Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-02

shut your hands around it so as to catch
the smoke, and the stains will disappear.
Ii you have stained your muslin or gin
CHAM dress, or your white pants with
berries. before wetting with anything
else, pour boiling water through the
stains and they will disappear. Before
fruit Juice dries it can often be removed
by cold water, using sponge and towel
if necessary. Rubbing the fingers with
the inside of the parings of apples Will
remove most of the stains caused by par
ing. Ink also, if washed out Or sopped
up from the carpet with cold water I'M
mediately when it is spilled, can be al
most entirely removed.-Hone and
He0lM.
THE poet Campbell says that he once
heard lady Of distinguished beauty and
rank defend Sir Thomas Lawrence from
the charge of having been culpable in
paying attention to ladies without intend
ing to follow them up by an offer of his
hand. A gentleman remarked that Sir
Thomas was highly blamable. "No,"
replied the lady ut was rumored she her
self was cnce the temporary object of the
| great painters attentions), mo, not ex-
actly-not so much to blame" said she,
musingly "Whatm exclaimed the gen
tleman, "you astonish met Not to blame
for such conduct" "No. not so much, -
was still the musing response. "Can you
really, madam, defend such behavi ~ as
desertion?" why, sir" interrupteEthe
~, ito confess the truth, am firmly of
opinion that the majority Of the women
would rather be courted and Tilted than
not be cOurtedatall!"
ONCE more necessity gives birth to a
novel, and, it is hoped, not impracticable
invention. The New York & New Haven
Railway Company have been experiment
| ing with a new safety switch, which is
| thus described: The lever Of the switch is
the door of which is locked. When the
sWitchman enters the house and opens
the switch, he thereby shuts the door of
the house Or box, from which he cannot
make his exit till, by shutting the switch,
he thereby opens the door Of the box. If,
! by any chance, train comes along while
the switch is open, he must make his es-
| cape from the box to avoid the probabili-
! ty of being himself killed He cannot
make his escape without shutting the
switch. Therefore, every time a switch
man opens switch he is bound, under
penalty of death, to have it closed before
any train comes along. One man can at
tend to only one switch"
THOSE who are accustomed to the use
of "good old Irish whisky" for certain
| physical maladies with which they are
afflicted, may be interested in the infor
nation that Dr. Hodges, of Belfast, has
recently had occasion to analyZe several
samples of "whisky," and has published
the results of his examination in one of
the Dublin papers. A bottle of whisky
described as fair sample of the drink
sold in low class public houses was on
examination found to be heavily adulter-
ated with nap'tha' cayenne pepper, and
vitriOl. Another sample was composed
| almost entirely Of naptha, slightly colored
with genuine whisky; and third delecta-
bic compound had not even "a c0loring"
| of the genuine spirit, being pleasing
combination of cayenne pepper, oil OF
vitrol alcohol, sulphate of copper,
which could be produced by any amateur
chemist at the rate Of one penny per gal
Ion. The physical results to the con-
sumers of such decoCtion can be imag-
ined.
A swINDLE which entirely throws in
the shade the various modes of fraud
popularity attributed to the cute Yankee
peddler, has been discovered in San Fran
cisco. A commission firm in that city
| lately discovered that some of their Gus
toners were exasperated about some
| thing, and soon sundry suspicious and
greasy-lOoking boulders and bricks were
brought in and deposited on their coun
tiers by persons who stated that they
found them in firkins of butter they had
bought of the firm, and these persons not
unnaturally INDUCED in remarks that
could not be deemed complimentary to
! the butter dealers. An investigation was
at once made, when it was discovered that
a consignment consisting Of tWenty-eigLt
1rklns OF what purpOrted to be a choice
product ofthe dairy, was largely "dOc-
tOred" in this substantial manner Some
of the tirkins contained from ten to four
teen pounds Of rock and brick Meas
ures were at once taken to trace the in
genious villainy to its proper source.
| NEWSPAPER ADvEPTIsING.-No what
the honest advertisers want, and, indeed,
what every advertiser in the land wants,
is the greatest return for the amount of
money invested. In order to secure this
there is but one reliable method, and that
is the newspaper for which there is de-
mand, because Of it's worth. The Ameri
| can people are preeminently a reading
people, and of all the literature throw
broadcast over the country that of the
newspaper predominates and is the most
generally read. The people are gradual
~ being educated up to the practice Of
looking into the advertising columns of
the newspaper in order to find where
their wants can be supplied. This being
the fact, it is patent to every sensible ad~
vertiser that the place to display his wares
is where they will be most likely to be
seen and read. In conclusion, then, the
advertiser, III order to receive rich re-
turn for his investment, must seek the
most reliable medium, which is most en-
phatically the newspaper, and the wise
and judicious advertiser will always re
ject every other.-Amerjc0n Press.