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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
PROVING HIS IDENTITY.
How Young Yankee Secured Passage
Home From the Consul

Selected.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was kind-heart-
ed man as we'll as a great novelist. While
he was consul at Liverpool young Yam
kee walked into his office. The boy had
left home to seek his fortune, but evidently
hadn' t found it yet, although he had cross
ed the sea in his search. Homesick, friend
less, nearly penniless he wanted a passage
home. The clerk said Mr.. Hawthorne could
not be seen, and intimated that the boy
was no American, but was trying to steal
passage.
The boy stuck to his point, and the clerk
at last went to the little room and said to
Mr.. Hawthorne;
Here's a boy insists upon seeing you.
He says he's an American, but don know
he ism IT."
Hawthorne came out of the room and
looked keenly at the ruddy face of the
boy:
You want passage to America?'
eyes, sir"
And You say you re an Americana"
Eyes, sir. y"
From what part of American"
Omitted States, sir"
"Wnat State?'
New Hampshire sir.
"TOwn?"
Exeter, sir"
Hawthorne looked at him for a minute
before asking the next question.
Who sold the best apples in your
town."
"Skim-miIk Folsom, SIR said the boy
with glistening eyes, as the old familiar
byworL brought up the dear old scenes of
home
Its all right" said Hawthorne to the
clerk, give him passage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
VERBAL ORIGINS.
The Derivation of Some Words Now in
Common Use.

"Oh, dear!" is equivalent to 80 dio
mic, y 80 my God!'' says the st. Louis
Republic.
"Thimble'' was originally thumb
bell, the thimble formerly having been
worn on the thumb.
''Sav' is not the 'slave" of the old ety.
mo!ogists, but in reality person of noble
lineage.
Rotten row." the famous London
street, gained its name by being called
''la route du roll in English, "the kings
passageway."
"DandeIion" is ''dent de leon,' ''the
lions TOOTH and vinegar was once
win aigre" sour wine).
MADAME" is my lady and "sir" has
been extracted from the Latin Senior"
through the French.
''Biscuit'' keeps alive the Latin phrase
'..bis co ctus, twice cooked" and
verdict is simply a yer dictum (true
saying).
An ''earl" was an ''elder" in primitive
society, while pope is the same as
papa" and ''czar'' and kaiser are both
Caesars.
A VILLAIN" before the stigma of dis
grace was attached to him, was simply a
laborer On the villa of Roman country
gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21

needs but to be studied with the sauna
conscientious care that Darwin applied to
his researches, and without the bias of nra.
conceived theories.
But so many have been these theories
that 1t is difficult to divest one self of them
all. There is, for instance, one very old
and persistent theory that a man is not to
be trusted who will not look one straight
in the eye. Yet this power. or habit. de-
ponds more upon the amount Of self as-
| TEEN or natural courage which one DOS
| seSses than upon guilt or innocense. A
| rascal may be either shamefaced or brazan.
One or the latter sort could look the re-
cordlng angel In the face without the
| quiyer OF an eyeiash while committing
| the most atrocious crime. One of the
great secrets OF the prestidigitator call
ing Is to hx the audience with his eyes
while his hands are executing their Won
| derful tours de force.
Nothing gives deceivar more power to
betray the unwary-which includes most
| of us-than this faculty of bold claim or
self-assertion. In our school-days one of
our teachers became the victim of curious
manifestations of malignity on the part Of
some unknown person, probably a pupil.
The poor woman S trinkets were stolen aod
her dresses destroyed, only one at time,
as II to proIong her torment. Finally the
mischief was traced to particular room,
/ occupied by two girls, one of whom was
! popular with all on account of certain
Jolilty or manner, a careless use of her
pocket-money, and boldness that passed
for trankness, The other girl was decid-
edly unpopular, being shy to the verge of
lmbeclllty, seeming to be always afraid to
answer question in class-though these
answers were almost invariably correct
and out OF class avoiding all society. Lit
tie Rat" the girls ungenerousfy nick
named her. Nothing could exceed the
fearless good humor of the one of the abter-
Tor of the other, excepting the unanimous
establishment of their fellow pupils at the
discovery of the real delinquent, or the
culprit's brazen boasts of her adroitness
when she could no longer feign innocense,
while poor Little Rat was bathed in
tears and confusion, and incapable of
speech when exonerated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

The miners strike threatens to cause a
coal famine in Iowa.
JOSEPH NooNAN was killed by fall of
stone in Fort Wayne, Ind, quarry.
THE Eagle Refining company's plant at
Lima. Ohio, was burned Tuesday night.
Loss SIS, 10000.
The schooner Magdalena had her bow
stove in by collision with the Minerva
off Ludington, Mich.
THE pilot and supercargo, who took the
ltata out of San Diego harbor, have been
arrested.
The Gillian transport Itata and war
ship Esmeralda reached Acapulco. Mexico,
Friday.
The New Orleans committee of fifty rec
ommended the entire prohibition of i'm
migration from Sicily and southern Italy.
WALTER CLARK, a 13-year-old boy,
died at Glen Garden, n Y, after
twenty-four hours of commissions caused
by cigarette smoking.
NEW YORK creditors of the failed firm
of Levy & Co., have attached moneys be-
longing to the firm at Providence The
total attachments so far issued aggregate
S200,000
JOHN D. Adams, the Little Rock, Ark,
capitalist, has assigned. His assets are
$500, 900 and liabilities $400 900.
JESSE Fl LIPPINcoTT, lessee of the
Amtri Graphiphone company, of New
York, has assigned.
ONE of the silver mines in the Thunder
Bay Mich district is reported to be
| turning out ore paving 500, 900 q ton.
THE hill to q hoIicb bo c,,oto,,o III
paying laborers in Illinois was passed by
| the state senate Tuesday.
HONG KONG sugar, made from manila
refuse and resembling granuiated, is be-
| ing imported at San Francisco.
LEVY BROS. & Co., clothing dealers Of
New York, have failed for a million, and
sensational disclosures are expected.
The Illinois senate worlds fair com
mittee Wednesday morning reported in
fovor Of million dollar appropriation by
a vote of 9 to 6. The minority favored
one-half this sum.
The national convention of the Catholic
Knights of America has convened in Phil
adelphia. Eighty delegates, representing
torty-tWo states and membership of 20,
| OOO, are present.
| lie uCNo VI OuU.,
permission to import unleavened bread fol-
the passover feast free of duty Their re,
quest was denied and they will be obliged
to pay duty of 20 per cent.
GRAND RAPIDS street car lines are tiec
up, the employees having struck agains
signing an ironclad agreement to work az
many hours as the bosses. deem necessary
and to be responsible for damage result
ing from accident
THE Lumber Trade association of New
York has declared boycott against al
builders who employ union Iaborers
This action is in retaliation for boycott
declared by the union men on one of the
members of the lumber association.
The Branchville ore mining company
OF Branchvile Fairfield dounty Conn, has
assigned. The capital stock is $3.50, 900
and there is an excess of liabilities over
assets.
THE Illinois house of representative
to-day refused to send the worlds fair bill
appropriatine 81 600, 900, to.the Appropri
alton committee, by vote of II to 81.
CHRISTIAN ZEHR, a farmer living il
TazeWell county. ILL.,, has recovered 81, SOC
from the state for horses said to have beer
afflicted with CHAMBERS that were shot by
order of the state sanitary commissioners
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
WHY SNOW Is WHITE.
ALI the Elementary CO1ors are Blended
Together in the Crystals.


Together in the Crystals.
The pure white luster of snow is due to
the fact that all the elementary colors Of
light are blended together in the radiance
that is thrown off from the surface of the
crystals. 1t is quite possible to examine
the individual snow crystals in such way
as to detect these several colors before
they are mingled together to constitute
the compound impression of whiteness up
on the eye. The snow is then clothed
with all the varied hues of the rainbow.
The soft whiteness of the snow is also in
some degree refprable to the large guam
tity of air which is entangled amid the
frozen particles
Snow is composed of large number of
minute crystals, explains London Tit
Bits. More than thousand distinct
forms of snow crystals have been enumer-
ated by various observers. One hundred
AMI ffty-one were noticed during eight
days in February and March, 1885, by Mr..
Glashier, which were carefully drawn,
engraved and printed in paper attached
to the report of the British Meteorologi-
cal society for that year.
These minute crystals and prisms re-
feet all the compound rays Of which white
light consists. Sheets of snow n the
ground are known to reflect pink and
blue tints under certain angles of sun
shine, and to fling back so much light as
to be painful to the eyes by day, and to
guide the traveller, In the absence of moon
shine, by night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21

pose to the girl of his choice, arms him
self with two bottles of brandy. One he
presents to her father, the other he drinks
himself.
No business is discussed until the bot
ties are finished, when, both being in
happy, social state of mind, it is presu med
the consent is granted without mnch
difficulty. After the betrothal the groom
must bring a bottle of brandy to his pro-
spective father-in-law every time he calls
upon the daughter, which accounts, per
haps, for the long time which the lap
land father often keeps the lover waiting.
After, perhaps, years of this he is
obliged to serve the father for whole
year after his marriage, while the mother
in-law, if she be the object of terror. the
fact is carefully concealed, and she is
waited upon most assiduously by her SON.
in-law
She holds the reins in her own hands,
usually lives with her daughter, and has
the power to divorce her by simply pack
ing his things and throwing them cat of
the house The husband then follows
| them, and both are free to look for other
companions. Sometimes, too, the would
be brides are very shy, and have to be
brought into the room by two women,
where they crouch in corner with their
faces covered.
In Bo1neo the bride and bridegroom are
| brought from different ends of the town to
the spot where the ceremony is to be per-
formed. They are there made to sit on
two bars of iron, that health as vigorous
and blessings as lasting may attend the
day.
After all, our own custom of "hearts
not hands, is best, and while this is oc-
casionally perverted by the social ambi-
| ton of mother and daughter the majority
of our girls are true to the teachings Of
their grandmothers, who believed mar.
riage without love to be a sacrilege.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
APPEARANCES AND STRAws.
Mere Trif1es Often Reveal Moral and
Mental Characteristics.
Harpers Bazaar.

To walk through the moral world with
our eyes shut is what many persons appear
to consider the proper thing to do. To
such people all hints are thrown awry; all
the countless indications Of character,
ability and disposition afforded at every
moment by everybody to the observing
eye are lost. But when particles of the
very rocks are put under the microscope
to find out their hidden characteristics. is
there not reason for close study of the
innermost qualities of human beings-the
highest products of our Creators skill of
which we have knowledge? And failing
to do this, are we not liable to commit
acts of great injustice to our fellows?
Each one of US, unconsciously to himself
and unavoidably, carries with him infal-
lible indications of his real character
Straws show not the direction of the wind
more Certainly than do the merest trifes
reveal the mental or moral characteristic.
to the careful observer. The forms of head
and features are not the only means we
have to Judge by. Figure, walk, carriage,
voice, gesture-aH speak language which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
CRIME.

JOHN RICHIE, the Philadelphia en-
bezzler. has been captured at Havana.
IHE New Orleans grand jury has again
indicted John Cooney for attempting to
bride jurors.
A NEGRO named Bill Stevens. living six
miles south of Athens, Ala, Friday shot
and killed negro woman named Susie
Jackson. He is likely to be lynched if
caught.
THE examination of President Marsh and
Assistant Cashier Lawrence of the defunct
Keystone bank of Philadelphia shows that
they Systematically robbed the bank for
years.
ONE man was killed, two Others fatally
wounded In riot between Italian and
American laborers in the employ of
Alexander Graham, Belmont county,
Ohio
A GANG of tramps boarded a freight
train at Columbus, Ind, and in a fight
/ with the trainmen one brakeman and one
tramp were seriously hurt.
In riot between Italian and American
| laborers at Pipe Creek, W. Va, one man
was killed, and two mortally and ten SER
iously wounded.
AT MeadviIle, Pa, the grand jury has
returned three true bills against G. B.,
G. W., T. A. and V. M. Delamater for
embez Element.
EIGHT more soldiers have been arrested
at Walla Walla, 6Wash., by the military
authorities for completely in the lynch.
ing of Hunt This makes sixteen now in
custody.
AT White Plains, N. Y, Oscar Clapp,
prominent society. man and church lead
er embezzled 100000 and eloped with a
school teacher, leaving a wife and fami
ly.
Tom PAGE, II years old. struck his
mother on the head with a garden hoe,
killing her instantly, at Benton, Ark,
Thursday morning. Mrs. Page was at
tempting to chastise the boy.
EDWARD KENT, who rushed into a
+! Wells street restaurant, in Chicago, on
i Saturday, seized and ran away with the
cash box and S125, was held to the grand
jury yesterday in $500 bonds.
The body of DR.. 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.
AsBURY GREEN (colored), who was on
Monday sentenced to twenty-one years
Imprisonment for an assault upon Mrs
Tolson, was lynched at Centerville, Md,
shortly after midnight by a crowd Of
masked men, who stormed the Jail. The
community were exasperated at Green
escape from the death penalty, and took
! the law into their own hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
A BREAD MERCHANT
Peculiarities of the Bread Made in PaIes-
tine and Syria


Here comes the bread-seller. He is
one of large class, and the fiat pancake
like loaves that he has in his basket show
how the Beyrout people make bread. Tbs
same HAT cake, of varying size and thin
ness, is everywhere the form of bread in
Palestine and Syria. When fresh it is
very, sweet and palatable; but when old,
much like shavings.
At some towns in Mount Lebanon the
loaves are baked In circular form, about
two feet across, and almost as thin az
paper. 1t is related that once foreign,
er, on eating his first meal in the noun
talns, took one of these loaves and spread
it on his lap, thinking it was some new
style of napkin. Strange as this seemed
to his Syrian host, we can hardly be sur
prlsed at the mistake, for TO our Western
eyes this thin, pliable sheet looks far Dore
like cloth than bread. Now, this kind of
bread has one great advau-
tage, in that it does away with the neces-
sity of using spoons. Those sitting at
dinner tear off a piece from the loaf.
fold it as cup, and then dip portion of
food from the general dish in the center
OF the table; devouring thus with each
mouthful both spoon and contents. The
housewives of Beyrout enjoy touch of
that convenient cooperation that is pro-
posed by certain reformers of today; not
that they take their meals in pa
latial public dining rooms, but they
do have public ovens, thus doing
away with some of the households
''pirate-gear. The dough is Aattened
out into disks of the proper size, and the
boys or girls of the family put these on
trays and carry them to the nearest oven
where they are soon baked on the smooth
hot slabs. We cannot stop here to des-
cribe the various and interesting pro-
cesses of bread making as they are prac.
ticed in the villages of Lebanon, or in the
Bedouin camp. Other things close at
hand crowd upon our attention. -Frank
Stiles Woodruff in Anril ST Nicholas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
CENTRAL AMERICAN STATES

Guatemala and Salvador are said to be
on the point of another attempt to deter
mine which shall dominate the Central
American States. Guatemala has never
been satisfied with the outcome of the short
war of a year ago, and now the report
comes chat the Guatemalan army is In mo-
ton toward the Salvadorian border, ready
TO begin an attack upon any plausible pre-
text Ezeta, whom the late revolution
made president of Salvador, has his troops
in motion also, ready to repel any on
slaught of his neighbors. The people of
these two states are said to he gettin
thoroughly tired of all this quarreling I'M
til the right leaders might pursuade them
to overthrow both the present governments
IN favor Of union of the two into a Cen
trail American republic. There would be
nothing surprising in such an attempt.
But if such revolution took place under
rev leaders. the people would probably
bnd thtms selves the prey of some other
self-seeking demagogs:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
NATURES WONDERS.
Some Curious Objects for the Microscor

some curious OBJECTS Tor the Microscope.
If In pond water you should find, re-
volving slowly, some round balls of the
loyeliest green color, and covered with a
delicate network, you may read about them
IN any book on microscopy, under the
heading VolvCx. Inside may be seen
smaller balls of the same kind. By and by
the big ball will break open and free the
little ones, each of which will then gro "
and grow. until in due time it will break
open too, and still newer balls begin their
rowing lives. Wherever two meshes of
the contnlng net cross are two hairs, so
small that they are altogether invisible ex-
cept under miscrocope. These hairs, like
those on the vorticela, are used in secur-
ing food and in moving abont. Volvox,
however,Nis classified as a plant and not as
an animal.
| must not forget my friend the water
bear. He is such a comical, clumsy fell
low. He goes slowly about on his eight
little feet, poking and plodding among the
minute water plants, always sure of find
ing something good to eat. He is the
very EN- bodiment of INDECENT content Yet
for all he seems so satisfied with his lot in
life, his personal appearance is not always
pleasing to himself; for at intervals he
slips boldly out of his skin, and appears in
an entirely new suit, though | must con-
fess the general style of the cast off dress
is retained. Instead of throwing the old
suit aside, as certain bigger and clumsier
creatures do, he gets out of it Sc deity
than it stands upright and complete, even
to his four pairs Of shoes.
When the mother bear slips out
of her one dress, she leaves some eggs in
it. In few days these hatch and some
baby bears begin swimming around in the
cast-of skin. Bat only for short time
They soon find their way to the feeding
grounds, and at once begin climbing slow
~ about, and seem as much at home as
are their pare hts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
A Big Contract.
Phila6alnhia Praaa


Bowersox-Do you think all hope Of a
war with Italy has vanished?
Lafan B. Phatt-I'm afraid so. I'm
disappointed, too, FOR | counted On inhu.
ence enough to see me majors commits
sion.
81 counted on more than that
"What did you expect?"
1.-The contract to sell peanuts to the
Italian army"
He: why, Ethel, what's the N after
with the clock? It's an hour aud halt
FAST"
She: "Why, so it is. | saw pap
wind it just before you cana"
AT Wilmington, Del, 400 persons saw ten
prisoners dashed and four of them pillored
In the Jail yard. The offenses were burglary
and petty larceny. There was only ese
white man In the lot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
The Land of Sweets,

The United States is said to be the
greatest candy country in the world, S.
600. 900 worth being consumed every year.
Candy has been getting better in quality
every year. says a dealer, land now,
since the tariff has been taken off of sugar,
glucose and other ingredients that were
formerly used will be entirely done away
with by frst-elass manufacturers and moth
ing but the genuine article used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
WASHINGTON.

THERE is no news of the Itata or
Charleston at the navy department. No
credence is given to the report that the
Charleston has sunk the Itata.
The Manitoba railroad has been in pos
session for several days of letter from
the secretary of the interior, in which the
company is asked to submit proposition
for the settlement under the Casey resolu-
ton of the lands claimed in the Red river
valley. No reply has yet been made, nor
is it at all certain thai the correspondence
will be made public until it is submitted
to CONGRESS next Decemhar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
A SeaSick Passenger,

On the ocean. cares little about a storm, he is
positively indifferent whether he is washed over
board or not. But, set right by wineglassfu or
two of HoStetters Stomach Bitters, he feels re-
newed interest in his personal safety. This fine
corrective neutralizes in brackish water-often
compuIsorily drank on shipboard, to the grievous
detriment of health the pernicious impurities
which give rise TO disorders of the stomach, liver
and bowels. To the mariner, the tourist, the
Western pioneer and miner, the Bitters is invalu-
able as means of protection against malaria,
when its seeds are latent in air and water To the
effects of oyerwork, mental or manual, it is most
reliable antidote, and to the debilitated and ner
vous, ii affords great and speedily felt relief and
yigor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21

Wales. Her husband is under arrest, be.
ing suspected Of having thrown her over a
precipice.
AT Hardy, Neb., nine buildings in the
business part of town were destroyed by
fire Thursday. Loss, $4,000; insurance
one-half
By tie xplosion of a boiler in G. W.
Wilson s saw mill at Wilson Station. ".
Va, three men and a boy were instantly
killed and two others seriously hurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21
A PARROT STORY.
The Owner of a PART Greatly Annoyed by
Some of Its Sayings

Some of Its Sayings
Sometime ago a captain. who had been
on long voyage, brought home parrot.
The parrot who had been with him, had
learned some Of the sayings of the sailors.
One evening the captain invited a friend
to.supper, and began talking about where
he had been, and to which the parrot re-
piled:
That's lie
The captain was rather cross at this, so
he covered the cage over. He still kept
on with the conversation, and the parrot
again remarked:
"What lie!'
This so enraged the captain that be
seized jug of water and threw it over the
parrot, and the parrot screamed:
''All hands On deck, another thunder
storm!''