Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-15

t1eisch emigr;tted from Holland, fifty years
| ago. Quite sociable family.
THE Lafayette 0nd) Journal says
"There is black and tan dog attached to
one Of the saloons III this city which has
| become a confirmed drunkard. In the
| absence Of water the animal contracted the
| habit of drinking out of the pans placed
under faucets to catch the waste beer, until
| 1t can now sWill down pint at time.
| The brute has frequently been so drunk
| that it was unable to walk"
SOCIETY is commonly too cheap. We
meet at very short intervals, not having
had time to acquire a new value for each
| other We meet at meals three times a
| day, and give each other a new taste OF that
| old musty cheese that we are. We have
| had to agree on a certain certain set OF
rules, called etiquette and pOliteness, to
make the frequent meeting tolerabc, and
that we need not come to open War-H
u. 7horeau.
To JAPAN OLD TEA TRAYs.-First clean
| them thoroughly with soap and water and
a little rottenstone; then dry them by
Wiping and exposure at the fire. Now
get some good cOpal varnish mix it with
some bronze powder, and apply with a
brush to the denudcd parts. After which
set the tray in an oven at a heat Of from
212 to 800 degrees until the varnish is
dry. Two coats will make it equal to
new.
To GET TENDER HoRsERADIsH.-An
English gardener says: at may not be
generally known that if leaves or litter be
placed on the top Of horseradish crowns,
two feet or so thick, the plants grow
through them in the course Of the sum
I'll
ness Of ones finger, which are as tender
as spring radishes, and much to be pre-
ferred to the tough, stringy stuff usually
supplied with our roast beef"
PASTE FOR WALL PAPER-Take a gal
lon Of water, and bring to boil in a ket-
tie one quart Of flour stirred up in cold
water, and strain through a sieve, 50 as to
have no Jumps in it; stir well into the
! boiling water, then add one teacupful of
| West India molasses. Let it boil up once,
and remove from the fire, stirring it up oc-
casionally till cool. This makes a very
adhesive paste, and moisture in the room
will not dampcn the paper through.
MARROW DUMPLINGs.-TWo eggs, two
ounces Of beef marrow, some crumbs Of
! bread, and a tablespoonful Of flour. Beat
the marrow to cream. Whisk the eggs
and add them to the marrow Well soak
the crumbs in boiling milk, beat them up,
and add to the other ingredients. Stir all
well together, then form into small DUN
plings. Drop them into boiling broth,
and let them simmer for half an hour
They may be served with soup, or with
roast meat.
BCTTERED EGGs-TaEe four fresh eggs,
beat them well. Put two ounces Of butter
| into another basin; place the basin in boil
inc water, and stir the butter until it melts
Have ready lined saucepan. Pour the
| eggs and butter into it, and as the mixture
| begins to warm, pour it backwards and
| forwards from the saucepan to the basin,
that the two ingredients may be thorough
| ly Incorporated. Keep stirring the mix
turc one way until it is hot, but not boil
| ing, and serve on hot buttered toast.
AN old colored lady Of one hundred
summers, with handkerchief Of many
colors encircling her wrinkled brow,
walked forty miles to town to get her
dead husbands bounty money, and, upon
presentation Of the N'dockyments'' to the
| disbursing officer, they were found to be
that dead hero's registration papers Oar
now! what's | gWinc to do?" was the only
ejaculation uttered by the old woman,
who turned and left the office to make
room for some luckier individual
| Ndtchez Dem0crdt.
Cost OF ARTEsIAN WELIs-The Union
Pacific Railroad Company have lately
| sunk six artesian wells on the elevated
| plains over which that road passes. 1000
feet above the sea level. The deepest so
far is about 200 feet. \ we'll Of 1 900 feet
in depth costs about 81 800 Several of
these wells yield about 1000 gallons per
hour, sufficient for irrigating twenty acres
of land. Others bring water to within ten
or fifteen feet of the surface, and then
pumps must be used. The flowing wells
are certain to be of immense benefit for
agricultural purposes in the future.
THE Nashville Union and american saws:
! "This paper took great pride in publish
ing to the world, three months since, the
| gratifying fact that the ladies of one of
our churches had pledged themselves to
| dlscOuntenance extravaganza and folly by
| appearing at church in the future in cali
co dresses. We are now enabled to report
that the commendable resolve is carried
into effect one lady member of that
| church having. made her appearance at
| divine worship attired in a calico dress,
which cost, with all its frills, fOunces,
trizzes, folds, frumples, fringes, FILINGS,
furbeloWs and tilagree work, only $780,
BOYHOOD IN notwithstanding is
the prevailing popular amusement this
month. The boy whose parents own the
pond is generally chosen captain of the
raft. The raft quite frequently consists of
couple Of boards the captains father
hand laid away to season. The captain
stands at the bow and hollers, and the
| other officers, whose claim to the berth
principally rests on the fact that they have
dry pants at home, stand at the stern, and
spatter water on the outsiders who stand
on the shore with their hands in their
breeches pockets and guile in their hearts
They thus navigate for hours at a time,
and then fight over the distance they have
made, and finally 90 home to see their
parents about it, and are dried with bed
cord, and are put to bed, where they can
feel of their injuries without moestation
-Danbury Ners
The Pacific slope has yet hero unsung
of Bret Harte or Mark Twain. He re
sides on the Humboldt river in Nevada
and his name is Poker Brown 1t is the
peculiarly of this Individual that he is
marvellously successful in every conceiv-
able branch of industry except that to
which his name associates him, and in that
he Is as strangely and consistently unfor-
tunate. At mining, farming, freighting,
and stock raising he has made about
dozen large fortunes, which he has lost at
draw-poker in speedy consecution. Some
time ago he was the uOSSeSSOr of farm