Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-17

tighten the reigns to any extent re-
quired,
a creole, strictly speaking, is any
person born in this country or the
I West Indies of European ancestors
also any person born in or near the
tropics, and this is the sense in which
the word is usually employed. The
use of the word, however, has been by
some restricted first to children of for
eign parents born in Louisiana, and,
second, to children of Spanish or
! French parents born in Louisiana, and
then in the north the word has been
/ perverted 50 that it is believed to i'm
ply some strain of negro blood in q per-
son to whom it is applied. 1t does not
imply anything of the sort.
AS to the shape Of the earth the
ancients differed. OF course in ex-
IRENE antiquity everyone who thought
about the matter at all believed the
world to be fiat. Homer evidently re-
garded it as of comparatively small
/ extent, and he thought the ocean was
4 mighty stream which flowed around
it. Of course in his time the earth
/ was supposed to be the center Of the
universe, and the sun, the moon and
! the stars were supposed to be large
| balls of fire, few miles up in the air,
attached in some mysterious manner
to the walls of the sky, which walls
revOlved around the earth, taking the
stars with them.
4 =, l,
lished in 1861 in New York City, and
lasted to the end of the war 1t was
| the manufacture of confederate money
a regular business was done in this,
remarkable as it may seem. A man
who has twice been in congress since
! the war from q northern district made
a fortune out of the stuff. 1t could not
! be told from the genuine. the only
! difference being that the northern ar
! ticle was rather better than that made
/ in the south. Plantations were pur-
chased with it, and one of the finest
places in Mississippi was bought and
! paid for in confederate currency that
cost the people who used it only about
| 81 200 in gold.
! be in danger of complete extermina-
! ton at the hands of reckless and merci-
! less hunters. There has been a great
! demand for alligator skin, which for
many purposes is unsurpassed, and
with even decent killing of the Great
ures the supply Of this useful leather
might be kept UP Indefinitely. That
thnTs iS OF ic,r ,o+
surprising when we learn that over
100000 have been killed in Florida
since 1880, and that 600 was at one
time fair weeks work AS it is with
the alligators, buffalos and seals, so it
IS with many species of southern birds
which have been SO relentlessly slaugh-
tered for their plumage that within a
few years they will become absolutely
extinct
The fogSerS on an English farm are
the labOrers who fodder the cattle and
carry out the hay morning and even
ing. Their work begins with the very
earliest touch of dawn, and at that
hour, when the dew still lies heavy,
the wild things of the forests are still
o'tU VI Ihoh CoFeIlS. Inc lOSSeTS ulS-
covered that they could approach very
near to the deer and other game with
out being detected, because he load
of sweet smelling hay on their heads
Oyercame the scent of their bodies, so
! that the game was not aware of the
approach Of a human being. Poachers
utilized this discovery, finding it a
great assistance in their raids on deer
preserves. The logger, however, is a
kindly, gentle figure, searching out the
secrets of the woods for his love of
nature and natures creatures.