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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

u new int Vi tue uueSI perfumes and
extra quality stationery at Wood County
Drug Co., Wood brick block.
The classes of '9S. twin CITY high
schools, gave a joint reception and
dancing party in P0mainville's hall
Tuesday evening which is reported to
have been one Of the jolIiest affairs of
the season. The attendance was large
and music by Culcord's Mandolin Club
was very satisfactory. Those who
attended can long remember '9S and its
reception event with pleasure.
John Cumberland. employe in the
paper plant at Port Edwards, had his
left thumb cut off while cleaning the
barker in the pulp room Thursday last.
He also received deep cut across the
inside of his right hand which injury is
even more serious than on the left hand.
Here is a machine whose bite is evil
IDENTITY worse than its bark Dr.. John
Goggins reamputated the thuMb and is
attending to Mr.. Cumberland's injuries.
At the meeting of Centralia council
men Monday evening it was decided to
have Main street in that city leveled I'D
TO the established grade at once, from a
point near the Dixon hotel corner
running eastward to the bridge. 1t was
also ordered that work proceed on the
Main street sewer as soon as sewer pipe
could be ordered and received. These
Improvements have been considered for
some time by the council, but have
hung along by default until this week.
The low rates offered by all railroads
and boat lines for the Milwaukee Carni-
val, June p to July 3, and the unprece-
denied attractions listed by the Carnival
association will make everybody wish
to go. The carnival pageant of twenty
floats illustrating the history of Wis
consin it is claimed will be the most
gorgeous affair of the kind ever wit
messed in this country not excepting
the wonderful Mardi Gras pageants of
New Orleans,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

A strong aggregation of ball payers
from Stevens Point has been secured
to meet the Howe High school team
on Grand Rapids diamond, July T..
1t has also been suggested that Gale
DOMAIN games might be introduced on
that day with additional interest to
all. For instance, a tug of war
between a dozen men, six on a side
chosen from Centralia, and Grand
Rapids; shot putting contest be-
tween contestants from the two
places; pole vaulting, potato races,
high jumping, etc. Those interested
believe that much fun could be gotten
out of an amateur meet of this nature
and we are assured that it can be
made success if some one will just
take the initiative and push it along
Come then, who will push?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

The bicyclists appreciate the i'm
proved roadway in this city judging
from the number who ride back and
forth over Main street every evening.
When the work is completed up to the
Green Bay depot it will make a fine
road for bicycliSts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

Stevens Point Gazette: Jas. Cos
grove, Jr., is now employed as ma
chinist in Kings foundry at Grand
Rapids and probably will remain there
permanently. His family will con-
tinue to make their home in this city
for the present,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

Oscar krohnholm, age seven years,
broke his left arm midway between the
wrist and elbow while playing with a
dog near his home last Thursday. DR..
Goggins attended the injury. Oscar is
the son of Emanuel Krohnholm, a
farmer in the town of Sigel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

Sam. Mervin and Chas. Stainbrook,
the veteren fishermen, were in town
Monday afternoon offering for sale a
large sturgeon which they pulled out of
the river just below Nekoosa dam. The
fish measured 5 feet inches from tip
to tip, weight III pounds, and attracted
much attention.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09

We would call the attention of the
local board of health to the exposure
along the river bank. There are cess
pools that breed disease and ought to
be attended to right away. The odors
that arise are very offensive to bust
ness men whose places adult on the
river bank.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Transparent leather is made In
France.
The average speed of a homing pigeon
In calm weather is 1,210 yards a min
ute.
Durin 1897 the furnaces of Alabama
have sent 100000 tons of iron to Eu-
rope.
When a fish has lost any of its scales.
by wound or abrasion, they are never
renewed.
The average walking pace of
healthy man or woman is said to be
IS steps a minute.
The average speed of typewriters,
who write from dictation, is 40 words
a minute, or z, 400 words an hour.
Only one person in fifteen has per-
feet eyes, the large percentage of de-
fectiveness prevailing among fair
haired people.
Twenty-nine sheep introduced into
the Australian colonies in 1883 are now
represented by 100, OOO, 900 of the finest
wool sheep in the world.
1t has been found in Switzerland
that in building a railway, laborers
could work only one-third as long at
a height of 10000 feet as a mile lower.
The United States produces more
than one-fourth of the gold of the
world, the product in 1896 being $685.
0ss,OOo, as against $2O2, $50, 900 for the
world.
Carbonic oxide being found normal
ly in the blood of living beings existing
in Paris, NJ. Nicloux has demonstrated
to the French Academy of Sciences
that the gas forms within the organism
itself without external causes.
In central Africa the greatest of all
luxur.es is salt, the long-continued use
OF vegetable food creating so painful
longing for that mineral that ma
tives, deprived of it for long period,
have been known to show symptoms of
insanity.
Some of the delicate instruments in
the Toronto magnetic observatory,
intended to measure fluctuations in
the earth's magnetism, have been
greatly disturbed by the electric cur
rents flowing through the earth from
the adjacent trolley lines. According
ly, these instruments are to be removed
to point nine miles from the city,
and two miles from any possible troll
ley route.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-06
FOOD ABOARD A WARSHIP.
The Same IL Provided for Every Man
as That Which Goes to the
Admiral's Table.

A man who has just returned from a
visit to United States warship, on
which his son is stationed, complains
of the food dealt out to the men, and
adds that it is not as good as served
on the officers tables. AS several hum
dred Chicago boys are now serving
their country aboard warships their
friends at home may be interested in
knowing the nature of their food.
Every man aboard government
ship receives the same amount and
class of food, be he landsman or On
admiral. Its financial equivalent is
nine dollars per month, and no au-
thority below an act of congress can
change the quantity, unless in emer-
gency cases, when the captain may or
der short rations. The bill of fare at
sea for one week includes salt pork,
beans, picked beef or .'salt horse"
as it is known on shipboard, bareback,
coffee, sugar, pickles, salt, pepper,
-four, raisins, vinegar and molasses.
So many ounces are dealt out to each
man, and if he ever goes hungry it is
from some other cause than INSULT
cheney of food.
Each mess has it's own cook, usually
n landsman, who, besides being re-
lieved from deck duty, receives his own
board free by having his rations COM
muted, that is, drawing nine dollars a
month instead of the ships provisions.
If he be handy at cooking he is usually
given the money equivalent of an ex-
ira ration and sometimes ration and
a half.
Breakfast will consist of "scouse,"
or bread hash, which is very palatable;
good coffee, with sugar, but no milk;
bareback. or set biscuits, which are
made of the best flour and in taste and
hardness resembles the Bent water
crackers. At noon there is plenty of
good pork and beans, bean soup, coffee,
pickles, bareback and such extra
dishes as the cook can prepare with
his limited means. Supper consists of
what is left from dinner made into
soups, hashes, etc., with bread and
coffee and pickles on the side.
The other foodstuffs first mentioned
are served on other days. Fresh bread
is always on hand, if the cook knows
how to make it, and he generally
learns. Duff, buildings and like dishes
are served with molasses. When the
ship is in port fresh beef, potatoes,
vegetables of all kinds are served three
times a week.
If man could always have as good
food as the American man-of-warsman
gets he could count himself fortunate.
He would grow fat and never know the
pangs of indigestion.-Chicago Even
ing News.
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Long Canal I'm india.

Probably the largest canal in the
world-a distinction of some note in
these days of wonderful engineering
feats-is the Chenab irrigation canal
in the northwest provinces of India.
Its breadth is 200 feet, with a main
channel some 450 miles long, while the
principal branches have an aggregate
length of 1000 miles, and the village
branches will extend, when completed,
some 1000 miles additional. But,
apart from irrigation, the longest
canal In the world is that which ex-
tends from the frontier of China to
st. Petersburg, and is 4,172 miles in
length. The Bengal canal, connecting
with the river Gauges, is 900 miles
long, and in all India there are 1900
miles of canals, irrigating 5000, 900 OF
acres.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-06
A Dilemma and the way Out

There are thousands of Hay-Fever and
Asthma sufferers who cannot resort to q
change of climate during their annual at
tacks, either because of the expense or be-
cause duties at home will not permit their
absence. They have to stay and suffer.
There are many, also, who are year by year
finding that places heretofore exempt are be-
coming less and less so, and they must move
on to find new locations where they can CO.
cape the Hay-Fever fend.
Now this is all wrong. When doctors tell
you that Hay-Fever cannot be cured, they
simply mean that they cannot cure you.
What is it that makes one man have Hay.
Fever or Asthma and another escape entire
ly right by his side, exposed to the same pol
len, same dust, same Influences? The dust
is not the cause; the pollen is not the cause;
nasal growths are not the cause.
The disease is in the blood and nervous
system; and it is the constitutional pre-dis-
position that gives power to the dust or pol
len or other exciting influences, to awaken
the disease and make one man suffer while
another goes free.
Our constitutional treatment for Asthma
and Hay-Fever is addressed to this pre-dispo-
sition, and by changing the constitution it
eradicates the cause and cures to stay cured,
taking out of man that which makes him
different from the man who has no disease,
and giving robust body strong and health
full. That these statements are correct, and
that our treatment does Just what we say,
is testified to by thousands who have tried it
and know whereof they speak. You can have
the names and addresses If you wish them.
You cannot afford to neglect investigating
this matter fully Write to us for further in
formation. Address DIR. Hayes, Buffalo, N. Y.
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dining-room floor, reception hsll
floor and living room floor are Georgia
pine; kitchen and pantry floors are of
maple, and all other floors are of pine.
ALI the floors are double, having felt
PAPER between them. The entire ex-
terror of house is sheathed with fence
flooring and finished with o. G. siding,
having tar paper between siding and
the sheathing. All exterior painting
must be three-coat work. The CHM
neys are of press brick.
The veranda railing is built from the
ground with press brick, capped with
stone. All doors are five cross panel
doors. The roof is shingled with cedar
shingles, and carving shown in eleva-
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did, and consistently appeared two
hours earlier in the morning. None
of us noticed it at the time, but we did
later on.
Well, it was q pleasant cruise, and
at the end of the contemplated week
we were all of us glad when Temple
ton extended it for another three days,
at the end of which time we were safe
ly landed back in New York.
Barlow parted humorously from
Miss Hawkins, and ever after went his
way in peace, and to my knowledge has
not seen the lady since.
Miss Bronson and said good-by at
parting, and 1 must confess l went
away with lump in my throat, and
she went away with my card and adj
dress. 1 presume that, inasmuch as 1
did not hear from her again until 1
saw her picture in a elbow journal as
one of the American girls who had
married abroad, she did not find me
absorbing.
Mrs. Tissington said good-by TO us
all with an affectionate fervor which
at the time did not seem warranted
by any known circumstance, and Tenn
pleton shook us by the hand and hoped
we'd 'join him next year."
Now, this seems a very commonplace
sort of story, and truly it is so. But
it must be added that after it was all
over, just As hours after, the engage
ment was announced of "Mr. james
Templeton and Annita Anne Tissing-
ton, widow of the late Horace Tissipg-
ton, Esq, of New York city,"
Even this seems commonplace under
the circumstances, until it is narrated
that at dinner recently given by my
wife and myself to my former host
and chaperon, Mrs. Templeton confid-
ed to the real head of the household
not myself-that her courtship was
most romantic.
"Can you really believe it 2" said she:
my husband actually proposed to me
on canal boat, and before break
fast."
After all. it is not so stupid to be
ohAperon,-N. Y. independent,
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Needed the Gardener.

This is the London version of the
story of Mr.. Vanderbilt's parting with
his celebrated Paris chef, Joseph. One
day the millionaire sent for Joseph, and
told him frankly that he was growing
rather tired of his highfalutin, 'artis.
tic French dishes. THE fact is" said
the millionaire, I'm darned hungry,
and l want square, old-fashioned
meal. Go and cook me-" he added.
''some nice boiled beef and cabbage. y
Monsieur" replied Joseph, in his
suavest manner, 81 think you have sent
for me my mistake. Shall ring for the
gardener" Joseph has just become
the presiding genius of the kitchens OF
big London hotel. To an interviewer
he said the other day: "A dinner
should be short-iike men. The short
er they are the better, Detroit Free
Press,
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the rear stairs. The sink in kitchen IL
porcelain lined.
The glass in the two oriel bays In
second story and in parlor is bent to
fit sash. The attic is large and
will admit of being divided off into
rooms.
Veranda floor must have four coats
of paint. Pantry is fitted up with
shelves, drawers, cupboard, etc. The
house is designed for south or west
front.
The studs are 2 by feet; rafters, 2
by feet; joist, 2 by 10 feet; plates. q
by IL feet. All material used is of the
best of its respective kind.
GEORGE A. w. KNIT.
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ART IN ARCHITECTURE.
DESIGNED AND MfMN ESPECIALLY FOR ms PAPER.
- - -


ton is of composition. All glass il
American, double thick. All flues are
lined with ftue lining.
The entire basement is cemented,
with cement for floor. All art glass
showing will cost So per square foot.
The chimney braces are of wrought
iron. All rooms are plastered, and
finished in two-coat work. The entirs
ceiling of basement is plastered one
coat. All rooms are tinted color to
suit owner. The exterior of the house
will look very well painted chocolate
color with white trimming.
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The ten-room residence here illus
trated will cost about $4,000. The
foundation is rubble stone, 16-inch
walls. Sizes of rooms are as follows:
Parlor, 10 by 10 feet; living room, ~
feet 6 inches by 10 feet; dining-room,
IL feet inches by IL feet; kitchen, 10
by IA feet; reception hall, 8 by 8 feet;
chambers, 10 by IL, 10 by H. 10 by 10
and Q by 10 feet; alcove, by 10 feet;
pantry, by feet; veranda, by 90
feet. The parlor is nicely arranged,
having fireplace, angle and oriel bay
windows and large grilled opening
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-08-06
Below Zero All the Year.

The coolest inhabited country APP
pears to be the province of Werch-
ojansk, in oriental Siberia. The mean
altitude of the terrain is about 107
meters (about 800 feet) above the sea.
A Russian savant passed one entire
year in this inhospitable region and
kept daily record of the temporal
ture, which he had recently published
and from which it appears that the
daily mean Of the entire year is 2.74
degrees below zero. The daily mean
for January, 1896. was 63.4 degrees be-
low zero.
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into the reception hall. The living,
room has fireplace, sliding doors be-
tween it and parlor and is separated
from dining-room by cased opening.
There Is large bay window in sit
ting room, fireplace with wood man.
tel and paneled wainscoting. The rear
stairway leads from rear hall to the
second floor. All chambers have large
closets. The height Of first story is 0
feet inches; second story, feet;
basement, feet. All interior wood
work is Georgia pine, oil finish. The
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seemed to her that she should set her
face against it, and she did SO in her
own very charming way.
Then, too, Parker and Miss Reming
ton found a great deal of time to be
with each other. Many an evening.
when the rest of us were in the bow,
playing banjos and singing the latest
popular song with more vim than at
tention to the score, or telling stories,
or in some regrettable instances in
dulging in gossip, it would suddenly
transpire that Parker and Miss Rem
ington would turn up missing. Where
upon Mrs. Tissington, full of her re-
sponsibility, would develop an uneasi-
ness which soon communicated itself
to the rest of us, and was generally
not allayed until the truant pair were
found sitting at the other end of the
boat, and suspiciously far apart!
AS for myself and Miss Bronson do
not like to say very much, for Miss
Bronson is now the wife of an Italian
nobleman, and Ii am weddedt to an Amer
lean noble woman. 1t must suffice for
me to say, without entering upon any
details whatsoever, that while we
never needed the kindly Intervention
of chaperon we sometimes detected
in the lady's remarks upon social OBJ
servances, or the lack of them, certain
illusions which under ordinary cir
cumstances we might have construed
as personalities.
But it must be confessed that while
we all felt the iron hand beneath the
soft glove of our chaperon, the glove
was so very soft and fitted SO well that
there was no resentment of it any,
where. Furthermore, the young ladies
were in sense grateful to her. They
had come upon the little inland voyage
fully expecting to be called at an early
hour in the morning to set things
straight in the cabin. They were GO
ing off on a cruise, and they naturally
expected to find certain little pleas
antly unpleasant duties to be per-
formed, such as trimming the wicks of
the cabin lamps, or busting the chairs,
or moving an occasional flake of cigar
ash from the piano top; but from the
beginning to the end of the cruise
nothing of this kind was exacted of
them. Breakfast was served at nine,
and it always happened that when
breakfast was over the young ladies'
discovered that nothing of domestic
nature needed to be done for the very
simple reasonthat Mrs. Tissington had
always attended to it before breakfast.
'.But we can help you," remon-
strated Miss Bronson. II am perfectly
willing to get up at seven and dust the
-er-the parlor."
To this Mrs. Tissington, with adj
mirable self-possession, replied:
ut is not necessary, my dear. am
used to housekeeping, and you are
not" And then remembering that she
was a chaperon, she added: "And, be-
sides, if you will sit up late you must
get your sleep at the other end of the
night. Don't bother
And so they did not bother, al
though they solemnly vowed they
woodland, what was more, Mrs. Tis-
sington never retired until after they
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The roof should be painted an In
dian red. The front door will be of
oak, quarter sawed, finished in the
natural wood. House is piped for gas
and furnace. The cutters, flushing
valleys and down spouts are to be Of
galvanized iron. All the fiues for fire.
places are s by Sfeet; for furnace, by
IL inches.
Electric bells are placed in kitchen,
with push buttons at front and rear
doors.
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Yeast-Did you ever see one of
those folding beds like piano?
Crimsonbeak-Well, no, never saw
one that made quite as much noise az
that.-yonkers Statesman,
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HOOdac DiI1c are gentle. mild. eHec-
AAVOSs - AAAS tive. All druggists. 26c.
Rather Antique.

Gunn-I've just succeeded in perfecting an
invention that will revolutionize modern
warfare and make my fortune.
Dunn-Indeed! What is the nature OF
your discovery?
ga powder that's absolutely noiseless"
'Pshaw! That's old; women have been
. using it for centuries. Chicago Evening
News.
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The tongue is divided into three re-
gions of taste, each of which has it's
own special function. The tip of the
tongue is chiefly sensible to pungent
and acid tastes, the middle portion to
sweets or bitters, while the back is
confined entirely to the favors of
roast meats, butter, oils, and rich and
fatty substances.
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Colored Philosophy.

"You kin git yo' daily bread by prayin',"
says Uncle Nose, "but de nightly chicken
has to be hustled fo'."-Indianapolis Jour.
nal.
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The woman who fails 10 say because" has
some other excrse.-Chicago News.
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS

LIE EAtLLLLNtE VI SlAUL VT IlVS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it ID
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the CALIFORNIA FIa SYRUP
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the Importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the CALIFORNIA FIa SYRUP Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
limitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the CALI
FoRNIA Ere SYRUP Co. with the medi-
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name Of the Company guaranty
of the excellence of it's remedy. It IL
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not grippe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name Of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
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one-tenth Of the world is still unex-
iloTed,
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Quality, price and advertising. And the
greatest of these isn't either quality or price,
although it takes a combination Of all three
to win.-L. A. w. Bulletin.