn II.

The other day little girl was saying her commandments. ''For in six days" she repeated rapidly, 'the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and allthatin- themiz." Then she stopped. Mamma" !" she said, "Tve seen the heaven, and the earth. and the sea, but l never saw any alithatinthemiz. Where does God keep thatS" The child had really believed that there was certain separate ere ation called "allthatinthemix- that she had never been able to find. New York Evening Sun.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Made Him Peel at Home.

Mir. Bond--LiyiDg 80 far from the city as you do, Miss Newbnrgher, you must see very little of your father.
 Miss Newburgher--Yes, he isn't here very often; still, he seems quite like one of the family.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
EVANGELIST HUGHES WIVES.
The Exborter Admits to Having Been Thrice Married, but Forgets as to
 Others.


 Others.
 A Sedslis, Mo-, special of the 25th says: Charles Shelley Hughes, the printer evangelist, who isp also lawyer and school teacher, has at last consented to throw a little light upon his past life, in order to clear away the ugly charges preferred against him by his aunt, Mrs. Perry Hughes, of Larned, Kan. Hughes now admits that he has been married several times, but as to exactly how many he is non- committal. Interviewed on the sub- ject to day he said:
 'sWhen was only IT years old I was married to woman of 45, at Jacksonville, III. I got taken in, for I thought she was rich; she was not though, so we separated and she subsequently, got divorce from me on the ground of desertion. We had one child but it died. As to wife No. 9, she is a myth. If I was ever married to her have no recol- lection of it, wife No. 3 was 8 preachers daughter. I married her near Tipton, Mo. She is the one that is alleged to have com mitted suicide. That is not true. She got a divorce from me at Sterling, Neb., in May, 1888, on the grounds of drunkenness, desertion and adultery. Now, if you doubt my word you can write to the circuit clerks at Jacksonville and Sterling and ascertain if the decrees were not granted just as I state.
 ''Alleged wife No. 4 was simply my mistress. Her name was Blanche Willard, and was keeping her. She was very smooth woman, but I was never married to her. It was in Milwaukee, Wis, that I intro cuced my Uncle Perry to her as my wife, and not in Kansas City, as Aunt Josephine states. I met him on the street when was in the woman's company, so 1 merely in troduced her as my wife for joke. !"
 ssAre these the only marriages that you have ever been a party to?" Hughes was asked.
 "Am l charged with any more? If SO, tell me who the parties are and will explain. Until you do that I have nothing more to say. But, say, do you think i would be foolish enough to go around the country marrying promiscuously, known in every printing office in the country, as am, without eve- getting a di vorce? I hope you give me credit for more sense than that. I deny that I am guilty of bigamy, and if there is any one who thinks I am all they have to do is to investigate, an undertaking in which l will give them all the assistance in my power.n
 Hughes admits that he has done some queer things while under the influence of opium. He must have partaken of the drug liberslly on the day of his last marriage, for at that time he addressed letter to young lady of this city, in wbich he bade her farewell. While he was plighted to another he wrote she was the one that possessed his heart. Since thsn he has again written to the same lady, saying that he hopes she does not believe what the newspapers have published about him, as it would grieve him sore to have her think that he is other than he has represented himself to be. The wife that is alleged to be No. 5 Is still in St. Louis, if Hughes is to be believed
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Tha sailor.a I.nt.

Merchant-You made good time from the Fever Islands. How is the crew. Ship Captain Half of them are sick. ''Sick of the fevers"
 "No; of the fumigationR. = Good Nsws
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
Appropriate.

s'I notice that the Sowlertons have adopted cream livery"
 ''Yes; they made their money out of milk route, you know. .''-New York Herald.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
THREE RuNAwAYs.

Three runaways, as far as known, occurred Sunday. About o'clock Ed. Brown and Fred. Kennedy se- cured a double-seated buggy with the intention of taking two of their lady friends for ride. They visited the home of one young lady, and were en route to the resi- dence of the other, on Chester street, when the horses attached to the bug gy became frightened and dashed down the street. The buggy was overturned, the two boys sustaining painful injuries, and fortunately the young lady escaping with only few scratches. The drive was then in- definitely postponed.
 The most serious accident of the day occurred on Seventh and Battery streets, about 4:30 o'clock. George Vick- CTS, son of Capt. H. L. Vickers, and party of friends were out driving. The horse became frightened in some ma lner and became manageable. The buggy was turned upside down and the occupants injured. George Vickers was kicked by the horse and was knocked senseless. His friends, after hard struggle, finally brought him back to consciousness and carried him to his home on East Sixth street.
 The little son Of MT. Thos. c. Kirkwood narrowly escaped from be- ing killed by runaway horse on Main street Sunday afternoon about 5:S0 o'clock. MT. Kirkwood and his son were crossing the street at the time when the horse came tearing down the street. The frightened animal was stopped before any injury was done.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
stopped Calling.

What has become of your old bean, Martin, cookg I haven't seen him around much lately.''
 ''No, mum, Martin don't come around much now; he's larried. ], "Oh, hol He's ma Whom to?v
 "Me, mum. 'New I'd
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
FOUR RUNAWAYS.
The Horses of Little Rock Get on a Tear, Resulting in the Injury of Several
 Persons.
Two Society Young Ladies Baye a Narrow Escape--A Boy Knocked sense- less by Frightened
 Horse.

About 6 o'clock Saturday evening an accident occurred on West Seventh street, which resulted in the injury of several persons.
 Mir. W. c. Dotterer was driving west on Seventh street. When he reached Main street his horse be- came unmanageble and upset the buggy, throwing the occupant to the ground. The frightened horse dashed down Seventh street and struck the buggies occupied by Conoway Scott and Miss Nettie Beidelman and Harry Keats and Miss May Hughes. Nearly all were more or less injured, but Miss Beidelman was less for tunate. She was badly frightened and fainted away. She was soon re- vived and taken home. She is re- ported considerably improved to- day.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
THE SHAKERS.

HE Shakers is the strangest religions sex I ever met.
 I'd hearn tell of 'em and I'd seen 'ern, with their broad brim'd hats and long wastid
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-30
VISITING THE SHAKERS.
SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS
 OF ARTEMus WARD.

The Pretty Girls Who 'sYsy'd'' st the oner Of . Kiss. and the Brother Who Denounced the Humorist as Man es sfn--Unsoifcited Advice Gfvcn. FCopyrighted and published by special arrange n1ent with C. " Dillingham;. New York, pub H1kex.i
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
"Woman,s Work Is Never Done"

A woman's life is at the best constant
struggle with dirt and disorder. We have
all laughed over Mark Twain's appeal for
help for an orphan asylum, wherein he
gravely stated that as there was but one
washbowl for the sixty orphans of the in
stitution, by the time the last orphan was
washed the original orphan was dirty
again. But there are few housewives who
could not record similar experiences in
their efforts to keep their homes clean and
tidy, and that, too, without belonging to
the class aptly described as nasty particu
lar" housekeepers As long as the air is full
of dust, even unoccupied rooms will show
its traces-much more those which are
in constant use What with washing
clothes and ironing them, cleaning win
dows, washing dishes, securing silver,
sweeping and busting rooms, and keeping
hanging pictures, books and bric-a- brac
comparatively clean the housemother is
lucky if by Saturday night she has con-
cluded the rounds of her dwelling and is
not haunted all day Sunday by specters of
dirt overlooked in shaded corners, and
Monday morning she finds the original
orphan dirty again and must begin the
routine once more.
She seldom complains of all this. She
accepts it as part of the primeval curse
that the dirt, like the poor, shall never
cease out of the land" But she does pro
test piteously against the extra and unnec-
essary cleaning that is inflicted upon her
by the careless, happy go lucky untidiness
of her loving and thoughtleSs father, broth
ers husband or sons.
CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
A BliSSful Ignorance.

Nature has evidently done wisely in
hiding tomorrow behind an impenetrable
night, What a dismal plight it would
be for Flora to foresee Reginald's angry
impotence and possible profanity in the
sudden May day shower, and so for an
incident which has not yet occurred to
feel that she must give him the mitten.
We can hear the poor girl sobbing, reg
inald, | love thee, but never more be
sutton of mine But why, in the sum
mer moonlight. as they loiter by the sea
and breathe the lovers vow, should they
listen for the laugh of fate? Why, be-
cause of that unfallen shower of May
upon furniture yet unstuffed, should
they lose the hour which, whatever be-
tides, will be theirs forever? Why should
Flora know Reginald except as time
gradually reveals him?
Would you have her see today the thin
white hair on the shining dome that
shall tomorrow replace this brown lux,
uriance of curls? Would you have her
aghast untimely at that ponderous form
which shall hereafter supersede this
slight and elastic figure? Would it be
better for her or for him if she could hear
the sharp, impatient word that from
those tender lips she never yet has heard:
Who knows? Perhaps that she has
never suspected the possibility of that
sharp word may make it impossib BILE.
Who knows: Perhaps when May day
moving comes there may be no sudden
shower.-George William Curtis in Har.
pers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

1t is not difficult matter to point out a
number of we'll known millionaires who
started in life on the farm or in the coun-
try store; and there are many who are not
millionaireS, but who are comfortably we'll
off, and therefore successes, who used }
milk COWS in the moonlight, and get ont
and caper over ten acre lot two hours
fore breakfast. When they came to the
city they didn't blow out the gas or fall
into the hands Of the bunco steerer. They
went to work, and got right ahead of the
city bred men with whom they came in
contact, until they arrived at the top of the
heap, and were their thumbs and middle
fingers sore with the scissors handles with
which they playfully eliminated the cou-
pons from their bonds every six moons
The countryman doesn't come to the
city just to get away from the country;
he comes to the city to get ahead and i'm.
prove himself He doesn't object to chas-
ing pillow up hill or going out in the twi-
light to count the chickens before they go
to roost. but he feels it his duty to 60 to the
city and lay in a good supply of bonds,
that he may return in his old age and lead
life that blossoms with doughnuts and is
paved with pumpkin pie. Sometimes, as
matter of fact, he does fall into the hands
of the bunco steerer, but there is q case on
record of a bunco steerer that fell into a
farmers hands. And he fell so hard that
he can feel the pain of the fall even now
The farmer came all the way from Hi
nois, by actual appointment, to have this
bunco steerer fall into his hands. And the
bunco steerer met him at the Grand Cen
trail station, his features were enameled
with the rosy smile peculiar to the pippin,
smile that only faded away like the grace
full contour of a ten dollar suit of flannel
clothing in thunderstorm, when the live
ly manipulation of the brindled bull handed
him over to a detective. and Immediately
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

of brain superiority and the accidents
and tragedies of life. 1t is almost like
writing a history of the politics of the
United States to merely mention the salien
cies of Blaine's unique and inimitable
career.
The quarrel with Conkling, which prob
ably prevented both men reaching the
presidency; the railway bond and Credit
Mobilier investigation, which long kept the
country in ferment; the contest over the
force bill" nearly quarter of a century
ago; the three terms as speaker of the
house; his phenomenal popularity and en-
thusiastic support for president; the nomi
mating convention of 1876 at Cincinnati; the
sunstroke at the steps of the Congrega
tional church in this city; the dramatic
manner in which Blaine was beaten out Of
the nomination; the convention Of 1880 at
Chicago, and the struggle of the Blaine
hosts against the 3O6 led by Conkling and
Logan; in Garfeld's cabinet, easily the
strong man of that administration; by
Garfield's side when Guiteau fired the fatal
bullet; by his bedside through the long
struggle for life; the eulogy of the dead
president in the hall of the house; in the
senate; the convention at Chicago in
| 1884, and another fierce struggle for the
presidential nomination; the labor and ex
element of the campaign, with its bitter
personal attacks on both sides; defeat by
SO narrow a margin that any one of dozen
accidents may take the responsibility;
failing health and long trip to Europe;
the Paris letter. firing the signal gun for a
campaign of protection against Mr.. Cleve
lands famous message; the Florence let
ter declining the presidential nomination;
the Chicago convention of 1888, and the mar
row escape from a nomination unsought;
again in the cabinet, with the continental
policy revived, reciprocity, conflict with
the extreme protection leaders of his own
party, English and Italian complications:
i'll health again, and for the fifth time in
twenty years popular clamor that he
shall be president. What careerI
Yet Mr.. Blaine is only sixty-one. He is
twenty years younger than Gladstone, the
| junior of hundreds of public men still
forceful and ambitious.
| Mr.. Blaine returned to the harness lit
Ole more than two years ago, after a long
and somewhat impatient retirement. He
went at his work in the state department
! with new enthusiasm and vigor, and like
| the student that he is he intruSted to no
ones care the preparation of details, sta
| tistics and citations of authorities for his
state papers, but eagerly performed all the
work himself Scores of times, in going
| home from office or club after midnight,
have | seen the shadow of great head on
yellow shade at window in the alley
which runs by the old Seward mansion.
1t was Mr.. Blaine at his desk, and the in
valid at Bar Harbor is the natural sequence
of the eager, studious statesman at Wash.
! ington. ROBERT GRAVES.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
LOVE AND THE WITCHES,

1t was a little. fearful maid,
Whose mother left her all alone;
Her door with iron bolt she staid,
And 'gainst it rolled a lucky stone
For many night she'd walked with fright
when witches by the house had flown.
To piping lutte in still midnight,
Who comes a-singing at the door
That showeth seams of golden light
"Ah, open, darling, implore!'
She could not help knowing twas Love,
although they'd never met before.
She swiftly shot the iron bar,
And rolled the lucky stone away,
And careful set the door ajar-
Now enter in, Sir Love, pray;
My mother knows it not, but l have
watched for you this many day."
With fan and roar of gloomy wings
They gave. the door windy shove;
They perched on chairs and brooms and
things;
Like bats they beat around above
Poor little maid, she'd let the witches in
with Love.
Mary E. Wilkins in Century.