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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
Some Hints for Builders.

The natural color and grain of the
wood give richness and simplicity to
the interior that no art can make up for.
How the eye loves a genuine thing; how
it delights in the nude beauty of the wood!
A painted surface is blank, meaningless
surface; but the texture and figure of the
wood is full of expression 1t is The
principle Of construction again appearing
in another field. How endless the variety
Of figures that appear even in one kind of
wood, and, withal, how modest! The
grainers do not initiate oak. They cannot.
Their surface glares; their oak is only
skin-deep; their figures put nature to
shame. Oak is the wood to start with in
trimming house. How clear and strong
it looks! 1t is the master wood. When
allowed to season in the log, it has a
richness and ripeness Of tone that is de-
icious. We have many kinds, as rock
oak, black oak, red oak, white oak-all
equally beautiful in their place. Red
oak is the sOftest, and less liable to
spring. By combining two different
kinds, as red oak and white oak white
oak takes its name from the external color
Of the tree, and not from the color
Of the wood, which is dark amber
COLOR, most pleasing effect is
produced. Butternut is the softest and
most tractable of what are called hard
woods, and its hue is eminently warm
and yellow. Its figure is pointed anG
shooting-a sort of Gothic style in the
grain. 1t makes. admirable doors. In
deed. Western butternut, which can usu-
ally be had in the Albany market, makes
doors as light as pine, and as little liable
to spring! The Western woods are all
better than the Eastern for building pur-
poses. They are lighter, coarser, easier
worked. They grow easier and thriftier.
The traveller through Northern Ohio and
Indiana sees wonderful crop of forest
trees, tall. uniform, straight as candles.
no knots, no gnarls-aIl clear, clean tim
Der. The soil is deep and moist, and the
trees grow rank and rapid The chestnut
ash and butternut grown here work like
pine, besides being darker and richer in
color than the same woods grown in lean
er and more rocky soils. Western black
ash is especially beautiful. In connection
with our almost bonneville sugar NAPLES
for panels, it makes charming doors-iust
the thing for chambers, and scarcely more
expensive than pine Of our Eastern
woods red cedar is also good, with its
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

saw forty bones, which, thinking them tc
be useless burden, he threw away. That
very night he was attacked by robbers
who had been watching him for forty
days, and lost his horse and everything
which he had.
"The most common method of divinino
| the course of human events, is to place on
the Goals the shoulder blade OF a sheen
VIII ich has been carefully cleaned of the
flesh. This is gradually calcined, and
the cracks, the color, and the small par
ticles which fall away from it, denote
good or bad luck, or the various accidents
which may happen on an expedition.
When Kirghiz is about to start on a
plundering expedition, or indeed on any,
thing which requires luck as we'll as skill
he always first tries this process, and
sometimes will stop in the middle of his
way, light fire, and consult this oracle.
Among the more settled population, es-
pecially among the upper classes, fate is
usually consulted by more refined meth
DDS, practiced by individuals who devote
themselves to that as profession, and in
all the large towns there, are regular as
trologers A .faJb5n foretells the future
by opening the koran at hazard
and endeavOring to explain the first
verse which meets his eye in re-
gard to the event about which the
question is asked. Another book is the
Jatdl-edd5n-2un5o Of Masnavi. This method
is in every way analogous to the S0rtes
Vergal501aa, or to the bible lots practiced
among some Christian sects. Great re-
gard is paid to dreams, and their explana-
ton is always a matter of anxiety. There
IS, for instance, the process called 5Stak-
h0rj, praying for a fateful dream. The
usual method is to consult holy man, or
saint, and ask for the decision of heaven
as to the course about which you wish to
be Informed. The saint, on retiring for
the night, makes certain fixed PRAYERS
which are considered necessary, and has
dream appropriate to the occasion,
which he explains on the following day.
The test Of dream is nearly always re-
sorted to in cases where a person wishes
to join religious community. Such a
person presents himself to the PR, or
leader, and asks to be member. He
that night recites the astGhhGr5 prayers,
and IN the morning relates to the PR his
dream, in accordance with the character
of which he will be received into the
community, or rejected"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
Restoring the Caspian Sea.

MAN is making the world over a good
deal faster than is generally supposed
The Suez Canal, which is beginning to
have marked influence on commerce in
! Europe and Asia, is only one of a series
OF works which is practically readiusting
| the globe to the needs and ambitions OF
civilized man. The change in the course
of the Chicago River, turning it's waters
| downward to the Mississippi and the
! Gulf, is another of these reconstructive
| enterprises. A few months ago a French
commission recommended the construc-
ton of an inland sea in Algeria by turn
ing the waters Of the Mediterranean into
a comparatively barren basin; and the
possibility of flooding the great desert of
Sahara through the Suez Canal has been
asserted by English engineers.
The latest and most striking project of
this kind has been started by Mr.. Spaul-
ding, an American engineer, who has
planned method for arresting the process
which is filling and drying up the Cas-
plan Sea, and consequently impairing the
fertility and productiveness Of a vast re-
gion of Central Asia by cutting off the
rain supply and draining the moisture
out of the air. The Volga and Ural and
other rivers have poured their earth depos-
its into this great sea for ages, until portions
of it are no longer navigabIe and its area
is largely reduced, and the surrounding
district is becoming little other than a
desert from drought. But this sea is con-
siderably lower than the Black and the
Mediterranean, and by cutting q broad,
Geep channel from the Black TO the Cas-
plan the flow of water can be reversed
and the Caspian raised to its former level.
The advantages of the proposed work,
both commercial and agricultural, would
be very great, and the enterprising en-
gineer maintains that in twenty years the
volume Of water flowing through the arti-
ticial channel would widen it to such an
extent that it would make it of the great
est commercial value, while commercial
city Of great importance would soon be
built on the shores of the Caspian. 1t is
only necessary to study the geography of
Western Asia to see the magnitude of the
interests involved in the proposed plan :;
and, considering what has already been
done in the way of physical Improvement,
it is not too much to anticipate that even
this enterprise may be undertaken. 1t is
almost painful to reflect that the whole
gigantic work could be completed for
two-thirds Of the money wasted on the
worse than useless and wicked Crimean
WARY. 7. Graphic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

pungent, moth -expelling odor, and should
not be neglected. 1t soon fades, but it is
very pleasing, with its hard, solid knots
even then. No doubt some wash might
be applied that would preserve its color
There is a species of birch growing
upon our mountains that makes an admir-
able finish. 1t is usually called red or
cherry birch, and it has long wave or
| curl that is found in no other wood. 1t is
very tough and refractory, and must be
securely fastened. A black ash door,
with maple or white pine pannels set in a
heavy frame of this red, wa0y birch, is a
most pleasing chamber finish. For hard
wood floor, in connection with oak or ash,
1t IS to be preferred to cherry Growing
alongside of the birch is the soft maple
the curly species, that must not be over
looked. 1t contains light wood and dark
wood, as a fowl contains white meat and
dark meat. 1t is not unusual to find a
tree OF this species, the heart of which
Will be rich grayish brown, suggesting,
by something in the tone and texture OF
1t, the rarer shades of silk, while the outer
part is white, and hard as ivory. | have
seen wainscoting composed Of alternate
strips of this light and dark wood from
the same tree, that was exquisite, and
great rarity. Aside from it's cost
l think black walnut should be used
very sparingly in finishing Alone,
and in large masses, it is too
dark, unless the light is very strong; and,
used in connection with lighter woods,
the contrast is too great. The eye soon
tires OF sharp violent contrasts. 1t is
pleased at first, but wearied in the end.
In general, that which is striking, or
taking, at first sight, is to be avoided in
interior finishings or decorations, espec-
tally in the main or living rooms. In
halls, more pronounced style is permits
slble, and the contrast of walnut with
pine or maple or oak, is not in bad taste,
or open to the objection of being too
loud" For mantels, know of no other
wood so suitable. And wooden mantels
are what you want. Marble makes good
tomb-stones, but it is an abomination in
a house, either in furniture or in mantel.
The hand dislikes it as it does a corpse,
and it otfends the eye. Marbleized slate
is much to be preferred What one wants
in his living-rooms is aquiet, warm tone,
and the main secret Of this is dark furni-
ture and hangings, with dash Of color
here and there, and floods of Hght-big
windows and plenty of them. TECH
n0E0g5st.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
Do Not Pull the Wool of Living
Sheep.

BEFORE boys or any other persons are
directed to handle sheep they should be
thoroughly impressed with the fact that
they must not hold the animals nor. Lift
them by the wool. A great many men
Will seize the sheep by the wool on the
back, with both hands, and lift the animal
clear from the ground by the wool only.
Barbarous! Let some giant grasp you by
the hair of your head and lift you from
the ground by the hair onlyt Would you
not struggle and squirm worse than the
mute sheep does when lifted by the wool:
Would not there be a complaint of a sore
head for week or two? If you do not
believe it try the experiment. We have
slaughtered a great many sheep in years
past, and when removing the pelts OF such
sheep as had been handled by their wool
we never failed to observe that beneath the
skin, wherever the animal had been caught
by the wool, the blood had settled In
many Instances the skin had been separa-
ted from the body SO that Inflammation
was apparent. We have known proprie-
tors of sheep to be so strict in regard to
handling them that they would order a
helper from the premises if he were to
catch sheep by the wool on any part of
the ody. Some owners Of sheep direct
their helpers thus: When about to catch
sheep move carefully toward the one to
be taken, until you are sufficiently nea~ to
spring quickly and seize the beast by the
neck with both hands. Then pass one
hand around the body, grasp the brisket,
and lift the sheep clear from the ground.
The wool must not be pulled If the sheep
is heavy one, let one hand and wrist be
put around the neck and the other pressed
against the rump-" We have always
handled sheep IN the way alluded to. We
never grasp the wool. Others seize the
sheep by hind leg, then throw one arm
about the body and take hold Of the bris-
ket with one hand But ewes with lamb
should never be caught by the hind leg,
unless they are handled with extreme
care When sheep are handled roughly,
especially if their wool is pulled, the
small bruises and injuries will render
them more wild and more difficult to
handle, 1t is an excellent practice to pro-
vide & shepherds crook" consisting Of
a small metallic hook, inserted in the end
OF a handle about as large as broom
handle. The bow Of the hook is made
just large enough to fit the neck of a
sheep,-N. 7. Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
4 Defense of Large Feet.

APHnADELPHIA lady writes to the New
York Graphic: | protest against all this
talk about large feet, as if they were a
personal disgrace or deformity, and small
feet as If they were a sign of beauty In
the first place, this is not true. No lady
who is of average height and weighs $50
ought to wear d smaller shoe than No. 8
B. A smaller foot than that-at any rate
a shorter foot-becomes personal blem-
ish. Moreover, all this talk is democrat
izing. When Gabriel blows his horn you
newspaper men will have a heap of sins
to answer for. Your praise to Miss So
andso and Nine. Suchaone as :" the beau
tiful, & the bewitching," and 1.-The peer
less" all tends in the wrong direction-all
tends to make fools of sensible youngwom
en-. The old-fashioned eulogies of wasp
waists have passed away, and the "waist
of the period" is more natural than that
of the preceding generation. Let us hope
that all this silly talk about the necessity
of having microscopic feet will soon also
pass away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

81 HAVE never been so fully satisfied with
any article for toilet use as l am with your
Forest Tar Soap. 1t is a perfect sha0ing soap,
yielding a rich white lather that does notdry
upon the face, and that leaves IL soft and
free from the smarting common to tender
aces after shaving. It is the best article for
the skin I ever used" So says Mr.. L. \. Al
exander, agent for B. o. & G.. c. Wilson, of
Boston. Get cake of your druggist, or by
sending So cents to The Forest Tar Co., Port
land, Me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
TO ALL, particularly inyalids. spring i

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trying season Indications of sickness should
at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may be
caused by allowing the bowels to 5ecome consti-
pated and the system to remain in a disordered
CONDITION until the disorder has time to develop
Itself An ounce of prevention IS worth pourd
OF cure Is an old and truthful saying. Therefore.
we ADVISE al who are troubled with the complaints
now very prevalent-headache, indigestion disor-
dered hver. want of appetite. nausea. or feverish
skln-to take, without delay, Schenck's Mandrake
PMS we know of no remedy SO harmless and
decisive IN its action. 1t at once strikes at the
root OF The disease and produces healthy tone to
the system People never need suffer from any
disease arising from disordered condition of the
liver II they would take this excellent medicine
when hey feel the first indications of the maiady
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three or four boxes of these pills with
them They have an almost instantaneous effect.
They VIII relieve the patient of headache in or
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver of
surrounding bile, and will effectually prevent
bilious attack. They are sold by all druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

GkkA to 500 n Week and Expenses, or 500
a SO forfeited. III the and standard Novelties
Shrolnos: etc Valuable Samples free with Circulars
L. L. FLETCHER, Iii Chambers Street New York
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

THE ENORMOUS WASTAGE of grain sosiaerHqbLs
auah other styles of Threshers, be SAVED by this
improved Machine sufficient, ers'y job more than
pay all expenses of thresiling.
FLAX, TIMOTHY, MILLET, HUNGARIAN and
IKE seeds are hreshed separated cleaned and saved
as easily and perfectly Wheat, Oats, Rysor Barley.
AN EXTRA PRICE is usually paid for grairs-and
sees cleaned 10y this machine, for extra cleanliness
IN THE WET GRAIN of 1875, these were substar-
tally the ONLY MACHINES that could run with profit
or economy, doing fast, thorough and perfect work
aVhen others utterly failed.
ALL GRAIN, TINE and MONEY wasting complica~,
tons, such as Endless Aprons 'Raddes "Beaterso
Pckers, etc, etiTey dispensed acith less than
one-haf the usual Gears, Belts, Boxes and Journals
easier managed; durable light running no cost
iy repairs; DUST litterngs" to clean up: nce
troubled by adverse Winds rain storms.
FARMERS and GRAIN RAISERS who are posted
in the large saving made by it will employ infe
r1or and wasteful machines, but will insiS on this
improved Thresher doing their work.
FOUR SIZES made for 6, 8, 10 and II Horse
Powers Also speciality of SEPARATIONS, designed
ana made EXPRESSLY FOR STEAM POWER.
TWO STYLES OF HORSE POWERS, viz: our i'm
proved Triple Gear" and our "Spur Speedn (Woci-
bury Style, both |" Mounted on four wheels.
IF INTERESTED in Threshing or Grain Raising
apply TO our nearest Dealer write US for Ilustra
ted Circular sent free giving full particulars of Sizes
Styles, Prices, Terms etc.
Nichols, Shepard oe Co..
RATTTE CpErLx Nfrrxr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

sfaFSFy PER WEEK GUARANTEED TO
SIE Agents, Male and Female, in their OWL To-
sag a cality Terms and OUTFIT FREE. Address
EVE Z. o. FICKERY & CO.. Augusta. Maine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTIVE WORTH TEE!
POUNDS OF CURE.-A course of Simmons
Liver Regulator, commenced now, will
purity and regulate the whole system-plac-
ing 1t IN an attitude of complete defense.
with every vulnerable point fortified and
guarded, and as nearly invulnerable to un-
wholesome miasmatic influences as is posi-
bic for the human structure to be- -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

HoLToN & HILDRETH, 225 and 227 State
street, Chicago, sell furniture lower than any
house IN that city. Their goods are irst-class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

FEE - Visiting Cards, with your name finely
ksA D printed, sent for 25c. We nave 100 styles.
nMEE Agents VENTED. samples sent for
- &E stamp. A. II. Fuller g. Co., BrOckton, Mass
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11
"IHAvE never been SO fully satisfied with

PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar is guaran
teed Dure and free from sulphuric acid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-11

HoFMANN,s Hop Pills cure Chills and Fever
Dumb Ague, Ague Cake and malarial fevers
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-05

Meadow Valley Mining Company
Location Of principal place of business, san
Francisco, California; location of works,
Phoebe, Lincoln County, Nevada
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the
Board of Trustees of this company. held ON the
twenty first I2lst) day of July. 1876. an ASSESS.
ment mo. l2) u Seventy.tve Cents tT5c)
per share was levied upon the capital stock
OF the corporation, payable immediately, in
United States gold coin, to the Secretary. at the
Office Of the company. rooms over the Office
of the Union Insurance Company, No. 4iS Cali
fornia street. San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 1v-nty-ninth (29thl
day OF August, 1876. will be delinquent, and
advertised for sale at public auction, and unless
payment is made before, will be sold on Mon-
day, the Twenty-fifsh (25th) day of Sep
tember, 1876, to pay delinquent assessment
together with costs of advertising and ex.
penses Of sale. By order of the Board of Trus.
tees.
IT. W. COLBURN, Secretary.
Office-Rooms over the office of the Union In
surance Company, No. 4l8 California street San
Francisco. California. jy27td
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-05
Application for Patent.
Notice No. I6.--Unit~d States Survey
No. 81.
NJ, UNITED STATES LAND OYYIcR,l
ii'onk' Nevada, February IL, A. d. 1875.

p,o uSrrrD STATES LAND oyYIcH.l
'hh' Nevada, February -, A. d. 1875.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT John
l y II. Ely, Irwin Davis, Lsusop Atcbison
aha n "a. =: Rich, whose postofiice address il
io' ne. Lihcoin County. State OF Nevada have
,nas ,s, uay made application for patent for nf-
.eem n.i1, hundred tlbeo) linear feet Of the Bul.
,iohviiie Lode, bearing silver. situated In
Ely Mining District, County of iincn,n. state
" as Nevada, together with six hundred
loo.l ieet OF surface ground for convenient
Wrkihe thereon, said claim being desiRated
on the ofieal pst on file in this Office a. United
9,a.es survey or Lot No. 81, in Section No. SO,
township One ~ North, Range az r.. Mount
Diaoio Meridian. the exterior boupda aries OF
salu Lo' no. 10 being ~ follows. to wit: Be.
einhing al post marked No l, u. g Survey No
~ whence the \ section post on the east line
o, o. sesuon ", N, r. 81 T., Mount Diablo
the e'asn rrnsnss. bears n 1ades Ofs sses and
hears etk deg. W. s6i feet; thence running
ist course B. 65 deg W. coo feet TO post married.
no z, U: y. survey No. 81: thence I'd course N.
20 aee. W 1900 feet, to post n arked No. 8 q. 3,
survey su No. 81; thence Sd course N 65 deg. z,
Soo 9g se', 70 post marked No. !, o. g. survey No.
% ana thence 4th course s. 25 deg. Z. 1900 feet
40 40 posi- NO. !, the place Of beginning, containing
~ oo-iVo acres. Courses expressed fiom the
VT true meridian with . magnetic variation Of
10 ueg. X.
Inc applicants and their Prantors have ex-
pended n Improvements on this claim moro
than five hundred ts0O) dollars. Said improve
nlen's conn I OF two shafts. A certified copy of
the location notice, to which this survey con.
iorms is herewith fled: also proof of identity
oi eround located and surveyed. This claim 10
bounced by no known claims or claimants The
bolice OF location Of this claim wAs duly re-
corded in Book B." pages 44Q al d 45O az the
Mining Records Of said Ely Mining District.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion OF said John II. Ely Irwin T avis, Lsu.
son Atchieon and II. G. Rich's claim on said
BuIiionville Lode, are required within the sixty
aays publication Of this notice. to file with the
Register OF the United States Land Office at
Phoebe. Nevada, their protests and adyer ;.
claims, or they will be barred by virtue OF the
provisions Of the statute.
Phoebe, Feb. 10, 1876.
100000 &c. FOSTER, Register.