Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

connection with the Manly muIuer heeus
explanation, and, in consequence, that
great mar and bruiser has again Deen
locked up and is denied ball.
ACCORDING to ~phrenology a broad fore
head is indicative of a corresponding de-
velopment of the intellectual faculties
at the same time the men WIN the BROAD
est browsa are not necessarily brilliant, or
even so gifted as many to whom nature
has been less bountitul in this respect.
IT is very wicked for small boys to en-
danger their lives by climbing out on a
weak branch Of a tree for the purpose OF
tying a swing to it, The proper way is
to coax a large boy to perform that ser
vice, and if the limb don't break down
with him, then the little fellows can swing
safely.
How LITTLE patience some men have.
Here now is a man advertising IN a late
paper at his runaway w1ie: After you
eloped the third time | distinctly Inform
ed you | should not again run after you.'
And so the 0 woman is lett 10 go
straight to ruin, all because her husband
cannot control his temper.
THE power of love is again illustrated
in the case of Miss Catharine Oates, Of
Cornwall. England, who travelled all the
way to Toulumne County, California, to
wed the lover she hadn't seen for eight
years, and found him married to a MeXl-
can ranchero's daughter, and the father
of only five children.
ANOTHER dreadful warning to snuff
takers comes from Columbus, Ohio, where
may be seen the man whom snuff sent to
the penitentiary. One night, when rob,
bling a bank, yielding to depraved appe-
tite, he took a pinch, and the fatal sneeze
betrayed him. That sneeze, too, was his
last, for in the penitentiary he is denied
snuff.
A LIVELY imagination is by no means
inconsistent with capacity for deep
thought. There is sufficient proof of this
in Milton's Paradise Lost, which is the
result of the ~liveliest and Hottest Of i'm
aginations. The word is often confused
with fancy, which is a lighter exercise of
the same general poWer-the plastic or
creative faculty.
In old age incrustations form on the
arteries, cartilages, and valves Of the heart.
The deaths after the seventy-fifth year are
often caused by such in%crustations. They
can he removed, however, by Tactic acid.
AS buttermilk abounds IN this acid, NJ.
Robing, in a communication to the
IItIlCl hCduSiuS, duNOtdtCS It's Eo q
means of prolongingI life.
HERE is another of those delightful
facts of science: "Feeling is a much
slower sense than sight. If a man had an
arm long enough to reach the sun, and
were to touch that body with the tip of
his finger, he would never find out
whether it were hot or cold, as he would
be dead before the sensation arrived at
| hood ~ rtap, rrhtnh urn,Itf nlJs 1lD
years"
SOME dastard'y wretch crept into a
stable in San Francisco, last week, and
mixed poison with the horses feed. There
were thirty-three of the animals in the
stable of which six died on the next day;
the rest were in a fair way to recover. The
owner of the stable was not aware that he
had an enemy, and the pOisoner is entire
ly unknown.
REFORMING inehriates in Maine, publish
cards like unto this: II, George B.
Farrin, being now sober and earnestly re-
solved to reform my evil ways, forbid any
| person from selling or otherwise furnish
ing me with intoxicating drinks of any
kind; and | furthermore do sOlemnly de
clare that l will prosecute any person or
persons who shall do So"
I'm Ii4>o SiH,o IhS thilooophy Va
marriage in a few words: "a married
man." says he, has many cares; but a
bachelor has no pleasure. Cutting him
self off from life's purest and most eXquis-
tie enjoyments for fear of some tritiing an
noyance, he emulates the sagacity of the
wiseacre who amputates his leg to ecure
himself from cOrns."
AN exchange thus describes a Maud
| Muller who was married in Indiana, last
week: THE fair bride was dressed in
calico, fringed on the bottom with the
same material, a bonnet du so5ieJ, and
gloves, shoes and stockings of unmistak-
able t1esh-color, that fitted as closely as
the skin. When asked if she would take
this man for better, for worse, she replied,
with touching simplicity, You bet"
THAT it's never too late to mend was
illustrated by Ezekiel Kellogg Of Robins
ton, Maine, a hale and hearty veteran of
90, who "swore Off his daily II O'Clock
"tonsil tickler," last week, fearing that a
continuance Of the indulgence might
bring him to the grave before he had at
tanned his Tooth birthday. He counts it a
light matter to milk ten COWS before
breakfast, and says he can lick half the
young men in the state.
ROBERT TOOMBs delivered an agricul-
tural address in Georgia recently, in
which he affirmed that the building of an
OK cart was among the lost arts in
Georgia, and that planters gave as their
excuse for buying Northern hay thar
grass would not grow in this country
when it is known to be a fact that during
the growing season nearly every man,
woman, and child, black and white, able
to work, are labOring hard to kill grass.
To MAKE WHISKY PICKLEs.-We often
| get hold of whisky that will eat up Gu
cumbers speedily. Better leave such
liquor for the human stomachs which
crave it, and buy alcohol pure. 1t is just
as cheap, for it can be reduced with water
according to its strength. Use a gallon
of alcohol to five or six of soft water.
Pick your cucumbers, wash them care
fully, so as not to bruise them, and put
them in as fast as they are collected. Stir
them up from the bottom every day, and
stir in the scum that rises as they work.
This process soon makes good pickles and
sharp vinegar. The SUI or fire hastens
the process. The pickles are nicer if
small.
Nor long ago the pretty sister-in-law of
a facetiOus young doctor insisted upon
accompanying him when, as she suppos-
ed, he was starting upon his afternoon
round of professional visits. 1t was of no
use that he protested she would not enjoy
the ride he was to take. Yielding at last,
with such apparent reluctance that the