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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Little Dick Ito little Dot Miss
Antique is kinder pretty, isn't she?
Miss Antique Did you intend that
for my ears, you little fatterer?
Little Dick (astonished) Did yon
hear? l thought all old ladies was
deaf
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
4 Cheap and Noyel Road ned.

An invention designed to facilitate
the construction of improved roads
and highways is shown in the accom-
panying illustration The roadbed Is
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

one picture. These new discoveries in
photography have advanced color
productions to stage hitherto sup.
posed TO be impossible.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
Hard on Dolls

Mother-M Mercy on us! Yonr pretty
walking dolls are broken all to pieces.
How did it happen?
Little Eshel Boo-hoo. John John
ny made zem play football Good
News.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
Trusting to slgna.

He Ito himself, in dark corner of
the conservatory has sat by
my side for half an hour without say
ing word. viii hesitate no longer.
"A woman is silent with the man she
loves, says Ovid. She loves me, and I
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Eastern Girl-We have the cradle
my grandfather was rocked In.
Western Girl-We have the boots
that my grandfather died in. Life,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
MT end them so.


Little Johnny Goo! Here'sa candy
box some one dropped, an it's full.
too; chocolates an
Little Ethel--Don't stop to talk,
cause I'm 'fraid its all dream. Lets
hurry an eat 'em before we wake up.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

She (suddenly)-oh beg your par
don, sir. really believe | have been
asleep. New York Weekly.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
The vindie,ive Rabbit.

First Rabbit--There comes that city
sportsman again.
Secord Rabhit-Well. If he doesn't
let us alone I'll run in front of his
prize medal dogs and let him shoot at
me
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
OUR WIT AND HUMOR
SAYINGS AND DoINCS OF
FUNNY MEN.

The Deacon and the Darktown Ghost
Praise Expressed by woman--Ask-
ing too Iuch-current Satire and
Sharp Points.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

prisoner?
Professor have.
well, what are you waiting for?"
II am waiting for sou TO decide
whether I shall make him confess that
he did it, or make him confess that he
didn't"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
Much to l,e Thankful For.

Binlss DO you think the country ha
been greatly benefited by the Worlds
Fair?
Minks Well. for one thing. it
crowded the war articles out of the
magazines.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Mr.. De Style-Why have you cut
Mrs Highupp from your list of ac-
quaintances?
Mrs De Style They have lost their
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
.NYhn snrs soo,

mo one: but I've learned that she
is giving her daughters thorough ed
ucation That shows that she wants
them to be school teachers
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24

Mrs. johnson Indignantly Now.
you Joe Jefferson Johnson, you come
right down dis minute, Puck
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-03-24
A conscientious Professor.

-
Judge Have You hypnotized the
prisoner?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
JOSEPH HATTON ON THE LITER.
AIRY PROFESSION.

When [ speak of hard work I am
not thinking simply of the technical
and physical labor of writing a book
but of the mental strain that precedes
it; the necessary thought and study.
the work of getting to the point of
having something to say, writes JO-
Scph HattOn in the Newcastle Chroni-
Gle. 1T is no good opening shop. -
as Douglas Jerrold remarked to It
young fellow who thought of writing
4 hook, until you have got something
TO put into the window" Apart from.
having something TO say. the WORK
of saying it is by no means inconsid-
cradle. Sit down and copy a novel
and see how long that will take you,
irrespective of the work of planning
the story and thinking out the charac-.
terlzation and construction of it.
Touching the profession and business
of literature, Robert Louis Stevenson
wrote to friend saying, Nobody had
ever such pains to learn a trade as
l had, but I slogged away at it day
in and day out, and / frankly believe.
thanks to my dire industry, l have
done more with smaller gifts than
almost any man of letters in the,
world Scott, l suppose, was one of
the most rapid producers of the high
est class of fiction. Not only in his
prime, but later, he did wonderfully
rapid work. He began and finished
Guy MannerinG" in six weeks He.
wrote 'IvanhOe" and ''The Monastery"
concurrently. When his undeserved
troubles came. that ended in bank
ruptcy, he was writing his Life of
Napoleon" taking up Woodstock at
intervals, by way Of relief. He did
not allow his financial catastrophe
to interfere with his literary labors,
and he is said to have written nearly
the whole Of the first volume Of
"Woodstocl1" within fifteen days after
the official declaration of his ruin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
A CAST-IRON STOMACH.
An EngliShman Who Digests Sawdust
and Coal With Ease.

Those whose DISPOSITIONS are out of
gear would do well to pay n visit to the
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, just
now, says Pearson'S Weekly. There
they will see a man whose digestion
puts that of the proverbial ostrich into,
the shade. The owner of this invalu-
able organ is Mr.. Meunier.
At the age of it occurred to Meunier
that his digestive organs were rather
better than those of the average boy.
so he began to take liberties with them.
With the result that instead of making
his digestion impaired, he can now eat
all sorts of fearful and wonderful
things. A mixture of paraffin and saw
dust, Jumps of coal and coke and bits
of glass, are few of the articles upon
which he diets himself when taking
meal in public. Every day he gets
through a large sized wineglass, biting
little bits as he goes along, and evident
ly experiencing no i'll effects.
His appetite is not by any means con-
fined to these however; he will eat
lump of phosphorus before your eyes
as for lump Of wood, say part of the
back of n chair, he considers it lux
ury.
There happened to be piece Of
statuary in the room in which I inter
viewed NJ. Meunier, which that gentle
man stated he would have no obiec-
ton to eating in instailments. Bits of
cloth, carpet and china he finds no
difficulty in digesting; in fact, whatever
he can bite into small pieces he can
take internally. Bronze is about the,
only thing he fears.
Strange to say, Mr. Meunier has
never been taken i'll through the,
agency Of the extraordinary things he
manages TO eat, and, although one
would imagine that the continual bit
ing of glass, coal, and other hard sub
stances would damage his teeth, he
still possesses a fine set, which has in
no way deteriOrated since he began to
play pranks with his inside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

Mrs. Susan Horton testified to see
ing Coughlin and Foy near the Carl
son cottage the night of May II, and
a Mr. Bardeen swore he saw the de-
fendant walking beside the wagon
containing Dr. CrOnin's body
Matthew Johnson, the West Indian
negro who killed Engineer Euguen
Kuckelhorn in the lithographing es-
adjustment in West Twenty-fourth
street in December, 1892, was resen-
fenced in the court of appeals at New
York by Judge Ingram to be executed
in the week beginning February %.
Joseph Walker, a boy Of sixteen
years, is in jail at Dodge City, Kan,
charged with attempting to assassin
ate William Kimbrell, a farmer living
seventeen miles southwest of that
city, his wife, their eighteen-montn-
child and his Wife's sister The as
sassin shot them through Il window.
All four of the victims are likely to
die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

female form. The marvel was exhib-
tied by DR.. Grant, who was describ-
ed as a nice man." Both the petrifac-
tons, he says, We're made by DR.. Boze-
man.
Mr.. Taylor was asked yesterday
about the decision which the gentle
men from the Smithsonian had made.
and said that he was disappointed.
1t was evident, he said, that he had
been deceived He maintained that the
form might be east from nature, al
though it was not 4 genuine petrifac-
ton. and that rs such it was a curl
oSity.
Mr.. w. J. Niece, of the chronological
bureau, who conducted the eXamina-
ton, said there was no doubt of Mr..
Taylor's sincerity in the matter. No
one but an honest man would write
so gentlemanly an invitation to the
scientists to investigate his exhibition
and offer to them every facility for
conducting it, Mr.. Taylor has the GER
uhcates of hundreds of medical and
sclenthc men between here and the
Rocky mountains testifying to the won.
dertu character and anatomical per.
lection Of the petrifaction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
PANICKY POINTS.

After living on sandwiches four days
at WilkeSbalTe, Pa. the ShackfOrd
Opera company secured funds to go
to New York.
Receivers were appointed for the
Peoria. Decatur and Evansville by
Judges at Springfield, Ill, and Indiana
polls.
The Pollak company, wholesale and
retail dry goods, at Montgomery, Ala,
was closed by the sheriff on attach
mentS aggregating $4,000.
In Wall street the tendency of
prices is downward, though Whisky,
Missouri Pacific, Reading ard New
England gained a fraction.
Miss Il. A. Chapman Of West Phila-
delphia has aided the work of the
twenty ward auxiliary relief
committee by RENTING the back rents
of poor tenants.
Edwin d. Bartholomew, of Decatur,
Ill, wholesale and retail dealer in
glassware and china, has made an
assignment. The assets ante $46,912
and the liabilities $4,000.
Window glass manufacturers of the
west, in conference at Pittsburg, de-
cided to close all plants on February
10, indefinitely, so as to curtail pro-
duction. No action was taken on the
wage question.
The Sterling organ factory at New
Haven has started up. Two hundred
hands We're set at work, which is
nearly the usual number employed in
all departments The employees will
work eight hours Il day and six days
u week.
The workmen at the Riverside Steel
and Iron company's plant at Wheeling,
w. Va, have accepted the new scale,
which in many cases provides for re
duction of nearly 80 per cent. Work
has been resumed in all departments
co full time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
MARRIED AND DIED.

Colonel e. A. Wilton, the inventor of
a process for diluting oil, dropped dead
on the street at Buffalo, n. Y.
Frank Bolles, A. M. LII. D., secre-
tary of the Harvard university, died
of pneumonia at his home in Cam
tridge.
Edward S. Mead, of the New York
publishing firm of Dodd, Mead & Co.
died at his home in Southampton,
aged Al years.
]. A. Crabtree, the father of Miss
Charlotte Crabtree, better known as
Lolita, died in London. He was IS
years old
A dispatch from Rome says that
Mrs. w. w. Story, wife of the we'll
known American sculptor and mother
of Julian Story, the painter, is dead.
Julian Story is the husband of Emma
Eames, opera singer, vino is at present
In the United States.
Obituary: At Quincy, H., Judge II.
K. Rodolf, aged sixty -eight-At Hunt
ington, L. l., Mrs. Hiram Pau1ding,
aged eighty-seven.-At Paris. NJ. Foul
bert, inventor of the Foulbert rifle,
aged seventy-fiye.
Marriage: At Rock Island, ILL.,
Edward Pierr, of Moline, and Miss
Eva NormOyle, of Rock Island. AT
Saginaw, Mich.-Seth Collins Adams,
of Utica, n Y, and Miss Alice Ethel
Thompson. At st. Paul-Lieutenant
James Thaddeus Moore and Miss
Needman Mason. Miss Eliza Webb.
a niece of Mrs. Henry CorWith, of
Chicago, and Hoyt Shaw were married
at Grace Episcopal church, Galena,
H.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

Damage by the fire in manufacture
ers' building at the worlds fair is es-
timated at from $4,000 to 100000.
Crowds visit Jackson park daily.
Reuben Daugherty drove over a
thirty-fOot bank into the Cottonwood
river at E.nporia, Kan, and was
drowned
Mrs. Norman Holland, Alton, H.,
old and blind, dropped Il spark from
her pipe upon her clothing and was
so badly burned that she will die.
Factory of the Starr Piano COM
pany, at Richmond, Ind, was destroy
ed The loss is placed at S250.000
Fire in Gardeners cotton warehouse,
Memphis, Tenn, damaged 1900 bales
of cotton to the extent Of $4,000
Fully insured.
William Jarvis flour mill at Salvisa,
Ky, was destroyed by fire, together
with 1000 bushels of wheat. Loss,
ST., 900; insurance, $4,000.
Claims for damages growing out of
the Jackson park fire will be filed by
french p&IilDllOES. oIucIS Will lVl1OH
suit.
John G. Smith, aged II years, was
fatally crushed by falling slate in a
mine near Perth, Ind. He is the
father Of thirty-fve children, all of
whom are living.
The plant of the Halsted Furniture
Manufacturing company, at Sheboy-
gan, Wis, was totally destroyed by
fire yesterday, Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Two children of John Montal We're
burned to death Tuesday night by a
| fire which destroyed his house. The
mother and two children had narrow
escapes.
! A terrific prairie fire has been rag
! ing in the extreme western counties
| of Oklahoma for several days, and
scores of farmers have lost everything.
It is feared that several isolated fam
! lilies have persisted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.
IN POLITICS.

o. B. Spencer has been appointed
surveyor Of customs at Denver.
Iowa's legislative session opens.
geveral of the officers chosen were wo-
men.
President Cleveland will not call
another international monetary con-
ference at present.
William Lindsey was elected United
States senator by the Kentucky legis-
lature to succeed himself.
IgnatiuS Donnelly was elected presi-
dent of the Minnesota farmers ALI
ance. He viii probably be a candidate
for governor.
COlorado'S legislature met in extra
session and listened to Governor
Waite's message, which the senate de-
clined to print.
An adverse report on the nomina-
ton of Hornblower for the supreme
dietary committee.
Issac Pussy Gray is said to have
been winner by large majority in
the election of democratic district COM
mittee men in Indiana.
Representative Holman prepared Il
resolution declaring it the policy of
the United States to conclude a treaty
for a protectorate over Hawaii.
SuperviSOrs-at Large Fitchie at a
meeting of the Kings county board of
supervisors at Brooklyn, threw out the
minutes of the last meeting at which
John Y McKane was elected president
pro tenn. TLis places the republicans
in control of the board.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Frost badly damaged the orange and
lemon crops in California.
. 1t is said that Lillian Russell and
Sig. Perugini, the tenor, are to be
married.
Fanny Davenport, the actress,
sprained her wrist on the stage at
Denver.
Ex-President Harrison took part in
his first lawsuit since his return to
indianapolis.
In a Chicago bill for divorce Morris
Lakalske says he was led to the altar
blindfOlded when Re was but - years
old
A refractory pupil in a school at
Amiret, Mimi, was, struck by his
teacher with result probably fatal.
Berrien county. Michigan, has won
its case against the bondsmen Of
Lewis Robb, who fled before his trial.
Plans for a system of water works
for Pana, H., have been accepted by
the city council The estimated cost
of the plant is 100000.
John Fletcher, IAN inmate of the
Hancock county, Ohio, infrmary, says
Matron Lightfoot threw hot water on
him.
| Andrew J. Doolittle. a disinherited
son, won his suit at Valparaiso, Ind,
| to break the will Of Samuel Doolittle.
William Cardray, Portland, Ore,
was fatally shot. His brother John,
theatrical manager, was in the room
and says it was an accident.
The government crop report showed
a yield of but 396,OOO,O0O bushels of
wheat and 1,619,O 100000 bushels of
corn.
NEGOTIATIONS of unificatiOn of the
/ Baptist and Christian denominations
are said to be pending.
William Caldwell, of the Daily and
Sunday Mercury, has purchased the
| Daily America, of New York, and will
merge it with his two newspapers
/ Friday morning.
| Justice Divide Wien has sued the
| Omaha World Herald for $4,000 fol-
publishing an article in its Council
/ Bluffs. Iowa, department about his
drinking.
With the anchor barred Ives beat
! Schaefer in the billiard tourney, leav
! ing the "wiZard'' at 3SS.
! At Selma, Ala, Jeff Stewart went
mad because he was threatened with
death by Josh Craig. He was found III
the woods attired in a night shirt.
At Elgin, ILL.,, Roy and Amanda Mid
dleton colored children, were taken i'll
after dinner and died with symptoms
of poisoning.
The Western Association of baseball
clubs has been formed on the ruins OF
the Illinois-Iowa league.
Another rich gold strike is reported
in Black mountains, north Of Ell Paso
Texas. The vein shows five feet OF
solid ore. which is thick with gold.
Illinois and Michigan canal commits
sioners met at Lockport. A deficit OF
$4,000 is shown by the annual report
Importation Of cigars makers from
| Havana has caused excitement at
Key West, Fla, and the government
has been appealed to.
A 2-months-old baby was offered
| for sale in the east market at Indiana
polls by a woman with whom it had
| been left.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
MRS. MAVERICKS MOTHER IN
THIS COUNTRY.

The Baroness de Roques, the mother
of Mrs. Maybrick, has been spending
some weeks in this country. She has
visited many old friends and rela-
tives in the vicinity of Boston and
in Portland, Me-, and has been greatly
encouraged by their sympathy, but her
anxiety to be near her daughter, whose
extremely delicate health gives her
constant concern, permits her but
short stay. Her visit was entirely in
her daughters interest-the arrange
ment of family business made neces-
sary by the costs of the trial and set
Element Of some legal complications.
The baroness has great hope Of re-
covering a considerable part Of her
land interests in Virginia and Ken
lucky, and thus being provided with
funds to carry on her daughters case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
THE LATEST.

National worlds fair commissioners
insist upon revising the awards made
by John Boyd TEACHERS judges.
Treasury officials have estimated the
gold production of the world at nearly
$3.50, 900 for the year 1898.
Secretary Carlisle will be compelled
to issue bonds under the law of 1871:
unless congress enacts new legisla
| ton.
The Mercantile Trust company, New
York, has sued the Atlantic and Pacific
to recover more than 100000 due on
bonds.
Frank Jackson was inaugurated gov
ernor of Iowa at the capitol in Des
Moines. Simplicity marked the pro
ceedings
Judge Bartlett, of Brooklyn, refused
to quash the indictments against Nc
Kane and twenty-one others accused
of election fraud.
After sitting up all night OIL guard
the New Jersey republicans were cast
out of the senate by the democrats.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, de-
clares strongly in favor of Christian
methods in settling international dis
pIrteS.
Rev. p. J. Donahue, rector Of the
Baltimore cathedral, has been created
bishop of the Wheeling, w. Va, do
ceSe
John Carroll Power, custodian of
the Lincoln monument at Springfield,
Ill. since it's dedication, is dead.
Mayor Mcneil, Of Eddyvile, Iowa.
dropped dead on the streets. Heart
disease was the cause of death.
Mrs. William Makepeace Thackeray,
widow Of the novelist and satirist, died
at Leigh, England She was IS years
old
NJ. Dupuy was again elected presi-
dent of the French chamber of depu-
ties by a good majority.
King Humbert of Italy declares that
the amelioration Of Sicily's economic
condition is his supreme aspiration.
NJ. Clemenceau will ask President
Carnot to reprieve Bomb-thrower
Valiant. French ministers are oppoS-
ed to it.
Count Pasadowsky introduced the
new tobacco bill in the German reich
stag with speech lasting nearly two
hours
William Byles, liberal, proposed in
the English commons that other pow
ers be conferred with looking to naval
disarmament.
Three men We're killed and one fatal
" hurt in a hand-car accident near
Woodward, Ala.
One man was hurt by the wreclling
of a New York sweater" shop in
which an Internal machine was ex-
ploded.
A. j. Mack, who is charged with
robbing a Kansas City bank of S15,-
600. was arrested at Cleveland
Two Iowa youths thirsting for bandit
glory stopped a passenger train near
DeS A1oines. The conductor and brake
man arrested them.
George Reynolds, just out of Wis
consin prison, forged a check at Mil
waukee, and will probably be return
ed to Waupun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
FIRES, ETC.

Michael McCune was found frozen
to death near Ogalalla, Neb.
Brock Kelly was killed by a prema-
ture blast at tunnel on the new Grip
pie Creek railroad.
Charles Shoop, tambourine player Of
the Quincy, ILL.,, salvation army, was
drowned while skating.
Two young sons of John Mantal
persisted in the burning of their home
at Dickinson Center, n. Y.
The coroners jury at Louisville has
censllred the Phoenix Bridge company
for the recent bridge disaster at that
place.
Six men We're injured in a train
wreck near Grinnell, Iowa, caused by
a car breaking in two.
A fire in Gillard avenue, Indiana
polls, Ind, destroyed dwelling houses
valued at $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
ASHTON TRIED TO BRIBE.

GAINESVILLE. Wis, Jan. 10.-In the
Stone murder case today Geo. Spong1er
testified that the defendant, Ashton,
came to him soon after being indicted
for murder and offered him $4,000 if
Sponger would induce District Attor-
ney Wheeler to drop the case.