Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-02

at the rate of Is per cent per annum on
the price of the latest shares sold. Eight
shares of the New York Tunes stock mas
just been sold at $4,000 each.
THERE is no justification for suicide;
but we are prepared, on short notice, 10
shed tears for the man or woman VINO can
find it in his or her heart to censure Mr..
Wade, of Huston, for shuffling of, when
it is known that of his fifty children, the
yellow fever left to Mr.. W. but forty-one.
DON'T live single hour of your life
without doing exactly what is to be done
in it, and going straight through it from
beginning to end. Whatever your work
may be, take hold at once, and finish it
up squareIy and cleanly; and then to the
next thing, without letting any moments
drop in between.
CHATS a very stupid brute of yours,
john" said Scotch minister to his par
ishioner, the peat dealer, who drove his
merchandise from door to door IN a small
cart drawn by donkey; 81 never see you
but the creature is braying.' "Ah, sir, "
said the peat dealer, "ye ken the hearts
warm when friends meet"
AN Englishman has invented an i'm
| provement for tWo-wheeled cabs, which is
certainly ingenious and apparently prac
ticable. Beneath the vehlcle,' and under
the control of the driver, is a shifting
| ballast-boX, which can be so adjusted by
a lever as to cOunterbalance any excess OF
weight upon the horses back.
THE woman worth having lives in Rip
| ley, Miss and is seventy-6ve years old.
| The local paper says she walked five and
a half miles to market, lately, carrying
on her back seven turkey gobblers, TWEEN
| fIr- tyrn ri, fp1rn fttynn fxrt nTTG
and six pounds of butter" and she does
that sort of thing regularly.
A MAN in Fayette County, Pa, while
gathering blackberries, heard rattle
snakes peculiar note of warning, and
looked around on all sides before discov-
ering that he was standing with both feet
on the reptile, but so close to its head that
it could not bite him. He changed posi-
| ton Immediately, but killed the snake.
A SAN FRANCISCO milliner has invented
a hat which will probably sell well in
cases where blushing is not so spontane-
Gus as it might be- or used to be. When
the wearer bows or lowers her head abb
ruptly, tiny pair Of steel clamps com
| press the arteries on each side of the
temples, sending the blood at once to the
| cheeks
BRANDY PEACHEs.-One pound Of sugar
to each pound of fruit; boil fruit until
soft, make the sirup with as little
water as possible. Take the peaches
and lay separately on dish, boil the
sirup again until Of the right consis
tency put the peaches in the jar, then add
one part brandy to two parts strip, stir
and fill up the jar.
A COUPLE Of nice young ladies in
Quincy, H., settled a dispute with pine
boards and finger mails. The one with
the finger nails came out ahead, laccrat-
ing her antagonist numerically. The
affair wound up in the police-court, where
they were both fined The local paper
which describes the affair mercifully
withholds the ladies' names for the reason
that they are both engaged.
PLUM BUTTER. - Select nice wild
plums, wash and boil them in tin or
porcelain, till soft. Let cool sufficient to
use your hand to rub them through col
ander, or sieve out of a tanning mill, as |
flour sieve is too fine. Measure the pulp, |
and to every pint Of pulp add one pound
OF white sugar, and then simmer down to
the consistency of old-fashioned apple
butter. 1t is very nice.
THE PRIcKLY PEAR TO HARDEN Tall
LOw.-The Mobile Register says: Take
the common prickly pear and boil or fry
1t in the tallOw without water, for half
an hour, then strain and mould We use
about six average sized leaves to the pint
of tallow (by weight one pound Of leaves
to four of tallOW), splitting them up fine
They make the tallow as hard as stearine,
and do not injure its burning qualities in
the least
THE air assists the various processes of
Il INV Oh Il, 4 ii
vegetable matter is made to Weld pro-
ducts of the highest value as elements of
the food of plants. IF the soil is full of
water of course the air cannot get into
the soil to perform this office, but drain |
ing, drawing off the water from beneath, |
gives the air free admission to the soil, |
and each shower of rain, by displacing
the air already present.
EVERY Woodworking man should have |
a hobby, and those men who have learned |
and taught more to the world than any |
others are those who, outside Of their |
regular employment have pursued a hob |
by with tireless perseverance. The pur-
suit of bugs, otherwise the study Of entO- |
mology, of plants, or the study Of botany, |
with all other similar pursuits which have |
built up the science of natural history, |
have mainly been followed by hard work
erS in other ways.
SEPTEMBER means business Summer |
is ended. Vacations are over The play |
time of the year ends with August and !,
the first days of autumn show a revival of |
business activity and return to real work |
The summer has been unusually cool and |
healthy and dull But the prospect for |
large and profitable business season is de- |
cidedly good. Already there are sure in
dicatiOns of revival of trade, and mer-
chants and manufacturers feel a healthy |
glow OF encouragement.-Dai Graphic. |
SETTING OUT BLACKBERRIEs.- The |
Fruit Recorder prefers to set out blackber-
ries in autumn, as the roots become well |
established and start early in the spring
The rows are eight feet apart, and the |
plants three feet in the row; and after
setting, the pillow is passed on each side,
throwing two burrows together over the |
roots-which carry off the surplus water,
and protect from heaving by frost. In |
early spring harrow is run across the |
ridges to level them down.
THE Iowa train robbers are reported to
be living quietly and almost publicly in
in Lafayette count, Mo. and a local paper |
at Sedalia records the passage through |
that city of posse of armed men, who !
created an unusual commotion by march |
ing Soldier fashion from the depot to the |