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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
Beaten, But Not Conquered.

DICK HARGIs came down yesterday
from Chattanooga with romantic story
OF an elopement which occurred on the A.
& G. Road the day before. At the little
station called Alfalfa, on that road, an old
man, his wife and four daughters were
awaiting the arrival of the train, as they
were emigrating to Texas. When the
train rolled up all the other girls cot
aboard except one. She had all along
exhibited an Indifference, if not downright
aversion, to going off, and at the supreme
moment refused to get aboard. The old
man took her by one arm and her mother
by the other and were forcing her to get on.
At this juncture young man, who had
been lettering around the station ever
since the party had arrived, came up and
remarked to the parents that he had a
Say 500 in the matter and demanded her
release. The old man recognized him at
once as the girls lover, whom he had
kicked down the steps few weeks before
for visiting her. Releasing his daughters
arm he planted healthy old blow just be-
tween the young mans eyes, which sent
him sprawling some distance. The old
lady, seeing the situation of affairs, also
released her hold upon the young lady
and lit on to that young man pretty much
after the style hen with a brood would
90 for lame hawk thrown III their midst.
She sat upon him and clawed him, and
pulled his ears, and pulled his hair, and
gouged his eyes, and screeched and tore
up considerably before the stunned youth
could extricate himself. In the meantime
the girl had taken advantage of her free
dom and was seen running like deer
through the woods. As soon as the lover
, got upon his feet he made tracks in the
same direction and the two were soon lost
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04

vino light upon the stalks and peck the
kernels from the end of the ears This
year they have not troubled him and
upon investigation he found them FEEDING
upon grasshopper eggs.
"Another hopeful prospect is that
where the eggs have not been thus de-
stroyed in many places the coatI.g sur
rounding the eggs and constituting the
sack, composed of mucus matter, has been
dissolved by the damp weather, and the
eggs lie unprotected in the damp ground.
Prof. Riley, the Entomologist of Missouri,
gives it as his opinion that an unusual
amount of dampness will destroy the eggs,
and that their present condition in Mime
sofa is favorable for that result
While we do not desire to mislead the
people of the frontier, we do believe that
the outlook is decidedly hopeful. We
would urge upon them, where practical, to
pillow and harrow shallow this fall where
eggs are deposited; also to make investi-
cations of the extent and condition of the
eggs in their localities, and if any unusual
facts are noted report the same to this office
at Mankato.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
Constant Electric Lamp.

III is we'll known that, under the infiu-
SzRce Of strong electric current, body
xSfsich is a good conductor, when connect
Sag the two poles of the current, may be
slGafed to such point as to become lumi-
NOUS This phenomenon is turned to ac-
cqGnt by AIr. Lodygin, of st. Petersburg,
fgE Obtaining a constant light, which is
both reasonable in cost and also capable
at being used under all circumstances. IN
stead OF producing the electric light by
means of the wearing away of the cleo
tEddcs, as has hitherto been the practice
shat is to say, by the ignition of the parti-
lies of charcoal which are transported
from one pole to the other in a body of
zEjr heated to a high degree between the
electrodes, Mr.. Lodygin employs short
StIck of charcoal, in a single piece, and
reduces the area of its section between the
Guo electrodes in such a manner that it
oilers considerable resistance to the cur
rent; SO that the portion between the two
poles, being heated to a high degree, be-
cones luminous, just as a metallic wire
would do. The lamp consists of cylin-
drical glass vessel, closed with metal
covers 50 as to be alright both at top and
action. Occupying the center Of this
cylinder is the stick Of charcoal held in its
H1l&1e by two pieces of metal communicat
EKg~ through the covers, with the two
electrodes of the battery In order to rem
deg the light more intense several sticks of
csi2s4rcoa1 May be placed in the same lamp.
The conducting wire which leads the
electricity from the battery communicates
vvfth an insulated rod connected with the
cover and in contact with the first piece
If charcoal; the electric current then
passes into the second piece of charcoal
Through the lower cover, and from thence
go tbs next lamp or to the battery. On
account OF the heating of that part of the
charcoal which is reduced in thickness
,Fha surface rapidly becomes oxidized
when IN contact with the oxygen of the
alr, and the charcoal is consequently
worn away, circumstance which would
zeHd to considerably limit the duration Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04

than the requisite amount of winter stores,
1t must be contracted to proper size and
ventilated at the top, so as to let the sur
plus moisture escape and yet secure the
animal heat Of the bees. This is easily
done. Remove the surplus frames from
one side of the hive, slipping in divid-
ing board, filling in between it and the
outer wall with leaves or straw Cover
the frames with a piece of cloth of any
description, first laying few small strips
OF board across the frames to give the
bees pass or passes over the tops of the
frames under the cloth. Now put the
second story on and fill it with leaves,
straw, or some other fine, warm material
and place the lid on, contracting the fly
hole to about one inch, and if the swarm
Is very strong raise the lid One-fourth of
an inch on one side to dry up the moist
ure that collects rapidly on the top of the
straw
Hives should be placed near the ground
and under pinned with straw to secure the
heat OF the earth. Bees cannot be success
fully wintered outdoors and empty combs
prevented from molding where the hive is
not contracted to a proper size. The ar
rangement is in conflict with the laws of
success, and disastrous results must follow.
The moisture thrown off in animal respira-
ton is in fine particles, like steam when
exhaled from the lungs, and never will
cOndense into drops until it reaches
stratum of atmosphere colder than the
blood. When it cannot escape at the top
of the hive it settles in drops at the furthest
and coolest part of the hive, and when
lodging on empty combs they are blighted
with mildew and in a few years worthless,
whereas they should last good ten or fifteen
years. When the size of the hive CORE
spends with the size of the swarm the whole
internal air of the hive is kept warm, and
the particles of moisture are borne upon
the atmosphere and condense in the top of
the hive above the straw, where they will
never get back, leaving the bees dry and
warm, in which condition cold seldom
affects good swarm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

DOUGHNUTs. teacup OF sour cream
or milk, two teacups of sugar, one of
butter, four eggs, one teaspoontul of sal
eratus; spice to taste.
VEAL SAUsAGEs.-C equal quantities
of lean veal and fat pork, handful of
sage, little salt; beat ali in a mortar
and roll out like doughnuts and fry them.
GRAHAM SoDA-RIsCUTT.- quart of
Graham flour, one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in thirds of a teacupful of
molasses; mix with milk and water.
JUA1BLEs.-One and one-fourth pounds
of flour, three-fourths of sugar, three eggs,
a little nutmeg, three fourths of a pound
of butter. Roll them in sugar
To STUFF A FILLET OF VEAL.-Take a
slice or two of the fillet and a few slices
of pork, chop these very fine, add sweet
herbs, pepper and salt; if the pork does
not make it soft enough, moisten it with
an egg.
CITRoN CAKE.-Eight eggs, their weight
in flour, the same of sugar, the weight of
five IN butter, a little mace; chop some
citron fine, and put in d layer of cake and
a layer of citron alternately.
CHICKEN CELERY,-Boil two chickens;
when cold, take the meat from the bones,
chop it fine with the yelks of nine eggs
boiled hard, two heads of celery chopped,
add sweet-oil, mustard, cayenne little
salt; mix it well together.
RICE PIEs.-One quart Of milk, six
eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of ground
rice. Cook the rice a little in the milk,
stirring it constantly while on the fire, and
put the egg in when hot The rind of two
lemons and the juice of one, or any flavor
you choose.
HAsTY PUDDING.-Boil some water and
thicken with flour, as you would for thin
starch; sift some coarse meal and stir in
until it is quite thick; keep it boiling all
the time you are putting in the meal,
which must be done gradually; salt to the
taste; boil it well; put it in bowl and
turn out. Eat with cream and molasses.
INDIAN DUNPLINGs.-Mix your meal
with water that almost boils; make them
up and put them in to boil about twenty
minutes moderately; they will come to
pieces if they boil hard. Some prefer to
stir up the meal with hot water and put 1t
in clean cloth, as they are apt to break if
not properly managed. An hour will
cook it in this way.
Fill quart bowl with alternate layers
OF thinly sliced apples and sugar, add half
a teacup of water, cover with saucer
held in place by a weight; bake slowly
three hours; let it stand until cold and
you will turn out rounded mass Of
clear, red slices imbedded in firm Jelly.
For an accompaniment to a dessert of
blanc mango, rennet custard, cold rice
pudding or similar dishes, or even with
nice bread and butter, there is nothing
nicer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
Fall and Winter Care of Stock.

UNDER the system followed by some
farmers nearly all the growth or gain in
weight made by the cattle is during the
summer months, they being so poorly fed
and cared for during winter as to grow
but little, if any, and it is not uncommon
to have both young and full grown cattle
weigh less in April than they did in Octo-
Der. When grass comes in the spring
some weeks pass before the former state
of health and flesh is regained, so that five
months out OF the twelve not unfrequently
is the time in which flesh is added. This,
of course, is very Improbable manage
ment, and now is a good time to make
preparation to prevent any approach to it.
Ii supplied with an abundance of good
food healthy animal will not seriously
suffer from exposure to extreme cold, and
will even show comparatively little bad
effects from exposure to storms of cold
rains or snow. But this is expensive
work. The animal must keep itself warm
in some way and must get dry if not kept
dry. If comfortable shelter does not keep
it warm and dry it must consume more
food to supply the extra heat, and if this
food is not supplied the animal must draw
on the store of fat it has laid up in the
past
1t is entirely possible to keep domestic
animals too warm in winter; it is quite
common, in the attempt to keep them
warm, to injure them by combining them
in badly-ventilated stables and sheds.
Neither of these abuses makes it advisa-
BILE to go to the other extreme and give it
insufficient shelter. A common mistake,
we think, is IN neglecting cattle in the
fall, allowing them to lose flesh before
giving them grain or shelter.
1t is not necessary to have expensive
buildings. Even a straw-covered shed or
stable, which can be made in a day and
with very little expenditure of money,
will keep cattle dry and warm. Neither
is it necessary to feed extravagantly, but
enough should be given to make up for
depreciation in value of the grass by frosts-
or drought. 1t is coming to be generally
recognized that it does not pay to allow
young plants or animals to receive check
to their growth if this can be avoided; so
it is unwise to allow loss of the gain
made during the summer by lack of care
or food in the fall or winter.-W Western
Rural
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
Cooking.

MOTHERS, when your daughters begin
to learn to bake and cook do not discour
age their first attempts by telling them it
is not good or we'll done. If it is not
good, or as well as you could do it latter
years OF experience, do not discourage
them by telling them so, but remember
one word of praise will help them try the
next time to do better than a thousand
words of fault-fnding would. Well do |
remember the first time | kneaded loaf
of bread and baked it. | was alone at
home, and o, how tried to make it nice.
and | thought myself it was nice; but,
alaSl when ma came home she said my
bread was not good at all. All, how my
heart sank within me, and I said to my
self: :" | will never again try to make
another loaf of Bread" and yet, to this
day, when [ make bread | do it with
heavy heart, tor it always reminds me of
my first attempt and the Encouragement [
then received.
0 mothers, [ repeat it, do not discour-
age your daughters in their first attempt at
baking. If it is not we'll done point out
to them their faults in a mild and gentle
way, and please don't forget to give them
one word of praise.-d Farmers Daughter,
IN RuraI Nel0 Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04

A GRAND RIVER avenue grocer saw
boy about twelve years old loafing around
his store yesterday, and he patted him on
the head and said:
{" Boy, go to work. George Washing
ton was worker; Thomas Jefferson
swung the ak; Henry Clay used the hoe"
did they?" asked the lad,
"They did, my son. Labor is grand;
labor is enrolling; labor is the founda-
tion-beams Of this country. The boy who
cultivates habits of industry will sooner
or later achieve success and independence.
There's fifty bushels of potatoes in there
to sort over. Go to work at them, my
boy, and to encourage you I'll give you
fifteen cents day. In few days, if you
are industrious and trustworthy, I'll let
you saw some wood, and then you may
pick over some beans, and it won't be
long after that before you can run for
Governor of Michigan. Come, now, 90
to work.
The boy went IN and worked for about
an hour, and was then missing. On
board was a sign he had left behind him.
1t read: Your hank Clay and george
Washington kin go to blazes "-Detr0H
Free Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
How GrasshOpper Eggs Are Destroyed.

Mr. JOHN G. WISE, one of the Grass
hopper Commissioners of Minnesota, and
editor of the Mankato ReU5eao, says in re-
cent number of his paper:
The Wdtonacan County Record says
that farmer of that county, living in a
locality where great many grasshopper
eggs were deposited, went out one day to
dig some, and after an hours search with
out finding any came to the conclusion
that they had all decayed Telling his
conclusions to a neighbor, the latter took
him to field where he said there were
millions, but after considerable digging
they found their search equally fruitless.
If the eggs had decayed we imagine that
some trace of the decayed matter would
be found in the ground. In our inVes-
LEGATIONS in the frontier counties we found
nearly the same state of affairs. The eggs
were supposed to be deposited in the
greatest numbers, and surprise was gener-
ally expressed at the comparatively few
found. We were inclined to the belief
that the blackbirds, which are unusually
plenty in the grasshopper districts, and
the prairie chickens, both of which dig
and eat the eggs, have destroyed them.
The blackbirds have a great fondness
for the eggs, dig them with great energy,
and consume large numbers of them.
a farmer of Waterman County told US the
other day that every year his corn has
been badly injured by the blackbirds,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
Feeding by Rule.

THERE are great many men who have
a habit of doing everything by some fixed
rule. They go to bed at certain time,
and if they fail to awake in the morning
at the usual time they are angry with
themselves all day. They make it an
" invariable rule to work a certain num-
Der of hours each day, and their going
out and coming inn is according to some
vell-established plan. They take GER
tain amount of certain kinds of food and
everything in regard to diet is brought
under the dominion of an infiexible law
Some of these men are farmers, and they
carry their ideas of "law and ORDER into
all their farm arrangements. They feed
their live stock with great regularity both
in regard to time Of feeding and the guam
tity. They try to ascertain how many
pounds OF hay COW requires in a day,
and then as nearly as possible feed just
that quantity every twenty-four hours.
This plan seems to me to be very objec-
tionable. Everyone knows that IN the
case of men the age, size and weight,
separately or all combined, form no cor
rect standard by which to judge of food
required. Some very small men con-
sumo great deal more food than
those larger and heavier. How would
they like to be fed by rule-to
have 3 per cent. Of their weight, of
solid food, each day? Under such a
system the large, heavy, fat men, who eat
but little, would be furnished more food
than they would care for; while the thin,
light, hungry men would be half starved
all the time Some animals have much
keener appetite than others, and need
much more food At times the same ami
NAL will require much more food in pro-
portion to its live weight than it will in
others. In extremely cold weather Great
uIes need much more food than they do
when it is comfortably warm. And when
COWS are giving milk they ought always
to be fed better than when they are dry.
There is, and can be, no fixed rule for
feeding animals which will apply to all
cases at all times. Animals are different,
and their surroundings vary so much that
what is sufficient for one is not enough
for another which is of the same age and
size. And the attempt to bring them all
to some general average, and feed them
ali by some universal rule, seems not only
to be contrary to nature and hard upon
the animals, but also Improbable to the
owner 1t is far better 10 allow the appe
tite to be the sole criterion of the amount
of food which is required.-R., in Buffalo
LtUe Stock Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
A Good Way to Winter Honey-Bees.

A SUCCESSFUL apiarian of Camargo, ILL.,,
A. Solisburgh, gives, in the AnaericGn Bee
Journal, his mode of wintering honey-bees
in the cellar or house built exclusively for
that purpose. When deposited L always
raise the lid quarter of an inch on one
side or end of the hive, partially closing
the fy-hole so as to exclude mice. The
mercury should range at about forty-five
degrees Fahrenheit When the proper
season rolls around put them up immedi-
ately after they have flown out, or in
few days, and leave them undisturbed in
midnight darkness, and all will be right
in the spring.
To secure the desired end outdoors in
winter, if the hive is large, holding more
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04

to view. The little episode created in
tense enthusiasm among the passengers
and train hands, all of whom, of course,
sympathized with the young couple, and
set up clapping of hands when they saw
them safely out of the angry parents
reach. Then the train moved off with the
rest of the family, who were terribly ex-
cited and crying. But the girls trunk
was aboard and that was some consola-
ton to the exasperated father-Atanta
lG0.l Herald
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04

the lamp. To avoid this drawback, how
ever, the lamp is filled with nitrogen.
which is prevented from escaping by the
two alright covers; in this manner OK
idation cannot take place, and the pieces
of charcoal preserve their original dimen-
sions. The experiments have given such
good results that the inventor has been
awarded the Lomonossov p.;ze by the St.
Petersburg Academy of Science.-N. /.
GlaDh9c
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-01
..ifp.''

Highlanders have the habit, when
talking their English, such as it is, of
interfering the personal pronoun she"
where not required, such as The King
he has come, instead of''The King has
come" Often, in consequence, a SEN
tence or expression is rendered sufficiently
ludicrous, as the sequel viii show: A
gentleman says he had the pleasure OF
listning to a clever man, the Rev.
Mn (let his locality be a secret) 4,
and recently he began bis discourse thus:
MY friends, you will find the subject
of discourse this morning in the First
Epistle General of the Apostle Peter,
chapter V. and verse s, in the words:
The Devil he goeth about ike a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Now, my friends with your leave, we
will divide the subject of our text to-day
into four heads Firstly we shall endeav-
or to ascertain who the Devil he was
secondly, we shall inquire into his geo.
graphical position, namely, Where She
Devil he was, and Where the Devil he
was going; thirdly, (and this of per-
sonal character) who the Devil he was
seeking And fourthly, and lastly, we
shall endeavor to solve question which
has never been solved yet. What
the Devil he was roaring about"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-07-01
The Pulse.

Every intellectual person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health; then, comparing it with what
it is when he is ailing, he may have some
idea of the urgency of the case. Pa
rents should know the healthy pulse of
each child-as now and then person is
born with popularity. An infants
pulse is one hundred aad forty: child
Of seven about eighty; and from twenty
to sixty years, it is seventy beats a min
ute, declining 10 sixty at four score. A
healthtul grown PERSONS pulse beats
about seventy times in minute; there
may be good health down to sixty; but
if the pulse always exceeds seventy.
there is a disease: the machine is work
ing itself out; there is a fever Of infam-
nation somewhere, and the body is feed
ing on itself; as it is consumption. when
TnE following is from the pen of the
greatest news paper man that has ever
lived in this oountry-Horace Greeley
He thoroughly undcrstoo3 the situation,
and comprehended how ungrateful man
is:
1T is strange how close men read the
newspapers. We cannot say anything
that anybody don't like, but We soon hear
of it and everybody tells us of it. If.
however, once in while we happen to
say eool thing, we never hear Of that:
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nobody seems to notice that We pay
some man a good hundred compliments
and give him dozen puffs,and he takes
it all as a tribute to his goodness, and he
never thinks it does him any good. But
if we happen to say things that man
don't like, or something he imagines is a
reflection on him or his character, see
how quickly he flares up and gets mad
about it. All our evils are charged to
us, but we never, apparently. get any
credit for what we DO.
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Happiness is a ball after which we
run wherever it rolls, and We push it
with our feet when it stops.
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Gems of Thought.

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Love descends to friendship; friendship
never scars to love.