Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-23
BREVITIES.

1AQU1NA DAY, OTeSOu, Is 10 De S6OIOS-
icallY examined.
A ROCHESTER, firm has found sale fol
$4,000 pounds of dried and sliced pota-
toes.
PHILADELPHIA wants a few female bar
bers. How nice to be lathered by a
pretty Quakeressl
IN PARIS breakfastcaps for ladies are
now made in the same shape as thepretty
caps worn by Normandy girls.
THE lady who was asked if her servant
was care-taking answered that she GER
tainly took everything she could carey.
BRAVE men can term fair women
The "apple of their eye,''
But when they come to office,
No ladies need apply
SOME boys at Biddeford, Me, found a
woman's head in the water. and the whole
of Maine is being searched over to find
the body.
GINGER SNAPs.-One cup boiling molas-
ses, pour into your flour; four tablespoon.
fuls butter, one tablespoonful of soda and
one Of ginger.
Mrs. MARTHA DUFFY, of Atlanta, Ga,
took morphine because she had lost in
business the money got on her dead hus.
bands life insurance.
A DOCTOR writes to the Baltimore Sun
that the nervous disease known as hydro
phobia can be produced by the bite of a
perfectly healthy dog.
A MEDICAL journal says that it is inlu.
rious for one to drink water out of pools
and bitches. 1t is not as convenient as
drinking from glass, either.
A CINCINNATI professor has demon
strated that a man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on raw turnip alone as if
he had Toasted at Kings table
THE New York Sun says that any man
can make a fortune in ten years by raising
cabbages, but Greeley's advice to young
men can't be covered up that way.
MARYLAND has new State law fning
barber So for keeping his shop open
Sunday, but a saloon can remain open
all day and incur no prosecution.
A GREEN BAY preacher rode thirteen
miles, married couple on the ice, took
fifty cents as his fee, and returned home
without losing his bland smile.
To MAKE CooBIEs.-One egg, one cup
sugar, one cup sour cream, two-thirds cup
butter, teaspoon soda, mix soft, roll thin,
and sift sugar on them before baking
A SAN Francisco theater melted its
proprietor eleven cents profit in eight
months, and he wants to sell out to some
one who loves the drama for itself slOne.
A SHOEMAKER out West, with a literary
turn of mind, has the following pcetical
gem attached to his single:
''Here lives man who never refuses
To mend all sorts of boots and shoeses.'
In recent trial in Baltimore it was
shown that patent medicine men can get
almanac certificates Of the wonderful viz
tues of their medicines for fifty cents per
head.
THAT is a smart boy baby in Oak Har-
Dor, Ohio. He can walk, talk, speak
French and English, whistle and sing,
and all at the tender age of thirteen
months.
AT Fort Wrangell, Alaska, the average
temperature during the winter has been
hirty degrees below zero. The coolest
snap was in January, when the mercury
CONCEALED.
ToADs are capital helpers in taking
care Of vine patches. Lay boards be,
tween the rows to shelter them in the day
time, and they will make a carnival of
the bugs at night
THE Cincinnati Commercial says the
best way to keep the lid snugly on a tea
kettle full of boiling water is to sit on it..
Few people would have ever thought of
that.
CUP CAKE.-Five cups of flour, mixed
with three tablespoonfuls of baking pow
der, one cup and a half of milk, three
eggs, nutmeg or lemon juice. Add cur
rants, if you wish.
A CINCINNATI man who was charged
with being a dead-beat and a swindler has
obtained seven cents damage. Let this
be a warning to men of impulsive natures
who want damages.
In the stomach of a Goldfish opened at
Boston the other day was found stone
inkstand full OF ink. If the fish had only
secured a pen and some paper the world
might have had story of life under the
sea.
OF all jokes, says the Salem (Mass.)
Gazette, that of the Legislature passing a
law to prevent young men under eighteen
years hurting themselves by overwork is
the greatest. Won't young America"
enjoy the laugh?
In the Yuba County Hospital, California,
interesting experiments have been made
with a magnet for the cure of rheumatism
and paralysis. A large horseshoe magnet
is used, and one case of paralysis has been
almost cured and several cases of chronic
rheumatism relieved.
FRUIT CAKE.-Ten eggs, one and one
half pounds sugar, one and one-half
pounds butter, one and One-half pounds
flour, enc pound raisins, stoned and
H.,
spoonful of soda, citrOn cut small, one
tablespoonful OF cinnamon, teaspoonful
Of cloves, one nutmeg. Bake slow.
a NEW YORK court has decided in favor
Of passengers on crowded train occupy
ing seats in palace car without paying
extra therefor, and has awarded a man
$500 damages for being put off a train be-
cause he refused to pay for seat in such
car when there were none vacant in the
other part of the train.
THERE is no use trying to arouse chill
dren in the morning, at this season OF the
year, under the maxim that the early bird
catches the worm. There isn't any worm
to catch, and they know it. Just as soon
as the frost is out, so that the worm can
be caught, the boys will be up and have
him to go fishing with.
A FEW days ago a New Orleans horse
railroad company sunk $4,000 counterfeit
nickel coins in the Mississippi River, the
receipts of one year. The counterfeiting
ofthese coins is carried on so extensively
in New Orleans that the Picayatne esti-
mates that 1000 people daily pay the fares
on the horse railroad with bogus coin.
CAROLINA CAKE.-Whites of eight eggs,
two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup butter,