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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-23

WASHINGTON, Ind, Sep 20. In Harri'
son township, thi county, Monday night,
the entire family Of benson Wralton, were
most horribly butchered. 4 neighbor yes
terday morning went 10 the Wralton resi-.
dence 10 inquire as To the health OF Mr.
Wralton, who has been i'll for several
weeks. The front door being locked he
went to the back door. Upon the floor in
a puddle of blOoL lay Mrs Wralton wife
of benson Wralton. He hurried TO the
nearest neigh bors and several OF them ac.
companied him I'd the house. In room
dioining that in which Mrs. Wralton lay
they found the father and husband dead
In the same room were the three children.
two OF them dead and the other 40 seriou sly
injured that she cannot live. The children
killed were little boy three years old and
his sister, IL years old. In front room
Mr.. Wralton's mother. aged 63, was lying
OH the floor dead Her left hand was cut
of and the right broken. All OF the MUIR
dered persons had deep ugly wounds on
their foreheads. with the exception OF the
girl, who had been struck on the back OF
the head. The old lady is said to have had
considerable money in the house, having
drawn t from the bank during the recent
money strinyency and this, it Is thought,
was the motive for the murder. There is
not the slightest clew to the murderer.
BloodhOuuds have arrived from Seymour
and will be put on the trail.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-23
FRIENDS SCHOOL
FOR BOTH SEXES,
FOUNDED IN I784,
is AN EXCELLENT HOME.

Its educational work is not limited TO school
hours. IL is community by itself The
healthful moral public sentiment in this class
Of schools can, OF be ovefestimated. Health.
manners conduct and morals are first in i'm.
portance The school gives special care TO
Elementary English Education, with a view 10
practical business. Its department in natural
science Is in charge ofa thorough teacher with
large experience; also the department Of MOI.
ern languages. The most approved prepara-
tion for any college is furnished. Excellent in
struction is given in litera,u e. history, civic
government, vocal and instrumental music
drawing, painting and woodcarving. Gymnas-
tics, calistheuics and out Of door sports are
under the care Of competent teachers. Courses
of lectures and concerts free 10 the students
are an attractive feature. The school has
large hbrs ~ and is we'll equipped for its work.
AL persons are invited 10 visit and examine its
appliances for educational Sc vices. Address.
AUGUSTINE JONES, IL. b.. Princlpal.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-23
GEMS.

Diamonds, Rubies. Emeralds,
Sapphires and other precious stones
Of extra quality; the mounting of
same under our personal super
vision. which guards against the
loss of heirlooms and valuable gems
from sending to other factories out
of the city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
A NEW ENGLAND FARMER.
Tie Tells How He Came to Be Possessed
of Snug Little Pile of Cash.

tie Tells How He Came to Be Possessed
of Snug Little Pile of Cash.
He was waiting for the Grand Trunk
train at Lewiston Junction little
bowed man with fringe of frosty
whiskers under his chin. He told his
life-story in five minutes, says the
Lewiston Journal. Some men would
need volumes, and even then could
boast of but little of the patient he
roism and unwinking diligence pos
sessed by the little old main. Just be-
fore the war opened he bought farm
in Massachusetts. Up tn that time he
had been a carpenter and by frugality
had saved $500. He was just old
enough to escape the draft. The farm
was valued at $1,000. and therefore
when he had paid in his hoard he still
owed $1,000. The farm was not
stocked and he had no money. He ex-
planned his situation to business man
and the latter lent him $500 on per-
sonal note. II went into the Brighton
market with that money" said the old
man, land l spent it all But / got
some good stock. I paid as high as
CCO lOE d COW. 1Iktu NllCn Ddtl INV
stock had no horses and no farming
tools. l bought all these on tick.
When l got ready for business the out
look seemed sorter blue, and l didn't
know how l was coming out, but |
went to work and kept at work. had
help only in haying time. All the rest
of the work did alone and was al
ways up before light when the days
were short. lived on that farm for
thirty years. l gave it to my son a
little while ago, and we figured it at
$1,000 but it's worth more'n that.
Furthermore, though amt saying it
to brag, I've got $4,000 invested in
mortgages, and all drawing seven per
cent. interest"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
THE DAY OF DEATH.
Rich &nd Poor of Paris Join In Honoring
the Dead.

tbC OCfFt~
The Jour des Morris is observed by
the Parisians with great reverence, and
it is a touching sight to watch the
crowds pressing into the large ceme-
teries such as Pere Lachaise and Mont
martre on the 2d of November, says the
Pail Mall Budget. Crowds composed
of all classes, all fortunes and all pro-
fessions, make the same solemn pill
grimage-the rich with their carriages
full of the gorgeous wealth of flowers
which Paris can produce in such per
lection, and the poor with their
lunches of violets and chrysanthe-
NUNS. tokens of love and remembrance
of their dead. A few visitors go from
a feeling of curiosity or from habit to
see the tombs of celebrities which have
become national monuments, such as
those of Heloise and Abelard, of RAJ
chel, Chopin, Moliere and others in
Pere Lachaise. or the tomb of Cardinal
Richelieu in the Sorbonne, violated at
the time of the revolution, when his
mummifed head was taken out and
sold-or the church of st. Denis where
lie SO many royalties
The sale of flowers on this day is
enormous: the thousands of visitors to
the cemeteries buy in large quantities,
and as the chrysanthemum is now the
flower of the season. there are masses
of them at low prices TO be had every
golden, white and red and a
fine rose-pink, which color, an old flow
er-seller said, as pretext for not hav-
ing any left, was produced by a dye.
Chrysanthemums are becoming every
year more popular in Paris, and the
annual show of them has very much
improved, though it does not yet equal
in magnifcence the displays of the
same flower in London.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
TALKING WITH MONKEYS.
a Freedman Who Could Engage the
Animals In Con We rsation.

a Freedman Who Could Engage the
Animals In Con versation.
In 1857 Jules Richard had occasion tc
visit a sick friend in hospital, where
he made the acquaintance of an old
official of the institution from the south
of France, who was exceedingly fond
of animals, his love of them being
equaled only by his hatred of priests,
writes Prof. Z. P. Evans IN Popular
Science Monthly. He claimed also 70
be perfectly familiar with the Ian
guages of cats and dogs, and to speak
the language of apes even better than
the apes themselves.
Jules Richard received this statement
with an incredulous smile, whereupon
the old man. whose pride was evidently
touched by such skepticism, invited
him to come the next morning to the
geological garden.
81 met him at the appointed time
and place" says Mr.. Richard, land we
went together to the monkeys cage,
where he leaned on the outer railing
and began TO utter a succession of
cultural sounds, which alphabetical
signs are scarcely adequate TO repre-
sent-'Kirruu, kirrikiu, kuruki. kir-
ikin'-repeated with slight variation
and differences of accentation.
''In few minutes the whole compa-
ny of monkeys, dozen in number, as
sembled and sat in rows before him
with hands crossed in their laps or
resting on their knees, laughing, ges-
ticulating and answering"
The conversation continued for a
full quarter of an hour, TO the delight
of the monkeys, who took lively part
in it. As their interlocutor was about
to go away they all became intensely
excited, climbing up the balustrade
and uttering cries of lamentation;
when he finally departed and disap-
peared more and more from their view,
they ran up to the top of the cage, and
climbing to the frieze made motions as
If they were bidding him good-by. 1t
seems, added Mr.. Richard, as though
they wished to say: I'VE are sorry to
part, and hope to meet again, and if
you can't come drop us a line"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
THE APPLES MANY VIRTUES
1t Is Especially Useful In Renewing Nerv-
Gus Tissue.

Chemically the apple is composed of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum
chlorophyl, malic acid, gallo acid,
lime and much water, says the North
American Practitioner. Furthermore,
the German analysts say that the
apple contains a larger percentage of
phosphorus than any other fruit or
vegetable. The phosphorus is admir-
ably adapted for renewing the essential
nervous matter-lecithin- the brain
and spinal cord. 1t is, perhaps, for
the same reason, rudely understood,
that old Scandinavian traditions rep
resent the apple as the food of the
gods, who, when they felt themselves
to be growing feeble and infirm, re-
sorted to this fruit, renewing their
powers of mind and body
Also, the acids Of the apple are of
singular use for men of sedentary
habits. whose livers are sluggish III
action, those acids serving to eliminate
from the body noXious matters, which,
if retained, would make the brain
heavy and dull, or bring about jaun-
dice or skin eruptions and other allied
troubles. Some such experience must
have led to the custom OF taking apple
sauce with roastpork, rich goose, and
like dishes, The malic acid of ripe
apples, either raw or cooked. win ncu-
tralize any excess Of challSy matter en-
gendered BY eating TOO much meat 1t
is also the fact that such ripe fruits as
the apple, the pear, and the plumb,
when taken ripe and without sugar,
diminish acidity in the stomach, rather
than provoke it. Their vegetable
sauces and juices are converted into
alkaline carbonates, which tend to
counteract &C idity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
DEPTH OF THE ATLANTIC.
One Spot That Measures Four and 1
Quarter Miles Deep.


The floor of the Atlantic ocean is
now almost as well-known to the eX-
perts of the photographic bureaus of
the world as the surface is to the most
experienced navigators, Its depths,
currents, tides, etc, have been care
fully and Systematically studied from
Greenland and Spitzbergen to the
great ice barriers of the antarctic cir
Gle. Prof Forbes gives some reliable
data on ocean depths for use in
Notes for the Curious" 1.-The gem
eral contour of the Atlantic's undulat-
ing bed may now be regarded as pretty
well determined Scarcely
any portion Of its floor has a depth ex-
ceeding 1900 fathoms, or about three
and a quarter miles. There is re-
markable exception to this last state
ment, however. in a wonderful sink or
depression lying about one hundred
miles north Of st. Thomas. an island
off the coast Of Africa in the Gulf OF
Guinea The outlines Of this deprcs-
sion are similar to those Of an old
time river bed The Challenger ex-
petition traced its meanderines for
upwards OF 600 miles. finding por-
tions Of it more than mile deeper
than the surrounding ocean, making
the depth Of the Atlantic at those
points not less than four and a quarter
miles. or about 1878 fathoms."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
lie round Out.

A youth in the employment of a
large manufacturing concern in Pitts
burgh left one Friday evening to stay
over sunday On Monday he wanted
TO stay a little longer, and telegraphed
to the firm: DO you need me? If
not, 1 shall stay" No response was
received, which So alarmed him that
he hurried back Ut noon. Finding
everything all right, he was reproach.
ing himself for his haste, when his IN
Gle, one of the heads of the firm, sent
for him. He found the old gentleman
holding the telegram. My boy" he
said, sharply, this telegram, l under.
stand, is from you. 1t reads: Do you
need me? If not, shall stay Did
you send it?' Yes, SIR" came the an.
swer, meekly. You did! Then let
me tell you, sir, Numbered the uncle,
that / have been here forty years,
and they don't need me" The tele-
gram was laid down, and the head Of
the establishment picked up his pen.
The nephew knew that the interview
was over, and, just as he was closing
the door, he heard his uncle mutter,
scorafully: DO they need mel"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
WORTH MORE THAN A HORSE.
Mules Average Higher IN Every state of
the Union Except Oregon.

/ the Union Except oregon.
If nobility NAV be estimated in dol
lars the mule is a nobler animal than
| the horse, says the New York Sun.
| Yet there are no autumnal mule shows,
and even if there were it is hardly
| probable that hower-adorned young
w6men would make practice of pat
ting the prize animal. The only way
to pat mule, according to the Texas
code, is with fence rail or board.
The man who collected horse and mule
statistics for the census report shows
that the average price of a mule is 81
more than the average price of a
horse. The ordinary mule in South
Carolina, which owns about $1,000 of
the long-eared beasts, is worth about
$50; the average price of horse in the
same state is about SO. Texas prob
ably has more mules (abOut 900, OOO)
than any other state. The average
price is about S41, or nearly twice the
value of a Texas horse. In Missouri
mules are worth about s. more and in
Kentucky about s. more than horses.
Only few states have no mules, or so
| few that the statistician didn't make
note of them. One of these states is
Rhode Island, which the mule driver
of Texas doubtless would think is not
any too large a pasturage and play
ground for festive mule of southern
birth. Oregon is the only state where
horses bring higher prices than mules.
The ordinary mule out there is worth
$40 and the horse ISL. The figures for
California are: Mules, S67; horses, $40.
In Pennsylvania, where mules, famous
for longevity, are much used in the
mines, they bring about $s8; horses,
S67. In this state there are seventy
times as many horses as there are
mules, which number about $4,000. 4
New York muIe is worth S91 and a
horse S76. Mules are priced more in
New Jersey than in any other state.
the average price being about s1O6, or
$50 more than horses. Illinois has
about 100000 mules, or more than any
other western state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
STATE PRODUCTIONS.
What Farmers and Stockmen Raise in
Various commonwealth.

Delaware has 5000 farms. valued at
SsT,00O,OOO. The state produced in 1889
100000 bushels of corn and 1000. 900
of wheat. 1t exports every year 7,OOO,-
600 quarts of strawberries and 55,OOO,-
600 baskets of peaches.
Missouri grows $4,000, 900 bushels of
corn, 100000 of oats, 10000, 900 of
wheat and 1900, 900 pounds of tobac-
CO. The lead product has exceeded
100,000,O00 pounds in a single year,
and the zinc has equaled Il, 500 tons
year.
Illinois produces s27O. ZOO, 900 of farm
products every year. The grain prod
net reaches sI45, 600, 600; live stock,
$50, 900, 900; dairy products, s27, OOO, 900;
hay and potatoes. S26, 0OO, 900. The farm
property is valued at more than 81, OOO,-
600, 600.
Ohio raises 100, 600, 900 bushels of
corn, S7.OOO,OOO of wheat, 81, OOO, 900 of
oats, 12,0O0,OOO of potatoes. $4,000, 900
pounds of tobacco and 1000, 600 tons of
hay yearly. The vineyards produce
$500, 900 gallons of wine and so, OOO, 600
pounds of grapes
Wisconsin raises every year sos, OO0.-
600 worth of farm products. The oat
crop is 100000 bushels; corn. IS, O0O.-
900; wheat, $1,000, 900; barley, 12,OOO,-
900. The live stock is valued at $780,
100000. Over 10000 square miles are
I lderlaid by mineral deposits.
dorado has 100000 acres under
art icial irrigation. The farm products
exceed S12,OOO,O 600 year; there are l.
100000 cattle. 1000, 600 sheep; the coal
fields cover 10000 square miles; the
supplies ofmarble, granite and other
building stone are inexhaustible.
Arkansas has 100000 farms which
produce 100000 bales of cotton. 900, 600
bushels of sweet potatoes, 1000, 900
pounds of tobacco, $4,000, 900 bushels
of corn and 1900, 900 bushels of wheat.
From the Arkansas forests are cut over
$40, 900, 900 of lumber every year.
Wyoming has 10000 square miles of
coal deposits. There are 5000 miles of
irrigating canals, watering 1000, 900
acres. The canals cost over S1O, OOO, 900.
The live stock interests exceed $780,
100000 in value. Over $1,000 600 in
bullion has been taken from the mines
in one county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
DAINTY PINcUsHIoN.

very easy to make it is a good model
to choose.
First select a dainty china bowl of
about three inches in diameter; if YOU
are making the cushion for d blue
room, let it be blue and white; if You
do not care for that. choose any color
you prefer, only make sure that the
china is fine and the coloring delicate.
Cut a round Of cardboard that viii
exactly fit the bowl at a distance of
one-half inch below the rim. Pile up
on it, upon one side, strands of wool
wadding or. fine curled hair, till you
have perfect mound; then cover it
with a soft bit of white cloth. exactly
as you would cover a button mold
Cut a disk of fine white linen one
inch larger round than the board, and
embroider upon it any tiny flower in
keeping with the bowl. Those in the
drawing are forget-me-nots, and the
china is blue and white, but what is
best for your purpose you alone can
tell.
When the flowers are worked, press
them thoroughly, and make an outer
cover for the cushion of the embroid-
cred linen. Take care that it is quite
smooth and tight; then paste round the
inner edge of the bowl and drop the
cushion in. When it IS dry, it will be
firm and ready for Harper s
Young People.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
MICE RUN MACHINERY.
Gentleman in Scotland Utilities Their Tin,
Power.

Gentleman in Scotland Utilities Their Tiny
Power.
A gentleman in Scotland has trained
a couple of mice, and invented ma
chinery for enabling them to spin
yarn. The work is done on the tread
mill principle. 1t is so constructed,
says London Tid-Bits, that the COM
mon house mouse is enabled to make
atonement to society for past offenses
by twisting and reeling from 100 to 12C
threads day. To complete it the lit
tie pedestrian has to run ten and one
half miles. This Journey it performs
every day with ease. An ordinary
mouse weighs only half an ounce A
halfpenny worth of oatmeal at Is Sd
the peck serves one of these treadmill
culprits for the long period of five
weeks. In that time it makes 11C
threads a day, being an average of
1850 threads of So inches, which is
nearly nine lengths Of the reel A pen
ny is paid to women for every cut in
the ordinary way At this rate a
mouse earns Cd every five weeks,
which is l farthing per day, or IS Cd
per annum. Take Cd OF for board, and
Is for machinery, there viii arise 6s
clear profit from every mouse yearly,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
The Eyes of Marksmen.

Lieut.. G. L. Collins, inspector Of
small-arms practice in the department
of the Colorado, says in his annual re-
port that the competitions in shoot
ing have shown that men with light
blue eyes rank highest, followed in
their order by dark blue, slate blue,
light brown, dark brown and black.
In the colored troops light blue eyes
again stand at the top. How large a
proportion of the colored troops have
light blue eyes is not stated in the pub
lished abstract of lis report. Tall
men shoot more accurately than short
useD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
WROTE SERMONS WHILE ASLEEP
The Rem arkable Somnambulistic Feat of
an English Theological Student.

The Rem arkabia Somnambulistfc Feat of
an English Theological Student.
One of the most remarkable and puz-
cling stories Of somnambulism is re-
lated by the London News. The sub
lect was young eccIesiastie at a semi
nary. The bishop of the diocese was
so deeply interested that he went
nightly to the young mans chamber
He saw him get out of bed, secure pa
per, compose and write sermons. On
finishing a page he read it aloud.
When a word displeased him he wrote
a correction with great exaetuess. The
bishop had seen beginning of some
of these somnambulistic sermons, and
thought them well composed and cor
rectly written. Curious to ascertain
whether the young man made use of
his eyes, the bishop put card under
his chin in such manner as to prevent
him seeing the paper on the table be-
fore him, but he still continued to
write Not yet satisfied whether or
not he could distinguish different OBJ
jects placed before him. the bishop
took away the piece of paper on which
he wrote and substituted several other
kinds at different times He always
perceived the change, because the
pieces of paper were of different sizes
When a piece exactly like his own was
substituted he used it, and wrote his
corrections on the places correspond
ing to those on his own paper 1t was
by this means that portions of his noe
turnal compositions were obtained
His most astonishing production was a
piece of music written with great ex-
actitude. He used a cane for a ruler
The clefs, the flats and the sharps were
all in their right places. The notes
were all made as circles, and those re-
quiring it were afterward blackened
with ink. The words were all written
below, but once they were in such very
large characters that they did not co me
directly below their proper notes, and.
perceiving this, he erased them all and
wrote them over again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21

New words, or the old words with
modified meanings, have been intro
duced into our language by railways.
The word station, in the sense of
a place for travellers to stop at, is
thought TO be one Of these. That con-
lecture is that when a general term
was required by the early railway
makers to indicate stopping place for
the trains, some one, calling TO mind
the stations with which Britain was
studded in the Roman time, suggested
what was then new use of an old
word
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
DAINTY PINCUSHlON.

A Nice Present for Girl to Give to
Friends and Relatives.
The time is fast approaching when
we all want to begin to make Christ
mas presents for friends and relatives,
and nowadays it is not an easy matter
to think up new gifts that can be made
at home without much expense and
that are pretty and attractive. Yet,
with little thought, girl can make
simple little articles that will be quite
as acceptable as much more expensive
but less useful presents.
A pincushion, for example, is always
a desirable thing to have at hand.
The one that the picture shows squite
novel and very pretty, and as it is also
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
Legal Notices.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS or WILLIAM BRINK
N WATER, deceased
state of Wisconsin, Grant county, -. Soanly
Court in and for said County
In the matter Of the estate OF "lllam DFIuA'
water, deceased. ..;a ,,o--.. ba,,;,,
Te-fers of administration in SAID matter having
heen issued 10 John Carthew OF Lancaster, Wis
consiu upon the estate of said deceased on mo,
lion Of ia. NJ. Lowry, Attorney, u Is ordered
that from this date until, and including the 81
Sav If Juty. A. D. 1894 be, and the same hereoy
IL allowed and limited, for the creditors OF me
said William Drinkwater, deceased, 10 eAhlolt
sn6 present TO this Court, their claims anu ee-
mands against said deceased, Tor examination
and allowance; that such claims ana uen l
will be received by said Court, at me Court
House in the City Of Lancaster; IN salu C9unt nv;
al each term thereof within said time, ana salu
Court will examine and adjust the same; az lne
regular terms thereof. TO be begun ana hS41 !, AZ
aid Court House on the first Tuesdays OF Nay
and july. A ID. 1894; and notice ei 81 MhiSn
shall be given by the publication OF luls 80,
nnder the above caption. for -Four saceess ,.,
weeks. ia the Grant County herald, q meeA ,
newspaper pub ished at the city OF Lauo-s - h.
said County. the first such puohcAu4oh ~
within fifteen days from this date
Dated December 18th, 1871
By The Courf,
aa-.e GRO. b. CARTER.
County Judge.