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lHoothnieka

Tootilptcks were in commsA uSs In ancient Rome Sometimes they were made of quills, but preferably of the wood of the mastic or lentisk tree. whose astrinHent and aromatic gum Is known to modern dentistry Martiars epi&rams frequently mention the don tscalpium, or toothpick. and recon mend the; wooden kind atove the quill The toothpick was taken to England by travellers from Italy and France.
 AS Mares says. The using of It in public was long deemed an affected maSk ofsBeNty." Shakespeare takes thf view 4h1 he makes one of the chi aFactse King John remark:
 Nv. Eur traveller
 tasfthpick .f at my wo"fap'' And when my knightly stomach is suf-
 feed
 Why. then 1 suck my teeth and catechiSs Ny picked man ok countries.
 The poaSsesntast1c uss to which the sump!ck hasAever been put was the a1feenthss evenssenth century fash in@ of 1eeSfing 1t in the hat as . uo- pasf or m armament
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The Enrlisst Anchor.

The earliest anchors Of which we |bte any record were of wood, aL.f
 6ual,y, through the iron anchor of
 " hook and the anchor In the shape 8& rake, there was evolved the an
 with the straight thick shank,
 two curying arms with fiattened
 femit1es and the long cross stock. TT process of storing one of these old |8hors was long and Iaborious one. 5 Was hove close up to the capstan ' Avfndlass; a man was let down by qQ4 to hook on q huge tackle. by edch the anchor was then hs4steds tM perpendicular, to stout Eojects nas stinbe Then the lower ed hads 9 e hoisted up horizontally ty anS t0,r tackle and the whole made fast n Hthe modern stockless anchor hdn is attached to 1t at the balancing o&t, and this Is passed through ,u ey at the head of the anchor davit Wqen the anchor is high enoughHAaRtt md all swing round until the anchof . Nyer the billboard. where A1t md Is secured by chains.-Londop aldbe A
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if the Trss Falls, What of the ivy'
 We bear great deal about tho mod 9n Yirl developing mAnnishnsss. lnde psndencs and losing her temInlniT. \ esaat nans psOpls azs much alarmed because xszsAre not trained, as for nerty. Mwomanly ssnneness. It is . beautiful ng:,rs Of speech to describe sAs feminine character as the ivy whch cii1Ss Co the masculine oak for Cppo-. ard h return covers and beau ...ss .ts h.Geous knots and scars.
 But [ the oak falls what becomes of .As tvy!
 There s too much of this ivy cling1ng and beautitying Idea In training girls They should be taught that 1t Is just as necessary to be independent, to be self supporting, as to be able to cling and beautfy In other words, they ought to be abls to stand alone if the tree falls and not go down with it. Success Magazine.
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Workinq In Steel Masks.

The workman wore steel mask with glazed eyehoies. q rubber suit rubber gloves and rubber boots, and hs caflied a pair of tungs ot silvesy sla minlum. 8
 Tn certain departmen ents or tn4 plant" said the dyuauih naanrac tursr, "all our workmeu are r-ssss3 Ake that They must De. Otherwise they would be smeared with chemicals and splashed with acids that would eAs their flesh like liquid fra"
 'tBut the aluminium toussT
 'eThey are for lifting the gGa ea--oa out of its nitric acid bath. Alani-t..l b the only metal upon which the nitric acid has no effect"
 He turned to the workman.
 'Everything all right, George- hs said.
 .so, so,' came sepulchral answer from behind the mask of steel-New OrMans Times Democrat
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Imitation Of Ebony.

There are two processes, says the Carriage Monthly, in use in the imita ton of ebony. Take a fine grained piece of wood, use French black poi ish, made black with fine coloring mar ter, or good air drying black varnish may be applied. This, however, giycS only superficial coloring. and wh5::l the edges wear off the light colored wood shows The other method is to wash three or four times any denss wood with q boiling concoction of log wood. allowing 1t to dry between eaci application. Then wash with soll!- ton of acetate of iron, which IS made by dissolving iron filings in vine@al This stain is very black and penetrateS into the wood so that ordinary wear and chipping will not show the original color
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ItaIy's leanlnq Towera.

Most gleaners of the wonderful con s1der the leaning tower of Pisa to be something unique in architecture This h an error. however, for there are two others In Italy and several in other European cities The two at Bologna are the most remarkable One of them is 82i feet In height and leans over s!x and half feet from the perpendic- ular, and the other Is 16i feet high and has "a lean" of over nine feet The oldest of these two remarkable structures was built in the year 111o.
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Ars Wonen's Watches infer:or?

"Yes, madam" said the jewe!er showing watches to q woman custom CT, "this Is a sixteen point action. t,se best that IS eyer put h sa ladg'S wateh." g"Don't, y ou put just as soe5l Works Ii: | lady's watch as Tn a gentlenan's?" asked the woman.
 "Why, no, not at all, madam. La dies do not need such q good watch Most always they wind up their watch once in awhile, and then they let 1t be for a week or two without using 1t This is as good as any lady needs." ~-''
 The woman explained that she was, a business woman and just as depend ent on trains and boats as a man. but the jeweler remained unmoved in the conviction that sixteen point was all any woman needed.-San Francisco Call.
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Great Piaeon Cities In the Swamps.

Each spring in May all the rosy gulls of wide region somehow agree to re- sort to particular one of various marshy lakes for the purpose of rear ,az their young. Just how they decide the important question is not for us hu- mans 10 know, 1t any rate, what they do select is great area of grass. reeds or rushes growing out of the water and. there.. out otstEe abundance of dry utens. each z,pe.r builds q partly float Ing nest. s.de Sy side with others, thousands upon tHonsands of them These great aHities" of the prairie pl- .geon present. of the most dramatic, spectacua ar Ss. sHts iukt.se s,ira life of this couthent, eompagaAte in a way to the former breeding .roosts" of the real wild pigeon. Herbert K. Job in Outing Magazine
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Hyperhole.

A Rochester clergyman was accus. toned to use scientific. terms. which the people did not understand. deputa, ton waited on him with the, request that In the future wheneveri he used such terms he would explain them. On the following sundayshe used the term hyperbole and added: AS agreed on, I beg to explain this word Were I to say that at this moment the whole of my congregation are sound asleep 1t woAld be hyperbole, but If, I say that one-half are asleep that, Is no hyper bole, but the truth" The next day the deputation again called to say that tho minister need not explain technical terms. The people would learn their meaning from a dictionary. Rochester Herald
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Ants tna Ideal Communists.

It would perhaps be pushing meta phors to an unwarranted extreme to speak of dignity of labor in connet. ton with the occupations of ants. But if by the phrase we mean that la hoi is the honorable lot of all citizens, and that all Iabors Of whatever sort a;e upon the same level of responsibility. then we might venture to apply the saying even to the labors of an an. hill. For therein all are workers, from the newly fedged cal!ow to the veteran of a second summer.-Henry McCook In Harper's.
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YhO Origin of . Great invoatieN.

On one of the daily trips of young Westinghouse from Schenectady to the foundry at Troy his train was held up by a bad wreck. Two frei2hts had come together in head-on collision on . piece of straight track. The engi- neers had seen the danger plainly, but by the time the hand brakes were brought into play it was too late. The young man allowed these facts to sink into his mind. Then he said to one of the train hands: 7 If the engineers had been able to control their trains from. the cabs, the wreck could have been prevented souldn't it%
 Control 'em how ?'
 s Brake them.' y@fT |~t' # "Yes. They had lots of time" <, That was enough. The air brake was Conceived Amid the piled up wreck age the thing that was to make the name of Westinghouse familiar to es- ary schoolboy the world over was call d Into being It did not come in ts perfected form. but the idea itself had Seruina ted.-Paul LatZke in Every hody's. -
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Slann of Other Days.

aang has always been fruitful sodkrce for the expansion of language
 and instances may be multiplied of wdfds now respectable whchl were onGe taboced as yuigarisms. But on th& other hand, there have been many Aang phrases In use for centuries whlch have never become acceptable to 4he pursts. AS long ago as 115O the ceffbrated letter writer Horace Wal pote used to speak of sitting guzzflng and getting drunk as an owl" Then agSin in the diary of one of the most prdminent woman writers of the. eight. eerth century. Franeesf Burney, ars found good slang phlases of the "A Amer. icah college girl of today, as, for fin
 stance, T sneaked out" Did you ev1r know such a toad?" and II had . tdle cold'-St. Louis Republic.
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Tho Case of Ererqency.

While on the march in India the pio- nser corporal of a famous Irish regi- ment went to the quartermaster for a loan of camel to carry spare tent but the quartermaster refused, saying
 T have only the cart, and this spare camel am keeping For case of emer gency."
 The corporal said. Can't you put the case of emergency on the cart, sir. and It me have the camelY'-Red Letter.
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How to Stop RunswaYs.

The policeman haz. stonl'ed the rup away very neatly. Now, though p''- ing a little, he was quite calm.
 "It's nothing to stop a runaway" |. said as he wiped his foam covean- hands. 'It is like jumping on or of :; moving car-dead easy when you i;no4 how. What you want to do when yo see runaway tearing toward you i not to stand still. but to run all yoa might in the same way the nag's a-g" ing. Then, when 1t catches up to yos you grab the bridle and keep a-r'lii
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They Wouldn't Salute.

Black Jack Percival, who was na val captain in the old days, once brought cargo of Spanish jacks home In q man-of war He was in SpanisE waters when the jacks were given to the United States by Spain and was ordered to bring them out in his al.F It nade h:n aa@Hy ls7t he got tE' beasts abo{..1 anl Hai,eti for $@E' York Wien ha carle through f!.e- Nalror.a lie @'1es hs.d htcn rolled b.gli, aaA o;l: af every port t. .c4e sick a ...lrlsst heati Thus dee.1e3 3a:a i..,d ...itilot:t :' .f'fltc ha cane to, hi, :9zi, F, cso. The adt1li:l commanlias sent p5sthaSte to ec qantl wis far'ain ..erciv..l !.;;:.l uo' salntefl T a!la-t aaI.te. ras t1* l2."htv caata;a's a:ss~sar. 'e''5acaEse : .orlln't. haat teso me. t'Tistt:s eF .ry jacks rai! !'1+ no' hiantrted H'-- # thenl wqEH! f.'":ys 44 .4.
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Elie,-

The astonishing abundance of flies during thee latter part of the summer Is accounted for by the estimate made by an eminent entomolog!st that the progeny of single house fly in the course of, one summer will number a0S0,320. If 1t were not for the in- numerable enemies provided by nature tor the destruction of the fly. the whole air would be filled by the end of Au- gust with swarms of dies, which would eender life insupportable.
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In.eIiiaent Strena.h.

It is known that the largest churcs bells may be set in motion by maH or even boy who pulls the ropes at tached to them at proper and regular intervals, even when their weight ef metal is so great that the strongest man could scarcely move then sensih.t if he did not apply his strength in d'. terminate periodical Intervals --HesH holtz.
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Wasteful Ignorance.

The ordinary waste of food in m English middle class family would he sufficient wholly to maintain Q French family of similar station, and tbe waste of food Is at least largely due to the ignorance of cookery As.i Prt'. vails among the classes fro.H wAtrf English domestic servants arc derived London Lancet.
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Ta;>:a3 t'a ia".=trvc.

Thor. is J =! i,'.n >tj:>tactiGil ll t' Ing tAe eneAiy Unawares OH his |" ground, in doWisin@ him with his otaz' weapons President Polk evident. took comfort i'll his method for miti gating the hand shake. that CUTS" u' the chief executive office. and he must have chuckled when he wrote il h. diary the bit which s given in Ja!!a- Schouler's "Historical Briefs"
 If a man surrendered his arm to 7ht shaken by one horizontally, by nnothe' perpendicularly and by another wifi a strong grip, he could not fail to siis fer severely by it. But if he woul'; shake and not be shaken, grip and no be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as the adversary squeezed him he would suffer no inconvenience by t can generally anticipate strong ";'li from a strOng man. I take advantage of him by being quicker than he af'i seizing him by the tips of his fingers This is stated playfully, but it is alf true.
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Why He Baked.

Axs. Shortcommons-Hav some moee q the lamb, Mr. Wiseoham. Ar. Wis saham--No; can't bear to eat it. It was somebody's pet lamb once. Ms. ShortcommonsHow do you knowl Ar. Wlsenham-Because they must have waited years and years before they had the heart to kill it.--Cleveland Leader.
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A Oiplomat.

T say. father" queried little John ny, whats a dtplomatr
 "A diplomat, my son." replied the old man, "is a persol. who doesn't mean what he means others to think he means"
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An Epitaph

In a little churchyard near Llanymy- mech, Wales. Is tombstone with these lines upon it:
 Tn crossing OCT the fatal bridge
 John Morgan he was slain.
 But 1t was not by mortal hand.
 But by railway train.
 John Morgan was the huntsman to the Tanatside barriers and paid the capital penalty for taking a short cut along the Cambrian line.
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Would Like 1t Very Much.

'sBy the way" asked the waiter. 'how would you like to have your pfeak?'
 "@Very much, indeed" replied tho mild man, who had been patiently waiting for twenty minutes.
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Exasperstind.

Mrs. Subub-Oh, George, the cook left this morning, and the Outertowns Ire coming to dinner, Mir. Subub- Darn it. They always catch us be tween cooks.-Brooklyn Life.
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-Lost-Near Lakeside school house, package containing black or gandy dress trimmed with two rows of black insertion and black lace yoke and sleeves. Liberal reward for return to Miss Susie Hart. 915, corner Seventeenth and Poplar. 7-3-3-
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Not literal.

Papa, this paper Sa}S lot Of ma in office haG their heads cut of. Dio they cut them oG. with all ax9" ....
 NO. my boy, wit,i 3 sharp move Baltimore A0:er;i.eu
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A Damper.

Marion-I showed papa those verses you wrote me. and he seemed pleased. Harry-He did: Marion-Yes. He said he was so glad to see you were not poet
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So Sudden.

Carsone-Wouid you like to own a puppy, Miss Ceceiia? Cecelia-Oh, MT. Carsone, th.s lz 30 suddent-Yo1nys GaEaHina
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tseVe . ci.

Railroad SHfee ntel eat-That new engineer doeSI gse snueh eeal. Ills Assistant. Gaa- Ie used tn be 2 ,.n.tor--E Eroo&iya Esgle
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It Is not possible for men to be per eectly blessed and happy. except few .-Piatn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-09

pulp men expect it to tumble even
lower and are waiting for that time.
Local lumbermen say that the pulp
supply contracts are atheavy enough
to carry them and that the low price
they are waiting for viii not come
and that they viii be caught with
the high price again before they
realize it. The conditions of tie
lumber market are rather chaotic at
the present time and no man can
prophesy for the future, but lumber
men say that one thing is certain,
and tnat is that those who are hold
ing standing timber are sure to make
money and that they can make more
money by holding it now than they
can by manufacturing it
One prominent lumberman of the
state is quoted as saying that if his
firm was TO burn down its mills at the
present time and allow its timber to
stand for ten years without touching
it, that the firm would be money
ahead at the expira tion Of that time
The deduction is that there is more
money to be made in holding stand
ing timber from the market than in
the manufacturing of it and marketing
it at present.-Appleton Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-09

AS spring election time approaches,
considerable talk is heard in reference
to the mayorship and the new city
officers. Many names are being men
toned in connection with the mayora-
lty prompted by individule choice.
In talking with Fred Norton recently
we find that he would not be adversed
to the nomination for mayor, and
says if he was nominated and elected,
that he would give the people of this
city a good economical administration
of affairs.
Now Fred has been resident Of
Grand Rapids a good many years.
He is a special lover of high bred
chicken dogs. He is also engaged in
second hand business, and purchases
iron, barrels and second hand goods
of all kinds. and has had quite varied
experience in business life. How well
posted he is upon city affairs, of
course we are not intimately ac-
quainted enough to know. He says
that he has many friends who are en-
couraging him to become a candidate.
While we would nog encourage his
candidacy, because we know that if
he was elected Mayor it would give
him a great deal more trouble and an
noyance than he now has, and as a
neighbor OF ours, we would rather see
him lead his present quiet life, than
to be burdened with city affairs, for
no matter what kind of an admins
tration he gave the people of Grand
Rapids there would be some who
would stand ready to criticise him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-09
PORT EDWARDS

Mr., and Mrs. Weber of South Centralia
were guests at the 0. w. Dodge home Sun
day.
o. Odegard, of the Rapids. was a caller in
our village Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Zurhuh, of Nekoosa
were guests at the home OF the formers
brother Herman Zurfluh last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Aucutt and son Jack
were guests of relatives at the south side
Sunday,
Mrs. Frank Noel was Grand Rapids
Rapids visitor Thursday.
Mrs Andrew Zurfuh, of Nekoosa, was the
guest of Mrs. Levi Leroux Thursday.
Miss Mae Cahin, was Grand Rapids
Rapids visitor Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Garrison and daughter
Rae were guests OF relatives in the Rapids
Sunday.
Dean Whitmore who has been very sick
with pneumonia is slowly recovering.
VIII Surprisen has been svery sick with
the grippe.
Jno. Shelhammer has been laid up the
past week with stomach trouble,
MIS- Anton CARSON was shopping III the
Rapids Saturday.
John Jarvis died Friday morning at 2:30
after only four days illness with pneumonia
at the age OF fifty years. Mr.. Jarvis has held
the office of treasurer and assessor for
several years and is also one of the mem
bers of the school board. He leaves two
sons one is in Ireland and the other one
hasn't been heard from for four years. He
also leaves sister in st. Paul, father and
several sisters and brothers in Canada.
Messrs. and Mesdames A Palm and 0.
Boyer attended the funeral of C. Branstead
in your city Sunday.
John Brennan rs sick with inflamatory
rheumatism.
Mrs. Della Surprisen is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. White and baby, of Sheboy-
gan, were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs
DekarSky.
Misses Jennie and Susan Barboo, of ST.
Paul, were called here by the death OF their
uncle John Jarvis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Krenke are nicely set
tied in their new home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-09

Dennison, Texas, last Tuesday morn
ing, arrived Thursday in charge of an
employe of the 9oad. The funeral
was held Friday morning from the st.
Francis church, and the boy laid to
rest beside his mother, who died
fourteen years ago. Talford Cossette,
a handsome young fellow, known to
many in Merrill, left last April for
Spokane. and from there to Texas,
where he was employed as brakeman
for some months. He was engaged in
his duties when the accident
occurred it is not exactly known how,
and was run over by the train. He
leaves two brothers who reside at
Grand Rapids, and his father who
makes his home with Joe York S when
not employed in the woods. His son was
insured in the Brotherhood of Trains
men for $4,000 in his favor-M errill
Advocate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-09
Rev. George Gibson.

To close long, useful and faithful
life surrounded by all ones children
and grandchildren; to have had part
in the Christmas service of a church
to which ones whole life has been
Sacredly devoted; and then to pass out
of this world into the great beyond
peacefully, is the privilege of very
few. Thus closed, however, the long
and helpful life OF Rev. George Gibson
at 2:15 O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
George Gibson was born in Es-
perance, New York, December 9, 1928.
His father William Gibson. was d
we'll known operator of wooden mills
located in that place. 1t was here
that George Gibson spent his child
hood obtaining the best education
then afforded by the common schools.
For time he worked in his fathers
mills and then went to Albany, n. Y,
where he was employed as clerk in
the Land Commissioner Office at the
state capitol,
While living in Albany he met and
became attached to the Rev. Dr..
Tucker, of the Holy Cross Episcopal
church of Troy, n. Y. This friend
ship was the turning point in his
/ career, for it was because of the iU-
fluence Of that great and good man
| that he decided to devote his life to
the work Of the church. He removed
to Troy, n. Y, where he attended
| DR.. fuckers church school and was
associated as scholar and member of
the famous church choir eight years.
The work to which he gave special
attention at that time was the
church'S music, Troy being the center
of the Episcopal church music at that
time. as DR.. Tucker was the editor
and compiler Of the church hymnal,
which for years afterward bore his
name.
1t was while in Troy that he de-
termined to study for the ministry
and in 1858 he came to Wisconsin
where he began his studies in the
seminary at Nashotah. In 1860 he
was ordained deacon and offered his
services to Bishop Kemper and was
assigned to missionary work about
Nashotah and Delafeld.
When the Civil war broke out and
President Lincoln called for men, the
martial spirit seized him. ae en-
listed in the 23rd Wisconsin Infantry,
Co. c., as private. He left Portage
with his company and saw service at
Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, and in
the subsequent campaign with
General Grant down the Mississippi
and was present at the capltulation of
Vicksburg, July 4th, 1865. In the
fall of 1863, his enlistment period hav-
ing expired, he was honorably dis
charged as adjutant of his regiment,
with the rank of first lieutenant.