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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
NJ r. D. UBIGNE.
How He Was Evoluted Out of Plain
Old Dobbin.

Old Dobbin.
- am looking" said the dusty,
travel-stained man with the valise,
''for an old friend of mine who used
to live on this street.
whats his name?" inquired the
policeman leaning against the lamp
post.
"DoDbin."
"No man of that name living along
here"
No, l reckon not" said the dusty
traye er, looking in a perplexed way
at memorandum in his hand and
then at the row of stately dwellings,
in front of him; "but he used to live
in One-story cottage right where that
big stone front stands.
Was he a short, heavy man with a
bald bead and one leg little shorter
than the other?'
"Ies, that's the man Where is he
now?'
"Alw~ys walked with his hands be-
hind him and wore chin whisllerso''
THAT describes him exactly"
"Nhy, he got a street-paving con-
tract three or four years ago, and he's
worth 500 600"
Good for Dobbin! What. became
of him? Is he in Europe?
NO, answered the policeman,
pointing at the big stone front. HE
lives right there and his names
D'Aubigne "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
nee TOOK advantage OF the per.

once TOOK advantage or the per-
mission; but, though they have re-
covered the right to hang criminals
If they please. it appears from a let
ter written by tle chancellor OF tna
con .ederation in 1889, that down TO
that date the sentence of death had
not been passed in any of the seven
cantons. For the remaining fifteen
cantons. including more than Jour-
fifths of the population of the Swiss
Republic, capital punishment re-
mains totally abolished In other
European countries the death penalty
has also been given up, while in still
others, which retain it, there is a
Discrimination to carry out the death
sentence. Russia retaining capital
punishment only for political crime;
common murderers are exiled for life
to Siberia. In Austria, during the
years between 1870 and 1879, only
sixteen out of SOC persons sentenced
to death were executed. In Sweden
during the same period, out of thirty
two sentenced to death. only three
WIN SACSubSo, LII 1teIlRdth, OuJ Oh
ninety-four only one. and in Bavaria,
out Of 249 committed for murder only
seven were executed. In North
Germany, between 1859 and 1S79-a
period OF ten years - 1901 persons
were convicted of .'homicidal crime,'
and 4S4 of them were sentenced to
death, but only one was executed
Hodel, who attempted the assassina-
ton of Emperor William. In the
United States several of the Iegjsla-
lures have done away with capital pun
ishment Thus the extreme penalty
for murder does not exist in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin,, Rhode Island and
Maine. But the states of New York
and Iowa, having abolished the death
penalty, were compelled by the sub
sequent increase of crime to restore
it. The method of putting murder
ers to death vary from the use of the
sword or guillotine in Germany and
France, garroting in Spain. hanging
in England and most parts of the
United States to elecbrocutiOn in the
state of New York
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
THE MEMORIAL STATUE.

States declared war against Great
Britain. Fort Mackinac fell July 16,
and on August 0 Capt. Head, who
was in command at Dear born, received
news of this fact and also orders to
evacuate his charge and proceed to
Detroit Capt. Hea DIS force consisted
OF htty-four prlvates, eleven militia
men and two officers, Lieut.. L. Il.
Helm and Ensign Roman
Five hundred Pottawatomies assem-
bled at the fort to receive the supplies
which were to be disposed of Winnie
meg advised Heald to hold the fort for
re-enforcements, but the latter re-
fused Then the shrewd and friendly
Indian advised immediate evacuation.
This latter advice was sustained bv
the other older officers. Capt. Head,
however. held a conference with the
Indians on the 18th. The savages
promised to give him guard of safety
If he turned Oyer all the liquor and
ammunition. This was agreed upon.
At the last moment Capt. Head de-
cided to destroy the liquor and ammu-
milton. This incensed the Indians,
and they resolved to massacre the gar
rison. At o'clock on the morning of
the 18th the garrison filed out. Capt.
Wells, who had arrived on the 18th
with thirty Miamis. led the way. The
women and children were on horses or
in wagons. Through some strange
coincidence the band played the Dead
March as the retreat began. Five
hundred Pottawatomies escorted the
garrison, but after awhile went ahead
and waited in am bush for the devoted
band. About mile and half had
l,o,, l, 81, tho M dams m a6 a
their attack 1t was all over very
quickly. Only thirty-six men, women
and children survived. The loss to
the Indians was fifteen.
The Mrs Helm incident is thus told.
She wa assaulted by young Indian
who was in the act of tomahawklng
her when Black Partridge snatched
her away and bearing her to the lake
plunged her in, keeping her head
above water After the firing ceased
she was borne to place of safety. 1t
is this incident which has been seized
upon by the sculptor and cast in last
ing bronze.
Around the side are four bronze bas-
reliefs representing 'The Departure
from Fort Dearborn" The Attack OF
the Indians" THE Death Of Capt.
Wells, and BLACK Partridge Return
ing the Medal
Cprl Rohl-Smith modelled the statue,
and he has received much commenda
ZION for the work. The casting was
done at the Henry Bonnard foundrie'
in New York The statue cost $50 JC
and stands nine feet high, without the
pedestal, which is of solid granite.
1t is the first time that the rea
American Indian-in feature, form
costume and methods of warfare-ha
ever been given to the world in bronze
and so far as information goes it is tn
only time that living models have beer
used fer that purpose Any one familia
with plastic arr and who has seen tn
Indian and studied his history canno
fail to see that the artist has been re
markedly successful in reproducin!
the original faithfully he ha
indeed given really great work c
permanent artistic and historic value
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
AGAINST a BREAKER,
The Ambitious Russian Who Couldn'
Follow at That Rate


Dimitry Iwanoff, he head and front
OF the Imperial Russian troupe Of
singers and dancers rom St Peters
ourg, is man of i'm oressible spirit
and exceedingly adaptable in tempera.
nent. When he ar ived in Chicago he
haa been only two days in America,
YET ne was already engaged in hand
To- hand' or rather word-to-word, en-
counter with the English language.
Like all russians lwanoff looked on
the learning of the language as a
mere bagateDe, and before his first
week IN Chicago was over he felt that
the English language had been taken
captive by him-phrase, idiom and
syllable. One evening he was stand.
ing IN the rear part of the Troca6ero
auditorium, talking to Dr. Ziegfeld
in the same little group with MIR
Robinson of the Trocadero board az
directors, and Mr.. Kirke La Shelle.
press representative. Presently DIR.
Ziegfeid was called away for a mo-
ment, and Mr. Robinson, feeling that
somebody was due to say something,
turned to lwanof and inquired:
Getting so you understand English
pretty well?'
lwanoff caught the words under
stand" and English" and replied
with lofty superiority and a magnifi-
cent flourish:
'Blenty! Blenty!'
Whereupon La Shelle took him by
the arm contidentlally and said:
DO you believe the rsebular hypoth-
esis reducible to ordinary comprehen-
sion by means of the differential cal
culus?'
''Eh?" said Iwanoff, somewhat
staggered.
The question was repeated.
OH! said Iwanoff, smiling blandly,
perfectly satisfied with this explana-
tion. You spik quicllr'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
A N GTIONhL AIR.
What the Country Yearns to Hear Some
One Compose.


The necessity for national air that
has not been either borrowed or stolen
was very clearly apparent during the
naval rendezvous at Hampton Roads
and the subsequent ceremonies in New
DIRK. In those places, if never be-
fore, the chilly conviction struck many
heart, and there was hourly empha-
sis of our poverty and musical dis
honesty. When the band on one of the
British ships played God Save the
Queen" a young lady visitor was de-
lighted with what she thought was an
international compliment, for she
Imagined the bandsnen were playing
America" She was not alone in her
error; hundreds of others then in that
vicinity did not know that our great
est Of patriotic Iynns is sung to a
stolen tune, and that tune the most
royaiistic of all airs.
There was similar misunderstanding
rs to other melodies. They're play
Ing Columbia. the Gem of the Ocean, >"
said soldier who from the nIlar-f was
listening to the Blak2s band. His
guess was wrong. They Wste playing
"Britanraia. the Gem of the Ocean,"
but he Was only Ole OF millions who
are not aware of the, fact shat both
words and music of that song were
lifted bodily across the Atlantic, and
that somewhere on the way the word
columbia" was substituted for Brit
ANNA" Peyhaps The Star Spangled
Banner" came nearer so be generally
recognized as our own than any of the
other tunes, BUT foreign'musician did
nothing ineEeusable when they dis
cussed among themselves the ndis-
putable fact THAT the words on3y are
American that the air IS an ol& Eng
lish PRODUCTION
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
CALLING UP TRAVELLERS
a Brace of Odd Experiences in western
TOMns.

a Brace of Odd Experiences in western
Towns.
Every travelling man has had his ex-
perience with the Intelligent bell boy
who calls for the early train.
81 was pounding my ear pretty live
~ one night in Texarkana hotel"
said Texas man, when a big thump-
ing on my door brought me up sitting
In bed.
""FE hat is it? l asked
BossP said the darby, is you de
man. what wants to go on de 2 o'clock
train to Big Sandy?
81 had left no call and | made that
darby understand so in few short
words. He tackled the next door, and
| heard him ask again.:
Boss, is you de man what wants to
go on de ? o'clock train to,Big Sandy?'
THE. answer was terrific. The
darby was awed. For about five min
utes he was still as if absorbed in
thought. Then [ heard him saw TO
himself in an argumentatlve tone:
"'Dar's some 'un in dis, hall who
Big Sandy. I dun forgottde number
''He went down the line repeating
the performance at seven doors before
he reached the man who wanted to go
'on de 2 o'clock train to Big Sandy"
An Illinois man thought. he could
parallel this evidence of sagacity. He
said:
81 stepped one night in the hotel at
Shawueetown, and left sure call for
the boat which was expected along
about.A a. M. l went to bed and slept
peacefully until the racket. az the door
aroused me.
"'All right said.
"'ME: Jones! Mr.. Jonesp sang out
the darlfy. You wanted to, catch de
Padool1y boat? Well, dey ant no use
O. you getting up. De boats, don gone,
sab -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
POLAR BEARS KEEP COOL.
Tropical Animals in Captivity Suffer
Most During the Heated Term.

Tropical Animals in Captivity Suffer
Most During the Heated Term.
at will surprise most people" said
Superintendent A. E Brown, of the
Philadelphia geological garden, ito
learn that the polar bear stands the
hot weather of the dog days in this
locality better than the African lion.
On hot days the lion will get off his
feed; the polar bear will not. The
tropical animals in the garden" con-
TIMED the superintendent, ''are the
ones mostly affected by the extreme
heat of midsummer, strange as it may
appear l suppose the reason of it is
that the heat here is more moist than
that of the tropics, and, as it were, of
a different character. Whatever
mortality occurs among our animals
during a heated term is mostly among
the tropical animals, especially the
African. In hot weather l have
watched the polar bear go into his
tank, and then, instead of lying
in the shade, extended himself in the
direct rays Of the sun, where the water
on his skin would evaporate. He
found out for himself, ! suppose, that
evaporation causes a lower tempera-
ture. Again, it is somewhat astonish-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
OLD WESTERN PIONEER,
The Last Living Member of Captain Col
Inns Eanous ENnedition

The Last Living Member of Captain Col
Inns Famous Exped tion.
81 think | am the Last living mem
Der of Captain Collins famous expey
dltion, which in 1860 cut it's wac
through the forest from Seattle t"
the other side Of the mountains,r
said Robert Stevenson, a hardy mine
on the Simillaneen, In British Col
umbia.
L went out to-day on, Collins old
ranch on White river. where We rem
dezvoused for tbs start 1t was the
first time | have been there since the
day we left, thirtythree years ago |
could scarcely recognize. the sur
roundings. There were good traces
of the old fort ona whose para ct Col
Inns had mounted d. cannon, bat the
gun was gone.
MANY a good story have [ heard
Collins tell about his fights with the
up-river savages. He used, to 0ad
his Old cannon with rivets, saw teeth,
scrap iron, and all. sorts, of mis-, lies,
and after laying low for the, redskin
let them have Ii whole, DrOaG4slde
when they were passing the iort in
their canoes. l recollect he said that
once he got three canoes all III d lime
and blew them all. to pieces, at one
shot At one place near Snoq ualmie
Pass he shOwedt me where he had
hanged seven OF. the maraaLors. AZ
ter we had spent. little 0NGi- two
months Cropping our way VIC, : Tsl III
at the summit and shortly afterNard
we went down the valley Of the Yak
ina short distance, andl thence, up
the Column bia ind through the Okla
hogan country 10 the gold diggil1go on
the Rock and Similkameen rivers, lust
then discovered.
Captain Collins returned to- Seat
tie, and afterward was drowned in
the Salmon River, dying, in. poverty,
I remained in the Okanogasas for
several years and then went up iGso
the carib0O country, whore, | re-
manned for about fftaen. years, t. a.
versing. the entire eg on. L then
came back. to the Similk amcesm. wne@e
| am now hydraulickilg sorac plG1 ,or
claims about seyeEty-seEen miles
from the rivers mo tn. am to
only. living white man who went INTO
the Okanogan country ahea& of
OkanOgan Smith. wf4o canaa. IN 4 few
months Later. and Colonel Haines
used to saw that I had spoiled nl@ny
a, good: story of the veteran of the
OsooyOS"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
A BRITON'S OPINIONS,
He Has the Mental Bile When He
Talks About the Woody West.

He Has the Mental Bile When He
Talks About the Woody West.
ut is only in the far West, pro-
baby writes an English correspond
ent at chicago, that the old race of
spitters kept up the best practice: In
the cities, at any rate, you seldom see
men who tilt back in their chairs, put
their knees on the dinner table and
take the fire-irons at forty PAGES
Civilization is progressing when you
must not talk about spittoons, but de-
mand that utensil under the name of
'cuspidor' Still, the most prominent
notice in the woman's building is DO
not spit on the floor
A man stood beside me as read this
He wore SLOUGH hat, to which Buffa-
10 Bill's would be just fashionable
bacco juice wattled his mouth like
barbel's; his boots were models for
coffin-maker Noticing, dare say,
twinkle in the corner of my eye, he
said slowly, and with that grim,
smileless humor befitting a slabsided
hero from Indiana way: Say, now,
do you mean that we mout take shot
at them pictures?' There is certainly
a suspicion of local option suggested in
that sentence. Better to have gone
on the principle of some other notices
which, without waste of printers ink
land composition), meet your eye
! everywhere: No admittance! Go out. -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
America as Taught in France.

A little French girls map of North
America, shown in the educa tional
exhibit at the worlds fair. makes the
Ohio river rise in Canada, cross, Lake
Huron and serve as that lakes outlet
The Mississippi rises. in Alaska, Lake
Superior empties into the St, Lawrence
river, Lake Huron reaches down to
Washington and Lake Erie is still
further south. No corrections are
marked on the map SO that it is diff
cult to decide whether the French
teacher thought it correct or amusing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
HIS NAME IS COLUMBUS, TOO.
A Lineal Descendant of the Great Voy-
aGer Now Living in Buffalo.

A Lineal Descendant of the Great Voy-
aGer Now Living in Buffalo.
For the last ffty-two years there
has lived in Buffalo lineal descend
ant of Christopher Columbus, and
around the knees of this patriarch
could be gathered to-day eight living
children, thirty grandchildren and six
great grandchildren, so THAT there is
little danger of the name of Column
bus becoming extinct on forgotten.
The name of this venerable descend
ant of a famous man is AleXius Col
umbus. He is 90 years old.
There is no doubt about his
age or nativity. for these matters
We're verified by his son, JohnsColum-
bus, with whom the old man makes
his home, and who for that purpose
paid a visit to Quebec near where
Alexius was born and reared The
old man is in fairly good health.
His skin is swarthy and his hair is
snow white His children are all
lighter complexion except one daugh-
ter, who inherits her fathers dusky
skin. Since the death of his wife last
spring, at the age of 76, Alexius has
been fai.ing steadily in spirit
Alexius Columbus was shipbuilder
by trade, as We're his ancestors. Heis
the only one of his generation who
came to the states. His sisters and
brothers lived in the province, of Que
bee, though it is not known that more
than one of them is still surviving; An
uncle of Alexius lived to the age of ia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27

ing, at first that our polar bear should
suffer sometimes as he does from the
severe cold Of the winter. l have seen
him sh:vering on one of those bitterly
co.d days, when the sky was owe la
den and the air full of moisture The
moisture was evidently what affected
him. In the arctic regions it is so
cold that the moisture IS frozen out
of the air. Birds do not like the heat
It makes them perch with dropped
wings Heat affects not only the ami
mails in the garden, but the finances
of the garden itself A difference of
ten degrees in the thermometer, say
if it IS ninety-fve instead of eighty five,
means loss of several hundred dol
lars in our gate recei pts for the day"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
a QIDE Ell TJG.
A New Craft Wlp5eh Can Go on. Land


A New Craft Which Can Go on Land
or. Water.
A new Canadian invention for uae. in
the lumber districts is coming into,
general use in Northern 9ntario. 1t
is called a steam warping tug. 1t
propels itself on land. as, well as on
water, and is, used by lumbermen
whose opera tlOns are carried Op among
small lakes connected by streams of
uncertaim naviga tom. Six. of these
unique crafts have been built by the
inventors during the past season.
They are built in scow shape; with
steel-shod runners, for moving OVER
land; are thirty-seven feet. long, ten
feet BEAM, declzed all over, and have
sleeping room for four men in the
bow; the bottom and up the bow is
covered wish steel boiler plate: An
engine Of twenty-five horse power
furnishes steam for ten hours; work,
with three-quarters, of a oond of dry
wood.
In the water it moves six miles, an
hour, forward or backward. as, re-
quired, propelled by side wheels, On
land it is propelled by having, d cable
drum on which is coiled fve-eighths of
a mile of steel wire. cable; which is
fastened with pulleysto, a tree or some
object in front, the boat moving as
the wire is coiled up. The boiler is
hung on an axle in. the center and
screw arranged on the front enables
the fireman to tip it forward or back
and keep. it level going up or down
hill. 1t will move over an elevation
of one foot in three. on land and draws
about twenty-eight inches in the
water
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
8 slight to British Artists.

The more gushing of the newspapers
are so fond OF insisting on the fact
that the Duke of York has chosen an
English princess for his bride that I
am more than little surprised, says
Labouchere, that the Queen, in obtain
ing a portrait of Princess May, should
have ordered one that is virtually to
be ssmade in Germany" Surely En-
glish artists as a body may be par
doned if they resent the way in which
her majesty repeats history by again
saving in effect: 'Non Angli, sed
Angel"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27

ELECTRICITY Employed With Signal sue
cess on a Fence.


Fence.
A Brooklyn electrician has been an
noyed for several weeks by cat con-
certs in his back yard. He lives in
kosciusko street, and every night the
cats ranged themselves on the back
fence and meowed in chorus. The
leading tenor in the company was a
monster with falsetto voice of great
range and power He was particularly
strong in roulade and cadenza. and
some of his fortomento passages were
models in expression.
But the concerts became monoto-
nous after awhile, and the electrician
determined to stop them. He placed
a thin steel plate on the top of the
fence and connected it with a motor
in the kitchen. He permitted the
plate to remain on the fence for three
nights until the big tenor had become
accustomed to sitting on it. The plate
was a great Improvement as seat
over the ragged edge of the fence
But one moonlight night last week
the Maltese soprano assoluta, the
cherry mezzo, and the
bewhiskered tenor robusto were
singing a CHICAGO arrangement CT
"Maria, Where Art Thou?''
The tenor had reached a sustained
passage surcharged with love and had
risen on his hind legs to give freer ex-
preston to it when the current was
turned on. The sustained passage
was cut in two as if with a cleaver. It
ended in a most discordant squawk as
the tenor fell off the fence upon his
back, only to bound into the air like
ball and disapp ar over the fence and
down the street like a black comet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
Monogram Peaches.

At a large dinner party given in
London recently the peaches placed
on the, table. bore the monogram of
their owner traced distinctly in the
velvety bloom. Letters were cut from
paper and pasted on the peaches while
growing. When the fruit was ripe,
on removing this the letters were
found picked out in most delicate
green, the rest of the fruit being rosy
and deep-hued,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
One of the Quality

AS magnificent steamer, the prop
erty of the PeninsuIar and Oriental
company, was steaming into South
ampton harbor, griny coal-lighter
foated Immediately in front of it. An
officer on board the vessel, observing
this, shouted: ''Clear out of the way
with that barge" The lighterman, a
native of the Emerald isle, shouted in
reply: Are ye the captain of that
vessel?" NO" answered the officer.
Then spake to yer aiquals," said Pat.
ssI'm the eantain of this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
The Tomb of Daniel.

Less than three miles to the north
east of Samarcand and outside of the
extreme limits of the ancient city is
e. tomb which is called Khodja-Daniar.
This tomb, according to the Musslman
legends, is the burial place of the
prophet Daniel. The spot where this
tomb stands is called Afrousiab, and
there are seen ruins which are very
probab bly, those Of the ancient city of
Maracanda, destroyed by Alexander
the Great.