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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
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TIE SCANDLNA VIANS.
Hcw They Were Insulted by the Demo.
cratic House

cratic House.
Blount Of Georgia, acting as chair
man Of the house committee on foreign
affairs, has distinguished himself like
the cat in the adage by letting Il would"
wait On 81 dare not" And in this re
spect he bad the entire democr tic side
first as cO-conspirators and finally as fel
low sufferers. When Mr.. Blount re-
ported to the house the provision abol
ishing the offices of American ministers
to Moray and Sweden, he presented a
brave determined front and virtually
declared that this matter In which he
would accept no compromise. Why
should he, indeed? 1t was true that the
action proposed would be nothing less
than an insult to Sweden and Norway
and would drive these ,wo important
countries away from the worlds fair,
but that made no difference to Mr.
Blount. There were good many rea-
sons why he had his people in the south
had no liking for Sweden and NorWeg
ians or for the countries from which
they hailed Very ingenuously he said:
in the northwest, take it, there are
Scandinavian people by the thousands !"
Yet, having little interest in the section
where republican Scandinaviaos abound,
he was willing to destroy the cordial
and friendly diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and the Scan
dinavian countries -relations which had
SISTED in bringing in many Of those
people to tn country. This for no
her reason than that he thought he
and his party had everything to gain
and moth NO te fear from discOuraging
such emigration.
The Danes AID Swedes who have set
tied in the northwest are splendid ella
f people aod overwhelmingly republI
Can. Honest, industrious, and true low
ers of liberty and justice, il was as
natural for them to vote the republican
ticket as it was to rush to the defense of
their adopted country when its life was
assailed by its unnatural sons in the
south. In the course of the debate in
the house over Blount's proposed insult
to Denmark and Sweden, democratic
member from the northwest was forced
to rise in his place among the eX confed
crates on the democratic side and sol
emily decare there was not a battle
field from Bull Run to Appomattox that
was rot drenched with scandinavian
blood" But was this reason why the
eX- confederates should favor the Scan
dinavian people and guard and protect
their interests. AS we'll might they be
cal ed upon to express gratitude to these
people because it was the genius of that
great Scandinavian, John Ericsson, that
placed the Monitor in Hampton Roads
and inflicted on the souther confederacy
one of the greatest injuries it suffered
The blow then inflicted on the southern
confederacy by the great Scandinavian
inventor was a fearful one and the ex
confederates like Blount are proverbial
for long memories If it had been left
to them they would have carried out
Blount's threat ard put a stop to all
diplomatic intercourse with Norway and
Sweden.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
How PeaFl Button story Was Spoiled by
the Fact

There is a tariff duty of about 400 per
cent on imported pearl buttons; but the
girls who are employed in the pearl but
ton factory in Detroit have been obliged
to strike against reduction of wages
It would appear that an absolutely pro-
hiUitive tariff rate is not sufficiently per
suasive to induce the maintenance of a
moderate wage rate In the light of
the hollowness of the prete1se that high
duties are a guarantee OF high wages -
Philadelphia Record
This is free trade falsehood OF the
most approved type About a week ago
the Standard Button company, of De-
troit, changed its wage scale, not so as
to reduce wages, but in order to increase
the output OF their works and at the
same time raise the wages of their en-
ployes. 1t WIS merely change from
the daily wage system to one in which
compensation of an employe would de
pend on toe amount of work done by
him Disappointing the nature Of
the charge, about $50 young girls struck
against when they supposed to be a re-
duction In their wages. AS soon as the
matter was made clear to them, however,
anu Iuey lOuuu GudG GHey we're really
striking against substantial increase in
wages, most of them Immediately re
turned to work OF course the free
trade papers could not allow this petty
misunderstanding to pass unnoticed,
and they have magnifed it into all sorts
of lies, one of which, in the form given
in the Record, has been travelling around
the country ever since. The solicitude
of our tariff ''reformers" for these poor
starved pearl button workers would be
touching, we're it not so utterly false
and hypocritical.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

with the cap ,city of each per week and
| the capital invested, which shows that
| { cir joint capacity was about forty
/ thousand boxes week. md that their
/ aggregate capital is about three million
dollars
j have a letter statement, publ he'd
! by the American Manufacture of Pitts
| burg, on the first of the present moth.
giAing list of forty Establishments for
| the manufacturer of tin and terne plate.
OF these, six are org nized, fifteen are
building and nineteen are running in
whole or in part The statement
adds
"From the detailed reports received
from the above firms ard from outside
/ information, it appears that these works
have wees capacity. when constructed.
OF aQout % GOO boxes a week. Other
works contemplated which will prob
ably be built, and which we have not
included in the above, will bring this
total up TO $4,000 This is the c ID city
act ally operating or under construc-
ton at the pres Mt time, or for which
which plans are being drawn This IS.
at 10 weeks in the year, more than
three-ffths Of the imports into the
United States, and nearly one million
boxes IN excess OF total assumption of
Great Britain "
The New York Sun, a Democrat paper
OF Jan. %, contains di patch rom Ell
wood, Ind, describing the tin plate
works just established there by the
Jersey Tin Plate Company, of Briton
Ferry, Wales.
They are under the superintendence
OF Mr +. Stanford, who has been max
ing bright tin for % years in Wales. Mr.
Stanford said: I'VE shall turn out 3
800 oxes of Americ IN tin-plate a day
by the first of Nay" He further said
that the Demmler, Pa. is making 1000
boxes of bright tin plate a week; the
work at Apollo, Pa . are turning out 500
boxes a week; Anderson, Ind, is making
500 boxes q week; the Neidringhaus
Company, of St. Louis, is turning out
1000 boxes a week, and Somers of
Brooklyn is turning out large quantities,
do not know how much The Sun
further I'D: "Elwood had about 1000
people two years ago; to day, with its
plate glass factory, natural gas, and tin
FACTORY, it shows 5000 people "
! also have before me a statement by
the n. & G. Taylor Company, Philadel
phia, in which, under date of March s,
they say
There is no question at all to our
minds but that the industry Of making
t.n-plate will be successfully carried on
in this country aud assume large pro-
portions in a short time It has always
been contended that the cheap article,
such as Gamers tin could not be made
i'll this country We clearly exploded
this impression not lag since, by secur
ing the largest order that has yet been
placed FIR American tin, placing nearly
1000 boxes, 28x2O We we're in competi-
ton with the imported plate, and not
only secured the order on account Of
lower price, but we have since been in
form ed that the imported arti le as re
ceived by our customer, all Of which is
very encouraging, hut not more so. than
We eX pected, W. are doing everything
in our power to hurrv forward the work
of our new plant, which, when finished,
will produce an output that will satisfy
the most incredulOus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
TNPIATE TO DATE.
And How a 'sReform" Orator was Answer
ed by y Business Man Who Keeps Him

And How ''Reform" Orator was Answer
ed by = Rusiness Man Who Keeps Him
self Informed.
Col. Spencer Borden, O. Fall River, re
Gently delivered dolorOus lecture in
that city in favor of free trade, and
dweIt upon what he pleased to term the
failure of tin-plate manufacturing in
this country as an illustration. Mr..
Arnold B Sanford, treasurer of the
Globe Yarn Mills, replied to him in the
Fall River News of March Il, and what
he had to say about tin-plate is such a
comprehensive summary Of the least
Trustworthy information on that sub
iect that we subjoin it in full
A fair sample of his mis-statements
and facts is what he says about tin
plate In the first place, he claims it
was promised, if the duty was increased
Americans would produce all their own
tin. plate within year
No such promise was made in Con-
gress or IN the press by any person
claiming to know anything of the sub
ject or in charge Of the preparation of
bill; on the contrary, the promis Of the
itself is that if America does not pro-
duce with six years one-third of its an
ual consumption, the duty shall then be
taken off This shows that the trainers
Of the bill knew that 1t would take from
one to six years to erect the mills and
get them in good order for making a
large output.
Mr. Borden's next statement, that 10
plates have been produced for eighteen
months beyond few NIPPLES for adj
vertisng purposes is equally unbound
ed. [ have before me list of twenty
seven tin plate works, pu blished by the
Timed Plate Manufacturing Associa-
ton Of the United States, Jan. 9, 1892,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
MINING IN CHINA.
The Government Owens the Fields Rich liz
silver, Gold, and Other Metals.

A Canton correspondent writes An
| important step is being taken in the de-
| vei0pment Of the mineral resources of the
| Celestial Empire, Il Is announced that
| the rich dep Jsits of silver ore near Kirin,
! IN Manchuria, are to be worked after the
western method. The governor Of the
| province announces that the foreign ap-
| paratus and chemicals necessary for ex-
| tracing the silver from the galena ore
| are already on the ground and will soon
| be in use. These Klrin mines are the
| first in Manchuria to be worked according
| to tie improved method OF Europe and
America, and the result Of the operation
| will be awaited with much interest. Ac.
| cording to popular belief among the in
| habitants Of That region, and the noun
| tain ranges in the northern part Of N IN
| chuTia are exceedingly rich IL silver, gold,
platinum ana other precious metals.
! Just across the border, on the Russian
side Of the line, mining has for years been
carried on with great ACTIVITY ia a system
attic manner, and with extraordinarily
profitable results The Chinesa Goven-
men5 has, howev.r 7. hitherto forbidden
any systematic opening up of the mineral
regions OF It's side Of the line.
In fac there has been no very great
! eagerness on the part Of mining prospect
tors to enter that particular district.
Some seven years ago number of Chine e
miners went thiLh6r and attempted 10 open
some workings. But they were TO the
last man massacrea by the troops in Man.
cburia, who are really half outlaws. TIE
G V6rnment had merely given the military
commanders directions to prevent the
opening Of the mines. The soldiers took
it upon themselves to fulfil that command
by slaughterng the would-ba miners.
With the cnild-hke and bland shrewdness
which is characteisti c TO toe race h0wev =,
they waited until tee luckless miners mad
been at work some months and bad 90
tanned the enormous amount Of SIS, 900
600 il gold. This plumber was partly
divided among the troops and partly pat
into the pocket Of the governor Of the
province.
After this tragic incident the governor
took possession OF the mines which mad
been opened, and apparently for a time
lntGned TO work them Systematically. An
eX perierCed American mining engineer
was employed to superinte1d them, and
at very heavy cost some elaborate and
expensive machinery was obtained. Then
the whole enterprise was abandned. just
why nobody seems to know. For any
private capitalists to take up the task was
impossible. To mine silver and gold
without the permission IF the government
is a capital off9nse. True, the offense is
often committed and seldom or never
punished, pnt those who commit it secure
immunity by quietly and secretly trans
ferring a share Of their booty to the icE-
ing palm of the governor OF the district
The metal that is thus illegally mined
fads It's way to Pekin, where it is reput-
to come from some Of the few mines
worked hu the czny arrnrn mt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
ODDITIES.

Caller-''I greatly like the tone of that
picture. )"
Mrs Shoddle-'Oh, [ WOULDN'T buv any
thing that wasn't heightened. -New York
Weekly.
Uncle John-"Have you learned to ride
your new bicycle yet?'
Little NephewH''No, sir, not quite,
bus I've got so can fall off without get
tin killed Steel & Smiths Good
News.
Didderau- Odd you attend the lecture
of Prot. Hardheadon 'Grippe, a Malady
of the Imagination
Biddereau-" did not lecture"
why not?''
Down with the grippe
Jinks-"T There's one good thing about
spoiled children"
Biuk,-"What's that"
Jinks-''One never has them in ones
own house. New York Weekly.
Black How dye do, Green? I'm al
most ashamed of myself for not calling
before But I've put it off and put 1t off,
until il did seem | never would call
Green-"Don't mention it, my dear
fellow. You very kind I'm sure
Bridget (new acquisition in a Boston
household)-''DJes the mantel want to be
busted, mum?'
Mrs. Emerson-''I nanimate objects can
not want anything, Bridget; but I wish
the mantel busted. Pray be careful of the
vahses."
Uncle Felkins-"f Funny sign they had
up In my room in the city t'other night,
sayin': Don't Blow Out the Cas- >"
Wife-"What in the world did you dc,
Jeames?"
Uncle Felkins-Do? Left it burnin', of
course"
Boston Girl Ito Uncle James, 3D. you
like living on farm?''
Uncle Jame3-"Yes, like it very
much"
Boston Girl-'I suppose you like it
well enough IN the grand summer time,
but to go out in the cold and snow TO
gather winter apples and harvest winter
wheat | imagine might be an thing but
pleasant"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
TARIFF PICTURES.

The duty On binding Irvine. we were
told in the last campaign. was robbing
the farmer, and prices would certainly
90 much higher. Here is the truth.
The wholesale price 6 manila binding
Irvine in 1890 was Is cents per pound.
In April 1892 it was II cents per pound.
Sisal Irvine sold for II cents wholesale
In April 1890, and for cents in April
1892, and mixed Irvine at proportional
prices. Irvine made of American hemp
son as low as II cents per pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
j UNE.
From We Olden Time it has Been the Eav-
Orite Wedding Month.

orite Wedding Month.
There are a number of claimants for
honor in the naming of the month Of
June. The same.authority which refers
May to the elders of the land under the
name of Majores, tells US that June was
the month dedicated to tie youneer peo-
pie under the name of Juniores Some
would give the honor to Junlus Brutus,
the first Roman consul; still others connect
the name with another old Roman Junius,
Of whom now little seems to be known ex-
cept his name. Then there are those who
find its origin in the latin verb jungo,
jungnre, to 'join, because Of all of the
months Of the year, this was considered
the most favorable for the sacred rite of
US very vaguely. The Encyclora la Brit
tanica is responsible for the opinion
Probably it has an agricultural reference
and originally denoted he month in which
crops grow to rjpeness.
But the theory which receives by far the
most support Is that which names it after
the Roman goddess Juno, to whom, in tie
old Latin NEUROLOGICAL calendar, the
month was sacred. Juno, though queen
CT the heavens, was the especial p ttron Of
marriage, and the @protectreSs of matrons,
so that ever since those old days June has
been the favorite wedding month.
l. has also received many descriptive
names, as The Early Mild Month Oils
tinguisAed from July "the later mild
month " 'Tne Scar, or Dry Month, y
The Midsummer Month, - The Blossom
Month, " 'Prarial. :" etc. Is rot strange
that the beauties of this mont have arous-
ed the poets Tyre, and that Longfellow
has sung:
"Mine is the month of roses; yes, and mine
The month of marriages! All pleasan sights
And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming
vine,
The foliage of the valleys and the heights.
Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
The mowers scythe makes rustic TO my ear;
l am the mother of all dear delights,
l am the fairest daughter of the year.
And Lowell:
"And what is so rare as a day in June:
Then, If ever, come perfect Gays:
Then heaven tries the earth ii ii be IN tune,
And over it softly Der warm ear lays
May Field Mexican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
OLD ENGLISH DRAMATlsTs
Literary Bohemians of the Sixteenth Cen
fury Living in London.


Who, then, were the old English drama
fists? They were score or so of literary
Bohemians, for the most part, living from
hand to mouth in London during the last
twenty years of the sixteenth century and
the first thirty years of the seventeenth. OF
the personal history of the most Of whom
we fortunately know little, and who, by
their good luck in being born into an I'M
sophisticated age, having written few
things so well that they seem to have writ
ten themselves. Poor, nearly all Of them,
they have left us a fine estate in the realm
of Fac y. ANON them were three or four
men of genius. 4 comrade of theirs by
his calling, but set apart from them alike
by the spendor of his endowments and
the more equable balance Of his tempera-
ment, was that divine apparition known
to mCrtals as Shakespeare. The civil war
put an end tc their activity. The last Of
them, in the direct line, was James Shir-
ey. remembered chiefly for the two lines
from the last stauza of song of his in
The Contention of Al x and Ulysses, which
have become proverbs:
.Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust
james Russell Lowell, IN Harper for
June.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

You see I have been told all about your
amuoing mistake. naf would not ex
Oialn her real identity with TIE girl whom
vour aunt had selected for you, and. as
tde other ladies neiiavld yon knew, lou
have remained the vlutiul Of your ow1 ms
take. -
Six months later the coadi ioa Ia Mi :
Colewood S will was c-eerfuIly obeyed. -
Gibson In B0stot Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
To Shear a Sheep

Arrange shearing table just the height
of the top of the shearar's knee Ga this
set the sheep straight upright with is
back towards the shearer. The shearer
now puts his left foot upon the table,
bends the head of tbs sheap over his left
knee and is ready for business. Part the
wool at the right side of the belly from
arm pit to flank; begin at this parting
and smear belly; brisket and between the
hind legs. Next part the wool On the
neck from the point OF the right shoul der
to the right ear, from this parting sh ear
the neck and head clean, then the left
shoulder and leg and on down, shear
ing past the backbone and rump before
turning the the sheap. When through
on this side the shearer puts his left foot
down. takes the sleeps hind legs in his
right hand and holding it by the neck
with his left, gives the sheep a three-q uat-
ers turn rom left to right bringing it
again In position to put the neck over the
shesrer's left knee in which position the
work is finished Pull the skin tight
while shearing. Avoid pulling the wool,
or cutting twice. Take all the locks and
tags clean as you 60 and finish on the
bench.-W estern Stockmrn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
1t L. F1ume at Los Cockon, in the Earthly
Paradise.

The fume which conveys the water from
the mountains to the reservoir at San
Diego, Cal, is said by those who know
where of they speak to be the largest and
longest thing of the kind in the world. It
is thirty-fge miles long and composed
almost wholly Of redwood.
In It's course this monster fumes cross es
315 streams and canyons on trestIes, the
longest of which is l, 700 feet and s. feet
high. The iember8 used in them we're
put together on the ground and raised to
their present position by horse power,
says the St. Louis Republic.
Besides its mady trestIes, this fume
passes through eight tunnels, the longest
of these being 2,100 feet in length. The
tunnels are each 6x6 feet in size, with
convex roofs.
Each mile of the fume required on an
average $50 900 feet of lumber and timber
OF all kind, that used in constructing the
water box itself being Of redwood, two
inches thick.
Building a water tight box thirty-fve
miles long over fathomless chasms and
through fac hearts Of mountains is a
gigantic undertaking which may be
believed could not be accomplished. The
result has proved different.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
And Lowell
Ga%a Hhrea Years.

MILWAUKEE. June 25 -Chls mG{nlng
Judge " alloer sentenced William 4 Faves
to three years in the house or correction
for deadly assault. Ole night lass winter
he enbced Jacob Meyer, couTrtln n,
down into the S.. Paul yards, kn5c2ed him
down with q coupling pin, an9 was pro-
ceeding to rob him, wien the slctim MAN
aged to get out knife ard staooed MS
assaiIant, leaving the Weapon sticking IN
the wound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30
TARIFF PICTURES

The works illustrated above in a Boss
gold-filled case could be bought two
years ago for $32, They can be bought
today and the retailer will make just as
much profit as before, for $28. The
Mckinley bill doesn't seem to send up
the price of watches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

The oldest and largest medical school in
America is that of the University Of
Pennsylvania Il was founded in 1865
and has graduated 10, 468 men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

The whole amount of gold actually in
circulation is estimated to De about eigh
hundred and sixty FIVE tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

The Canadian cheese-maSers are serious
ly considering both sides of the fat test a s
basis of value of milk at the factory.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-07-14
What Our Schools Need.

Robert Waters says in Far aud
Near: II used to think, as the Ger
mans still think, that women have not
the capacity Of men in teaching. |
think now that they have, in some re-
spects. finer capacity than men ; they
are more patient, persevering, kind
and eyen-tempere1 they have a gem
tier and more winning way, and con-
sequently more civilizing. humaniz-
ing influence on their scholars. While
men compel attention and obedience,
women win it by persuasion and gem
teness. Indeed, women possess tact
and skill in discipline which few men
can equal. The truth is, however.
that the influence of both male and f.
male teachers is necessary to make
perfect men and women. This is as
nature has ordained for children at
school, like those at home, need the
influence of both father and mother TO
mould their hearts and minds Alright.
And this is why it is well TO put boys
and girls together in the same class Z;
they exert a beneficial influence Oh
each other. We cannot improve on
the plan of the Almighty said New
England teacher, who decreed that
boys and girls should be brought up in
the same family There is no inhu-
ence better than that Of sister on broth
er, brother on sister, and father and
mother on both"