Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

GINGER BREAD.-Mrs. n. Wellman, of
York, Neb., gives the following: Zone
| pint Of molasses; one teacup of lard; one
Of sweet milk; one teaspoon OF salt; one
| of ginger; four of soda; sponge over
night, and in the morning knead and
cut IN shape as fancy directs.
THE slanderous soul is imbued with
| the electric fire of hell. His black heart
| emits the sulphurous fumes till his whole
nature is absorbed in one homogeneous
mass of hellishness," is the way Green
| vile, Tennessee, editor pulverized a per
son who slandered him.
| SCALLOPED OYsTERs.-Toast several
| pieces of bread brown and butter them on
| both sides; take an oblong dish and put
| toast around the sides instead of the crust,
| pour your oysters into dish and season
with salt, pepper, butter or mace; crumb
! bread in the top and bake in quick oven
one quarter of an hour.
| THE Lava Beds" derive their name
| from the fact that they were once filled
with volcanoes, and that probably at no
distant date. The lava bed soil is ash blue,
| broken with masses of dark lava-like trap
rock, or sCoria, supporting no vegetation
but sage shrubs. That portion of the
|
A YOUNG man in Fond du Lac was a
party to a mock marriage at festive
! gathering, and it proves that the man who
marriage is binding. The girl holds him
to it, but he is engaged to another girl,
who threatens a suit for breach of prom
Use. 1t is complicated case.
ONE of the cooks of the Nicollet, at
I IL.
years, made all arrangements for wed
| ding, recently, with a former ironer in the
| hotel. He repaired with license and good
| clothes to where the girl worked, as per
| agreement, to take her to be married. He
was met there by "that other feller," who
informed him that the lady had been mar
ried to him the day before. That cook is
| now meditating on woman'S deviltry in
| general.
| SPEAKING of saints, Beecher said in a
| recent sermon: My ideal of saint is
brown woman, with red arms, who gets
| up early in the morning and goes to work
| for Others-whO stands the brunt of house
| hold work, and who bears with children
| that sh did not bear. That is my saint.
| Rather busy, bustling saint, but she is
a saint. People say of her, What a home
]
! that is more complimentary than to have
| the Pope put her in the calendar"
! ICING THAT WILL NOT BREAK.-Take
one pound of pulverized sugar and the
whites of three fresh eggs, well beaten.
| Mix them well together, and flavor with
| the juice of one lemon or add teaspoon
| full of strong cider vinegar PulveriZe
| one teaspoonful of wheat or corn starch
| ,l1 H1,,,,, a., Al, L.,
as soon as it is taken from the oven, and
put on the icing with large bladed steel
knife, first putting into warm water, and
then smoothing the frosting with it.
HENRY FOLEY, of indianapolis, think
ing to bring big drunk and his own ex-
| istence to an abrupt termination, went
into drug store and asked for two
| ounces of laudanum. The clerk sus-
pecting his purpose, gave him vial
marked poison" but containing colored
water, which the purchaser swallowed
when out on the sidewalk. He then went
! home, showed the bottle to his wife, and
| laid down to die. The wife discovered
the mistake Immediately, but the, hus-
| band did not for several hours.
| MEASURING HAY-To measure the con-
! tents of a stack Of hay proceed as follows:
! If it is a round stack, tapering to point
from the ground, measure the width half
way between the ground and the peak of
the stack; multiply this width by itself,
and divide the sum by 1854; this will
| give the average area of the surface COW
cred by the stack. Then multiply that
by the height from the ground to the point
where the width was measured. If these
measurements are feet the sum found is
the cubic feet in the stack If the hay is
timothy, orchard grass, millet, or Hunga-
rian, 800 feet will make a ton, or a cube
eight feet each way. If the stack is very
sclid, and was cut when dread ripe, $50
feet will make ton, OR cube of seven
feet each way. If the hay is mixed with
clover, about 700 feet, Or a cube of nine
feet each way, will make ton. If it is
all clover, or light meadow grass, or red
top, 800 feet will be required to weigh a
ton, unless It is pressed very hard, when
some allowance must be made. These
estimates are made from notes of a great
many stacks and mOws of various kinds,
and will give fair average.