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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

must be can be judged from the nature
Of the testing instrument used. This
is called a sphereometer, a three
legged rangment with screw in the
middle, the screw and the three legs
resting securely on the glass when the
surface is absolutely true. The deli
cacy of the adjustment of this instru-
ment can be imagined from the fact
that the heat of the human hand, if it
rests upon the glass, is sufficient to
raise bumps which will cause the SEN
sitive sphereometer to spin around like
a top. To perfect the glass to such a
degree that the sphereometer will
stand still is the art for which Profess
sor Clark will receive close upon
100000
The Yerkes observatory is practi-
cally completed. The dome is 10 feet
high and 80 feet in diameter and
weighs 200 tons. It revolves on
twenty-six sets of baIl-bearing wheels.
and will be manipulated by electricity,
although the adjustment is so delicate
that hand power could turn it. A
unique feature is the movable marble
floor, which can be raised or lowered
twenty-five feet by the astronomer by
simply pressing an electric button
This will enable the operator to direct
the telescope with great ease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

China, but are Iule1 by their own
chiefs. Their appearance is quite eau
casian, both men and women being
/ very handsome Tsey live in lofty
stone houses, many OF which resemble
/ feuaal castles. In nearly every village
there 5 a high, sq1are tower.
The customs ARE wholly different
from those of une Chinese; the people
are rigid Buddhlsts, and the signs of
their religion are everywhere. Mrs.
Blhop found them friendly and hospit-
able, and their country, as well. indeed
as the whole country after leaving the
Min, a combination of Switzerland
and Cashmere. She went I'D to the
source of the L-fan-ting river. a
branch Of the Min, on the Tsukushan
river, an affiuent of the Great Gold
river.
Owing to the troubles between the
tribes here, the bridges on the Rong-
kai were down, and she was unable to
carry out her intention of performing
the fourteen days journey down to Ia
ch1en-lu, on the post road to Lhassa.
Gold and enormous quantities of
nitrate of soda are found on this route:
the rivers are torrents of emerald
green, and of considerable width. and
a succession of rapids and cataracts
the whole distance.
On her return, Mrs. Bishop recrossed
the plain of Cheng-tn, descended the
Min to Kiating, and thence 20 Chung
kin0 Everywhere, except among the
Mamie, she found a hostility to for
elgners which astonished her by it's
intensity. She has no doubt thai she
people in Szu-chUan do really believe
that foreigners eat children or tear out
their eyes, and in Cheng-tu and else
where she saw children wearing a red
cross on green ground, as a charm
against foreigners. 1t seems that the
sums paid to the French missionaries
for their losses in The riots have in
creased the popular resentment. She
thought the officials desired to protect
foreigners.
Mrs. Bishop has made full notes Of
her journey and taken a numDer of
Photographs. She went from Shang-
hal to Japan in search of rest; and
thence proposes to pay a second visit
to Korea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

where discs of glass have been shiv-
e1ed to fragments during the very last
molding, and a catastrophe of that
kind means a big pecuniary loss. It is
the precarious nature Of the process
which makes the glass in the rough
cost SO much, and when all these
things are considered $4,000 does not
seem such a great sum.
When the glass was taken across the
ocean under guard and delivered to
Professor Clark there were many years
of labor to be expended upon it before
it could be made ready for the tele-
scope. The first work done was to
subject it to a number Of tests to dis
cover any faults. If the block con-
tanned the tiniest air bubble not as
large as the point of needle it would
have been useless. Then a rough pol
ish was given and a further test for
defects made. Next it was examined
by different process to discover what
curves should be given it during the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
THE FEMININE OBSERVER.

Don't think every smothfaced man
who lounges in hotel corridors is an
actor.
Why is it that the average woman
looks like a chessy cat when she rides
in a hanson cab?
We all do so much better in life, as
on wheels, if there is some one to set
the pace for us.
The little net caps for babies are
wadded warmly so that they are not as
airy as they lock and can be worn with
safety all winter.
Now that chestnuts have arrived it
is well to know that boiled and mashed
with cream just like potatoes they
form delightful luncheon dish.
The gold and silver bug stickpins are
in higher favor with young women,
who do not care what political sentf-
ment they represent as long as they
are pretty.
A woman who does not allow the
weather to depress her generally con-
siders rainy day a delightful oppor-
tunity for making over a hat or clean
ing out bureau drawers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
PEOPLE ELSEWHERE.

Nearly all the students in the Kan
sas state normal school are sons and
daughters of Kansas farmers,
Mlssourl's new republican boss,
Richard c. Kerens, has a Slight ply
sique, ford complexion, brisk move
ments and cordial manner.
Salem, Mass, has a fisherman who
has not entered church for eighty
one years, or since he was carried to
service as an infant
Leonard Courtney, who was a prom
inent candidate for the speakership of
the British house of commons two
years ago, is threatened with total
blindness.
A numebr of Georgia papers during
campaign have referred to Governor
Atkinson as a "wife-made man." and
his friends have not denied the asscr-
ton.
George Faudel Phillips, the new
lord mayor-elect of London, is the
fourth Jew to hold that office. His
father, Sir Benjamin Phillips, vino
was lord mayor in 1866, was the sec
ond
The St. Louis Republic, which is
supporting Bryan, says that the latter
has offered Governor Stone of Missouri
a place IN the cabinet in ease the dem
ocratic ticket is elected. This story"
it says, has a much more substantial
quality than mere rumor"
Kaiser Wilhelm's artistic tendencies
have broken out in clothes. He de-
signed the hunting costume which the
empress wears when she accompanies
him on his hunting trips, while the
one he had made up for himself pleases
him so much that he had bronze
statuette cast of himself clad in it and
gun in hand,
The trustees Of John Hopkins uni
Versity, Baltimore, have accepted the
resignation Of George Henry Emmett,
professor of Roman law and compare
tive Jurisprudence, in order that he
may accept am appointment to the
chair Of law in the university college
of Liverpool which is associated with
the Victoria university.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

Red sea, the United States has cap
tured the whole of the cotton piece
goods trade of Arabia and northeast
Africa, to the exclusion of Great
Britain. In fact, American cotton
goods have literally driven those of
Lancashire and Bombay out Of those
markets.
The 'tGrotto of the Nymphs," more
generally known as the Blue Grotto,"
in the island of Capri, has now, &C
cording to Georges Martel, the French
geologist and explorer, formidable
rival in Manvor," of Dragons Grot-
to- in Majorca, one Of the Balearic
islands. NJ. Martel, who has just re-
turned to Paris, says that he has dis
covered in the Dragons Grotto'' gal
leries covering nearly square mile of
territory, whose beauty in crystalline
formation is marvellous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

Cambridge, Mass, for seven OF eight
years. When it first arrived there it
was a great rough block of crown
glass, weighing 600 pounds. This lump
of glass cost SAC, 900 in the rough, and
was purchased of M. Mantois, Ct Paris,
the owner of the only concern in the
world which can produce big discs of
optical glass. The method Of manu-
facture pursued by Mantois cannot be
described for the reason that it is the
most carefully guarded secret of the
kind in existence. The secret Of the
Benedictine monks, who make their
wonderful liqueur, is not so closely
guarded as the secret of NJ Mantois,
and that is saying a good deal.
One thing only is known and that is
the workmen of Mantois may spend a
over their crucibles and yet be
never sure that the cooled mass Of
rough glass will not turn out useless.
many years of incessant labor has been
turned into the forty-inch lens, was
taken from the furnace in Mantois'
workshop in 1887.
1t was not ready then to be shipped
to Professor Clark. Mantois had not
yet earned his $4,000 by any means.
Months and months of time were con-
sumed in endless cuttings, bakings and
holdings. and each process was more
dangerous to the glass than it's prede-
cessor The risk of total failure was
always present. In the records of
Mantois shop there are many cases
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
COSTLY TRINKETS.

The brilliancy of diamond finger
rings is enhanced by having the
shanks set with tiny gems
Open-faced watches, with fancy dec
GRATED and enameled backs, continue
to please lady patrons
A gold chain bracelet, with a dia-
mond fieur-de-lis in the center, is one
Of many charming designs in this di-
rection-
The cluster ring is enjoying deserved
popularity. A fayorite style employs
large stone in the center with small
er ones around it.
Cabinet ornaments claiming atten-
ton are vases and other pieces, in
Copenhagen ware, which borrow their
shape from Greek mythology.
Silver tea and coffee pots, fitted with
a removable seive, appeal to progress
sive housekeepers, as this device ex-
pidites the thorough cleaning OF
spouts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
COIN HOME TO MARY.

Birds seem singin' all the way
Coin home to Mary;
Roses on winters day,
Coin home to Mary.
l can hear my heart keep time
With the bells that sweetly chime
Happiest man that lives when I'm
Coin home to Mary,
Far away her smile 1 see,
Coin home to Mary;
How it lights the way for me.
Coin home to Mary;
There, in groves where nests the
dove.
In a cot with blooms above,
Still she lights the lamp O. love
Coin home to Mary,
Down the walk come patterin'
feet,
Coin homet Mary;
Children's arms an kisses sweet.
Coin home to Mary.
Rob comes climbin' to my knee.
Katie wants a kiss from me;
Loves me all the world" says
she,
Home with love an Mary.
Shine the lights forever more.
Coin home to Mary.
Love still leads me to the door.
Coin home to Mary.
For her sake my toll is sweet.
For her sake my hearth beat
Till it's dust beneath her feet
Coin home to Mary.
Frank L. Stanton.
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caught in a collision the progress of
science will be retarded four years
and some one will suffer a loss OF
100000.
That is the value of the bit of glass.
IL is only forty inches in diameter, is
three inches in the middle and one
and a quarter inches thick at the
edges It's weight is 2o5 pounds. From
this description i. wculd seem to be a
very ordinary piece of glass, but if its
complete history were written it would
require a good SEED volume to tell the
story.
This glass is the important piece in
what will be the biggest refracting
telescope in the world. 1t will bring
the image Of the moon within sixty
miles of the eyes of the astronomer,
and if there is building as large as
the capitol at Washington anywhere in
the moon the scientist viii see it. He
will not be able to discern human be-
irgs. however, should there be any on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
MISS BIRD IN CHINA.
Amid Many Dangers She Traverses a
District Hitherto UneXplored.

Mrs. Bishop, who is perhaps better
known to English readers as Miss
Bird, has recently described in a
Shanghai newspaper her latest east
ern journey, which took her through
parts of the province of Szu-chuan,
unknown to European travellers, says
the London Times.
Leaving Shanghai IN Jan. 10 last, she
Travelled up the Yang-tse by steamer to
I-chang, and thence by houseboat 300
miles to Wanhsien, where Mrs. Bishop
left the river and Travelled by chair
for 300 miles to Pao-I:ng, in Szucnuan.
She was much impressed by the beauty
and fertility of the country, the size
and handsome appearance of the farm
houses being especially remarkable.
Coal was in great abundance. Along
the road the people exhibited great
hostility, but the officials did all they
could to protect her.
From PaO-ning she went, by Stint
siensti, through a hilly, but less in
teresting country, to Mien-chau, still
finding coal and salt in great abund
ance. On her way to Kuanh-sien, in
the northwest corner Of the great
plain of Chengtu, the capital of the
province she met with very bad treat
ment, being attacked and stoned by
the mob. One large stone struck her
on the head and inflicted injuries from
which she suffered after her return.
The Cheng-tu plain was another
marvellous example OF fertility and
wealth. Mrs. Bishop says she never
saw anything like it anywhere. She
Travelled for eleven days across the
ance in every part. It seems that
ages ago-it is not known when-a
man who has had erected to his mem
Dry the grandest temple in China, d.
yided the waters of the Min river in
such way that they fertilize the
whole plain and make such an irriga-
ton system that there can be neither
foods nor drought. Kuanh-sien is at
the base of the hills, and is the center
for the trade of the northern Thibet.
Thence Mrs. Bishop went up to the
Min river, which Chinese consider the
actual Yang-tse, to Wei-chau, and,
turning up the Li-fan-ting river,
reached the town of that name. Here
the authorities did ali they could to
prevent her from entering the Mantle
country beyond. She persisted, how
ever, and found the Mantle to be semi
Independent tribes, who pay tribute to
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which is to be spent in the encourage
ment of moral literature.
No less that IS, 220 tons of African
ivory came last year into the market
of London, Liverpool and Antwerp
whence the civilized world derived it's
supply Of this total II, $50 tons rep
resent fresh importaticns, the remain
der being drawn from cid stock
1t is only in Ireland that Catholics
are not allowed by their priests To en-
ter non-Catholic cl urch while any
religious services are being held. 1t is
rule which remains in force since the
penal times, when apparent conformity
to the Protestant religion enabled any
member of a Catholic family to seize
the property of his non-conforming
kindred.
According to report just issued in
London by the English government
! concerning the little British colony at
Alden, at the southern entrance of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12

In few days The most valuable
piece of glass in The world will jour
ney half way across the country.
This piece of glass will have a palace
car for itself and will be watched over
night and day by four men. 1t will
be wrapped in soft flannel and then
bedded in curled hair. Then it will
be placed in a fine box mounted on
delicately adjusted springs susceptible
to the slightest motion. This box,
with it's precious burden will be placed
in a larger box and packed with ex-
celsior. It will ride in the very CEN
ter of the parlor car and the parlor
car will be coupled ir the center Of
the train. If the train should be
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
IN CHOOSING GREEN.

Though pale olive and other shades
ofgreen are much used for wall COW
erings of paper and in woven stuffs. as
we'll as for draperies, they should
never be decided upon until they are
seen by artificial light, as some Of the
shades of olive that are rich and bea Il
tiful by the light of day have a gloomy
brown shade tina no amount of arti-
fetal light will change
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
FOREIGN NOTES.

The French academy has received a
legacy of $4,000, the interest of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-12
LARGEST OF LENSES
NINE YEARS OF LABOR ON THE
YERkES TELESCOPE GLASS.
WILL Be- SIT VERY SOON

The Many Processes Which Have Made
This the Most Vaiuabl Piece Of
Glass in the observatory at
Lake Geneva Is Nearly Com
pleted.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
OF T POST I Pan
Editor, Hayne Takes = Pessiimis-
tic View Of Things in
Hawaii.
The Japanese, He Thinks, Will
Soon Overrun the Whole
Country.
Willis May Be Given His Pass
ports For Stumbling Presi-
dent Dole.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. II. Julian D.
Hayne, editor Of The Hawaiian, q
monthly magazine published in Homo
1tlu, arrived hero on the steamship
Australia. He takes a very pessimistic
view Of the present government Of
Hawaii, and says the Japanese are be-
coming SO numerous there and so
firmly rooted that the islands are in
danger of becoming mere outposts Of
Japan: ..
''The 80 gentlemen who, in 1898,
stood as godfathers to the infant re-
public, and who find themselves at the
beginning of 1896 the only supporters
of Hawaii's provisional government,
are most uneasy. I say provisional
government because that is all it is as
yet. The utter failure of the efforts to
reconcile the native Hawaiians to dis
reimbursement, the suddenly aggressive
action of the Japanese residents, and
the independent stand taken by the
Chinese agriculturists, the situation
is anything but comfortable.
IF things keep on as they are going
he said, "there can be but one ending
absorption of the islands by Japan.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
DIGGING FOR BURIED TREASURE

Mysterious Midnight Searches For Hid
den Gold Near New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. l1.-For several
weeks past strange men have been seen
at night digging holes in the ground
around the old home of w. o. Giles,
near Kingsbridge, a northern suburb of
New York.
A son of the original Giles, who has
been questioned, says the men were
probably in search of buried treasure.
AS boy he had heard many legends
which located untold wealth in the an
cestral place. One of these is to the
effect that during the latter days of
English rule in New York in the Revo-
lutionary period, the Tories, anticipat-
ing defeat,
Buried Their Family Plate
and surplus gold on the land of w. 0.
Giles, in a stone vault built for the
purpose. Mr.. Giles never took the
trouble to prospect for the treasure, be-
ing abundantly provided with this
worlds goods, but he has no doubt that
the strange men seen recently are
descendants of the British Tories.
An examination of the ground shows
that the midnight providers dug over an
area 1O0x78 feet, and in one place bur-
rowed 20 feet in the ground. Remnants
of a stone vault were found by curious
people in the neighborhood, and boy
picked up an old gold coin, bearing
date of 1772.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
IHELARGESTPlECE
or GOOD TOBACCO
EYER SOLD FOR
10 CEN IS

D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y,
says that he always keeps DR.. Kings New
Discovery in the house and his family
has always found the very best results
from it's use that he would not be without
it, if procurable. G. A. Dykeman. Drug
gist, Catskill, n. Y, says that DR.. Kings
New Discovery is undoubtedly the best
Cough remedy; that he has used it in his
family for eight years, and it has never
failed to do all that is claimed for it.
Why not try remedy so lorg tried and
tested. Trial bottles free at O. NJ. Olsen s
Drug Store. Regular size so c. and 90
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
Specimen Gases,

s. 81. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis. wa.
troubled Neural gia and heumatisms
his Stomach was disordered, his Live,
was affected to an alarming degree, appe
tlte fell away, and was terribly reduced
IN flesh and strength. Three bottles OF
Electric Bitters cured him. i.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, H.,
had q running run sore on his leg Of eight
years standing. Used three bottles Of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes ofBuck-
lens Arnica Salye, and his leg is sound
and we'll. John Speaker, Catawba, o.,
had five large Fever sores on his leg,
doctors said he was incurable. One
bottle Electric B1tters and one box
BuckleD's Arnlca Salve cured him entire
~. Sold by ON. Olsen's Drug Store. 5
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
A Dollar Not Enough,

Sioux CRY, Ia, Feb 11.-Because q
Sioux City jury fixed the value of her
heart at only ST., Miss Lucretia Hagan
has just filed a motion for. retrial of
her breach Of promise suit against Ed
ward Golden, just concluded in the dis
trict court Of Woodbury. county. Miss
Hagan thinks her heart is worth more
than that, and proposes to ask the opin.
ion Of the supreme court if the lower
tribunal refuses her rehearing.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
MANY NEW WARSHIPS.

England's Naval Programme Involves
the Outlay of R9,5oO,OOO
LONDON, Feb. 1.-The Daily Tele-
graph announces that the naval pro-
gramme, as hitherto reported and
cabled to the Associated Press, which
involves the outlay of $500, 900, is
substantially correct, except as to some
of the details. It is proposed to build
5 first class battleships, first class
cruisers, 8 second class cruisers, + third
class cruisers and 20 torpedo destroyers.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
THE WOMAN WILL RECOVER
Oscar Barneybeak Shoots His Former
IandladY and Sufcidaa.

Oscar Barneybeak Shoots His Former
Landlady and Suicides.
ANACONDA, Mon, Feb. 11.-Oscar
Barneybeak shot Mrs. B. B. Catlin on
the street about II o'clock, while she
was returning with friends from visit
to a neighbours. Three shots were
fired, one taking effect in the shoulder.
Barneybeak escaped in the darkness
but 10 minutes later appeared on Third
street and shot himself through the
head, dying instantly. Barneybeak
formerly boarded with the Catlin fam
lily and conceived violent passion for
Mrs. Catlin which was in no way en-
couraged. Mrs Catlin's injuries will
not prove fatal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
Sugar Coming From Egypt.

sugar Coming From Egypt.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.-About /, 800
tons of sugar are now on the way to
this port from Alexandria, Egypt, and
is due here about March 1. The i'm
portation Of large quantities of Egyp-
tian sugar is a new thing made neces-
sary through the apprehension that the
Cuban crops, by reason Of the war, will
be very poor. Considerable sugar is
also being shipped from Hamburg and
Honolulu.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-02-12
THE FORMOSA RESURRECTION.

Rebels Grow Stronger and Fight With
Great Courage.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Feb. ia dispatch
to The Novoe Vremya from Vladivo.
stock says the insurrrection against
Japanese rule in the island of Formosa
is spreading. Ten thousand rebels are
reported to be operating against Tam.
sui, Suncho and Kosuki. The railroad
lines have been torn up and destroyed.
It is added that the rebels fight with
great courage and the situation is
looked upon as being serious. Governor
General Cajama is i'll and will be re.
placed by Saigo, minister of marine.