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

comotion down there blows that?"
said her friend, chow did you locomote!n
"Why, don't you think" she replied, Il
had to ride la clothes-pin."
THE New Orleans Times gets off the fol
lowing busting poetry:
Mary had little lamb,
With which she used to tussle,
She snatched the wool all off Its back'
And stuffed it in her hustle
The lamb soon saw he had been feeced,
And in passion hew
But Mary got up her ear,
And stuffed the lamb ill., too
THERE will, it is estimated, be produced
in California this year, over 12,OOO,OOo
gallons of wine, of the value OF So
100000; 1000, 900 pounds of grapes for
table use, with 100000 pounds OF ralslns.
The acreage under cultivation OF the vine
is estimated at less than 10000 acres, and
it is further estimated that o,OOO,oOO OF
acres are especially adapted to the cultiva-
ton of the vine.
A FEW years ago, gentleman who had
lost his nose, was invited out to tea My
dear" said the good lady of the house to
her little daughter, 81 want you to be very
particular and make no remark about MI.
Jenkins nose" Gathered around the
table, everything was going well the child
peepcd about, looked rather puzzled, and
at last startled the table: "Ma, why did
you tell me to say nothing about Mr..
Jenkins nose? He hasn't got any"
FRENCH MUsTARD-Slce an onion in
bowl; cover with good vinegar; leave two
or three days; pour off the vinegar into
basin; put into it one teasoontul OF pep
per- one of salt, one tablespoonful of
brown sugar, and mustard enough to
thicken; smooth the mustard for vinegar
as you would flour for gravy; mix it all
together; set on the stove and stir until it
boils, when remove and use it cold
ONE BRANToN, OF Yolo County, Cal, on
a bet of fifty dollars, rode arace on horse
back against the California Railroad train
bound from Sacramento to Woodlawn.
The agreement was that he was to have
three minutes start from the Sacramento
and YOlO bridge, and to race to Davisville,
fifteen miles He rode the horse Honest
John bareback, and arrived at the depot
in Davisville four minutes ahead of the
train.
Mr.. SPALDING, who found not long
since in the South African diamond fields
diamond of 2SS carats in weight, has
sold it to a company Of merchants at Port
Elizabeth for 10000 sterling. A Mr..
HUXLEY, who had been working months
without finding anything, recently dugup
a diamond Of $50 carats, which he sold
for $4,000, and since then he has found
another large brilliant.
CLEANING LACE.-Point, or any kind OF
fine lace, may be cleaned easily by soak
ing it in a preparation of sapOline and
warm water. If this is not procurable,
ammonia may be used with almost equal
effect. Let it soak till fit to rinse in pure
warm water; then lay it on the ironing
board over clean linen, and iron lightly
on the wrong side with q cool iron. After
ward pin the lace on the linen covered
board, inserting pin in every open loop
to keep the pattern clear.
A MEDICAL man, discoursing upon
sleep, makes this remark: Zone man
may do with a little less sleep than an
other; but, as general rule, if you want
a clerk, lieutenant, lawyer, a physi-
clan, legislator, Judge president or
a pastor, do not trust your interests to
any man who does not take on the aver
age eight good solid hours Of sleep out of
every tewenty-four. Whatever may be
his reason for it, if he does not give him
self that, he will snap some time just when
you want him to be strong"
IMPORTANCE OF WARM HENNERIEs.-
1t is well known that the fattening pro-
cess goes on much faster in September
and October than in the winter months.
The reason is that the oil given in the
corn, etc, is more largely used in cold
weather to keep the animal warm, being
burned" up in the circulation. From
this we can see the Importance of warm
memories, prolonging the autumn
weather into the colder months, up to the
time when the prices for fat poultry are
the highest.
ENGLAND is announced to be the only
civilized country in the world which has
not sent homegrown tobacco to the
Vienna Exhibition. Varieties are shown
from Norway and Sweden, as well as from
the tropics and from all intermediate
territories. 1t is remarked that the value
varies throughout very much, according
to the distance from the equator, and thus
while the manufactured leaf from
Havana is valued at los. pound, that
from Holland is priced at no more than
GA a hundred-weight.
THE memory strikes me as perhaps the
most astonishing of all the works of God.
How such infinite qualities of reminis-
to start forward at the call for them, is be-
yond all conception. 1t is utterly mex
plicable if one supposes that, in some
way, all these images are piled up there
inside ones head, in their several pigeon
holes, all handy for the minds use 1t is
no less inexplicable if one takes differ
ent view, and supposes that there are not
these cellars full of bottled images, but
that somehow certain suggestions excite
the brain in just the same way as it has
been excited BEFORE and thus the old i'm.
age or thought is created afresh.-Charles
Eurton.
PERU now possesses a railway across
the Andes, which is represented to be the
greatest modern triumph of engineering
skill. Passing from the seacoast directly
over the mountains into the interior, it
ascends by long series of remarkably
easy grades and beautiful curves to the
highest point ever reached by locomo-
tive, and through some of the finest seen
cry of the South American mountain
regions. Among other attractions of the
route is the celebrated Lake Titicaca, the
shores Of which are skirted by the rail
way, and which is the highest body Of
water in the world The greatest eleva-
ton on the line is 14,063 feet, at which
altitude the summer temperature drops as
low as IS degrees, and July snowstorms
are no novelty
NO GREAT man ever had a fool for
his mother. In the history of men of all
departments of society distinguished for
intellectual power, brilliancy and extra
ordinary mental capacity, their mothers,