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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
OLD AND NEW ANCHORS.
Sailors Becoming Attached to the StockIes
Steel TYNE


Among the many inventions that catch
| the eye OF the Observant man along the
piers where the big merchant ships are
made fast, none is more striking than the
passing away of the old stock anchor, and
the subtltutiOn therefore of the cast steel
stockless type.
The seamen of the old school were and
are very slow about making this change,
for the simple OLD mudhook of their ancest-
ors has survived all the changes which
have brought about the swift merchant
ships of to-day
| Nowadays, space on board the average
ship does not permit the stowage of a great
cumbersome iron anchor. Particularly is
this true IN the navy, where the anchor
with Its long stock often interferes with
the arc OF lire of the guns. In an engage
ment, If an attempt were made to ''cat
and ish the old, style anchor, a dozen men
or more would BE- directly exposed to the
enemy hre. Fer these reasons, and for
the labor that is saved, seafaring
men are beginning to prefer the new
| stock(ess anchors, which can be hoisted
well up into the hawser holes and secured
there without interf, ring with the line of
lire OF the guns. DLvits and catfalls,
which are always unsightly things in the
bows of ships, are thus done away with.
One of the best known of the new an
chors was recently invented by Lieutenant
II. 0. Dunn, of the navy. This anchor is
made of steel, and the prov and 1unks
revolve on the shanks, to which they are
conceded by pin. If this pin breaks,
the anchor still holds fast. for the shank is
enlarged beyond the shoulders of the crown
and cannot escape. AS soon as the chain is
taut after the Dunn anchor strikes bottom,
the fukes bite, both at once, owing to the
weight and shape of the crown. With
both fukes firmly imbedded, pretty
strong grip is obtained, and the dragging
which often sends ship ashore is avoid
ed. The old anchors, with their long
stocks, frequently fouIed the chain, but
this, too, is prevented by the Dunn patent,
| becauSe there is no stock
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

IT would be supposed from the inactiv,
ity of business and the difficulty in mar,
keting securities that little railroad
building was going on; but from returns
gathered by the Railroad Gazette the
number Il miles built In the half year
appears to be larger than for the first hall
of 1889, though smaller than for the first
six months of 1888 and 1890. A total Of
1910 miles of new track is given, which
compares with 1855 for 1890, 1,481 fol
1889 and 2, $50 for 1888. For the whole
year the construction is placed at about
4,80O miles, in which case it will fall be-
low the record of any year since 1885. The
southern states continue to be the chic
field of operations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Girls Thought Him Fresh.


Twill you be kind enough to open the
car window for US? asked one of two
pretty girls who were making a trip by
rail Icy both looked at the man in the
seat behind theirs,
Certainly" answered the traveller,
pleasantly and he took the skin off one
pair of knuckles getting the window open.
There was a moments silence, when
pretty girl No. 2 said:
Its too cool; will you please close the
window again p
Don't mention it, " said the man, and
he closed it.
There was a silence for five minutes.
The man was reading book. Then one
Of the girls asked:
Have you the time, sir?"
eyes. It's Just half past A.
'Thank you. | wonder if there is any
water on the train?"
He went into the next car and soon re-
turned with tin cup attached to clank-
ing chain.
s'Oh, how nice. Susie, you drink first. ;"
"Nelly you first. y
mo, you first. "
He patiently held the cup with "drink,
pretty creature, drink" expression on his
lace. WIFI LHey udu duChChCo CICh
thirst he returned the cup to its pedes-
tai.
Then he resumed his book and was deep
in its contents when small, sweet voice
smote his ear:
Gould you tell how far it is to Pink
town."
He could, and did. Then they asked
him the rate of speed at which the
train was running, where he was going
and WHARF he came from. By that time
they wanted another drink, and he
brought if, opend the window again, and
was just giving them the genesis of his
family when they both jumped up.
'Plnkton' called the brakeman, and
they began wild scramble for their traps.
We've re 4ched our station. It's too
bad. You'll be lonesome. Would you
mind helping as off with our satcheIs?"
He did not mind-indeed was very
glad to SEE them off. AS he boarded his
train he heard one sweet girl say to the
other:
Rather fresh on first acquaintance,
WASH { hep"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

EIGHT men were drowned while seinine
IN the tennessee river.
FINLEY Roy, of Three Rivers, Mich,
! was killed IN runaway.
THE village of Roundhead, Hardin
county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire Sun.
day night
The old Culver homestead at Duluth
was struck by lightning and burned, Wed.
nesday.
FIRE destl Dyed the single mill of J
and j. &. Atlus, at Fort Madison, Iowa.
Loss, $50, 900 nc insurance.
AT Fl. Madison, Ind, Arlees' shingle
mill burned Tuesday morning with all the
contents; loss $50 600.
WILLIAM IRVING and Albert Hampton.
living near HlIlboro, Ill.,, were killed
Thursday by lightning.
CAMPBELL d ELLIOTT wOoden-mill at
Philadelphia was burned Friday night.
entailing loss of $850,O00.
A SHOE factory at Carlisle. Pa, in
which 200 women were employed, was
struck by lightning Friday. The shock
sustained by two women is likely to prove
fatal,
A QUEBEC dispatch says the standard
steamer Circe, of the Donaldson line. is a
complete wreck. Captain Jennings, two
engineers. the first steward and the store
keeper are drowned
FRANK G. HARToN, member of the
New York militia and formerly of Indian
apc';s, was drowned while bathing in Lake
Champlain Wednesday,
Noah SATRo, of Harrington, Neb., was
buried beneath ten feet of sand which
caved in an him in a well. When rescued
he was dead.
On Tuesday, Peter Pascoe, Jr., and
James Dover, Jr., were both
smothered by gas in the Republic mine
near Marquette, Mich. Both were young
men. Dover lost his life in an heroic at
tempt to rescue Pascoe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
The Ruxgelest Path in Life

II it be but irradaed by good health, is shorn of
half its distasteful features. Hosts of distin-
guished men and women have uttered regrets for
q past when young, full of Vigor and hope, though
battling with obstacles that seemed we'll nigh in
surmountable, their pulses beat, their veins
tingled with the glow of joyous health. Chronic
invalids, would you once more feel that glow.
would you-as of yore-sleep, eat, digest perfect
ly: fhen use with persistence. Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bltters, foremost among tonics, most reliable
of WALKING medicines. Nervousness, dyspepsia,
hypochondra. a loss of appetite and sleep, thu
grand reparative of debiitated physique and
impaired constitutional yigor speedily prevails
against. Rheumatic and neuralgic ailments,
maarial di- orders, kidney troubles and the grow
ing infrmities of age, are successfully combatted
by this benign specific.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
THOUGHT HE WAS A MODEL
How an Art Professor Made a Bashfu
Young Mau Undress.


Young Mau Undress.
The late Prof. Michael of the Academy
| OF arts here was man of unusually COM
handing presence and manners, says a
letter from Berlin. One afternoon a
banker S messenger went TO his studio with
a mortgage on a house ON which he had
lent money. The professor expected a
model at the same hour. The messenger
had served IN the army, so when he was
led into the studio he stood still to await
orders. He saw the professors class hard
at work from nude model, and began to
show symptoms of uneasiness. The pro-
fessor heard him shifting about and
shouted testify, Take off your coat"
The messenger hesitated, but his mill
tary training was too much for him, and
he removed 1t. Five minutes passed. The
professor looked up. Mara! Go ahead, :"
he called out. Take off your shoes and
stockings. The messenger looked for
some way of escape, but the professor had
door, and there was no window near at
hand. So the man reluctantly barred his
feet. He shivered on the tile floor for ten
minutes before he professor looked up
again. What do you ?" roared the
irate artist Have | got to mention
every garment before you remove it? Off
with your vest and trousers!"
With the swiftness of despair the ex-
soldier got out of these garments
Michael sprang at him, shrieking, Go
on! Go onl' He made a dive for a
piece of statuary, put it between him and
the professor, and cried out piteously:
Got in HimmeI, if the Herr Banker was
only here!' These despairing words re-
lieved the situation. In response to a
question or two the messenger blubbered
out his errand, the professor pocketed his
mortgage, and with a gold-piece indem-
nifed the quaking young man for the
wear and tear of high art on his nervous
system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
CUSTOM AND CUSTOMER.
Buying and Selling.-The Old Way and the


New.
Any householder, whose happiness it is
to pay for the supplies of the family,
must be aware Of the extreme difficulty OF
getting with any certainty steadily good
article OF most any sort. It is easier In
the case of luxurses, for the reason that
for these the demand is more limited, the
number of producers CORRESPONDENCE
small, and the chance of tracking bad
work or untruthful statements greater
But for the things everyone must have
and which most must bave as cheap as
may BE- buying is a lottery, with a miser-
able prevalence of blanks. You can get
vlrtlous butter for dollar pound, but
the search for eatable butter at forty
cents pound is weary and depressing
pursuit. 1t is the same with the inumer-
able articles of clothing. From the hat
that grows gray Ill a months service,
to the shoe soles that will not stand a
days rough tramping, The things that are
turned out In large quantities for 1.-The
million" are not Trustworthy.
think the chief reason is that in our
complex and widely ramifed system of
exchanges the producer and the consumer
rarely come int direct relation with each
other; the former rarely knows, and still
more rarley cares, for the opinion the
latter may have of him, of his methods,
his character and his goods The seller
deals to-day with one set of buyers TO-
morrow with another, and so on, and the
buyers change their places of purchase
with the greatest frequency. The rela-
ton indicated by the old-fashioned words
custom" and customer" is dying out,
and with it the possibility of accountable
ity and the nope of profitable honesty.
The type of modern retail dealing is
that most abominable device the bargain
counter, > wh=re cheapness, real or imag-
lned, is the main thing considerei.-From
The Point of View" in July Scribner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

THE gibbet is doomed. Electricity is
the hangman of the future. The official
report of the physicians present at the
four executions in New York recently
must prove death blow to any attempt to
repeal The new law and silence all prating
about "cruel and unusual punishment
"The experience of the day." concludes
the report, ''has proved to our satisfaction
that this method is superior to any other
yet devised" Other states have doubtless
been watching tie result of this expert
n,ent with a view to the adoption of the
reform. The execution of Kemmler left
the matter in dispute. But now that the
superiority of electricity over the gallows
has been fully established we may expecC
10 see the leiolm taken up 10y the legisla.
lures Of other states in the near future.
If narslaUg hter by the law is to continue
(Wlitl i'm unity tObiC y let Us by all
means dc our killing in the least revolving
way POSSIBLE. But speed he day when
the bloody business Will cease in every
state and Territory IS, thanks to the wis
dom and humanity Of our people, it has
long since ceased in our own blessed COM
monwealthl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

AT Lexington, Va, StOnewall Jackson
will forever endere in bronze. A statue
of the greater fighter has been erected there
by the admirers of the dead
soldier and the dedication occurred Tues
day-a day sadly memorable to the north
as it was on that date thirty years ago
that the union forces met with their ter
IDLE defeat at Manassas. The speech by
Gen. Jubal Early was very moderate In
tone, considering the rabid nature Of the
orator, and, while tender in its illusions
TO the lost cause, was chiefly marked by a
merited tribute to the honorable character
of the famous southern warrior and to his
distinguished courage and splendid mill
tary abilities. The venerable widow of the
valient general was present, and alto,
gether our southern friends made much OF
the occasion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
HE DREAMED ON BEAUTY'S ARM
An Incident in Broadway Car Which
Made Men Enyious.
New York Commercial Lad,

mdue fuen EnSiOus-
New York Commercial advertiser.
He was a small and frecked lad, and
she was lady fair. They met by chance,
the fdvorite way, in an uptown Broadway
car.
The day was hot and muggy and he was
tired and enormously sleepy for his size
She was pretty young woman, and as she
came into the car as it crawled by the
crowned with big pink rose at the apex
of her hat and set off by frosty chate-
lame full of useless things, every man in
his parched throat as if he had spied a
trapped watermelon set before him IN
slices of pink alb rndon.
The best afforded by the car ia the way
Of seats was proffered to the lady. She
smiled a swift, three eighth smile, and
gracefully seated herself; crossed her neat
patent-leathered fee,, with both soles
properly down, took dime from her sill
yer charity box and held it between her
teeth until the conductor came and ex-
changed it with an air of courtly grace for
a coin of baser metal.
From Canal street to Grand the observed
of all the observers fixed a non-commit:al
gaze upon the space which lay in direct
line in front of her pretty nose, and was
none the less admired, Of course, for that
At Grand street He got on. Being
very young and very shabby, and of the
GEM red-headed errand boy sort, he
was a safe person for beauty's kindness
With a white gIoved hand the crisp blue
skirts were drawn aside The graceful
form hitched hands breadth to the right,
and small slice of space thereby made
for tie little fellows repose.
Directly the youngster had wedged his
way in so that his meagre shoulder blades
rested upon the back of the seat, his eye
lids began to swell and waver. In two
minutes he had wrapped his fiery little
cocoanut smartly against the window
frame The shock awoke him, and he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
CRIME.

&. PARKERs, prominent business man
OF Nashville, Tenn, committed suicide
Tuesday.
AT Easton, Pa, the national bank was
robbed of package containing $4,000 in
81 bills
MINNIE WILLIAMS committed suicide
at Laurel, Ind. She was disappointed in
love.
The stealings of Bushnell, TIE Chesa-
peal Ike q Ohio paying clerk arrested. Friday
for faIsifying pay rolls amount to neatly
$40 900.
Mrs. R. RoDEN, recently discharged
patient from the Kankakee insane asylum,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
HE WAS LATE.
But Gave Good Exhibition of Clever
Reasoning.
wasn'thei
Washington Post .

The front platform of a horse car is
scarcely the place where one would look
for an exhibition of the logical faculty,
but 1t was the scene of quite an exhibition
of clever reasoning. A driver, who is one
of the most Independent as well as one of
the most competent employees of the road,
was found to be about three minutes late
by one of his superior officers. He imme-
diately gave an excuse for the hardness,
and the first speaker remarked rather
testify:
well, you always have one excuse OF
another.
.Of course do, p" was the reply. IF
did not have good excuse | wouldn't be
late -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

A COUPLE of GAINESVILLE females waltzed
into store at Beloit few days ago and
cowhided a young man who, it Is SAID,
hid made remarks to the effect that they
were net ladies. If subsequent action
is a certain demonstration of the correct
ness Of his diagnosis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

The Count ard Countess Butcher,
of the Eikhart Lake sensation, have
already been separated through the
Influence of the girls relatives. The count
is not in a financial condition to support a
wife, and being a simple minded young
thing, the girl has been sent home to
Brooklyn. There seems 10 be great dis
tress over the affair all round.
Mrs A. c. Peckham, of Asl land, is one
of the heirs to "a fortune of 1918, eco, left
by an uncle in LocbT,rt, NY.
Mrs. Leland Stanfold's trust deed, Civ
ing $4,000 to endow FIVE kindergartens
In San Francisco, has been filed. As the
income will lie 5 per cent each school will
get 81 eco year. These sci oos are said
to have already had an appreciate effect
IN reducing the number of "hoodums"
who infest the streets of San Francisco.
and in lettering the condition of the tene-
nent house districts.
White Beaver (rx-Nayor Frank Poweli)
has moved from La Crosse to St. Paul.
Hon. Thos. S. Boccck. who is reported
critically i'll at his home in Appomattox
county, Virginia. is rs years of age. He
was representative in congress from 1S4-
to 1861, and during the war was member
The confederate congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

KENTUCKY distillers are said to be puz-
zled to know what to do with 10000, 900
gallons of whisky that they have on hand.
This is singular condition in which Ken
tuckians, of all people on the earth, should
find themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

THE Chicago Tribune Is an enterprising
sheet. 1t publishes an interview with
Richard Guenther, minister to Mexico,
although that gentleman Is still in the
land of the Aztecs and will not be home
for a week yet 1t misjudged the time of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

THE squadron of evolution has at las
got back to New York and the Herald of
tkat city says the "seven new cruisers are
the admiration of thousands of New
Workers who trust in God but believe IN
heavy artillery"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

An examination of the stomach Of II.
Me>serschmidt, farmer of Center, Outa-
game county, is being made, as some sus-
ricion that he died from poisoning is en-
tertained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

1t has been shown that If the sun was
burning sphere of solid coal 1t could not
last six thousand years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant is going to Sara
toea, July "a to make little stay at the
Grand Union hotel. This is her first visit
to Saratoga since the death of her husband
six years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Ri. de LessepS IS very sick and feeble
old man, and his physicians are doubtful
if he has the vitality needed to enable him
TO pull through. He is 81 years old.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-20
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
NEW YonK. May 2o-1n the stock market thi

NEW YORK. May 2O-In the stock market this
morning the rally OF yesterday afternoon was
continued at the opening and first prices sh' we'd
advances over last evenings figures of from y to
3. per cent. The IN rket con not continue this
rate of progress however sad while there woro
generally fui,her flight gains oted, many OF he
leading shsres reac ed slightly in the carly ad-
ing, but sitter peri ID of hesi sation ducing which
the mark ct remained devoid of feature, there was
general upward movement toward the end OF
tho hour and the leading stock, scored large frac-
ti,nal pains. There was no special feature CT in
tereat in the rket and at o'clock it Was fairly
active aud irm to stron g at fractional gairs over
FIRST prices.
BALTIMORE, May 2o.-Virginis cun-os =; do
1O-4os =; do 3s 64la.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-20
LOCAL BRRvITIgs

The republicans of the county held a meeting
at johnston's store last night.
Tho excu,si.n to River View by the S.. Johns
Cadet Corps To-Day Wa, we'll attended.
The ,tofice at Nauck, Alexandria county,
has been discontinued, and the mail for that place
now goes to Carlin's.
The Pot mac river st Hancock and Harpef'e
Ferry is withio nine inches Of the lowest water
ever known at these poinis
A gentleman who advertised the loss Of bunch
Of keys in tho GAZETTE yesterday evening re.
ceived the Keys before II o'clock to-day.
1t is said that Mes,rr. P 3. Evans and Thomas
Bayne will run 40 Independent candidates for the
Common Council from tho Fourth ward
Repairs to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal are
progressing rs idly. owing to the favorable wealth.
er and the la sc force employed on the work.
The Mount Vernon Regents have concluded
their business sitter making arrangements for i'm
provements that will msintain the home of Wash
ington.
The game of bsse ball played yesterday evening
at the Gentlemen's Driving Park between nine
Of the WASHINGTON Light Infantry Corps snd the
Alexandria Club resulted in defeat for the latter
by score of to 4.
Charles Delare Mcpherson, one Of the oldest
printers in Washington, died on Monday OF can
Ger Of the stomach, at the age OF seventy three.
He was born in this city, bat soent almost his en-.
tire life in Washington.
A gentleman from Washington is contemplating
the purchase of two lots in the North West i'm.
PROVED emit Ccmpapy's tract aad the erection
thereon OF q handsome residence. he says a num-
Der Of Wsshingtonians are thinking Of building
residences on this tract.
Although the democrats Of the county have
held no convention to nominate officers, several
deltg.tiops have waited on Mr. J. E. Clemen 8
and urged him to again be c'ndidate for Com
rol weaith's Attorney, pledgDg him their sup.
port. 1t is sad the democrats are not alone 10
their desiIc for Mr.. Clements reelection.
See notice Of sale of barn, &c, at North West
AleXandris.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-20
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