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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

IL s. L uis Monday night Isaac Valep-
tine, alias Sheeny O. Brien. snot and killed
& bTaham Brown, alias Reinhait, a low
sainonkeeper. An old grudge was the cause
OF the affair.
Two more members If the Sims gang
in Alabama have been lynched, and two
more are bein. arxiouslg sought for.
Two young Chicago girls ran away
from home and went to New. York. Two
young men were arrested in connection
wit ; me affair affair a thef- of $3.50 is a ong
Ed f. KING, of Milton, Iowa, commit.
ted suicide while In bad at his boarding
house at Paris, Tenn. Sunday by blowing
his brains out, No cause is known for
the deed.
A REWARD OF 81 500 is offered for the
arrest Of persons who have been stealing
horses in large numbers from ranchers on
the Montana and Wyoming line and in
the Yellowstone Valley.
AT Springfield, H., well-dressed Ger
man, aged about 25 years, committed sui.
eide Saturday night. He came there
Wednesday with woman; she deserted
him Thursday. The man said his name
was O. A. Miller.
AT Woodberry, Tenn, Robert Milligan
was shot and killed by Mrs. John Pendle-
ton, Friday, while ne was intoxicated.
Milligan called at the woman's house and
was refused admission. He then broke
down the door and attempted to strike
Mrs. Pendleton with fence rail, when the
latter seized a shotgun and fired.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

The total amount of money taken IN by
the New Orleans lottery per annum If all
its tickets are sold is $28,000,0O0, and the
largest possible amount that can be drawn
by the holders of the tickets is S14, 900, 900;
so that the lottery puts into its own Golfers
about AZ per cent. of all the money it re-
ceives, and this sum in years when the
sale of its tickets is good amounts to
sl3,O00,O 900 or more. 1t is the most gigan-
tic jobbery enjoying legislative license In
any state in the American union, and is
only a shade more respectable than the
gilded gambling hell that makes Monte
Carlo infamous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
Leaves from n Housewives Dairy.

Well that dumb waiter has not ma
teriallzed yet, but live in hopes, Christ
mas week is busy time anyway.
| am trying to begin the new year i'll a
way to keep ahead OF my work, instead of
letting nay work keep ahead of me. | anu
going to first overlook all the closets and
drawers, mending everything that needs
mending, aud laying Out articles that are
10 be remade. 1t would lie delightful
sensation to know that ones mending and
repairing was all done up for once.
VERNE has been making some picture
frames. Vernon procmed some nice pine
boards, and had carpenter hel p him
make them into frames the size she
wanted; then he gave them three coats Of
white paint, letting them get Thoroughly
dry between coats. Then Varnie took
them IN hand and vanished them. While
the yarnish was wet, she sprlnkled rice
thickly over oue and diamond dust over the
other. When dry, she will gid the one
with the rice on. | had TO idea home
made frames could look so artistic She and
Vernon made a contract before Christmas,
that instead of making each Other presents
right out as usual they would help each
other make things that they wanted. They
are going to make him a hunting jacket
next.
think Baby enjoys a home made
present that Vernie made her, more than
she does all the ''shop" toys. She TOOK a
large pic ure of some horses aud sheep
highly coIored and pasted it On paste
board Woen dry, she cut the board
into strips about an inch wide and put
them in a corset-box, previously covered
with Ied calico to make 1t both strong
and attractive to three-year-od eyes. Now
Baby spends hours every day putting the
strips Ia place TO make the picture per.
feet again. Yesterd y there was on
sheep minus his head, and the little tot S
concern was most amusing This gift,
Seems to me might pref ably be put 10
many little hand; it Certainly Is worth
something to one busy mother can men
ton.
We have all been troubled with rough
hands this winter uutii we began washIng
them In toGax water; now tie change is
wonderful. VERNE uses it on her bangs,
too, and thinks it hetrer than tongs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
When to Stop Charming.

An o!d-fasaioned way of chnrning which
is still very generally practiced is to con.
tinue the use of the dash. not only unit
the butter has come but also until the
butter particles are gat lered and beaten
into a compact mass 1t is then taken out
or the churn and worked to get out the
buttermilk, with as little care as would
be used in the mixing of mortar This
method destroys the grain of the butter,
so that its spreads like grease. Good but
ter will not stick to the blade when cut
with knife, and spreads with smooth.
waxy appearance.
BY the improved process, as soon as the
butter graduates and the particles are
about the size Of shot, cold water Is poured
in and the churning continued very slowly,
and for short time only. The churning
ceas IS before the butter has been churned
into Jumps. Then draw off the butter
milk through fine hair sieve, letting the
butter remain in the churn. While in
this condition wash repeatedly with clear,
cold water until the buttermilk is all
out.
If to be brine-salted, pour the brine ON
the butter and let it remain a few
inmates after it has been washed in the
churn Then pour off the brine and with
wooden scoop place the butter on
slight inclined slab for working. The
working consists in abstracting ali the
moisture possible, either by the gentle use
of roller or by other pressure, advoiding
as far as possible any grinding Or drawing
motion that will break the grain of the
butter. If not previously brine-saited,
about an ounce to the pound of fine, dry
salt should be used during the working.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

underneath. The reGstart learned the
chaffinch' S song. Another redstart was
noticed TO repeat the notes of q blacks an
which had its nest close by. The winehat
and whedtear have naturally but little
variety Of notes, but will become much
better songsters if confined with other
birds, and the bullinch can be taught to
whistle complete tunes, although its own
natural notes are harsh and insignificant.
On the other hand, the nightingale IN
confinement Will sometimes exchange its
own beautiful song for that of some other
bird that It may hear. Hon. DANES Bar
rlngton says that he saw a linnet which
had been taken from the nest when only
two or three days old, and which. not
having any other sounds to initiate, almost
learned to artlculate, and could repeat the
words Pretty boy!' and some other short
sentences. He educated nesting linnets
under the three best singing larks-the
skylark, woodlark, and titIark, every one
of which instead of the linnet's song.
adhered entirely to that of their res pective
teachers. When the note of the titlark
was thoroughly fixed, he hung the linnet
which had learned it In room for three
months with two common linnets: il,
however, never borrowed any passage
from the other linnets, but adhered stead
lastly to that of the titlark woicb it bad
learned. At Knighton, in Radnorshue,
he saw gold6..ch which sung exactly like
a wren, and uttered no proper note of its
species. This biru had been taken from
the nest when two days old, and was hung
IN window opposite a small garden,
where 1t had no doubt heard and learned
the wren's song, having never had the op-
portunity to learn that of the gold6nch.
Binds taken from the nest two or three
weeks old have already learned to call
notes of their species. These and similar
facts go to prove that birds do not sing by
instinct.-Popular Science News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
THE SONGSOF BIRDS.
The General Impression That Birds Sing
by Instinct il Erroneous

Most people probably inIgine that birds
sing by instinct; that the song of the robin
is as natural 10 him as bis red breast;
that the bluebird is not more liable to
change lis note than its color; and that,
untaught, the nightingale will sing the
same bf antiful song. This common i'm
preston, however. is CHROME u. Young
birds will never sing the song peculiar to
their tribe if they nave never heard it, but
if associated with some otner bird will
learn its song instead. A red-tart once
built its nest under the caves OF house
where a Gagged chafinch hung in d window
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
MINNOwS IN PONDS.
Facts About the Little Fish that is Used for
Bait.

Many persons have noticed the remark
able changes which often occur In the life
Of ponds and streams. In some cases
these are readily explained by the influence
of settlement, with its necessities and
caprices, and their demands upon water
courses aud reservoirs.
But again there Is an element OF mys
terry about some of the transformations
during a generation. AS an Illustration,
we may refer TO a recent conversation
with a correspondent Mr.. S. F. Denton.
Near this gentleman home at Welles-
ley, Mass, there is a small sink hole
about 100 feet in diameter. known as
Schoolhouse pond. During Mr.. Denton
boyhood this was full of catfish or horn
pouts and contained no other FISH.
About eight or ten years ago a fishing
party, on their return from trip, had a
pail of bait minnows left over. One of
them aid: Boys, it's too bad to throw
these minnows away; let's put them In
Schoolhouse pond"
Into the pond they went, and today the
water is filled with them; they can be
caught In enormous numbers and are just
| the siz3 for bait; but not a single horn
pout nor any other fish, except the mlnno Y,
is to be found there.
Water plants are plentiful and frogs
| too, but lie mirnow fills the category OF
f, hes and supplies the neighborhood with
bait. These little fishes resemble the shad
in shape.
The same fish abnunds in Wapan lake,
near Wellesley. aud keeps the bass and
pickerel so we'll supplied that it is difficult
| 10 catch them with FIVE minnows.
As an illustration Of their abundance,
Mr.. Denton remarked that on one occa-
sion, when he and his friends had exhaust
ed their supply of bait they took all the
captured fish lying in the bottom of the
boat, turned them head downward, shook
them and obtained minnows enough il
this way to continue f>hing half tbs
afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

President Harrison shook hands with
nearly 500 people in the city of Wash
ington yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Miller, widow of the late federal
jurist, is penniless. A daughter works in
the interior department. A charity fund
is being raised.
Congressman Springer's wife is a
model wife for an ambitious public man.
She is cordial in manner, we'll informed
and thorough democrat. Her height Is
short, and she has brilliant black eyes.
$50
Secretary Elkins has a large family
to house in Washington. He has six chill
dren with him all the time, the eldest be-
ing daughter by his first wife, but here is
also still older 6augh liter who is married,
that makes long visits with her parents.
Amelie Rives Chanler has nearly fin
ished a new novel. Her health is excel
lent. She walks and rides with her hus-
band about the country roads of Albemarle
county, Va, and, when she tires of writ
ing, she spends an hour or two in paint
ing. But most of her time is spent In
writing.
1t is limited that Colonel CockereIl, of
New York newspaper success, and at pres
ent managing morning and afternoon
paper there, has been invited by Senator
German, of Maryland, TO remove one of
his properties to Baltimore, and conduct
affairs in that city more as German thinks
they should be run.
Tank kee, cultivated Chinaman who
is lecturing throughout the United States
on his native land, has donated val able
library of $4,000 volumes to The Univer-
sity of Texas. Some of the books are old
manuscripts, but the most of them are in
English print, All are valuable.
Col lngersol-a boor at times-wrote
this letter to the publisher of the National
Baptist: Il wish you would stop sending
-,e your yaper. have no use for it. |
am practical Baptist myself, take
bath every morning. Ny form of
baptism is superior to yours, because |
use soap.
A Kansas City paper says that Sir Ed
win Arnold rivals Chauncey NJ. Depew as
an interviewer. You touch the button
on his door-he does the rest"
Ellen Terry, seeing some of her photo
graghs selling at bazar in Edinburgh
at eighteen pence, signed, unsolicited, her
name across the back of each. The price
at once raised to guinea.
Congressman McMillin says that fo1
seven years he made practice to commit
poem to memory before breakfast every
morning in order to put himself in q
pleasant frame of mind for the day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
Having Good Layers.

It is hard for some people to und
stand that some hens will not lay, no m
ter how well they are cared for, WI
others will with Indifferent treatm'
almost lay their heads off 1t is likew
a fact that COED laying strains of
breed can be made We know of stra
of light Brahmas that laid more eggs in
year than pen of brown Leghorns, undt
the same care. And yet the Leghorns dl,
THEN work well. TIE way laying strains
are made might be explained IL a few
words Each year the best layers are pick
ed out and bred and the young marked SC
that there can be 70 mistake in knowing
them. And so elch year the best birds
are selected until strain is perfected.
There is more sense in deyoting one time
to making laying strains TIL to Gripping
the health in the endeavor to secure uni
formity Of feather. If we bad more lay
ing strains and less fancy stock there
would be more profit derived from poul-
try. Laying strains can be made without
affecting the purity Of the breed, but there
c4n be 10 improvement on tie table quail
ties without introducing foreign blood +,
and of course that will effect the purity of
the birds.-Ex
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
CRIME.

Dr.. GRAVES, on trial in Denver for
poisoning MIS- Baraaby, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree.
AN insane woman at Ptttsburg, fatally
ir jued her child by throwing 1T from the
slets cf church as a sacrifice.
The president of the bank Of Glendale.
N. D., which recently failed, is arrested
charged with receiving deposits when he
knew the bank was insoi"ept.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

SHOULD CHILEAN muss require the
prompt landing of an army of 10000 men
on CHILEAN shores it could be carried in
part by twelve Pacific Mail company
steamers which are subsidized by the gov
eminent. They can accommodate from
$50 to l 200 people each. Think of an in
vading army of only 10000! How insig-
nificant must pe Chilli if the view is right
that such force would be able to main
tain its footbold OH foreign shore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

With all his faults the rev secretary of
war must be enrolled in the list of human
liberators. When he was beginning his
New Mexican career as a lawyer nearly ev'
cry Mexican in the territory held peon
in virtual slavery. The United States law
provided reward of s25 to any citizen
who would secure the indictment of such
a STAKEHOLDER, and the thrifty Elkins got
10, 1000 Mexicaps indicted,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
The Poor Woman Out of Her Head
and Raying Over ner HuS-
bands Fate.
Emphatic Denial From the Prisoner
That He Has Made
Confession.
Lawyer Ballou Flees, But Detec-
tive is Said to be on His
Track.

DENVER, Jan. 4.-Dr. Graves emphat-
ically repudiates the alleged confessions
published here yesterday. He says he
did not tell anything to Deputies Wilson
and Means. He declares that Ballou is
gentleman and truthful in every re.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

THE way the sena orial candidates in
Kansas are hammeriae away at the gov
ernor suggests the method employed to
secure the pardon Of convict, whose
good qualities are fulsomely dwelt upon
by verbose attorneys well paid for their
Iahor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
Taken for "A Crank.

ssmi-aendish delight often seems TO possess
people of strong nerves IN sneering at those with
weak ones. The irritability of the nervous hypo-
chondriac is ridiculed as natural i'll temper. The
very genuine and distressing symptoms from
which he suffers are made light of. "l1e' or 'ehe
Is "A crank" il the cheerful sort of sympathy Win
which the nervous Invalid meets from the nnfeei-
ing and the thoughiless. At the same Time no
con- plant is more defined and real, none has .
more easily explainable origin when ii Is chronic
Imperfect dgsition and assimilation are always
accompanied by nervous debility and anxiety.
Build up the powers of assimilation and diges-
ton with IIostetier's Stomach Bitters. and ners-
Gus symptoms sick headaches and generally
feeble condition of the system are remedied.
Remember that fearful ravages are produced by
la grippe among weakly, nervous people. Hos
letters Stomach Birter- cures il and prevents M
Iaiia rheumatism aud kidney complaint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

WALT WHITMAN, whose life has been
hanging on ''blade of grass, SO TO
speak, is rapidly on the mend.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. -Jessier
FIirr-on Was hanged this morning for
the murder Of Officer Musgrave in Deeem-
Ter, 1890.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

Good society and plenty of it is not only
an educating influence, it is refining in
the truest sense of the word. 1t is the
most available and successful means of
culture 1t is in society that we find most
opportunities. outside of the family circle,
of rubbing IF the rough corners Of our
individually. Persons whose sole society
is at home have more noble opportunities
for the cultivation of character than can
be found anywhere else, bat in every fam
lily that lives wholly III itself there is a
constant tendency to tensify pecniiaritles
of tem permanent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

Now, Jonn." said Mrs. De Porque to
the rev gardener. Il hope you Will re-
member all that | have told you And
whatever You do don't forget to water
the electric plant"
Katy D id 1T isn't proper for girls to
climb trees. is it Mama?
Mrs. Didd. Not this season. dear; hut
you can ride your safety bicycle. -PucB
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

Where there's will there's a way-to
contest it.
When the clergyman remarked that
there would be nave in the pew church,
an old lady whispered that she knew the
party to whom be referred. Sc ected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
PERSONAL MENTION

President Harrison shook hands with
nearly l, 800 people in the city of Wash
ington yesterday afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

Congressman Springer's wife is a
model wife for an ambitious public man.
She is cordial in manner, we'll informed
and thorough democrat. Her height is
short, and she has brilliant black eyes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07

Mrs. Miller, widow of the late federal
jurist, is penniless. A daughter works in
che interior department. A charity fund
is being raised.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-15
AmusemeBts.

If there wss sny question SIS to the
merit of The Cadi." which comes to the
Burtis at Davenport tomorrow evening,
the following explanatory note from the
author regarding it would settle the nst-
ter at once. "P. S. I wrote this play
myself.-Bll Nye." But there isn't. II
is bright, breezy and humorous, and
hrisues with the witticisms for which
Bill is famous. The piece is handsomely
staged aud in the hands of the cast ths;
produced it in New York. 1t will be an
event not TO be missed, and will be given
the large measure of patronage to which
1t Is entitled. The piece has been a
money maker from the start, and Messrs.
Robsen and Floyd. the proprietors, have
IN 1t successful comedy
Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-15
breaking a Rroncho.

The preliminaries to breaking broncho
are described in Captain Bourhe's "On the
Border with Crook" :"
The animal was first thrown. blind
folded, and then the bride and saddle were
put on, the latter girthed so tightly that
the horses eyes started from the sockets
Then, armed with pair of spurs of the
diameter of a soup plate and mesquite
club big enough to fell an OK, the Mexican
:'vaquero' got into the saddle, the blinds
were cast off and the circus began.
There would be one moment of dou bt as
to what the broncho was going TO do;
now and then it might seem for a few sec
onds as if really mild hammered steed
had been sent to the post by some mistake
OF the quarternaster's department. But
this doubt never lasted very long.
The genuine broncho can always be
known from the spurious one by the
fact that when he makes up his mind to
buck" he sets out upon his work without
delay, and with vim that means business.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-15

A policeman found boy pelting with
mud weeks washing that hung on a
clothesline
Look here. young chap. I'll have to run
you in If you're up to such mischief as
that. What do you mean, hey"
I'm trying to get even with the meanest
man in Detroit, said the boy.
What's he been doing 70 you:''
''Pizened my dog-a little Kid of a dog
that amt never hurt fly! Said he wanted
to try some new Kind Of pizen to see how
it worked. Say Jest lemme hit that shirt
buZzum one EcCd whack of mud
NO, you can't" said the policeman
You mus take the law into your own
hands. He'll get punished all right if You
let him alone. -
Think So"
"1es; his conscience viii trouble him
night and day for doing such mean act. -
'Oh, come of, Mr.. Policeman: a man
wot'll pizen a innercent dog wot never
hurted him amt got ez much conscience
as flea. IF you think he'll get the grip.
or have the lockjaw, or get runned over. it
all right an I'll wait. But | amt goin to
lay low till he's sorry for wot he's done
not muchE'-Detroit Free Press
Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-15
Admitted the Facts.

Newspaper editors have to be very
careful in opening their columns for state
ments. But aware that the DR.. Miles
Medical Co. are responsible. we make
room for the following .estin onial from
K. McDougall, Auburn, Ind, who for two
years noticed stoppsge or skipping of
the pulse. his left side got 80 tender he
could not lie on it, his hesrt auttered. he
was alarmed. went to different doctors.
found DO relief, but one bottle of DR..
Miles New Heart Cure cured him. The
elegant book, New and Startling Facts, ,"
free at Hartz & BshnseD's. 1t tells all
about heart and nervous diseases and
many wonderful cures.