Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-09

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POSITION IN SLEEPING. - sloo,.
rooms should always be 50 arrannd ping
possible, as to allow the head o 81 :, i
sleeper to be toward the north Frenre 'ne
ly in cases of sickness, person viii iu Gu |
it impossible to obtain rest if the h be-, iiiiu
IN any other direction, and often cure 10
retarded for long time. A Vienna nbT
stefan had patient who was SUFFERING for
long time from acute rheumatism With
painful cramps running from the sbonil
ders to the fingers; and while his hesd
was toward The south he could DO nothin~
toward his relief. On turning the he'd
however, so that the head was toward tbo
north, the patient uttered expressions ~
pleasure, and in a few hours a great i'm
provement had taken place, and in few
days he was almost entirely cured. Man,
other cases are given by scientific nnT
sons; and people, in building houses
should always have this in view.
To HOLD high principles and live On
low ones is Christian inconsistency. We
are all more or less inconsistent. There
is no man whose practice is not worse
than his profession, no one who does MOI
live below his own standard. But abso-
Lutte inconsistency is when a mans life
taken as whole, is in opposition to his
acknowledged views and principles Ifs
man says it is more blessed to give than
to receive, and is forever receiving
scarcely ever giving, he is inconsistent
If he profess that to please God is the
only thing worth living for, and his plans
and aims and contrivances are all TO
please men, he is wise for the generation
Of the children Of the world; for the gen
Grafton Of the children of light he is not
wise-F W. Robertson
SOMEBODY who has been studying the
matter Of the form and substance of the
human hair in different races, finds that
the hair of the North American Indian is
cylindrical, that Of the white race is oval.
and that OF the negro may be termed ell
liptical 1t is also found that when the
hair is cylindrical the stretching and
shrinking powers are equal on all sides
Of the filament, and this condition gives
it the lank, straight appearance of that of
the pure blood Indian The oval hair
displays "a greater number Of fbers upon
the t1attened side than elsewhere, cOndi-
ton which gives to such hair tendency
to curl or curve in that direction. When
eccentrically elliptical it not only always
curls, but often assumes spiral shape, as
on the head Of the negro. The hair of
the Chinese is nearly cylindrical, and
hence it is that curled nair is almost I'M
known among that people.
A WRITER in the Overland Monthly re-
lates the following: This tradition which
| tell YOU" said Refs Hassan, us many
centuries old. 1t states that there was in
Paradise a temple built of precious
stones. Man dare not utter its splendors
Deep in the midst of Eden it stood, angel
built-a dazzling sanctuary. Our pa
rents sang their vesper songs in the twi-
light shadows of its courts; fer there We're
pillared halls and cloisters of emerald and
pearl, where fountains sprang aloft in the
silent moon; and long, LUMINOUS vistas,
where, hand in hand, these Two lovers
walked in sinless beauty. Then there
were pinnacles and domes of sapphire,
blazing in the sunlight by day, and glit-
tering in the starlight by night. From
court and terrace, waters Welled out, and
the ires-crested cascades fell down to cool
shady dells of asphodcl below, for the
temple was placed far within the pTiva-
cies Of that valley Of Eden whence the
LOuI iIN&lS IlpN GU Cast " al " 11oFN'Cl ,
sad to relate, upon the day Adam fell this
glorious temple was scattered into a mill
ion of fragments, and sown broadcast over
the earth. These fragments we now
light upon, and gather up with cost and
care, and call them rubies, emeralds, sap
phires and diamonds; but they are, after
set splendors and the diadems Of princes,
II, .In +Ia
spray that sparkles n the entanglements
costly dust of that lost sanctuary-the sad
remembrances of departed Eden"
THE POWER OF GREAT EXAMPLE
There is nothing that will let the light
into the soul like personal influence; moth
ing that can lift one up out OF the dark
ness, and lead one into the divine and
duickening light, and baptize one in the
spirit of faith, hope, love and charity, like
the magic power of a great example; moth
ing that can inspire, eXalt and purify, like
the magnetic rays of healing and helping
that beam out of the eyes of noble men
and women. If your life has been deep
and broad in its experience, theny you have
seen lives that were better than yours
lives whose pure light shown on you
from a serener hight than you could reach,
and touched you and warmed you through
and through just as the dropping flowers
some chilly morning, have looked up
through the thick fogs and caught a
glimpse of the bright sun, which scatters
the mlsts and opens the glad blossoms to
the warm life-giving light. Whose life is
not, sometimes, wrapped around with
fogs?' Who has not looked up from his
little life world and seen no cheering sun
above him-nothing but heavy, leaden
sky hanging over? And then, perhaps
YOU have almost doubted the sun itself
doubted goodness and doubted God-un-
i'll YOU have seen the clouds break away,
the fogs lift and doubt vanish before the
beautiful radiance Of some shining exam
pie | tell you that [ believe, more and
more, that what the world needs to reform
and redeem it is, not so much a sound
theology, or a profound philosophy, but
holier, purer, diviner lives-lives that
shall be the light of men.-W. II. Spencer.
DURING the late war DR.. -, entering
the hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle;
the orderly, and asked him which he con
sidered the most dangerous of the many
cases then in hospital. That, SIR sad
Paddy, as, with an indicative jerk OF the
thumb, he pointed to where on the table
lay a case of surgical instruments.
How far is it to Cub Creek?" asked
traveller of Dutch woman. "Only
shoost little ways" '1s it four, SIX
eight or ten miles?'' impatiently asked the
Stranger "Yaas, | drinks it isl serenely
replied the unmoved gate-keeper.