Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-29

finoer 11Don it, and then SqueeZes IL ugnt,
and--misses it. He looks at 1t TOR mo-
ment before making another effort, ana
fills ND the interval with few remarks.
The third attempt is sort OF seml-circle,
described with great deal OF sagaclty,
but it is failure. Other remarks follow;
Then he makes succession OF dives, and
slops the water over his clothes, and
drenches the carpet and catches hold of
the soap several times, and lets go OF 1t
AGAIN, and screams at the top of his voice,
and finally, in perfect despair, sits down
on the floor and actually howls-Dandury
Neus.
SURGICAL OPERATION ON A HEN.-A
gentleman living in Lexington, Mass,
bought some hens of neighbor After
getting them home he noticed that one OF
them had an immense crop, which hung
down nearly to the ground, and seemed TO
cause her much trouble, if not consider
able pain Being Of kindly nature, and
always DESTROYS of alleviating the suffer
ings of the afflicted, besides being some
what of an amateur surgeon, 1t occurred
to the gentleman that he might perhaps
relieve the hen of her unnatural burden.
He accordingly procured sharp lnstru-
ment, and making an incisiOn through
her neck into the crop, took out large
dish-clOth which in some greedy moment
Door biddy had swallowed. He then, after
applying water and lard to the wound
sewed it up, and the hen now is apparent
ly as we'll as ever
How EASILY BUTTER IS SPoILED.-A
farmers wife writing to the Oh50 fdInaer
says: "Of all the products Of the farm,
butter is most likely to be tainted by nox-
ious odors floating in the atmosphere.
Our people laid some veal in the cellar,
from which little blood flowed out, and
was neglected until it commenced to
smell. The result was that jar OF butter
which | was then packing, smelled and
tasted like spoiled beef Another lady
reader observes that there is filthy, stag
nant pond of water a few hundred feet
from their house. from which an offensive
etfiuvium would be borne on the breeze
directly to the milk ROOM when the wind
was in certain direction, the result Of
which was that the cream and butter
would taste like the disagrecable Odor
coming from that pond. AS soon as the
pond was drained we had no more dam
aged butter.
BoNEs-A writer in the H0rticuIturist
buys bones of butcher at dollar the
| hundred pounds, and considers them the
| cheapest fertilizer he can obtain. He
| transforms them into meal by the follow
ing simple and effective process: Il have
| a large water-tight hOgshead standing out
| doors, near the kitchen. In the spring
| cover the bottom about six inches deep
with dry soil. On this put a layer Of
| bones about the same depth, and cover
| them entirely with unleached ashes. On
these another layer Of bones, then ashes,
and so on until the hogshead is full. |
leave it then exposed to the sun and rain
all summer and winter, until the next
spring. Then, on removing the contents
Of the hogshcad, | find nearly all the
bones so soft that they will crumble to
powder under very slight pressure, and,
mixed with the ashes and the soil, they
give nice little pile of most valuable
manure, ready for immediate use. Any
Of the bones not sufficiently subdued, |
return to the hogshead again for another
| twelve months slumbcr."
No CLOUD is so dark that there is not
| light beyond. A wretched little ten-year-
old boy ragged and almost bare-footed,
drifting along Detroit streets one day last
| Dead" responded the Young gentleman,
amiably "Where's your mother?" Run
away" he answered. His interlOcutOr
expressed sympathy, and observed that he
must feel lonesome. Did this interesting
child wipe the eve of selfish sensibility at
| this speech? No; his nature ran in
| broader, more humanitarian, and artistic
| channels. His youthful, noble cOuntc-
nance glowed and frightened, and an eX-
ulting smile played upon his lips. The
purest, sweetest dreams Of his early years,
and tender anticipations of the future,
mingled in that smile Lonesome? Not
a bit of it," exclaimed the brave BOY,
there's goin' to be the biggest circus here
next week you ever set eyes onn' There
is a striking resemblance in character be-
tween this true-hearted youth and the
| British child, who, on being told that his
| father was lost at sea, burst into tears, re
making, "he had my best jack-knife with
| him"
\ REvENGEFUL traveller on a certain
| Western railroad packed a carpet-bag full
of loaded revOlvers, and handed it to a
| gentlemanly baggage -smasher, who had
ruined three or four trunks for him
already. The smasher flung the bag up
against the wall savagely, and then threw
| it on the floor and stamped on it, and
| jumped up and down on it, as usual At
about the fourth jump firing began along
the whole line. Forty-siX revolvers went
off in rapid succession, distributing bullets
around the car with disgusting careless
ness of the legs of the smasher, who was
shot in six places before he could get out
OF the car. He rode upon the platform
during the whole of that trip; and when
| be did enter the car he encased his legs in
stove pipe, and ran an iron-clad snow
pillow in front of him to push the baggage
out with. He smashes, perhaps, fewer
carpet-bags now than he once did in
the blissful past-much fewer; and he is
| filled with gloom. The only boon he
Graves is that he may be present when the
carpet-bag owner calls with his check
| He says there will then be a conflict
| which will make the Franco German war
appear perfectly ridiculous.
Boston school girls play football.