Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! on the sides of the Blue Mountains OF
Colorado, where bears seek them for
food 1t is thought they become chilled
in attempting to fly over the range and,
falling upon the snow, perish.
THE latest advertising dodge is in the
form of patent stamp to be attached
to the seat of boys trousers when they
90 out skating. When they get a fall the
advertisers name and business will be
neatly stamped upon the ice, so that all
who skate may read.-Bost0n Courier.
PUNCH furnishes this inscription for
the front of the idiot asylum founded by
Mr.. Holloway, who made his fortune, in
"patent medicines:
Not oft is fate so just-see wealth restored
Back to the simple source from which it
poured.
THE world is full of natures SO sensi-
| tive that not more easily or utterly are
| tender iowerets crushed than they; and
| he who walks over such natures with a
barbarous tread lacks everything in lack
! ing the sweetest of human qualities
man kindness.
THE sick squaw of a dusky chief in
Washington Territory lately told her
noble husband that she didn't think that
| she should ever feel any better unless he
! killed her doctor. This is novel and
! startling view of medical matters, and
interesting to the profession. The doctor
was duly killed and, upon being triedfo
his murder, the chief was acquitted on
the ground that he acted in defense of
| his wife's life.
THERE is house in Barnstead, n. H.,
unoccupied, having chimney in the
center. The house is twenty-five by
thirty feet. The chimney is built so as
to support the sills and beams. The
frost has got into the cellar and frozen
under the chimney and raised it up sew
eral inches, lifting the house free from
the ground except some nine feet where
it touches the underpinning. In places
it is two or three inches from the under
pinning, and can be rocked by pushing
gaainst it with the hand.
A Coon CAKE WHEN EGGS ARE SCARCE.
One pint of cream one pint of sugar,
yolks of three eggs, soda, if cream is
sour, and soda and cream of tartar If
cream is sweet; flavor to taste, flour
enough to form moderately stiff batter;
bake in a loaf if you want a plain cake,
or in layers if you want jelly cake or
cocoanut cake; make sitter and put in
two cups of fresh, best currants, and you
have a nice, plain fruit cake. This cake
recipe should be named "hard times
cake" as it il valuable to person
whose supply of butter, sugar and eggs.
is limited.
A WEALTHY Bostonian, while at Paris
recently on his wedding tour, was swim
died out of 900 by an Irishman, who
pretended to have lately come into a
large property, with the condition at
tached that he should give 500, 900 to
the poor of America, and would like to
send half of it-by-the gentleman, only
asking as security to be assured that he.
was worth that amount. The victim
handed him $4,000 to count, and prom
Used to bring evidence of his account at
the bankers, but without waiting for it
the Irishman fled with the bills, and has
not been seen since.
THE lactometer, which is used in test
ing milk is short glass tube somewhat
like thermometer without the frame.
marked inside with a graduated scale
from zero to 10, and having at one end
a long, empty bulb terminating with
smaller, round bulb loaded with shot.
This simple instrument is plunged into
the milk and indicates the density of the
| latter by sinking to the particular figure
marked On the scale. Thus, if the lac
| tometer should go down to 0, your milk
will be all water; if to fifty, it will be
half half; if to 100, pure milk with
the cream); and if to no, skinned milk,
which is heavier than cream and milk
A lactometer costs fifty cents.
| DR.. j. S. LOMBARD a Professor of
| Physiology at Harvard, has invented a
"calorimeter" which will mark the one
eightieth of degree of the temperature
of the human body. BY means of this
instrument he claims that it is possible
human brain under varying circumstances
as, for instance, in the sudden tran
sition from a condition of repose to one
of excitement caused by intense thought.
By means Of it he has made the singular
discovery that there is always a differs
ence in the temperature of the two sides
of the body. The left side, he found,
was always the warmer, the difference of
temperature varying from one-twenty-
fifth of degree to two and three de-
grees. He has not had an opportunity
| to try the instrument upon left-handed
person.
THE SPRING Internationally it is
to be white in color and chip in material
Both excellent qualities. What is
simpler, prettier, more effective on the
heart of a young man than the sight Of
some ones face Unframed in gracefully