Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02

decidedly interrupted by an older sister
OF the girl he was whipping. She caught
up chair and belabored him with it so
forcibly that he took to his heels and left
her master of the situation"
The people of Helena, Mont, have
gone to work with extraordinary energy
to repair the losses sustained by the late
IRE, and show a determination to main
tam their position as the metropolis of
Montana. They appear to be unconquer-
able. Such nerve and courage deserve
success.
THERE are two men now living in New
Bedford, Mass, whose united ages are over
one hundred and seventy years, who,
more than sixty years ago, were doing
business together. In the tailoring de
partment of their business, at that time or
very soon after, they had IN their employ
tour females who are also now living in
that city and whose united ages are about
three hundred and twenty years
TOILET SOAP.-An excellent article of
glycerine soap is made by using one
pound Of bar-soap containing olive oil,
one pound of glycerine, one pint OF Alec
hol and one pint of water. Shave the soap
fine, put the alcohol and water in the ket-
tie over the fire, add the soap, and, when
dissolved and greater part of the alcohol
has been evaporated, add the glycerine.
Continue stirring for two or three minutes
and add any perfume you like.
NEAR Mcmillan, Wis, is curious bluff,
known as the Silver Mound. 1t contains
about 300 acres, and consists principally
of hard quartz rock, being circular in
form, about 200 feet high, and having a
depression of about sixty feet in the Gen.
ter. There is evidence of ancient mining
about the mound. At the top shafts were
sunk fifteen or twenty feet, and drift
runs from the bottom of one of them per-
haps forty feet. Hieroglyphics are carved
in sandstone ledge.
A PHILADELPHIA lady lost a thousand
dollar diamond out of her engagement
ring, and, though every means OF search
was employed, the case was finally pro-
nounced hopeless. But one day the lady
happened to be brushing the dust out of
the trimming of her street dress, when, 10
and behold! there was the lost diamond
sparkling in the insecure crevice of a
f1ounce. 1t had gone 10 and fro in streets
and shops, been brushed and shaken
nearly every day, and yet there it lay like
SAGE is an herb readily grown. 1t be-
longs to garden rather than field culture.
1t is generally sown on mellow, we'll
cleaned garden soil, in rows six to eight
inches apart, and the plants are thinned
out till they are about four inches apart
in the row. AS the plant is grown as an
herb and for its leaves it is the cleanness
of the foliage that is chiefly attended to,
and its preservation after the leaves have
grown to their full size. The most of the
sage sent to market is grown, dried and
pressed by the Shaker communities.
A SERIES of experiments made by Prof.
Vile, in France, show that the dis
eases that attack the potato are in part the
result of a deficiency in the supply of
potash in the soil. For five years in sue
cessiOn the Professor planted potatoes in
the same soil without any fertilizer; to
other plats of ground he added fertilizers
that did not contain potash. In all these
cases the fruit became diseased in the
month Of May, while on the other plats
where potash was supplied in sufficient
quantity the plants were healthy and
yielded an excellent product.
A FEW weeks ago two men, represent
ing themselves as agents of Eastern par
ties, bargained with couple of respecta-
BILE farmers in CordOva, Mimi, for their
farms, and took from them contracts of
sale signed by the farmers and their
wives to be completed in eight months.
In the center of the contract was a good
note signed by the farmer, payable in
eight months, for $3.50 with interest at the
rate of 10 per cent. By tearing off the top
and bottom of the contract, it became
good negotiable paper, and the rascals
were enabled and did sell it at discount
to one of the town bankers. They were
arrested and held to bail for
fraud.
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.-This is quite
a complex oOndiment. 1t is made of wine
vinegar, one and one-half gallons; walnut
catsup, one gallon mushroom catsup. one
gallon; Madeira wine, half gallon; Can
ton soy, half gallon; moist sugar, two and
pounds; SALT nineteen ounces;
powdered capsicum, three ounces; pimen-
to, one and one-half ounces; coriander,
one and one-half ounces; chutney, one
and one-half ounces; cloves, three-quar-
ers of an ounce: mace, three-quarters of
IN ounce; cinnamon, three-quarters of an
ounce; asafetida, six and One-half drachms,
dissolved in one pint of brandy twenty
degrees above proof. Boil two pounds of
hogs liver for twelve hours in one gallon
Of water, add water continually so as to
keep up the quantity of one gallon. Mix
he boiled liver thoroughly with the wa
5er, strain through coarse sieve, and add
his to the above mixture.
CHUBB IS an unfortunate man. He is
bald, and he uses some renOvator " every
night before going to bed, for the purpose
Of making his hair grow. He forgot it
On Wednesday until after he was in bed,
and then he rose, and as he knew Just
where the bottle was he thought it was
hardly worth while to strike light. He
CROPPED around in the closet until be found
The bottle, and pouring out some of the
stuff into his hand he rubbed his scalp
we'll with it; after doing this a second
time he put the bottle back and went to
bed. During the night the baby got to
crying, and Mrs Chubb rose and lit the
gas; as soon as she did so she glanced at
Chubb and began to scream. He woke
and tried to rise, but found his head held
firmly to the bolster. Then Mrs. Chubb
screamed louder than ever. Chubb, in
serious alarm, jumped out of bed, carrying
the bolster with him in his arms. AS he
came opposite the mirror he perceived
that his head was perfectly black, and
upon making an examination he found
that he had rubbed his scalp with his
nifes shoe varnish. twas dry and hard,
and immovably fixed to the bolster-case.
He has not been out of the house since
He soaks his head three times a day in
warm water and has still patches Of black
all over it, like GASES in the
desert. But this doesn't worry Mrs.
Chubb as much as the condition of the
bolster case. That is ruined 1t had to