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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
GENIUS AND GREASE.
The Comparative Earnings of Teachers
and Cooks.

The Comparative Earnings of Teachers
and Cooks.
A year or two ago there was printed
a list of questions concerning domestic
service in the United States, says the
New York Evening Post. They were
prepared by Miss Lucy Salmon, the
professor of history at Vassar college.
Among other interesting facts CLEANED
from the answers to these questions
which have lately been made public are
these: By a comparison made between
the wages received by teachers in the
public schools of Cambridge and cooks
in the neighboring city, Boston, it is
found that fifty-six per cent. of the
teachers in the former city earn 1920
year If the very small sum of 1886
were deducted for board for one year,
this would leave balance of 1885 for
clothing, travel, books, lectures,
charity, pew rent and the inevitable
rainy day
The average wages of the Boston
cook are, according to 574 returns, S445
weekly, or s231.40. AS the cook has no
outlay for food, fuel, light, or laundry
expenses. it is estimated that this
added money value would amount to
s275, and bring her wages up to S506.4O
The difference in the amount of money
left the teacher after paying necessary
expenses, and that received by the
cook who has no such outgo would
therefore be only SOB. The teacher
must dress better, as becomes her po-
sition; she must attend lectures, to
keep in touch with improved methods;
she is urged to subscribe from her pit
lance to journals Of education and has
street car fare to pay daily in stormy
weather. By comparing two of the
tables in the report it is seen that the
Boston cook is probably in possession
of more money at the end of the year
than the average teacher in Albany,
Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Pat
erson, Rochester and Syracuse
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
METHODS OF MIXTURES.
They Are Guided to TheiN Food by THEFT
Remarkable Power OF Sight

They Are Guided to Theiis Food by Their
Remarkable Power OF Sight.
In the month of December. as our
party was ascending the gorge which
leads to Petra from the Wady- El-Arabah,
one of our camels suddenly dropped
down dead. says writer in \the Srec-
tator. This was in the evening, and
we returned to our camp without sue
ceedlng In our object that dlay. But
early next morning we starNed again
Tor Petra, and on reaching th4 carcass
OF the dead camel in the early Jawn we
found about dozen vulturesb congre-
gated around 1t, some of which had al
ready gorged themselves and were al
most unable to fly. Now, when the
camel dropped down, none of these
birds We're in sight; but here mex morn
ing. while the carcass was still fresh.
they had swooped down on thei r prey.
There could have been no smell &f car
rion from this carcass: but it might
easily have been within sight of a\bird
soaring at an elevation which wbuld
have rendered it invisible 80 a traveller;
at the same time. an animal of the size
of a camel lying motionless onI the
ground would have been easily visible
to a vulture while out of sight
In order to account for the assem-
bling of a group of vultures in so short
a time as is here indicated. while none
of these birds were apparently within
sight, we may suppose that the birds
spread themselves at wide intervals
throughout an extensive district and TT
a high altitude; each bird scars about,
keeping steady gaze on the ground
for the carcass of some animal, at the
same time being within sight of his fell
lows. As soon as prey is sighted by one
of the group he swoops down toward it,
and this action is the signal to the
other birds that a meal is to be had
where the bird descended. and they all
flock down accordingly "Wheresoever
the carcass is there will the eagles (vul-
turcs) be gathered together"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04

the intrepid scout and erstwhile
friend of the great Western Kansas
wolf pOiSoner. ventured to break the
perpetual stiffness and tread the
cursed soil Of what the Mexicans
firmly believe to be the devils dane
ing ground. According TO the popu-
lar notion Jacobs Sink" was once a
part and parcel of the fertile table
land that lies between Tom Hills
peak and the main range of the San
Garcia mountains. At one time. in
the dim mists of past ages. this re-
markable, not to say extraordinary,
depression was 14,0)0 feet above the
level of the Pacific; to-day it would
be lake 500 feet deep, with per-
pendicular banks on all sides but ore,
should some CONFUSION of nature or
freak of the elements fill the sink
with water. The true native would
rather suffer death by any known sys-
TEN of torture than to venture into
the awful solitude that is known to
reign supreme at the bottom of the
great basin, but Jacob. with the fool
hardness that induces or impels men
to press on '"where angels fear to
tread boldly permitted himself to be
lowered into the grand but terrible
abyss, which stretches like the mouth
of some yawning death-trap for eleven
miles in one direction and seven and
one-half in the other. When once at
the bottom, our bold explorer says, a
sense of extreme buoyancy or specific
lightness seemed to pervade every
fiber of his anatomy. This feeling
was probably due to the presence of
noxious gases that had collected at
the bottom of the sink; at least it
would be hard to explain the phe-
nomena of such sensations with any
other hypothesis as basis. After
becoming partially accustomed to
feeling like an animated balloon, Mr..
Jacob ventured to explore his unique
surroundings. Eternal silence reigned
supreme. As he afterwards expressed
it, she could hear his own blood
coursing through his veins and the
grinding noise made by the turning
Of the wheels of the universe" Near
the center of the basin, about six or
seven miles from where he had made
the descent, he found fresh water
lake about mile in circumference.
This was fed by fountain having a
gyratOry motion and strange periods
of activity and intermission. What
finally became of the water was a
puzzle, there being no visible outlet
TO the lake. The only inhabitant of
this queer lake, as far as our ex-
plOrer was able to ascertain. was a
short but very thick snake, complete
ly armoured with round plates, which
were, in the language of the ventur-
some Jacob, s'exact cOunterparts of
bolt washers, such as are kept on
sale at hardware stores, each having
a disk about the size of a dime cut
from its center" At the far end of
the sink he found about POD sscOw
brutes" of an unknown species These
he believes were perfectly dumb, as
they emitted no noise when they
went through every detail of dow
ing" or believing.
The Henrique party of 1892 failed
TO find living creature in the great
sink, says the st. Louis Republic, but
large stacks of horns and bones and
few stray plates from the armoured
serpent testify to the truthfulness of
the story told by the first and most
daring explorer of ''Jacob's Sink"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
RSICAN BANDITS,
Dignity Forbids His Being Mere
RObber

Dignity Forbids His Being Mere
Robber.
Bandits have friends in every vii
lage, who supply them with what
they want, and those who have only
taken life or two out of revenge are
not regarded as criminals. We have
seen girl scarce.y out of her teens
flash up with anger if any thing was
said against the vendetta and ex-
claim: ''Que voulez-vOus? On n ims
pas teur, mails 81 on tue les votresr'
Being told it was crime to take life,
she shrugged her shoulders and said
''Qui ne tue pas quequelfois? ?"
A bandit in Corsica never robs any
one, but if he wants money he gets it,
not by plundering rich tourists, not by
stopping a diligence would be
thieving, and altogether beneath his
dignity. He writes a strong lywOrded
letter to some person with whom he
and his family are at feud, and bids
him send a certain sum by a given
date, or take the consequences. The
Belle Croseie band especially during
the last twenty years, has acted as if
the country around belonged to them.
They have almost always insisted
on sharing in the profits of any I'M
dertaking which they may have seen
going forward, says the Saturday Re-
view.
Some few years ago the marie of
- obtained a concession of the
right to fell a certain number of
trees in the forest of Vizzavonai
The Belle Croscie heard Of this and
demanded share in the profit. The
MARIE Indignantly refused, but the
two bandits said: Then we will
shoot any one who attempts to cut
down single tree!" 1t was so GER
tain that they would do it that the
trees were left standing. At length
the marie began to think that half a
loaf was batter than no bread, and
yielded. That has always been the
way. Every one has yielded, and
though expedition after expedition of
armed men have been senJ to the
mountains to capture the two Belle
Croscie, and though the gendarmes
have been eager for the honor and
reward attendant on success, there
has been no success. Antoine Croscie
has waited until the time during
which the law prosecutes for murder
is passed; Jacques will do the same
and governing family in Corsica
will have been founded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
ANTI-CLIM A XES.
A Few of the Many Examples Culled in
the East and the West.

the East and the west.
One of the most laughable features
about Rudyard Kipling's short
sketches of East Indians, and also one
of the truest to life, say those who
have lived in India, is the strong ten
dency the natives have to use the
most startling anti-climaxes in their
formal speeches to one another, and
more especially when a native of low
caste or great poverty petitions a
European for favor. Ii the latter
case the speaker will say something
like this:
''Wlll the Presence, whose reputa-
ton for justice is known from East to
West, and whose cOuntenance spreads
Joy among his interiors, who are as
the sands of the sea in number, gra-
ciOusly deign to take but an instant's
notice of him who has almost the de-
lirious honor to name himself one Of
the most unworthy among the SER
wants of the protector of the poor;
and will the favorite son of thu lord
of the universe magnanimously over
look my amazing presumption in ask
ing him for the payment of bill of
two annas for hen feed?n
This sort of thing is not unknown
in this country, among people who
aim at grandiloquent manner of
speech, and whose sense of the ride
ulous is not highly developed Courts
presided over by unlettered judges
are especially prolific of examples.
For instance, a Florida police justice
is reported to have sought to arouse
a sense of shame in the breast of
burly negro prisoner in this way:
''PrisOner at the bar! An all-wise
and all-merciful Providence has en-
dowed you with an intelligent mind
and powerful physique; instead of
which you spend your days in playing
craps and your nights in robbing
clothes-lines,n
At another time the same Justice
sought to impress upon prisoner
| who was about to testify in his own
behalf the solemn nature of an oath.
| Assuming his most pompous tone, he
thus addressed the culprit: ''Pris-
oner at the bar! In taking this SOL
emn oath to tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, take
care that you do not allow yourself
to be tempted by the danger of your
! position to commit a willful perjury.
Remember that the eyes of an all
seeing Providence and of the village
constable are upon you"
Another judge in a rough-and-
ready but highly ambitious Western
frontier town, in commenting severely
upon the heinous crime of horse
stealing, Numbered forth: .'For CEN
fury after century that dread COM
mand, Thou shalt not stealr has
rolled along the ages. 1t is, more
over, a standing rule of this court, if
not yet bylaw of our progressive
and soon-to-be-incorporated city,"
Advertisements, especially of the
personal kind. will also frequently
reward the searcher for unexpected
anti-climaxes. The following ap-
peared in New York paper not long
ago: Willie, return to your dis
tracted wife and frantic children! Do
you want to hear of your old moth
er's suicide? You will if you do not
let us know where you are at once.
Anyway. send back your fathers col
ored meerschaum"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
AN INCIDENT BRlTON.
His GS-Eand Manner of Disposing OF
Rebels.

Rebels.
A correspondent, writing of the late
Lord Strathnairn, says he was the most
indolent, lackadaisical, languid person
who ever dawdled along Piccadilly.
When he was devastating central India,
winning the splendid victories that i'm
mOrtalized his name, he was SO lazy
that he could not be got to dictate the
dispatches recording his own triumphs,
says the Sheffield England Telegraph.
Months elapsed before these documents
could be extracted from him, and then
they were brief and meager to the last
degree.
One day, when Sir Hugh Rose, he was
entertaining a gallant company to din
ner during the crisis of the mutlny.
With the utmost sang froid he was de-
lighting those near him with one of his
best anecdotes. In the middle of it his
orderly entered and, after saluting ex-
claimed: eve have captured two hum
dred rebels, SIR
To him the general turned and, with
that elegant courtesy of manner on
which he prided himself, serenely re-
piled: THANK you, sergeant"
But the man still remained. Again
interrupting his chief, he said: But
what are we to do with them, sir?"
''Oh!' replied Sir Hugh, with {. soft
smile, hang. them, of course" and he
resumed his anecdote.
In little while Sir Hugh was again
interrupted in the middle of another
story by the sergeant, who came in and
said: please, sir, we've hung the lot,
sir"
The general turned, bowed slightly,
and in the sweetest manner isped:
Thanks, sergeant, very many thanks"
and then went on with his anecdote as if
nothing had happened.
This story came to the ears of the
queen and she was so angry that it
nearly cost Sir Hugh his peerage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
JEWELEY AND SILVERWARE.
Some of the Latest Styles and Nerves
Fa cies in the Market.

Some of the Latest Styles and Newest
Fa cies in the Market.
A market basket in silver plate is a
unique card receiver
The Easter lily in white, green and
yellow enamel, is reappearing.
Oranges, with leaf clusters and floral
paintings, appear on the handles of
dessert spoons.
Cuff buttons, in gold and silver,
square and star-shaped, are inlaid
with portraits in enamel and mosaic.
A moss rose, the bud of pink enamel
and the calyx of delicately engraved
Roman gold, is unique design for a
brooch.
Cuff buttons, appropriate for chess
en- thusiasts are in the form of heavy
gold squares checlsered with square
cut diamonds.
A short golden sword with an enam-
eled hilt is used as a chatelaine, the
watch being suspended from the sword
belt with a slender gold chain.
Alternating bangles of jade, tortoise
shell and gold produce an artistic con-
trast resti ng upon a white arm. The
jade is supposed to bring good luck.
A heart in pale green enamel, around
which is entwined a serpent in gold,
set with diamonds, is probably de-
signed as an appropriate gift from d
jealous swain to a tickle sweetheart
Jewellers Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
LARGE FAMILIES IN OLD TIMES.
Some New England People Who Had
Great Many Descendants.

Some New England People Who Had a
Great Many Descendants.
Miss Lucy E. Dow. who is about to
issue History Of Hampton" n. H,
TO which her father and herself have
devoted fifty years Of laborious research,
furnishes to the Boston Herald these
instances of large families in the early
days of the town:
Nathaniel BaUchelder, grandson of
Rev. Stephen Batchiler founder Of the
town, was twice married and had seven
teen children. His son and grandson
had respectively twelve and thirteen,
and great-grandsonr reared family Of
thirteen. In later generations there
We're families of thirteen, twelve, and
fourteen.
Samuel Dalton. nephew of the
towns second minister, had fourteen
children and his son an equal number
Two grandsons had each ten. Rev.
Sinborn Cotton placed on record that
his fourteenth child twas born October
g. about five of We clock in ye morning.
1876, & baptized October s, 1876, and
was named Wade in honor of his grand
father Wade & to put him in mind Of
wading through all trials to Heaven;
he dyed & was buried October H.,
TO-
John Hussey named his eleventh
child Hope, his thirteenth Patience, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04

his fourteenth Charity. aen came q
laughter and a son. and the seven
tcelth and last he named Content.
Edward Cove was the fashcr OF
thirteen children. and his son and
grandson of eleven and ten respectively.
Miss Cove. at whose house Whittier
died. is his descendant.
Meschech Weare. first president of
New iIaTn7,sIlire. was one Of thirteen
children. Samuel Page and Deacon
Joshua Lane had each sixteen children.
Samuel Brown eighteen. and the
notorious Gen. Moulton fifteen. Three
generations Of Godfreys il direct line
were blessed with families OF fourteen.
sixteen, and fifteen children respective
lv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
+RINCE AND BLUE JACKET.
Prince George Trusted to the Mans Sense
of Honor.

Prince George Trusted to the Mans Sense
of Honor.
When Prince George, duke of York.
had the Independent command of ths
Thrush, on the West Indian station.
It fell to his lot to have to convey, as
prisoner, young bluejacket belong.
ing to another ship. who had been
hitherto a constant offender and
constantly on the blacklist. The man
came on board the Thrush merely as
a prisoner for conveyance from one
part OF the station to another, under
sentence of punishment.
From his demeanOr, however, and
by close observation of him, Prince
George came to the conclusion that
there We're many seeds of good in the
man and the making of a better
career. When the term of punish
ment was fulfilled, and the time came
for him to rejoin his own ship, Prince
George determined to try and give
him the chance of a new start in life
On arriving in port, after calling
upon the mans captain, who natur-
ally was only too glad to be rid of
him, he went to the admiral and
asked permission to transfer him to
the Thrush. The admiral, astonished
at the proposition, gave his consent.
Prince George went back to his
own ship, had the man brought aft
before him on the quarterback and
spoke to him as probably he had
never been spoken to before. He
told him that he was henceforth
transferred to the Thrush; that, as
commanding officer, he put him in
the first class for leave and gave him
a clean sheet as regards his past Of
lenses.
81 do not ask you to make me any
promise as to your future behavior.
[ trust to your honor and good feel
ing alone. But remember that, by
the rules of the service, if you offend
again in any way, or break your
leave, L have no opinion, but am
bound to put you straight back again
to that class from which [ now re-
move you. Your future is in your
own hands. You have had no leave
lOI DW6lNc ulOuulS, NO ashore now
with the other special leave men.
Your pay has been stopped and no
money is due you. Here is sove-
reign. | trust to you not to misspend
it. You know as we'll as | do what
you may do and what you may not
do. God help you to do the right
and keep you from wrong"
The man was completely overcome.
He of course answered nothing, but
saluted and Was then marched for
ward again. His commanding
officers confidence was not misplaced.
During the rest of the Thrush's COM
mission he was never once an Offend
er, but showed himself as active,
willing and smart hand as any in
the ship, and after working hours he
was the life of the forecastle. In the
ship in which he has subsequently
served he has maintained his good
conduct d attained petty officers
rating.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
ALL ABOUT A BUGGY WHEEL.
A Negro Gets "a Doctor os Carr 1iiton Into
Trouble,


DR.. J. d. Hamrick one of the lead
ing physicians of arr0lltCn, had a
pretty trick playei on him lately by
small negro boy he had in his en-
ploy. says Waycross. Ga, special to
the Savannah News. The doctor has
a patient who has been seriously i'll
for some days, and be has been spend
ing the evenings up to 9 or ID o'clock
with his patient. and then his colored
boy would drive over after him and
carry him home Last night the
doctors valet was a little late about
coming, and he walked home Very
soon after his arrival at home the bow
came and explained that he missed
the doctor by going another street,
which explanation the doctor accepted
and let his boy off, who seemes1 to be
enjoying his last drink very much.
Next morning DR.. Hamrick wa, ac-
costed on the street by a Mr. Walker,
who wanted to know why the doctor
came to his house the night before
and took off one Of his buggy wheels
and left a broken enc in its place.
The doctor treated the matter "a
joke at first, and not knowing that he
had another mans wheel on his
buggy, but he found out later that
Mr.. Walker was in earnest when he
meant to swear out warrant for the
doctor for the theft of a wheel. The
doctor examined his buggy and found
that some one had practiced dupiicity
l., L L. L
boy. who at first denied any knowl-
edge of the vince, but when threaten
ed with the lookup, said he started
after the doctor and some of the boys
gave him a drink or so and he thought
he would drive around while before
he went for the doctor, and while out
he ran against tree and broke the
doctors buggy wheel.
He was near Mr.. Walkers house,
and he took off the broken wheel and
put one of Mr.. Walkers on in it's
place. He drove on a short distance
further and found the new wheel
would not work on the doctors buggy,
and he went to Hon. O. L. Reese's
buggy house and took wheel from
his buggy and put Walkers in the
place. He next carried the buggy
home, and on looking round he saw
that Colonel Reese's wheel was black
and the doctors different color, so
he procured some paint and painted
the wheel the same color as the doc
tors wheels. The boy made clean
confession, and the only punishment
he got was about 100 lashes with a
good hickory The doctor says it is
a good Joke on him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
I.epibIe Writin Q.

There is one affectation OF late years
among young ladies that ought to be
severely con denim ed, and that is ''culti-
vating'' a blind style of han dwriting.
What is called the English hand is con-
sidered the correct tn ing, while the
commercial hand is looked upon as
vulgar. The former has neither beauty
nor grace, angularity being its chief
feature. but it is fash ionable In writ
ing, as in speech, clear ness ana SIM
plicity are the chief charms, and we
beg you. girls. not to be led away Dy
the foolishness of style" and forfeit
your print-lize characters for an a1fec-
x4;,- IS <ha British chirOQraDhV.-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
The Ancient Origin of the Pump.

The common water pump of to-day
is but an Improvement on a Grecian
invention which first came into gen.
eral use during the reign of the
Ptolemies, Philadelphes and Ener-
getes, 275 to 221 B. c. The name,
which is very similar in all Ian
guages, is derived from the Greek
word ''pempo," to send or throw.
The most ancient description we have
Of the water pump is by Hero of
Alexander. There is no authentic
account of It's general use outside of
Egypt previous to its introduction
into the German provinces at about
the opening of the sixteenth century.
Pumps with plungers and pistons
were invented by Morland, and Eng
lishman in 1914; the double acting
pump by De la Hire, the French aca-
demicial, some twenty years later.