Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

CHEERFULNESS IS an excellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the bright
weather of the heart. 1t gives harmony
to the soul, and is perpetual song with
out cords 1t is tantamount to repose. 1t
enables nature to recruit its strength /;
whereas worry and discomfort debilitate
it, involving constant wear and tear.
| LOUISVILLE has unwittingly committed
itself to a grand temperance reform, by
voting to send drunkards home, instead
of to the lookup. The worst cases are
cured in this way. The men come out in
a day or two with somewhat less capilla-
nv adornment and chastened look which
| tells of the refining influences of home.
ELECTRICAL GAS LIGHTING-A novel
| device for lighting gas by electricity, late
" patented, is made as follows: A glass
| cup is immersed in liquid, and when the
gas is turned on it enters under the cup
| and lifts the same, thereby establishing
connection with battery, which heats a
platinum wire placed over the burner, and
| thus ignites the gas.
PRoFEssdR GOODWIN SMITH doubts
whether more virulent poison was ever
| infused into the veins of a nation than
| that infused into the veins Of the Ameri
can nation by such school histories as are
used in the United States" and wants to
| know what can be expected eff people are
fed through their childhood on such stim-
ulants of national vanity and malignity."
| II Is unnecessary to endure the pangs
of the rheumatics. A Kansas City man
| has discovered the remedy in his own
case and generously cOnfides it to the
| public. Next time you get 'em try 1t.
| All that you have to do is to persuade a
| Texas steer to take after you. After the
animal has chased you forty rods or so to
and up tree, you will not feel a single
rheumatic twinge.
THE Green Bag ADVOCATE tries the credu-
lily of its readers by saying that Holland
| town deserves credit for new way of
caring for the widows and widowers.
Having eleven resident widows and as
many widowers, a committee arranged to
marry them, pairing them off by lot. The
| drawing took place on recent Monday,
and eleven marriages are expected to take
| place this winter"
LIGHT is generally considered by men
of science as consisting in the propaga-
ton Of vibrations or undulations in a
| subtle, elastic medium, or ether assumed
| to pervade all space, and to be thus set in
vibrating motion by the action of lumin-
Gus bodies, as the atmosphere by sOnOrous
bodies. This theory is known as the IN
dIIati11g or a0G0e theory. This is substan-
TALLY Prof. Tyndall's belief, we believe,
| as advocated in his Fragments of Science,
though he is by no means the author Of
the theory.
| WHEN you have interfered in family
| fight, and been knocked down stairs by
the brutal husband, and had kettle of
| hot water poured upon YOU by the i'll
treated wife, console yourself with the re-
Election that the memory of noble and
useful acts wrought in early youth is like
the coral islands-green and sunny
amidst the melancholy ocean. After it
has happened to you several times, you
will decide that you have laid up memo
ries enough of that Sort and will never,
never interfere between husband and wife.
KETTLE SCRAPER.-D Daisy Eyebrigh
tells in the Country Gentleman how to
make useful article for scraping sauce
pans and iron kettles, so as to save ones
| finger nails, which are the means gener-
ally employed for the purpose. She says
any tinn.an can cut piece Of sheet iron
| about two inches wide and two and half
inches long. 1t should be made in the
| form of a square, with three sides left
| straight and the other one cut off at each
corner so as to make angles, which, CON-
| ing in contact with particles adhering to
the kettles, will remove them. A smart
boy can make one out of any old bit Of
! iron.
| CLEANLINEss.-Who is poet enough to
chant the full praise of clean face on all
things, as friend of pleasure and con-
tentment? Whilst its effect is highly
moral, like chapter of Antoninus, and
sesthetical as a view of the sky, it also
cheers every sense of the body and sets it
more fully at peace. The untidy can
never be eminently virtuous or happy, as
| having defect that vitiates universally.
We shall never look into sites for saints
and angels, nor into filthy homes, greasy
and dirt besmeared, for anything but
peevish and low-spirited family, whose
| finer life and love seem to have with
| drawn and shriveled in sheer selfprotec-
| ton.
A DEAF and dumb young lady of Cape
! Elizabeth, Me-, went to Manchester, N. H.,
about three years ago, where a young
| Frenchman saw her, was pleased with
her, made proposals of marriage and was
accepted She could not write and could
not by any means communicate her name,
| but name was procured for the occasion
and they were married. The husband
| has led a married life for two years with
out knowing his wife's name, and did not
| find it out until she came to visit her
| friends. He had thought her to be
French woman. He is, however, perfect
| ly satisfied.
RELIGION gives a man courage. | do
not mean the courage that comes of tough
muscles and rigid nerves-of stomach
| that never surrenders. That also is a
| good thing, the hardihood of the flesh,
let me do it no injustice. But mean
the higher moral courage, that can look
| danger and death in the face, unawed and
| undismayed the courage that can encoun-
ter loss Of ease, of wealth, of friends, of
! your own good name; the courage that
can face a world full of bowling and of
scorn-aye, of loathing and of hate; can
see all this with smile, and, suffering it
all, can still toll on, conscious of the re-
suit, yet fearless still.-IheOd0re Parker.
PROFESSOR ROGERS states that the splen-
did researches in the deep sea are rapidly
progressing, and are intensely practical,
and may ultimately give US topographic
chart of the sea-bottom, its valleys, banks,
| and plateaus, so fully that sailing mas
ter ought to be able to very nearly tell his
position by the lead. The American coast
generally shelves gradually into the At
lantic-so much so that our best sailing
directions assure the cautious mariner he
NAV. with the lead and chart. find the