Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-13

substances, Onefifth must be added. In
other words, peck measure five times
even full makes one Dushel. The usual
practice is to cheap the measure"
A wELL.KNovN Hartford merchant,
who paid dollsr for stand-up seat in
the top gallery at the opera the other
night, was verymuch edited by seeing
several young men who had owed him
many months occupying four-dollar seats
in the parquette with fashionably attlred
young ladies attheir side. He thinks
few years hence they won't be able to buy
even gallery tickets.
SCHooLB0Y GRAMMAR
Flog is verb,
And 50 is whack;
Cane lisa noun,
And so is back;
And lazy boys who go to sleep,
And through their lessons crawl and creep,
And statter and stammer,
Mnst see the noun and feel the verb,
To help them in their grammar
THERE was once an old woman who,
in answer to visiting alsnoner' inquiries
as to how she did, said: ooh, sir, the
Lord is very good to me-1've lost my
husband, and my eldest son, and nay
youngest daughter, and I'm half blind,
and can't sleep or move about for the
rheumatics; but I've got two teeth left IN
my head, and, praise and bless His holy
name, they're opposite each other"
PAPER CAPs-Every man who works
in the house at any trade and needs cap
on the head to protect the hair from dirt,
should wear paper cap instead of cloth
hat or cap. The latter SO heats the head
as to injure the scalp, and in multitudes
of cases causes badness. The Scientific
american says that very large percent
age of the operatives in factories are bald
headed. A paper cap protects the head,
and is cool and light.
DURABILITY OF TIMBER.-The stones
of which the great temples of Egypt were
constructed forty centuries ago, were
connected by dove-tail shaped ties of
wood, which are found now to be per-
fectly sound, Notwithstanding their great
age. An examination of the roof OF
Westminster Abbey, made recently,
showed that the timbers, which were
eight hundred years old, were perfectly
sound.
THERE have been recently discovered
on the coast of Peru ancient pottery and
other manufactured articles finely
wrought, and some of them of gold, be.
meath marine deposit of six feet, hav-
ing trees growing on the surface which
were older than the Spanish invasion,
which proves that this land must have
been submerged beneath the ocean, and
again elevated to its former position, since
these relics were deposited
IT is fact not generally known, per
haps, that the young State of Nevada
legalizes gambling, and exacts a license
FROM oardslIcrpers and swindlers 1t is
9afaiy stateT Iatf Stats document
ed hv shou. s15 600 from the granting OF
ganoiers licenses. Efforts are now be
ing made for reform in the matter by
procuring legislation to make gambling
illegal, and there is a strong probability Of
that result being attained.
1NDELIBLE INKs.-The cheapest mate
rial for marking linen is coal tar, diluted
with benzine to the proper consistency
Another inexpensive prescription is to
place iron filings Or old nails in strone
vinegar; let them stand many days, and
filter the liquid. Another way is to take
equal quantities of vermilion and COP
peras, and rub them up with some oil
varnish. The first and last preparations
have to be used with fine brush the sec
ond with common pen.
A NEW machine for reducing wheat to
flour, said to be vastly superior in rapid
ity of work, and in the quality of its
product to the common mill stone, has
been invented in England 1t consists OF
iron cages with revolving radii making
four hundred revolutions in minute
Two mills constructed on this plan are in
operation in Edinburgh, each doing the
work of twenty seven pairs of ordinary
mill stones, the flour being also of much
superior quality.
The cheapest way of getting thor
ough ablution and new suit of clothes
OF which we have heard, is that adopted
by an lrishman, in the town of Peabody
Mass. He buried man that had died o.
smallpox, and then went proving about
among the drinking saloons of the towr
without so much as changing his clothes
The authorities had him hunted up. strin
ped OF his raiment, bathed and fumiea aztec
and furnished with an entire new suit
This treatment suited him well enough.
MILK AS A MEDIcINE.-An interesting
article recently appeared in the London
hAE Journal concerning the value OF
milk as remedial agent in certain dis
eases. Several physicians of high stand
ing regard it as specific for diarrhea. dys
cntery and incipient cholera. The milk
should not be boiled, but heated suffi
GENTLY to be agreeably warm. 1t is also
recommended as OF great value in
typhoid fevers-as cooling and nourish
ing, and as promoting sleep.
PROF. H1TcHcocK, of Amherst College
IN letter from abroad to the Springfield
Republican,, says if any one has wish te
see set of villianously dirty human
rascals let him take Suez and Alexandris
for patterns, and if he don't then believe
in Darwinism or something worse he will
be hard to convince of anything within
the capacity of human reason. And vet
right in their midst, stand those superb
granite obelisks, Cleopatra's Needle and
Pompey' s Pillar, the like of which the ar,
and science of the nineteenth century
could not produce.
TO SECURE MUTUAL HAPPINESS. Hap
piness between husband and wife car
only be secured by that constant tender
ness and care of the parties for each
other which are based upon warm and
demonstrative love- The heart demands
that the man shall not sit reticent, self
absorbed, and silent in the midst of his
family. The woman who forgets to note
and provide for her husbands tastes and
wishes, renders her home undesirable fol
him. In word, ever present and ever
demonstrative gentleness must reign, OF
else the heart starves.
ONE of the most exciting occupations
or a woman nowadays is matching
things" In olden days, when you got q
blue dress, or stone colored dress, or a
maroon-c olored dress, you ordered the
dress pattern home, and then quite coolly
walked into a trimming store and bought
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