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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
Deserved a Better Master.

RAILWAY carriers charge heavily foI
transporting dog; but man who cares
so little for his fOurfooted pet as to
grudge him the price of ten-mile ride
ought to go afoot himself Says the Gin
cinnati Gazette, rather sarcastically:
''Next to his wife and gun, the genu-
inc huntsman is said to love his dog,
and a striking illustration of the latter
was presented a day or two ago. A man
who had been engaged in shooting at
the pigeon match near Carthage, to re-
turn home by the train arriving in Gin
cinnati at four a. NJ, hailed it at the
Fair ground crossing. In response to an
inquiry, he was told that his dog could
Only ride in the baggage-car, and that it
would cost twenty-five cents. The hun
ter took the animal by the collar and led
him to the rear platform of the last car.
{" Take him in on the forward end
said the brakeman. But the man didn't
take him on at either end. He merely
ribbed the dogs nose up to his legs and
boots, got on the rear platform alone, and
WuloJ4Cd " ZIG uOS " AO1lOW do Vic u otlH
started.
1.-THE poor fellow stretched every
nerve and muscle to keep up, but in half
minute was visible only as white
speck jumping on the track, next was en-
tirely out of sight, while his master rode
contentedly into the city.
An hour or So afterward the dog
passed Wlnton Place, above five miles
from where he started, still at full gal
lop, but painting, his tongue hanging far
out, and his gait unsteady. Entirely
deaf to expressions of sympathy from
those who saw him at Spring Grove, he
continued his locomotion to Cummins-
vile, and may, possibly, toward night,
have reached the city in safety. But it
must have taught the animal to dodge a
dozen railway trains to and from the city
and to hop over the planks of half
dozen trestle bridges; and it showed in
telligence as great as his love for the I'M
deserving master"
If that man loved his dog almost as
well as he did "his wife and his gun, we
pity the wife-and the gun, too.-Yo,ttbs
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

now wear out our coat and shoes The
very nutriment which is the support of
life would frequently prove our death.
Mirabeau said of a man who was as idle
as he was corpulent that his only use
was to show how far the skin would
stretch without bursting Without
pain this limit would be constantly
exceeded and epicures, experiencing
no uneasy sensations, would continue
their festivities until they met with the
fate Of the frog in the fable who was
ambitious of emulating the size of the
OK.
Sir Charles Bell mentions the case of
g patient who had lost the sense Of heat
in his right hand, and who, unconscious
that the cover of a pan which had
fallen into the fire was burning hot, took
it out and deliberately returned it to it's
proper place, to the destruction of the
skin Of the palm and fingers. This of
itself would be an accident Of incessant
occurrence if the monitor were wanting
which makes us drop such things quicker
than we pick them up. Pain is the
grand preserver of existence, the sleep
less sentinel that watches over our safe
ty and makes us both start away from
the injury that is present and guard
against it carefully in the time to come
-Lo7ld071 Quarterly R0Ujeao.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
Smuggling Through the Mails.

THE Secretary of the Treasury has
written a letter to the Collector of Gus
toms at Bangor, Me, in response to a
communication from that officer stating
that, under cover of the recent postal
which allow packages not
exceeding four ounces in weight to be
carried in mails, valuable packages of
velvets, silks, gloves and similar articles
daily arrive in Bangor in the mails from
the Province Of New Brunswick, an
tranSjtu to more interior points, and
which are conveyed on the Eastern s.
North American Railway. The Col
lector inquiries whether an officer Of the
customs, when upon the cars carrying
mails, discovers in the mails or postal
car packages which he has reason to be-
ieve are being Struggled, is authorized
by any law to seize them. The Treasury
Department informs the Collector that
under no circumstances is an officer of
the customs authorized 10 seize or detain
packages conveyed in mails or postal
cars under charge of persons empowered
to carry mails or watch over such cars
If, however, a customs officer discovers
packages which he has reason to believe
contain struggled goods, and their des-
tination to a particular postoff1ce in the
United States be known, it is his duty to
notify the master of such postoffice and
request the retention of the packages
until they can be opened in the presence
of the person to whom addressed and in
the presence of a customs officer, in
order that the Government duties may
be paid, or, if there be crime, forfeiture
enforced. There has also been cor.
respondence between the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Postmaster-G Gen
eral on the subject, in which Secretary
Bristow invites such suggestions for rem
| edying the evil complained of as he may
| consider most suitable for the purpose.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
The Empress IOsephlne's Handkerchief

a CORRESPONDENT of the Paris Anaer5-
can Register writes: :" have so often
heard French persons criticise the IN
willingness of English and American la
dies to name certain articles of the fem
mime toilet that was quite delighted a
few days ago in perusing some old chron-
icles to find out that it was possible for
the French to be quite as prudish as we
Until the reign of the Empress Josephine
handkerchief was thought in France
so shocking an object that lady would
never have dared to use it before any
one. The word even was carefully avoid
ed in refined conversation. An actor
who would have used handkerchief on
the stage, even in the most fearful mo-
ments of the play, would have been I'M
mercifully Kissed; and it was only in the
beginning of the present century that a
celebrated actress, Mile. Duchesnoise,
dared to appear with a handkerchief in
her hand. Having to speak of this hand
kerchief in the course of the piece she
never could summon enough courage to
call it by its true name, but referred to
it as a light tissue. A few years later a
translation of one of Shakespeare s
plays by Alfred de Vigny having been
acted, the word handkerchief was used
for the first time on the stage amidst
cries of indignation from a great part of
the house. doubt if even to-day French
elegantes would carry handkerchiefs if
the wife of Napoleon |. had not given
the signal for adopting them. The EN-
press Josephine, although really lovely,
had ugly teeth. To conceal them she
was in the habit of carrying small hand
kerchiefs adorned with costly laces,
which she continually raised gracefully
to her lips. Of course all the ladies of
the court followed her example, and
handkerchiefs have rapidly become an
important and costly part of the femi-
nine toilet;so much so that the price of a
single handkerchief of the trousseau of
of the Duchess of Edinburgh would make
the fortune of necessitous family"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

CORN DROP CAKES.-Alix corn-meal with
boiling new milk until you have thick
batter; put in the patent pans at once
and bake for twenty or thirty minutes.
MOTHERS CooKIEs.-Two cups Of
cream, one heaping teaspoonful of soda
and one even teaspoonful of salt, two
cups of sugar 1--WE use white, one egg
and flour enough to roll; when very
nearly the thickness desired sprinkle on
sugar and roll once over.-Cor Household.
TOMATO CUsTARD-This is made by
straining fnely-stewed tomatoes through
a coarse sieve and adding two pints of
milk and one pint of tomatoes to four
eggs and one teaspoonful of sugar; bake
in small cups quickly. 1t is a wholesome
and nutritious diet for invalids and
feeble persons.
SNOWFLAKE CREAM-Take nice clean
snow, one quart; two tablespoonfuls Of
nice white sugar, extract of vanilla (or
any flavor you like) sufficient to flavor to
your taste, then add good, sweet cream
or milk sufficient to make it the consis
tency Of common ice cream and you will
have as nice dish of cream as one
would wish.
ONE Of the most generally diffused err
rOneous notions is that it is good and
beneficial to break a blister, whether it
is caused by burn or the heating of a
part Of the body by continued friction
under pressure, to which the feet espe-
Cially are exposed after long walks in
illy-titting shoes or boots Such blisters
are always found filled with a clear
liquid, which must be retained and not
drawn off by lancing them and also
those bisters often caused by part of
the skin being fOrcibly pinched and
squeezed, and which contain blood, must
be left alone. This water OF blood in
blisters is a healing substance, of kind
most appropriate for the parts where the
skin is destroyed, and if the blister is al
lowed to dry out by itself the new skin
forms much more rapidly under it, and
much pain is avoided. If the blister
contains blood it must be treated in the
same way, as blood is the best healing
salve. And, by the way, while using the
term healing salve," it may be we'll to
| state that there are no healing salves or
healing plasters. All salves and plasters
retard healing, and many wounds which
heal notwithstanding the salves and
plasters applied would heal in half the
time if left alone.-ManoJacturer ana
! Builder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
Killing WeeyiIs in Peas and Beans.

Every farmer who has cultivated peas
and attempted to keep some through
winter for seed knows what are called
pea bugs" which, by the way, is not a
bug, but small gray beetle, known to
entomOlogists as Bruchus pisa, Linn, or
in some late lists as Myld5ris pisa. When
gathering the peas in fall the presence of
an insect in the pea is not noticed, al
though it is there nevertheless, but in
the larva or grub state, which undergoes
its transformation during the winter and
comes forth beetle at the approach of
warm weather in spring. There are very
few localities where peas are not at
tackled by this pest; and although it does
little harm to the crop if gathered green
for market, when kept for seed their dep
relations become quite apparent.
Another species (BrucAus obs0Letus-
Say) attacks beans in the same manner,
but instead of one beetle in each seed,
as is generally the case with the pea,
there are several; sometimes twenty or
more will be found in one bean. This
insect attacks all the varieties, but it is
not quite as abundant in the Northern as
they are becoming more numerous every
year, and unless soon checked it will be
difficult to obtain sound beans for seed.
Now it must be evident that If these
insects are ever to become less in num-
bers efficient and persistent efforts must
be resorted to by ali who cultivate peas
and beans. Perhaps the most certain
method of destroying is to thoroughly
dry the seed soon after gathering and
then put away in alright vessels, put
ting in quantity of gum camphor, say 8
half pound to barrel-some old cloths
soaked in spirits of turpentine placed in
the bottom of the barrel will usually
answer the same purpose. 1t is now the
season to attend to this matter, and
everyone who has peas or beans to put
away for seed next year should endeavol
to destroy whatever insects they may
ntain.-Rur0J NoaO Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
Rather Bloody.

The romance of Italian brigandage
has received a fresh illustration IN trial
recently in progress at Naples, where
eight brigands were accused of many as
sassinations, of extortions with violence,
of cutting off ears, noses and other
parts-charges sufficient, one would
think, to sink them tolerably low in the
bottomless pit. Capt. Alamo was the
chief of this gang of cut-throats, and
Maria Parente, a young and attractive
girl, the one attracting most attention.
During the trial the prisoners were in
closed in a cage with iron bars, SO great
was the apprehension their presence
awakened Alamo and his band formed
a portion of that of the once celebrated
Capucino, and his appearance in court
was well calculated to strike a panic into
many of the witnesses who had suffered
from his brutalities, for his dress was
that which he wore on his lawless expe-
ditions, and he only wanted the pistols
and the dagger in his red girdle and the
double-barreled gun thrown over his
shoulder to make the character COM
plete. AS showing of what brutalities
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
That Boy!

THERE he is again-rip, tear, slam
bang What a jumbled, tumbled,
mussed-up mess of humanity is that boy
Hear the cat! That boy is pulling its
whiskers. What cackling! That boy
is teaching the chickens to swim. Here
he isl No, there he is! No, that's him
scudding along under full sail after the
dog.
What boy! Everybody says he will
amount to nothing in this or any other
world.
Who placed a pin on the teachers
chair? That boy. Who drew map of
the pond, ducks and all, on the black
board? That boy. Who filed the sugar
bowl with salt, hung his sisters best hat
on the tallest tree, and then sat demure-
~ in the corner with book upside down,
foot on the cats tail and grandmother's
spectacles above his nose? You might
know that it was that boy.
e / can't do anything with him." says
mother. "a useless concomitant Of hui
manity," says teacher. "a lad whose
baneful influence is being felt in per-
nicious manner by all his associates"
says pastor.
But wait. Who brings the first of
everything good to his mother? Who is
always on hand when the schoolmaster
asks favor? Who tumbles heels over
head that he may obtain a geological
specimen for the minister? Oh, it is that
boy, is it? Well, then, just look down
into his heart and you will ind it differ
ent from what you imagined. His soul
is full, and it bubbles up and over every
time he moves.
BIischievous actions, lively pranks,
and sharp sayings are only the gateways
through which escape the superhuous
floods of his nature. The trouble is
that his body is too small for his big
soul.
Let him laugh and frolic and play.
Yes, help him to do all this, and more
too. Remember that our moral and in
tellectual giants were once just such
boys, helped along by love. Also, bear in
ulHu IudG pressure upon anu ABUSE 10
such natures will make them f1ends in
human form.
Take them by the hand, and you can
lead them up to the Hottest pinnacles of
thought and action. Drive them, and
they become the devils strongest allies.
If you have one of those frolicsome
lads in your home, school or neighbor-
hood take care Of and watch over him,
and the time viii come when you will be
proud of that bOy.-N. O. Adpocate
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
The Story of a Hindoo Judge.

THE Calcutta correspondent of the
London Times writes as follows:
=" heard pretty story the other day,
circumstantially told, and if it is not
circumstantially correct it ought to be
so. 1t certainly is true, generally, and
it presents a picture of one beautiful
trait Of Hindoo character-the Hindoo's
attachment to his earliest home. You
have often told stories of English lads,
and how they made their way to honor
and usefulness against all odds, from
Dick Wilmington downward. Here is
story of Hindoo lad, as brave a lad as
ever stepped-the late Mr.. Justice Nit
ter, Judge Of the High Court. He was
born IN a little Hindoo village, and of
parentage that the old story-teller8
would have deemed poor, but honest
lie received his education | know not
where, but he came to Calcutta, as
many young man has code to London,
to carve his way to fortune; only in his
case there was contention against a dom
lnant race. He held his own, however,
through all reyerses, through good re-
port and evil report, till the time came
when the poor Hindoo became a Judge
of the High Court! Perhaps this may
help to correct some of the prevalent
Stiffness about Bengal shallowness.
He worked, splendily subdued self,
and sat in modest dignity Il speak
from knowledge, for I have seen
him) on the bench of the High
Court, deciding intricate cases as a judge
and gentleman. At last he was seized
with fatal disease. He asked to be
taken to a sanitarium, and he was
obeyed. Time went on, but he only be-
came worse. 1t was death, the doctors
mournfully said Then he had but one
request. He had sat on the judicial
bench, had been a marked man at the
levees and drawing rooms, at public
gatherings for institutions which sought
distinguished names Englishmen of the
first istinction-nOtably Sir Barnes Pea
cock-did themselves an honor which
will not soon be effaced from the minds
of the people of Calcutta by making the
native Judge their friend. Now, then,
had come the grand issue of all, and the
dying Judge begged TO be taken to the
village, and, [ suppose, the house, in
which he was born. In this way the two
ends of life came together-simply as in
any play of children, and grandly as in
the truly heroic stories of mankind
There, where the trees he had loved in
childhood waved before his eyes, the
pure and noble Judge died. The poor
Hindoo when he feels his last moments
coming to an end tries his best to crawl
to home to the muddy tank, the grove
Of cocoanuts or bamboos, and to the fam
lily gatherings at eventide, which few
Hindoos ever forget, go where they
may"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

the band were capable it is charged
against them that on one occasion they
attacked sixteen men whom they found
together in the mountains and murdered
them all in cold blood. One of them
being asked for his money said he had
none, but would sell everything to pro-
cure it. This did not satisfy the tigers,
who knocked him down with an ak, fired
two revolvers at him, and as he was
still palpitating struck off his head. An
other, trying to escape, was fred at and
brought back to the spot where the
others had been murdered; there he was
pierced by their daggers and shot. Fran
cesco Volta alone was spared and ordered
to return to Marsico-Nuovo and report
how his companions had been punished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

An improvident Danbury youth en-
tertains high appreciation for the State
prison, which he regards as 1.-The only
place where a fellow is not dunned for
his board and washing every Saturday
night"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

FEARFUL-the amount of money thrown
away in not buying shoes protected by SILL
YER TIPS. Parents, be wise and insist that
your shoe-dcaler should keep them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

ANNA 8. GETsINGER of Honesdale, Pa,
writes the following: "After suffering for
nearly two years from neuralgia in the breast,
passing up into the throat, face and head, |
was entirely cured and restored to health by
using Dr. L. Q. c. Wisharl's Pine Tree Tar
Cordial"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

cal, and at the same time placing neat
and palatable dishes before her family.
-Rural Neac Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

4 CAN'T say as he went to heaven"
remarked Fort Scott citizen of de-
ceased townsman, but he paid bill of
eleven years standing only the day be-
fore he died, and you can judge for your
self"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
WESHART'S
Pine Tree TarCOrdial

It's now fifteen years since the attention of the
public Was first called by Dr. L u c. Wishart 10 this
wonderful remedy and 30 well has 1t stood the test OF
te that today IL not only has the confluence Of the
entire community. but is more frequently prescribed
by physicians in their practice than any other pro-
prIctry preparation In the country. 1t is the vital
principle OF the Pine Tree Obtained by peculiar
process in the disrllatOn of the Tar, by which lrs
ghest medicinal properties retained. For the
following COmplants-Inlammstio or the Lungs,
Coughs Sore Throat and Breast, bronchitis Consump
ton Liver ompaInt, Weak Stomach Disease of tie
Kidneys Urinary Complaints. Nervous Debility, Dys-
ne sa an diseases arising from impure condition
Of the bood-tere is remedy In the world that has
hem used so successfully show nglIr)er
Of marvellous cures The following will shOw
me ESTIMATION III which this sovereign remedy Is held
by those who have used II.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
Consunptior for Ten Years Cured.

Consumption for Ten Years Cured.
DR. L @. C. TIsuART: Dear sir-I am grateful 10
vOu from The tua yOu have made medicine that
win cure the disease Of the Lungs. NJ wife has had
the Consumption for ten years Physicians had told
me that they could only patch her up for the time
being She was confined her bed, s1d had been for
some time. I heard OF your Pine Tree Tar Cordial
and secured one bottle; it relieved her cough. She
has now finished her fourth bottle, and ia able 70 do
re work for her family, and may God speed You on
with your great discovery and you have made for
RyT. z. II. HOPKINS,
Jackson Center. Shelby Co. Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31

DR.. vIsHART, PHILADELPHIA: Dear Sfr-D-ring
visit 10 Philadelphia three years ago. sui
fering from severe cOid, and was induced 10 take
hottie Of your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, which had the
effect OF curing me iu few days. have used II in
my family since, and am of the opinion that It
saved the lite OF ny daughter 10 euhcring from
severe and painful cough If the publication Of this
VII be OF any service. Won NJ liberty It.
Yours Te-7e"tFTIliy,
JOHN JiODNETF, st. Louie, Mo.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-31

BRDGEPoRz.-Mr. Geo. ". Medill,
late OF the firm Of J. AediI & Co, Martins
Ferry, has severed his connection with
the above establishment, and connected
himself with the house Of Junkius Bros,
Bridgeport.
The Belmont County Pair will be held
at ST ClAisViIle On September 18Th, I6th
11h and 18Th.
The Republican County Convention Of
Belmont county Is called to meet st ST
CIAirsvi1e on Saturday, August 22d.
The WomAn's Temperance League held
q meeting in the West Bridgeport n &.
Church yesterday afternoon. The meet
ing was not largely attended. The pro
jects Of cauTAssing the town for votes OF
the new constitution, and picketipg the
voting places on election dsy, were dis
eassed, but no definite action was taken.
Alta meeting Of the Board Of Education
Of the Bridgeport Union sehonl the fol-
loving teachers were elected: Miss Alice
West, No. S; Miss Sarah HoJle, No. {
Miss Lizzie NewlGad, No 8; Miss Hewitt
son, No 2; Miss ClsylAnd, No. l; Mis-
Anna Waterman, Colred School. Prot
Taylor Is retained as Superintendent
A number Of Bridgeport ci6zsns O
both sexes, old and young, went TO Bell
aire last night TO attend large party a
the residence Off G. Morgan, ESQ