Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-12

| be married to a young man Who' Sholus
| before the appointed wedding day, lett
her and became engaged 10 announcer
| woman The keeper and his assistants
have resorted to many expedlehts 10 liahe
her speak, but her strange silence remains
unbroken With her arms tightly drawn
over her breast, she sits on the same sIool
| and listlessly stares at the walls the "hoi7
dav long, recognizing nobody, and SEEM
mo unconscious of the presence Of ethers.
The most romantic episode OF this de
| ranged woman's life is that once year
| Young man comes and places bouquet OF
| flowers in her hands, after which he I'M
| mediately goes away. The name and res
| idence of this mysterious VISITOR are
unknown.-Neao York Sun.
NECESSITY is the mother Of invention,
and it is to Mother Necessity that we are
| indebted for that very useful but very dan
| ocrous little household article-the luclfer
| match. Mr.. Isaac Holden, in his evidence
before the English Patent Committee, thus
gives the history of the invention, which,
| he saws, was due to happy thought that
| flashed upon him without any previous
| consideration Mr. Holden, many years
ago, had to rise at four in the morning 10
pursue his studies in chemistry, and eXpe-
rienced the greatest Inconvenience from
his tedious efforts to obtain light from
| flint and steel He was giving lectures at
| this time to very large academy. lie
goes on to say: "Of course | knew, as
| other chemists did, the explosive material
that was necessary in order to produce in
| Simultaneous light; but it was very difficult
to obtain light on wood by that expl0-
sive material, and the idea occurred to
me to put under the explosive mixture sui
phur. | did that, and published 1t III my
next lecture, and showed it. There was
young man in the room whose father was
| a chemist in London, and he Immediately
| wrote to his father about it, and shortly
| afterwards lucifcr matches were issued to
| the world.
| A FIsHY SNAKE-STORY.-A young man,
while herding stock, few days ago, on
the reclaimed tule lands i'll Sutter County,
| belonging to w. H. Parks and others, met
| with singular and unpleasant incident.
| The man, while watching his tlOcks by
| day, lay down upon the grass, and soon
| fell asleep, while basking in the sunshine.
| Like many others, while sleeping, our
hero opened his mouth, and it is supposed
| that on this occasion the aperture was at
| its fullest extent While thus slumbering
in the arms of Morpheus, and may be
| dreaming of many lambs and the low
price Of wool, he was suddenly awakened
| by strangling sensation, and making Il
grasp with his right hand at his mouth, he
caught the tail end of a snake, and his
grip was so firm that the body Of the rep
| tile was torn asunder-the forward half
going down into the mans stomach, and
| the latter half hauled out and held up to
the view of the frightened herder. We
understand that the reptile was only small
| n nprtGrtiV
harmless, whether on the outside or in
side of mans stomach. But snakes al
ter all, may not be considered the most
epicurean dish for cold lunch.-.Hd1Ys-
| ellie (Cat) -Appeal
How TO MAKE \ MUSTARD PLASTER
How many people are there who really
know how to make a mustard plaster?
Not one in a hundred, at the most, per
| haps, and yet mustard plasters are used in
every family, and physicians prescribe
their application, never telling anybody
how TO make them for the simple reason
that the doctors themselves do not know,
as rule The ordinary way is to mix the
mustard with water, tcmpering it with
little flour, but such a plaster as that
makes is simply abominable. Before it
has halt done its work it begins to blister
the patient, and leaves him finally with a
painful, tiayed spot, after having produc-
ed far less effect in a beneficial way than
was intended. Now a mustard plaster
| sh0uld necer mate blister at all. If a Bills
ter is wanted, there are other plasters far
better than mustard for the purpose.
When you make mustard plaster, then,
| use no water whatever, but mix the mus
tard with the white of an egg, and the re-
suit will be plaster which will draw
perfectly, but will not produce a blister
even upon the skin of an infant, no matter
how long ii is allowed 10 remain upon the
part For this we have the word Of an
| old and eminen; physician, as well as our
own eXpcrience-HoarM njlh HoDlc.
TIE Gentry GatJcmaa suggests a
way to prevent hens from eating their
eggs. II is to fill an egg with a solution
OF pepper and put the egg back in the
nest. \ Danbury man has tried this and
says it works like charm. He put q
pretty good dose Of pepper in the egg, and
placed it in the nest of the criminal
Pretty soon the hen came round and took
hold. twas a brindle animal, with long
legs and somewhat cOnceitcd. 1t dipped
in its bill and inhaled the delicacy Then
1t came out doors. 1t didn't galiop, we
don't mean, but it came out-camc out to
look at the scenery, and see if it was going
w idIll It's LIout1 was NllG open, anu
the feathers on the top of its head stood
strai ght up. Then it commenced to 60
around the yard like a circus horse. Once
in a while it would stop and push out one
leg in tone of establishment, and then
holler fire" and start on again. The
other hens came out to look on. Soon the
hens from the neighbors came over the
fence and took up a position Of ObServa-
ton. 1t was quite evident the performance
was something entirely new and unique
to them There is a good deal of human
nature in hens. When they saw this hen
dance around and have all the fun to itself
and heard it shout fire and couldn't see
the cOntlagration themselves, they filed
up with wrath, and with one accord sprang
upon it, and before the Danbury man
could interfere, the brindle hen with the
long legs was among the things that weres
He says the recipe is effectual.-Danbury
Neocs.