Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-27
Eyes, for all / care"

''Oh, Willie, why will you bother
mamma so when you know that she
has headache and feels so bad?'
DO you feel bad. maw?"
''Why, of course l do, Willie"
DO you feel bad for thy Annie or
for paw"
''Oh. do be still. For neither"
''Ies'm. But, nav, if paw brings
her home with him won't you wake
me up SOS I can see herr"
Brings who homer"
Thy Annie
'Oh, he won't bring her home. He
wouldn't dare
And while these questions were re-
peated 3nd answered over and over
again the men were still securing the
woods
'IIoorah, I see her.
1t was the shout of the man who had
aroused the suburb with the original
startling announcement. The shout
was repeated, and in an instant the
lanterns were Se5a moving rapidly to
4 common center like radiant spokeS
of Il wheel of fire. That center was the
man who had discovered the wander
ing Diana.
Where is she?" forty voices ex-
claimed in one breath.
''Sh-h-h-h, Keep quiet or she'll hear
you and run away. We must sur
round her before she knows it," said
the cautious discoverer.
But where is she?" was the unani-
nous whisper. Has she got any
clothes on?"
Clothes! What in thunder does she
want with clOthes?"
''Then we must turn our backs and
walk backward toward her. 1t would
MT do for us to see her ma, mean
nu-, that is, without her clothes on, -
suggested the preacher.
''Wen, you are the most modest man /
ever saw" said the discoverer. 81
guess you darken the room and blind
fold your eyes when you take a BATH
But really" protested the preacher,
sit would be scandalous, you know.
The poor creature may be demented,
but we should have more regard for
our own wives and daughters than to
take advantage Of this poor wOman's
misfortune"
"What WOman?"
"Why the nu-that is, the woman
you spoke of as Diana, who is running
about the woods without any apparel"
''What in the name of the WOman'S
Christian Temperance union are you
talking about?' cried the astounded
discOverer 81 didn't say anything
about Il naked woman. | said Diana
was loose in Argyle Park. Diana is
my family mare. She got out of the
stable this evening, and there she is
browsing under the trees. We must
surround her and
But by this time the lanterns were
far away, and the speaker found HIM
self indulging in a soliloquy
A recent number of Engineering UOn-
dom Review contains the following
statistics of disasters at sea collected
by LlOyd's:
We hear much of the many finely
modelled ships that are built from time
to time, but little of the many vessels
that are lost Occasionally public in
terest is excited by herOism displayed
in saving Il shipwrecked crew but in
many cases the loss Of the good ship
is only indicated by a line or two in
the list of casualties in the daily pa
pers. Who, for instance, would think
that last year sixty eight vessels, the
In oh
port or other and, according to Lloyd's
annual return, never again were heard
of, and these, too, were fairly good
sized crafts? What of the crews? The
story can never be completed, the suf-
feringS may be but guessed at And
Britain and her colonies have more
than their fair share, for while we
make up half of the total losses we
contribute 2S,5OO out of the 40. 100
tons which have thus passed out of
record. The total of wrecks, too, seems
large, 1,OS6 vessels Of 649,946 tons, but
it must be remembered that there are
probably always afoat on the high
seas over 20,OOO,OOO tons of shipping,
which fact, although it increases the
surprise that SO many vessels should be
lost without any news, indicates gener-
ally a fairly low ratio of loss, 8 orr
per cent of tonnage. 1t may be &C,
cepted as a testimony in favor of steel
that Of the total tonnage loss only -
per cent was constructed of this metal,
while 10 per cent was of iron and At
per cent was wood and composite YES
sells. But it should also be noted that
the iron and wooden vessels generally
are older, so that age as well as ma
terial may have contributed to the re-
suit. Again, ships bulk more largely
than steamers, the latter making 43
per cent and ships 81 per cent of the
total; but age again must be considered,
for large number 024 vessels of
1870 tOnS), were condemned and
broken up, against only 1865 tons of
steamers. A ship is more readily aban-
dOned at sea than a steamer, because
when the maStS Ego by the board" in
storm the ship is often helpless. We
have, therefore, 50,570 tons of ships
thus abandoned against only 5000 Of
steamers, which latter in itself is a
large number; they were all of the
largest size, too, averaging 1,2OO tons.
1t is interesting to note, further, that
steamers collide more frequently than
ships or the results are more disastrous.
Thus we find that while 45,O76 tons of
steamers were lost by collision, only
12,S49 tons of ship losses are so ac-
counted for. The number of vessels
does not show the same disparity, 43
of the former against Al Of the latter.