Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-25

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| freedom from vermln.
A PHILOSOPHER rem arks that there l
something peculiarly instructive In stand
| ing upon street corner IN large CITY,
| and watch the men all rushing around
| trying to make money, and the women
| floating around to spend it.
A WEALTHY South Carolinian has
offered to contribute 10000 feet OF lumber
for the Centennial building, beneath
whose roof he hopes to see the people OF
the whole country assembled IN peace,
| concord and brotherly love.
THE city of Dover, N. H., has attained
its two hundred and fiftieth birthday, be-
ing seven years the senior OF Boston IL
is, with the exception of Portsmouth,
| which was settled at the same time, the
Oldest settlement in the State.
MAP-MAKING in New Hampshire does
not appear to be one of the exact sciences,
as the recent triangulation of the State
shows that the position of some OF the
largest towns on the map varied nearly
ten miles from their true place.
THE man who wants to be hung has
turned up in Georgia But he wants fit
| teen thousand dollars for it, for which
amount he advertises he will appear n
the scaffold in the part of any convicted
murderer who will raise the money.
A COLORADO paper quotes an instance
of the restorative effects OF the climate
of that State. 1t says an Ohio lady, who
could not sweep her room at home, after
her arrival in Colorado was able to chase
her husband a mile with pitchfork.
How TO SAVE STALE BREAD.-Stale
bread may be made as nice as freshly
baked by dipping The loaf in clean, cold
water, and warming through in bake
oven Much bread might be saved that is
thrown away, if this were more generally
practced than it is.
FEW editors can receive with their
evening mail an envelope containing
dried human ear inclosed in a paper con-
tanning the following fearful warming
Viper! Beware! This is all that is left
of one man who traduced me in the pa
pers pas the Albany Post man did the
other day.
THE valuable COW known as the First
Duchess of Oneida, bought by the Right
Hon Lord Skelmersdale for $4,000, at
the celebrated sale of the New York
Mills herd in Utica, in September last, has
reached Liverpool in safety. The First
Duchess of Oneida has a COW calf at her
side
A FLORIST of Hudson, n Y, has pro-
duced pure variegated rose, which he
has named tor his daughter, Cora Macy
rose" The form and fragrance of the
parent rose are fully preserved, while the
leaves are all beautifully variegated in rec,
and white, blending in the most perfect
manner.
A PROFESSIONAL CRATER tells Columns
Rural W0rld that the most successful
method he has found Of keeping cions i'll
fresh, healthy state is to layer them
down in good, clean saWdust, slightly
damp" Thus treated he says, they do
better than when sand is used on the ends
placed in earth.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Toledo Farm
J0urnnt, after a great many experiments,
has discovered a remedy for chicken
cholera. 1t is this: Take one tablespoon
full Of tincture of rhubarb, one table
spoonful of diluted gum arabic, and one
tablespoonful water; give one teaspoontul
three times per day.
A YOUNG man, named Heber More
house, living about a mile from Port
land, Mich, was knocked insensible the
other day by a kick in the face from
horse. He did not recover his senses I'M
til the succeeding day. No bones were
broken or teeth knocked out, and the
young man is now able to be about.
THE green paper with which lozenge,
are covered is extremely poisonous; but
children are allowed to purchase them
and place them in the hands of infants,
who always carry things to the mouth. y
piece of this paper, twenty inches square
was analyZed and found to contain metal
ic arsenic sufficient to destroy the life Of
an adult
SAD is the lot Of the poor murderers Of
Texas when they come before the Dallas
Circuit Court. The jurymen, of course,
like all other Texan jurymen, have a
wondrous fellow feeling for any man who
has done little bloodletting But, alas !!
the prosecuting attorney is very poor and
has a numerous family, and gets nothing
for his services except when the jury con-
victS.
DROPPED EGGs.-Drop them in boiling
water and be careful not to crack them.
Boil them four minutes; if wished very
rare, three minutes is sufficient Five
minutes will boil them hard. In winter
let them boil half a minute longer than
in summer. Send them to the table i'm
mediately, or they harden very soon.
When sent to the table in an egg-b0iler,
pour water upon them, and let them stand
| five minutes; then pour it off and add
more.
CHEAP AND Coon SoUPs.-Recipes for
| two soups that are very wholesome, pala-
table, cheap, and quickly made. To a
| good many, in part they may be old, to
some entirely new: Sift a pint, or lit
| tie more, of flour into the bread pan :;
break in one egg; add little salt and
about a gill Of sweet milk (Which is
much better than sour milk and soda, or
all eggs; mix together rather stiff. Di-
vide into about three parts; roll quite
thin; flour plentifully so as to prevent it
hanging together; fold from each side
cut in two in the middle, lay one piece on
| the other and cut the corners OH-tirst
one side and then the other. This keeps
them from being long and stringy. Put
about quart of water into vessel, salt
and pepper, and piece of butter as large
as an egg. Let it come to a boil and put
in your noodles" let them boil few
minutes. and send to the table. They
spoil by standing. 1t is one of the dishes
that never hurts one, though everything
else may. Chicken broth may answer;
but for dyspeptic or an invalid the
above is the most digestible. This is
enough for a family of five or six. An
other way is to take halt pint OF
flour, put in a dry-pan, break an egg into
it, rub all around with the hand until all
the flour is wet and it is IN even Jumps
cook same as the other; or it is nice tC