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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-01-30
STRETCHING THE RuLrs.-The laws of

STRErcHING THE RULEs.-The laws of
paraphrase scarcely permit the written
Ideas of another to be appropriated by
merely making such changes as will
adapt them to similar circumstances in
different latitude. In recent number
OF the San Francisco Call humorous
article was localized which originally ap-
peared in the New York papers over
twenty years ago, when they were dis
cussing the adoption Of new code.
To ARRIVE. -Passengers who left Ham,
ilton yesterday, by stage, to arrive to-
day. are as follows: Jas. Wells, E. F.
Taylor, wife and two children; VIM. S.
Lee.
GRAIN REcEIvED.-Boone & Dolman,
yesterday, received from Salt Creek,
Utah, several wagon loads of oats and
barley.
JAMES CRoNAN received large invoice
OF Hour yesterday, best brand.
Who is interested in Geo. C. John
ston's advertisement
WEATHER continues disagreeably cold.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-01-30
TO MINING MEN.

All information in regard to mining
developments will be thankfully received
by II. N. Mcguire, local reporter for the
RECORD, up to Saturday noon of each
week. The mines are so far apart, and
it is so distant to some of them, that it is
impracticable to personally visit them
all each week. We hope we will be
obliged in this matter. ..
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-01-30

DECLINE IN FLOUR. There has been a
slight decline in -four. A great deal
came in yesterday from Southern Utah.
There are immense quantities in store in
the city. If there was any effort to
make corner in consequence of the
epizootic, it has certainly failed.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-01-30

Liberal REWARD OFFERED. District
Attorney Goldthwaite has caused posters
to be circulated offering reward CT six
teen hundred and fifty dollars for the ar-
rest and conviction of the person or per-
sons who killed Charles Swanson, in this
city, on the 29th of last December.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
WOman's Rights to a WOOdpile.

Much is said now days about woman's
rights. A correspondent of the Maine
Farmer contends for one which cannot be
gainsaid, in the following paragraph:
perhaps the family may live on a
farm where wood may be had with little
labor at the right time; but, instead of
that, the woman may have small children,
some of them sick, and but very lit
tie wood, If any. What can be more
trying for woman, when she can get
very little time to work about her house,
than to be hindered for the want of fuel?
| think, if her husband could be
placed in her situation for month, it
would cure him of being so neglectful
about providing good fuel, if he was not
past curing. Besides all the discomforts,
it looks very shiftless to see man that
cannot 60 to his work in the morning be-
cause he has to stop and get some wood,
and before he retires at night he must get
rail off the fence to make fire in the
morning. Such man cannot be said to
be thrifty farmer. l think the wood
pile fair test of the fathers love for the
wife and children. If youwant domestic
peace and warm dinner, get some dry
wood, put it under cover, make good
fire, and let the tired wife rest awhile
Remember, she is shut up with the chill
dren more than you are, and her mind
and body need rest and relaxation"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
Something about Snow, Hail and Ice
THIS Albion.

Snow is one of the many objects which
absorb and are warmed by the solar heat.
On sunny day you may see the SUBMITS
of the high Alps glistening with the
water of liquefaction, while the air above
and around the mountains may be many
degrees below the freezing point. The
same thing happens to the snow upon
your house-roof The sun plays upon it,
and melts it. The water trickles to the
caves, and hangs in drop. If the caves
are in the shade, or in declining sunshine,
or the air intensely cold with a brilliant
sun, the drop, instead of falling, con-
geals. An infant icicle is formed. Other
drops and driblets succeed, which both
thicken it at the root and lengthen it.
The drainage from the snow, after sun
shine is gone, continues to produce icicles
until the flow of water is stopped by the
frost. In the Alps, DR.. Tyndall tells us,
when the iquefaction is copious and the
cold intense, icicles grow to an enormous
size. Over the edges (mostly the south
ern edges of the chasms, hangs a coping
of snow, and from this depend, ike sta
lactites, rows of transparent icicles, ten,
twenty, thirty feet long. constituting one
of the most beautiful features of the
higher crevasses. But an icicle would be
incomprehensible if we did not know
that the solar beams may pass through
the air, and still leave it at an icy tenn
perature.
Hail is another form of water. which
we cannot regard with Indifference when
the heavens are pelting us with solid mis-
siles. have seen whole city, covered
with stout red tiles, unroofed by single
hailstorm. What became of the windows
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
BABYS W7SDOM AND RICHES.

BY ALICE MAUDE, AGED IA.
o you grown folks with your wisdom,
You don't know what Baby knows
You have never seen the fairies
In the lily and the rose.
You have never heard their whispers
AS they hover in the air;
Only Baby hears them ever,
All for him their stories rare.
When you hear the merry robins
Singing in the garden near,
Do you ever know the meaning
OF .heir songs so sweet and clear?
Ali when Baby, smiling, listens,
With his blue eyes shining bright,
He can understand their carols,
He can heed their songs Alright.
When the butterflies come sailing
Through the air on purple wings,
In his ear they whisper many
Beautiful and lovely things:
And he sees the fairies hiding
In the lily and the rose;
All, you grown folks with your wisdom,
You don't know what Baby knows
o you grown folks with your riches,
Jewels, silver, precious gold,
You are not so rich as Baby,
Treasures great his small hands hold.
For the buttercups are golden,
And the daisies silver white,
And the dewdrop in the morning
Is jewel diamond bright.
you grown folks with your wisdom,
Do not spoil these visions bright
Soon the world will close around him,
Shutting out the glorious sight.
Soon he'll mingle in its pleasures,
And forget the fairies words;
But till then, l pray you, leave him
With the flowers and the birds.
Our Young Folks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
killing Canada ThistIes.

A YOUNG farmer inquiries how to de-
stroy the Canada thistles which have
spread in large patches over portions Of
his farm. We give him our own expert
ence, which is similar to that of many
others.
1t is founded on the we'll known princi.
pie in vegetable physiology, that plants
cannot live unless they can breathe
through their leaves. Smother them for
one summer, and they will perish. This
will apply to all weeds that spread by the
roots. Our first experiment was made
many years ago, On rough spot of
ground selected for a new garden-the
only place where, on building new
house, the garden could be made 1t was
nearly covered with Canada thistles, milk
weeds, and many other weeds. In sin
gle season every one was completely Grad
icated, and the whole surface left as clean
and mellow as garden bed The whole
process was-deep and repeated ploaoang
As soon as any weeds began to peep at
the surface, or rather little before, the
blowing was repeated. The intervals be-
tween the piowings were usually three or
four weeks. Four months are enough to
kill the weeds. But if they are allowed
to get above ground, they will soon re-
cover all they have lost by burying, and
the work will be interminable.
Many years after the above experiment
wehad occasion to prepare six-acre grass
field for wheat. Most of it was densely
covered with Canada thistles. The
work was commenced in June,
and the thistles, which had
already formed their blossom buds, were
turned deeply and completely under by
means of large sod-plow. Once
month the operation was repeated, until
at the last blowing, late in September
when the whole surface was as clean AMI
sown. No thistles made their appearance
the following year except along the fence
where the blowing was not done.
Many other experiments have since
been equally effectual.
Some precautions must be observed
The operation is most easily and success
fully performed on heavy soils, which
lie more compactly, and more efectually
exclude the air. On light soils the oper
alton is more difficult-more care must
be taken to perform the blowing deeper
and more perfectly and it must be re-
peated oftener. The owner can Judge
best on the spot, and must see that the
weeds are kept completely under. Again
If there are stumps, stone-heaps, or
other obstacles in the way Of perfect
blowing, it will be found that the weeds
have kept their hold in those places. The
obstacles must therefore be removed pre-
viously, if thorough work would be made
If fences interfere with the complete Grad
ication of the thistles, they should be re-
moved if temporary; or a spade should
be used instead of the pillow, if there are
post and rail fences which are perma-
nent.
Many years ago, when performing these
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
RECIPES, ETC.

Cement for lamp chimneys may be
made by heating common plaster of Paris
to 3O0o Fahrenheit.
Wire Worms and Lima Beans
This is what one who has tried it SAYS:
The wire worm lodges in the ground, and
is destructive to the seeds of Lima and
pole beans and Indian coin. Plant twice
as many seeds as you want plants. When
they begin to push through the ground,
| draw the soil from the plants gently, and
see if there be no worms in them. If the
worms are there, pick them out with q
pin or needle and destroy.
Nice Cake Without Eggs.--Two cups
white sugar, two cups sour cream, two
cups sifted flour, slightly heaping, one
and a-half teaspoons of soda, which
should be pulverized and beat up with
the sugar and cream before the flour is
added; flavor with lemon; bake in rather
quick oven. In making cake, one needs
to use her own judgment in regard to the
quantity of flour needed, as more is re-
CURED if spring wheat flour is used than
for winter wheat. One can easily deter.
mine the amount of flour needed by
trying small portion in the oven.
Poultry disease, technically called
Ornicephalymosis, is prevailing fearfully
throughout the United States. The sick
ness attacks the fowls in the head, and
runs its course in from ten to eighteen
hours. It's first form is of cold or infiu-
enza, which gradually changes to the
diptheria, slime begins to be emitted
from the beak, which is soon followed by
staggering fits until the chicken dies
The disease is creating great excitement
lxo<r - rl~ 4 jill j ~
phia. There are certain infallibie signs,
however, by which the diseased poultry
may be known. The breast has dark
color, betraying mortified state of flesh :;
the neck is much discolored, and the
skin is drawn as tight as a drum.-Neao
Jersey Farmer.
In answer to an inquiry from cor
respondent the Rural New Yorker says
that grapevines are propsgated from
what are termed "single-eyed cuttings" in
the open ground, but seldom with as good
results as when planted in propagating
house, where artificial heat can be ap
piled. The usual practice is to make the
cuttings in fall or early winter, severlng
the canes about a half inch above the
bud and two inches below, with long
jointed sorts. If the internodes are short,
then the length of the cutting need not
be SO great. After the cuttings are made
store them in damp sawdust or sand and
place in a cool cellar, being careful not TO
let them become too dry. In spring, as
soon as the earth is warm and dry enough
to work readily, plant cuttings in light,
finely pulverized soil, setting them per-
pendicularly, leaving the bud just even
with or a little below the surface of the
soil. Press the earth firmly about the
cuttings; and then cover the entire sur
face of the bed with sawdust, tan bark or
spent hops, to the depth of one or two
inches. Cut straw or chaff will answer,
but is more likely to blow away than the
other materials.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
THE GODS OF THE HEARTH.
ONLY picture, dimmed and smirched

ONLY picture, dimmed and smirched
BY many weary year.
Only plant, with a rugged stem,
Its scant leaves frail and sere.
Only a book, its pages torn,
Its dainty binding stained.
Only harp. with its music Jared,
Its strings all dumb and strained.
Only phrase that strikes the ear,
AS awkward dull, or cold.
Only ring, with Its jewel fawed,
And rust ON its furnished gold.
Yet that portrait stirs one secret heart,
AS no masters work can do
Those flowers for one outbloom all buds,
OF royal scent and hue.
Nopoet's golden utterance
Charms as those pages did.
No lutte has melody half so sweet
In its measured cadence hid.
Those rough frank words, a courtly phrase,
Sounds scarce so dear or true.
No sapphire shrines the glow that once,
The poor, pale turquoise knew.
The Gods of the Hearth they reign supreme
On the altar of the heart.
Life flashes on its varying way,
Each takes his destined part.
The wheel revolves the sunlights CLINT,
Storms roar, and quick rains fall
The thorns grow thick on the roses stem,
Death strikes, to end it all;
But, oh, its only His mighty hand
That can hurl them from their throne;
The gods that Home, and Heart, and Hearth,
In love unite to own.
Tbs Albion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
prJa< ~ OF THE PERIOD.

IS. n was off, and wildly flew for it.
Y asss ~. 2ssz4 folks cried: Let 'em sue
ne to light her fire the faster
~ r. III y intoned the pastor.
- 1as out ere the bed he glided for,
ie9sfoS ri tomly quite unprovided for
4 ~ Il charged, Jones breathed into MS
: Isl ltfng. piece. iooo
! r. III uncle vim support his bowling niece
GO thought hssd dirt with Simpsons vile a
i !he jury stood deem for acquittal.
/, III shave, - nth, of wOmans rights the
The ' pssor - kave slipped" observed the
stiles jun eh moving rail-car's plat
j barsS = = shocking is in that form.
aWhat whi1 eeen stand" said Tonpkins
his sleep - meath the early violets.
His sIhop-Rit15 pQf a topmost floor did Blaney.
After the Ar6 tkoY didn't count so many.
links tried e aop by hand, something-os
NY dauohfsrT next shan't smoke" rema rked
his mothersin-law.
+ The Daily Graphic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
A Young clerk in Springfield, Mass.

"A young clerk in Springfield, Mass,
sportively vaporlzed young lady with
perfumery. The latter supposing he in
tended to stupefy her with chloroform,
rushed out of the store very much
frightened, and ran home. In few days
after the astonished clerk received let
ter from lawyer to the effect that hewas
to be prosecuted for assault and battery.
An explanation followed which toned the
felonious assault down to a simple cour-
tesy of the trade, to the amusement of all
parties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

experiments, and when labor was cheap,
we ascertained that land wholly covered
with the thistles might be thoroughly
cleaned in one season for five dollars per
acre; now it would cost ten or fifteen
dollars. The purchaser Of farm cover
ed with thistles should therefore make
deduction of about fifteen dollars per
acre in price, for the expense of eradica-
ton. Country Gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

When three Irishman dug s, ditch,
for which they were to receive four dol
lars, the trouble was how to divide four
among three and have it equal. One Of
them remained quiet and the other two
at last deferred to his judgment, as he
had been to school and knew arithmetic,
to make the division. He did it at once,
saying: "It's aisy enough! Shure there's
two for you two, and two for me, too"
'Begorra," said one of his co-laborers,
what great thing it is to have learn
ingw And" said the other, as he
pocketed his single dollar, ''to know
'rithmetic, tool It's the like of US two'd
nlver divided them four dollars aqually."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

DRY FooD FOR HoRsEs-The Spirit OF
the Times says: eve never have believed,
and never shall believe, that chopped hay
and corn meal, saturated with water, is
proper for working horse as a general
diet. We firmly believe that the food of
a working horse who cannot be pastured
should be good. sound oats and sweet hay
for at least five times a week. Look at
the South, where the common run of
working horses are fed on corn. What
is found there? Why, the big head, a
terrible and almost incurable complaint.
We also think that wet corn meal is the
very worst way of feeding corn to horse
that ever was practised. And the chopped,
wet hay is not half so good as fine,
bright timothy from the NOW. We like
to hear the horse grinding up his good
timothy hay like grist-mill after he has
finished his oats. a nice mash once in a
while is good, and very different thing
from almost constant soft diet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
Pointing Br1ckWOrk.

Brickwork should never be pointed
when the bricks are so dry that they will
absorb the water held by the mortar. If
mortar of the best quality is employed
for pointing brickwork when the bricks
are dry, the mortar will be dried so quick
ly that the lime and sand will not consol-
idate. In order to soldify, mortar should
be several days drying. The correct way,
therefore, to perform job of pointing
brickwork SO that the work will render
satisfactory service, will be to make a
mortar of sharp, clean sand, say three
parts, unslaked lime one part, and one
part of the best Rosendale cement; pre-
pairing only few quarts at one mixing,
and using it as soon as practicable. Such
work should be done during a cloudy day,
after rain, while the bricks are full of
water. In case the bricks are only satur-
ated in part, water should be dashed
against the wall until every brick is filed
with water. If brickwork were pointed
as suggested, the mortar will soon be-
come about as hard as the bricks, and no
mortar will flow down on windows dur
ing the descent of heavy showers of rain.
Rural Neao Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

THE American Express Company has
recently obtained judgment for the
sum of $4,000 against the estate of Lew.
Dolman, of st. Louis. Dolman robbed
messenger of the Express Company, IN
March, 1868, near Cincinnati, of pack
afterward shot and killed while attempt
ing to rob house in St. Louis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27

"A party bearing of "a dog after Land
seer" wanted to know what he was after
him for!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
AFTER a WHILE.

After ! Willis busy brain
WIN rest lion al1 rs care and pain.
After ! vAiIe 6zfh's rush will cease,
And : WonSle1 hneft find sweet release.
After Win finished face
Aftef Whflea name forgot
A cFumhlIng he1dstone spot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
All lovers of flowers must remember

All lovers of flowers must remember
that one blossom allowed to mature or
''go to seed" Injuries the plant more than
a dozen new buds. Cut your flowers,
then, all of them, before they begin to
fade. Adorn your rooms with them; put
them on your tables; send bouquets to
your friends who have no flowers, or eX-
change favors with those who have. You
will surely find that the more you cut oft
the more you will have. All roses, after
they have ceased to bloom, should be cut
back, that the strength of the root may go
to forming new roots for next year. On
bushes not a seed should be allowed to
mature.-Scribner's for March.
THE Rondout On " Freeman says:
"Mr. Samuel Williams, the oldest printer
in the country hereabouts, walked into
our office on Monday as spry as cricket,
and set one thousand ems for the Greeley
monument. He is eighty-four years old,
and started the Bennington Meas Letter in
1912, and after serving on the Albany
Argus for five years, started the Orange
Farmer. He set his thousand ems in two
hours, which is doing well for man OF
his age"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
TELEGRAPH.

Students will ind the best facilities for learning
this fascinating and valuable art at the Northwestern
Business college. A regular line Of four miles in
length is owned by the College, and is in charge of
operator of Is years expe ricnce. Board 81 50
and So per week. For circular. address
b. NJ. WORTHINGTON Madison, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
800 Bushels from {.
Campbell's Late Rose Potatoes !!

ENORMOUSLY Productive, and of good quality.
Price per peck 81 so; bushe, $50 barrel, SIS. BY
mail. lbs 81. catalogues sent for zoe. samples
of Colored Fruit and Flower Plates, 81. Address
FIX. PHOENIX, Bloomington Ill.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-07-25
from Glen liirhmund.

All of the citizens of this and al.
joining towns, are united in trying 70
make the next County Fair a success.
-Capp 4 Cragin are selling a large
number Of lots on the North side. u
persons who propose to build immedi.
ately
Alex. Ross-hc ofthc wcll.diggor's
amc-met with another mi,hap by
jumping from wagon, injuriug his
ankle considerably
too kiddcr has l20 acres Of as
fine wheat as there is in the county, all
Of which can b. fully seen by Standing
in any part Of the field.
"A large quantity Of machinery is
being bought by the farmers, and, by
the looks Of the crops, they viii not be
troubled about payment.
"A School building will shortly be
erected on i. G. b Fosters land near
DR. johnson $ for private school. aud
will DO in charge Of Miss Clarp, sister
of II { Chrp