Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08

very great ueal,' they say, Sulte some
much"
An English school girl recently wrote
a composition on the provisions of Magma
Charta, one of which, she said, was that
the rights of the church should be pre-
served ''in violet"
THE forests and mines of Turkey are
to be turned to greater account than hith-
erto by throwing open the concessions
for working these productive sources OF
wealth to public competition.
THE Patrons of Husbandry have
adopted one practice as rule of their
order worthy of imitation by the unre-
generate, which is never to go to law,
and to have all disputes settled by arbi-
tration.
Two pork barrels in Concord, n. H,
made of pine, have been in constant use
for 143 years. If properly hoped they
will last another century. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 pounds of pork and other
meats have been packed in them.
RAISED CAKE.-Two cups of raised
dough; two eggs; two cups of sugar; one
cup of butter; one cup of sweet milk;
one tea-spoOnful of soda; two cups of
flour; one cup of fruit; cinnamon, cloves,
and nutmeg. To be put into the oven at
once.
THE Terre Haute E1presS says:
"There are at least one thousand men IN
this city willing to enlist as field officers
in a war to conquer Cuba. There is
also right smart sprinkling Of martyr
souls willing to go as suffers and quar-
termasters."
DR.. BURDoN-SANDERsoN, in making
some experiments on the electrical phe-
nOmena which accompany the contrac-
ton Of the leaves of a sensitive plant,
found the currents produced are subject
in all respects to the same laws as those
of muscles and nerves.
GINGER CAKRs.-Three tablespoons of
boiling water poured On two teaspoons
soda; two cups molasses, one of sugar ;
one large cup lard salt; one teaspoon
cream of-tartar; ginger. Mix mOlasses
and sugar; melt shortening. Pour IN
flour and then add soda.
EVERYBODY is fond of giving advice,
and the following may be read with both
profit and pleasure: Buy in the cheapest
market Sell in the dearest. The num-
Der of children your neXt-doOr neighbOr
may have is nothing to you. The num-
Der you have yourself is.
fJs-
whites to a stiff trOth; one and half cup
of sugar; half cup of butter: half a
cup Of sweet milk; one tea-spoOnfnl of
cream oftartar; half a tea-spoOnful OF
soda; two and a quarter cups Of flour;
half a cup of cocOa-nut; flavor with
lemon.
SODA CAKEs.-One teacup white sugar,
| one of sweet milk, one egg, one cup fruit,
= 1.
| butter, one teaspoon soda, two of cream
Of-tartar. Eat hot with brandy or wine
sauce as pudding, or cut up cold for tea
as cake. Bake or steam it forty min
| utes.
| CEMENT FOR WOOD VEssELs.-A mix
! ture Of lime clay and oxide of iron, sep
arately calcined and reduced to fine pow
der, then intimately mixed, kept in close
vessel and mixed with the requisite guam
tity of water when used. This will rem
der vessel watertight if the ingredients
are good.
AT a recent Sunday school picnic in
Allegheny County, Pa, a gilt-edged Bible
was offered as prize to any one who
would repeat the Lords Prayer, verbatim
as found in the sixth chapter of Matthew
| No one in the audience could do it. The
man who offered the prize was asked tC
repeat it, but failed.
THE teller of the Vile Marie Bank al
Montreal despises the way in which two
| Yankees got $40, 48S that he left on the
counter of his establishment the other
! day. They were great lumber dealers
on the Ottawa River, and wanted to open
an immense account with him. "YOu
| just look at that map on the wall, Mr.
| Teller, which shows where we operate, .
they said. He looked, and the men
escaped with the money.
| T. LANE EMORY, residing near Taylor
Pa, recently lost horses by hydrOph0bia
While driving on the road one OF
! them began to act very strangely, frothed
| at the mouth, became ungOvernable, and
| in frantic rage seized its companion by
| the neck, thus communicating the disease
to it. A number Of hogs in neighbOr
hood were bitten by the same dog, and
died with all the symptoms of hydro
phobia.
A BRooKLNE (Mass.) man says he has
| invented system of telegraphing any
| distance without the aid of wires, the
| only instrument necessary costing but
thirty cents, but as he can get no patent
on it he refuses to disclose the process
as it would be.of no benefit to him, and
would only turn out of employment thou
sands of telegraph operators now getting
| good wages. Considerate Brookline
man.
THE Keosauka (Mich.) Republican, has q
| story Of a plucky woman: "Mrs. Bennett
who lives about half a mi.e above town
killed deer with an AK last Saturday.
Some hunters with their dogs had been
| chasing the animal for couple of days
| In the flight the deer ran into Mr.. Ben.
nett's yard, where the dogs caught it. Nc
one else being at home, Mrs. Bennett ran
out with an axe and knocked it in the
head, and had venison for supper"
A WILD hog weighing about 600 pounds
was killed near the Muskrat Lake, in
| Manitou County, Michigan, recently
| His hOgship had soiourned in that local
| ity for about ten years. A tusk from the
lower jaw measured seven inches in
length, girted nearly two inches, and
tapered to triangular point. He fought
nobly, but his rough hide was at last per
| forated with bullets and he fell q victim
| to the superior strategy Of the enemy.
| TART CRUsT-Take six even cups of
flour one cup of cold lard and one cup of
butter, chopped with a chopping knife
until very fine, then mixed with just
enough ice water to roll out well, which
| do until you can't see any pieces of
| shortening. Fold up small and roll out,
then fold small and roll again, the last
time roll from the end and cut out. Bake
in a very hot oven. The oven is the secret