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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29

ear, mimetic power and a knowledge
of music generally. With these the as
pirant needs little from professors.
Without them voices and styles are
sometimes manufactured, but such
voices are never reliable and always
unsatisfactory. Madame Melba be-
lieveS in exercise as a defense against
undue StoutneSS, that horror of the
professional singer. To aspiring sing
ers she urges the proper posing of the
voice. If there is a weak spot in any
Of the register changes, she believes
it is absolutely destructive to force it.
Many a fine voice has been ruined be-
cause a teacher has told the singer
to sing and repeat to enlarge the tone
until, through forcing. the voice is
ruined. Better slight weakness, says
Melba, than a voice destroyed With
varied and correct practice she be-
lleVes the voice may eventually be-
come equal.
Calye is child of nature. Every
thing she does is by inspiration. AS
she studied she still sings, never a
slave to formula or regular compulsion.
She eschews regular practice of any
kind, lives as she chooses and i'm
poses on her wonderful constitution
few Of the customary restraints. She
was never bound down to exercise
alone. She sang notes with her eXer-
cises. She sings now when the i'm
pulse SEXES her, and all that is needed
to keep her voice flexible is singing
when she wants and feels like it, On
the day she is to sing she breakfasts
at 10 in the morning and dimes at 3
p. m. Nothing then touches her lips
except perhaps a beaten egg and wine
just before going on the stage. She
has no solid food until after the opera
and then she enjoys the fullest meal
Of the day. She believes in exercise
and always has her morning walk
She must have enough air and exercise
daily and after this, on the day she
sings, she takes absolute rest in quiet.
Her advice to young singers is to take
more open air exercise and try their
voices less. She says if singers would
| exercise the general muscles Of their
bodies more and their voices less, they
would do better.
ArnOldson, styled the Swedish night
ingale, pursues very different methods
She keeps up her brilliancy by prac-
tice. She practices daily, scales al
ways, though not solfeggio. She runs
scales on the open A to the full ex-
tent of her compass, which is from B
below to E in alt, She dropped sol
feggio when she began to study roles
and now practices roles with the text.
Nine. ArnOldsOn's brilliant trill was
not natural. She began on two notes
slowly and developed the trill by de-
grees From B to F natural she sings
voix de poitrine; from F sharp to E,
medium; from r to e are head tones.
For dramatic effect in strong situations
only she raises her chest tones to T
sharp. Arnoldson only takes moderate
exercise, all she requires. She can
sing five operas in seven days without
feeling of undue taxation. With the
voice properly posed and without any
resort to forcing, she claims the natur-
ally resulting fatigue is healthfu
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
ALL TRICKSTERS.


After looking at the windows some
thing within proving captivating you
decide on going in and purchasing,
says writer in the New York Times.
On the door is usually painted Eng
fish spoken" but in you go, determined
on sinking your nationality in bad
French, so as not to have prices raised
But, by heavens, your lingo betrays
you. You are answered in English
and the prices in French money, that
by long division you can turn into dol
lars and cents, are transferred into
English shillings and pence and far
things; your nationality has been
wrongly fixed. Bewildered and help
less you have to explain that you are
an American and beg to be told the
price in French money. When this is
done, however, you are so unsettled
that you neither multiply nor divide.
Possibly the price is given in confines,
and you exchange them into cents,
and then wonder if the tales of French
cheapness are imaginary. A cotelette
are told is so centimes. Fifty cents
for a outlet! Only enough for one per-
son! That is eating money for a truth
we cannot afford that, can we?" you
ask, turning to your compatriot on
French soil. You give the cotoIette a
second look, and it is so good. "How
much did you say?" to the shop girl.
Fifty confines, 10 SOUS"
''Ten sous! Why, a sou is only d
cent; why, that is only 10 cents! What
a stupid I am! Of course, we can af-
ford that. We couldn't buy anything
like it at home as cheap" Because
it is cheap you take six when you only
need two; it seems like saving money
to buy more than is necessary because
of the chance.
Prix fXe-fXed price-is prominent
in every shop, but the buyer is to
look upon the sign as an ornament and
not as a rule to be adhered to- 1t is
the custom of the country to march
ander"-in English to bargain, or, in
other words, to beat down prices. If
you do not it takes the sellers breath
away. About some articles you have
no hesitation, but about others, a
Christ or a Virgin, for instance, even
in plaster, it goes against the grain
to cheaper. Because of this bargain
ing shopping takes time, and the way
to do it is to start early with a super
Of patience and ''cheek."
Ask a French person about a shop and
ten to one the answer will be: "Oui,
je lie COMMAS bien, il lest voleur." Eyes,
[ know him we'll; he is a thief" This
term might be a compliment the way
it is INDUCED in unblushingly and no
ofense taken. One shopkeeper does
not hesitate to call his neighbor a
robber and a rickster. All this gratis
information is not pleasant to the pur-
chaser. / do not think the most liberal
minded likes to feel he has been
it is such a reflection on his
common sense. But there is one thing
that can be said for shopkeepers, if
they do still steal your cash, they are
so civil about it, so very civil, that
you buy when you want. a thing, and
very often the thing you do not want.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29

rivers in the same region. and these
are passed without comment from the
conductor.
The dramatic incident in a success
full play OF the present day of young
southern woman leasing her convict
lover from the state and keeping him
by her side seems improbable. but an
Alabama newspaper says that such
proceeding was quite possible in re
construction days in the south. At that
time convicts were leased out to in
dividuals, and one case is cited of
a father who leased his convict son
from the state and kept him in COM
fort at home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29

Denver, Col, March 22-One of the
most destructive con1agratiOns ever
seen in this city broke out this evening
in the Champa building, on Champa
street, between 10th and 10th streets,
and threatened for a time to sweep
over the entire block.
The confiagratiOn started in the rear
basement Of the Champa building
among the furniture stock of ThomD-
con q company, from spontaneous COM
bustion. Before the situation was real
lied the entire building of one hundred
feet front was mass of flames
The east and west walls of the
Champa building fell, crushing three
two-story structures to the east and
two to the west.
The St James, one of the largest ho-
tells in the city, back of the Champa
building, caught fire and the rear was
destroyed. The guests were gotten
out without a panic.
The total loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
DEATHS.

Mrs. Edward Grace, one of the old
settlers of Illinois, died at the Grace
hotel, of Chicago, of heart disease,
aged 81.
Hoadley B. Ives, the eccentric New
Haven Comm millionaire is dead. He
was So years old.
Funeral services over the remains of
John Weclllcr and his daughter, Mrs.
Mary J. Williams, were held at St.
Michael's church, Chicago.
Mrs. Annie Bailey, a colOred woman,
died at Philadelphia at the reputed age
of 121. She was born near Chambers
burg, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29

Washington, March GA resolution
offered by Senator Hoar expressing re-
greet at the death of Kossuth was
adopted. Mr.. Sherman precipitated a
discussion of the nature of a free sill
yer debate by the Introduction Of a
resolution directing the committee on
judiciary to examine and report
whether the stimulation of the coins
Of the United States by coins Of the
same weight, metal and fineness eX-
cept as authorized by law, is made
criminal by the acts against counter
feiting coins of the United States and
other countries and, if not to report a
bill to prevent and punish such simu-
lation. He sent to the clerks desk and
had read a press dispatch from
Omaha, Neb., stating that there was a
private mint there which was enga ged
in coming silver dollars of the same
weight and tineness as the standard
silver dollar, making their profit on
the difference between the actual value
of the silver and the coined value-a
profit of about 81 cents on the dollar.
NIL SIcWdIt, VI NcNdCld ObJcClcu W
the present consideration of the reSolu-
ton and it went over without action.
The government printing office bill
was taken up, and Mr.. Vest, who has
charge of the bill, advocated the pur-
chase of ground adjacent to the pres
ent building and the erection on it of
five or six story structure. A vote
was demanded on the amendment
which provided for the purchase of the
Malone site on North Capitol and L
streets, to the north of the present
building, and the amendment was car
ried-27 to %. The senate adjourned
till Monday.
The house passed the day in fill
clustering over the O'NeillJoy con-
tested election case from the st. Louis
district. The report of the committee
is in favor of unseating Mr.. Joy and
the republicans are determined that
this shall not be accomplished unless
the democrats produce their own
quorum. For five hours today they
flibustered and kept the house dead
locked. The senate bill for the con-
struction of a bridge across the Monon-
gahela river at Pittsburg was passed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
SCRAPS.

The northwest was visited by rain
and snow storm.
Another Minnesota gold find is re-
ported, this time near Quincy.
General Lew Wallace denies that
he is going to found a college of i'm
mortals.
W. G. Dye, Of Winona, one of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
FAMILY HISTORY.

Here is a scene from an oral examin-
alton at school:
Can you tell me anything about the
family of George Washington"
''YeS'm''
What is itY'
He was the husband of Mrs Wash
ington, and, and
"And what?"
"And the father of his country
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29

The cats eye stone, now priced as
an ornament, is very different thing
from the ancient cats eye or eye stone
Of India, an agate cut so as to show
the so-called eye or eyes. It is sup
posed by some that this latter was
used as money in parts of India four
centuries ago, and specimens found to-
day have an interest to numismatists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington, D. c., March 19.-There
was no important business trans
acted in the senate, the entire day
being consumed in consideration Of
bills on the calendar. The senate re-
ceived from the president message
in re.-rd to the occupation of Blue
fields, Nicara qua, and also a message
relative to Hawaiian affairs.
In committee of the whole the house
continued the consideration of the sun
dry civil bill, the paragraph appropri-
ating $4,000 to be expended under
direction of the Missouri river COM
mission being the pending subject of
discussion.
Mr.. Cutchings continued his argu-
ment against parcelling out by restric-
ton portions Of the river and hafbor
appropriations made under the con-
tinuing contract system.
Mr.. Picker IS. d. proposed an
amendment to divert 100000 of the
APPROPRIATION for the Missouri to the
stretch of 1900 miles above Sioux City.
The amendment, after debate, was
lost.
Washington, March 21.-The senate
today passed the bill granting an al
lowance of $40 a month for life to
Christopher Schmidt, Of st. Paul, on
account of injury received from a rife
shot at target shooting at Fort Smell
ing. Other unobjected bills on the
calendar were taken up and passed
When the house passed the sundry
civil bill Tuesday, the provisions in
the bill affecting the management of
the soldiers home, which were op-
posed by Gen. Black, of Illinois, one
of the board of managers were ruled
out on a point of order.
The amendments agreed to increase
the total Of appropriations by the sum
of $214,741, making the total $780,
521, 124.
There was no quorum on the O'Neill
Joy election contest, republicans not
voting, and the house adjourned till
| Thursday after revoking leaves of alb
sence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
BIG FIRE AT DENVER
WORST CONFEDERATION IN THE
CITY'S HISTORY.
AN ENTIRE BLOCK OF BUILD
INGS THREATENED.

The Large Champa Building, on
Champa Stree, Destroyed in Short
Order-WallS Fall and Crush Sew
eral Smaller Structures OF
the st. James Hotel Burned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
CITY NEWS T

The proposed meeting at the New Opera
House last night for the purpose of raising funds
for the poor in this city did not take place. 1t
has been postponed until next Sunday.
''sOur Boys of the Heights. viii hold their
annual masquerade and civic ball tonight at
HenkeI's Casino. The ball has been handsomely
decorated. The affair promises to be q grand
success.
The Members of the Jewel Circle are actively
preparing for an invitation reception, which
wilt take place on March 2e, at the New York
Bay House, GreenviNe.
Annie Barry. forty-two years old, of No. 3l4
Sixth street. while crossing Seventh street at
Cole, was struck by North Hudson County Rail-
way car No. 315. She was knocked down, sus-
tanning severe bodily injuries.
Patrick Cahill, twenty-seven years old, of No.
as Henderson street, while at work on a pile
driver Saturday afternoon, at the foot of Bay
street, had his right leg broken by being caught
in a hosting rope. lie was removed 10 81.
Francis Hospital.
Dennis McGrath. thirty five years old, OF New
York. employed as a brakeman by the Central
Railroad Company, while turning a switch az
before being able TO extricate himself hrs lett
foot was terribly crushed. He was removed to
a Newark Hospital.
Judge Hudspeth today announced that ap.
neal Is from District aud Justices Courts would
be called Friday. and a time liked for near
ipgs.
Chancellor McGil this morning made perman-
emit the appointment of John s.. McMaster and
George f.. Brightson, as receiyers Of the LieD'
niau Brothers Company In New Jersey.
The order to show cause why an lnJuuction
should not be issued, restraining the CRY anthor-
tiles from tearing down John Cues mouse OF
the CITY Hall site. was continued for g week
this morning by Chancellor McGiIl.
Billy Reen. ex-Colstable and convicted ballot
box suffer. today retraeted his plea OF not
guiltf, aud pleaded non Vuit. 10 the Court Of
General Sessions. Reeu was indicted for steai-
ing a sword from Captain Fred Lampert OF the
Fourth Regiment. Sentence was Deferred
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
ARIsToORATIG ORCHIDS.
The Development of Fifty Years in
Floral High Life.

The Development of Fifty Wears IN
Floral High Life.
Fifty years ago these plants were hardly
known except to students of botany, and
now the species in cultivation number some
thing like two thousand, with countless
varieties and sub-varieties, while collectors
are exploring every accessible jungle and
forest Of the tropics for novelties, and under
the hands of expert hybriderzers new forms
are appearing with a rapidity which battles
every attempt to keep a record OF them.
Admiration for them has become the
fashion and their cultivation has become a
passion. Some of them are still rare and
costly as diamonds; others, which were once
quite as precious, are now displayed in every
florists window. The literature of cultivated
orchids would already make a large library,
and there are journals in several languages
devoted to them exclusively, most of them
illustrated with pictures drawn and colored
with consummate skill.
Millions of dollars are invested in them,
and the money value of a single private
collection in this country is at least a quarter
of a million dollars, while the plants in one
commercial establishment are worth still
more. Of course the prices which individual
specimens command bear no relation to their
beauty when judged by the ordinary canons
OF taste, and a plant which brings ST, 200 at
auction may differ SO slightly from varieties
that are sold by the dozen for the production
of market flowers that only the trained eye
of the connoisseur can detect the peculiar
tiles of habit and form, or can appreciate
the purity of color, OF the richness of mark
ing, which makes it unique or rare.-W. A.
Stiles in ScFibnel,.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
HE HAD A VOCATION.
An Alien From~the North Whose
services Were Useless in Boston.

An Alien FrOm~the North Whose
Services Were Useless in Boston.
Specialists flourish in Boston like a green
bay tree. 1t would seem to the casual OBJ
server that the town is well supplied with
shining lights from the great ego of letters
down to the autocrat of the dump heap. Yet
within the past week the waves have waited
to our shore a specialist without a peer. A
gentleman who owns a handsome estate in
the suburbs wished to engage a capable man
servant. Accordingly he went down to
the wharf and hailed a sturdy
foreigner that had successfully ell
bowed his way down the crowded plank.
The face of the man was a study as he strug-
gled to grasp the meaning as Sir Acres abor-
iously asked by word and gesture, ssCan you
run a lawn mowergo Slowly the man shook
his head, "No-I can nor" Again Sir Acres
propounded a question, Scan you drive
drive q four-in-hand?' mol can nor.r
After q one-sided conversation Sir Acres
again attempted to get a knowledge of the
exercise that had so successfully developed
the foreigners physique. DO you know
eigner shook head and slowly muttered:-"I
can nor-I can nor" Finally in despair Sir
Acres OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES work can you
do?' The magic word work penetrated the
gray matter; he seemed to suddenly COM
prehend what was wanted Of him. With a
bland smile and a skilfpl pantomime he
.triumphantly asserted:-"I can milk the rein
eer.n-Boston Saturday Gazette.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
MISS BARRoWoLIFF's CONDITION

Warden Osborne said today that May Bar
rowcliff was rapidly improving, and would
soon be able to leave the Warden's private
apartments, where she has been for several
days. When she leaves she will go to the
house of Aquilla w. Wammaker, No. 30S
Magnolia avenue, as first announced in The
JERSEY Cry NEWS. Miss Dexter is now
boarding there. From there she will prob
ably go to a friends house in Tappan, N. j.,
where she will remain until she is fully re-
stored to mental and physical health, n is
able to make arrangements for the future.
Warden Osborne was amused by a story
published in a New York newspaper yester-
day about Miss Barrowcliff. The only new
statement it contained was that Miss Bar
rowcliff remembered that it was a negro
who assaulted her. The Warden says She
adheres to her original statement, which
was that while she was or her way to the
Marion station she was struck on the back
of the head. After that she remembered
nothing. She does not Know whether it was
a black or white man that struck her.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12

ITO RUSSELL H. HOADLEY, ALICE H. HOADLEY
i and Chester c. Munroe, executors and trustees
of Russell II. Hoadley. deceased, Alice 81. Hoadley,
Edith H. Hoadley. Rowland Hoadley, Charles W;
Hoadley dnfantj, Alice H. Hoadley, guardian of
Charles W. Hoadley (nfantl, Russell H. Hoadley,
NJ. Edith Hoadley, his wife, Horace II. Chittenden,
assignee, and Eugene Mcdonald.
You are hereby notified that at a public sale made
by the City Collector of Jersey City on the 2Sth day
of April, 1892, The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey
City purchased for the sum of Nineteen dollars and
seventy-four cents ALL the land and real estate
situate in Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and
State of New Jersey, fronting on Clendenny avenue,
QS) in block number five hundred and ~forty-five
(545), upon an assessment map annexed to a report
number sixty-nine (69) made by the "Com missioners
the Circuit Court OF the County Of Hudson, q certi-
fled copy of which report and map was filed in the
Office Of the City Collector of Jersey City, on the
sale being made pursuant to the provisions of an act
of the Legislature of New Jersey, passed March 30th.
1856, entitled:
"An Act concerning the settlement and collection Of
arrearages OF unpaid taxes, assessments ana
water rates or water rents in cities of this state.
and imposing and levying a tax, assessment and
lien in lieu and instead OF such arrearages, and
to enforce the payment thereof, and to provide
for the sale of lands subjected to future taxation
and sessnent."
And the several supplements thereto
And you are further notified that you appear to
have an estate or interest In said land and real
be redeemed. as provided in said acts, before the ex-
piration of six months from and after the service
hereof, q deed for the same Will be given conveying
simple of said land and real estate according to the
provisions of the said act.
rR Rste M. Jer5sy s Gsfy' \ 81 RsnHary * IA 11iE HIT CRY.
F. +. WANSER,
~ Attest: JOHN E. scoTF,
3sEAL. City Clerk.
t~~} (SaIe No. 25S7.)
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
HooDLUMs CONVICTED.

Prosecutor Winfield, today, paid his re-
spects to the hoodlums in this city in the
following language:
''The hoodlums who 'infest Jersey City
and make it a byword for disorder should
always be convicted, when there is evidence
to warrant it.n
This language was used in the summing
up of the Prosecutor when he asked a jury
to convict Michael Mcdonald and Robert
Peterson of assault and battery on Bernard
Garvey and Stephen Coolahan. Mcdonald
and Peterson were charged with having laid
in wait for Garvey and Coolahan. and when
the opportunity arrived beat them severely.
The jury convicted them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
HARD ON PHILADELPHIA.

Vice Chancellor Pitncy Tells of
Quaker City NOtaries.
Vice Chancellor Pitney was rather severe
on Philadelphia notaries this morning, and
incidentally those who take acknowledge
ment Of legal papers in this State. He was
nearing the case of Elberstein VS.. Conte, in
which a second mortgage for 81, 1000 on valu-
able property in Carlsbad is sought to be
forec1osed. Mrs. Conte, who gave the mort
gage claims that she did not hear it read,
and when she signed 1T thought it was for
$1,000 instead of $4,000.
When the mortgage was placed in evidence
the vice Chancellor said that the master who
took the acknowledgment must be produced,
and then he told of the practice in Philadel-
phia. which as he had been told, was to sell
notary seals attached to blank papers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
pEoooLo WANTS A DIVORCE

Chancellor McGill this morning allowed
Julia Morris Peccolo $40 counsel fee in the
divorce suit brought against her by her
husband, Peter, but denied her application
for SIS per week alimony. The parties were
married in this city September 4. 1884, and
after living here several years went to Sea-
bright. Peccolo claims his wife deserted
him, and she claims that his extreme cruelty
drove her from him..