Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26

INGRowING TOE NAH-TO CURE-Put
a small piece of tallow in a spoon, heat if
until it becomes very hot and pour on the
granulations. The effect is magical. Pain
and tenderness relieved at once, and in a
few days granulations all gone, the dis
eased parts dry and destitute of all feel.
ing, the edge of the nail exposed so as to
admit of being pared away without any
inconvenience.
THE Calhoun (Ga) Times of a recent
date produces the following: One even
ing during last week several little shavers
were sporting near the new residence
being erected for Mr.. Ferguson, when
one of them threw at a hog that stood
near window small stone, which did
not hit the hog but broke a window-ligh
What did the little fellow do? Did he,
like George Washington, go and tell the
workmen 1t Is l who broke the glass?
Not much. He calmly walked up to one
of them and said, his face the very pic
ture of innocence: 'Lor, Mr.. Eason, did
you see that hog kick out that window
glass?' Mr.. Eason couldn't see it without
the aid of eyeglasses"
THE Pacific Medical and Surgical Jour.
nal says: A striking instance of inherited
appetite for alcoholic liquors has been re-
Gently brought to our knowledge. a lady
wife of the Mayor of an Atlantic city, was
confirmed inebriate, and in spite of the
most assiduous efforts made by her hus.
band and others to restrain and reform
her continued to drink until her life fell
sacrifice to the indulgence. Her grand.
mothers were both Incorporate and both
died from drunkenness. Several of heI
brothers were inebriates. She had one
child, a daughter, who exhibited in child
hood marked appetite for strong drink
and who drank to intOXicatiOn whenever
she had the opportunity. The child died
at the age of six years. During her brief
life she was known to have been repeat
edly drunk. So inveterate was her appe-
tite for liquor that she would resort to the
most cunning tricks in order to procure
it-tricks such as would do credit to the
ingenuity of an adult.
BED-BUGs-These insects, when they
get into partitions and other hiding
places, can only be exterminated by
systematic and patient warfare. Where
paper is badly put on, raised edges
offer hiding places for the bugs, and
in rooms finished by plastering or hard
finish cracks are often left that harbor the
pests A minute examination of each
room should be made. Stop every crevice
if no wider than knife blade, with plas-
ter of Paris mixed with water to the con
s1stency of thick cream. Mix only lit
tie at time, as it soon "sets." Every
crevice in the walls and ceiling being
filled, attention must be given to the
floor, and all cracks filled either by plas
ter or calking with oakum or cotton
driven in firm and hard If the room il
papered, it may be necessary to strip of
the old paper and put on new, or loose
edges may be pasted down. In either
case mix enough of carbolic acid with
the paste to have it smell strongly of the
acid. Thorough work in stopping in one
way or another all hiding places is the
only course. Bedsteads may be scaldeC
and the Joints treated to a strong solution
of carbolic acid-all that water will dis
solve-or a solution of an ounce of zorro
sive sublimate to pint each of alcohol
and water Do not believe that the bug;
can be starved out or frozen out. There
is an authentic experiment recorded in
which the insects have been kept ip dor
mant state for thirteen years, and at the
end of that time were discouragingly
lively. We know by sad experience thai
energetic measures persistertly followed
up will rid house of these IN >cuders.-
An AgrGcuEtuT5St