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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
MISS TOO.
She will Follow Miss Letter And Wed
a Foreigner.

On the best possible authority, that
must be anonymous, l ann permitted
to announce that another daughter of
an American multi-milfOnaire is to
confer her hand and prospective for
tune upon a TITLED foreigner. Runners
of this engagement have been ioated
and many times denied during the
last two years, but ut is now SAID
that the formal announcement of the
1SenbeTg-Birstein will be made from
Washington in a few weeks, probably
Immediately after the CurZon-Leiter
wedding. My authority for this am
nouncement lis a gentleman of unim-
peachable veracity. He in turn re-
ceived his information from an attache
of the Austrian Embassy at Washing
ton, who is a close personal friend of
Count Isenberg-Birstein.
For three years at least a Warm at
tachment has existed between the two
most interested in this affair. They
first met, | believe, in Paris, though
OF that i ann not certain. At any rate,
-IISS L U1lllldlI YVES LII EUROPE
three Years ago rIlmors of the de
vOtedness of the count were regularly
brought across the water. It was then
said THAT the Austrian was too closely
allied to royalty Che and the crown
prince are cOuSins) to be permitted to
take as his wife the daughter of an
American, eve though the lady pos
sessed wealth.. wit, and beauty. Many
thought this argument fully answered
when the count paid such open court
to Miss Pullman in 1894, during the
worlds fam, when he was with his
royal cousin in Chicago. The an
nouncement was then expected. tut
reason of the delay and they VIII not
tell.
There Will be more obstacles to be
removed before this Union can be eff
fected than confronted even the
GOulds when they decided to unite
their sister, Anna, with Count de
Castellane. First, Miss Pullman is a
Protestant, while her intended is firm
in the faith OF Rome. The members
OF the house of Isenberg have been
Roman Catholics since 1861, having
formerly been Lutherans. Like all
converts, they are more fanatical In
Their faith than those in whom the
religion has been for generations bred.
Then, too. the laws of Austria govern
ing marriages are even more strict
than are those of France. A great
many formtalities are necessary to es-
tablssh the american princess" in the
proper rank, and not in the position
OF a mOrganatic wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
FOREIGN.

An ancient volcano in Mexico re-
Sumes business.
Mr.. Worth. the celebrated dress
maker of Paris. is dead.
The Colombian insurgents We're de-
feated at Bocas del Toro. Catarina
Cara, their leader. was killed.
1t is said thai German- viii send
two warshipS to Venezuela TO enforce
payment OF a claim.
Ehe Peruvian rebels defeated the
government troops, 800 Of whom were
killed.
Japan is thought to be planning TO
open the spring campaign on the island
of Formosa.
Rumors at Samoa implicated r. L..
Stevenson, the late novelist, in the
rebels plot.
The Fiji islands We're swept by a
terrible hurricane, much property be
ing destroyed.
The Hawaiian government will push
Eases against abettors of rebels who
are in America.
ACuba's revolutionary party seems to
be in need of leaders to make any
progress.
Frederick G. r. Ponsonby, sixth
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
FRED STORY.

Kate Fields Washington: 4 d0zer
years ago Mr.. Douglass went back tc
Talbot county. Md, where he was
born a slave, to buy some of the
property which, in the old days, he
was forbidden by law to own, because
nature had colored his skin brown.
and white men had. by their superior
strength, been able to buy and sell
his ancestors. While there he was in,
vited to address a colored school, and
this was what he said:
Il nee knew a little colored boy
whose mother and father died when he
was but 6 years Old. He was a slave
ana had no or" ~ care for him. He
slept or d dirt floor in a hovel, and
in cold weather would crawl into q
meal bag head foremost and leave
his feet in the ashes to keep them
warm. Often he would roast an ear
of corn and eat it to satisfy his
hunger. and many times has he
craWled under the barr or stable and
secured eggs. which he would roast
in the fire and eat.
1HdI bOS OlU not wear paints ike
YOU do, but a tow linen shirt. Schools
We're unknown to him, and he learned
to spell from an Old WebSter's spelling,
book and to read and write from pos
ters on cellar and barn doors, while
boys and mel would help him. He
would then preach and speak, and
soon became Well known. He became
presidential e~lectOr. United States
marshal, United States recorder, Uni
ted States diplomat, and accumulated
some wealth. He wore broadcloth and
didn't have to divide crumbs with the
dogs under the table. That boy was
Frederick Douglass.
What was possible for me is pos
stble for you. Don't think because you
are colored you can't accomplish any
thing. Strive earnestly to add to your
knowledge. So long as YOU remain in
ignorance 50 long will you fail to com
mand the respect OF your fellow men"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21

show of baggage; permitting county
boards to fix the bond Of county a
urers at d sum not less than one
half nor more than equal to the
amount of all taxes directed by the
county board 10 be levied during the
ensuing year: empowering the officials
OF villages TO license hackmen, runners
and carmen. to control streets and to
provide for their sprtnkling, to COM
pei people to keep walks clear OF snow
and extending their powers in other
directions: and empowering judges
instead Of sheriffs to appoint bail:ffs
during terms of circuit courts.
Assembly bills were killed: Forbid
ding towns, cities or villages to make
gas, electric light or water contracts
for longer than one year; permitting
that suits for damages from fire
| against railroads may be brought at
any time instead Of within one year
as now; to create IN historical com
nilsson to collect and preserve histor-
ical and biographical information. and
to encourage and assist, county. town,
city and other societies and other re
searches: creating the county of Gar
field out of portions of Clark and Tay-
Tor counties; forbidding public eXh:bi,
tions of h%ypnotism: and appropriatin2
$1,000 for the purchase of cranberry
vines for fire sufferers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21

earl of Bessborough, is dead. He was
50 years old.
Minister Muraga says Spain will
make due reparation if the story Of
the firing on the Alliance is shown TO
be we'll founded.
There is great excitement in Spain
over the Cuban revolt. Twelve hun
dred troops are under orders there for
the campaign.
A steamship which refused all in
formation as to her destination was
seized st G~ravesend by the British
government.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Regentn
is believed to have sunk off TangieT,
all Of the 420 persons OH board being
drowned.
The program of the ceremonies at
Kiel at the opening of the North sea
canal viii be celebrated at the end of
the present month.
France has ordered the cruiser Ro-
land to proceed to Venezuela, and the
Venezuelan representative in France
has given his passport.
Inc JdpduSe ARMY III AlducIufld
has again defeated a large Chinese
force, ~inficting a loss of two thousand
killed and wounded.
A dispatch from Rat Portage. Man,
says that the Sultana mine there is on
fire. Twenty miners are imprisoned,
and it is feared that all will be lost.
B. L. Kneff, of Wisconsin, member
of a party of tourists in Mexico, was
accidentally killed near OaXaca by the
falling Of a rock.
Japan demands cession of FormOssa,
a $250,000 idemnity and the independ-
ence of C0rea as the terms of peace
with China.
Emperor William, accompanied by
the imperial princes and the members
of the federal council, will go to Fried.
richsruh 20 congratulate Prince Bis
marck on his eightieth birthday.
There was a rumOr in Washington
to the effect that the United States had
warned Spain that a repetition of the
Alliance affair would result in a decla
, ration of war.
= There was a battle between Colon
bian troops and a band of rebels il
Bocas del Toro, in which the revolu
tfonary instigator, Catarina Cara, was
killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21

his district to look up a r%ecreant lover
whom she believes TO be in the neigh
oorhood of the capitol.-Buffalo News.
Women seem to have lost the grip
they got on Colorado. and the funny
part Of it is that they don't seem TO
care a wink Of their pretty eyes
N-w York Press.
farty or no party, the agitation
should go on. As a great English
statesman said: Agitation is the mar
shaling of the conscience of a nation
to mould its laws" The concession of
woman suffrage has become a matter
Of conscience among all r~ight-thinking
men.-NeW York Recorder.
If 100000 women should start q
rival federal government there would
indeed be music in the air. But they
won't. Women are too earnest to use
serious matters as playthings.-ToledC
Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
THE SEX.
What the Newspapers in Different
Places Are Saying About Women.

There is nothing too abstruse or diff
ficult for the modern woman to dis
cuss, as is shown by the minutes OF
the convention of the National Council
at Washington. She is a good deal
like the hopeful college graduate who
tells US, June after June, that he is 90
ing to reform the world, despite the
Indifferent success which has attended
the efforts of enthusiastic reformers
in the past.-orovidence Journal.
While on the question of hats, now
that women are coming into their
rights, how is it to be when they adopt
the masculine headgear altogether,
sans anchoring hat pins, bonnet
strings, ETC.? Will they be expected
to tip their hats to man as mar tips his
to woman? This is coming to be a
vital observation-disclosures Times
Star.
A congressman is expected to do
everything for a constituent, from act
ing as his escort to the top of Washing
ton monument TO getting him the fat
appointment Of minister TO Dahomey,
but all records are broken in the cas-
of Representative Curtis, of Kansas,
who has been asked by a woman in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
BREEZY BITS.

L am told" said the tourist from
the other side of the ocean, you send
your worst men to Congress"
"Shucks!!' exclaimed the Chicago
man. Come along and let NE show
you our CITY Councilr'-Chicago Tri-
bune.
BY the way, didn't you say the
count had a fortune in American secu-
rities:'
Yes. About two millions in matri-
monial bcnds.'-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Bill Doolan's band has been zap
tured in Oklahoma" remarked the
newspaper reader.
"1ou don't say So" replied the man
who pretendS to keep posted, but does
not. What was Bills band doing?
Playing Sweet Marie: "-Washington
Star.
PoltenesS costs a man a great deal
more than it costs a wOman With
the former it often means a dollar,
and with the latter a smile.-Atchison
| Globe.
And now" said the barber. who
had inherited a fortune. land now
l { can eat onions in the morning when
eve I darn want to!''-Indianapolis
Journal.
Jimmie (reading)-'tAnd when the
bride approached the altar the train
bearers held up the rich skirt of her
dress"
Aunt Sarah-'Ow. The brazen
thing!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What will your Representative de
when he gets home?"
'Well, if they don't lynch him he'll
explain, but as the community amt
favorable to explanation they may
lynch him first."-Atlanta Constt tuition.
1t is because so many Of us will pay
SD for the privilege of sitting two
hours in a fifty-cent seat and listen
ing to an opera sung il a language
that We can't understand, that the
Wise man was led to remark that an
American and his money are soon
parted.-Rockland Tribune.
Second Husband-"Did you put a
monument owe your first husbands
gTave?"
"Hle- LES, pcoi uedr, l. erected !;
marble shaft twenty feet high above
his sacred dust"
Second huSband-"What did you in.
scribe on it?"
Wife-"At rest"
Second husband-"WeH, | ann glad
to hear of one sensible thing you
have dOne."-AtLaEta Journal.
Her throat twas like the swain;
Her brow twas Ike the snowdrift.
But it took a mint of money
For the powder she put on.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
FOR WOMEN.

Don't wear a veil with a hole in it.
1t gives a woman a squalid look Of
poverty that there is no excuse for.
Wells cost little, and at the worst she
can go without one.
Don't lift up your skirt high on
one side and allow it to trail on the
other. Every should practice
holding up her skirts before a pier
glass. They can be so caught alto
gether in the back as to lift them eff
fectiyely and modestly.
Don't wear a hat too young unless
you wish to look Did. A sailor hat can
be confidently recommended as ca1cu-
lated to make any mature w0ma look
like a grandmother.
Don't year d bang bigger than the
moments fashiLA justifies if you done
wish TO look h~opelessly vulgar. 1t is
a general law that you can always DO
a simpler thing than the fashion with
safety, but to be fussier than the
fashion is to be lost to good taste and
dead in ~vulgarity and cOmmOnness.
Don't wear your clothes tight if you
are too fat.
Don't cut yourself in two near the
knees with a coat hat strikes you
about there if you are a short 10
Nothing detracts lnore from an ap-
pearance of height.
Don't forget in arranging your head
gear thai the effect of the modern
variations Of the AlSatian bow de-
ponds altogether on fine shades in
placing it. You a nave horns grow
ing horizontally out of your temples
and feel fashionable, but you will look
crazy and ugly. These bows ear be
set well back on the head or they
be put forward if they seem to
from near the top of the head,
out they must not grow out Of the
Don't forget that pointed openings
If the dress at the throat are becoming
to slender wone
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21

! Madison. March ia resolution,
honOning the memory of Gen. Rusk.
was adopted by a rising vote. A mes
sage was received from Governor Up
ham announcing his appointment of
f. E. Bryant, of Madison. 10 succeed
himself as a member of the state fish
commission for the term ending April
l, 1897, and of Curry G. Bell, of
Bayfield,, in place of R. Valentine. of
GAINESVILLE, on that commission for the
term ending April 1. 1899. Senate
bills passed: Appropriating S72,5CO adj
ditlOnal for normal schools, and pro-
viding 1-5 Of a mill tax to provide
for a seventh normal school; fixing
the SALARY of the state superintendent
of public instruction at $1,000 per an
mum. An assembly bill was killed
requiring wild animals while in public
streets to he Gagged; and providing for
printing the proceedings of the State
Teachers association annually. A SEN
ate bill was killed making the office
of supreme court reporter elective.
In the assembly Mr.. Buckstaff was
! authorized to introduce a bill requiring
| express companies to transport eX-
press matter to its destination by the
shortest route or routes. Mr.. Harris
was permitted to withdraw his bill.
1856 A, empowering the OconomOwoc
Lake Waterway and Improvement
company to improve and make navig-
able certain lakes and streams in Wau-
kesha county. The senate resolution
providing for the appointment of two
additional Chicamauga commissioners
was concurred in.
The committee on forestry reported
a substitute bill for protection against
forest fires. 1t makes the chief clerk
of the land office state fire warden
and the assistant chief clerk deputy
fire warden. Town supervisors and
road Super;NtendentS are constituted
fire wardens and they are given
large powers looking q the prevention
of forest fires. During the dry season
fires in the woods must not be set eX-
cept by permission OF a warden.
Mr.. D. O. Mahoney's bill forbidding
under severe penalties the Use by any
Il not a regular attorney of any
initials or words on signs OF otherwise
calculated to mislead the public into
the belief that he is an attorney was |
tabled unanimously.
Assembly Bills We're passed: Estab-i
fishing a home for the predetermined,
epileptic and idiotic, appropriating
500, 900 therefor; appropriating $4,000
to the Wisconsin industrial school for
girls for 1856; making it a miSde-
meanor to beat bonifaces by a bogus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
INTERPRETERS UNWELCOME.

Some parents allow their children
to acquire the very rude and IN
mannerly habit of breaking in upon
their conversations and those Of older
persons with questions and remark
Of their own. It is very uncivil TO
allow them t do so. So, even among
their own brothers and siters and
Shcoolmates of their w age, let them
speak without interrupting. If one be-
gins to tell a story or a bit Of news,
teach them to let him finish it; and
if he makes mistakes that ought to be
corrected, do it afterward. Don't al
low them to acquire the habit Of be-
ing interrupted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

Madison, March 12.-In the senate
an assembly bill was concurred appro-
priating $4,000 Annually to the Dairy
mans association. Another bill was
introduced to Dust Jerry Dobbs. Sen
ator McGillivray's Cancellation bill,
No. 299, recommended for indefinite
postpone nent by the judiciary com
mittee created a big debate but was
finally killed.
In the assembly Mr.. Dodge asked
that the bill f%orbidding the coloring Of
vinegar 50 as TO resemble cider vine
gar and its sale under false cOlOrS go
over till morning. Mr.. Hirschinger,
author Of the measure, opposed post
ponement, saying the bill had been
fully considered. Mr.. Dodge contended
that One-tenth of the market could
no. be supplied with cidar vinegar.
Mr.. Blake said the bill had the same
merit as the one forbidding fraud in
the sale of bogus butter. Vinegar was
cOlOred, he declared, so as to permit
the sale of a chemically composed
vinegar at cider vinegar rates. The
bill was killed by a vote of 53 to sc.
When No. II assembly, to protect EN-
ployeS of street railway companies
from the inclemency of the weather
by compelling companies to construct
vestibules on winter cars, came up an
amendment was read from the sub
committee requiring the vestibuling to
be done within three years. unless the
time be extended by the common
councils in cities where companies are
operating. The bill was sent back to
the committee. Another special order
vas then taken up It was to consider
an act 20 prevent and punish frauds
in sales Of goods, wares and merchan-
disc at public sale and tc regulate such
sale. The bill passed. 1t is aimed at
Cheap John and fire sales"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
VI

The two oldest secret trade processes
now in existence are considered to be
the manufacture of Chinese red, OF
vermilltOn, and hat method of in
laying the hardest steel with gold and
| silver which seems to have been prac
ticed at Damascus ages ago. and is
known only to the Syrian smiths and
their pupils even to this day.
The Austrian state railways are now
using liquid fuel. 1t is reported that
the results obtained from the Holden
injectors have been excellent in all
respects, particularly on account of the
control the system gives the fireman
over the fire, and that these ~injectOrs
are to be adopted on the engines to
the Metropolitan Railway of Vienna.
The Use of blood as Il curative agent
is said to be OF the increase in Paris,
and, certainly, it appears that persons
still resort to the abattOireS every
morning to partake of this nauseous
form of SO-called cure. Although
French doctors do not often prescribe
these forms of treatment, 'Sblood
baths are not infrequently used, and
certain patent medicines are sold under
the name of "poudre de sang" and
other titles.
Civilization is making rapid strides
in South Africa, but the Bushman
yet makes his own knife, and with
considerable ingenuity. They dig a
little iron, find a broken Ratchet or a
hoop from a rum barrel. and out of
these parts they form ever axes, ad-
yes, hammers, and about everything
they need in that line. These imrde-
ments are. of course, very crude. but
the native has much patience. and will
not forego his bottle of rum for the
cost of the imported tool.
A remarkable literary find IS repor-
ted from Dublin. In the library of
Trinity College was recently discovered
a manuscript volume of 800 fOlie pages,
written in the seventeenth century,
containing unpublished poetry by
Bacon. Massinger and many minor
authors. The poem by Bacon, written
his fall, is entitled Farewell to
An event Ike this will
thing new about Shakespeare's works
serve to remind the world that some
and personal history is by 10 means
the range of probability.
The ocean travel fell off to such
an extent last year that it may be
doubtful whether some of the lines
will not be seriously affected il CON
sequence. The number Of passengers
IF all classe who arrived at New
York was go. 725. Taking a fair year
or comparison, We find that in 1891,
he figure was 55O,313. which shows
hat a loss of nearly 30 per cent took
last year. Probably there was a
business in the other direction to MAKE
Ip for some of the loss. but. on the
fJher hand, it is common knowIodge
hat very low steerage fares have been
n order for some time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
BISMARCK HAD THE LAST SAY.
Deciding Whether the Duke of Ar
gyle's Son Should wed his Choice.
Apropos of the marriage Of the third

SAlc - ENOll ENlIOIlb NNo LIS OHiOANN'
AprOpOs of the marriage Of the third
son OF the duke of Argyle, it is re
lated that when his affections became
attached to an untitled woman he felt
bound to ask the old gentleman's con
sent. The duke answered that per-
snnally he had no objections to the
match, but in view Of the fact that
his eldest son had eSpOuSed a daughter
of the Queen, he thought it right to
inquire her majesty's pleasure on the
subject before expressing his formal
approval. Her majesty, thus appealed
to, observed that since the death of
the prince consort she had been in the
habit of consulting the duke of Sake
Coburg on all family affairs.
The matter was therefore referred to
Duke Earnest, who replied that since
the notification of Germany he had
made it a rule to ask for the en-
peror's opinion on all important ques-
tiOns. The case now came before the
kaiser. who decided that, as 4 con-
stitutiOnal sovereign, he was bound to
ascertain the views of his prime min
lister. Happily for the now anxious
pair of lovers, the Iron Chancellt +,
who was then in office, had 40 wish
to consult anybody, and decided that
the marriage might take place.
Beginning his life very poor, the
duke of Argyle will probably end it
very rich. His undle had left the es-
tates terribly dipped" and then there
Were iOintures to still further deplete.
it. In fact at one time he contem-
plated selling Roseneath, his beautiful
historic seat in Dumbartonsh;re; but
his slender means led to saving ha'oits,
which grew steadily upon him, and
he has all his life lived so quietly
an1 unOstentatiously that he has grad
ually cleared away debts and now en-
joys a splendid income, a large portion
of which he saves.
His eldest sons wife. the princess,
receives $4,000 a year from parlia-
ment. besides having a marriage por-
tion in cash of $15O,OOO. The next son
became a partner in COutt's banking
house. The third married a Manches-
ter lady Of fortune and bought an
Interest in a StOck-brok;ng house which
does Il great deal of business for the
R~othschildS. A fourth entered parlia-
ment and the fifth the navy. One
daughter was married to the eldest
son of the Duke of Northumberland.
with I'VE 81, 100000 a year. The duke
himself has for many years been in
receipt of large public pay.-Katc
Fields Washington.