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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
RECIPES, ETC.

Good Cookies.-One cup sugar, one
good thick cream, one teaspoon soda
season with caraway.
To Prepare Mustard for the Table
Mix with boiling water to the consistency
of thick paste; thin with strong vinegar,
and keep well covered.
Egg Toast.-Cut your dry bread in
thin slices and dip in cold water, then in
beaten egg Tin which little salt has been
sprinkledD and fry in hot butter or drip
pings. Two eggs will be sufficient.
-Caper Sauce.-Boil half a pint of
milk, and stir in teaspoonful Of corn.
starch or -four rubbed smooth in cold
milk, and teaspoonful of butter. Last
of all add two tablespoonfuls of capers
and let it boil up.
Seed Cakes.-Two cups of butter,
three cups of sugar, four eggs, two spoon.
fuls of sour cream, one teaspoonful sale
ratus, nine spoonfuls caraway seeds, and
flour enough to roll nicely.
-Fuchias, from seed, according to the
Rural Neao Yorker, may be easily propo.
gated, if the seed pods are allowed to re-
main on the plant until they
fall off, laying them aside for a
few days until they begin to de-
cay, and then washing from the pulp.
Sow in sifted leaf-mold and sand, an
eighth of an inch deep, water, and as the
plants become larger, change to larger
pots. The seedlings usually vary widely
from the original.
Veal Patties.-Three and half
pounds of the best part of the lean and fat
of leg of veal, with one slice of pork,
the whole to be chopped very fine Six
Boston crackers pulverized, one table
spoonful of salt, one of pepper, butter the
size of an egg, and one nutmeg. Stir
well together with the hand; make in
form of a loaf of bread; roll in bread
crumbs. Put bits of butter over the top.
Place in a dripping pan with little
water, and bake two and half hours.
Basic often. A handsome dish of cold
meats may be made in this way.
Fish Chowder.-Fry three slices of
salt pork, crisp, in deep kettle; take
them out and lay in slices of potatoes,
flour and pepper them, then lay in slices
of cod or paddock, which must also be
Toured and peppered. Put in alternate
layers of potatoes and fish, with flour, salt
and pepper,til it is all laid in. Pour over
it boiling water enough almost to cover
it. When it boils up dredge in more
flour. Dip few crackers in cold water
and lay over the top, and cover the kettle
close. Boil it three quarters of an hour.
Sometimes add cup of milk before it
is served.
Cooking Potatoes Boiling potatoes
so that they shall be ''mealy when cook
ed" is an art not always attained by our
cooks. Hence the following directions,
frnv Irsc oh ,co
some kitchens if carefully observed
"Put the potatoes in a pot or kettle with
out lid or cover, and with water just
sufficient to cover them. After the water
comes nearly to boil pour it off, and re-
place it with cold water, into which
throw good portion of salt. The cold
water sends the heat from the surface to
the heart and makes the potatoes mealy.
After they are boiled and the water pour
ed off let them stand in the kettle few
minutes to dry
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
cane again. It never went travelling any

NS essoAAAs ~ ASsCA UCAt 6ldVCllug StUy
more.
But now, we are hap-we mean, grieved
to say, the cane-that gold headed cane
isis lost! Lost beyond redemption. A
thief got it, and he wrenched the beauti-
full fiuted head, with the pseudo dipteral
frleze, violently from its ebony staff, and
he went and melted it (the head, not the
staff. Yes, the inscription so deliberately
engraven on the top: ITO A. NJ Girls
void, from his friend, Col. Harry PEBBLES,
1870" has faded away in some surrepti-
tious crucible. The Ionic base was inter
mingled and lost with the bas-relief, the
surrounding fillet, the iuted capital, and
the pseudo dipteral frieze (ouD.
No, thank you, Colonel don't trouble
yourself to send us another One gold
headed cane in life time is about as
much as any man ought to be called upon
to stand.
Exit, gold-headed cane--Fat Contri5u-
tors Saturday Night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

Z COUPLE of Yankee girls put a bull
frog in hired mans bed, to see if they
could not get him to talk Daniel threw
the frog out of the window and never
said word. Soon after he put half a
bushel of chestnut burs in the girls bed,
and about the time he thought they would
make the least shadow Daniel went to the
door and ratified it furiously. Out went
the candle, and in went the girls; but
they didn't stick, though the burs did.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
VAN WITH An AIM.

man with an aim,
Ee ,., 'n ,.eslrh or whether It's lanae'
kers rot 10 me. -oh+
81 in the path OF rlsht,
4 Sis aim in sight,
P ars anu on the he glittering height.
a man who says
Fdo something WE'LL
the Geeung days
Eof labor tell. wall
b. aim he has be sillaii'
b than no4 10 @ do the whole year through,
81 stumble or iaii'
yeaves snare strav
- If those VINO stIas
thought or care
he path may ies'o an"
no hath no alIA
aye1 no name ~
a' Hfe'. d ne, but tento one
record of shame
III ambitions fire;
- marx in the start,
~ # higher and higher.
Ill in tue STRIFE
with labor ME, ;sla dream
{ngrp0seless life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

Julius Ende, printer, residing in
Jamaica, L. l., becoming dissatisfied with
life because his foreman compelled him
to perform mental services, agreed with
his wife to commit suicide few days
ago. He sharpened razor, and, after
opening the veins in his arm and leg,
passed the weapon to his wife, and she
did the same. Then they both went to
bed and calmly awaited death. A neigh
Dor happened in, however, and it is be-
lieved that they will recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

FOURTEEN thousand little bells were
made from a church bell in Fort Scott,
Kansas. which were sold for fifty cents
each to build new church. Enterprise
and novelty combined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

SOME three years ago the wife of Isaac
Scott, New Jersey farmer, eloped with
another man, taking with her their only
child, a daughter, aged about eleven
years. The truant wife and her paramount
went to the far West and settled at Raw
Inns, Wyoming Territory. After a long
inquiry Mr.. Scott at last learned their
whereabouts, and forwarded letters to his
daughter, who he found was Earshly
treated and desired to return to her father;
and SO a short time ago the father went
West and claimed her, leaving his faithless
wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

A STONY HILL party has a rooster
whose wings are silvered by the frosts of
thirteen winters. Its head is almost bald,
and about its neck are the marks of the
fingers of the many who have attempted
to adapt it for the PCT by wringing its
head eff. The aged grandsire, the man
in his prime, and the prattling child have
each taken hand at that rooster, but it
is no go. As soon as it is dropped, it
shakes its head, winks few times, and
steps off with martial tread, licking it's
chops, and appearing to consider the
whole affair as a good joke.-Dan6ury
NelrS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
A Machine for Navigating the Air.

WE have, at the present time, in this
country, scientific gentleman who
claims to have surmounted the difficulty,
and to have established by actual expert
ment the practicability of his plan. This
gentlemen, Mr.. Welby, is an English
man Of culture and of ample means, so
that the usual PREDATORY measure of petit
tioning Congress for an appropriation in
his case will be dispensed with. He pro-
poses to construct copper steamship to
take the place of the ordinary balloon,
the entire machine to be one hundred
feet long and fifty feet wide, and shaped
like wedge. Fastened to the lower side
of this wedge shaped gas receiver-which
the inventor styles ''tloat"-by series
of rigid bars is carried boat, provided
with a winged screw propeller, and
steel engine Of nominal two-horse power,
but capable of being worked up
to five-horse power, and to give
rapid as the wing of a buzz fly. The float
is so arranged that it can be turned upon
the boat underneath it, like a turret on
monitor Should it be assailed
by side wind, while scud-
ding along the float is instantly turned
edge into the eye of the wind. while the
propeller is carrying the whole craft
across the current of the air, and thus
producing sufficient keel hold to keep the
vessel to its course, and preventing the
leeway that it would otherwise make.
The engine and boiler, now under process
of construction, when charged with water
and supplied with fuel for a three days
voyage, is estimated to weigh not over a
thousand pounds The fuel will consist
of kerosene and water gas, and Mr.. Welby
claims seventy-five per cent economy in
the water gas over and above the amount
of heat necessary to produce it by his
process The float will have net lifting
power of 5000 pounds, and will be per
fectly gas tight. The boat itself, accord
ing to the model, is shaped very much
like an ordinary steam barge, with its en-
CINE and screw, and it will work in the
water as we'll as in the air. The whole
enginery, when complete, is estimated to
cost at least $4,000 Boston Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

OF THE hundred good things in this
life, uinety-nine are health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS,
w please say you saw the adverttseme ni
In this paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

the soil, as the grains and oil plants,
should only be sown when the land is in
good heart.
Z. In proportion as soil is found to
exhaust itself by successive crops, plants
which are least exhausting ought to be
cultivated.
Our farmers have only to keep these
seven fundamental principles in mind
in order to keep their land rich for all
time.
Of course manures are necessary in ad-
dition to rotation of crops, but it will be
much easier to add these, and effect a
change for the better whenever required,
with rotation than without it. That the
system of culture almost universally fol-
lowed in this country is defective, the
worn out lands to be found everywhere
in States that have been settled twenty or
more years afford the best evidence that
Can be produced.-N Y. San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

n0nN of Medical Wonders. Should be read By
ktEGA all. Sent free for stamps. Address
DOSN DR. BONAPARTE, Cincinnati. O.
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DR.. WHITTIER. GIT ST GH [H2l1fEE STREET

To Working People, Male and Female
To sell staple article. 100 per cent. profit guar
anseed Sample and CIRCULAR sent free receipt OF
cents. W. MOON d c., 2l0 Water ST., New York.
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S7O On EACH WEEK-AGENTS WANTED.
u law Business legitimate. Particulars free.
j. WORTH. st. Louis. Mo Box 24of.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03

DR.. WHITTIER, sl7 ST GH Ini]diE I STREE
Longest engaged aud most ply cs 81 the ass
Consultation or oanphlss fTss. Gall Or vrsfl
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
CourtshiD After MARRIAGE

There was much more than mere wit
ticism in the remark of an old bachelor
who had paid his attentions to maiden
lady tor twenty years, visiting her regular
every night. when rallied for not marry
ing: If | Were married should have
nobody to court, and no place to 90 at
night He had deeply felt the contrast
between his own delicate and ethereal en-
loyments, and the hard, discontented.
tretted life of too many married people
and his answer was irony. He saw there
was something in courship which too
often expires after marriage, leaving a
cold, dull, monotonous burden where all
was beauty and buoyancy before. Let
US see what that something is. In
courtShip nothing is taken lor granted.
Both parties are put on their good be
havior. Love keeps itself fresh and active
by constant expression in word and act.
But. strange to say, courtship usually ends
with marriage. Very soon both parties
yield to the sense of possession and the
feeling Of security robs gallantrv of motive
and extracts poetry from the mind. The
beautiful attentions which were so pleas
ing before marriage are too often forgot
ten atterward; the gifts cease, or come
oilY w itu tllc uSklllD, llt music UlcS out
OF the voice. everything is taken tor grant
ed, and the love like the silver ie' of the
fountain leaped to heaven denied It's natu
raj outlet, ceases to flow alto gether Then
comes dull heavy, hard days. with two
unhappinesses tied together and wishing
themselves apart, and not always content
with merely wishing This is unnatural
and wrong. What married life wants to
give it new tone and sweetness is more of
the manner as well rs the spirit OF the
courting tune. Very much of the pleasure
OF courtship comes from the constant at
tentlonS OF the parties to each other. Their
affection voices itself in all possible ways.
Every sentence is edged with Il complI
ment and spoken in tender tones. Every
look IS confession Every act is il new
word in the exhaustess vocabulary of
love. Kiss and caress are parenthetic
clauses and gestures in the dialect of love,
and gifts and sacrifices are the more en-
phatlc expressions OF the spirit no language
can fully articulate and no devotion de
clare. And it is Il fact that affection CON
lesses itself continually in look and word
and act, making the voice musical and
the fingers poetic in their touch and doing,
that makes experience SO beautiful, the
only Eden many woman ever has on
earth. Love must have expression or it
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
Airs Well That Ends Well"

| An unhappy married man in Detroit has
had an unusual experience for a man tC
live through. He became very Jealous o
| his wife, and mentioned the subject to hel
mildly and weepingly. She told him he
was fool to be Jealous and miserable
when there was no cause, but he gave
himself up to the 'green-eyed monster
for meat, and the monster fed on him
The torture at length became greater than
he could bear, and he determined to dis.
pense with himself. He wrote letter
bidding his wife "good byc"-the couple
had not spoken for a week-telling hen
that she had killed him, and asking her Us
a last fHvor to send his two little children
to his sister, after he was laid away This
afectionate note he put under his unrest
full pillow, and retired to bed as usual
with his wife and little ones. The unsus-
pecting mother and children were soon
asleep, and then he arose like a ghost
from winding sheet, and made haste for
his departure hence.
He had provided himself with Il bed
cord eight feet long in one end of which
he made q good, reliable moose The
other end he fastened carefully to the
knob on the inside of his chamber door.
and placed the moose danglingly over the
door. He was a short man, and rickety
chair on the outside of the door completed
his preparations for the long, dark Jour
ney. AT least he honestly thought so,
but he had neglected one thing-to tie his
legs together. He mounted his scaffold,
took one last look, over the door, at his
sleeping beauties, put his head securely
in the moose, and swung. Then to him
there came a blank which was like death,
but wasn't. The next thing he knew,
however, was that there were several doc
tors about him, rubbing his neck and
back, and pouring strange liquids down
his throat; his house was thronged with
buzzing neighbors, and he heard one OF
them remark that the world was full of
fools. His wife and babes were there too,
and then he knew he was alive. What
he didn't know Just then was, how he
happened to be so, and this was the way
of it.
His wife was startled by strange noise
at the door, found her husband not at her
SIDE, and got up to see what the matter
was. She found her tyrant swinging on
the chamber door wildly kicking, and
banging, and swinging his arms but
speaking no word She cot knife and
was inconsderate enough to cut him down
before the lawful time had elapsed She
then reused the neighbors and ran for the
doctors, and hence the scene of her hus-
bands awaking. And that desperate hus-
band when he heard the story Of his
wife's devotion, showing an evident de-
sire to save his life, had his eyes opened,
and his heart melted There was no
funeral. The neighbors were advised to
60 home; the doctors We're dismissed, the
fare sell note was revoked; the neck, Il
little blue and black, is regaining its
proper color, and that rash husband has
solemnly promised never to be jealous Of
his faithful little wife again.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
Selling Butter.

The TACT j. becoming apnarent amono
hQtter-makers Is we'll as cbaacn. p,.,i.ars
that ,he hest linn. to sall ,,rn,1,c+ - ,,,1,a,,
Il j. +, for market md trhila II is frasi,
and ti.vorad If NOV, ea+;sfoa+<Iu,,
10 both SELLER and consp,na, and aravon+,
that ruinnu- ar.,mulatio,, or Stnclis ~ .bo
fall vbicf, nre4, anyvn tba ,norl-nt ,,,1 1anJ
II with det..rjo,.,-ad stnF orr hpttor-,,.I-
.-rs a. well a. our cbeas... n,ol,ars ,,na+
learn 10 encour9oa home consu,nntion b,
always keeeinp The home marlets snnnIied
with the best aualttv of butter PaonIa ao
mot want 10 cad IA stala hnttnr Tho, ,ya,,+
ID new. fresh. rosy and creamv-dayored
Give them Suci.. and tbay will co,snp,o
twice A. much. Noarea.ar mistake can ha
made than that Of ruttjnp All the ,,oor hnt
Ter on The home market and keeping the
good for a distant market until it not only
loses IL sweet flavor hut becomes rancid
and offensive
Let not our butter-makers keen hack their
butter this season. on the expectation of
getting better prices next winter hecapsa
prices went up during the mast winter IF
they do, they will defeat the very end tbey
sim ar They will DISCOURAGE and nrevent
consumption during The season hy holdino
back their nutter. and the accumulation will
break down the market in the fall bv food
Ing II with an excess of stock. most of which
80 ""F u /" sell freely, II you do
= ~. -. ,rh; a!Net price as last
.-s-,,..i.i,,- =, +t,l e., ~. snoul" oe uone
~ ~ ,,. ii,t. t,'1 III, ~, eue season,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
The Old Garret.

1t nad garret, very nearly such a one
as 1t seems to me one of us hal described
in one of his books out let us look at this
one as | can introduce it from memory.
1t was Il flooring Of aths, with ridges OF
mortar squeezed up between them, which,
if you tread on you will go to-the Lord
have mercy on you Where will you 90
to? The same being crossed by narrow
bridges of boards, on which you may put
your feet, but with fear and trembling.
Above and around you are beams and
.ioists, on some of which you may see,
when the light is let in, the marks of the
conchodal clippings of the broadaxe,
ber was shaped us it came. full of sap,
from the neighborng forest 1t is a realm
of darkness and thick dust, and shroud-
like cobwebs and dead things they wrap
in their gray folds.
A garret is like Il seashore, where
wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to
pieces. There is Il cradle which the old
man you Just remember was rocked in !;
there is the ruin of a bedstead he died on,
that ugly slanting contrivance used to be
put under his pillow in the days when his
breath came hard there is his old chair with
arms gone, symbols Of the desolate time
when he had nothing earthly to lean on !;
there is a large wooden reel which the
blear-eyed old deacon sent the minister's
lady, who thanked him graciousIy and
twirled it smilingly, and in fitting season
bowed it out decently to the limbo of
troublesome conveniences. Aud there
are old leather portmanteaus, like strand
ed porpoises, their mouths gaping in
great hunger for the food with which they
used to be gorged to bulging repletion :;
and old brass andirons, waiting until
time shall revenge them their paltry sub
sttutes, and bring with them the fore
stick and the backlog of ancient days !;
and the empty churn, with its idle dasher
which the Nancys and Phebes, who have
left their comfortable places to the
Bridgcts and Norahs, used to handle to
good purpose; and the brown shakey old
spinning wheel, which was running, it
may be in the days when they We're hang
ing the Salem witches. [Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
New STYLE of Milk Pans.

The Jeffers0nian of West Chester, Ches-
ter county, Pa, describes some extraordi-
nary milk pans lately made at that place for
the dairy of Enos Bernard. They each
measured twelve feet in length and four
feet in width, and were about six inches in
depth. They were double bottomed, with
q vacuum of about one inch between, which
space vas divided into four compartments
by partitions running lengthwsP and were
so constructed as to allow water to pass up
and down the length of the pan, thus keep
ing the milk cool or warm at the option of
those having it in charge. The four pans
had capacity sufficient for containing the
milk of one hundred cows, which number
Mr.. Bernard keeps. 1t is said by those who
have tried this new kind OF pan that q much
greater amount of cream is obtained from
the same quantity Of milk, besides obviat-
ing considerable trouble and labor. When
the cream is skinned from the surface the
milk is drawn off at the bottom of the pan.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01

whom arc plump and iolly-looking and
impulsive in demeanor. The Princess Alice
being her mothers prime favorite.
The queen is very stout and matronly in
appearance, though her somewhat strik-
ing features prevent her being what Eng
lish people call ''plain" and the Ameri-
cans 'homely." There was IN excellent
portrait Of her published about a year ago
in the British Workman, from u photo
graph, though the lack of chin, which, in
common with the Prince Of Wales, con-
sttutes the main deficiency Of her face,
was artisiicaIly concealed by her raised
hand She has not the slightest idea of
abdicating in his favor, and, coming from
a long-lived generation, may probably
survive several years.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
Trans porting Butter to Hot Climates

For many years butter has been sent from
Copenhagen to Europe in hermeticaly
sealed tin cans. Although the business was
commenced originally as an experiment, it
has expanded to such a degree that during
the last two years, it has occupied several
of the largest butter dealers OF Copenha-
gen. The object of packing the butter in
this manner is to protect it against the &C
ton of air and heat, and this is so COM
petely attained that butter has been sent
from Copenhagen to China and back again,
without the slightest detriment to its
edible qualities. The principal places of
demand are China, Brazil, Java, Spain and
other countries, generally through London
or Liverpool houses. The packages vary
in size up to twenty eight pounds, although
those of four pounds are generally prefer
red. The cans are lined inside with wood
saturated with salt pickle, and, when filled,
are soldered up This treatment is thought
to exert a very important influence in the
preservation of the butter. N. Y. Tribune