Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-05


up of stray horses. The senate committee
on stock-raising has introduced bill
which is fair to all, but which will prevent
the universal crime of horse stealing,
which is carried on under the guise of
"taking up strays" by persons so inclin
ed. This bill should be passed. without
delay
DUN's weekly trade review is, on the
whole, rather encouraging than otherwise.
One Of the chief movements of interest to
the financial world is the withdrawal of
loans by eastern parties from Kansas and
other western states. Capital has been
very sensitive since last November and
takes fright unduIy
PEACE is the great desideratum of every
European nation bat they watch each
other closely and 60 on getting ready for
war just the same. Italy, aided morally
and financially by Germany, is fortifying
and improving her arms. All this friend
illness has attracted attention from Aus
tria, whose monarch has accordingly mott
fed King Humbert that he is coming to
make visit real soon.
To PREVENT the paint on iron or wood
from scaling off when exposed to the
weather, first thoroughly wash the parts
to be painted and then brush over the
surface with hot Enseed oil. By following
this method, especially with iron articles,
no scaling of the paint will occur. In
cases where the articles to be painted are
small and can be readily heated, it is
better to heat them and plunge them into
the oil. The thin liquid oil when hot
enters into the pores of the metal, absorbs
the moisture, and the paint then applied
so firmly adheres that frost, rain or air
cannot affect separating.
They were wise words which King Leo
bold. of Belgium, addressed the deliga
ton of workingmen who recently visi-
ted him at his palace in Brussels. He
told them he had decided to support the
demand for universal suffrage, declaring
that he had the cause Of the workingman
''greatly at heart" He said that work
men are wrong in considering themselves
a seperate class. We are he added
"Belgians, in different grades, and all
workingmen. Whoever speaks thus to
workingmen, and means it, touches the
keynote of the better time coming.
THE use of iron in the construction of
the walls Of dwelling houses has hitherto
been unknown in Berlin, Germany, small
structures, such as kiosks, built up of cor
rugated sheets, or temporary buildings OF
iron and glass, beino the only purposes to
which the metal has yet been applied in
this connection. A new departure is, how
ever, being made by Berlin builder, who
is constructing five residences of three
stories each, the walls of which are formed
of iron plates and the floors of iron grid
ers. The plates are lined inside with
wood, but in other respects the usual build
ing materials are dispensed with. 1t is
claimed for this style of building that
greater security against Ere is obtained,
with unusal resistance to the destructive
influences of the weather.
MAKING CITIZENS OF HEBREWS
FROM EUROPE.
Not only is the amount of the fund CIV
en- by Baron Hirsch for thessbeneit or
Hebrew immigrants in this country note
worthy. but the purposes to which it is to
be applied are equally so. This 50, 100000
which is to be administered by such men
as Jesse Seigman, Oscar S. Strauss, Meyer
Sulzberger and others of equal prominence,
is to be devoted primarily to making these
immigrants fit for citizenship in the Unit
ed States As little as possible is to be
used in charity but as much as possible
for the education of these pee II & and their
children, and for fitting them for self-sup-
port. Russian and Roumanian immigrants
are to have the preference, and they are 10
be taught the English language, furnished
witt, che necessary tools and taught
handicrafts and agriculture, in
schools and shops, and upon farms, after
improved methods; ard they are also to be
instructed in the duties and obligations
of lite and citizenship in the United
States" 1t is wisely provided that all
relief shall be incidental, and only in cases
of helplessness shall unconditional charity
be administered. There have been some
1000 month of Hebrew immigrants of
this class arriving in New York lately,
most of them nearly destitute and all ig-
norant of our language and customs.
They have crowded into the tenement
houses already occupied by earlier immi-
grants of their race, and added so much
more to the poverty and squalor of the
metropolis. The trustees of the fund are
now meeting these people on arrival, pro-
siding work for many and sending many
into the west and south. Soon colony
will be founded in this country where fac
tories and schools will be erected with
comfortable homes, and the educational
plan of Baron Hirsch put in operation.