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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
Bread With Potato Yeast.

Some housekeepers have trouble to
produce good bread with potato yeast.
This is how Lucy c. Hoods does it, as she
reports to the Country Gentleman:
| take one quart of tepid water, one
pint Of potato yeast, two teaspoonfuls of
salt, and flour enough to mix the dough
stiff enough at first; | knead till very
smooth; place the dough in the bread
pan; sprinkle over it a very little flour,
to prevent the cloth, with which it should
be covered snugly, from sticking; then turn
over it smaller pan, or, what is better,
large, round earthen pudding dish, and
set 1t to rise in a warm place. When
quite light, | divide into four parts,
and knead thoroughly; then grease two
square pie tins with butter (Which gives
pleasant taste to the CRUST; place two
loaves IN each tin; cover closely with
cloth, three or four thiCknesses, to keep
the surface moist; set where it will keep
warm, and when light enough to be an
inch above the tins in the center bake,
IN not Cery hot oven, an hour and ten
minutes. | turn occasionally while bak
ing, and when the upper surface is just
brown enough to be nice, cover with
paper, or, what is better, tins the same
shape of those in which the bread is
baking. When taken from the oven |
wiring cloth out of cold water, and cover
the crust if at all hard; then outside of
that wrap closely in dry cloth till cold.
| particularly recommend potato yeast
because the moisture it produces (which
makes Graham bread and buckwheat
cakes sticky is just what white bread,
raised biscuit, rusk and raised fried
cakes want. | should mention that po-
tato yeast does not keep well in very hot
weather. Perhaps it might if set in a
refrigerator; but my plan during the
hottest weather is to soak two good yeast
cakes in cup of tepid water, stir in
flour to make batter, and while this is
raising peel, slice and boil three or four
good-sized potatoes in just water enough
to cover them. When soft rub them
through a collander while hot with all
the water they were cooked in; then
cool them with as much cold water as
is necessary to mix the bread together
swith the potatoes and yeast, not forget
ting little salt. This is not much
trouble, and the best substitute for po-
tato yeast that l have found in an ex-
perience of over thirty years in house
keeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
Preservation of the Teeth.

In studing the causes of decay of teeth,
Leber and ROttenstein made various eX-
periments to determine the action of
acids on dental tissues. 1t was found
that acids make the enamel, which is
naturally white, opaque and milky, and
the dentine more transparent and softer,
so as to be cut with a knife. The acids
which may actually effect the first
changes in the production of carries are
such as are taken with food or in
medicines, or such as are formed in the
mouth itself by some abnormality in the
secretions, or by an acid fermentation of
particles of food. But acids alone, says
the Lancet will not account for all the
phenomena of carries of the teeth. They
play primary and principal part, max
ing the teeth porous and soft. In this
state, the tissues having lost their normal
consistency, fungi penetrate the canali-
Gull both of the enamel and the dentine
and by their proliferation produce soften
inc and destructive effects much more
raDidlv than the action of acid alone. 1t
is not pleasant to think that fungi exist
in the mouths of all but the very clean
est of people. The means ordinarily en-
Moved to clean the teeth has no effect on
these parastici grOwths, while sOapy
water appears to destroy them. The
great means of preserving the teeth, then,
saws the Lancet, is to observe the most
scrupulous cleanliness of the mouth and
teeth, and to give to the rinsing liquids
slightly alkaline character, which is done
by the admixture of little soap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

they were written, either forward or
backward
The tax-collector got Reuben to look
over his work last fall, and Reuben said
that he could remember the numbers in
the column and the sum yet. County
clerks have sent from Kansas for him to
help straighten their books. A whole
sale firm in Kansas City heard of him
and sent for him to do some invoicing
He told them he could do the work of ten
clerks in making computations. They
told him if he could he should have the
pay Of ten men. He mounted a high
stool with the clerks around him, and
kept them busy giving the number Of ar
ticles, price of each, and taking down his
answers. They gave him forty-tive dol
lars for his DAVIS work A firm in Fay
etteville selling out took an invoice of
their goods. Reub. was sick at the time,
but they made it out and submitted it to
him; he found mistake of $500.
Sometimes a witty person will try and
make little fun at Reub.'s expense. One
asked him what he would do if the doc
tors should catch him and take out his
brains to see in what respect they varied
from others. go around without any
brains, like you do" was the ready re-
ply.
He is, indeed, wonder; probably with
out any equal in that respect; and yet it
is said he will not work or try to learn
anything from books He travels wher-
ever he chooses without any further
charge than counting" for conductors
or other officers. People have tried to
get him to travel and give exhibitions of
his mathematical propensities, but it al
ways results in failure; he will not do it.
-I'abo (lHo) Cor st. Louis Republican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

windows of their rooms, which are on the
ground floor, look out on the walk most
usually traversed by visitors, and their
prison life is made as light as possible
After a glance at the library-the GUS
tOdian of which is a patient, who in
formed the reporter that few books but
novels, magazines, and illustrated works
were in demand-the Chronicle man re-
turned to the office, where he found Dr.
Shurtletf ready to attend him through
the female department, the inmates of
which numbered, on May 1, 343. Posted
conspicuously over the doors is the notice,
Male visitors not admitted" a rule
strictly adhered to, except in the case of
those who have relatives there, when they
can see them in one of the many recep-
tion-rooms.
This entire department is presided
over by a matrOn, whose only superior
officer is the superintendent She has
in each " ard two assistants, whose duties
are the same as those in the mems de-
partment. In the first or receiving ward
the reporter visited the room of one
who in the five years she had passed
there, has employed all her time in the
adornment Of her apartment. With en-
cravings and colored prints from maya
zines, with many-hued paper and water
color paints she has decked her room
with almost every device under the sun,
showing in many Of her groupings taste
and rare ingenuity. She is always glad
to see visitors, and spoke in pleased
way of the Sunday-school people who
visited her the day before, saying They
brought good spirits with them" Stand
ing behind the door was a middle-aged
woman who would no sooner catch the
eye of the stranger than she would drop
profound courtesy; she seemed to shun
observation, and the moment one looked
at her she made the OldfashiOned
Obeisance in a timid, deprecatory man
ner. Far different was the low and not
ungraceful sweep of the head Of one
who, with a vacant smile, saluted the
visitor. She was seated on a
bed in her room in precisely the
same attitude as the day before.
a chair, and her leather-mutfied hands
were in her lap as she slowly bent her
body backward and forward in time with
the never-varying tune she was humming.
Afterward piercing shrieks were heard
from her room, and the reporter was in
formed that it would be necessary to keep
her in bonds to prevent her from denud-
ing herself To all of the patients the
Superintendent had some pleasant or
cheering words to say, in this ward, and,
with one exception, relevant replies were
given. The exception was a woman in a
strait jacket necessary to restrain her
from tearing her clothes to tatters) whose
only reply to his inquiries was the most
savage, vengeful smile the reporter ever
saw on the face of human being. The
reporter afterward saw this patient at
dinner, where she was fed by an attend
ant and as she looked up she had still
that vindictive expression, A sad, dis
tressed-looking woman who was only ad-
mitted the night before was kindly adj
dressed by the doctor, and in hesitating,
broken words she tried to tell him where
her home was.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
Saving Manure.

Iris often remarked that those who
farm near large cities must have great
advantages over people at a distance in
the ease and cheapness with which they
can obtain manure. We are not sure
that this is So We have seen many a
country town where manure may be had
nearly for the trouble Of hauling, while
the writer has had to purchase many
load for his land near Philadelphia at
the rate of two dollars a horse. That IS
TO saw. four dollars for as much as two
horses could haul away. Perhaps near
these large cities we have better idea
of the value of manure than in many
other places. We have learned that 1t
costs no more for labor on rich land than
on poor, and labor costs far more than
manure-pOor and dear even as labor
generally is. 80 41,o
suggestion that it would pay many
peODle to look more after saving ma
nure than they do. Here we mas IL
much 70 our interest. As a general RUE
we suffer no weeds to grow, but II very
often banpens in the hurry OF spring
I,-or1- that the weeds get tremendously
abead. and if we had a weed law and
ma1icious. neighbors near US to prosecute
+,rdar If we suppose we should very
of+an oct hauled up before the court.
VIZ ~ the season is somewhat wet, as
the present one was with Us, the weeds
seem TO run riot for a while. Before we
could put the cultivator through some of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
Intelligent Brutes.

An article in AppletOns' Journal gives
numerous instances in which brute ami
mails were in old times treated as reason
ing and responsible beings. In the Mid
die Ages it seems to have been quite
common for animals, such as hogs, goats,
mules, horses, cats, dogs and cocks, TO be
taken up by the constable ana brought
before a regular court when they had
been deemed guilty of any misdeeds.
In 1868 hog was condemned by the
Judge of Falaise in France to be mutt
lated in the legs and head and then
hanged for having torn the arm and face
of child, causing its death. The hog was
dressed in mans apparel, and the SEN
tence was performed in the public square
of the town. The executioner had to be
paid the usual fee, besides receiving
new glove.
In 1474 cock was condemned to be
burned by the magistracy Of Basic,
Switzerland for having laid an egg.
Burning was the punishment of witch
craft, and it was for his wickedness in
producing such an egg-sample that this
shocking rooster was sentenced to be
consumed by fire, instead of being only
roasted and honorably consumed by his
owners. The egg, too, the supposed fruit
OF his mISdolngS, was ordered 10 De
burned instead of being boiled for three
minutes and half 1t shows what chill
dren the magistrates of Basic were in
those days, that they believed in such
dreadful iniquity of a rooster.
In 1899 bull and a hog were both
condemned to be hung on the public
gallOws in France for having caused the
death of children. In other cases, the
animals accused of evil doings were de-
Tended by their own lawyers and acquit-
ted. We are told of distinguished law
yer of the sixteenth century who owed
the beginning of his fortune to the ability
and eloquence he displayed in defending
a certain colony of rats.
In Western countries the separation
between man and the brutes has been in
creased by civilization, both in reality
and idea In Eastern lands, however,
the people still retain the childish notions
of the dark ages
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

AN incident occurred near the old
Mohawk bridge the other day during the
sudden rise of the river which showed
the intelligence Of the mice and the care
exercised by the mother for her young.
The mother evidently had nest in the
stone wall near the bank, in the garden
of Mr.. Van Epps. As soon as the water
reached the nest, or near it, the mother
was seen to come from the wall with one
Of her young in her mouth and deposit
it beneath tree on the ground out of
danger from the food. She went back
and forth, taking one Of her young each
time, until they were all saved On an
other occasion, at the same place an old
mouse did the same thing and more.
When she had rescued a part Of her
young the water had risen so as to cut
off communication with her nest, but
this did not stop her. She plunged into
the water, swan over to the nest and
brought away several young mice IN
this way, holding them in her mouth
above water while she swan with them
to dry land. This feat was witnessed by
several persons.-Schenectady IN. ~
Union.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

THE New Albany Le9ger says: "The
farmers down on the river bottoms are
having a good deal of trouble with snakes.
It is said the reptiles abound abundantly
down that way. Joseph Snider, while
driving his mowing-machine through the
field the other day, was surprised to find
thehorses stalled, and upon examining
discovered the snakes so thick in the
wheels and cogs as to completely clog the
whole running arrangement. One black
snake was fifteen feet seven inches in
length and seven inches in diameter.
There were several other snakes mixed
up in the mOwing-machine, but all the
balance were Of less caliber."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
Mad Ants.

Don Francisco VELAsQUEZ informed
me in 1870 that he had a powder which
made the ants mad, so that they bit and
destroyed each other. He gave me lit
tie of it and it proved to be corrosive sub
Innate. | made several trials of it, and
found it most eflcacious in turning a
large column of ants. A little of it
sprinkled across one of their paths in dry
weather has most surprising effect. AS
soon as one of the ants touches the white
powder it commences to run about wild
ly, and to attack any other ant it comes
across In a couple of hours round balls
of the ants will be found, all biting each
other; and numerous individuals will be
seen bitten completely in two, whilst
others have lost some Of their legs or an
tenn@. News of the commotion is car
ried to the fOrmicarium, and huge fell
lows, measuring three quarters of an
inch in length, that only come out of the
nest during a migration OF an attack on
the nest of one of the working columns,
are seen stalking down with determined
air as if they would soon right matters.
AS soon, however, as they have touched
the sublimate all their stateliness leaves
them; they rush about; their legs are
seized hold of by some of the smaller
ants already affected by the poison; and
they themselves begin to bite and in
short time become the center of fresh
balls of rabid ants. The sublimate can
only be used effectively in dry
weather. At Colon 1 found the
Americans using coal tar, which
they spread across their paths when any
of them led to their gardens. I was
also told that the Indians prevent them
from ascending young trees by tying
wisps of grass, with the sharp points
downward, round the stems. The ants
cannot pass through the wisp, and do not
find out how to surmount it, getting con-
fused among the numberless blades, all
leading downward. | mention these diff
ferent plans of meeting and frustrating
the attacks of the ants at some length, as
they are one of the greatest scOurges OF
tropical America, and 1t has been too
readily supposed that their attacks cannot
be warded off. | myself was enabled, by
using some of the means mentioned above
to successfully cultivate trees and vegeta-
bles of which the ants were extremely
fond. Notwithstanding that these ants
are so common thrOug tropical Amer
lea, and have excited the attention of
nearly every traveller, there still remains
much doubt as to the use to which the
leaves are put. Some naturalists have
supposed that they use them directly as
food; others that they roof their under
ground nests with them. | believe that
the real use they make of them is as a
manure, on which grows minute species
of fungus, on which they feed; that they
are in reality mushroom growers and
eaters.-NaturG5iSt IN Nicaragua.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

FELoNs AND Rusty NATLs.-Elder
Evans, the Shaker, says: For the past ten
wears we have treated felons with hot
water. and with uneTring success. No
cutting, no blistering, no anything but
immersing the finger, hand or even the
whole arm, if necessary, in water as hot
as can be borne until the pain is gone
and the core is lOOsened and drawn from
the bone. When rusty nails have pro-
duced wounds the same course has been
pursued If on the hand or foot, keep 1t
in hot water
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

IF man is worm, is Government
official a red-tape worm?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09

A BED of horse-radish may be easily
started by making the soil rich and mel
low and planting cuttings of the roots in
rows one foot apart. A bed for home use
will produce for years; the plants re-
newing themselves from small roots left
in the ground.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-01

Second District: Court for the Parish of Orleans
No. 6,.24.
by NASH q HODGsON-w. T. HoDGsoN,
ID AuctiOneer-Ofiice No. S CarOndelet street,
On SATURDAY, March %, 1874, at twelve O'Clock ~,
at the st. Charles Auction Exchange, in the base
ment rotunda of the st. Charles Hotel, in this city,
A. L.. Tissot, judge of the Second District Court for
the parish of Orleans, dated February 10. 1874,
docket No. 3, 724, in tho above matter, at public
]. THREE VALUABLE LOTS OF GROUND, in
the Sixth District of this city, in the square
bounded by st. Charles, Jeanette and 0ctavia
streets and Peters avenue. measuring 80 feet I lines
front on st. Charles street by a depth and front on
Peters avenue of III feet 10 inches 6 lines, forming
the corner of st. Charles and Peters avenues.
2. A VALUABLE LOT OF GROUND, together
with the buildings and improvements thereon,
square bounded by Fourth, Washington. st. Charles
and Prytania streets. designated as No. rs, measur-
ing 30 feet trout on Fourth street by a depth of 129
feet between parallel lines, American measure.
The improvements consist of q twO-story frame
slate roof residence, known as No. 22o Fourth
8. ONE VALUABLE OF GROUND, together
with the improvements thereon, situated in the
First District Of this city, in the square bounded
streets, designated as No. 8, measuring 20 feet 4
lines front on POydrss street, 10 feet IL inches !
line in width in the rear, by a depth Of about 100
feet . inches, bounded in the rear by an alley I feet
8 inches wide and opening into BarOnne street,
said alley being in common to this and other lots.
The improvements consist OF q well built three
story brick store, known as No. 1870 POydras street,
occupied by Thomas Moran as q clothing store and
residence.
Terms and Conditions-For the property firstly
described, cash on the spot, at the moment of ad-
publications.; for. the property secondly described,
one half cash on the spot, and the balance at one
and two years; and for the property thirdly de-
scribed, one third cash on the spot, and the bal
ance at one and two years; all the credit notes to
bear eight per cent interest and special mortgage,
with vendors privilege from date until paid, with
the clauses of ave per cent for attorneys fees in
case of suit. Buildings to be insured and policies
1 transferred, the purchasers to assume, in addition
to their bids, the taxes for 1873 andSup to the day o.
/ sale.
Acts of salebefore James Fahey, notary, at the
expense of the purchasers. fe22 mil 3 Is %
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-01
MEDICAL.
TAR. CURTIS RETURN
TO NEW ORLEANS.

d. &. Dc =. CURTIS, NJ. D.. p. R c. s..
Author Of Manhood Medical Essays on Mat.
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