Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-12-05

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with equal parts of freshly burnt quick
lime, which had previously been sprinklet
with water, will be found of value t
soften putty around window pancs TO bt
removed when the former has become
hard by age.
A sTRoNG.M1NDEp woman in Detroi,
made the following gentle reply to n poll,
tician who had called at her house TO get
her husband TO go to the polls and vote
No sir, he can't go! He's washing now
and he's got to iron tomorrow, and If he
wasn't doing anything, he couldn't go. !
run this ere house, ! do, and If any one
votes itll be this same Mary Jane !"
A PHYSICIAN, in a very sensible article
upon bathing, says: "Fur the wind / IN
the stomach children are thought to have,
for their tiresome crying, and for the
restlessness and worrying at night with
which they are afflicted, If the warm bath
were resorted to oftener and the dosing of
soothing Syrups and worse nostrums less,
it would be better for the children. ~ TIE
Household,
WHEN an animal is killed or hurt by
the cars on the Kansas Pacific the section
boss fills ont a blank form describing the
locality of the accident, etc. One Of the
questions ~ me form is, "What DISPOSE
ton was made of the animalg" The an.
swer returned to this query in the case of
a Texas steer run over the other day was,
disposition mild and gentle"
PooR old Brooks, Of Boston, labpred
under two great natural defects, the one
being his inability to pronounce the let.
ter V, and the other a ~'pecuniary re,en.
tiveness," vulgularly known as parsimo.
ny. What a queer pronunciation your
uncle has" observed some one to a
nephew of Briggs. "Ah, yes,' replied
the graceless youth. 1t is impossible to
get a V out of him.
HORSES that have not run for years,
and can't be made to run in any satisfac,
tory way, now run freely at the nose, and
the amount Of hacking among the hack
horses and coughing among the hearse
horses is something without precedent.
The Dutchmsn complained that he felt a
little horse because he had colt in his
head. But every other horse one meets
to-day seems to have Il colt in the head
". Y. Star.
IT is a popular fallacy that promissory
notes written or signed in pencil will not
stand good in law, and q case has lust
been dismissed by one of the New York
courts grounded on that belief, the deci,
sion given beng that u note in pencil Is
legally as binding as one in ink. "Story
on l'romissory Notes" declares that a
"promissory note must either be in ink or
pencil; that is TO say, the signature of the
promisor must be 50; the body of the note
may be printed"
A CORRESPONDENT of the S.icHftJfe
american eommepds onions MS a specific
against epidemics-not AS an esculent, but
sliced and kept in a sick room, where
I they VIII absorb any atmospheric poison.
They should be replaced by fresh ones
every hour. 1t is noticed that in the
room OF Il small -pox patient they wiz
blister and decompose very rapidly, but
prevent the spread of the disease. Their
application has also proved effective in
the case OF snake bites.
A CITIZEN of Springfield, O., has COM.
pleted a simple cohtrivance TO be used at
railroad crossings to signal the approach
of trains. 1t consists of two parts, one Of
which is attached to an upright post
bearing a flag and a bell, the other Is dc.
signed to be fixed to the rails ut any dis,
lance desired from the crossing. When
the train strikes the latter, the bell rings
and the flag waves at the crossing stimuli.
~taneously. The two parts are connected
with an iron rod.
THE st. Louis Democrathas q queer way
of dressing up a news item. For exam.
pie: Daniel Thatcher, Of Paoli. Kan,
loved Miss Ellen Pine, and 80 did |. NJ.
Purcell. Daniel collidcd with Purcell
and gave him q tremendous thrashing.
Somebody laid for Thatcher and blew
off the top OF his head. When the fair
Ellen was taken to the house where the
CORY remains of her dead lover were laid
out her first remark was affecting. She
said, Mrs, Shipman, have you put up any
apple butter yetY"
A GROCER in Quebec adyertiscs ''the
peculiar delicacies Of the far.off land, and
the finely. favored and humanizing leaf
OF the still further Catbay; the more eY-
citing, though not less delicious berry Of
Brazil, and the spices, sugars, and lus.
cious fruits of the Antilles; the sugared
condiments and the blood enriching
wines of the Mediterranean, and the salt.
cured and brain renewing fish of our own
stormy gulf" What he means to say is
that he sells tea, coffee and Goldfish, cheap
for cash.
THE Khedive of Egypt is probably the
richest mar in the world, His yearly in.
come is $50, 900, 600, and he has twenty,
five richly furnished palaces within the
walls Of Cairo. He is not only a prince,
but a merchant, u capitalist, a statesman
and a cultiyator. He sleeps only four
hours out Of twenty.four, and at his desk
centre his railroads, steamship lines, tele'
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