Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-22

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AT recent meeting Of thea frankfort
Polytechnic Association, Professor Boett-
ger exhibited novel kind of ink, which
Is admirably adapted to take on journeys
ana exploring expeditions. White blot
tlng-paper is saturated with analine black,
ana several sheets are pasted to form
thin pad. When wanted for use, small
piece is torn off and covered with a little
water The black liquid which dissolves
out IS good writing-ink. A square inch
of the paper will give enough ink to last
for a considerable writing, and few pads
would be all that an exploring party need
carry with them. AS water is always
available, the ink is readily made.
SADLY MISUNDERSTANDING match
broken up. This was between clerk in
a well-known dry-goods store and young
lady on Essex street 1t was so warm on
Friday evening that she had the parlor
window up, and he stood on the lawn, and
they were cooling to each other, and he
was just reaching up for another kiss when
the sash came down like flash, and
knocked off the peak of his nose and scalp
ed his chin, and he hoped around so
madly and hOwled so dreadtully that the
old gentleman thought he was drunk, and
had him kicked out of the yard with a
great deal of ostentation. Monday morn
ing he went West-Danbury Ne,os.
A BRILLIANT instance of joking under
difficulties lately occurred at Red Bluff,
Cal. The joker was nj. }. DOnOhue,
whose span Of life had been limited by
due process OF law. He came to the
scatfold in buoyant spirits, and seemed to be
delighted with the prospect of getting out
of the world so soon. His remarkable
gavety completely unnerved the Sheriff
and the twenty or thirty friends who were
to see him off. When the Sheriff put the
moose over DOnohue's head, he turned to
the officer with a bland smile, and said:
Il say, Sleeth, can't you put that under
my armsg / was always ticklish round
the neck" These were the humorist's
last words.
CHURCH and State are at variance at
Portsmouth, N. II. The people of that
town have procured the passage of an or
dinance forbidding the violent ringing of
church bells, and on Easter morning,
when the rector Of the Episcopal church
ordered the sexton to usher in the day with
lively ringing of the bells, that official,
fearing the terror of the law more than
the denunciation of his spiritual adviser,
fatty refused Thereupon the rector sent
his son, and there was an alarm betlmes,
that dismal, stormy morning, bringing
hundreds of people from their couches,
and stirring up fire Of indignation that
will not be quenched, except by the resig-
nation of the rector.
THE LAST MILK FROM THE UDDER.-
DR.. Anderson, of Scotland, says he found
by practical analysis, in one instance, that
the last cup of milk drawn from the cows
udder contained sixteen times as much
cream as the first one. This separation of
cream from milk takes place in part in
the udder Of the COW, particularly if the
COW is suffered to stand at rest for some
time previous 10 milking. II there are
people who doubt that there is difference
in the richness Of milk first drawn from
COWS and that last drawn, their doubts
will be speedily removed by milking a
half dozen COWS and setting the first half
drawn from each COW separate from the
last half
ARTIFICIAL CLOUDs.-Provided the wind
does not blow, cloud Of smoke will often
protect crops from frost. Crops Of apples
have, it is said, been saved by building
fires in the orchard when cold night
comes during the budding season, the sal
vatiOn being due to the overhanging pail
of smoke, not to direct heat. In the South,
frost has been kept from tobacco beds by
the same means In France, tar prepared
in peculiar manner is placed in vessels
and burned in fields which it is desirable
to shelter Thick clouds of smoke rise q
few yards into the air and spread out even
ly over quite a large tract.
THE City of Newark, N. J., is just now
busiy and rather noisily engaged in claim
ing Capt Jack, the Modoc murderer, as
one of its former citizens. The Newark
papers claim that few years since there
dwclt in the Thirteenth Ward a number of
half-brecds who gained a living by we'll
digging, and that one Of these had a son
named Jack, who was noted as a rut1ian
and desperate Of the worst sort, and who
went West some years ago 1t is asserted
by those who knew him that the personal
description Of the Modoc Jack taIies with
him in every particular. The Newark
people will not be likely to be disputed in
the claim they lay to the identity Of their
former fellow-citizcn.
DIR. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, said in
a lecture IN New York, the other evening,
that he once saw an iceberg-escaped
from the great glaciers of Greenlantl-that
rose 317 feet above the surface Of the sea,
and that he computed its weight at not less
tNtlitS -StNCH DiiIlollS vi lciS. we
should like to lay in stock of provisions,
consisting of such family groceries as
crushed sugar, sherry, lemons, old Robert
son, mint corn cOrgil," nutmegs, old
Bourbon, cigars, Scotch ale, pipes and to-
bacco, old rye, a box of matches, half
pint flask of pure whisky for medical
purposes, with a few other necessaries of
life, and go and spend the summer with
small lot of temperance friends on Just
such an island as that-LouiscWe Courier
Journal.
VIM TANNER of Leavenworth, Kansas.
who has had fifteen years experience in
fruit culture in that State, having had 5000
trees at one time, including over 200 vari
cites, gives the Western Planter his conclu
sions, He recommends late fall planting,
except for young trees; general pruning in
the fall; trunks of trees three to four feet
high-trees fifteen feet apart to be thinned
as needed. For market he recommends
only three varieties-Cooper's Early,
Early Harvest, New York Pippin. For
family use he recommends: Early Har-
vest, Red Astrachan, Bcnoni, Cooper's
Early White, American Summer Pearmain,
Horter, Dyer, Smoke House, Bailey Sweet,
Autumn Swaar, Wine Sap, White Winter
Pearmain, Jenneting, Jonathan, New
York Pippin, Ladies Sweeting, Timber
Twig.
ONE YET LEFT. - One of the
sanitary police, in going through
an alley yesterday, came along to