Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03

avoid lumps,) into boiling water (previ-
ously salted) until of the consistency de-
| sired let it remain over the fire two OR
! three minutes after the flour is all in stir
ring well.
To PREVENT illegal voting, the Consti-
tutional Convention of Pennsylvania has
adopted a provision which requires that
each ballot cast shall be numbered in the
order of its reception, and each voter, if
| he pleases, may as an additional safe
guard write his name on the back of the
| ballot
IT is remarkable how many ways there
| are for people from the country to betray
| their rusticity. During the recent jubilee,
| for example, there were a number of au-
thentic cases where ladies uttered the
| obsolescent syllables, THANK you,n when
gentlemen gave them their seats on a
crowded street car.-Chicago Times
RUMNEY, Mass, has formed a town in
surance company, and will begin opera
tions in a few days. 1t is stated that with
in twenty years the citizens of the town
have paid in premiums and assessments
about $23, 800, and have received in return
only about $4,000. They propose here
after to insure their own property.
For the past two years increasing num-
bers of real canvassba ducks have been
killed on Lake Koshkonong, Wis, where
they feed on a species of celery, which is
identical with that found in Chesapeake
Bay This bird is very rare north of
Maryland or Virginia, and is esteemed the
finest for the table of the entire species.
A MESSENGER of the Revere. National
Bank, of Boston, named Allen, has disap-
peared with checks and drafts amounting
70 Jr,, Oh, l. !,
about $4,000 cash What he did with the
ing the bank he was informed that his
services would no longer be required
THE Journal Of the Franklin Institute
| says that a French inventor proposes to
| photograph dispatches to microscopic
| fneness, and blow them through tube
sunk in the streets of Dover When at
their destination the dispatches could be
enlarged again. By this method long dis
patches could be seat about as cheaply
and expeditiously as short ones.
IT is remarkable fact, that one who
| loves his mother, who honOrs that moth
er's memory, is never a bad man, she IS
never d bad woman. Tell me how a
young woman treats her mother, and will
tell you what her general character is. Tell
| lllc HOW Il tItdtS HIS illptllCl,
and will tell you what his future pros
poets are for time and eternity.
A NEW method of preparing coffee IS
becoming popular in France. After roast
ing, the coffee is ground to very fine
flour, which is then slightly moistened,
mixed with twice its weight of powdered
sugar, and pressed into tablets. Coffee
prepared for use in this manner is claimed,
pound for pound, to be susceptible of far
more complete utilization.
| CABBAGE LICE.-The HOrticulturist rec
ommends, on the authority OF CORES
pendent, opening the leaves as soon as the
plant begins to head and the louise makes
its appearance, and sprinkling in common
salt which, it is stated, has been entirely
| successful. Another rubs on the outside
leaves a mixture of two spOOnfuls of ker-
osene in pint OF water.
INTELLECT AND LOVE- won't say the
more intellect the less capacity for loving
for that would do wrong to the under
standing and reason; but, on the other
hand, that the brain often runs away With
the hearts best blood, which gives the
world few pages Of wisdom, or senti
ment, or poetry, instead of making one
other heart happy, have no question
o. ". Holmes.
YOU come to an empty birds nest, and
pick up the down that clings to it, or a
stray plume that dropped, but, finding no
other trace of the birding, you say, it has
flown away. And you come to a child's
empty cradle, or household tree that
stands grim and bare now, or shudders
and means in the breeze; and YOU say,
that bird has learned to fly, it vanishes
from It's nest Just as it was plumed OF
wing and clear of note.
A CARLOAD of live fish, consigned to
the California Fish Commission at San
Francisco, to stock the streams in that
State was wrecked in Elkhorn River
twenty miles west Of Omaha, and the en-
tire car Of forty thousand trout, HOLSTERS
eeIs etc, emptied into the stream. 1t is
said to be the best stocked stream in Ne
braska at present. The cause of the acct
dent was the wash-out of the bridge of the
Union Pacific Railway.
A REPORTER for a New Jersey paper
speaking of a certain fair creature, re
marked that "the profusion and color OF
her hair would lead one to look upon it as
though it was spun by the nimble fingers
of the easy hours, as they glided through
the bright June days, whose many sunny
rays of light had been caught in the
mcSneS, ana were CDntc0teU 10 go no fllr-
Their" This is better than saying the girls
J hair was red.
A KANSAS editor thus begins a descrip-
ton of the scenes ofhis happy boyhood
ut was one Of those magnificent Maine
/ farms with a solid granite foundation
slate roof, and Ornamented with young
mountains two or three rods apart. Spruce
gum was our only sure crop, and we used
to raise a few of the large red horse pota
toes common to New England soil. These
potatoes, with goldfish, are the staple com
r modities on the coast OF Maine"
: BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.-One pint OF
sour milk, two cups of Indian meal, one
cup of flour, butter half the size of ar
{ egg, one teaspoon of salt a dessert spoon
5 of soda use any fruit you choose, al
: though raspberries are best. Take a three
t quart pail, with a tight cover, grease it
; pour in a little butter, then some fruit anC
50 on until all are in; put the cover or
tightly; have boiling water in your pot
with few sticks to prevent burning; dc
not let the water boil in the pail boil two
; hours. To be eaten with sauce.
r THE following elegant extract is vouch
ed for as a genuine document preseHted t.
a horse owner in st. Louis: SAINT Lewi
! Ganewerry the 4d 1878. Mr.. - james
, HankoX Netturerinary physician ant
Sergeant Dr. Too medikie advice twict
: 3 dollars; konsultation over ded mare
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