Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

~ 'ooo6f .eHy AffJftt.
A BUFFALO paper announces that by
the recent burning of an ice-house there,
20, 600 tons of ice were reduced to
ashes"
THE difference between sealing-wax
and women, says Reuben, is that one
burns to keep secret, and the other to
tell it.
THE women of Columbus, Ca, have
discarded silks and satins, and are wear
| ing theplaids and checks manufactured
in that city.
THEY have got up "corner" on bell
metal in New York. No one should COM
plain, as a 'ring" is very desirable in
| that article.
BEWARE of the dark hued, blush, hairy
poultry in buying. Innocent fowls with
out much experience are what we want,
but these creatures have "reminiscences.
A METAL THAT Expands IN COOLING.
Lead, nine parts; anthony, two parts
bis1nuth, one part. This metal is very
useful in filling small defects in iron cast
ings, etc.
THE Titusville Press says that the
meanest man in town is the one who
| horseWhips his wife because she won't
| tell him what she intends to give him for
| CHRISTMAS present.
THE Shaker colony in Virginia is grow
ing very rapidly, and applicants are nu-
merous. The colony never talks politics,
| goes to bed at eight, and drinks milk and
weak tea.
| PUNcH's idea of family government ::
Mother-Where's the baby, Mary :?
Margin the other room Mother Go
directly and see what she's doing, and
tell her she mustn't
THE hard times extend even to the
far West, and now the poor Indian COM
| plains that none but bald headed emf
grants travel, and the scalp business is
dull-excesdinglv dull.
| AN expressman at Louisville lost his
| favorite and faithful equine few days
since, and Eere is the epitaph for the de-
ceased:
| Here lies the bones of all Ihad
] To drag me on through lite and duty;
He took to feeling very bad,
And finally died with epizooty.
MANY people are troubled with bald
ness; very excellent application to has
ten the growth of the hair is made of one
pint alcohol, castor oil enough to take up
the alcohol, two ounces spirits ammonia,
one quarter ounce oil origanum, one quar-
ter ounce tincture cantharides Shake all
well together before using. Apply about
four times week.-Cor. Western Rural.
| THIS item is from late San Francisco
paper: Stirring beans and peas are a
tritie dearer; asparagus has advanced :;
new potatoes are quotable at &c per
pound; green corn and egg plant are out
| of market; no strawberries have been
received for more than a week Lettuce,
Csc to 3Oc per dozen; cucumbers, 15c per
dozen," etc.
A RURAL paper in Pennsylvania, in an
obituary notice of Forrest, says: "She
was never equaled in her time by any
| TerpsicnOrean artists, though Bonfanti
and Betty Rigel were formidable rivals in
her later years" This is the same editor
who wrote from Washington to his paper
that ''Pocahontas was noble-looking
man. "-M5ss0at,5 Democrat.
To REMOVE color from faded cotton
materials, boil them in concentrated ley
The garment need not be ripped up, for,
| if boiled long enough, and the ley is suf-
| 1iciently strong, all color will disappear.
After the fading is accomplished, 1.-The
material must be boiled in clear water,
and then put in soak, changing frequent
| ly, until whitened.
Mrs SCOTT SIDDoSs' New Yerk agent
| seemed not to be an adept in geography.
| He arranged her Western appointments
in this wise: One night at Davenport,
the next at Clinton, the next at Mime
apolis, the next at Omaha, the next at Des
| Moines, the next at Chicago. The agent
was evidently determined that Mrs Scott
Siddons should have an opportunity to
get over ground in a hurry.
| In showcase in one of the westside
avenues in New York is to be seen the
following announcement, affixed to what
is commonly called "svsitch' by artists
who educate the outside of ladies' heads:
This solid mass of real hair, weighing
one pound, and fifty two inches long, was
cut from the head of a young lady six
pendage referred to is black, and Of the
texture Of ?. horses TAIL