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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20
long ISLAND.

TIE ROBBER LAY IN AMBUSH WITH SANDBAG.
Albert Fraylor, who is in the employ Of Henry Ben
nett. milkman Of Cypress Hills. says he was tho
victim of highwaymen Wednesday night. near old
Union Course Ike says that he met woman on a
rapidtranst train whom he knew as Emma Bond.
and that she invited him to get off the train at
WoOdhavcn and take walk with her. They started
10 walk toward Union Course and had gone a short
distance when FraylOr, he alleges, was attacked
b. a man who sprang from behind a tree and struck
him with sand-club knocking him down. Fraylor
said that the blow nearly stunned him. but he recog
nized his assailant Daniel kehOe. lie says that he
was robbed Of 3l1J In cash. and n gold watch and
chain. Fraylor believes that the woman, Emma
Bond. was the accOmplice Of his aSsaiant. Fraylor
reported the matter to the authorities yesterday morn
ing. The officers arc working on the case.
JAMAICA.-Ex-.Judge Morris FosdiclS is dangerously
Ill at his home in Jamaica. He was stricken with
apoplcXy yesterday morning There is little chance
Of his recovery Mr.. FOsdick, who is nearly eighty
years old was formerly County Judge and surrogate
Of Queens County.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20

work along loaned the church 1000 on a second mort
In addition the charge OF intoXication another
charge has been preferred against the clergyman that Of
untruthfulness and insincerity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20
ALONG THE SoT-\D

BRID0EPORT.-Thc Rev. W. IL. Lewis, OF Larch-
mont v u has accepted an invitation to become
rector Of ST. Johns Episcopal Church at salary OF
$1,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20

CIara-Dont you know who that fellow Is whom
YOU didn't recognize when he bowed TO yOul
Maud-Certainly. met him at Old Point, but I
have since learned that he Is only a common clerk.
Clara-My dear, You have made the mistake Of your
life, He is clerk In a candy store-lBrooklyn LII,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-20
ELIZABETH.


TO REBUILD TIE WORKS ON LARGER SCALE.
The officers ard directors OF the National C0rdag'
Company decided yesterday to begin the work. OF
erecting a building in place Of the factory which
was destroyed at Elizabeth by fire Wednesday. a.
tho ruins OF burned building were cleared
away and the insurance agents made their settlements
The building was fully insured in fifteen mutual
Insurance companies but the lists were not completed
yesterday. e. NJ. Fulton. jr, secretary Of the com
pany said however that the loss on the plant was
from $3.50 900 10 900. Some of the companies
in which the factory insured arc: What Cheer
Mutual, Fire Insurance Company. the state. Hope,
American and Blackstone of Providence; MIL Owners
and Cotton and Woollen Manufacturers Of Boston,
sir. Fulton said that the company would not suffer
great Inconvenience on account Of the fire, because
IL had eighteen mills in the country which could
DO worked both day and night. The new plant %oull
be the largest and finest In the World, ana would be
hands employed in the old plant, but LOO would
DO employed in the new factory. The burned g.
tablishment turned out forty tons Of binder twinc
day and large amount OF coIdase' but the ne"
plant would greatly exceed this output
The charred bones Of George Adam schneider were
found yesterday IN the ruins 81 the IRE. ADou, 20 -
In silver which tn unfortunate man had IN his pocket
also found in similar condition. Schreiber was
sNty-fve years old and had wofAcd for the company
trt~S %asi IN was , Tm bSSn mat baa Seri
lie has not been since the lire The report has
hit with brick during the fire and went into con
WILSON'S lie removed 10 the hospital. where
his condition last night had only signify improved
There were umors Yesterday Of inccndiaIism. but no
facts have been developed that would seem to Justify
such assertion.
The Elizabeth Athletic Club has decided 10 build a
fine clubhouse az "A Of 50 OO0 The new building
will be at East Grandst and jefferson ave Ii will be
two stories in height with basement. The bowling
nlleys shooting gallery and billiard rooms viii be
the first floor. The gymnasium. reading and card
rooms Will 10 on the second floor There will be a
good hall for athletic exercises and sparring ex
hlbuOns.
Charles Wir,cling, a wcll-known German resident
Of Elizabeth. died yesterday az his home, No. ~
Jacques ST., AT the age OF siXty-hvc He for many
years kept Washington Hall. "A noted resort IN INC
sixties and seventies and patrOnzed by the leading
politicians OF the city and county.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
WITHOUT CONNECTION.

A New Highlander boasts of bed spread
that was woven in 1859, and has been
handed down from generation to genera
ton ever since.
The Burlington, N. H., Independent
knows of spot on Haystack mountain
chat has never been known to be uncov-
ered by snow FBs than twenty feet deep.
At Mansfield, La, a farmer shot moth
sr fox and took the young ones, four in
number, home. He gave them to an old
cat, and she is now taking the best of care
OF them.
The Boston Transcript wants to know
what people mean who use the phrase
''quite few" They think they mean a
good many, but it really means the oppo
stte-a small few, so to speak.
The New York Press says that hot water
Is the natural scavenger of the body.
Those who perserve in drinking it will find
not merely the promised reduction of OBJ
ssity but a surprising clearness of the COM
plexion and feeling of general rejuvena-
ton.
1t has been calculated lately that the
electromotive force of q bolt of lightning is
about 3, 800, 600 volts, the current about
$4,000, 600 amperes, and the time to be
about 1-2O, 600 part of q second. In such
bolt there is an energy of 2,450, 900, 600
watts, or 1884, 1862 horse power.
Reuben Field of Fayetteville, Mo, is
Baid to be the greatest mathematician of
the age. He is forty years old, has had no
schooling, can not read or write and can
not tell one figure from another, yet with
lightning like rapidity can solve the most
difficult problems either in simple or com
pound fractions.
The wages of shop girls in London begin
at from $50 to $40 year in the poorest
kinds of stores The girls begin work at
the average age of seventeen years. In
the high-priced shops on Bond and Regent
streets a handsome girl with a fine figure
commands from $3.50 to 800 year, while
a governess usually receives less than haif
that sum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
CURRENT ANECDOTES.

A few days ago a United States senator
in one of the departments at Washington,
and the senator asked why a certain chief
clerk had been removed. 'Well," said
the head of the bureau, che thought that
he knew more than [ did, which was to
me incomprebensible" ''Yes," said the
sen ator, land intolerable"
They tell story of Mrs. Jones, of Chi
cago, who visited Rome, and while there
was shown some of the great marble mas
terpieces of the world, among others the
Apollo Belvidere. They pointed it out to
her as being the most perfect form Of man
that had ever been conceived by the brain
of an artist; and the old woman walked
all around it, looked at it from every
point of view, and asked: ''That's the
Apollo Belvidere, is it?'' eyes" "Well,
give me Jones'"
Carafa, the composer, was very poor.
His principal income was derived from a
snuff-box, which was given to him about
thirty years ago by Baron James de Roth
schild as a token of esteem. Carafa sold
it twenty -four hours later for seventy-fve
napoleons to the same jeweler from whom
it had been bought This became known
to Rothschild, who gave it again to the
musician on the following year. The next
day it returned to the jewelers.. This
j traffic continued till the death of the
banker and longer still, for his sons kept
up the tradition, to the great satisfaction
of Carafa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
EXPRESSION AND SENTIMENT.

Archdeacon Farrar was enormously re-
ported as having sought admission to the
crowded court room in which Sir William
Gordon Cummings libel suit was tried,
and emphatically denied the statement in
the papers next day, adding that he never
had once entered the law courts in his
life
There is man up in Grafton county, N.
H, who wants divorce because his wife
talks Christian Science morn, noon and
night He must be taken to that Western
poet who sought a separation because his
spouse interrupted him when in the throes
of versifying, and often caused him to
make "false quantities."
Prof Foster of Denver, thinks that Me-
thuselah did live to be 1000 years old.
Long ago, before the planet Mercury was
born, the earth was much nearer the sun
than at present. Its speed was therefore
much greater, and the orbit being smaller
the year must have been quite short-per-
haps only few weeks in length That ex-
plains it.
Referring to Thackeray's lectures when
In this country George William Curtis
says: THE conclusion of tho lecture Oh
George III. was by far the most impressive
passage Thackery ever spoke in this coun-
try. You recall it! Imagine the sonor-
BUSINESS of this passage as intoned by him
Hush! Strife and quarrel, over the SOL
emn gravel Sound, trumpets and mourn
full march. Fall, dark curtain, upon his
pageant, his pride his grief, his awful
rag edy.'''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Marriage in sum atra.

Among Kubus of Sumatra the tender
passion is most prosaically dealt with.
It would seem that delicate suscepti-
bilities have but slight chance of de-
velopment among so untidy, so thrift
less people. Their lives are seldom
marked by progress; they seem con-
tent to go on their ways exactly as
travelled.
Very simple indeed is the marriage
ceremony, says Harper's Bazaar. A
Kubu youth, having settled in his own
mind his choice, interviews the parents
of the maiden, mentioning what he can
offer in return. If late bargains of the
itinerant trader have been gratifying,
he may have in hand knife, a spear,
or some strips of gay cloth-possibly
money, if he has acted as guide or
burden bearer to travellers; there may
also be dammar and beeswax, rare
fruits and favorite animals for food Ga
dainty snake or nimble lizard), all
most acceptable in the eyes OF the
father and housemother. Should this
queer endowment fund be satisfactorily
large, neighbOrs are called together,
who are seated with due formality I'M
der tree. The father of the maiden
then publicly announces his consent to
the betrothal, shows the presents re-
ceiVed from the young man, and ex-
presses his pleasure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Proved His Capacity.

Some years ago, Gen. John w. Cor
coran was engaged to defend, before a
country justice, boy of nine years,
who had been arrested on the charge
of killing a horse. The animal had
been driven down hill at very rapid
pace, and, as Corcoran still maintains,
the wagon had suddenly jumped for
ward and killed him.
Nov, your honor is, of course,
aware, said Corcoran, after consider
able evidence had been adduced, that
until seven years of age child is not
considered capable in law, Of commit
ting crime; between seven and four
teen he may be adjudged capable if
capacity can be proven. l respectful
ly submit, your honor, that in this case
capacity has not been proven, and on
that ground | ask the discharge of my
client"
That is a very good point very
good poiut Mr. Corcoran," remarked
the court, sagely and refectively
scratching his head; and for a moment
it seemed as if the lawyer for the de-
Tense had won.
''But-but, sir, the horse was killed,
wasn't he?n
He died." admitted Corcoran.
The old mans eye cleaned rather
too triumphantly for that of a judge.
And if the boy killed him, didn'
that prove capacity? "-Boston Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
OUR MOTHER, EVE.
Different Legends About the First APP
pearance of Woman.

Woman's first appearance says q
writer in the London Tablet, has been
faithful subject for the legend mon
gers. The Phoenieian myth of Gre
alton is found in the story of Pygmal-
ion and Galatea. There the first wo-
man was carved by the first man out
of ivory, and then endowed with life
by Aphrodite The Greek theory of
the creation of woman, according to
Hesiod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest
ordered Vulcan to make woman out of
clay, and then induced the various
gods and goddesses to invest the clay
doll with all their worst qualities, the
result being a lovely thing, with
witchery of mien, refined craft, eager
passion. love of dress, treacherous
manners and shameless mind. The
Scandinavians say that as Odin, Viii
and We, the three sons of Bor. were
walking along the sea beach they
found two sticks of wood, one of ash
and one of elm. Sitting down the gods
shaped man and woman out of these
sticks, whiting the woman from the
elm and calling her Emia.
One Of the strangest stories touch
ing the origin of the woman is told by
the Madagascarenes In so far as the
creation of man goes, the legend is
not unlike that related by Moses only
that the fall came before Eve arrived.
After the man had eaten the forbidden
fruit he became affected with boil on
the leg, out of which, when it burst
came beautiful girl. The mans first
thought was to throw her to the pigs,
but he was commanded by messenger
from heaven to let her play among the
diggings until she was of manageable
age, then to make her his wife. He
did so, called her Baboura, and she
became the mother of all races of men.
The American Indians myths rela-
tive to Adam and Eve are numerous
and entertaining. Some traditions
trace back our first parents to white
and red maize; another is that man,
searching for a wife, was given the
daughter of the king of muskrats, who,
on being dipped into the waters of
neighboring lake, became a woman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
THE NUCLEUS BONE.
Around Which Some Think the Resur-
rected Body VIII BE Built.


rected Body VIII BE Built.
1t is said in the brief details of Emma
Abbott's cremation rites that the sweet
singer was reduced to two or three
pounds OF ashes, which were preserved
in silver vase, writes Detroit Free
Press correspondent.
Now, it is well known that two or
even four hours incarceration does not
totally consume the bones, and there
is always a mass of these left, which
are thrown away as refuse.
Among these human bones is one
which is believed to be impervious to
death or decay. 1t is small bone,
part of the backbone and is called
"Luz." 1t is said that a learned rabbi
demonstrated to the Emperor Adrian
that water would not steep it, fire
would not burn it. a mill could not
grind it, nor could any hammer break
It.
The resurrection bone is supposed
by many to be the nucleus of the i'm
mortal body. Hudibras wrote:
All tn other members SHALL they say,
Spring out of this as from seed.
This question arises: Would it not
be more in keeping with the impor-
lance of mortuary rites to have the
bones buried in the cemetery lot, while
the ashes find their repose in the silver
urn, and may be retained in the house
hold? Even a superstition has weight
in favor of an idea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
MECHANICAL PROCESS.

a Detroit manufacturing firm will make
steel wagon wheels, with hollow felloes
and spokes.
South Dakota now has the largest arte-
sion well in the world. It shoots water
140 feet from the surface.
A New York Central passenger train re-
Gently ran from New York to Buffalo at
the rate of fifty lone miles per hour
A determined fisherman at Groverville,
Ga, catches alligators viii hook-not an
ordinary hook, however, but an iron affair
attached to a strong pole.
A tramp detected at Port Jervis, N. Y.
in the act OF attaching to the trucks Of
railroad car a novel continuance for steal
ing a ride, volunteered the information
that, seated on the continuance he had
journeyed over |, 500 miles
The German East Africa company has .
big scheme on its hands if the report La
correct that it has decided to spend S15,-
600, 600 in building a railroad from Tanga
to Karagwe. Tanga is little seaport
about fifty miles northwest of Zanzibar,
and Karagwe is distant from the starting
point about 625 miles.
The founding hospital wheel or chair
was a well known institution in France,
serving, until comparatively few years
ago, as a general receptacle for outcast
children An infant had but to be placed
by anyone wishing to rid themselves of
the little creatures upon the chair, a turn
given to the same, and Immediately as il
by magic the embarrassing object had
disappeared within and another chair
awaits the newcomer.
The perspective view of the F'trans-
portatiOn building to be erected on the
Worlds Columbian exposition grounds is
in itself study. Here in this long, low
immense structure will be ranged exhibits
of every known development in the science
of transportation. From the least preten-
tious street car model to those of literal
palaces on land and water there will be
shown the accumulated skill of the age in
everything pertaining to rapid and safe
transit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
HOW WOOD CLOTH IS MADE.
And Yet Again Has Mind Triumphed
Over Matter.

Mitscherlich has applied the bisul-
phite process for reducing wood to the
production of fibre from wood which
can be spun into cloth. Thin boards
or laths, free from knots, but of any
desired width, are cut into strips in a
direction parallel to the grain and
are then boiled in boiler containing
a solution of sulphuric or bisulphite
acid. After boiling the wood it is
dried in the open air, or in specially
constructed drying rooms. By being
thus dried, the fibre, which is original
ly very weak and likely to break at the
slightest strain, becomes comparatively
strong, and does not resume its very
breakable condition on the addition
of water. The operations carried out
in fitting this wonderful production for
the spinning wheel and the loom are
as follows, says the St. Louis Republic:
The damp mass of pulp described
above is dumped from the frame Of the
mixer onto a travelling endless cloth,
which carries the pulp to pair of
rollers, which are sometimes plain
and sometimes provided with corruga-
tons in the direction of their length,
the ribs or cogs of one roller being
made so as to gear into the recesses of
the other, whereby they effect a SIM
ultaneous strong bending and squeez-
ing power. The cutting of the mate
rial in passing through the corrugated
rollers is avoided by causing the end
less cloth to pass over the lower roller,
and by placing canvass covering
around the upper one. The pressed
mass falls from this first set of rollers
onto another endless cloth, which con-
veys it to a second pair of rollers,
from which. in turn, it is conveyed to
third pair and so on, until it has
passed down six endless cloths and
through six pairs Of rollers. By con-
tinued treatment of the wood pulp
with the bisulphite the fbres at length
become as pliable and isolated from
each other as so many strands Of cot
ton or wollen yarn, and is said to
make a strong and splendid thread for
use in all textiles where a coarse
filament is required.
The separation of the extractable
matter is usually done after the fibre
has been spun into threads or woven
into cloth. Prof Wayman says that
with this process it is possible for
woodman to fell a large tree in the
morning and wear it as a suit OF
clothes or walk on it as carpet by
evening.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Their Idea of ChicarO.

A French newspaper, published at
Nantes, furnishes it's readers with a
very graphic, if not accurate, descrip-
ton of Chicago. 1T is situated at the
foot of the Falls of Niagara and re-
ceives the waters of the great lakes.
In no part Of Europe will you find so
great city. Its boulevards are reg
ular and as straight as it's streets,
which seem to have been ruled with a
straight edge, and in it all railroads
have termini. One is almost fright
ened by the height of the buildings,
in which all styles of architecture
meet without confusion. About sixty
years ago we first visited the Falls of
Niagara, and our first stop was natur-
ally at Chicago. Excellent hotels,
very attractive people were there, and
as we took rapid walk along the
banks of the Father of Waters we
were obliged to avoid meeting the de-
scendunts of the companion of st.
Anthony (pigs). Now these noisy
animals have their own quarter. where
they are sold, and they no longer, by
their squeals, disturb the public peace"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
THE HOGFISH.
How 1t Looks and the Manner of Catch
ing 1t.

The hogfsh, usually found in COM
paratively deep water was caught by
the sportsmen off the great reef at low
tide, says an article in the Century.
The dead coral heads, which had been
beaten into wall and formed the hid
ing places of innumerable living forms,
were partly bare, the water deepening
suddenly to the blue depths of the gulf.
Standing on this vantage ground, bear
ing the crawfish bait and extra tackle,
with the dinghy hauled up in smooth
water on the inner side, the fishermen
easily threw beyond the gentle break
ers into deep water, tenanted with a
score of eager fishes whose savage at
tack upon the luscious bait only served
to draw the greater game. The bite
of the hOgfsh was a steady strain; but
the moment the hook was felt it be-
came a game-fsh worthy of the best
efforts of the fisherman. Often were
our sportsmen forced amid the break
ers in their attempts to drag the high
ly colored and harlequin-like creature
from its home into the still waters OF
the inner reef. With its enormous
mouth the fish has a peculiarly swine
like appearance, fully redeemed, how
ever, by its rich coloring and the long
and richly cut dorsal fins and tail. 1t
ranks next to the snapper as table
fish