Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-25

sidered great additions to this dish.
A SCHOOL superintendent Of Douglas
| County. Col, wanted teacher to make
his pupils pronounce "belles lettres" as II
spelled bells letters" The teacher re-
| fused, and the superintendent sent him
notice that on account Of the little prog
ress made by the scholars" the school
would have to be closed.
MOTHERS will do we'll at this season Of
the year to keep their children in the
house, cool and quiet. Along the side
walk the watermelon and the undertaken
go hand in hand; typhoid fever sails in
an invisible shallop on the lake OF the
green scum and cholera morbus famll-
iarly swings upon the front gate.
To RESTORE CoLoR-When color on a
fabric has been accidentally or otherwise
DESTROYED by acid, ammonia is applied to
neutraliZe the same after which an appll-
cation of chlOroform will, in almost all
cases, restore the original color. The ap-
plication of ammonia is common, but
that of chloroform is but little known.
If Columbus had put one dollar at in
terest, six per cent. compound, when he
landed upon this continent at this time it
would amount to over $4,000 100000 If
| one of the Pilgrims had put $500 at six
per cent. compound interest, to-day 1t
would amount to enough to purchase the
| New England States at assessed value.
| TEMPER OF TOOL.s.-A correspondent Of
the Detroit Tribune says: "lf an edge
tool is so hard as to crumble, grind it on
dry stone until the edge turns blue it
will then cease to breaF and the temper
will generally prove to be about right
Scythes and axes are sometimes too hard
| at the edge, but if treated in this way will
give no further trouble.
THE Coldwater (Mch) Reporter says
that one of the residents of that city has
been the father Of twenty-siX children, all
of whom lived to be several years of age
and most of whom are still living. This
patriarch never found his extensive flock
an encumbrance, but has ever prOspered,
| and in his old age finds himself supplied
with an abundance of this worlds goods.
| LAUGHTER is one of the gifts which
| distinguish men from animals. Mirth,
50 far from being one of the lower attri-
butes of human nature, is one of the
| higher. 1t reigns in an innocent nature,
and tends TO perfect and brighten the
mind wherever allowed. 1t may be said
OF this emotion, as quaint Andrew Fuller
said Of anger: "He would it hath maim-
ed mind:'
LADIES in fashionable attire are gener-
ally supposed to look captivating, even
to the eyes of unsophisticated nature
| But look at the facts A dog, brought up
on whaling vessel who had been alb
sent on a three years voyage, and had
| never seen a woman, was so frightened at
the first he saw when he finally reached
the haunts of civilization that he imme-
| diately went into a fit.
| DEs MONIES has no money in her trea-
sury, and the City Clerk refuses to issue
warrants to the police and other officers
| for their salaries, and to creditors for their
claims, on the ground that the indebted
ness of the city already exceeds the
amount allowed by the constitution. Du-
buque is in the same fix, but the clerk
continues to issue warrants, and nobody
whistles down brakes"
TRUE humor springs not more from the
head than from the heart; it is not con-
tempt, its essence is love; it issues not in
laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far
deeper. 1t is sort of inverse suhlimity;
| exalting as it were into our affections
what is below us, while sublimity draws
down into our affections what is above Us
1t is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the
purest eff1uences Of a deep, fine and low
ing nature.
CROSSING DoRKINGs AND BRAHMAs.-A
poultry keeper says persons DESTROYS
of obtaining large fowls, equally good as
layers of large eggs, and also combining
good table qualities with early maturity
and being perfectly hardy, should cross
the Dorking hens with a small Brahma
cock. The cross between the Dorkings
and dark Brahmas is also good for the
table, being also easily raised, but their
eggs are small"
THE ingratitude of fathers is appreciat
ed now by Mr.. Willis, of Fond du Lac
County, Wisconsin. He tenderly cared
for the old gentleman in his declining
years and ministered to his every want,
that he, Willis, Jr., might make sure of the
$4,000 in gold which the old gentleman
buried before the war. And yet that ven
cradle fraud concealed until his dying
hour that he had dug up the coin next
day and taken it to bank and had years
ago lost the last dollar Of it.
A MAN in Pennsylvania has invented a
rat-trap that is made to operate upon the
selfish passions of the poor rat and lure
him into trouble. A mirror is set in the |
back part Of the Device beyond the bait
and as his ratship is out on foraging ex-
petition he espies the bait, at the same
time believing his own image in the |
mirror to be another rat making for it on
the opposite side. This is too much for
rat nature to stand and be cool over; so
he rushes for the bait and is caught
In Moyamensing prison, says the Phil |
adelphia Press, are two men, one of whom |
has not seen the light of the sun for TWEEN |
ty-three years, and the other for ten years,
and over both during all this time have
hung sentences of death. When these
men were convicted there were circum
stances surrounding their cases that miti-
gated their crimes and restrained the Gov
ernors of the period from signing their
death warrants The Press thinks they
have suffered enough and calls for their
pardon.
THE Jeaoish Chronicle, of London, sug-
gests that it might be practicable to found
a State in our Union composed wholly of
Jews. Its language is noteworthy: 1--WE
have even anticipated the possibility of a
wholesale importation of Jews from those
countries in which they are oppress ed,
either by law or by circumstances, either
by Government or by popular bigotry, to
those vast tracts of territory where nature
is bountiful, where freedom is secure, and
where nothing is wanted but an industr-
Gus population"
HAIR WAsH.-Take large handful, or
a coffee-cupful, of dried or fresh sage
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