Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-12

day he sang for solo, Cover my de-
fenseless head, and blushed like lob
ster while doing it.
A cYNIc suggests that the marrying a
deceased wife's sister implies either that
the husband has treated his first wife
very kindly or cruelty. If kindly the sis
ter wishes to experience the same treat
ment, if cruelty, to avonge it.
An agricultural writer says: Ammonia
once absorbed by straw or earth, will
never escape the stable, unless fermenta-
ton takes place. The smoke of the horse
stable is the smoke of your burning for
tune, though you whistle over it.
THE olive crop in Santa Barbara
County, California, the present year. is
likely to prove an entire failure. One
cultivator says that trees from White. he
gathered last season forty gallons, this
year will not yield more than a gallon to
the tree.
A BALLOT cast against levying a tax for
completing the High School in Fond du
Lac, Wis, declared the voter did not
want no skole by dam site" and an
other asserted that there was "too much
skule now" And yet Fond du Lac will
have more "skole.n
IT is said that in leading bank in
Stockholm all the clerkships have for
some years past been satisfactorily filled
by females. That is no more than might
have been expected, as every one who
has ever entrusted secret to women
knows they make tirst,rate tellers.
SOMEBODY having applied to an editor
for method by which he might cure his
ln1phtar Of hnr rfin1;txy fnr
tlemcn is kindly Informed that there are
several methods of reform. One way is
to skin the young person; another is to
put her into well ard drop few loads
of gravel on her head another is to bind
her ankles to an anvil and upset her out
Of boat.
JOHN SCIIEMMERHORE, of Alton, III.
thought one of his cows was afflicted with
hollow horn. To satisfy himself he
caught the beast and held her by the tail
while his wife raped on the horn with
hammer. A moment later barnyard
tableau was seen, as Schemmerhorn
scared over a ten feet board fence, and
his wife had an aperture in her Dolly
Warden that a weeks constant labor with
a sewing machine could hardly repair.
HEAvEs IN HoRsEs.-A correspondent
of the Rnral Home gives the following
remedy for heaves in horses: Give once
daily a teaspoOnful of aquafOrtis, pre-
pared as follows Mix it with a teaspoon
full Of sour or skinned milk, and mix
this with bran, and the bran with the
grain fed. The catarrhal affection of the
throat makes rapid amendment under
this treatment, and the correspondent
says he has known a number of cases
cured bysit,
THE Edinburgh Court of Session has
decided that the women students at the
University in that city are enabled to
complete their curriculem as medical
students, and TO be graduated on the usual
conditions. The ladies thus obtain as
right what they have long sought as
favor. The decision will put some of the
professors in an awkward position, as
they have declared all along that, rather
than teach women, they would resign
their professorships.
Mr.. JAMES Brooks, in his recent book
of travels, thus describes a japanese
theater: II went to the theater the
other night in kanagawa--a big in
stitutiOn with no seats, but with rails
to lean on. We all squat. The
natives leave their penny and two penny
straw shoes at the door, near the tin box,
and take tickets for them, as we take
tickets for our hats or coats. 1t was
very funny sight to see four or five hun
dred shoes ticketed with wooden straps
attached to them, the straps written over
in Japanese characters
A QUICK PUDDING Bring quart of
milk TO the boiling point in Farlna ket-
tie, or a pail set into boiling water; add a
small teaSpoOntul of salt, two teaspoon
fuls Of rice, or wheat flour, wet smooth
with cold milk. Stir this in as soon as
the milk boils. Stir it a few minutes till
perfectly smooth, and let it remain in the
outside vessel of boiling water half an
hour, BE sure and keep the water in re-
ceivcr or saucepan boiling around the in
ner one hard all the time. Eat with but
ter and sugar, or thick cream and sugar.
This is very healthful--especially in the
summer-and invaluable for invalids, or
children suffering with summer complaint
When used as a remedy or preventive,
it should boil l0nger-say one hour. -
Christian tht0n
STIR THE SURFACE.--lt does not follow
that although we have plenty of rain the
soil will remain moist, Evaporation is
very active beneath our hot summer suns
Heavy showers tend to compact the soil
and render it impervious to water which
remains on the surface until evaporatec.
Little benefit, then, accrues, unless the
hard crust, baked by the sun, is broken
up and the soil mellowed by cultivation.
1t is then rendered porous and absorbent, |
and is less inclined to give up its moisture
at the demand of the scorChing heat, while !
at night, cooling more rapidly than the |
air, it recondenses and retakes in album |
dance the moisture it has been forced to |
give up during the day. Thus the crop
never suffers during succeeding |
drought, for the soil is always in condi. |
ton to supply its needs from the atmos
phere when denied supply from the |
clouds
AN ingenious and industrious man, in |
the moments of enforced idleness, has in
vented a cooling apparatus, which he is
of the opinion IS as much needed in our
climate as beating apparatus. The result |
OF his suitry meditations he Communi.
Gates to the Nation. The temperature,
he says, can be reduced from ninety five
or upward to sixty or siXty-tive, by hav-
ing n large box or bin placed conveniently
in q house, through which will pass small
air-pipes The box will he packed with
moss or other light material through
which the air can easily circulate, and
through this water will continually
lrickle. From pipes opening int the lower
part of the bin streams of air will he
forced to cause rapid evaporation, still
further cooling the pipes, which empty
their cold air into the rooms near the