Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
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A POLICE court Judge at Biddeford, Me-,
has decided that Confederate money is not
counterfeit, and so discharged woman
who had been paying her debts in that
way.
THE President appoints all postmasters
whose salaries are above $1,000. The
railroads pay for the delivery of all mails
at terminal points. At other places, the
government pays.
THE Golden Age says Prof Agassiz
"took the island of Penekese from Nature
and gave it to science" The prevalent
| opinion hitherto has been that he took it
| from John Anderson.
THE saloon-keepers at, Lawrence, Mass.
! did rushing business in selling chop
| tonic" but the State police came down
on them like a wolf on the fold, declaring
| that it was as bad as ale.
| THE Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton was founded through bequest made
| by James Smithson of London, England.
1t was formally accepted by Congress in
an act passed Aug. 10, 1916.
ALDERMANIc work in Fort Scott, Kan
sas, is oneroUs, and doesn't pay. Mrs
| Guernsey fired at some burglars one
night, and the pext day one of the Alder
|
! HoRsEFLEsH is selling remarkably
cheap in Vermont. A span of horses was
recently sold for nine dollars, and in two
or three cases two-dollar greenback was
all that was necessary to conclude bar
gain.
AMONG the curiosities at Fort Yuma,
Arizona, is gigantic prairie schooner
of 10000 pounds capacity. Said vessel is
| drawn by fourteen mules, the smallest of
which is fifteen hands high, and weighs
1850 pounds.
THE baneful habit of opium eating is
increasing in this country. From three
to five years of indulgence wrecks the
finest constitution, the eyes are sunken,
the frame is emaciated, and death ends
the wasted life.
THE officials of a village near Wethers-
field, Connecticut, have forbidden one
| Weatherwax to raise onions on his Gem
etery lot For this unwarranted restr c.
ton of his rights he has determined to
shed no more tears.
GUN f1ints are made by chisel and ham
mer-the flint being easily converted into
it's peculiar form, when freshly quarried.
A skillful workman can easily produce
| 1000 we'll formed fints in three days.
Made principally in England.
AN instance of the tyranny of men was
exhibited at a womans rights meeting in
| Titusville, where a gentleman entered and
told his wife, one of the officers of the
meeting, to come home quick, Gas the
baby had the collie" She went.
A BANGOR gentleman sent his servant
to kill a fowl for dinner the other day,
and was somewhat mortified to find that
the fellow had sacrificed the life of pure
blOoded Spanish game cock, for which
$50 had been refused the day previous.
ABSOLUTE purity of soul, is, perhaps,
never seen here upon earth. There is so
much all about us impure and unclean,
that we cannot pass unsullied. Our souls
early lose the whiteness of their youth,
and are thenceforward soiled beyond our
cleansing.
VISITING cards for this season are of the
finest unglazed Bristol board, and a little
larger than formerly. Some are in deli
cate tints. The shape is more Oblong
than square. The London styles for gen
tlemen are very small-those for ladies
very large.
In Castro Valley, Alameda County,
California there is a forest of Australian
gum trees covering over one hundred
acres. The trees were planted only three
and half years ago, and some have at
tanned height of fifty feet and diane
ter of twelve inches.
A WOMAN confined in New England
lunatic asylum managed to obtain IA
. zor, and, pushing out her tongue as far as
possible, cut it off even with her teeth
AS this did not produce death she jumped
out of the secOndstory window, but was
picked up with no bones broken. She
was then taken to a hospital, where she
will not annoy her nurses by talking.
A CONNECTICUT man, while eating fish
got a bone in his throat, which irrltateC
and panied him excessively. For forty
eight hours he tasted, in the hope that the
bone would leave the throat, but it die
not. A friend suggested that he should
swallow an egg. He tried the experiment
and felt the bone move; he then swallow
ed another egg, and it was gone entirely
PROFESSOR LIE CoNTE, in the american
Naturalist, in his paper on economic en-
tomOlogy, gives an instance in which al
the caterpillars in a nine-acre piece o.
woods were destroyed by disease which
had been communicated to them by {
sick silkworm. The same principle
might be used in destroying the cotton
worm and others of like nature.
t THE art of shop-keeping is carried to &
high degree of perfection in a certain
Western town. When lady rides up tC
store in the place, three clerks seize the
bride, two take the horse by the tail and
yank him close to the stile-blOck. Two
more clerks spread roll of Brussels car
pets across the sidewalk, while the mer
chant in white kid gloves, white vest, and
fork-tailed coat escorts the lady to luxu
rious dlvan, where she sits at ease and
makes her purchases.
AN excellent washing-fuid may thus be
made: Three tablespoOnfuls Of soda, the
same quantity of dissolved camphor (the
same as kept for family use), to a quart OF
soft water bottle it up and shake it well
before using. For a large washing take
four tablespo0nfuls of the fluid to pint
of soap, make warm suds, and soak the
clothes half an hour; then make another
suds, using the same quantity Of soap anG
fluid, and boil them just fifteen minutes
then rinse in two waters.
KEY WEST, our great naval rendezvous
is an island four miles long and one anC
quarter broad, bounded on one side by
the Atlantic, and on the other three by the
Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico
1t has population of 5000 souls. The
houses are of wood, with spacious piaz
: zas, shaded by cocoa and almond trees
The harbOr is capaciOus, where the larges
ships can ride in safety. It is protected
,, by fort, has barracks, wharves, etc Gu
ban refugees make up majority OF It's
inhabitants since the troubles between
Spain and Cuba