Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-06

nv boy. Go up there with your one GOD,
and a good time you will have OF It, L
had ten, and they fogged me nearly TO
death"
A LITTLE boy in Portland, Oregon, has
gotten off the following luminous view OF
"Oxen." His composition" is given
yerbatim ct lateratem: Oxen is very, SLOW
animal They are very good 10
break up ground. | would rather have
horses if they didn't have collie which
they say is wind collected in bunch
which makes it dangeresess to keep horses
than oxen. If there were No horses peo-
pie wood have to wheal their wood on
wheelbarrow. 1t would take them too or
three days to wheal cart mile. COWS
are useful to. ! heard some people say
that if they had to be OK or COW they
wood sooner be COW, but think when
it come to be MIXED on cold winter
morning I think they wood sooner be
oxen, for oxen don't have to raise calves.
If I had to be a OK or cow | wood be
a heffer, but if | could not be hefter
and had to be both | would be OK.
THE native mammalia, in the Sand
witch Islands, were originally limited to
pigs, dogs and rats. The first horned cat
tie were introduced by Vancouver in 1892,
since when many of them have become
wild, and wander at will through the for
ests and natural meadows, where they are
frequently hunted and captured by the
lasso Goats and cats have also become
very numerous, both in a domestic and
wild state, and the sheep, recently
introduced by Americans, seem to have
become fully acclimated, although the
climate Of the group is less favorable to
their development than to that of cattle
and horses The latter have multiplied
to an enormous extent, and it would be
real blessing to the country if at least two
thirds of its wild horses were destroyed;
they swarm everywhere, and, breaking
into the fields and gardens, make great
havoc among the crops.
THE most romantic of all numbers is the
figure nine, because it can not be multi
piled away or got rid Of anyhow. What
ever you do it is sure to turn up again, as
was the body Of Eugene Aram's victim.
One remarkable property of this figure
(said to have been first discovered by Mr..
Green, who died in 1894 is, that all
through the multiplication table the pro-
duct nine comes to nine. Multiply by
what you like, and it gives the same
result. Begin with twice nine, IS; add
the digits together, and l and make 8.
Three times nine are 81; and and are
8. SO it goes on, up to eleven times nine,
which gives 80. Very good; add the dig
its, and are IS, and and 1 are g. Go
ing on to any extent, it is impossible to
get rid of the figure nine. Take couple
of instances at random: Three hundred
and thirty-nine times nine are 3,O51; add
up the figures and they are nine. Five
thousand and seventy-one times nine are
1863; the sum Of these digits is q; 2
and are O.
To REMOVE STAINs-If you have been
picking or handling any acid fruit and
have stained your hands, wash them in
clean water, wipe them lightly, and while
they are yet moist, strike a match and
shut your hands around it so as to catch
the smoke, and the stains will disappear
If you have stained your muslin or ging-
ham dress, or your white pants with Der
ries, before wetting them 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 a sponge and towel II
necessary Rubbing the fingers with the
inside Of the parings of apples will re-
move most of the stain caused by pairing.
Ink, also, # washed out or sopped up
from the carpet with cold water immedi-
ately after it is spilled, can be almost en-
tirely removed. Ink spots on floors can
be extracted by securing with sand, wet
ted in oil of vitrOl and water. When the
ink is removed rinse with strong pearl
och