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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

The date of the State encampment
Of the Sons Of Veterans. to be held
this. year in Rockford, ILL.,, has been
set for July to s. A sham battle
will be held July 4.
AT Reardan, Ark, Jesse Nosman, a
prominent merchant, was assassinated.
An ak was the weapon used, his head
and neck being terribly cut by tho
stroke.
On petition of citizens Judge Will
hanson of the Circuit Court of Missis-
sippi has ordered that no spring term
of court be held in Washington
County, as every man is needed to
strengthen the levees. A food is i'm
pending.
The will of J. Henry Stickney Of
Baltimore bequeaths 100000 to Com
gregationalist societies. The college
at Beloit, Wis, also gets a legacy.
The American Home Mission Society
is given $3.50, 900, and $4,000 goes to
the American Missionary Association
of New York on condition they change
their names to Congregational Mission
airy Associations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Hooking Valley.
The latest quotations for Unitei States
Chicago Produce Market.

CHICAGO, May s. VEGETABLES - Cab
bages, ordinary variety, S01Oc: Louis
lana, stock, s2.25@2.50; carrots, new,
home grown, $3.50 per barrel: ftoma los,
&. 3502. 80 per crate; onions, yellow, 81 0O0
$50; red, s2.0002 25; green onions, 800
per bushel; beets, So 0003.O0 per bar rel :;
good to fine lettuce, s3.50la4.OO per barrel;
celery, soc per dozen; sweet potatoes,
Illinois, s3.S594.00 per barrel; sage, 10c per
pound.
FRU1Ts-Apples, choice to fine eastern
s2.OO@2.25 per barrel; No. 2, all kinds s1.25
@1.75 per barrel lemons, s3.5O@4.OO per
box; bananas, Sl.2591.5O per bunch or
anges, F1oridas, 81 2502.50 per box; rus
sets, $.7502.00 per box; pineapples. $50
@S.0O per 100 and sl.25(92 90 per dozen.
BUTTER-Fancy creamery ,2715( 02Sc per b !;
good creamery, 2614@27c; medium cream
cry, 2519 @26c dairy, select, 26c; No. l, 2s(a
25c; No. 2.20@22c; packing stock, 1920;
ladies, No. /, 2l@23c; No. 2, 2O@2OAc;
grease, 5(d10c.
CHEEsE-Full cream, Young Americas,
11@1114c per ID: cheddars, 101a911c twins,
1101Lc; brick, fancy brand, 141a@15c:
Limburger, choice, 1319@14c; Swiss, Is
@16Hc.
BERRIEs-Demand light; Florida stock
ranged from 20 to 25c per qt; fancy at 3O@
85c; Louisiana at 81. 50(d3. 90 per case Of "a
pints. Texas stock ranged at $1.00@4.00.
LIVE PoULTRY-Spring chickens, 2.OOO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Wall Street,

> New YORK, May S.---Business was re-
sumed on the stock exchange for the week
with a heavy tone to speculation in the
share list, and lower prices were generally
maize in the first sales. The greatest de-
cline w,S in General Electric, which fell
off ~ rom Saturdays closing, the price
having eceded to IA The immediate oc-
casjon of this was the controversy with the
We>tinghouse Company. Later, however
industrials also showed the effects of re-
Moved selling, and additional declines we're
recorded. In the railways the heaviest fall
was in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago &
st. Louis, which dropped "a on the acct
dent at Lafayette, and in Missouri Pacific,
which suffered a similar loss. st. Paul was
down g. but the loss in the other railways
was much smaller.
Closing quotations were:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
NOT EASY TO PROVE.

How a Lock of Hair Saved from His
BabyhoOd Got a Youth into Trouble.
There is one young man in Washing
ton whose fond hopes are blighted. He
is under cloud. 1t may be only a tenn
porary trouble. but just now it seems
very real to him, and he fears that only
time and constant devotion will be able
to save him from his horrible predica-
ment. And yet the Star declares that
he is innocent. Last Sunday morning
the fond mother of this particular mem
Der of society, who had been ru1nmag-
ing through an old trunk in the garrett
came across a relic of his childhood
that she was sure would please him
immensely when he saw it. Tt did. but
he wishes now he had never seen it
1t was a thick curl of hair that had
been cut from his head when he was
still in short frocks, somewhere back
about the year 1870. 1t was of lovely
shade of yellow, not a mild, washed
out blonde, but rich golden hue. soft
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

and fine as silk and like spun gold
Oh, how pleased he was, 1t carried
,, him back to the days of his early youth
and gave him an idea Of what he must
with himself. He ran his hands through
| it and played with it and tried to pic
ture himself as little golden-haired
child in 4 pretty white frock with 4
big blue sash. The picture WIS but Il
faint and shadOWy one, but it pleased
him. But Sunday evening the trouble
came upon him, blow as hard as il
1, was unforeseen. He went to make his
usual Sunday call on his very best
girl. Little by little their heads drew
close together and he was whispering
sweet words of love and hope into her
willing ear. 1t was just like a story
out of a book. Just what they said
will never be known, for they had
got to that stage Of the game where 4
stenographic report Of the conversation
might have been enough to cOnSign two
young lives to an insane asylum. Sud
denly a piercing shrek broke the still
mes of that quiet Easter evening. It
was followed by a low vail of agony,
as though all the Illusions of a fair
young girls heart had been shattered
at one fell blow. There was a world
Of repressed agony in the cry. He knew
he was in for it then.
ooh, you wretch you vile deceiver!
How dare your ;
He drew back in alarm. He had not
the slightest idea what it was all about,
but there was no doubt about its being
a serious matter. He tried to calm
her, but his efforts were of no avail
She started up to leave him, and as
she arose she drew with her a long
golden hair that had been resting on
the left lapel of his best Sunday coat
His own hair was short and of a muddy
brown.
But, my dear, that hair is one Of
my own"
Don't my dear me, and at least do
me the honor of telling me a reasonable
lie. Yours, indeed. I'm glad you have
the honesty to admit it's yours I
thought, perhaps, you might claim it
was one of mine"
Her hair was black. SO one word led
to another, and all his attempts to
prove the ownership of that awful hair
proved futile They parted in wrath
and he was glad to escape with life.
It's dangerous business to play jokes
on a Washington girl. Tit young man
is now busy securing evidence in his
case to submit to the injured party
He has an affidavit from his mother.
and he is now searching for his old
nurse and other witnesses of his child
hood to bear testimony as to the OWL
ership Of that fatal hair, and he hopes
in time to be restored to the good graces
of the ''only girl he ever loved" but
it is slow work and sad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

There are fewer ifs and "maybes
in medicine than ever before.
It's a time Of great results
Not long ago it was said of man
sicl1with certain diseases that nothing
could be done for him. Today there
are few diseases that can not either De
cured OF controlled.
About the lst to yield to the patient,
accurate study of science, were diseases
of the kidneys
In the case of Bright's disease there
is still that deadly certainty OF dag
nosis which answers the inquiry blunt
ly, yes, or no, but the disease itself
has lost it's fearfulness. Medicine cures
and controls it today.
Perhaps more study has been devoted
to this consumption of the kidneys
than to any other single complaint
It's characteristics have been most
clearly marked out. The disease soon
involves many other organs OF the
body; other troubles are induced, such
as pneumonia and rheumatism. The
trouble is primarily with the blood and
nerves.
Some OF the SYMPTOMS oI ulSestSS VI
the kidneys are rapid weakening OF
the system, tenderness over the kid
neys, cEills, headaches, and swelling OF
feet and limbs.
Physicians have, in many cases, held
to their own ideas of the incurableneSS
of kidney troubles and have chung
stiff1y to their oldtime text books, but
SO many of these cases have been after
wrds cured by Paine's celery compound
that this great remedy is looked upon
by physicians as having unsurpassed
power to cure all diseases of the kid
neys. 1t cures where everything else
fails Paine's celery compound is as
superior to all the ordinary trade
remedies as a diamond is to common
glass 1t was first prescribed by no
less a man than DR.. E. e. Phelps, the
most famous of DartmOuth's prof
essors, and is indOrsed by physicians
and the public as no other remedy
was ever Endorsed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
New York.

FLoUR-Firm, fair demand. WHEAT
Receipts, 2S2, 100 bu; sales, 5, 200, 900 bu; No.
red, fairly active, firm; July, S21l@S3
5rl6c; September, S54@S6c. RYE
Western. 5S(062c. Corn - Receipts.
5000 bu; sales, 10000 bu; No. 3
dull, weak: May, 514@5l1@c; June,
81 7s05llGc; July, 515s@521Ic; No. 2,
5ll9@5234c, OATs-Receipts, 253 ESQ bu;
sales, $4,000 bu; No. ,, duh, firmer, May SIC
a5kei; June $3.50 asked; July, 36SS@36sIc;
Western, Il%094Sc. PRovIsIoNs-Beef-
Extra mess, 81 .50@S.50. Pork-New mess,
S2O. 75@21.00 old mess, S20.25. LARD-Sl1 90,
BUTTER = Receipts, 5,124 pkgs; fair
demand; firm, Western dairy, 20(a25c;
Western creamery, 25@30c. Fees West
ern, 1614@l615c; Southern, 12(815slc
CoFFEE-Rio, quiet, firm; No. OIL spot,
l555@l515c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
LONDON'S BIG BEN.
The Largest Striking Clock in the
Whole World.

Between the palace yard at West
minister and the top of the clock tower
which marks the hours for parliament
there are APO steps.
The clock from which Big Ben strikes
the hour is according to the Pail Mall
Budget, the largest in the world. Look
ing at the dial from the northern foot
way of Great George street, or from the
Embankment, it looks as if it's diameter
might be equal to the space that man
of medium size could cover with out
stretched arms. This estimate hardly
does the dial justice, for its diameter
is twenty-three feet. From the ground
the minutes on the dial look like ordi-
nary minutes, and as if they were close
together.
AS a matter of fact, they are a foot
apart. The numerals are two feet long.
The minute hand, with the counter
balance-the heavy end that projects
beyond the center of the dial-is fifteen
feet in length. This hand is so massive
that during a snowstorm some times
the clock is retarded by the weight of
the flakes that alight upon it.
Twenty men could stand under Big
Ben in a rainstorm and escape a wet
ting if the rain fell in an exact perpen-
dicul ar and stayed where it fell.
The new light at the top of the par
lament tower is forty-three steps high
er than Big Ben. The old light was
twenty-four steps higher still. The new
light is of 1000 candle power. When
the light is being fixed two men stand
in the lantern, and they have plenty of
room. This parliament light is now a
conspicuous object in London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
MATHEMATICAL REVELATIONS.
How a Telephone Girl Induced Her
Unseen Admirers to Disclose Their
Ages.

Ting-a-ing -a-ling.
The office boy went into the telephone
box and held the receiver to his ear,
as he had done numberless times be
fore, says the New York Herald. In
fact most Of his time was spent in the
boX-what doing nobody knew, but ap-
parently transmitting poetry and love
songs to the ear at the other end.
''Hello!"
'Say, Oscar, are you busy?"
She knew his voice well by this time,
and needed no assurance that she was
talking to the right person. Her YER
bal familiarity is strong proof Of their
intimacy.
mo; I'm never busy only when I'm
talking to you. Go ahead; what is it.
Maude?''
DO you want me to tell your for.
tune? VIII you do as I dictator"
I'D do anything you say, Maude
I'd die for YOU
well, take the date Of your birth.
Yes. its
Don't tell me! Hold it in your mind
for future operations.
Yes: go ahead"
wait a minute" and she tore her
self away to attend the vociferous cries
of some impatient subscriber.
Bother these old cranksv' from the
sweet fairy as she returned to hel
engrossing pastime. you've got that
NUMBER"
Yes"
well, double it, add five, multiply
by fifty
wait a minute and he figured il
out with a pencil on paper.
Yes, I've got it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS
PHRASE

1t was not, as Sir John Lubbock is
reported to have said, Mr.. Sullivan
who, discussing licensing arrangements
in the house Of commons, described
a particular class Of Scotch whisky as
passing down the throat like a torcll-
light procession" The author Of this
graphic and familiar illustration was
w. H. O'Sullivan, a gentleman whose
fidelity to the national spirit combined
with the bestowal upon him by his COM
patriots of the sobriquet Of whisky
London News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Sure Enough.

Sure Enough.
A good story is told General Sher-
mans son Thomas, now known as
Father Sherman. In the company of
a detachment of soldiers he was cross
ing the pOntoon bridge over the Poto-
mac when the armies were on their way
to Washington for their great review
IN 1865.
The boy was then s years old. One
of the men, to make talk, asked him If
he expected to grow up as smart man
as his father.
mo, SIR answered the boy with
surprising promptness.
"Why, not?' was the next question.
''Well," said Thomas without hesita-
ton, there are plenty of other men
who have grown up, and why amt
they as smart as my father? '-Phila-
delphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Liverpool.

Pork-Demand fair; prime mess, West
ern, fine, firm, 97s Cd; do medium, firm,
92s Cd. Lard-Demand for spot poor, with
no demand for futures; spot, SIS I'D dull.
Wheat-Demand moderate; No. red
winter, firm, is; No. red spring firm, 6s
I'd. Flour-Demanl moderate; prices I'M
changed. Corn-Demand fair for spot and
good for futures: spot, firm, As AID; May
easy, as 3&4d; June, easy, As Id; July.
easy, As 219d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
st. Louis.

WHEAT-Cash, 7115c: Nav, We:
July, 75c; August, 76c; September, 77J&o'
CoRN-Cash, 40c34 options, lower; May,
40c: july, 4l5S@414c. OATs-Cash, $500
33c; May, 33111c; July, 29l9c; August, 2S4o
PRovIsIoNs-Pork, higher, S2125 Lard,
higher, S10.3719@10.75. WHIsKY-Steady
at S1.13.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

Professor William S. Tyler, who has
been professor Of Greek in Amherst
college for fifty years, will retire from
duty at the coming commencement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
IN MARTS OF TRADE
IN PRICES RECORDED.
KET BOOMING.

After Touching 70 II Cents July Wheat
Drops Under IS Before the Close.
September Pork Sells S21 Some
Breaks in Wall Street Stocks Mar
ketS in General
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Peoria.

No. 8, 4ec. OATs-No. white, 3415035c;
No. white, 3314035l9c. RYE-Scarce, nom
inal. Wines, 81 49, spirits, 81 Is.
RECE1PTs-Wheat, 200; corn, $4,000 bu;
oats, $4,000 bu; barley, 2,l00. SHIPMENTS
Wheat,6OO bu; corn $500 bu; oats, 81, 600
bu; barley 200 bu.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

James Parkinson, assistant secretary
of the Big Four mine at Centralia, ILL.,,
was instantly killed by switch engine
at that place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
MOMENTS WITH THE MERRY
You May Laugh When You Have
Leisure

johnny said a playmate to the boy
who is always losing things, lis that
watch your father gave you going
yet?'
No. replied Johnny ruefully. Its
gone. '-Washingt Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
PARADISE OF THE RAZOR-BACK
HOG.
Down on Fishing Bay, Maryland,
Where They Live on Surplus Muskrats

Down on Fishing Bay, Maryland
Where They Live on Surplus Muskrats
IF you would see the razor-back hog
in his paradise" said Marylander to
a New York Sun man, ''go down among
the musk-ratting villages along Patllx-
ent river and the border of Fishing
bay. The muskratters are a tattered
and unkempt race of beings, and they
slaughter not less than 100000 musk
rats every winter and spring, trade in
the skins of these animals being their
only visible means of support. They
live in rude cabins on the marshes, and
the extraordinary number of their
children is equaled almost by the NUM-
Der of raZOr-back hogs Of particularly
sharp and prominent-spined species.
This nondescript member of the por-
cine family has an important duty to
perform in these unique settlements,
and he does it untiringly and with I'M
disguised pleasure. This duty is the
making away with the hundreds Of sur
plus muskrat carcaSseS that accumulate
tlOoltD tuC NUS VI thC tl6ppClS d1ib
hunters, for although the flesh of the
muskrat is an important article Of
food with the illustrators and their
families, they necessarily gather a
great deal more than they can con-
sumo themselves, and SO the razor back
comes to them and uses up the sur
plus AS to the matter of this not
overparticular class of people making
food Of the musl1rat, though, they are
only making a common diet of what
many high-up folks with cultivated
palate, down in that land of terrapin
and canvasback duck, consider a great
delicacy
"These razor-back hogs grunt and
snort and sQueal around those musk
rafting huts by the score, and seem to
be nobody's property any more than
the bllzzards are. A remarkable thing
about them is that, although they de-
YOUR untold pounds of fat and juicy
muskrat meat every day, they never
show the richness and generosity of
their keeping by adding a single
pound of flesh to their attenuated
bodies.
" Lawd,' said an old darky musk
ratter to me once, 'yO' can't fat one O
dem raz'back no MON yo' kin a eel
rack, sah!'
'''They have another kind Of live
stock down there that seems to be in
digenous and peculiar to that queer
region. This is an animal called the
marsh cow. 1t is dwarfish, tangle-
haired, and scrawny. 1t has long,
crooked horns, wrinl1led like a merino
rams. During the summer these cat
tie find good pasturage on the low
lands, but they are so wild that when
they are wanted by the trappers they
Sometimes, late in the fall, they leave
the lowlands and take to the wooded
uplands, and will not appear again
unless very cold weather drives them
back to the villages for such shelter
as the muskratters see fit to give
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

lets see," said the yady, ''how
many yards are there here?'
Fourteen yards, madame" answered
the salesman.
Enough for a dress?'
''Quite enough
Then give me fourteen yards more"
For another dress?"
mo, for the sleeves. New York
Press.
Mrs. Celluloide-"Why doesn't your
husband go to church with you?"
Mrs COllerette-"He couldn't afford
any new clothes and he looks too shah
by besides my new wrap."-New Yerk
Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
Toledo.

TOLEDO, Ohio, May S.-WHEAT-No 2cash
and May, 754c; June, re; July, 7S1%c;
August, 1880. CoRN-No. 2 cash and May,
4419c bid OATs-Cash, SIC bid. RYE
Cash, 56c bid. CLovERsEED-Prime cash,
$500; October, $50 bid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11
We'll. all that 1 know is. that l did;

fhelI, dlI lldl hHoW Is. tQdb CID,
you know
That's possible my DEAR remarked
the old stager of twenty, but hardly
probable, for they We're most likely all
too busy in watching the rest of the
n0yices and seeing how the next one
behaved herself to bother any more
about YOU
Its rather 4 costly matter going to
a Or Gwing room, is it not?" 'sWell. of
course, you can spend anything you like
but it's the married women who wear
the fearfully expensive gowns
ooh, but the debutantes are not al
lowed to go in for that sort of gor-
geousness, are thny:" ''Oh, no, you
mustn't be gorgeous, but a very simple
dress may cost great deal of money"
What is the cheapest dress. then. do
you Think" Not less than twenty
five, probably thirty-five guineas. One
girl [ know managed to do the whole
thing-dreSS. train, shoes. veil and
feathers for fifty, but that is really
very, very modest sum to spend.
Did that include a bOuquet?" Yes.
L think so, but not q very good one"
How do you like the new Victoria
bouquet?' VERY much indeed. It's
charming. The long stalks make a han
die in some ingenious way, and the
blooms drop down in the most delight
full manner. I think [ told you I found
mine quite a guardian angel in the
Mall"
Well, after ALL I said st can't be
such dreadful thing as being fashion
ably married. Which do you suppose
would be worse" I added, going to
court or st. Georges" Nothing could
be worse than going to court I think
I'd rather go to st Georges" replied
my debutante, and the roguish twinkle
in he pretty blue eyes was now certainly
more in evidence than the terror
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

$50 Pc rdoz; hens, ll1Sc; mixed lots, Ike,
turkeys Ire: ducks, l21zc@l3; geese, $500
(66.00 per doz.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-11

There are fewer ifs and "maybes
in medicine than ever before.
J+,c a t;D,o of GREAT results
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-14
USE DANA's sARsAPARILLA, ITs
"THE KIND THAT CURES"



Two young men attracted some attention
this morning by riding into town on bicycles
and attired in full navy blue cycling uniform.
They were Messrs. Joseph Holbrook and
Archibald Mcdonald, of Philadelphia, who
are spending their vacations in making tours
on their bicycles. They left Philadelphia at
5 o'clock on Saturday morning last, accom-
panied by Mr., Leon Bokel. The latter
gentleman stopped at Bethlehem to visit
friends, but Messrs. Holbrook and Mcdonald
continued wheeling and in the evening
reached White Haven, having travelled 1888
miles. From the latter place they wheeled
to Pittston and visited relatives there
Yesterday they wheeled back to Hazleton
and leaving there early this morning worked
the pedals until they reached this town.
which was at 900 a. m. Mr.. Bokel Joined
his companions here this afternoon, travelling
by train from Bethlehem. The three gentle
men are now the guests of George Seager, of
East Coal street, Tomorrow morning they
will take the Pennsylvania train for Fack-
vile and from that point they will wheel
their way back to Philadelphia via Pottsville
and Reading. They pronounce the roads in
the coal fields miserable for bicycling.
-s-s-s-
Best photographs and cTayons at Dabbs.