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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11
of Fond du Lee. the forncr won.

of Fond du Lee, the former won.
In Freeport, H., Speaker Meyer Of
the Illinois house of representatives,
died. Death was unexpected though
he was Ill for some time
The Santa Rita copper and iron mill
machinery, the finest in New Mexico,
was burned. The loss is 100000; no
insurance.
John 5. Johnson, in race with Saw
yer and Tyler, defeated them and
biked a mile in IS 5-I-the fastest on
record.
Dandy Jim won in straight heats
from RyIand L. at Grand Rapids,
Mich. in match race for a purse OF
$1,000. The best time was 2:12.
Winnebago Indians at Black River
Falls, Wis, are starving and have
asked the government for the imme-
date payment Of their annuities
Leon Straus. eX-rabbi of Belleville,
Ill, we'll known in Jewish circles
throughout the west, was run over by
a Chicago cable car Monday and died.
In the race for the Muir challenge
cup in the regatta of the Mud Hook
Yacht club the prince of Wales yacht
Britannia Won, Ailsa second, Falkyrie
Ill last.
The results of contests in the inter
state drill at st. Louis were so close
that the winners will not be known
until Sunday. The first prize is 49,,
500 and a $1,000 cup.
The half-mile horse track cycle rec
ord was lowered to 0:56 fiat, by L. G
Johnson, paced by a tandem, at Pat
! ters0n, y. J. In one backWard riding
record Lee Richardson made a quar-
ter in 40 L. beating his own record
Of 81 ID.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is about start
ing for Europe to sell her jewels, val
ued at over half million, including
the famous Empress Eugene diamond
necklace, to get money to maintain
Stanford university, which is badly il
need of funds. Litigation with the
government over the Stanford estate
has tied up the university income an(
| funds.
The Spanish government has ap
pointed a committee to consider the
claims of the United States for com
penSatiOn for cOnfiScation of the eS
tate of Antonio Mora, an American
citizen residing in Cuba during the
hast instruction. The estate is valued
at s., 100000. In 1866 Spain promised tt
pay a million and half under this
claim but has never done SO.
The divorce suit of Mrs. Pear
Craigie, authoress, who writes under
the name of John Oliver Hobbs, was
heard in London. The husband is {
clerk in the Bank of England. Mrs
Craigie on the stand related a dread
full story Of married life. He il
guilty of repeated acts OF cruelty ant
Waywardness. Craigie pleads condo
nation and cOnnivance Of his wife il
his illicit relations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11

Madison, July 5.-At $50 last even
ing Chief Justice Harlow S. Orion
died very suddenly at his home here
and yet he had been so long ailing
that the end occaSiOned no general
surprise. He had not sat on the bench
since in January and his last official
appea rance was on the occasion OF the
Inauguration of the present governor
and his associates January when he
administered the oath of Office to them.
His broken physical condition was uue
to combination of ailments. 4 facial
wound caused by spectacles seriously
decorating his nose being a distressing
incident in connection with old age and
kidney trouble Blood poisoning acted
on the heart finally and swiftly
brought life to an end. His wife and
his son Ohio, as we'll as the latter 5
/ children were with him. He rode out
| Wednesday and was up during the
morning of the 4th as usual, but feel
| ing badly At $50 he was stricken and
death supervened an hour later despite
the attentions of several physicians
| WHO Idu Dee1 SuIlIIIOIlcu
| Judge Orion was one of the most dis
tinguished citizens Of the state and adj
mittedly one of the ableSt jurists who
ever sat on the supreme bench of
Wisconsin. He was born in New York
in 1917, was educated at Madison
| University in that state and in 1887
was admitted to the bar at La Porte,
Ind. In 1S47 he came to Wisconsin
and in 1852 became private secretary
to Gov. Farwell. He was a member
of the legislature repeatedly afterWard,
went upon the circuit bench in 1859,
failed of election to congress as a dem
Ocrat in 1876 and two years later was
elevated to the supreme bench. On
the voluntary retirement of Chief
Justice William Penn Lyon in Janu-
airy, 1894, Judge orion by virtue of
seniority on the bench became chief
justice. He was profound lawyer
and his opinions are among the strong7
est, clearest and most vigorous found
in the Wisconsin reports for the past
seventeen years He leaves a widow
and four children,-Otho an attorney
! at BelOit DR.. Harlow n. MinneaD-
! oils physician; Orlando a lawyer:
I and Mrs. Henry Coe, the last two of
! indianapolis.
Judge Orion was a democrat of the
! old school. Associate Justice John b.
Cassoday succeeds to the chief Justice
ship and the governor will fill the va
cancy thus created 1t is almost a
fOregOne conclusion that Circuit
Judge r. D. Marshall, of Chippewa
Falls, or George G. Green, of Green
Bay, both republicans, will be the OBJ
ject of executive designation.
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You may be called names if you forget
this rule Oh q crowded road. In pass
ing a vehicle or wheel going in the
same direction, it is usually safest to
go by them on the left
Try to foster the feeling of brother
hood and sisterhood among the wheel
ers. Remember that accidents happen
to tie best of bicyclists just as they do
in the best regulated families. If any
thing goes wrong with a man or wo-
man wheeler, render any assistance
you can. No man will take advantage
Of such assistance to thrust his &C.
quaintance upon you at a future time.
He would run the risk of ostracism by
who, perhaps have
sisters, wives or sweethearts devoted
to the sport. If you are unfortunate
enough to have any accident happen to
your wheel, do not hesitate to accept
the profered assistance of the first
wheelman who comes along. If he Is
of the right kind, as he probably will
be, he will set your wheel right and
then pursue his journey. Should he
ever pass you again he will give no
sign that he ever met you before.
Don't be afraid to mention the word
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boomers in the presence of a man n

boomers in the presence of man. ~
he be yerSed in bike manerS, as ali
true wheelers should be, he will re.
| gard the word purely as one for ordi-
! nary conversation, as it surely is, In
, bicycle talk. Right here the young
lady interrupted her talk ON bike ETH
queUte to say something about bloom
ers She did not regard the garments
favOrably when she first took to bicy-
cling, but she thinks differently now.
The way Of her conversion happened
IN the following manner, as told by
herself:
Il was riding one morning when
something happened to my wheel. |
don't know what the nature of it was.
but the wheel wouldn't work. l got
| off and waited for some time, hoping
that some one would come along to fix
it. But there were only some women
wheelers ont besides pedestrians, and
they didn't know any more than | did.
At last decided upon heroic meas
lures, and began to push my wheel
toward home, two miles distant. l
must have walked a mile in this I'M
comfortable manner when wheel
man came along. He dismounted and
aSked me what the matter was. | told
him l didn't know. Then he took hold
of my bike, surned it upside down and
putting it between his legs gave it a
good shaking. Then to my surprise, 1t
worked all right.
why didn't you do that? he
asked
Before 1 knew what was saying, I
replied:
because | couldn't l don't wear
boomers But l wear them now, she
quite unnecessarily added, the fact be-
ing easily apparent,
Coming back to the question Of bike
manners, the other laws laid down are
these:
Don't ride on a bicycle built for two,
as it attracts attention and comments
from passersby, which may not be
pleasant Avoid in every possible
way anything that will distinguish you
in a marked way from the grand army
Of wheelers.
Some men in riding out with women
are inclined to help the latter when q
hill is reached by placing one hand on
the girls shoulder and pushing her
along. Riding a bicycle up an or.
binary hill is too easy for the averag
wheeler to need aid. If the hill is very
steep, dismount and push your wheel
to the top.
Don't allow two young men, one on
either side to speed you, by catching
hold Of the handles and pulling you
along. 1t is dangerous, and may re-
suit in a bad accident. Then, again,
. it doesn't look well, and attracts at
tention. If one fears the attention of
pedestrians, wear Il veil, not thick
enough to affect the vision. 1t will
protect the face from dust, and thor
oughly conceal identity.
Don't try to ride rapidly. Fast
riders meet with accidents sooner or
later, and a woman in a smash-up does
not appear to advantage. IT'S bad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11
IN OTHER LANDS.

The Bulgarian government sent a
warlike note to- the porte.
Dr. Won Pleuer has resigned from the
Austrian parliament.
Lord Rosebery badly scored the gov
eminent in a speech at the Eighty
club.
Ex-ChancellOr Bismarck is reported
to be painfully but not dangerously i'll
with neuralgia.
Eight large buildings were de-
stroyed by fire in Paris. Many people
were injured.
The appointment Of Gerald William
Balfour as chief secretary for Ireland
was announced.
Barons Houghton and Darlington, of
the Rosebery government, have been
created earls.
| Lord Rosebery, as liberal leader
says he will 90 through the electoral
campaign on the anti-house-of-lords
policy.
! Military authorities of Amapa, Bra
I'll, asked the general government fol-
reinfOrcements to resist an invasion by
French troops.
The Britannia defeated the Ailsa
! and the Dakotah beat the Niagara and
Zinita on time allowance in the races
on the Clyde.
Italy's minister to Brazil intimates
that he may demand his passports il
the indemnity which his government
claims is not promptly paid.
! A dispatch from st. Petersburg de-
MES that there has been a breakdown
of the negotiations for a Chinese loan
guaranteed by Russia.
! Posters, asking Bulgaria. TO join in a
revolution against the Turks, have
made their appearance in eastern
Roumelia, but are promptly torn down
! by the authorities.
The reports of preparations by
correct. 1t is also understood that
Japan has concluded a treaty Of ALI
ance with Great Britain.
Much irritation, says dispatch from
! st. Petersburg, has been caused in
Russia by the dilatorinesS of the
/ PelIin government regarding the finan-
cial arrangements suggested by Russia
By the appointment of y. Akers-
Douglas, first commissioner of works,
and Walter H. Long, president of the
board of agriculture, the British cabi-
net now has nineteen members, the
! largest number it ever contained.
! A dispatch from st. Petersburg con
veys information that favorable ans
wer from China to Russia's PROPOSE
ton respecting the forthcoming loan
is anticipated after a slight delay con-
sequent upon concessions granted in
response to the desires of the former
country.
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LITTLE WOMEN.
Inches of No Importance as Regards
Feminine Influence Over Men.

IN these days w hen the public seems
in danger of going Trilby-nad, and
the ideal woman is big-footed, big
eyed and big-bCned, it's a good idea to
refresh our minds ON the subject of
the ittle women. It's just as well not
to forget that most of the women who
have helped to make history either Jy
their wit, or beauty, or both, have be-
longed to the di1ninItive variety of
their sex.
There was Cleopatra. If she couldn t
have given Trilby clubs and spades
and beaten her aft her own game even
to the altogether, who could? And
Cleopatra, mind you, stood less than
five feet in her highest sandals.
If you don't believe it, all you have to
you'll find her mummy carefully pre-
served and it's only fifty-four inches
long. It's the little women who twist
big men around their little fingers.
Shakespeare knew that, and no doubt
the queen of Italy is quite right when
Sic says Mis-. A1tCDSlu was HLJlG
dark ShreWish woman.
You remember where Shakespeare
makes Cleopatras first anxiety about
Octavia's height. Bring me word
tall as me?' And again, eXultingly
dull Of tongue and dwarfish. What
majesty is in her gait?''
No doubt it was this majesty in her
gait which made Cleopatra the COM
handing parsonage she could be when
occasion demanded.
If a woman knows how to dress and
carry herself she may add inches to
her appearance. Before Queen Vic
toria became rheumatic and trffe
square as ITO figure, she impressed
everyone who saw her with such
sense Of majesty and stateliness that
it was very difficult ito believe that she
lacked two inches of being five feet
tall. The erectness with which she
carried her body-Spine straight as an
arrow, shoulders we'll back, head we'll
poised, together with the sweeping
robes of State-all combined ito trans
form the royal midget into an impos-
ing commanding woman. In her
younger days Queen Victoria was very
sensitive about her height, or rather
lack of it.
They tell pretty story about dear
little Maria EdgeworTh, from whom
Walter Scott got the inspira ton that
led him to immortalize the familiar le-
gends of his native hills One day she
was travelling in a stage coach.
Among the passengers was a bright
little boy. Presently he missed pack
age and asked Miss Edgeworth to
stand up that he might look for it IN
der the seat. She told him she was
standing, and the little fellow looked
at her with distended eyes and ex-
claimed, well, you are the very lit
tlest lady l ever did see" Sir Walter
Scott admired the famous Irishwoman
because of her diminutive size as we'll
as for her wit and keennesS of obser-
walton. Byron was another of her adj
mirerS. though he spoke of her as an
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AFTERMATH.
lass, had a big fire.

Lynn, Mass, had a big fire.
Indiana gas fields are giving out.
The French captured 400 Hovas.
An A. 2. \. parade in Boston led to
a riot.
Dock men at Ashland, Wis, are ON
a strike.
Another rebel leader is reported
killed in Cuba.
The federal census of 80 will be pub
fshed this year.
Ten persons were shot in a fight at
a Tennessee barbecue.
Cuban insurgents were again whip
ped near Santiago de Cuba.
A. c.. Mertens broke the Waukesha-
Milwaukee road race record
Alexander Hester, who was Chicago's
first photographer is dead.
At Louisville, Ala, lightning killed
Edward Bryan, wife and baby
Many people were crushed, two
fatally, by a grand stand in Buffalo
falling.
! Mckinley and Stevenson addressed
/ $4,000 people at a Chicago laborers'
picnic.
j ]. D. Lawson, whose mill was
wrecked by an explosion, is dead at
Howard, S. D.
Regulars have left Fort Sheridan,
/ ILL.,, to encamp at the Wisconsin mill
tary reservation.
Three alleged postoffice thieves
! wanted in Illinois escaped from jail in
New York city.
signed and become a first charge on
maritime customs.
! The situation between the two
parties in Samoa is critical and blood.
shed is feared.
! Robert J. won a $4,000 purse in a
free-for-all race at Minneapolis. He
made the mile in 2:0S.
! Gov. Altgeld insists that only
union labor shall be employed on the
state asylum building
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the National Educational associa.
ton began in Denver.
/ Tammany, celebrating independence
| day, listened to letters from President
! Cleveland and Senator Hill.
A fight with fatal results occurred
between trainmen and rowtlies on al
excursion train rear Chicago.
Four or five inches of rain fell in
Kansas, doing great good to crops but
much damage in other directions.
A portion of the bridge at Bristol
Ind, fell into the river, injuring 8
large number of people, soma fatally
At Lynn, Mass, the Sagimore hote
and other property were burned; loss
lS15O,OOO; insurance 100000.
Thirty-fve saloon-keepers of Spring
field, ILL.,, have been arrested charged
with selling liquor on Sunday.
Jacob wager has been arrested fol
poisoning the Iglehart and Faith fam
lilies near Washington, Ind.
In a wrestling match betw cen Bill!
Murphy, of Chicago, and James Nicely
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maids and matrons in The etiouette of
the wheel, just as little boys and girls
are now being taught the polite arts
of the ballroom.
But at the moment evervtbinu is
cnaotlc III this most important field of
Tue fashionable woman. She uses her
Sood cOmmon-senSe, and her innate
genrllty Is a sufficient guide to cor
rectly meet the ordinary happenings
of life a-Wheel, but bicycling is no or
binary sport, and happenings of an ex-
traordinary kind continually occur.
The laws of conventional life cannot
apply to these unforeseen events, and
the well-bred woman who insists upon
being conventional, and at the same
time bicycist, does not know quite
where she is at.
The instructors in the big city acade-
mics where women are taught to ride
the bicycle, are taking cOgnizance of
the peculiar state of affairs, and instil
in the minds of their pupils few of
the primary laws of wheel etiquette
while their bodies are being educated
in the mysteries of the bike" Here
are some of the etiquette rules which
a fashionable girl said she received
from the woman instructor of the acad-
envy where she rides She ac-
knoWledged that she may have forgot
ten some Of them, just as she forgets
the vital point in the art of dismount-
ing, and frequently comes a nasty
cropper in consequence.
The first one was, never criticise a
feEoW-b icyclist, particularly if she is
inclined to stoutneSs. The moral Of
this is that in a few years you may be
stout yourself, and a bicycle rider for
the sole purpose of reducing weight.
Another is, when you are riding in
park or ON the road and a cranky horse
comes along which rears and plunges
at sight Of your bicycle, always dis
mount without delay and turn your
wheel fiat on the ground. Serious run
away accidents can sometimes be
averted by a little courtesy of this
kind. 1t only takes a minute or two of
time, and as all women bicyclists ride
for pleasure, that much lost time is Of
little consequence to them.
Always keep to the right in riding.
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POINTERS ON ? OLITENESS FOR
BIKE DEVOTEES.
HINTS FOR WOMEN RIDERS
Desirability of Avoiding Ways that
VIII Attract Unusual Attention
Avoid the Wheel Built for Two
Boomers All Right-Criticism of
Course in Bad Taste

Young ladies of the fashionable
world. and, for that matter, the older
ones, too, who have become devotees to
the wheel, have recently been discuss
ing the urgent need Of a recognized
formula of bicycle etiquette. AS far
as swelldom is concerned, the sport is
in its infancy; everything is crude and
unconventional to the delicately nur
tired social eye, and the young buds
of the ballroom are all at sea wher
they find themselves out on the road
spinning along on the democratic
bike" 1t may not be long before reg
ular professors of bicycle deportmen
will be making the rounds of the
homes of the rich, instructing the
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SENSATIONS OF STARVING.
Observations Made by a Man Who Had
Gone a Week Without Food.

For the first two days through which
a strong and healthy man is doomed to
exist upon nothing his sufferings are
perhaps more acute than in the re-
naming stages; he feels an inOrdinate,
unspeakable craving at the stomach
night and day. The mind runs upon
| beef. bread and other substances,
retains its strength.
On the third and fourth days, but es-
pecially on the fourth, this incessant
craving gives place co a sinking and
weakness of the stomach, accompanied
by nausea. The unfortunate sufferer
still desires food, but with loss of
strength he loses that eager craving
which he felt in the earlier stages.
Should he chance to obtain a mOrseI
or two of food, he swallows it with
a wolfish avidity, but five minutes
afterward his sufferings are more in
tense than ever He feels as if he had
swallowed a living lobster, which is
clawing and feeding upon the very
foundation of his existence.
On the fifth day his cheeks sud
denly appear hollow and sunken, his
body attenuated, his color is ashy pale
and his eyes wild, CLASSY and canniba1-
istic. The different parts of the sys-
tenn now war with each other. The
stomach calls upon the legs to go with
it in quest of food; the legs, from
weakness, refuse.
The sixth day brings with it increased
suffering, although the pangs of hun
ger are lost in an overpowering
languor and sickness. The head be-
comes giddy; the ghosts of we'll re-
membered dinners pass in hideous
professions through the mind.
The seventh day comes, bringing in
creaSing 1assitude and further prostra-
ton Of strength. The arms hang list
lessly, the legs drag heavily. The de-
sire for food is still left to a degree,
but it must be brought, not sought
The miserable remnant OF life which
still hangs to the sufferer is burden
almost too grievous to be borne; yet
his inherent love of existence induces
a desire still to preserve it if it can be
saved without tax on bodily exertion.
The mind wanders. AT one moment.
he thinks his weary limbs cannot sus-
tain him a mile the next he is en-
dowed with unnatural strength. and if
there be a certainty of relief before
him, dashes bravely and strongly for
ward, wondering whence proceeds his
new and sudden impulse.
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A SIMILARITY.

II dunno" said Mr. Meekton,
thoughtfully: I'm chary about goin'
contrary to the accepted order of
things"
You don't know what, Jeremiah:"
interrupted his wife, sharply.
L dunno bout this dress reform"
Its coming: and it's coming to
stay"
Il s'pose so. But dresses seem to
me a good deal like some politicians;
the more you reform them. the worse
they appear to get."-Washinston
Star.
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Melba is not loved by the chorus
singers at Indianapolis. During the
festival the chOris6ers were excluded
while she reheared, and they were so
indignant that they organized a boy
colt, or 'anti-clacque." Unfortunately
the audience did not appreciate their
grievance, and the silence of the
chorus was hardly noticed in the ont
burst Of applause that followed her
vocal skyrockets.
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BRIDAL HOSIERY.

Bridal hosiery is especially fine. One
beautiful silk design has applique EN-
brofdery in white mousseline de sole,
with little pailettes and pearls form
ing checks across the front.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11
ZEN BEEF TEA.

Put small pail in wooden bucket
and surround it with salt and crushed
ice See that there is no salt in the
pail. Put cold beef tea in the pail,
and let it stand for about ten minutes.
At the end of that time take the
cover off The pail, and scrape the con-
gealed beef tea from the sides. Beat
well and then put back the cover. Do
this two or three times, and the tea
viii be frozen smooth. This is ex-
cellent for invalids who must have all
their food cold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11

Hiram R. Revels, the first negro
elected to the United State senate, has
been chosen supreme trustee OF the
colored Knights of Honor of America,
succeeding Frederick Douglass. Rev.
DR.. Revels is a resident of Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11

Rabbi Voorsanger, Of Loa, Angeles,
says the new woman is ga rebellious
woman, who gathers in conventions
and talks much; reformer who seeks
to lay bare the rotten foundation Of
society; an evolved species of discon-
tented Roman matron with a tongue
like lash and a rod o. Aastisement
in her fair fist"