Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

opening the County Court, the other day,
cried: "Au persons having causes or
matters pending therein draw near, and
they shall be heard, and God save the
peoplep' he was satirist and didn't
know it.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer offers to bet
five hundred dollars that no fashionable
lady ever goes to bed without first look
ing in her glass, and rival IS willing to
risk the same sum that no Cincinnati ed
ltor ever goes to bed without drinking
out of his.
To MAKE SPRUCE BEER.-Fake of oil
OF spruce, sassafras and Wintergreen each
forty drops; pour one gallon Of boiling
water on the oils, then add four gallons
OF cold water, three pints OF molasses
and one pint of yeast. Let 1t stand for
Two hours, and bottle.
CocoANUT CAKE AND ICING. = One
cup of butter, three of sugar, one of sour
milk, four of flour, one teaspoOnful of
soda, two of cream tartar, five eggs, one
cocoanut grated; put half in the dough
and half for the icing. For icing use
half pound of pulverized sugar to
whites OF two eggs; sprinkle the cocoa
nut over the top of the cake.
An interesting new member of the Bos-
ton Young Mems Christian Association is
a Newfoundland dog, who got one OF his
tore'paws crushed the other day, and hob
bled past several other buildings to that
| OF the association, walked up stairs to the
library and held out his manned paw in
pitiful way. He was adopted, and given
| surgical treatment gratis.
1T was an unfortunate idea making the
| new ten-cent script so much like the fifty,
| cent script. 1t is no pleasant sensation
after hurrying home from a store and all
the way home under the impression that
| you have beaten somebody cut OF forty
cents to find that you have the right
| prejudiced, but it strikes us this is taking
advantage of a trusting nature.-DGnbu1y
NeaoS.
Cold CUsTARD-Take one-fourth of
Calls rennet, wash it well, cut it IN
| pieces and put it into decanter with
| pint of grape wine. In day or two 1t
will be fit for use. To one pint Of milk
| add a teaspoonfll of the wine. Sweeten
the milk and flavor it with vanilla, rose
water or lemon. Warm it little and add
the wine, stirring it slightly. Pour it i'm
mediately into cups or glasses, and in
| few minutes it will become a custard. 1t
makes a frmer curd to put in the wine,
emitting the sugar. 1t may be eaten
| with sugar and cream.
CHASING A SLoPE.-A steep slope may
| be grassed over without sOdding by first
smoothing the surface and then mixing
| tough paste or mortar OF clay, loan, and
horse manure with sufficient water. The
grass seed, which should be mixture of
I. nd NUb
| should be thickly but evenly scattered up
on the moist surface of this plaster as it is
spread upon the bank. The plaster should
be at least one or two inches thick, and
thin LAYER should be laid over the seed. The
surface should be kept moist, and light
dressing of some active fertilizer would
| help the growth In a few weeks the
growing grass should be cut, and should
| be kept short at all times until a thick
sod is formed.-Keyst01ae. IN ". 7. I9ib-
| N13e.
How is compressed yeast made? One
mode of preparation is as follows Pre-
viously matted barley and rye are ground
up and mixed; next put in water at
temperature of 65o to 75o; after few
hours the saccharine liquid is decanted
| from the drugs, and the clear liquid
brought into a state of fermentation by
| the aid of some yeast. The fermentation
becomes very strong, and by the force of
the carbonic acid which is evolved the
yeast globules are carried to the surface
of the LIQUID, and, forming thick scum,
are removed by a skinner, then placed
on cloth filters, drained, washed with
little distilled water, and next pressed in
to any desired shape by means ofhydraulic
pressure, and covered with strong and
well woven canvas. It keeps from eight
to fourteen days, according to the season,
and is exceilent.-Sc6ent[t6c american.
THE New York World, speaking of ere
nation, gives the following instance of the
neatness of the thing: " In the Vienna
Exposition this matter was practically
eXemplifed. On one of the mysterious
shelves was a bottle marked No 10, con-
tanning three and three-quarter pounds OF
fertilizing material, the gross result OF an
Italian gentleman, who had evidently
never been in such reduced circumstances
before. The entire cost of putting him
into a glass case was just two shilllngs
and four pence, English money. Ihls OF
itself is an item of sufficient importance to
carry conviction to any sane man. 1t
only takes three hours and about hall
cord of wood to put a millionaire into
very small glass bottle. The only dill
Guilty to be apprehended is the inevitable
increase of family jars. However, after
death, it will be always possible to put
stopper in, which during life is some
times difficult"
A PLAYFUL HoRsE-Aboutthr three weeks
ago, as the engineer of the morning pas
senger train going west on the Detroit %
Milwaukee Road had reached point
three miles beyond the junction, he saw
horse on the track ahead. lie footed"
at the animal, but the horse waited until
the locomotive was at his heels and then
turned and ran. The bell rang and the
whistle screamed but the horse kept the
track for full mile and then leaped OF
and let the iron monster rush past him.
He was there next morning to repeat the
same operation, and continued 1t with The
greatest regularity until "Wednesday, morn
ing. He then extended the race further
than usual, being in unusually good
spirits Coming to cattle-guard he hesl-
tated an instant before making the Jump,
and the cow-catcher caught him. He was
in the air making the leap when he was
struck, and thrown as high as the smoke
stack, but came down in pond Of water,
and was seen to jump up and gaIlop OF
as if unhurt.-Detr05t Free Press.
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