Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
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fences are repaired so as to prevent any
stray animals from entering ana ihJuIing
the trees A little time employed III 'iils
way now will often prevent huhofeos u
dollars of damages.
EVERY farmer should produce his own
mutton rather than pay such eXOrDltant
price as is demanded for beef. Procure
two or three sheep, put them IN clean
and comfortable place, feed them what
corn or oats they will eat clean dall y. On
this they will soon fatten, II Kept quleI
and supplied with plenty OF wafer
MY lord rides through his palace gate,
My lady sweeps along III state,
The sage thinks long on many thing
And the maiden muses. on marrying
The minstrel harpeth merrllya
The sailor plows the foamng sea,
TIE huntsman kills the good req deer
And the soldier wars without rear,
Nevertheless, aohdte'er betdH,
| The farmer he must feed them all.
THE Sierra Madre (Col) Tunnel, upon
which considerable work has already been
done, will be twelve miles long, and its
| greatest depth-at st. James peak-Wlll
| be 5000 feet The objects OF this stupen-
| dous work are to afford means OF work
ing the discovered mines rapidly and
cheaply, to discover and open new veins,
and to- afford track for railway.
OF the 956 cotton manufactures in the
United States, 191 are in Massachusetts,
| 139 in Rhode Island, 1873 in PennsylVa-
MIA, Ill in Connecticut, and 81 In New
York, aggregating SCI, or more than two
two.thirds of the entile whole. New DER
sey has 81, New Hampshire ST, Maine
| 30, Maryland 90, North Carolina %, Geor-
gia "a, and Tennessee %.
| GRATITUDE OF A Cow-A gentleman
passing through a field, observed COW
| showing many symptoms of uneaslness,
stamping her feet and looking earnestly at
| him. At first he feared to approach her,
but afterward went toward her, which
seemed to please her She then guided
! him to ditch where her calf was lying
helpless, and he was just in time to save
its life, to the great delight Of the COW.
| A NEGRO once said in prayer-meeting
'Bredren, when / was a boy | took d
Ratchet and went into the woods. When
[ found tree dat was straight, and big,
and solid, | didn't touch dat tree; but
when | found one leaning a little, and
holler inside, soon had him down. So
| when de debbil goes after Christians, he
| don't touch dem dat stand straight and
true, but dem dat lean little and are
holler inside"
| IT is a good and safe rule to sojOurn in
every place as if you meant to spend your
| life there, never emitting an opportunity
of doing Kindness, or speaking a true
word, or making "a friend Seeds thus
sown by the way-side often bring forth an
abundant harvest. You might SO spend
your summer among the people that they
and their descendants should be better
and happier through time and eternity,
for your works and your example
Ruskin.
"THE HUMAN FROG" is the name given
, to defOrmed inmate of the Orleans
| County Poor-hOuse, near Albion, n. Y,
who was born in the building twenty
eight years ago, and has never been but
once moved outside its yard. His legs
and arms are contracted in such way
that he hops around afteFthe manner Of
the animal from which he takes his
name, and his only enjoyment consists in
lying in the sun covered with muck and
dirt"
A CALIFORNIAN town is anxious to get
its doctors to repeat visit East which
they made last summer, to attend a medi-
cal convention. They were absent about
two months, and on their return they
found that all their patients had recover
ed, the drug stores had closed, the nurses
had opened dancing schools, the cemetery
was cut up into building lots, the under
| takers had gone to making tiddles, and
the hearse had been gauGily painted and
sold for circus WagOni
a DISCOVERY has been made in the Paris
Academy of Science that hydrogen, hith-
erto considered III element, is in reality a
combination of two elements, one ofwhich
is nine times as light as hydrogen and
twenty five times as light as ordinary illu-
minating gas. The new element is called
abaron, meaning weightless. 1t will not
burn, eXtinguishes flames is without o1or,
taste, or color. The discoverer, is nj. Lee
barre, a wellknown chemist, and his dis
covery was not an accident, but the result
of series of successful experiments,
A REMARKABLE and important geologi-
cal discovery has been made south of Col
den, Colorado. 1t is deposit of gray clay,
filled with trunks and limbs of trees re
sembling cedar, but transformed into
bright, hard coal. Over it is Gaping of
conglOmerate, and over that coarse sand
rock. The coal deposit is tilted at an an
gle of thirty-five degrees. Apparently CO.
extensive with the eonglomerate are found
rude fiints, tools and arrow heads, indi-
| tiidt pdth, DtlOit Ildlulc udll
ceased to cOnvulse the northern division
of the American continent, what is now
known as Colorado Territory was in
habited by people who manufactured
stone implements.
THE largest farm IN England consists
of 5000 acres, and belongs to man with
the Yankee name of Samuel Jones. In
it's cultivation he follows the "four-cou
systematic whole extent Of the farm be-
ing divided into four great crops-750
acres to wheat, $50 to barley and oats, $50
to seeds, beans, peas, etc, and 75O to
roots. His live stock is valued as follows
Sheep, $35, 900; horses, $4,000; bullocks,
1000; pigs, $4,000 The oil cake and
grain consumed annually amount to $780,
900, and artificial fertilizers about $4,000
The entire cost of manure, in various
forms, used annually, is about $4,000.
Sheep are claimed as the most profitable
stock he keeps.
A REMARKABLE viOlinist has recently
arrived in this country from Europe, who
was born without arms, and whose play
ing is entirely accomplished with his legs
and feet He was induced to visit this
country by an enterprising manager, who,
on the arrival of the steamer they came
by, went ashore and has not been heard
of since by the deluded violinist He
gave a private performance before some
musical connoisseurs at Steinway Hail.
New York, the other day, and they unite