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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
HIGH PRICES FOR RARE COINS.
Sale of the Third Part of the MOnta-
que English Collection.

que English Collection.
The third portion of the collection of
English coins made by the late MIR.
Hyman Montague has just been sold
in London, the sale taking seven days
and bringing in S43,919. The first two
portions of the English collection had
fetched $40, 4OS, while the Greek coins
sold for $44,S8 4,and the Roman gold
coins for $G5,OOO. The gem of this sale
was the Juxon medal, for which $3.50
was obtained. Among the other coins
that brought high prices were ryal Of
Mary l., the queen standing in a ship,
holding a sword and scepter, $21O; an
angel of Philip and Mary, $1OS; a
half-crown of the same, $3.50; Eliza
beth. a half-crown, the queen with long
hair. $1S2; a spur ryal, 5000; a half
crown of James l., SIT.
There were many patter pieces and
unique specimens of the coinage of
Charles l. and the Commonwealth.
The Oxford silver pattern crown. with
the king on horseback. brought S64O; 4
siege piece. the Portefract gold unity,
5000; another, a Scarborough silver
5-shilling piece, $500; a Bristol gold
unit, $126; an Oxford gold t3 piece,
$3.50; a Shrewsbury silver pound, SLIT;
Beeston Castle silver 1S-pence, 500;
two pattern breads, $3.50 each; silver
half-c1own. with the king ON horse
back. 500; a pattern penny, $3G; a
crown by Briot, $212.
CromWell's coins were nearly all pat
tern pieces. Cromwelrs crown Of
1868. with the bust Of the Protector
and the inscription, "IIas nisi pcritur,ls
mihi adimat nemo," brought $3.50: a
50-shilling gold piece, 1885, also by ST.
mon. 1857; Il half-broad, of the same
year. with milled edge, $3.50: a silver
2-shilling piece, $50; a G-pencc piece,
1868. 500. The Simon petition crown
of Charles H., 1868, fetched $3.50;
the silver crown with the inscription,
'Deddite Quae Caesars Caesari,"
$500 and the same, in pewter, S275: Il
pattern crown. by Roeltier, with the
arms of England and France quar-
tered, 1868, $3.50; another with the
arms Oh separate shields, 5000: a y
shilling piece by Simon, $172; a y
guinea piece of 1915, $222 The highest
price paid for a coin of James IL. was
SS3, for 5-guinea piece of 1886, with
elephant and castle; 1925 was given
for Il 6-pence and shilling and half
Of William I'LL; $144 for q 5-guinea
piece of Queen Anne before the union
with Scotland. and STA foi guinea of
the same period. while shilling Of
100 brought $8G.-New York Sun.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
Crimes and Criminals.

Miss Catherine Springer, matron of
the Berne und.) orphans home, has
been arrested. charged with applying
the faith cure to one of the inmates.
Bradleys bank at Eldon, Iowa, was
all the funds, from $1,000 to $4,000,
taken.
The dead body of Francis Wolff,
who was suspected of the murder of
his mistress, Mrs. Sprinznik, has been
found in room on Howard street, San
Francisco.
Louis c. Evans, the Springfield, Ohio.
manufacturer, shows no ill effects from
his attempt at suicide. His mind is
clear but he is still confined to the
house.
Miss Charlotte Brown, teacher in
st. Louis school, was struck in the
face by an unruly pupil and rendered
unconscious for forty minutes. The
identity Of the embryo pugilist could
not be learned, as the victim of the
assault positively refused to give his
name.
Taylor, the noted Missouri outlaw
and murderer, was captured at the
JdCODS IduCu AedI I1dulOiu, Cdl. LIE
sheriff suspected Taylors identity for
some time and secured employment
for him on the ranch pending investi-
CATION. Satisfied as to his identity,
the sheriff brought him to Jail.
Near bonneville, Ca, woman
named Lizzie Chapman started to
whip one Of her children, when the
youngster ran. The woman ran after
the child and chased it some distance.
Not being able to catch the child she
picked up light wood knot and threw
it at the little one, killing it instantly.
An attempt was made to blow up
the bank building at Hollidaysburg,
Pa, lately occupied by the firm of
Gardner, Morrow & Co., private bank
ers. The motive for the crime is as
cribed to the resentment and hatred of
some depositor. The bank failed last
September.
John r. Breeze, deputy sheriff of
Westminster county. n. Y, has left st.
Louis for home, having in custody Ar
thur Palmer, charged with the murder
Of his mother. brother and sister, near
Larchmont, n. Y. He had been STOP
ping in st. Louis for two weeks under
an alias.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
Waahinrton Talk.

Word has reached Secretary Herbert
from Commander Brown, at the Nor
folk navy yard, the the United States
vessel Alliance, used as school ship
for naval apprentices. which went
ashore at Cape Henry, Va. succeeded
in getting oil and has arrived at New
port News. The commandant says
the Alliance is uninjured. She was
toated without assistance.
Capt. Zalinski, the famous dynamite
gun inventor. who is now on the re-
tired list, is in Washington in pursuit
of his fad. which is military instruction
in the public schools. He is the orig
inator of the law requiring the decora-
ton of schoo)houses with United
States flags. and he wants to go lit
tie further in the instruction of youth
to include military science and patri-
ot:Sm.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

The financial report of one of the
college football associations, for the
past season, has these items: Physi-
clans, 1926; medicine, $3.50. This out
lay, during comparatively brief peri
cd, for few young men selected for
physical endurance, indicates that a
pastime may have it's battle-felds on
which one may look with degree of
calmness,-if he has mo friend, no
brother there
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Chicago's city council having passed
an ordinance prohibiting women from
wearing big hats at the theater. the
gentle sex will endeavor to have a law
enacted preventing men going out be-
tween acts for drinks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Aaron Perkins of North Essex, Mass,
died the other day, aged SO years and
10 months. He was born. lived all his
life and died in the same house. He
was famous for wearing through his
long life the high hat he purchased
when a very young man. He didn't
like new things, and evidently believed
there was no place like home.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

A young woman in Richmond, Va,
tells one of the local papers that when
she received her first masculine kiss
she "felt as if something was running
down her nerves on feet of diamonds,
escorted by several little Cupids in
chariots drawn by angles shaded by
honeysuckles and canopied by melted
rainbows." Is it any wonder the girls
like to be kissed?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Philadelphia spent 100000 more
than Chicago did for new buildings
last year. That eastern town may be
:omnolent, but she makes other towns
open their eyes occasionally.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Some of the new governors walked
% their inaugurations and some rode,
but it is worthy of note that all took
mighty good care to get there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Representative Lambert will intro
luce a bill early in the session Of the
Kansas legislature making it misde-
meanor for women to wear bloomers
or to appear in a public thoroughfare
riding a bicycle. Mr.. Lambert says
that the bicycle habit destroys the
health of women.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

NJ. Berthelet, member of the insti-
mte, formerly minister, and distin-
guished chemist, gives it as his opinion
that gas fumes or cyaniden of potas-
SUM are preferable to the American
method of electrical execution of Grim
tnals, but he believes that France will
never abandon the guillotine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Evansville, Ind, Feb. 10. - The ma
chlncry department of the Louisville
Evansville Il st. Louis railroad shops
at Princeton, Ind, has been completely
DESTROYED by fire. The loss will reach
S:W.0W Two hundred men will h'
thrown out of employment.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

Delaware is going to abolish the
whipping post. The state should make
clean job of it by abolishing ADJ
dicks at the same time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
easily Accounted For.

Mrs. Ferry-Well. the idea! Here is
story in the paper Of man who
traded his wife for II pipe.
Mr.. Ferry-l'll bet she was woman
who would not allow him to smoke in
the ilouse.-Cincin:.at Enquirer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

A partisan burglar recently cracked
safe in restaurant high up in the
Eiffel tower. He is at the top of his
profession.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

The United States consul at Catania,
Sicily, reports the cost of labor in
lemon handling in Sicily (reduced to
United States money! as follows:
Overseer, per day. SO to CSC; expert
enced women who select the fruit, Sic:
wrappers Gin tissue paper, 19c; girls
who clean lemons (pick out lice with
sticks and brushes), 14c; girls who do
other various kinds of labor, Ice. All
these are with the exception of the
overseer) women and girls. who have
to feed and clothe themselves out of
these scanty wages. They live upon
a "panuzza" Small loaf of bread three
times a day with a little fruit, a plate
of maccaroni and perhaps a glass of
cheap wine. They commence work
early in the morning lat this season
before daybreak). do not eat anything
until 10 or II o'clock. when they rest
a few moments and eat their bread.
The men who make and nail I'D the
boxes receive 45c per day, and those
who pick the fruit from the trees &c.
Another expense is transportation of
the fruit to the city, depending upon
the distance. Lemons are bought by
the thousand, counting 1910 to the
thousand. The price paid for the
September to December crop runs from
$2.16 to $2.52 per thousand. The jan
uary to May crop runs from 9Oc to
$1.25, although extra choice fruit of
this crop which vii bear shipping
from England 10 the United States
brings as nigh as $50 per thousand,
The large lemons known as "spata
FORA" which are yellow in February
and March. bring $3.50 to $3.50 and
even as high as $3.50 to 1920 and even
higher. per thousand
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
Not Guilty, but VIII settle.

Sioux City, Iowa. Feb. l3.-\egoiia-
tions for the settlement Of the charges
against missing cX-Cnslier Il. J.. stone
OF the bankrupt Sioux City savings
bank. have hc"n practically concluded.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
LANGpoN, NORTH DAKOTA

The man whose life is not more or
ess influenced by some woman can be
depended on to make frequent mis-
axes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
PITR OF THE NEWS.
EVENT5 lF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.

A General Resume of the Most I'M
portnnt News of the Week, From
all Parts of the Globe. Boiled
Down and Arranged i'm Con-
usal by Busy People.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

The proper degree of formality OBJ
served at the White House, so far as
the officials are concerned, is some
times in contrast with the procedure
in earlier days. In recently published
recollections of long life, the author
describes scene he witnessed at the
White House in President Van Buren's
time. In honor of the Inauguration, a
cheese had been sent to the new chief
magistrate. It was ''the size of large,
round table," Pieces of it, together
with crackers, We're handed round to
persons assembled. "The whole house
and almost the whole city was redolent
of cheese, fragments of it lying every
where on the Streets" All this may
seem to have brought the President
nearer the people, but the country can
to-day quite appropriately dispense
with that form Of paternalism.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18

DEBORAH. Iowa, Feb. IL. - The new
electric light plant began operations
and the lights are first class
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
HE QUEERED THE BAND.
All the Bad Boy Did Too Was to Suck
a Lemon in Front of Them.

Did you ever, in the spirit of friski-
ress, such a lemon in full gaze of the
nebmers of the Electric band, while
they were engaged in rendering those
sweet, seductive strains for which
they have become noted? Well don't
Nor before any other band, for it may
not be such a scratches escape as a
boy met with who figures as princi-
pal in story a friend relates.
It was when the little German
band was playing for drinks before
saloons and incidentally picked up
some small coin of the realm at other
business houses. In front of the
Demmler shop they started to tear
"Wacht Am Rhine" to pieces. They
Jared pretty well, and had switched off
to 'ESweet Rosy O'Grady," when a boy
who had evidently been put up to the
trick, made his appearance, and
stood near the band. He was sucking
a lemon, and at his appearance look
of disgust spread over the faces of all
the members of the band One by one
the musicians gradually and reluctant
ly dropped out of the game, until at
last there was only left the bass horn
player. He had to quit after a little
while. 1t was raining, and this, with
the lemon episode, rather combined to
pat the bass horn player in a bad
humor. He walked over to the boy,
and catching him by the ear, he
said: ''Vat for you come round here
nit a lemon and kveered by a poy
mid dot tam lemon"
And there was subdued laughter in
a store near by as the German band
left for other worlds 20 conquer It is
d fact slightly known that the presence
Of any one sucking lemon in front
Of band will cause a panic. The
musicians mouth fills so rapidly with
saliva he cannot play.-McKe
Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
SWEDISH SUGAR BETS
Form a Striking PART of the Stock
hoan Show

Anent the sugar beet subject which
has been Of So much interest this sum-
mer, a writer from Sweden says that
one of the mast interesting of the ex-
hibits at the great exposition at Stock
holm is that illustrating the beet sugar
industry Of that country. The sugar
industry in Sweden is now $50 years
old, but until 1882 all raw sugar was
imported Now all the raw sugar comes
from the sugar beets grown on
Swedish soil. The growth of the in
dustry since 1882 is illustrated at the
exposition by a series Of cubes. The
first represents the money value OF the
crop to the farmer in 1SS2-about
S1G0, 900. At the other end of the row
OF cubes, the block representing 1897
stands out with a value of $4,000, 900
to the Swedish farmers. Other cubes
show the growth Of sugar. During
the sugar beet era in SN eden the con-
sumption of sugar per capita has in
creased and the price per pound has
lowered, The industry is protected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
COULDN'T STOP HIS MACHINE.

''Zwei peer" shouted the customer as
he stepped up to the bar of a high
toned Jefferson street saloon last even
ing.
The man OF the house limped over to
his post OF service, and set out the
glass Of foaming beverage with hand
that was bruised and broken, and
covered with sticking plaster.
How Wis der reasOn?" inquired the
customer, pointing to the disfigured
member.
Dot tam bicycle"
You lernta to rite?'
'Nein. l lernt to rite two, three,
six weeks ago. l take dot bike by der
curb, und l ride for two three hour all
rite. l go Ply der Lake park, und to
Vitetish pay, but | can't get off dat
tam machine. When | came pack,
L rite py my house und l make great
noise, und dey come out, und | say
Stop me quick, und holt me fast Und
dey say, YOU is going too fast. Rite
der pIock arount und slow up der pike,
und den we stop you.
We'll, l rite der plock arount, and
dey say again | vas going too fast.
Ven L go to get Off dat tam machine I
know what vas der matter by me vas.
shust shake und tremple, and can't
dc nothings. Veil, | coot not stop dat
tam machine, and dey coot not catch
me, und 1 shust rite and rite arount
DOT plock, until o'clock in der morn
ing, and den | shust fall off rite in
front Of my house, and I hat la5t up
for tree weeks Took wan nit me?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
TOWNS NAMED AFTER STATES.
Oregon is the Fayorite in the List
There Are But Two New YOrks.

There Are But Two New YOrks.
The following gives the names Of
the states as towns in other states:
Alabama is IL New York and Wis
cCnsin.
Arizona is in Louisiana and Ne
braska
Alaska is IN Indiana, Michigan, West
Virginia and Wisconsin
Arkansas is, in Wisconsin.
California IS in Iowa, Kentucky,
Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
Colorado is in Illinois and Texas.
Delaware is in Arkansas, Indiana,
Iowa, Kentucky New Jersey and Ohio.
Florida is in Illinois, Indiana, Mass
achusetts, New York, North Caro-
lima and Ohio.
Georgia is in Indiana and Vermont.
Idaho is in Alabama, North Caro-
Ina and Ohio.
Indiana is in Pennsylvania.
iowa is in louisiana
Kansas is in Alabama, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Ohio and Tennessee.
Louisiana is in Missouri.
Maine is in Minnesota, New York
and New Jersey.
Maryland is in New York.
Michigan is in North Dakota
Montana is in Arkansas, Kansas,
Missouri, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
Nevada is in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio
and Texas.
Nebraska is in Arkansas, Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
New Hampshire is in Ohio.
New York is in New York and Iowa.
Ohio is in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri, New York and Texas.
Oklahoma is in Virginia.
Oregon is in Arkansas, Illfonis, In
diana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee and Wisconsin
Tennessee is in Illinois.
Texas is in Alabama, Georgia, Ken
tueky, Maryland, Michigan, New York,
Chic and West Virginia.
Utah is IL Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Vermont is in Illinois, Indiana and:
Aisso1rf.-Boston Globe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
ENCOUNTERED AN OCTOPUS.

ST must see you tonight, at once, ~
shouted an angry Cass avenue resident
over the telephone wire to his lawyer.
BUS it's very late," came the an
swer
81 don't care anything about that
I've lost all track Of tinDe. It may
be last week Or next August for all
know. I've had the shock of my
life and must see you just as soon
as you can get here"
When the lawyer arrived he found
his client covered with perspiration,
swamp mud and mosquito bites. 80,
Lord!" me began with a groan, 81
want you to find out what the whole
street car combination is: worth and
then sue for the entire amount Don't
leave 'em as much as an oil can"
E'What in the worlds the matter?
1ou look as though you had been
roughly handled"
Roughly handled? It's a miracle
AMI a mercy that I'm alive, and there's
no telling whether I'll pull through.
[ started out for a long street railway
ride. For the first fifteen Or twenty
miles I enjoyed unalloyed pleasure
But when I asked a conductor for a
transfer for Springwells and Wood
mere he promised it to me, but failed
to deliver the goods. While we were
shooting through the swails and COW
pastures out there the conductor then
in charge asked me for a ticket I
told him about the transfer that never
came bat he looked at me as though
[ had stolen sheep and told me that
I must settle or get off. I defied him
to eject me and the challenge was
yet warm when I landed on my knees
in a swamp. 1t was dark as d pocket.
The croaking Of frogs confused me and
[ plunged about through puddles and
b1embles, yelling for police, though
there wasn't a policeman within miles
When 1 finally stumbled on the track
and tried to hail car, they took me
for train robber and went by me at
a rate Of mile second I paid
a brick yard man 50 to bring me
home in a dump cart and am jolted
into pulp. Sue for five million SO
as to make sure they'll have nothing
left. Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
Cur Eyes do not Always Tell Us the
Truth

In the eye itself certain things may
go on which give US wrong sensa-
lions, which, although not truly il
usions, are very much like them.
mus, when We suddenly strike our
heads or faces against something in
the dark we see stars or bright
sparks, which we know are not real
lights, though they are quite as bright
and sparkling as if they were. When
we close one eye and look straight
ahead at some word or letter in the
middle of this page, for example, we
seem to see not only the thing we
are looking at, but everything else
Immediately about it and for a long
way one each side. But the truth is,
there is large, round spot somewhere
near the point at which we are look
ing in which we see nothing. Curious
ly enough, the existence of this blind
spot was not discovered by accident,
and nobody every suspected it until
Mariotte reasoned from the construc-
ton of the eyeball that it must exist,
and proceeded to find it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23

Mr.. Hannis o. Taylor, the retiring
United States minister to Spain, pre-
scented his letters of recall to the
Queen Regent, and Gen. Steward L.
WOodford presented his credentials
as his successor.
The operations Of the troops under
the command of Gen. Yeatman-
Biggs, undertaken for the purpose of
relieving SANTANA posts, have been
entirely successful. The police post
at Saraghari has been recaptured by
the British forces, the troops carry
ing the position by assault. Fort
Lockhart was relieved
The Pail Mall Gazette, which here
tofore has been booming the Amer
lean securities, thinks the prices in
many cases are now periously infat-
ed and says: while conditions in
the United States have improved, and
are improving, the future is more
than adequately discounted, and
prices are bound to descend.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
IS SLEEP A WASTE?

Has it ever struck you how different
your life would be if you didn't require
to waste so much time in sleep?
Suppose if no one slept. Shops would
be open twenty-four hours every day,
and you'd probably be starting off for
your theatre at the quaint though
fashionable hour of three or four in
the morning. The solemnity of an en-
tire huge city shut up and desolated,
while its inhabitants slept like little
children, would be unknown to you.
Burglars wouldn't exist.
The question arises: Would any of
us do any more work then than we do
now? Living, of course, would be more
expensive, because we should require
more to eat and drink. And we should
find it harder to kill time, for the sim
pie reason that there would be no
more of it to kill While great doctors
would waste their lives trying to
solve the mighty problem of how to
Keep horses and other animals awake
during the long hours of darkness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
THE ORIGIN OF MR.. AND MRS.

In earlier times the ordinary man
was simply William or Iohn-that is
to say, he had only a Christian name
without any handle" before it or sur
name after it. Some means of dis
III gushing one John or William from
necessary.
another John or William became
Mechanics derived from a mans
trade, or his dwelling place, or frSm
some personal popularity, were tackled
on to his Christian name, and plain
John became John Smith. AS yet
there were no ''misters" in the land.
Some John Smith accumulated more
wealth than the bulk of his fellows
became, perhaps, a landed proprietor
or an employer Of hired labor. Then
he began to be called in the Norman
French Of the day the "maistre" Of this
place or that, of these workmen or of
those.
In time the "maistre," or "maister,
as it soon became, got tackled on before
his name, and he became Master
Smith and mis- wife was Maistress
Smith. Gradually the sense of posses
sion was lost sight Of. and the title