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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

pressure and one ampere of current to
bring it up to its proper candle-power, its
energy in watts will be found by fifty multi
piled by one, or fifty watts. If the lamp re.
quires 100 volts and half an ampere its en-
ergy in watts will be the same as before
that is, 100 multiplied by one-half, or City
watts, and as it takes TAG watts 20 equal
oce horsepower. the number of lamps, as
above, that can be worked With one horse
power is calculated by 746 divided by
fifty, or nearly fifteen lamps
Many people think that i1candescent
lamps do not give out heat. THIS idea is,
however, a mistake, for although the heat
given out by such lamp is not nearly as
great as the heat from gas Jet of equal
candle power, yet some heat is necessarily
given off. 1t would be impossible to have
a white hot flament, such as there is in
an incandescent lamp, without heat
However, leaving expense and conven-
fence out of the question, the incandescent
lamp has this one overwhelming advant-
age over every other method of lighting,
namely, it does does not give any products
of combustion. and so does not vitiate the
atmosphere. 1t follows from this that
these lamps cannot smoke or blacken the
wallpaper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
AN ENGLISH ELEVATOR.
An American Thought He Was Going to
Come Down Standing on His Head.

London may not be provided with
elevators on anything like the scale that
New York is, )" said man recently who
spent his vacation abroad but | saw a
lift there, the like of which | do not be-
lieve exists in this country. | entered an
office building in London, which
was not far from the bank of England, to
see friend who YVES on the top floor. In
the corridor | saw number of boxes fol-
lowing one another up one shaft and down
another They were attached to an end
less chain and were large enough to hold
several persons.
Il looked at the machine in some doubt,
when suddenly a man stepped out of one
of the boxes, or cars, which was coming
down. The car, which was going at
what seemed to me rather rapid rate OF
speed, it did not stop, the man jumping
off it while It was In motion. Pretty
soon | saw other men jumping in and out
of the car, which was as far apart on the
endless chain as the distance from floor to
floor 1t a first hesitated about risking my
limbs and life on the contrivance, but
finally stepped into an ascending car just
before its bottom was on level with the
| floor.
mo sooner had | done this than he
gan TO get AFRAID UIdU nllSnG De cruSueu
to death between the Car and the floor or
ceiling when tried to step off. Of a sud
den it struck me that if | did not get off
at the top floor | would be carried to the
roof, and then be stood on my head in the
car as it turned over. | was in perfect
fever of anxiety, and could hardly screwup
my courage to the point of alighting, but
amagined to do this when the top floor was
reached | found that ii was much easier
to get out than had supposed, and when
| finished my call | boldly rode down on
the machine.
II afterward learned that a man who
did no get out of an ascending car at the
top floor would be in no danger of being
turned upside down at the top Of the
shaft, because the car always maintains
its upright position. This is due to the
fact that only the roof of the car is fasten-
ed to the cable, so the car always remains
bottom downward by its own weight. A
lift like this may be economical, as it
does away with the need OF men to run it,
but | myself much prefer the safe Ameri-
can machine ~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
have two ounces of steel in his whole
body.
rRBNAIs.

THE postmaster at Marion was removed
| for being short in his accounts.
THREE men and one woman were killed
IN fight among Huns hear Johnstown,
Pa.
PRETENDING to be officers. two thieves
handcuffed Frank Myers of Fostoria, O.,
and robbed him of 81 800.
JOHN BROTHERS, a young man en-
ployed at q Racine hotel, has confessed to
stealing money from the Office.
FRANK BRAUN, a saloonkeeper ia Chi
cago, was found dead Saturday morning.
Mrs. Joerudt, his housekeeper, is held by
the police on suspicion of having murder
ed him.
AN attempt to cause collision between
two passenger express trains near Ballston
Spa, n. Y, by opening switch was frus-
trated by one of the trains being late.
JOHN WATSON, confidential man of the
Meriden sliver-plate company at Meri-
den, Conn. is short in his accounts and
has disappeared.
JOHN BURLINGTON, murderer unner
sentence of death, escaped from Jail at
Boonville, Mo. stole the sberiff's hsrse,
and fed.
JAMES HERMAN, of Peori9, while TN
dertaking to show funeral party how to
Kill chicken, broke the neck OF Patrick
Lyons, aged go.
AT AuIander, N. c., Kinch Freeman. a
negro who murdered DR.. Adkin and his
mother, was hanged in his cell by a mob
Wednesday night.
A NUMBER of Des MONIES justices snd
I IL
the prohibitory law as means to black
mail saloonkeepers.
Dr. E. o. VINCENT went to the residence
of his wife, from whom he was separated
for tune, and shot her three times kill
ing her instantly. When taken to jail
Vincent fell unconscious and it is suppos-
ed that he took poison to commit suicide.
The caus e Of the tragedy is unknown,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
ARTIFICIAL sCuLL-sHApING,

Astonishing success has attended the
efforts of DR.. Lannelongue, an eminent
specialist of Paris, to give intelligence to a
little idiot girl. Though four years old,
the child could neither walk nor stand,
and never smiled nor took notice of any
thing. The doctors concluded that the
abnormal mario wness of the head obstruct-
ed the growth Of the brain, and in May
last he made an incision in the centre OF
the skull and cut piece of bone from the
left side. The result was marvellous.
Within less than month the child could
walk, and she has become quite bright
playing, smiling, and taking notice of
everything around her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
BLACK FEMA SAMSON.
Wonderful Muscular Development of
Woman in the Lone Star State

Wonderful Muscular Development of IA
Woman in the Lone Star State.
Preedman's Town. suburb of Hous-
ton. Texas, boasts of a female Samson,
who has repeatedly proven herself match
for any three men that have pitted their
united strength against her, and who IA
few nights ago successfully routed Officer
John Baxter and three of his assistants,
all men of fine physique.
The woman is negress as black as night
and of a stature slightly above the average
but magnifcently built and extraordinarily
active.
Her grip is such that she was able to
break two of the bones of the hand of a
woman with whom she had fracas re-
Gently and it was on the police attempting
10 arrest her that she not only was able
to prevent thcm from putting the hand
cuffs on her, but taking the officer and his
posse, one by one, flung them out of
the house and closed and locked up the
door.
Baxter, in particular, is accounted a
man Of unusual strength and is of large
build, but he says his muscles were as
child's when compared with those of the
Black Amazon.
The woman, whose name is Caroline
Jenkins. is about thirty years old and is
the mother of seven children. She has
been seen to pick up a barrel of -four and
carry it distance of some yards without
appearing to over-exert herself and when
tested was found to break with ease a new
grass rope an inch in diameter.
Since her exploit with the police it is
said that party of gentlemen propose
travelling with her if she will go and give
exhibitions of her strength, which is to be
ascribed to no electrical or magnetic pro-
cess, but to her muscular development
alone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
Physicians Have Found Ont

That contamination and foreign element in the
blood, developed by Indigestion, is the of
rheumatism. This settles upon the sensitive sub
cutaneous covering of the muscles and ligaments
of the joints causing constant and shifting pain,
and aggregating as a calcareous, chalky deposit
which produces stiffness and distortion of the
joints. No fact. which experience has demon
has stronger evidence to support than this, name
ly, that this medicine of comprehensive uses
checks the formidable and atrocious disease nor
is it less positively established that it is prefer
able to the poisons often used to arrest it, since
the medicine contains only salutary ingredients.
1t is also signal remedy tor malarial fevers,
stipation, dyspepsia, kidney and bladder ailments,
debility and other disorders. See that you get the
genuine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

CAswELL has secured the appointment
of A. J. Steel, as postmaster at Earring
ton, Jefferson county, vice M. L. Piper, re-
signed.
THE president on Tuesday sent to the
senate the following nominations: War
Colonel Charles Sutherland, Surgeon, to
be surgeon general, with the rank of
brigadie1 general, vice }. H. Baxter, de-
ceased.
THE United States supreme court on the
% rendered an important decision in a
Mormon polygamy case, holding that a
the husband where poIygamy is the crime
charged
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
\ SMART DOG.
A Little Dog That Waves Red Flag When
Train is Signaled.

Scarcely any one who passes the point
of intersection of the Gravois road and the
st. Louis & Oak Hill railway fails to no.
tice little dog acting as flag-man at the
railway crossing. This little animal is
named Curly and is the property and as
sistant of Flagman Edward Howard, sta
toned at the above named crossing
Curly is a Spanish fox terrier, scarcely
over two feet in length and not quite two
years of age When the Oak Hill Rail-
way company began to operate its road
Flagman Howard was assigned to watch
the Gravois road crossing, and to trim the
signal lamps. Curly made her home at
the watch-house and when her master
would 60 out to collect the switch lamps
the dog would lie down at the door and
patiently await her masters return. One
day as Howard was busy cleaning the
lamps a train dashed into sight around
the curve. Several wagons were ap-
preaching the crossing, and would prob
ably have driven on, meeting with a Sc
rious accident, had not the little animal
rushed past its master and began barking
furiously, which had the desired effect of
stopping the teams. An idea then struck
the master to train the dog to hold flag
She could stand on her hind feet with per-
feet ease, and to hold d red signal flag in
her mouth would be great help to him,
as the passing trains are numerous. 1t
took but very little time to break her in -
to hold little led flag, and now every
time train whistles she runs to fetch it,
and, standing On he2 hind legs. holds it
aloft to warn drivers of wagons of the
danger. The engineers all know the lit
tie dog and look out for her. Curly per-
forms variety of tricks and is good
mimic. Just now she is rearing family,
but every time an approaching train
whistles she gets her flag and does her
duty.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

chestnut parties He shook off all our
chestnuts for US and where he could not
shake them off he would go out to the
very end of the limb and knock them off
with his foot.
One day we stopped at tavern and
drank freely. About half a glass of
whiskey was left and Jack took the glass
and drank it ALL Soon he was merry.
skipped, hoped and danced and set US all
In roar of laughter. Jack was drunk.
We all agreed, six of US, that we would
come to the tavern next day and get Jack
drunk again and have sport all day. |
called at my friend home next morning
and went out for Jack. Instead of being
as usual ON his box he was not to be seen.
We looked inside and he was crouched up
In heap. Come out here" said his
master. Jack came out on three legs; his
fore paw was placed on the side of his
head. Jack had the headache. | knew
what was the mate r with him. He felt
just as l had felt many morning. Jack
was sick and couldn't go, so we waited
three days. We then went, and while
drinking glass was provided for Jack.
But where was he? Skulking behind the
chairs. Come here, Jack, and drink, ="
sdlu MS master, hOldlng out glass to
him. Jack retreated, and In a moment
was on top of the house.
His master went out to call him down
but ne would not come. He got a cowhide
and shook it at him. Jack sat on the
rldgepole and refused to obey. His mas
ter got gun and pointed it at him. A
monkey is much afraid of a gun. Jack
slipped over the backside of the house
His master then got two guns, and had
one pointed on each side of the house,
when the monkey. seeing his bad pre-
dicament, at once whipped up the CHM
nev and got down in one of the fues,
holding on by his fore paws The master
was beaten. The man kept that monkey
twelve years but could never persuade
him to taste another drop of whisky. The
beast had more sense than a man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
"REMINISCENCES OF BURTON.
Eugene Field Chats Entertainingly on the
Subject of the Great Oriental Traveller.
Chicago News

SulcdSO News.
The late Sir Richard Burton once had a
famous rrtarrel with the custodlans of the
Bodleian Library. There were in that IL
brary certain Arabic manuscripts which
Burton wanted to make use of, and he
asked permission to borrow them. The
custodians answered that under no circum-
stances whatever would the manuscripts
be suffered to 60 out of the building. Bur-
ton thereupon set to work to air his
grievance, and in the course of his vari-
Gus open letters to the press he insinuated
that there was not a man in the university
who could decipher the manuscript in
question; he complained therefore, that
the custodians of the Bodleian were pursu-
ing a dog in-the-manger policy.
The London Times made a strong effort
to secure the services of Burton on its staff.
but Burton laughed the idea to scorn; his
political opinions did not coincide with
those of the Times, and he was altogether
too independent Of character to suffer him
self to be enslaved, even under promise OF
princeiy salary. The Times never for
gave Burton for his independence in this
matter. Even its obituary notice of him
had it it deal of cowardly venom.
Some years ago a facetious newspaper
correspondent ventured to inquire whether
Lady Burton had ever read her husband s
translation of the arabian Nights" TIE
implication was that if she had she must be
exceedingly well informed upon certain
matters of which the fair sex generally are
proud to know very little. To this bit Of
questionable humor, Lady Bnrton made
prompt and specific answer. She said that
she had not read the work In question and
that she did not wish to read it, as her hus-
band had expressed his preference that she
should not.
The feeling that Burton was most shah
billy treated by the British government is
now finding vent in expressions of bitter
ness. The talk of the ingratitude of re-
publics is hushed before the example of d
monarchy that ennobles and pensions i'm
beetle bastards and at the same time
blindly and wantonly neglects out of its
sturdiest intellects and most diligent ser,
wants. When Burton was sent off to the
Consulate of Fernando Pc, which is called
1.-The foreign-otfice grave, he said, with
a commingling Of bitterness and pride
''They want me to die, but shall not dc
SOL"
Burton's favorite beverage was green
tea; he never drank anything else while be
was travelling He was an authority on
the subject of African fevers, having had
years of experience with those malignant
maladies. His infallible remedy was tc
administer a bottle of port wine and then
sleep off the effects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
A New Kind of a Fuel.
Calgary Tribune.

A large number of people visited the
house Of Mr. Scott on section Is, for a
few nights to inspect the new fuel that he
Tad just invented The fuel is in round
balls about the size of cricket balls, quite
hard and of a grayish color. When the
Tribune man got to the house the fire was
under way and was burning with blush
fame, and although The check drafts of the
stoves were closed, throwing an intense
heat, the temperature of the room being
nearly 100 degrees. Mr.. Scott says he can
manufacture this fuel cheaper than ever
coal can be produced and he seems conf
dent that in short time it will be the
principal fuel in Manitoba and the North
west, as it can be manufactu ed in almost
any neighborhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
DIR. GATLING,S NEW GUN.
The Explosive Charge Being New Pow
der Patented by the Inventor.

The new discovery N coast defense guns
is described as rifed steel tube thirty.
FIVE or forty feet long. the explosive charge
of which is not dynamite or any of the
known new high explosives, but a powder
patented by the inventor of the gun itself.
The astounding claim is made for this
weapon, which is to be fired by electricity,
that it will send its steel projectile through
twenty inches of armor plate at distance
of ten miles, or, in other words, that a
hostile feet at Sandy Hook could be eff
fectively engaged with these guns by the
forts on Governors Island. for example.
The reputed inventor is DR.. Calling of
Hartford. New York World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
MON ETARN VAGARIES OF THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE


FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The cheap-mon ey idea, and the child
like faith in the ability of congress to sus-
pend or modify the laws of finance, and
bring to pass prosperity by putting our
currency, greatly inflated, upon silver
basis, are the essential features of the
farmers alliance platform adopted at
Ocala, Monday, Dec. Sth. About all the
financial vagaries of the time are Endorsed,
and their enactment into law demanded,
The sub-treasury scheme of loaning gov
eminent money upon farm products at 2
per cent, the Stanford land mortgage
scheme and free silver coinage, with
large imitation of currency, were the meas
ures formally commended. There was a
saving element of conservatism in the con-
vention which unavailingly tried to make
effective protest against these extreme de-
mands. The idea that there could be any
other way to wealth for the farmers than
through the circulation of plenty of cheap
money was Indignantly rejected. The
first thing these farmers will do after they
get control of congress, as they expect to
10 in 1892, after they have voted them
selves plenty of money, will be to forbid
under heavy penalties al trading in fu-
lures; and then they propose to prohibit
alien ownership Of lands The railroads
will lose all lands they do not actually &C.
cupy, and will be put under strict govern
mental supervision, and, if that is not
sufficient, will be purchased or confscated,
and owned or controlled by the govern
ment. Then the taxation problem will
De attacked The tariff will be revised so
that one industry will not be built up at
the expense of another. and all duties on
the necessaries of life will be removed.
Incomes will be taxed, according to a
graded scale, and the rational and state
revenues limited ito the necessary 'ex-
penses of the government" These re-
marks about the tariff are exactly in line
with the verdict of the farmers rendered
at the polls in November, and they con-
firm the assertion that the Mckinley bill
did the business in the agricult raj states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
SLOWLY IMPROVING.

Sensational dispatches inspired by finan-
cial ghouls whose interests are best sub
served by demoralized markets, have lately
been all too common. There is really
nothing alarming in the present financial
situation. There are failures, of course,
but, as has been pointed out, there has not
been time in years when the financial
embarraSsments were of a less startling
nature. With very few exceptions the
concerns that are forced to suspend are
found to have assets far above their liabil-
tiles, but the recent changes In financial
affairs have placed them where their as
sets are not Immediately available, and so
to avoid the possibility of being crowded
to the wall many institutions have made
voluntary assignment. In other words,
business methods that were perfectly safe
and sound three months ago, are now
insufficient Credit was good enough
then; but the financial furry made bankers
conservative and they wanted cash instead.
The change was in the right direction but
it was too sudden. Bankers who were
willing to let Tom, Dick and Harry have
any amount of money for any kind of
wild speculations went to the other extreme
and were very grudging of necessary ac-
commodations for legitimate business for
awhile. That has pretty we'll passed.
Confidence is being restored, and while the
effects of the shake-up are still being felt
and will be felt for some time, the fnan-
cial situation, so far as all Legitimate bust
ness is concerned, is steadily, if slowly,
improving.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

A REMARKABLE REPRESENTATIVE. - A
Belgium chemist has found that the green
tar left after extracting the oil from the
white bark of the birch will effectually
preserve even the most delicate textures
from decay. It.yields neither to acid nor
aIkaloid, is remarkably fluid in alcoholic
solution, and when once dried res lists even
the action of alcohol;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

The official list of the next house of re-
representatives. as made up by the clerk
contains the names of 235 democrats and
81 Scattering" including republicans
and farmers alliance men, of whom the
latter number eight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

Nine. Carnot has required the mayors
of the twenty ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Paris
each to draw upa list of twenty widows
having the largest number of children,
whom Nine. Carnot desires to help upon
New Year day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

The car has conveyed to the American
colony of st. Petersburg, through Charles
Emory Smith, the United States minister,
his thanks for their resolutions expressin g
gratitude for the liberty they have enjoyed
during his reign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

THE American doctors who have been
in Berlin investigating the action of DR..
koch's lymph agree that it is a success In
the first stages of phthisis. If this shall
prove true in general practice, medical
science has made tremendous stride.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01

Sitting Bulls language was compound
of pure Sioux and mongreI English, in
which number of French words were
mixed The latter had been picked up
from the post traders
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
Had an Unpleasant Death.

OSHKOSH, Wis, Dec. 26.-Chief Weis..
brod was notified last nil ht of the body of
an unknown man in Lac Butte DIES Mortes.
He had fallen through the ice and he'd
frozen to death with his arms and head
resting out of the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-01
THE MONKEY AND DRUNKARD.
One Taste of Whisky Was Ali Poor Jack
Would Take.

Mr.. Pollard states that in his drinking
days he was the companion of a mau in
Arundel county, Maryland, who had a
monkey that he valued at a thousand dol
lars. We always took him out On our