Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-24

interesting, we are pleased to mention an
excellent gentleman of San Francisco,
whose costume owns two beautiful and
peculiar features These are very
gorgeous neck-tie several yards long,
whose ends float behind him like the Star
Spangled Banner, and a large stick of
brilliantly -variegated candy, resembling
an infant BARRIERS pole, and projecting
from his mouth Wherever he goes he is
accompanied by these charms, and con
sequent triumnhal procession OF boys.
The Titusville's pa Herald says: GA
young lady whose pa struck ile' few
years ago, and who has since been at
boarding school, recently returned and a
! party was given for her benefit. Upon the
bottom of her invitation cards she caused
to be inscribed r. S. V. p and one was
sent to an illiterate rich fellow, who has
also made his money by boring. He did
not come, but sent card with the letters
ID. s. G. c. Meeting him in the street,
she asked him what the letters meant.
Tell me first what yours meant?' oh!
mine was French for Respond if you can
not except Well, mine was English for
Darned sorry can't Gomez
Dry AND CRACKED FINGERs-The New
York Wortd in answer to correspondent
says: ave know by experience something
about dry and cracked fingers" for we
| once worked on farm and were careless,
| as many men and boys are, about properly
cleansing our hands. 1t was our own
! fault that we had sore hands, as it is
yours. We finally learned to avoid the
suffering by washing our hands clean
with CASTLE soap and hot water, and wip-
ing them dry before exposing them to the
cold air. Before going to bed at night we
used to rub them with giycerine and dry
it in before the fire. We never had any
trouble afterwards If at our work we got
our hands wet when they were dirty, we
| took pains to rub them dry as soon as
we could before exposing them to the air
Down IN ARkANsAs-Acorres
Of the Springfield 1ll.) Jou7nat travelling
on horseback through Arkansas, gives
this experience Of the general intelligence
i'll the interior: But if travel has its draw
backs, it has also its humors | asked an
| old woman about the road to Pocahontas,
and she was perfectly polite and courte-
Gus. eyes sir, I'll tell We all about it.
| You 90 out yer bout a mile and a half,
and the road forks, and the Batesville road.
hit put off. But you don't take that road,
you take the PolAhontas road well,
| madam, which side does the BatesviIle
| road put off, "Well, stranger, | disre.
member. Pears like it was the right-hand
side, and then pears like it wasn't But
it don't make no difference, no how, stran-
ger, kase y0t don't take that road YOU take
the Pocahontas road" And so | did
DAMP STABLEs-Damp stables are es
pecially to be avoided, whether from new
ness, or from being partly underground,
or from being badly drained. Whatever
the cause, it Injuries the health of the
horse, and he can never be kept free from
colds, coughs etc, while in one so CON
structed as to produce damp. 1t should
therefore be prevented by removing the
cause, which may be effected in nearly
every case, even underground, by proper
drainage. If a stable must be under the
surface, it is better to curtail its proper
tons by building an inside wall, leaving
an air drain all round between 1t and the
old wall, than to allow it to remain damp
and this is generally the cheapest way of
ettectlng the change, for in order to get al
the outside there is often vast deal of
valuable surface to be intcrfered with.
LEGISLATIVE FUN-A little fun goes
further in a Legislative Assembly than
anywhere else in the world. A paper
bullet wellthIOwn will sometimes make
It's throWer the hero of the moment among
our Albany law givcrs The closing scenes
Of our Congresses are marked with the
most wUuuefTm capers, wl1u,c stupidity Is
only less remarkable than the apprecia-
ton of the audience and actors There is
perhaps not so much active hOrse-play in
the House OF Commons, and yet very
trltllng thing will stir its members up to
laughter. a short while ago, when Mr.
Hughes was speaking, Mr. Auberon Her
bert placed glass Of water on the bench
behind him, on which the orator sat down,
breaking the glass and moistening CON
siderable eXpanse of trOuser. The House
cheered lustily.-N. 7. Tribune
EMULATION OF CARBONIC ACID GAS
The Archi0 FIR PAysa02ogie contains an ac
count of Aubert and Lange's interesting
researches on the quantity Of carbonic
acid exhaled in a given time from the skin
OF man. The experiments were care
fully made IL an air-tight chamber, in
which the subject for experiment was
seated, and through which current of
air, freed from carbOnic acid was steadily
passing, while the proportion of carbonic
acid in the air on leaving the chamber
was estimated by transmission through
Dubbed tubes containing a solution OF salt
of barium The results of these novel in
vestigations lead to the general conclusion
that siXty-tWo grains OF carbonic acid-a
considerable amount certainly-are eX-
hailed from the body of full grown man,
through the skin, in the course of twenty |
four hours
LOST ARTs.-It now appears that the
smelling OF iron was carried on in Egypt |
from the very earliest period Mr.. Charles |
Vincent, in an English scientific journal, |
sets forth some new facts in reference to |
this subject: In the sepulchres of Thebes |
may be found delineations of butchers |
sharpening their knives on round bars of |
iron attached to their aprons. The blades |
of the knives are painted blue, which fact |
proves that they were of steel, for in the |
tomb of Ramases III. this color is used |
to indicate Steel bronze being represented |
by red. An English gentleman has re.
Gently discovered near the wells of Moses, |
by the Red Sea, the remains of an iron |
works 50 vast that they must have en-
ployed thousands of workmen Near the |
works are to be found the ruins of tenn
pie and of barrack for the soldiers pro- |
tecing or keeping in order the workmen. |
These works are supposed to be at least |
three thousand years old.
A SAD STORY-It is not hard to believe |
that Dickens early hard experience was
grief even in memory. The despair of |
children is keen-as keen as Their innate
sense of justice. Here is sad little story
from Germany tho moral Of which &c