Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

a woman on earth, how crlminallY wrong
are the old bachelors, with the world full
OF pretty girlsl"
a COUNTRY lad, eleven years old, lately
visited Dubuque, bringing with him the
scalps of nine timber wolves-a mother
and eight young ones-al slain by his
Juvenile but potent hand. He received
$40 dollars bounty from the county, and
went home rich and happy.
A MAN in mill in Plumes, Cal, felt
tug at his coat-tail. He looked around
and saw that it was being drawn in by
cog-wheels. He grabbed a post and held
on with all his might while the coat was
slowly torn from him. The struggle was
hard one, but the man won.
They have sharp lawyers down East.
One OF them m 4rketing for dinner, asks
a poultry dealer, is that turkey young
one?" Eyes, sirn "Will you take your
oath on it" Certainly, l will" Law
yer administers the oath, charges 81 for
the service, and takes his pay in poultry.
ONE who has tried it says that spirits of
turpentine will extract ink from cotton,
SILK and wooden goods. Saturate the spots
with the turpentine, and let 1t remain sew
eral hours; then rub it between the hands
1t Will crumble away 1t is said, without
lnJurlng either the color or the texture OF
the article.
WHITE MOUNTAIN JELLY CAKE.-Two
cups white sugar; one half cup butter,
melted; three cups flour, one cup sweet
milk, two eggs, two teaspoontuls cream
tartar, one of soda. Dissolve the soda IN
milk and sift the cream tartar in the flour
and use frosting instead of jelly. This is
good; try it.
THEY have a good joke on a certain
gentleman in Chicago who is great land
operator as well as a most successful ply
stefan. The doctor prescribed some pills
for lady. She asked how they were to
be taken. GA quarter down." said the
doctor, "and the balance in one, two and
three years"
AMERICAN RAISED WAFFLEs. pint
of sweet milk, one heaping teaspoonful
of butter, three eggs, teaspoontul OF
thick brewers yeast, one quart OF flour,
and another teaspOonful of sweet milk IN
which is dissolved aquarter of teaspoon
full of soda. Let it rise until light, then
bake as other waff1es. Serve with butter
and sugar.
HoRsERADIsH SAUCE.-Scrape one or
more sticks of horse-radish very fine;
indeed, to crate it is best. Have good
tablespoonful put it in your soup-tureen
with a teaspoonful Of made mustard, a
teaspoonful of SALT two tabfespOOnfuls of
good vinegar and three tablespoonfuls of
rich cream. This is pronounced an ex-
cellent and well-tried recipe.
A HARTFORD man put valuable clus-
ter diamond pin in a little box and hid
it in the stuffing of lounge for safe
keeping, some time ago; few days since
he carried the lounge to furniture man
to have it repaired, but didn't think of
the precious gems; they have disap-
peared, but the furniture man says he
doesn't know anything about them.
KENTUCKY comes to the front with one
of the greatest marvels Of the present
age. In town of considerable size in
that State there resides a lady who makes
it her boast that she has had but one new
bonnet in forty years, has made but two
calls on neighbors in eighteen years, and
has taken but one meal away from home
in all that time. And yet she is we'll off,
in good health and all her limbs perfectly
sound.
The conduct of State Constables Max
well and Skinner in making a seizure of
liquor at Wildes' Hotel, at Chicopee
Falls, Mass, recently, while the proprie-
tors daughter was dying in the house,
and another shortly after when the prep
arations for the burial were being made,
excited wide and deep feeling in the
community, and a petition, signed by
more than 400residents of Chicopee Falls
and Chicopee, was sent to Boston asking
for their removal.
TIMOTHY WHEELER, of Waterbury Cen
ter, Vt, has some remarkable ideas about
food and drink. He has confined himself
to a vegetable diet for ten years, and,
five years ago, he got it into his head that
people in general drink too much &C
cordingly, he went thirty eight days the
first year without taking any liquids Into
his system, the second year seventy days,
the third year one hundred and thirty, the
fourth one hundred and seventy, and, up
to the 10th of April, he had gone two
hundred and twenty-eight days in the
fifth year without drinking anything
whatever.
BE SURE that the water you use for do
mestic purposes is pure. Impure water
is more injurious than impure air. Never
drink water that has been kept in a room
for several hours, whether it be warm or
not. Water has the faculty of condensing
and thereby absorbing nearly all the gases,
which it does without increasing its own
bulk. The colder the water is the greater
its capacity to contain these gases. Atan
temperature pint of water will
contain pint of carbonic acid gas and
several pints of ammonia. This capacity
is nearly doubled by reducing the tenn
perature to that of ice.
To MAKE EvERToN TAFFY-Into
brass Kettle put quarter OF a pound OF
fresh butter; as soon as it is just melted
add pound of brown sugar; keep these
stirred very gently over clear ire till a
little of the mixture, dropped into cold
water, breaks between the teeth without
to them. When it has boiled TO
this point it must be poured out immedi-
ately, or it will burn. The grated rind of
a lemon added when the taffy is half done
improves it; OF use teaspoOntul Of pow
dered ginger, moistened with little of
the other ingredients, SO soon as the sugar
is dissolved, and then stirred to the whole.
If dropped upon a buttered dish, the
tatfy can, when cold, be raised from it
easily.
A WOMAN named Mary A. Written,
about sixty-five years old, was found dead
in her house on Bracket street, Portland,
Me-, the other day. She was some
what eccentric and lived alone, receiving
no visitors. Her non-appearance, there
fore, excited no comment until it was
observed that no smoke issued from her
chimney and there were no signs of life
about the house The authorities were
notified, and on going into the house
found the woman stretched on a mattress