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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
QUEER LOSING PLACES,
Agsravating Franks Trinkets Have Playe<
Upon Their Too Confident Owners

All the rings in a country house
had been cleaned and laid out in the
sun on bright July day, says the
London Queen. They had been laid on
bank, as has been the habit of some
jewel lovers ever since Lothian" was
informed that sunlight was the elixir
ior pearls, and the precious freight
had been carried inside, when one-a
hat-hoop diamond ring-was found to
De missing. Lamentation prevailed,
but, to cut a long story short, it was
pulled up the following day on the
root OF nasturtium, over a bed of
which the bearer of the Jewel trav had
passed. There having been a season
of drought, the root was half in and
half out of the loose, dusty soil. but
foot-presumably that of the trav
bearer-had actually pressed it be-
meath and out of sight. A nursery
maid, however, thinking the sprawl
ing animals looked untidy, began pull
ing them up next day, and there was
the lost valuable! Do not believe it?
should not have done so on hearsav
myself, but still | say, as do all others
who saw, it was so.
The frill around woman's skirt will
catch and hold fast a precious morsel
in a manner almost inconceivable. A
diamond ring (again diamond ring
the species is bewitched) had flown
off the finger of a lady player at lawn
tennis. Up and down that velvet lawn
all through the long summer after
noon did patient searchers pace. and
finally poor pussy cat, who had been
licking its paws in the vicinity, came
under suspicion. Pussy was observed
to be going through various and hor-
rible contortions. 1t arched its back,
stretched its neck, gulped, and, in
short, behaved exactly as if an emetic
had been recently administered. Ev-
cry moment it was expected evidence
of guilt would be produced, and |
must say | never would have supposed
the sight of a sick cat would produce
such a profound sensation as it did on
that memorable occasion. And, after
all, no ring was there. 1t was brought
to its owner the following morning by
the abigail who had been mending the
founce of the thin muslin robe torn in
the lawn tennis fray, and the ener-
getic comprehensive was very ener-
getic-must have played, bounding and
springing about, with this diamond
ring in the heading of the founce-a
spot which had no sort of security
during four or five hours, Judging
from the time it was lost.
remember seeing an old lady and
her maid hunting every nook and
peeping into every corner in search of
another and handsomer set of bril-
liants, which eventually the latter
raked out from among the ashes be-
meath the huge, old-fashioned fire.
place. How it got there no one ever
knew; no sound had been heard, and
the owner never put on her own wood
or Goals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Politics in Missouri.

Two country politicians met on the
road in south Missouri, when one of
them said to the other:
Il want you to vote for Sam Hester
for the legislature, Bob"
Cant do it Bill"
Thar amt no better man than Sam
you know, Bob"
Sans good 'nough man in some
respects, Bill, but he's bad shot with
a rifle"
whats that got to with it?"
"a good deal. His bad shootin' is
the cause of me bein' broke up. You
know he shot at that deputy marshal
last year from the bush?"
les"
"Well, he missed him. The marshal
cum right on, found my STILL took me
off to Springfield, whar l was tried,
an, as you know, Bill, completely
broke me up. | can't conscientiously
support Sam Hester. "-Drake's Maya
zine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

10 regard man as natural enemy.
But more frequently the 'man-eater'
is very old tiger, or more probably
tigress, that, having hunted in the
neighborhood of villages and carried
off some unfortunate woman, has dis
covered that it is far easier to kill
native than to hunt jungle game"
As a rule, the tiger is only anxious
to avoid men, and il is noticed that in
high grass tigers are more dangerous
than in forests. because in the former
they cannot be seen, neither can they
see, until the stranger is close upon
them. An ancient instance of the OPP
pOsite behavior is that recorded of the
new colonists of Samaria, whom the
lions attacked, land slew some of
them" A curious inversion of this
experience occurred when the islands
in the Brahmaptura, which were
swarming with tigers, were first Guilt
waited. The natives, mainly by the aid
of traps set with bow and arrow,
killed off the tigers so fast that the
skins were sold by auction at from s
the tigers were the first aggressors by
carrying of cattle. But it seems evil
dent that there exists no a priori rea-
son, founded in natural antipathy, why
man and animals, if we could recon-
struct state of nature" in which we
could put civilized, not savage man,
should not dwell together in profound
peace, or at least in such peace as OBJ
tains between accidental neighbors.
The only ground for quarrel that seems
inevitable is the everlasting one be-
tween the shepherd and the wolf, and
that, after all, is a question, not of
prejudice, but of property.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Giant Soap Bubbles.

Prof. I. OConnor Sloan, in the
course OF scientific lecture the other
day, told his young auditors how to
blow soap bubbles In substance his
directions were: Take lamp Chin
ney-one which is straight up and
down-dip one end in solution of
soap and water until a fiat disk of film
covers the end. Blow gently till the
bubble is started. Then remove the
chimney about two inches from the
lips and continue blowing gently. In
this way giant bubbles can be blown
without exhausting the blower. The
addition OF little glycerine to the
soap and water is very advantageous.
-PhiladeLpbia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
THE TIGER.
Proof That He Kills More Men Than Any
Other Wild Animal.

The point of view from which the
lion or tiger looks on man Is perhaps
not SO far removed from that of the
noncarnivorous creatures as might be
supposed, says the London Spectator.
Man is certainly not the natural food
for any animal-eXcept for sharks and
alligators. if he is so rash as to 90 out
of his native element into theirs and
if the item man" were subtracted
from the bill of fare of all the carniv-
ora they would never want a meal.
The notion of the natural attitude of q
lion TO a young lady
When as that tender virgin he did spye.
Upon her he did run full creedily,
To have at once GcvOured her tender corpse
is still popular, but hardly correct.
More probably the lion would get out
the way politely-if we may Judge by
the pacific behavior of those in our
last explored lion-haunt, Mashonaland.
Georges Leroy's contention for the
natural affinity, or semi-sympathy,
which should exist between man and
intelligent hunting animals is no doubt
partly reasonable. Leigh Hunt was
unpleasantly struck by the incongru-
ity of the notion of being eaten by wild
beast-"the hideous impracticable fell
iow-creature looking one ~ the face,
struggling with us, mingling his breath
with ours, tearing away scalp or
shoulder blade" But the fellow
creature" is not nearly so impractical
BILE as he is supposed to be. More hu-
man beings are probably killed by
tigers than by any other wild beast,
except by starving wolves. Yet this
is what Sir Samuel Baker has to say
on the subject: There is great diff
ference in the habits Of tigers. Some
exist on the game in the jungles. 9th
ers prey especially upon the focks be-
longing to the villages. A few are
designated 'man-eaters.' These are
sometimes naturally ferocious, and,
having attacked human being, may
have eaten the body, and thus ac-
quired taste for human flesh; or they
ay have been wounded on more than
occasion. and NAV h~~a lNarned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

some Rrn"rt5s"'. B.. n"cr, - -, -
graphical GiuA>lers in ;h, .,r,.p.I....
Whatever may be said as IT, the in
errancy of the original autographs Of
the bible, says the y. Y Tri5uac, the
record OF misprints and plumbers in
many editions of that book proves con-
clusively that those who handle it are
far from being inerrant About the
year 1900 Pope SiXtus V. put forth an
edition of the Vulgate, the proofs of
which he himself carefully corrected.
He was so sure that it was all right
that he appended a bull to it excom-
municating anyone who should make
an alteration in the text. Neverthe-
less the volume was so full of mistakes
that the edition had to be suppressed.
Copies of this edition are now very
rare, and fetch high price.
There have been some remarkable
misprints in editions of the English
bible. In the edition of 1854 the pass
age in the twelfth Psalm, The fool
hath said in his heart, there is no
God" appeared without the word mo-"
and, of course, the edition was prompt
ly suppressed. In the London edition
of 1868 the words worldly riches" APP
pear instead of "godly riches" The
edition of Field, printer to the Uni
versity Of Cambridge, in the seven
teenth century, has many misprints
1t is said that he received fl, 800 from
the independents to print eve" for
we" in the sixth verse Of the third
chapter of Acts, in order to support
fbanf.J- hat ba fl
apostles, choose their pastors, so that
the passage read: Wherefore, breth-
rem, look We out among your seven
men whom we may appoint
over this business" In the same edi-
ton, the passage in |. Corinthians. vi,
9, is made to read: know We not
that the unrighteous shall inherit the
kingdom of God?" In 1917 the Clar-
endon press issued the famous Vine
gar Bible" which was so called be-
cause, in the twentieth chapter Of
Luke, the Parable of the Vineyard ap-
pears as the parable of the Vinegar"
\ curious misprint was the omission
Of the word mot" in printing the sew
enth commandment. This happened
in the edition published in the reign
OF Charles L., the printers being sum
moned before the high commission
and fined 5000. The same omission
occurred in the thirty-fourth edition
printed at Halle, copies of which are
extremely rare. Perhaps the most re-
markahle intended misprint occurred
IN an edition of the bible published by
a German widow. Her late husband
was apparently worthless and disa-
greeable fellow, and as she reflected
on his many faults she grew indignant
at the passage in Genesis where COD
declared to Eve that woman should
be subject to man. SO she arose one
night when the workmen were absent,
and, going to the printing room, pro-
ceeded to reverse the situation in that
passage by taking out the first two
letters of the word herr" and replac-
ing them by "na." Thus corrected
the passage read: And he shall be
thy (narr) fool" instead of "He shall
be thy (herr) lord" OF course the sub
stitution was soon discovered, and the
hapless widow was burned at the stake
by the authorities, who. being men,
could not ignore this insult to their
sacred and superior persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
An Inorganic Substance.

Teacher-"C Glass in physiology, stand
up. Bodkins, how do you distin guish
organic from inorganic matter?" Bod
kinds (gibly, having committed the
answer to memory)-"In the organic
world every individual springs from
some parent, while inorganic sub
stances are formed by chemical laws. I"
Teacher-"Very good. Give an ex-
ample of an inorganic substance. /"
Bodkins Casually slow at these things.
but for once inspired)-"An orphan. /"
Brooklyn Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
What a Comma Looks Like.

"Aunt Polly" was strict discipline
arian, who taught their A B C's to I'M
ruly urchins at fremont seventy years
ago. One day she was drilling the
class in Webster's spelling book on
punctuation, and asked one Bill Mill
ken what comma looked like. 1T
looks like pollywog, mann" was the
answer. Bill got his ears cuffed, but
not a scholar there ever failed to recog-
nize comma at sight after that defin-
ition.-LeWlston Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Johns Song logged Her Memory

John" said loving wife, Il wish
you would sing two or three lines of a
song for me-" "What on earth do you
want me to do that for?" There is
something want you to bring home,
and I've forgotten what it is; but l
think I'd remember il if you sing"
The good-natured husband complied,
and the charming wife said: Il re-
member now. It's file l want. IN.
Y Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Italian Boots.

Italian boot factories are manufac-
turing boots of single pattern. The
heels and soles are not sewn on, but
riveted to the uppers in such way
that if the heels are worn down on
ore side they can be taken off and
turned round. Worn soles can be re-
moved in the same way and new ones
DIIt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

A story is told of a Harvard profess
sor who entertained a number of adj
vanced students at his parlors with a
learned dissertation upon the expan-
sion of heat and contraction of cold.
He gave numerous illustrations of an
interesting and convincing character,
and his guests were evidently greatly
edited and pleased, while he appeared
in the best of moods with his success.
As he took his seat his little daughter.
who was sitting in corner with her
doll, asked: Papa, if cold contracts,
why did the frozen water break nv
glass last night?" The great scientist
and the clever students were alike
dumbfounded by the question. No
answer was attempted. Which was
the greater teacher-the college pro-
lessor or his little child?- TROY Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
MAKING PETS OF RUNNING BIRDS.
What May Be Done in the Way of Tam
ing These Dimnutive Things.

While walking in the orchard one
day in June l espied a humming birds
nest Ga fitting casket for the GEM on a
horizontal limb about five feet from
the ground. When | looked into it two
feathered mites flew out and fell to the
ground, AS there were pigs in the
orchard | thought had better take
the birds out of it. | carried them to
the house, made light frame for a
cage, and covered it with lsce. In this
l kept them four months, letting them
out every dav. / fed them upon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
The Best Steel.

The steel used by the United States
navy is recommended by the Austrian
Society of Engineers as the best known
in practical science.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Capital and Labor's Present Attitude

First Factory Hand-"We will never
be able to better ourselves until we or
ganize and have a fund to fall back
on when our demands are refused.
Second Factory Hand-"That's so.
We must save all we can"
Factory Supt (sOme months later)
Il learn that some of our factory
hands are saving little money every
week"
Owner My stars. We must re-
duce wages or they'll soon have enough
ahead to 90 on a strike. Puck.
There are forty women physicians in
India, but only two in France, it is said.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

The telephone is making the ladies
OF Honolulu stouter. They used to do
their own shopping, marketing, etc.
Now they send their orders by tele-
phone, and the lack of exercise has
caused an accumulation of flesh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

tonne Rrm|r,yt';'t rt aur"., - -, .-
graphical BiuhLer, ia, ;nr ,rr:p.,.... Co.,.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18

they could not keep house without
.Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, espe-
cially for tho children. In a case few
weeks since Mt the homo Of ncishbor
the attending physician had given up a
case OF what he called dropsy.t Mother
happening in, told the parents that in
her mind it was case OF lung fever and
advised tho use OF this cough syrup,
which they did. Result, the child is
well anu the parents happy. Chamber
laln's medicines are used in more than
half the homes in, Leeds.- Bios,
Leeds, Iowa This remedy is not in
tended for lung fever, but for colds, Ia
grippe, Group ,andwhoopins cough. It
will loosen a cold, relieve tho lungs, and
prevent the cold from resulting in lung
lever: 50-cent and 81 90 bottles for
sale by G. R. ,Goetze. w. w. Irwin,
John Kari, G. Schnepf, C. Mcnkcmillcr,
w. s. Mccullough N. W.Heinrici, w.
E. Williams. S. L. Brice, John Cole.
man and W. II. Williams, Wheeling,
W. Va. : Bowie 4 I Co.. bridgeport, O.;
3. /. Beabody, Bcnwood, VIVA. paw
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18
MIR. EvARrs GOING BIlND.
rho Great New York Statesman Grad ~,
Losing His Eye sight.

Losing His Eyo slsh'-
New YoRx, April l7.-ES.senator
William Maxwell Evarts, In declining
an invitation to the dinner given by tho
Chamber OF Commerce to Minister
Whitelaw Reid, after expressing hearty
recognition Of Mr.. Rcid's services, con.
tinues: ~ regret, loweverto feel that
impaired condition Of my oyCsight pre-
cludcs mo from taking part inpublic u.s.
scmblagcs."
Tho reference in this letter is tho
first public announcement that Mr..
EvArts's cycsight has become so i'm.
paired that ho must forcgo participa.
ton IN public assemblages. Three
years ago, when his sight began to fail,
no went to Europe. After spending
some timo in Carlsbad Mr.. Evarts re-
turned and resumed his public duties.
From that time, however, no gradually
withdrew from public life, md when he
retired from the senate last year he
went TO quiet resort in Northern New
York and spent two months in rest and
rccuperation.
On his return to New York ho with
drow entirely from public lie. He
ceased to frequent the Union and Union
League clubs, Of which hc is u member,
and declined invitations 10 public gath
erings. Visitors ut his honsp rarely, ii
ever, SAW him. Ills son, Mr.. Sherman
Evarts, said tonight: at is true that
my fathers cye-sight is falling him. lle
desired earnestly TO attend the banquet
Of MIR. Reid tonight. and when no found
ho could not do so no felt that tho real
cause Of his absence could alone suffice
rs IN explanation. Tho affection OF his
eyes is incurable."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18
Deafness Can't be Cured,

by local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion OF the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inliamed con-
dition OF the mucous lining OF the
eustachiar tube. When this tubo gets
inflamed you have q rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-.
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out OF ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in.
famed condition OF the mucous sur.
face. 2&'
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case OF deafness Caused by catarrh)
that we can not cure by taking Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send tor circulars, free.
T. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18
"rIlr BLACK THORN" TONIGHT.
, = TIE '''1e'N 'T''FFV''''- y .'fS'
his popular and we'll known comedy
STAGE:SSQW FLAKES.


Gossip nbou. the Pinyslnnd' 'tlio Players.
Some Local Faro5ites.
Mrs. John Drew will retire from
Joseph Jcilcrson's Support early next
month in order to make her annual APP
pearance in old Ecomedy Mt her own
theatre in Philadelphia. In hers sew
enty-fifth year, this admirable actress
preserves her vigor to 4 marvellous do.
gree, surprising all who witness her
performances. She is the oldest actress
in America onlthe stage to-day. Clara
Fisher Macder; Isl about seven years
older than Mrs. Drew, but she has not
appeared beforcathe public often in late
seasons. The oldest living actress in
America is Rachael Cantor, who is in
the Forrest 1onit. Mrs. Cantoris near
ing her eighty:thtrd year, = ~ Is 81; s;,.
Says the Cincinnati Post: vThere"are
all sorts OF stories in regard 10 Sthe ORR
gin OF "ru-ra-da, Boom.ta.rah." 4 local
paper claims to have first published tho
song OF that name, while almost every
one thinks it OF American origin As
matter OF fact, "Ta-r;I- ia ,iBoom-ta:rah"
is the name OF an indecent French song
NiiNll Az ICtii " Ill tIlC NuIlCLy llletlcIS
ever so long ago. By ono Of those strange
processes, which are as hard to account
for rs they are true, the title OF the
song, which literally means tho sensual
clapping OF hands and feet, was taken
up by society and made fad. Now
young society girls hum the "Ta-ra-ra"
and think it all right.
Last weeks Now York Gaatte SAYS:
One OF the genial merry men of the past
two decades, \; ,pungen: wit, clever
writer and eilt9ithirAng .sfolitediah, is
now. an invalid. The sympathy of all
who have known Mr.. Gus Phillips
("Oofty Gooity") will be awakened in
his behalf and, doubt not, will be SUBJ
stantially expressed at the benefit to be
given him at the Union Square Theatre
on Easter SundayHve1ipg4 IlAIji &
Report has it that Edward Clayburg
has gone the way OF tho wicked who
burn the candle OF life at both ends, and
that he has been put i'll an asylum by
his relations. Clayburs first became
known as the husband Of Lillian Spen-
Ger and then as the ,consort of-,a wild
western fairy. Then he married. frankie
kemble, who left him some time ago.
Pittsburgh theatres have begun to
bill Wheeling in great shape. If the
same money were put in. the newspa-
pers here it would do more good.f
Lillian Russell in ia Cigale" is the
attraction at the .Bijou. theatre, Pitts
burGh, this week, and tho Pitou stock
company at the Duqucsne.
Mrs. NJ. A. Crabtre, mother of Lolita,
is quite seriously i'll at her home in
Washington city. She is nowf'70 years
oiagc. s,s,yy. * 2,
"Tho Little Tycoon" will be given at
the Opera House for. tho last time
week from tonight
Hugh Fay, formerly OF Barry and Fay,
has recovered from his long and danger
GUS illness.
Robinson's. circus will open its season
the latter part OF this month in Pendlc.
ton, 0.
]. X. Emmett closed his prosperous
season on Saturday, ut Providence, RI.
Walter L. Mains circus will exhibit
in Bellairc April 81.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18

E;V. Wood, of McKce's Rocks, Ale
gheny county, Pa, in speaking to a
travelling man of Chamberlain's mcdi-
cines said: 81 recommend them above
all others. l have used them myself
and know them to be reliable. Railways
guarantee them to my customers and
have never had n bottle returned" Mr..
Wood had hardly finished speaking,
when little girl came inthe store with
an empty bottle. 1t was labeled
"Chambcrlain's Pain Balm" The tray.
eler was interested. as there was cor:
tainly bottle coming back. but waited
to hear what the little girl said. 1t was
rs follows: Mamma wants another bot
tie Of that medicine; she says it is the
best medicine ior rheumatism she ever
used" 5O.cent bottles for sale by drug.
gists. DIV s
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-18
ALICE NIITCHELL'S CASE
Attorneys LookinS Up. Her Family IIisto
In IittlC wnsbIpytoo 49,

Attorneys Looiins Up Her Family History
In Little Washington.
WASHINGTON, Pa, April ia rcpre-
sentative Of Miss Alice Mitchell, who is
confined in tho Jail ut Memphis, charged
with the murder of Miss Freda Ward,
came to this county TO ascertain whether
or not any insanity exists among tho
relatives of Miss Mitchell.
Several relatives were summoned be-
fore Attorney Wiley, of this place, and
examined. AS yet tho result OF this
hearing has not been announced, and
the attorney has returned to his home.
lie is endeavoring to work tho insanity
dodge in an effort to secure the pardon
OF tho young murdercss.