Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-13

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about ST, 500 a yea, SO much more mnn an
is sent thither than hither. SuccessfnIy
immigrants sending home their wacns IL
the explanation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, at the onan;n
of the Concord Public Library a fewp oa aug
since, said: "The book, as a comnanicn
is "a always at your service, always willing
and always pliable. You meet with man
OF service, good thinkers, good speakers
ana you 40 not know how to drew them
out; but a book opens to Il wish, and
shuts Wnen you deslre-scmething which
your professor might not do"
In Aroostook County, Me, a Swedish
woman named Nine. Ochestrane, mann
featured a bunch of shingles with her own
hands. She felled the tree, sawed, snlit
shaved, and punched the shingles, carried
them on hUr back three and d half miles
and sold them for flour for the support Of
her family, her husband being sick and
not able to work. The shingles have been
sent to the State House to be placed in the
museum.
A NOVELTY IN II DAIRY.-Butter
made from milk two years old is certainly
a curiosity, but is not likely to remain 50
much longer. A few weeks ago, at the
international Exhibition, in London, but
ter of good quality was made from some
milk condensed and preserved by Hook
er's process two years ago, having been
kept, in the meantime, uncovered and eX.
posed to the air.
70 CHANGE the color o. natural flowers,
place them in a glass funnel, which is in
verted over a plate containing a few drops
OF sal ammoniac solution. After a few
minutes, blue, violet or carmine-cOlored
flowers change to green; dark carmine
flowers become black; white change to
yellow. They retain these colors some
hours. By treating similarly with hydro
chlCric acid, many flowers may be color
ed a lasting red.
In one of the counties of Ohio, an ap-
plicant for license to teach must furnish
the County Superintendent proof of good
moral character before that officer will
consent to examine him as to his other
qualifications. One recently presented
himself with the following indorsemen
from the township trustee: 81 can certify
that - has good morrels. In fact |
think his morrels is too good. He haint
got snap enuff to teach school,"
AS AN Illustration of animal instinct, a
correspondent of Nature notes that On
one occasion, while he was waiting at an
inn door, he noticed some pigeons feed
ing on the oats which had fallen from
the nose-bag of a horse in the yard when,
however, the supply was exhausted, a
large "pouter" would fly up and flap his
wings in the horses face, thus causing
him to upset his food by a shake of the
head; when the supply was again ex-
hausted the stratagem was repeated.
To REMOVE INK STAINS FROM A Book
First wash the paper with warm water,
using a camel's hair pencil for the pur-
pose. By this means the surface ink is
got rid OF. The paper must nov be wet
ted with a solution of oxalate of potash,
or, better still, oxalic acid, in the proper
ton of n ounce to half a pint of water.
The ink stains will Immediately disap-
pear. Finally, again wash the stained
place with clean water, and dry it with
white blotting-paper.
FROM January l to October IA the ex-
ports Of domestic produce and merchan-
disc from New York rose to $236,216,000,
an increase of $52, 500, 900 over the same
period last year; while the imports fell
S31, 100000 short of the same period last
year. The New York Times by complet-
ing the returns for the year and
for the whole country, in ac-
cOrdance with the usual ratio, concludes
that, exclusive of specie, the exports for
the year will be about $650,0OO, 900, and
the imports 5000, 900 ,0O0.
Two FOXY sHERIFFs recently drove
twelve miles, in the night, to arrest a
much-wanted man at Six-mile Falls, Me.
thinking to pounce on their victim while
he sweetly slept. But he wasn't of the
sleepy kind. He heard them coming,
slipped out of the house, chuckled to him
self to see the sly officers simultaneously
nov on the front and back doors, to pre-
vent his escape, and when they were fairly
in the house took their team and drove off
toward sunrise. The sheriffs walked into
town, di%scoursing pleasantly on the beau
ties OF the night.
ANSWER Your CHILDREN's QUESTIONS
Education is enormously supposed only
to be had at school. The most ignorant
children often have been constant in their
attendance there, and there have been
very intelligent ones who never saw the
inside of a school-room. The child who
always asks an explanation of terms or
phrases it cannot understand, who is never
willing to repeat, parrotlike, that which
is incomprehensible, will far outstrip in
euuCdtlOu t1e OItIndIy FOutlHe SCIoldI.
"Education' goes on with children at the
freside, in the street, at church, at play
everywhere. Then, do not refuse to an
swer their proper questions. Do not
check this natural intelligence, for which
books can never compensate, though you
might bestow whole libraries.
THERE are some big farms out West,and
before the war some pretty extensive
planting operations were carried on in the
South; but probably the most extensive
farming the world ever saw is now beng
done by the ruler of Egypt. He has, this
year, %, 900 acres in sugar cane, and he
will raise about 10000 bales of cotton,
some of which, being of the sea island
sort, will sell in England at seventy cents
a pound. 1t is true, he does not own all
the land that raises these crops, but he
takes the whole and pays what he p~leases;
and if the people say they will not work,
he sends his soldiers and makes them.
More than this, they must do their work
well, stir around early in the morning,
and keep busy all day. There must be no
fooling. Nor will he allow cotton specu-
~lators; everything must go direct to the
commission houses. He has the best KIND
of cotton-gins and presses, extensive su-
gar works, and two hundred steam ploWs