Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-31

Georglana Fullerton. In her romance,
100 Strange Not to be True Charlotte
or brunswick, early in the last century,
settles upon the Lower Mississippi, where
the rocky Mountains are visible from her
windows, and where, amid the gambolings
OF monkeys and the tumbings of buff
faloes, she gathers the lotus flowers from
| out of the tropical luxuriance and in the
| twilight rows her canoe to the falls of the
Mlnnehaha, narrowly escaping the ALI
gators, but returning in time for tea, and
to amuse herself, quoting Longfellow's
song, "HlaWatha, which she had heard
the Indians chanting in their forest
places.-Bdttamore Gazette
A BLACK AND WHITE Boy CoMBINA
| TION.-A remarkable boy was to be seen
at the Nashville depot Yesterday; in fact
one Of the greatest curiosities of the age.
He is half white and half black, not in the
mulatto and miscegnation sense, but the
lower halt of his body is whittier than
white folks usually are, while the upper
portion is black as midnight. His moth
er, coal black negress, was with him,
and they left on the Nashville train at 7
O'Clock last evening He is but three
years old, and has already learned to make
money out of his pecularities. He made
several nickels yesterday in a very few
minutes. There is round patch, about
three inches in diameter, of perfectly
beautiful hair on the top or his head,
which is surrounded by little kinky negro
woOl.-LouisUGUe Ledger.
TALENT years
ago an honest citizen of Newburyport,
who had acquired competence by hard
work, was appointed by His Excellency
Justice of the Peace The appoint
ment which had been unsolicited, was
regarded by him as a very great honor,
and he determined to make himself wor-
| thy of it by retiring from active business
and giving his attention to books. His
hrst purchase was copy of the general
statutes--his next a volume of the plays
of Shakespeare about whom, as he told
his wife confidently, he had heard the bio
guns say great deal. The great poet
produced powerful impression upon
him. 81 don't suppose he said, speak
ing of it afterward to his friends, ''there
are twenty men in Massachusetts who
| could have written such book
AS Mr.. VIM. Stockdale was returning
from visiting the circus at Peterboro',
Canada, he and the young lady who &C
cOmpanied him met, says the Bobcaygeon
independent, with a rather singular acct
dent. He was driving in one horse bug
gy and going at good smart pace when,
from some unexplained cause, he did not
see four-year-old steer that was lying in
the road, and before he was aware of it
drove over the animal. The steer rose up
suddenly with the buggy on his back and
for few yards horse, buggy, lovers, and
steer went together tremendously at full
| trot, but the steer diverging destroyed the
equilibrium, and buggy, steer, young lady,
horse, and VIM. Stockdale retired into the
ditch. Happily no bones were broken,
though some bruises were received, some
fright occasioned, and a parasol injured
beyond all possibility of cure.
READING, Pa, has recently been the
scene of an incident which gilds with
tlnge Of romance a shadow of the darkest
crime. A young lady enters Bishops
Bank in that city, presents her fathers
bank book, with check for the balance
at his credit, and receives the money. He
having occasion, shortly afterWard, to use
it, misses his bank book, and goes imme-
diately to the bank to make known his
loss. "1our book is not lost" says the
teller; your daughter brought it with her
when she drew out the money" DREW
out what money!" retorts the astonishcd
forced upon him that he has been robbed
by his own daughter, and that she is
torger Of the cleverest kind Subsequent
disclosures reveal the fact that she has
eloped with distinguished foreigner, and
left for parts unknown.
WASHING SUMNER SUITs.-HOw annoy
ing it is to have your beautiful linen suits
or your delicate lawns and percales turned
t,Nf,N H.
great quantity of soda used by most wash
erwomen. Soda should never be used in
the water in which cOlOred fabrics are to
be washed. The only way to wash mus
Inns or linens is to have merely tepid
water and make suds, nor touch the ar
ticle washed with soap. Wash and rinse
quickly. Do not place but one garment
at a time in the tub, and that must be rub
bed rapidly through the water, rinsed,
turned on the wrong side, and hung in the
| shade to dry. Then starch the dresses in
| thin boiled, warm starch, folded in clean
cloths, and irOned upon the wrong side as
| soon as possible. 1t improves buff linen
| to wash it in water in which little hay
or a quart bag of bran has been boiled.
| The bran answers for starch as well, and
brightens print dresses. A handful of
salt will help set the colors Of light cam
| brics and dotted lawns. a little beef's gall
will not only set, but deepen yellow and
purple tints, and helps green.
| PHOTOGRAPHING A KIss.-In the neigh
borhood of Chiselhurst, one dav, an en-
amored pair were walking pleasantly
| along, quite unconscious of the surround
ings, and more particularly of the fact
that an itinerant photographer had taken
up his position, surrounded by an inter
esting crowd. AS the swain and the
maiden took their way, what more natural
than that the former should imprint a
chaste salute on the pouting lips of ais
fair companion? What more ANNOYING
than that the camera should have seized
them in the act and rendered it immortal9
The hapless couple became aware of the
fact from the loud outbursts of laughter
which ran through the assemblage as the
plate was held up, and the girl at first
| stormed and threatened, but, subsiding
into more reasonable mood, offered to
| purchase the negative. But the photo
grapher was memorable. He was willing
to sell any number of copies, but insisted
upon retaining the original.
The TRIUMPH OF LovE.-On Sunday
last couple that had eloped from one of
the schools at Paris, came to a preacher
on the Red River, in this county, duly
equipped with a license, and desired him
to marry them. Seeing that the young
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