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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
Seeding Com menced.

i ALEXANDRIA, Minn., April -Sev-
eral farmers in this vicinity have begun
seeding wheat. Those who have lands
lying low or sheltered by woods cannot
begin spring work for week, at least,
Of the most favorable weather. Old
settlers say that there has not been 30
much water in the slougbs and marshes
In the spring for several years, and that
the conditions for good crop year were
never better. The ice has not yet gone
ont Of the lakes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09

VALPARAISO, Chill, April s.-Judge of
Crimes Foster, who conducted the in
vestigation Of the assault upon men,
bers Of the crew of the United States
steamer Baltimore, has been promoted
to the court Of appeals at meeting of
the council Of state. Five court of ap-
peals judges in all have been appointed
two from the Conservative party and
three from the Liberal ranks. This
proves the desire of the present cabinet
to act fairly in the distribution of
offices. 1t is reported that Admiral
Walkers squadron has sailed from En-
saneda, Argentine. His destination is
unknown.
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SrirI,t Hnve = window.

LONDON, April 9.-James Russell
Lowell is not to have a monument in
Westminster abbey. The Athenium
says that owing to the scantiness of the
unoccupied space in the abbey, the
Very Rev. George Granville Bradley,
D. D., dean of Westminster. has reluct-
antly declined To fnd room in the abbey
for the proposed monument, and has
suggested that instead Of . monument d
window in the Chapter house, the scene
Of the delivery Of some Of Mr.. Lowell's
addresses might be filed with stained
giAss memorial.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
Servant Girl suffoca.sd.

ST.. PAUL, April 9.-The servant girl
at Mr.. j. G. Ksnnedys, corner Of Arun-
del and Iglehart streets, was found dead
in bed from suffocation by coal gas. It
is supposed that after turning the gas
of at night when retiring she turned
the tap too far. Her full name is NOT
known q she was only engaged the day
before, but she is thought to have Z
hrother living on the Dodd road.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09

CORRESPONDENTS
Quaker City National Bank Philadelphia, Penn.
National Bank of Illinois, Chicago, III.
Sioux Falls National Bank Sioux Falls. E ID.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
81. Paul ;.nion s.oek Yara..

SourH sI. PAUL, April 9, l3g..
HOGS-s;tea ly. Yards cleared To packers,
at $4.OeGi4.4O.
CATfLc-Steady but quiet, Not enough in
to make g. market. A few head changed hands
at Thursdays prices. Good demand for
stockers and feeders. Prime steers, $35DE9A.Do;
good steers, s3.oaG350: prime cows, $3.50
800; good cows, s2U0g2.50; common to fair
cows, l.sSal:,0a, light veal calves, s3.oOg37s:
heavy calves. 3ca003.0o; stockers, 81. 2.Oofl2.5 81:
feeders, e5tp3.00; bulls, stays and oxen
$l25D..41.
SHEEP-Stcady. A couple of loads offered
and about sold at close. Muttons, S5.ooDS5o;
lambs. S5UD15.5o.
Receipts: Hogs 80; cattle, 81. calves. 6;
sheep, 2l0, horses =
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
Chicago Live stsek.
cnIcAao Ukros srocx YAnps

CHICAGO UNION STocE YARDS
April 9. iSga I
CATTLE-steady.
HOGS-Firin aud &c higher Heavy, SA45Ss
L70; mixed and medium. $45aB4.67lz: light,
A4EI4.6J.
SHEEP-Eirm.
Receipts: Cattle 5000; hogs, lteG0; sheep,
6,0U.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09

WHEAT May. slaSc; July, slJ<c.
CORN May. Av34c; July 3c3<c.
CATS Mar. aSz[c-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
Miansapolis wheat.

MINNEAPOLIS. April 9, lssa.
wHEAT--April closed at sic: May opened
ct 7sIac, highest slssc lowest 7s1ac, closed atr
SIC; July opened ut si1sc, highest sp4c, low
est sgl4c. closing S3sse. On Track-No. 4
hard, S5c; No. Northern, S35%c; No Nsr-
thern 7SlLSIc.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-09
OPENING PRICn6.

Chicago Grain and Provisions.
CHICAGo. Anril q. fHa2
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

of meat during its transport from Amor.
lea to Europe, nor till 1879 that the
Bell Coleman and Haslam refricerator,s
which have rendered possible the trade
in frozen carcaSSeS, We're introduced
American frozen meat was brought into
our markets in 1876, Australian in 1880.
and New Zealand in 1882, and YET.
though their commandments are SO
near to us, the three together now rep
resent third of all the meat sold in
London.
Inc second distinction is that timing
drylng, and curing are definite in their
actlon and are intended to produce more
OF less durable effects, while freezing is,
mus tar' purely temporary form of
treatment. applied principally during
periods of transport.
The third is that, While driving usually
damages animal substances (+bonob Il
is applicable without bad consequences
TO many fruits and Vegetables, and
| While the various forms of curino hova
| the inconvenience of communicative 9
| special taste to the matters treated nv
SNN'A
now been carried to such perfection of
execution, that in most cases they en-
! gendered no i'll effects whatever. 1t is
true that beef is injured somewhat by
freezing, but mutton is not, partly be-
cause the texture of beef is more open
than that of mutton. and therefore
more accessible to exterior influences.
but mainly because while sheep are
frozen whole and are protected by their
skin against the direct contact of cold
with their inner flesh, beef is cut I'D
INTO quarters. and cut surfaces Gn-
stead of skim and are exposed to coag-
ulation. Freezing is. however still In
| its infancy, and much more may be ex-
| pected from it in the future than it has
achieved in the past.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
POISON IN FOOD.
In olden Times "a Sharp Watch Was Keep
ON the Cooks Dishes.

In olden Times Sharp Watch Was Kept
the Cooks Dishes.
The fear of poison which haunted the
mind of every person of quality during
the middle ages gave rise to certain
curious customs and even to certain
supersudons, says Golden Days. When
dishes are now served covered it is
understood that it is merely for the
purpose of keeping them warm This
was not, however, the principal reason
why they were served covered during
the dark ages. 1t was the fear that
poison might be introduced into them
SurreptitiOuSly between the kitchen and
the table where they were to be served
to the kings or the lords or even to
persons of inferior rank.
The covers were not removed till
the master of the house had taken his
place. All dishes afterward served
We're brought on the table in the same
manner.
1t was the custom originally when
the dishes were uncovered for some Of
the servants to first partake of them,
but this custom was afterWard i'll part
replaced by the servants touching the
food with one of several objects which
were regarded as infallible preSerya-
tives against poison.
These objects were the horn Of the
unicorn, a serpent's tongue, the fabu-
lous stone found in the head of the
toad, serpentine, agate and other
stones. The first was considered the
best, but as the unicorn never existed,
it's horn was replaced by that of the
narwhal or by a sharks tooth, which
were sold by all the druggists instead
of it and under its name.
Many persons kept a small piece of
it at the bottom of their drinking
glasses. UnicOrn's horn was so rare
and precious that it was worth more
than ten times it's weight in gold.
It was never proved that the stone
alleged to come from the mead of the
toad that origin. and the druggists who
sold it knew that what they vended
was Il mineral dug out of the earth.
but this did not prevent the fraud or
put IN end to the superstition.
In the time of Louis XIV. and Louis
XIV. the faith in these talismans had
considerably weakened, but all the
dishes placed on the royal tables were
touched, as well as the plate, the nap
kin, the knife, the fork and the tooth
pick of the monarch, with n piece of
bread, which the chief of the goblet
at once swallowed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
MONSTER LOCOMOTIVE.

The public in general and the railway
world III particular will learn with in
tereSt of Il monster locomotive which.
for the purpose of reducing the time
between Jersey City and PHILADELPHIA
to ninety minutes. the PENNSYLVANIA
Railway company has had constructed.
1t weighs 145, 900 pounds. or u ID tons.
With its tender, ready for service, it
weighs 2240OO pounds, or 112 tons It's
drlVlng-WheelS, four in number on each
side, have a diameter of seven feet.
The boiler pressure is 200 pounds to
the square inch. 1t has two cylinders,
the one 10 ID and the other 81 inches
in diameter, with a piston stroke of IS
inches. The boiler 5 feet in diameter.
and p feet long, is ID feet above
the rail. The engine is made on the
compound principle and will be capable
of making Il speed of 100 miles per hour
1t is said to have the largest driving
wheels ever used in this country, and a
higher boiler pressure. But an engine
on the New York Central & Hudson
River road. which has feet 2 inch
drivers, is so feet long. IL feet high and
weighs 100000 pounds. also claims to
be the largest and fastest engine in the
world. and recently made a continuous
run of rs miles an hour with a heavy
train.
Few persons are aware of the i'm
mense weights that go into the new
locomotives, or into the trains that they
draw. A fast train of six Pullman cars,
without passengers, weighs Gncluding
engine and alD) about 10000 pounds
Some trains weigh 100000 pounds, and
their momentum, when going at the
nense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
ST ERLING.
A Bit of History Connected With the Use o
the Word.

A Bit of History Connected With the Use OF
the Word.
The origin of the word sterling, as
applied to English money, is a singular
bit of linguistic history. Esterling, III
old English, meant a man from the
east or from the continent of Europe.
During the reign of Henry III. of Eng
land the coin current became so debas-
ed that it passed for a 1.-THE Of its nomi-
nal value, and the necessity for inn
provement became apparent. There
were no refiners in the realm who could
separate the alloy from the precious
metal to the extent of purifying the
latter and rendering it fit for coinage
purposes, so a number of Easterlings
were brought from Germany to do the
work. The coins they sent from the
royal mint We're so much superior to
those in common use that they were
known as the Esterling money, and
by popular corruption soon became
sterling.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
The River Nile

St. Louis Republican,: The Nile has a
fall Of but six inches to the thousand
miles! The overflow commences IN
June every year and continues until
August. attaining an elevation of from
twenty-four to twentysiX feet above
low water mark, and flowing through
the ''Vauey of Egypt in a turbulent
body twelve miles wide. During the
last thousand years there has been but
one sudden rise of the Nile, that OF
1929, when 10000 people were drown
ed. After the waters recede each year
the eXhalationS from the mud are slmp-
" intolerable to all except natives.
This mud deposit adds about eight
inches to the soil every century, and
throws a muddy embankment from
twelve to sixteen feet into the sea every
wear. This being the case it is plain
that the mouth of the river is thousands
of feet farther north than in the time
of the Ptolemies. and it is only ques-
ton of time when the sediment will
make a dam entirely across the Medi-
terranean sea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
THEY WROTE TO EACH OTHER.
A THIEF and His victim Exchange Notes in
the Woodahcd.

THEY WROTE TO EACH OTHER.
A Thief and His Victim Exchange Notes in
the Woodahcd.
French Graham, a respected church
official, has missed considerable wood
and other fuel from his wOodshed, III
the rear of his home upon Mulberry
street, says the Cincinnati Times Star.
Patience ceased to be q virtue, and
Graham, a mild-mannered man of a
strong religious turn Of mind, puzzled
his brain for a way to Overwhelm his
Whilom visitor with shame upon his
next nightly call at the woodpile, of
which it might truly be said, ''There
is niger in this ere WOOdpile." The
kindly church official laid awake Of
nights dreaming of a way to catch the
thief and commandment breaker. He
lost sleep-a good deal of it-but hit
upon plan unique, but in full accord
with his religious convictions and alto
gether Of the doctrine of the Good
Book that lay on the comfortable in
his parlor.
Not even unfolding his schemes to his
wife, he straightway prepared a short,
but interesting, practical missive, as
follows:
This is my wOodpile. Remember
the eighth commandment: Thou shalt
not steal and try to observe it in the
future"
On the wCod-shed door he nailed the
warning notice to the wary stealer of
the pine faggots The quick tap, tap,
tap of the hammer makes the matter
secure, and the sheet fluttered to the
air, fast to the upper beam. For sew
eral hours it waved, until the waning
moon had hidden itself below the
horizon.
The thief came doubtless paused and
read. Perhaps he said: Meant for
me-" Before he carried away one arm
load of kindling he added a line to the
warning like this: 81 thank yer, I
amt no thefe."
Other interesting and more pointed
notes, which would not appear to adj
vantage in print, one pinned to an
other, followed, night after night, until
the list brushed the floor
The writing of the notes resembled
the chirOgraphy of another Well-known
church brother and neighbor of kind
Mr. Graham, but the accusation that
followed the suspicion met with fistic
denial that placed the accuser prone
on the ground, and the mystery re-
mains unsOlved. The notes have ac-
complished a purpose and set the neigh
bors in dread of a VOodoO and a thous-
and imaginary evil consequences, and
though an effort was made to keep
the matter quiet it has leaked out and
is now the gossip of the neighborhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
MERCER Acquitted.

Quebec, Nov. 4-Great excitement
prevailed among the crowd of the
surrounding court when the verdict was
announced in the MERCER case. And
as the crowd yelled four sturdy fell
lows bearing Ex-premjer MERCER on
Their shoulders appeared and headed the
procession to the residenc Of f. x.
L1nieux, where MERCER thanked the
assemblage for the spontaneous evi-
dence of friendship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

ton of temperament to- foresee the re
suit of such daily encounters. Some
may become discouraged and say:
well, such is life" Some will retrace
their steps homeward, glad to be once
more installed in the village school.
Some have no homes to which they
can turn. And some, alas! have homes
in name only-homes where the taunts
and gibes and the Il told you So are
more unbearable a thousand times THAI
violated conscience or even the
thought of the dark river
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
REVENGE OF MINERS.

Crowd in Tennessee Burn the House of a
Soldiers BegefactreSS.
Oliver Springs, Tenn, Nov. ga
crowd of miners marched into town
last night and openly set fire to the
house of Mrs. Lewis, who was very
kind to the soldiers when they were
here. The house was completely de
stroyed.
Captain Roche called for volunteers
and a hundred men are ready to march
at a moments notice if further trouble
is threatened.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
PRESERVING FOOD.
The Freezing Plan Seems to be Coming to
the Front for Good.

The Freezing Plan Seems to be Coming to
the Front for Good.
OF the four principal manners of pre-
serving food in use today, drying and
curing (the latter term including salt
ing, smoking, and antiseptic processes
are more modern; while timing and
freezing are entirely new. Timing
dates nominally from 1904, when APP
pert made the first attempt at enclosing
food in Theoretically closed boxes, but a
long course of trials and improvements
had to be gone through before the excel
lence of today was obtained. Dried
vegetables were introduced by Chollet
in 1915, but the products of that period
We're miserable in comparison with
those turned out new, says writer in
Magazine.
Ice has been used for more than
quarter of a century with the greatest
in the fishing fleet, Of which
it has entirely modified the work, but it
was not till 1875 that it began to be
seriously employed for the preservation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

The homeopathic physicians of New
York will petition the legislature to en-
act laws prohibiting the marriage of
persons taiu.2n by hercdity with cline,
insanity or disease. The state certainly
has a right to protect itself along this
important line, but law of the kind
would be much more easily enacted
than enforced. Where SO many very
good laws are already dead letters it
is scarcely worth while to pile up more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

Public land sales are no longer as eX-
tensive as formerly, says the Springfield
Republican, but it is mistake to sup
pose the public domain has been SO far
reduced that these land sales have prac-
tically been cut down to insignificant
dimensions. For the year ending June
80 last an area of new territory nearly
as large as Massachusetts and New
Jersey was occupied, 81, 1926 acres be-
ing disposed of by the government for
cash and 7,716,062 acres by homestead
entry. These figures compare respec-
lively with =, 142, $50 and 500, 1894 in the
previous year. The opening Of Okla
homa was the main cause of the in
crease i'll homestead entry dispOsals for
last year. These figures are independ-
ent of the sales made by Immigrant
railroads from their domain which is
now very much reduced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

The Paraguayan government is offer
ing large premiums to immigrants who
will engage in agriculture, and is so gen
erous in this respect that it is likely to
attract a population from OvercrOwded
portions of Europe. The climate of
Paraguay is admirable, and there is no
reason why this South American cOun-
try should not develop into greatness.
North American can have but kindly
feeling in the matter. 1t has reached
the stage where it does not seek inn
migration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

Judge III. w. Blodget has placed his
resignation from the bench in the hands
of the president. The action was made
necessary by the appointment as a mem
Der of the Behring sea commission, but
it is none the less regrettable on that ac-
count. The judge was too modest when
he said: Il thought it time, after
twenty-five years of service as a dis
trict judge, to retire and make way for
younger blood" The physical intirm-
tiles incident to age may be bearing up
on him, but it can be truthfully said of
him that intellectually his eye is not
dim nor his natural force abatted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

The reason why stars are visible 1T
noon when looked for from a shaft or
well is that the eye is better able to
regulate and decrease the admission of
the rays of light through the iris to
the pupil and from thence to the crys-
talline lens. The use of the lens is to
collect and refract the rays of light,
so that they may converge on the back
part of the eye, called the retina.
SaussurG states that stars have been
seen with the naked eye in broad day
light on the declivity of Mount Blanc
at an elevation of 12.757 feet. The
observer must be placed entirely in the
shade, and have thick and massive
shade above his head, to prevent the
strong light of the day from dispers-
ing the faint image of the stars. These
conditions are the same as those OBJ
tanned from the bottom of a well or
shaft.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
ESCAPED FROM WAUPUN.
Thomas Sanders Scales the Prison wall and
is still Free.

Waupun, Wis, Nov. 7.-ThOmas
Sanders escaped from prison this morn
ing. He was working in the prison
office and went out in the back yard
about 6 o'clock. He had rope made
of towels and with this scaled the back
wall and took to his heels. He was
seen about three miles south about s
o'clock, by a passenger on the morning
train. Sanders was sent up from Eau
Claire County in 1890, for a three-years
term for burglary. His time would
have expired next February. He is 50
years old. 5 feet 6 inches in height,
weighs 153 pounds, has a light COM
plexion, brown hair and blue eyes A
reward of 500 is offered for his cap
ture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

Rev Father PaIladlus, the famous
Russian missionary, has brought out,
after twenty years of labor, Chinese
Russian dictionary containing 11,66S
hieroglyphics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

The funeral ceremonies following the
death of Mrs. Harrison were simple in
Indianapolis. There were none of the
pOmp and circumstance which some
times attend the burial of the loved and
widely known. This is as the people
will best like it. A good wife and
mother has passed away. So good and
home and husband-loving was she that
to make her burial a public function
can family is but burying its blessed
dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

1t is reported that as a result of the
action of the board of directors of Union
seminary, which revoked the compact
made in 1870 granting the Presbyterian
general assembly veto power in the
selection of professors, the heirs of eX-
Governor Morgan, who gave 100000
to the seminary, and other parties, will
institute suit against the seminary for
the recovery of moneys donated since
the compact was made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10
r W, Cross Dead,

Oshkosh, Wis, NovA4.-R. W. Cross,
a resident here since his childhood, died
this morning, aged 80 years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

Charles Towards barn near Platte
vile was destroyed by fire.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-03

The Southern Pacific Company has
authorized the statement made to the
trustees, and 1t was communicated at
Mondays session Of the board, that it
will raise the water front grounds it oc-
cupies on the levee, from n street north
and east as far as the engineers may deem
necessary, and that this raising will be
made at once and to the hight that the
citizens meetings have deemed essential.
say from three to five feet. This does not
mean that five feet in hight is to be added
throughout, but that the 1evee level will
be brought to uniform hight. In most
reaches 1t Is DOW from two to three feet
above high water, in some is down
to the wafer level, and IN some is but a