Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-19

fullv as to deceive any one but an expert.
For small compensation he Will stre.ch
out on the floor, cease to breathe appar-
emily, grow white in the face, AFFECT me
rigidity of corpse, and his pulse become
so feeble that the beating can only be de-
tected by a practiced finger. The BOY
says that the performance does not lnJure
his health, and he can make himself SO
near dead that it is only by great mental
effort that he throws off the lethargy.
SOME time ago DR.. Mary E. Walker
made application for pension on ac
count of disability incurred while per
forming duty as a contract surgeon WIN
the Union forces in the Southwest during
the rebellion. The disability of which
she complained was weakness of the eyes.
The case was investigated by the Commits
sioner OF Pensions, who came to the con-
clusion that the disability was hot con-
tracted while she was contract surgeon
in the army, and therefore rejected mel
application.
FASHIONABLE lady passing down Third
street, at Winona, Mimi, the other day, IN
animated conversation with gentleman,
was dressed in such extreme height OF
style that her "little love OF a bonnet
dropped off the fourth story of her back
passed on in utter oblivion of the danger
Gus exposure of her head and health until
she reached the next block, when her at
tention was called to the incOmpleteness
of her attire. BY the aid of microscope
her bonnet was found and replaced on the
apex of the capillary pyramid.
CHARLOTTE RUssE.-Take box Of
sparkling gelatine, pour on it scant pint
and half of cold water; when it has stood
ten minutes add same quantity OF boiling
water, and stir till the gelatine is dissolved;
stir in half pound of white sugar; have
ready six eggs we'll beaten separately, and
then together, and when the jelly is cool,
but not CONCEALED, beat it into the eggs;
whip very lightly three piIHs OF rich
cream, favored with vanilla or almond or
both, and when the eggs and jelly begin
to CONCEAL, beat it in as rapidly as possible,
and pour the mixture in a bowl lined with
ady fingers or sponge cake.-C1untry
Gentleman.
A WRITER in the Science Gossip for
April gives an account of the singular
hardihOod of the bat: Having caught
bat in my bedroom, and being anxious to
preserve it without injury, [ got some
spirits of wine and putt in glass for about
two hours, until thought it was dead; |
afterward wrapped it up in a handker-
chief and put it in box in drawer. Be
ing called away from home the next day,
and having remained away for three
weeks, when | came home | went to the
drawer expecting to find the animal de-
cayed, when, on opening the handker-
chief, out flew the bat, as we'll as when l
first caught it." This phenomenon needs
to be explained.
CHICKEN SALAD-Ten pounds chicken
before it is cooked four punches of celery
yOlks of twelve raw eggs beaten stiff; add
slowly three-quarters of bottle Of sweet
oil, beating all the time; add salt, pepper
and mustard, mixing these with vinegar;
when all beaten in, and just before pour
ing on to the chopped chicken and celery,
add one-half cup cold water to whiten the
dressing; add also, very slowly, the well
beaten whites of the eggs. Cut the boiled
chicken with a knife, and do not chop it.
also, cut the celery with knife. This
makes salad enough for twenty persons
Do not pour the dressing on to the chick
en- and celery until just before serving it.
WOOD ASHES FOR PEARs-A CORES
pondent of the Ioaca Homestead finds
| wood ashes, after fifteen years use, to be
worth dollar per bushel for dressing
Il
nurseryman stated that good dressing of
ashes had doubled the growth of his young
pear trees, as compared with the growth
of trees without ashes" Potash is the
principal ingredient of value in wood
ashes, and its value to fruit trees has long
been known; but at one dollar per bushel
it will be found rather an expensive fer
tiliZer for even valuable trees, since any of
the cheap manufactures Of potash may be
bought for one-tenth of the sum that it
could be procured from ashes if they are
worth dollar Western Rural
THE following, which is without doubt
the biggest snake story ever published, is
found in the Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen:
Charles T. Robinson, of Giles County,
killed chicken snake on the 18th inst,
which measured seven feet in length He
found it in the crack Of fence, half of it's
body being on either side. On eXamina-
ton it developed that the snake had swal-
lowed rabbit before it attempted to
crawl through the crack and that after It's
body was half through it caught and swal-
lowed another rabbit, thus having a rabbit
on each side of the fence. The crack was
so small that the rabbits could not get
through, and the consequence was that the
snake was hitched. 1t was killed in this
THE celebrated "cow-tree" of South
America has lately been imported into
Europe, in the hope that the young plants
may be acclimated. This wonderful tree
yields good quality of milk. 1t flows
freely from incisions made in the trunk,
and is commonly used as an article of
food by the inhabitants of districts where
the tree is abundant. The tree grows up
ward of hundred feet high,
with a smooth trunk six to eight
feet in diameter, and without branches
for the first sixty or seventy
feet of its height If it would only
grow in the open air in this climate, what
blessing it would prove to those who are
dependent upon unconscientious milk
men!
BEST TINE TO PAINT Housewife
Technologist says: The best time for paint
ing the exterior of buildings is late in au
tumn or during the winter Paint then
applied will endure twice as long as when
applied in early summer or in hot weather
In the former it dries slowly and becomes
hard, like glazed surface, not easily af-
fected by the weather or worn off by the
beating of storms. But in hot weather the
oil in the paint soaks into the wood at
once as into sponge, leaving the lead
nearly dry and nearly ready to crumble
off. This last difficulty, however, might in
a measure be guarded against, though at
an increased expense, by first going over
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