Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-12-26

IN Holden are now industriously engaged
in tearing up their husbands old clothes
for 9ai pet-rags.
SMOKE AND Frost. The practice of
building smoke fires in orchards as pre-
VentatiNe OF injury from frost is an
old one, but recently we note that con-
gress OF fruit growers in France have
tested the value Of composition, princi-
| pHtiy OF tar, which, burned ia iron vessels,
! gave thick clouds OF smoke that lowered
over the land for miles around them.
AT recent meeting of the Academy of
| Sciences paper WAS contributed by Il
/ DR. Gournier, detallinga process by which
| he can destroy any portion OF the brain
! that might be desired, without killing tho
animal A little hole is made In the
| skull, and blue solution Of chloride OF
zinc injected on that part of the brain Sc
! lcctCd, which nj once becomes petIitied.
! The experiments were successfully tried
on rabbits.
THr Utica H,ra}d says tha. the ice house
OF l.. l. Lyon, Of Iyun's Falls, N Y, has
not been empty for twenty years, nor has
Al pound Of ice ever been put into IT, The
building Is constructed after the ordinary
method, md when it ia designed to fill ii,
"A rose iot Is placed upon the water pipe,
aud as the water comes through it is
, entitled and drops into The house, where
il forms solid mass.
\ RAILROAD conductor named Downing
/ was recently brought before the jury at
Rochester, N. Y, charged with man
slaughter IN causing the death of passcn-
gers through negligence The Jury
brought in a verdict Of mot ggjlfy, " and
gave ua n reason for the verdict that in
I I 1t#,tr .,.t,, I l. q
| run trains that he had no Judgment
worthy Of the name, and that what little
/ he did have he exhausted in performing
( his duties.
| WALL haugings made Of Tin foil are q
new Partisan invention, which has been
made tie subject of Il paper read before
| the Society of Arts. The metal is in
! sheets about sixteen feet long and from
thirth to forty inches wide The sheets
are painted and dried alta high tcmpera-
turc, and arc then decorated with many
different patterns, such az foliage, flow
ers, FeometriCal figures limitations of
choice woods or landscape pictures.
A IiNT TO COAL Consumers "A cor
respondent furnishes the following sug-
grsuuus which viii be OF interest TO all
coal consumers, and may result to great
advantage in the economy Of coal: Much
, fault iH found with stoves that they con-
sumo great doal of coal and do not give
"a corresponding amount OF heat. This,
/ however, is not due TO the kind ur stove
1 used, as many suppose, but rather to ita
/ condition. Having stove that WAS con.
/ timaly allowing the ashes t. fly over tho
room, determined, before putting II up
/ this year, to make il air tieht. lohtaincd
( from stove dealer some stove cement or
( patty, and caulkud up every seam, Joint,
etc The result has hccn that no ashes
lv out, and the stove CONSUMES about
/ twenty-five per cent less coul, md gives
. twenty -lFn per cent, moro heat Another
stove, that had TO be taken TO pieces 10 be
/ cleaned, aud that refused to give out
much heat although ii burned much coal,
wa9 caulkrd 10 tho snme way, and il Is
now wonderful heater The expert,
mcni never fails, and should be tried by
oil who desire 10 save their coal and Sc
cure increased heat - th.cUg0 iHi5j- Oasan.
WIS have seen in ore Of the papers an
article upon "1hc Power Of Music, ia
which the writer describes how, when he
would play his Gutu az his paIlJrw ludlow,
a toad would CONF ont from under tho
front step, and appear TO drink in the de
liciOus melody with an air Of rHDturOua
eXultatjnn This must Ne the mon who
lived across the street from us We have
| noticed several times that "a toad came
| ont and eat on Tie step when the man
began to play the lIute but we always
| thought II was for tho purpose of pscer-
/ tanning what sort oi Hn idiot IL was max.
/ ing such IA horrible racket in peaceful
! nciRhborhuod Sure enough, day before
! yesterday, when the playing begun, ont
came the toad, unable to stand II any
/ longer He hid another toad with him,
and they went and got the lid Of m old
hlpckuR box, and fixed "A string 20 it, and
| packed into ii their little store OF dead
| dies nud tnrcc or four small toads, and
MI tbeir domestic comforts, and hitched
ON TO that string aud began to move
| down the street Ia search Of new resi-
dcuCc. Yes, animals have an apprecia-
ton Of music, and, knowing that fact,
we have often wondered how this toad
stood it 30 cloac to that han with the
flute Mar Adeisr