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

journals to NEEDLE with the private affairs
of individuals.
THE coal-mining interests OF Kansas
are rapidly becoming important ,-o D Lon
ing the mining season of III and '73 4OO,-
900 tons of coal have been taken from the
Carbonate mines. From 3OO to 5Oo per
sons are employed, and the payroll is
| $4,000 to $4,000 a month
ONE would think that the larger the
company is in which we are engaged, the
| greater variety of thoughts ana supJects
would be started into discourse; but in
stead of this. we find that conversation
| never is SO much straitened and confined
as in numerous assemblies.-Addsson.
WE ask for long life, but it is deep life,
or grand moments that signify. Let the
measure of time be spiritual not mechani-
| cal. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments
of insight, of fine personal relation, a
smile, glance,-what ample borrowers of
eternity they are!-Emerson
CRANBERRY-PICKIN is being pushed in
the large marshes in the vicinity Of Der
| lin, Wis The crop is not as large as it
was last year, the cause being ascribed to
the severe cold of last winter. 1t is esti-
mated that many marshes will not yield
more than half the usual crop.
| To PRESERVE GREEN GRAPEs.-Take
the largest grapes before they commence
to turn ripe stone and scald them. Take
three quarters of pound of sugar, clarity
it as for apricots, then boil the grapes in
1t until soft, but not to jam; skim them
out and put into jars with the syrup.
THERE is little valley in ST. Clare
County, No, which the people think
ought to become the new Saratoga. With
in a radius of few rods there are no less
than a hundred springs, black sulphur,
white sulphur, and fresh water. Some OF
the sulphur springs are slightly tinctured
| with salt
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tleman has discovered that, as a law of
nature, every spotted dog has the end Of
his tail white, and every spotted cat the
end of the tail black He says he has ex
amined many dogs and cats in France,
England and America, and always noticed
the same result.
Two MILEsIANs were standing at the
Paramount Water-works in Philadelphia,
watching the big wheels splashing the
water in every direction, when one of
them remarked: mike, isn't this 81
quare country, where they have to grind
| their water before they use it,"
A RHODE ISLAND blacksmith has sue
ceeded in changing the gait of a pacing
horse to that of trOtter, by simply fast
ening an extra pair of shoes heavier than
| usual to the fore feet, whenever he wants
the horse to trot, and taking them off at
all other times. The sudden change of
weight on his fore-feet forces the horse to
change his gait.
| How TO CATCH A RAT-A person who
has tried and succeeded tells us how to
catch rat which may have intruded into
| room where it is an undcsired guest.
| The plan is to take off one boot and lay it
| flat upon the floor close to the skirting
! board. The rat runs into the boot for pro
| lection, and is then easily captured.
y DANBURY man got up before dawn,
on recent Sunday morning, to see the
sun rise, and was shot at by the exasper-
/ ated owner of melon patch, next door.
! In May last he made a similar effort and
was bitten on the heel by strange dog.
He thinks of hiring boy to do the early
rising for his family.
| CHANG, one of the Siamese twins, was
recently summoned as a juror in a case in
| North Carolina. Eng of course had to
| accompany him, and now exception is
| taken to the verdict on the ground that a
man not member of the jury was present
! in the jury-roOm where it was agreed
upon.
! A MAsTODoN skeleton has been dis
covered on farm near New Paris, Ohio.
| About quarter of ton of bones were
| eXhumed, which, according to acknOwl-
edged proportions of the animal, indicate
! this one to have been very large, probably
| II feet high and SO feet long. One tusk
unearthed is IL feet long, and its weight
| $50 pounds. They hope to get the entire
| skeleton.
THE VALUE OF CHARCoAL-Powdered
charcoal sprinkled over dressed poultry
or meat will preserve it in good condition
for considerable period during hot
weather. A few large fragments placed
in the closet of refrigerator will absorb
the tainted or disagreeable smell which
may have been produced by the damp air
acting on the viands kept there for pres
ervatiOn.
MEN who haven't the cash to get square
meals, are cared for at Salt Lake All that
is necessary is for man to enter res
| taurant, order a meal, and after it is eaten
walk up to the counter, and say he will
pay for it when he gets the money. He
is then straightway furnished three meals
per day, for shOveing sand on the chain
gang.
SEVERAL German scientific writers pre-
dict that nations, far from improving, will
deteriorate, both in physical and mental
characteristics, if potatoes become prin-
cipal article of diet; and the celebrated
| Carl NOigt says that "the nourishing pota-
to does not restore the wasted tissues, but
makes our peasants physically and men
tally weak"
THE InternatIonalists'' number $4,000
mem bers in the State of New York, one
half of whom who reside in the metropo-
lis The society is a secret one, holding
the most radical reform ideas, and favor
ing the largest freedom and the fullest
rights of the individual 1t is expected
that they will soon attempt to make them
selves felt in political matters.
LIKE many good things, the flute is a
very old instrument The Egyptians
played upon it more than four thousand
years ago, and the ancient Greeks, espe-
cially the Spartans, loved its strains. The
name flute comes from the Latin 1tuta, a
lamprey or kind of eel inhabiting the
waters of Sicily, whose side is perforated
with seven holes, as the flute was in prim-
tive DAYS.
A CERTAIN Prof Daniels, of Vernon:
attempted recently to illustrate to some
friends the reputed power of the human
eye over dumb animals, by entering 10,
in which a ferocious bull was grazing
He fixed his eye on the bull, but the latter
responded by tossing the professor twenty