Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

ones. By this process the yelks Will De
well cooked, while the white does not
become tough and hard to digest"
THE LEXINGTON (Ky.) Press tells OF =
lady residing in Frankfort who had oeeh
very sick for some time, and so very
strange were her symptoms as to utterly
set at naueht the the skill of the physl-
clans. She suffered from general deblhty,
became frightfully emaciated, and YET
possessed most voracious appetite. Inc
mystery was solved few days ago, now
ever, when, after sick spell and vlolent
fit of retching she elected from her stom-
ach a mouse dead, and shortly after
living alligator, of small dimensions.
Some of the physicians have expressed an
opinion that there are moro OF these AMI
mails remaining in the lady's stomach.
and that they are being constantly gener-
ated there But as to how they had their
origin there we have not heard that any
one has ventured to risk an assertion or
explanation.
THE tender, loving wife of citizen OF
Hartford, Conn, recently decided 10 give
her husband a present-just for sur
prise, you know-and that she might
keep her secret and puzzle him, she
thought she would send it by express. SO
she went to work, did this tender, loving
wife, and bought little box, and some
gunpowder, matches and sandpaper.
These she put in the box, and with her
own tender, loving hands so arranged
them that when the box was opened, the
match would be scratched against the
sandpaper with the result that may be
imagined. This offering of Wlfely affec-
ton was duly sent and duly delivered; but
somehow it happened that the internal
machine didn't work, and the female is
trying to think, in the solitude OF her
present abode, what was the matter
with it.
A WEST VIRGINIA RoMANCE.-Sarah j.
Winemiller, girl of about seventeen
summers, who was convicted of, and sent
to the penitentiary for, burning a small
| log church in one of the smaller counties
of the State, has been pardoned by Gov
| Jacobs. The manner in which this girl
got into the penitentiary is peculiar. She
was enamored of young man who, I'M
fortunately, was charged with stealing a
horse and was put in jail to await trial
falsity of the charge against her
inamorata and devotion to him
that was remarkable, she proceeded
to commit the act for which she was sent
up that she might be with him in the
penitentiary. But alas! the man was ac-
| quilted last fall when his trial came Oft,
and he has ever since, up to the time of
the pardon, been engaged in securing his
| faithful though rash sweethearts release.
| The facts of this notable romance are set
forth in the petition. The happy result
may be imagined.
| u
the other day doctor rode fifty miles to
attend a patient. After he had cured the
patient he presented a bill for $50, and
proceeded to complete his preparations
| for the Journey back to the post, thinking
no more about the matter. AS he was
about to mount, the patients husband
put in an appearance, with his trusty rifle
in his hand. Doctor" said he, 81 reckon
we'd better settle this here matter now;"
and taking him aside, "I GU want agoin'
| off without a settlement, was you?
| don't want to owe no man nothin'. Here
| is ten, which reckon is about the squar'
| thing. Now, if you amt satisfied, jest
| get yer weepon ard come round behind
the hill thar, SOS the old woman won't be
riled up, and We'll settle it, | don't want
no man to go way from my house dis
satisfied, specially you, Doc. "-Louiscalte
| Courier Journal.
A CHEAP DIsINFECTANT.-One pound
of green copperas, costing seven cents,
dissolved in one quart of water, and
poured down water closet. will effectu-
| ally concentrate and destroy the foulest
smells. On board ships and steamboats,,
| about hotels and other public places,
there is nothing SO nice to purify the air
Simple green copperas, dissolved under
the bed in anything that will hold water,
will render hospital, or other place for
the sick, free from unpleasant smells
| For butchers stalls, fish markets, slaugh-
ter houses, sinks, and wherever there are
offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas
and sprinkle it about, and in a few days
the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat or
mouse dies about the house, and sends
forth an offensive gas, place some dis
| solved copperas in an open vessel near
| the place where the nuisance is, and it
will soon purify the atmosphere.
INVISIBLE WATER.-There is nc better
example of invisible water than that given
| by DR.. Tyndall. At every puff of rail
way locomotive, q cloud is projected into
the air. Watch it sharply; you notice
that it first forms at little distance from
| the top of the funnel. Give close atten-
tiou, aiU Sou " III SOluCIlilcS sec Il per
| fectly clear space between the funnel and
the cloud. Through that clear space the
| thing which makes the cloud must pass.
What, then, is this thing which at one
! moment is transparent and invisible, and
at the next moment visible as a dense,
Opaque cloud? 1t is the steam or vapor
of water from the boiler. Every bit of
steam shrinks, when chilled, to much
more minute particle of water The
liquid particles thus produced form kind
of water-dust of exceeding fneness,
which floats in the air and is called a
cloud.
A NEW CONFIDENCE GAME.-A well
dressed young man stopped at Vermont
hotel recently, for few days, and made
acquaintance. The evening of the sec
ond day of his arrival, nice young lady
came along, unattended, and instantly at
tracted the attention Of the impossible
your gsters, who canvassed her charms
| fully as they sat apart from her at supper.
The stranger youth even went so far as to
say that he would marry her if she would
have him, and offered, for substantial
wager, to pop the question and have the
marriage ceremony performed right away
The wager was accepted, and also the
proposal Of marriage, made so suddenly
to her by the young man, and the parson
called in, who soon united the twain.
The sum wagered was paid over to the
| happy bridegroom, and he and his bride
| set Oft next day on their marriage tour
| What lends romance to the circumstance