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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-13
GOLD IS A DRUG.

Hut tho Treasury IN Making strenuous IT.
forts Ia Relieve wonid ise Dspositor-.
While Factories, shops aud to"ndri's
All over the Souo,ry are starting W
Iuli Eorce With Enpioymcnt for Every
body.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-More gold 10
mourning into several Of the subtreas-
ury Offices than the offices have stor-
age capacity for or have ieg., tender
currency TO give in exchange This is
notably the case in Boston. This gold
has been brought out of safe deposit
vaults by the owners, who have been
paying storage charges upon II. Bal
timore and New York also had large
deposits of gold, but how much was
deposited at New York could not be
stated at the treasury as the usual
daily telegram had not been received
when the department closed. Nothing
had been heard from western points.
In respect to gold deposits the treas
ury sent out this letter yesterday to
the nine assistant treasurers:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF rnE TREASURER,
MAsHIAGros. Nov ,. \
ASSISTANT TREASURER UNITED STATES
SIR. Referring TO the instructions commune
Gated 20 you by my letter OF November - lss''
authorizing you to receive gold coin In ex-
change for paper currency. have TO say that
the department desires 10 be informed In ad-
vance OF any large transactions. IN order
that steps may be taken TO accommodate the
deposilors II the stock OF notes aud silver GER
tihcates available in the cash OF this oficc VIII
admit OF the exchange being made.
The payment OF express charges by the gov-
eminent on remittances OF gold 10 the treas
ury aud on the currency returned therefor
viii be discontinued. Gold coin below tho
test current weight viii be received as hcrcto-
fore In exchange for paper, under the rcgula
tions now in force. Respectfully yours.
ID. y. MORGAN.
Treasurer United states.
, 1896-10-28

The connection between the state Of the
weather and the condition Of our health Is
pretty we'll understood by most Of us. We
know that We usually feel more active and
ohee lful in a clear sharp atmosphere than in
q close muggy one. We know, also, that a
holiday is seldom beneficial to ordinary
healthy people unless the place of resort
chosen in At least a hstle more bracing than
that where we live ordinarily. At the Sanitary
Congress this week the subject of tempera-
ture and health was discussed in a scientific
fashion, and it was stated that the death.rate
invariably rises with the temperature. The
President Of the Chemical and Meteorological
department affirmed that as a rule a rise of
four degrees in the summer temperature of
England causes an increase of fifteen per
cent in the death-rate. By three tests he de.
duced the fact that a temperature below 60
Fair. is the moste suitable for human life.
Further he considered the English climate
healthier on the whole than many of our colo.
nies In medals res tutissimus ibis. English
weatherwith ali its fault represents the gold
ell mean between too much heat and cold and
too much wet and dry. Occasionally, rs dur,
ing this summer it gets a little extreme, but
on the whole ii gives little cause for valid
complaint.
, 1896-10-28
THE Fun OF GREAT MEN.

Dean Swift used to amuse himself by har-
Messing his servants with cords aud driving
them up and downstairs and through the
rooms If the deanery.
Faraday played marbles and balls with
little boys, and took part in oharadss, play
jng once the Learned pig"
William Pitt delighted to romp with chill
dren. He was once playing with his niece
and nephews, who were trying to blaoken his
face with burnt cork. A servant announced
that two members Of the Cabinet desired
TO see him on business. Let them wait III the
other room,' said Pitt, catching up a cushion
aud bslabouring the girl and boys. They
got him down and were actually daubing
his face, when he said:-"Stopl This Will do.
I could beat you all, but we must not keep
these grandess waiting longer" A basin Of
water aud a towel were brought in, and the
great Prime Minister washed his face, hid
the basin, and then received the two lords.
DR.. Battle, an eminent London physician.
used to amuse himself by gazing at the Punch
and judy show. He was such q successful
mimic Of Punch that he once saved q patients
life by initiating that character. The pa
tieut was suffering from a swelling in the
throat, and the doctor turning bis wig, APP
peated at the bedside with tie face and voice
Of Punch. The siok man laughed 80 heartily
that the swelling broke, and a complete OuIs
followed.
Man is the only animal that can laugh. He,
therefore, relishss q little uonsenSs.-Ibid.
, 1896-10-28
A DETERMINED LITTLE QUEEN
FROM tie Church tIamilu Ne1espaper.

From the Church family Newspaper.
Queen F%ictori1, at a. early stage III her
royal career, & We evidence that she had a
mind Of h9r own. Stories are also told point.
ing t. 4 slmlIor conclusion concerning little
Queen WilheImila Of Holland. one appears
IN Tho WJmSr at Home. DO you know
whore my uotI.er is2, asked her Majesty,
one morning il her eleventh year. you
mean Madame the Regent answered the
instructor. "No, that 3 much 90 sliff. l
lnsan my mother. ID you know where she
is9' Yes, your Majesty. Your mother,
the Qnseu Regent is now giving audience TO
the Minister Of War Then | will 90 and
find her ''pardon me- your Majesty, but
Madame the Regent-your mother, as
have said, particularly engaged Pardon
me, Mynheer, but the Queen OF the Neither
lands can 20 TO her mother whenever she
plrases p And with tldt the child went out
of The room with her chin in the air.
, 1896-10-28
POSSIBILITIES.

The seeds I scattered on the winds may
blow;
Yet in tho day. to conn spring up and
grow,
They may, but all the .ow'r ns'sr oAn
know
l spoke OF hope and love to one who wept,
Aud still he mournsd, and still in darkness
kept,
For every feeling bnt hi, SORROW slept;
And yet %perohancs, in some dark hour OF
pain.
Those words Of hope will oome to him
again,
And l ahall not have spoken them in vain.
The song 7 sang Tint died upon the air,
Sung only to divert my mind from care,
Perhaps served that purpose for one else
where.
lov" to dream that som" poor words Of
nine,
May, like bright sun beams, on = sad heart
shine,
And bid a suffering soul no more repins,
Z. G.
, 1896-10-28

dicted by Professor Hilpre7ht that a contin-
uous history of Babylonia viii be able to be
written. One of the tablets speaks OF the
year when Sargon marched against Palestine"
(Martu). This was $500. B. C.-Ibid.
, 1896-10-28
INTENDED
HORTICULTURAL AND INDUS
TRIAL EXHIBITION
in Januly 1897.

The St. Croix horticultural Society, count.
ing ON similar Iibsra! support to that which
was afforded in regard to the exhibition of
January this yea. hope, to lold a second
exhibition on Thursday the 18th Of January
next.
The assistance ,f all workers, whether for
pleasure OF proit, is asked, t, make the IN
t.ndsd exhibition 4 succo,s.
THe following is tie list Of prizes;
I1n.I.IL.- u - III.
, 1896-10-28

The S~ocisty's Committee will do their best
to obtain competent judges in tho variou.
departments.
Schedules Will be Sc t on; bat il is hoped
that any Intending exhibit tor not receiving y
schedule will apply for one.
Christianstel, Sth October 1896.
THE COMMITTEE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
FIR TREE ON A CHURCH.

Every builder in this city knows that
have been completed the carpenters
tack up fir tree TO notIty the owner
that unless a key of beer is forthcOm-
ing they will loaf in doing the rest OF
the work. The custom is observed so
strictly by carpenters that sometimes
it causes trouble, especially if the
owner happens to De a prOhIDitionist.
That is just what happened in the
town of Nyack recently and the good
people of the place have not yet got
over the shock to their moral teach
lngS which resulted from strict ad-
herence to the rule. The custom is
called topping the building" All
Nyack was shocked-all religious Ny
ack, that is-when it woke up one
morning not long ago and saw a fine
evergreen nailed to the apex of the
roof timbers of the new church build.
ing there.
The building of the church was under
the personal direction of the clergyman
Of the parish. The evergreen was a
nOtlce to MIN that he must furnish
the customary keg of beer. Would the
clergyman do it? Would the carpen-
tiers get their beer? Those were the
questions that everyone was asking.
Finally the clergyman noticed that tn
work on the church was not progress
ing as it should. He spoke to the con-
tractor. That individual pointed to
The fir tree on the roof and said that
nothing could be done until the carpen-
ters got their beer. At last the min
lister gave in. He produced So and
gave it to the men to buy what they
wished with it. They promptly bought
beer and brought it to the church,
where they drank it. After that work
on the church progressed rapidly until
it was completed New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
MARK OF THE CENTURY
An Editorial Writer Emphasizes the
Bicycles Importance.

The following appeared recently in
the editorial columns of the Detroit
Tribune:
When we think of the effect upon the
race of endowing practically all of the
people with the means of greatly ac-
CELEBRATED locomotion, the imagination
finds no bounds. The effect, while it
may not become readily apparent to
us of the day, is likely to appear some
thing tremendous to the future observ-
er of events. We would be hardy to
suggest a transformation and an ex-
pansion of humanity such as followed
upon the invention of printing or th3
mariners compass, but you can't tell.
i he bicycle influences d vast number
Of people, and it influences them by no
means lightly or specifically. Less
momentous and less universal circum-
stances than the wheel have strongly
affected racial character.
Could Tying machine be devised
JllaC would carry men through the air,
It's effect upon the race could not be
measured. There would be measurable
merely the convenience of a more eX-
peditious means of going from place
20 place, very great, 1t is true, but
nothing considered from the point Of
lew OF the human family as a perma-
rent thing, to the expansion OF the
seI Sc OF power that began when Adam
was given dominion, ana mas grown
with every useful discovery and InVen-
CIon. With the sense OF power comes
effort and with effort achievement.
What would be true OF the flying
machine, is true i'll degree OF the BIZ
cycle The bicycle brings a sense of
power, too, and to virtually every
vUuy. Its inspiration Is universal.
reOpIe are getting TO think III new
we.ys, TO order their lives in new ways,
LII TO be in many regards new men
and women, because OF the bicycle. He
who plodded atOOt yesterday can whirl
IS fast as the best OF them today we
cannot believe that such an alteration
in condition can fail OF influencing his
whole Identity
The invention of the electric tele-
sraph, and annihilatlng distance, had
49, -AANAA "" SAANS| upOh Aie"h
hInd eXalting him greatly in his own
Cotlmation, and stimulating in him the
pulse Of ambition. But there are
thousands upon thousands to whom
the electric telegraph brings no sense
OF power, since they never use it.
i here are few, upon the other hand,
IN whose lives the bicycle is not an
active factor.
The bicycle has come rather quietly,
and we have not yet learned TO take it
at its full worth. some OF US still be-
lleve it 10 be sort OF d 10Y Many
OF us look upon it as nothing but
cheaper horse and buggy. But there
is more to it than that, we may well
think.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
FOREIGN.

The Scotch oil companies have called
The ear and czarina left ST. Peters
burg for Vienna
a meeting to devise ways to meet
American competition.
There has been an alarming increase
in the number of accidents to tourists
in the Alps this season.
Lieutenant Peary, en- route for the
Arctic ocean on the steamer Hope,
reached Turnavik, Labrador, July 90
The eighteenth congress of the Inter
national Literary and Artistic associa-
ton opened in Berne, Switzerland, Sat
urday.
Two men, claiming to be Americans,
have been arrested in Barcelona, Spain,
in connection with the revolutionary
movement.
The sultan Of Zanzibar died and Sey-
yid took possession of the palace and
declared himself sultan Sailors from
the British warships landed and routed
him.
The copyright congress at Berne has
passed a resolution in favor of the
same copyright protection being af-
forded to newspaper articles as to other
literature.
Professor Andree has arrived at
Tromsoe Norway, from Danes Island,
having abandoned for this year his at
tempt to cross the arctic regions in a
balloon.
1t is rumored in Rio Janeiro that the
entire Italian legation will be with
drawn in consequence of the recent
political conflicts in San Paulo between
Italians and BraZilians.
The death of Leopold Herr of New
York, the father of Dr. Cornelius Herr
of Panama canal fame, is announced
this morning. His death was the re-
suit of an operation for stone.
1t is reported that the provisional
government of Cuba has issued proc
lamation ordering the total destruction
of property Of all kinds and the pre-
vention Of any preparation for the COM
ing sugar season.
The Irish national convention will
open in Dublin, September l. Twelve
hundred delegates from Ireland and
Great Britain will be present, and
others are expected from America,
Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
SINCE.

How well we loved each other
When every wave was whispering
Sweet words for you and me;
The grave voice of experience
Had murmured all in vain,
That either vow would fade as quick
AS the sun-fush on the main.
When yet did Age of folly Youth con
vince?
Since?
Since, we have learned that sunshine
Was but an April CLEAN,
And the faith of Loves old story
AS transient as dream.
Our hopes were built on rocks,
That might have stood triumphant
'Gainst fate's persistent shocks,
Had not-and then at Memory's taunt
vince,
Since!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
AMERICAN AND BRITISH HUMOR
Differences Which Each Race Finds
Difficulty in Reconciling.

Beyond a question there is distinct
difference between American and Brit
ish humor. To most Americans Lon
don Punch is indescribably dreary, yet
to the average Britain it is the funniest
paper published. Per contra, the Eng
lishman seldom enjoys an American
joke, and our comic papers are as a
rule senseless to him. AS an illustra-
ton Of these national characteristics
Charles w. Brooke, a prominent law
yer, recalls the experience Of Charles
w. Browne, better known as Artemus
Ward, one of the first of American hui
morists. 1T was singular thing that
Ward, while he captured the British
public in his first lecture, made COM
plete failure when he became a member
Of the staff of London Punch, he being,
[ believe, the only American who was
ever employed upon that publication
He began his first lecture in the Brit
ish capital by praising warmly the hos
FATALITIES of the people of London. In
glowing terms he described the picture
which had been drawn for him in
America Of the warmth of the greeting
which would be extended to him when
added, the realization has far ex-
ceeded the anticipation. Since I have
been in London I have been amazed
beyond measure at the inequalities Of
which have been the recipient Why,
l assure you that even every time [
have left a cab a hand has been ex-
tended to me-for a shilling The
newspapers at that time related that
first there were few smiles upon the
faces in the London audience, then
someone Uttered, after that a few peo-
pie laughed, and in about half a minute
the entire audience was in a roar.
From that time a laugh followed every
thing he said. His work on Punch,
however, the British people were in
capable Of approaching; even his de-
lightful description Of his visit to the
tower of London, in which, in a remin-
iscent mood, he spoke about his puri-
tan ancestors and told how they had
travelled to a bleak and foreign shore,
where they could worship God accord
ing to the dictates of their own con-
sciences and prevent every other man
from worshiping according TO the die
tates Of his. That sort of real num0r
was too subtle for the LCndoEer. -.
Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
VOLCANIC RING" IN THE PACIFIC.

Nirraf0n the volcanic ring" island
recently described by Lieutenant Som
ervIlle i'll the Journal of the London
Geographical Society, is a lonely spot
midway between Fiji and Samoa. 1t
is about three miles in external diam
eter, and the entire coast line is
formed of black lava rocks. The in
ternal diameter-that is to say the
diameter Of the "caldera lis two
miles, and the cliffs surrounding it are
200 or 300 feet high. 1t contains a deep,
calm lake, on the eastern side of which
is a peninsula formed by the craters
of the eruption of 1886. The view from
the SUBMITS OF the cliffs around the
'caldera" is Of remarkable beauty, and
includes a great expanse of the Pacific
ocean rolling under the southeast
trade, as well as the still, deep lake
within the luXuriant foliage of the out
er slope and the barren cinder cones of
the recent outburst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
SALMON IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Last seasons salmon pack in British
Columbia was 566,395 cases. It is ex-
pected the pack on the Columbia river
this season will be enormous if the run
is good. Many canning establishments
have been removed to the American
side of the river, because Canadian
Gamers are only permitted to use nets,
while American Gamers may use any
device to catch the fish.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

Lady Randolph Churchill is still the
best lady skater in London, but Mrs.
Pinero, the wife of the well-known
dramatist. is no mean performer on
blades
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
SHORT AND POINTED.

Yamagata, the Japanese field mar
shall, complains that the Chinese war
riors are out of sight.-New York
World.
Some men show remarkably goo0
taste in their selection of ties until
they put their necks into the matrimo-
NAL halter Boston Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
HOW INDIANS GAMBLE
Their Squaws Chant Incantations-
Bones and Beans Are Factors.

The social event Of the season FOR
the Puyallup, the Nisqually and a few
White River Indians has just passed.
1t was the annual gambling and horse
racing of the tribes, which took place
On the Nisqually reservation. The fe3-
tivities began Saturday and lasted till
Monday morning, when they ceased,
and procession Of the most tired IN
dams that the people along the route
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

and society show at which horses will
be present. -Chicago Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

The only point now to be settled is
whether Japan can coincide with China
in the latter's opinion that China has
had enough .-Chicago Record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

Almost everyone eats the skin on
apples, except when there is company.
-Atchison Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

Washington was only % when made
commander-in-chief of the forces of
Virginia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
AN AUSTRALIA RANGE
VAST TERRITORIES OWNED BY IN
DIVIDUAL STOCKMEN.
SQUATTER 'SLIFE .CHARMiN i

Station Homes Resem bic the BaronilI
Residences of the Feudal Ages
Generous ospitality-UndeT Fav-
orable Conditions Sheep Raising IS
a Veritable Bonanza
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

A general gloom lowered over the
whole country. l met many squatters,
and so long and disastrous has been
the drought and so depressing the out
look that few were safe from the grasp
OF the banks, and the tale was one of
continual woe. But month or so later
a series of splendid rains extended
over that strange country, and prices
rallied in the London market. All was
joy again. The whole country was
soon a sea of beautiful waving grass,
the f1ocks were fattened in a few weeks,
the trees assumed a more lively green,
the people renewed their hopes, and
the rabbits which had been so encour-
agingly diminished by the drought bred
so rapidly as to threaten new desola-
ton.
When the prayer for relief from tie
ravages of rabbits is answered with a
drought, it kills the sheep as we'll as
the rabbits, as it is no respecter Of
animals, and when the prayers for rain
are answered the rabbits again overrun
and ruin the land. Thus the life on
the station" is not always a rosy one
But four months ago the prospect in
the great RiveTina district spread Joy
through the land, while today [ am
told that the situation is most depIor-
able. In this letter I have spoken only
Of extremes, but on the whole Austria
liza, and especially New South Wales, is
a lovely land.-PortIand Oregonian.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-06-12
"The PeonIe,s gible History

| After twelve years of careful prepare
ton, and ut an enormous cost, "The Peo-
pies Bible History" has just appeared
from the press of The Henry O. Shepard
| Company. Chicago, and has been wei
coined unqualifiedly by the press, the
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| printed and bound, and its many illus
trations are exquisite in conception and
detail. Eighteen specialists of world
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| OF the introduction by the Right Honor
able William E. Gladstone, Rev. II. w.
Bolton, d. d. of Chicago, says: "The
introduction itself is worth the price of
the book written by one whose utterances
are from the deepest wells of thought.
His rare experiences have given him
authority to speak concerning the great
est book OF the world-The Word of
Life"
No one should be without this most
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ing. The popular edition" of OPS pages
will undoubtedly be the work that will
meet the most popular demand, but to
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the publishers have produced an edition
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full-page illustrations and maps The
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est work of the kind ever printed
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-06-12
A Hearty Endorsement

WHEREAS, We are SO fortunate as tC
have in this county man OF such
eminent ability and broad practical
experience rs are possessed by Prof. j
W. Ewing; and
WHEREAS. We believe the best interests
of our spIeudid school system and of
ourselves as successful teachers demand
such "A conservative, progressive policy
as he has always worked upon and
which he now advocates; therefore, be it
Rssoiei, That we the teachers of Gra-
tiot county in association assembled do
hereby mutually pledge ourselves to use
our utmost efforts to secure his nominal
ton and election as superintendent of
Pablo instruction; aud be it further
Roo'rci, y copy Of these resolutions be
furnished to the republican papers of
the county for publication.