Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-03


Der leaves fall, with November Fall
leaves.
The newspaper is emphatically the
poor mans lyceum. his library, and his
best Instructor. The weekly sheet
brings him vast treasure of infor-
NATION, which he cannot read without
being q wiser aud better man. 1t
has been apply said that newspaper
Is as good as lesson for the thought
full.
1t is noticeable how intuitiveIy in
age we go back with strange fondaess
TO all that is fresh in the earliest dawn
OF youth. If we never cared for little
efaldren before, we delight to see them
roll IN the grass over which we hobble
on erutches. The graudsire turns
wearlly from his middle-aged. care-worn
son, to listen with infant laugh to the
prattle of an infant graadchild, 1t is
the old who plant young trees; it. Is
the cid who are most saddened hy the
autumn. and feel most delight in the
returning spring.-Buja0er Lytton.
An Irishman found a government
blanket recently, and rolling it up put
it under his arm and walked off, SAYING
"Yis, that's moine-U for Patrick, and
S for McCarty be me sowl, but this
learnin' is foin thing, as me fayther
would say; for if | hadn't an edi-
cation | wouldn't have been afther
6ndin' me blanket. ''-Dan6mg Neus.
Christianity, ifit means anything,
means sixteen ounces to the pound,
three feet to the yard, a just weight
and just measure. 1t means honesty
in all dealings, purity il all conyersa-
ton, charity as broad as the race, un-
finching integrity, sympathy, human
ity to man. With these there can be
ne compromise. ..s.
To obtain light instantly, without
the aid of matches, and without danger
of setting fire, ia Ike an oblong vial of
the whitest and clearest glass, put into
it piece of phosphorus the size of a
pea, upon which pour olive oil, heated
30 the boiling point filling the vial
about one-third full, and then seal her
metically. TO use, remove the cork,
and allow air to enter the vial, and then
re-cork 1t. The whole empty space in
the vial will then become luminous.
and the light obtained, will be equal to
that of . lamp. As soon as the Grht
grows weak, it's power can be increased
by opening the vial, and allow ing a :
fresh supply Of air to enter. In win
ter, l. IS sometimes necessary to warm
the vial between the hands to increase
the fuidity OF the oil. Thus prepar-
ed, it may be used by watchmon in all
magazines where explosive or infamma-
bic materials are stored. .....
From our European exchanges
we gather that the stagnation of busi-
ness Is general the world over A re-
cent number of the Ec0n0mtste Fran
cats enters into an examination Of the
causes of this sta"nation by the sever
al countries. The writer In the Econ
onaiste does not agree with those who
attribute the stagnation of business
mainly to the course Of Congress on
the currency question. He shows
that this stagnation is phenomenon
not confined to the nited States. 1t
exists in England, in France, in north
and south Germany. The whole
world, it would seem, is feeling the
effect of an extensive destruction of
capital. The panic in this country
has been repeated in nearly every
country In Europe and the present
commercial stagnation is the eanso-
quence.
How TO SUCCEED If ysur seat il
too hard to sit upon, stand up. Ifa
rock rises up before you roll it away
or climb over it. IF YOU want money
earn it, If you wish for confidence,
prove yourself worthy of it. It takes
longer to skin All elephant than it does
a mouse, but the skin is worth some.
thing. Do not be content With doing.
what another has done-surpass it.
Deserve success and it will come The
boy was not born a man, The sun
does not rise Ike a rocket, or go down
like ,ullet FROM gsn slowly but
surely it Takes it's round and never
tires. 1t is as easy to be leader as
wheel horse. IF the job be long the
pay will be great.r; if the task be
hard the more competent you must be
to do it.
- he following beautiful thoughts
ere expressed by Mrs. Mary Liver
more, in her Fourth of July s-,-eah
at birmingham. Mass :-- '''s'
''The older I grC.r the Sess inclined r
am to hghg lor nay rights. The older
L grew, she tenderer [ grow, ana the
stronger grows my faith in truth and
principle, and their power to win yicto-
ry. To denouncc forever those
who wrong me makes me bitter. TO
hurl YEtuperation against those who
treat me with injustice cultivates in
me > censoriotis spirit. To give back
blow for blow when J. am insulted. and
to heap anth6mas On those who 40 not
see grand truths In the same light that
x do, Injuries me and docs not beneht
them. [ cannot afford to tlke this
course. for | have learned, for myself,
il [ am going 10 work, efectually IN
the cause of truth and right, | must
laa1 Yoycolf sweet in spirit tolerant