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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
How to Live CheapIy.

A WRITER in the BAPTIST Weekly states
that it is not difficult to maintain family
Of three upon a dollar or so a week, and
provide it with really good food. He
says: .c~
Philadelphia has been trying the exper-
iment, and the result appears to be encour-
aging. His family consists of himself, wife
and child. He first tried corn-meal and found
it insipid. Buckwheat soon followed, and po-
tatoes also failed to sustain bodily strength
Then oatmeal was tried, and at the expira-
ton of two weeks, says the experimental,
" found myself four and quarter pounds
heavier. My wife had gained three pounds
while the Lad had gained over five pounds.
Our food outlay for fourteen days was exact
ly $3.50, or less han seven cents per day for
each person. We are now pursuing the same
course, with an occasional mixed meal.'"
Living on food composed Of the cereals,
wheat, corn, oats, barley, is by no means
an experiment merely, for there are many
families who eschew flesh diet entirely,
and with much apparent success as con-
Germs healthfulness of body and mind
The chief cost of living, as households
are commonly conducted, consists in the
supply of the flesh variety demanded from
day to day. And it is therefore a great
economical gain to the housekeeper if
that item be crossed out Of the bill of fare
If one find that his health is improved by
dropping flesh, he surely is not wise to
resume its use. The notion which many
people persist in hugging to their hearts
that flesh food is essential to strength and
endurance has been so often demonstrated
fallacy in practice. that we wonder
whether the person who asserts it is serious
or not. If it be urged that the use Of flesh
affords a pleasant variety of diet, we may
discern degree Of reasonableness in such
an assertion, butthe need -of-it-for- strength
plea merits little notice-.Sc5ence Of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

We are more active under its influence
can think better and work more Wig
Orously.
Let US take the ARREST, choicest and
sunniest room in the house for our living
room--the workshop where brain and
body are built up and renewed. And let
us there have a bay window, no matter
how plain in.structure, through which the
good twin-angels of nature-sunlight and
pure air-can freely enter.
This window shall be the poem Of the
house. 1t shall give freedom and scope
for eye and mind We shall hang no
picture ON our walls that can compare
with the living and everlasting pictures
which God shall paint for US through our
ample window. Rosy dawns, golden
hearted sunsets, the tender green and
changing tint of spring, the glow of sum-
mer, the pomp of autumn, the white Of
winter, storm and shine, glimmer and
glOOm-all these we can have and enjoy
while we sit in our sheltered room as the
changing year rolls on.
DdIh IoOHnS DIIng uepIeSSlou Vi SpiIItS,
imparting a sense of confinement, of iso-
lation, of powerlessness, which is chilling
to energy and vigor; but in light is good
cheer
Even in a gloomy house, where walls
and furniture are dingy and brown, you
have but TO take down the heavy curtains,
open wide the window, hang brackets on
either side, set flower pots on the brackets
and ivies in the pots, and let the warm
sun stream freely in, to bring health to
our bodies and JOY to our souls.-RuraE
Mem Y0rEer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
Save the Bones and Hair.

In some sections Of the country one can
collect several hundred pounds of bone
and hair during the year, if he will. In
some villages butchers will give away
many barrelfuls, if anyone will remove
them from his premises. Bones of any
animal, feathers and hogs hair are worth
more as fertilizers than Peruvian guano.
Every farmer and gardener should pro-
vide large box, or sugar hogshead, put
few bushels Of muck, or fine soil, in the
bottom, then fill up with bones and wood
ashes. We have in mind farmer that
he reduces them to pulp thus " have
large, water-tight hogYhead standing
near the kitchen. In the spring [ cover
the bottom about six inches deep with dry
soil. On this [ put layer Of bones
about the same depth, and cover them
entirely with unleached ashes. On these
another layer of bones, then ashes, and so
on until the hogshead is full. I leave it
exposed to the sun and rain all summer
and winter until the next spring. Then, on
removing the contents OF the hOgshead, I
find nearly all the bones so soft that they
will crumble to powder under very
slight pressure, and, mixed with the
ashes and the soil, they give nice little
pile of most valuable manure, ready for
immediate use. Any Of the bones not
sufficiently subdued L returned to the
hogshead again for another twelve months
action of the alkali in the ashes-N. 7.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

CHAs. GossAGE & Co, the popular Dry
Goods Merchants, Of Chicago, take a novel
way Of attracting customers. They send
samples of new goods and special bargains all
over the country by mail with this circular:
!" Madame: We inclOse few samples of
desirable goods, just opened, respectfully so
Letting an inspection and distribution among
yourfriends. Any orders with which you or
they may favor us shall have most careful at
tentlon. We send such goods (when ordered
by mail directly from us) subject to return if
not satisfactory, or TO inspection and approval
before payment when sent for collection, and
Tree of all charges, except cost of carriage.
Parcels, Of less than four pounds weight,
can be sent by mail at one cent or less per
ounce, when remittance covers goods and
postage. complete organization in our
Order Department enables us to guarantee
the prompt and satisfactory delivery of goods
at the lowest cash prices anywhere known to
the trade. If ordering from these samples,
please state if any other than the first selec-
ton would be acceptable, should that be sold.
All letters should be addressed to the Firm
to secure proper and prompt attention. Mail
orders solicited and goods or samples sent to
any part of the country"
Such enterprise as this should, andis meet
ing with the reward it Justly deserves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
From the st. Louis Globe.
The Successful Physician.

There is probably no man to whom the
community owe so much as to the honest,
fair-spollen physician, who does his actual
duty both to himself aud to his patients.
Really sl1illful physicians are not so numer-
Gus that their virtues need no mention, and
hence the advertisement of DIR. r. V. Pierce,
of Buffalo, may well claim the readers at
tention. DR.. Pierce is a type of class of
men who obtain success by careful and
well-directed effort, not attempting too
much, or creating false ideas as to ability.
The only reliable physician in these days Of
complicated disorders and high-pressure liv-
ing is the "Specialist," the man who under
stands his one branch of the business. Such
in his line is Dr. Pierce. For the benefit Of
his readers he has written a Common
Sense Medical ADVISER which is well worth
reading by those who need such work.
With strict business honor, high profession
al skill, reasonable fees, and large corps of
competent assistants, DR.. Pierce will doubt
less make his name familiar as household
Words.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
What Disease Have 1T

How often do we hear this question asked
by persons suffering from dizziness and pain
IN the head, with dull, stupid feeling, pain
in the side, back or shoulder, heavy load
on the stomach after e?ting, faint, all-gone
sensation at the pit Of the stomach that food
does not satisfy a coli, clammy feeling in
the hands and feet, with hot flashes at times,
a bad taste in the mouth, with foul breaths
attended with great depression of the nerv-
Gus system and evil forebodings, and with a
tired weakness that sleep don'trelieve, urine
scanty at times, with a sediment after stand
ing. One physician calls the disease liver
complaint, another kidney disease, another
dyspepsia, and still another impurity of the
blood. But none succeed in effecting cure.
The fact is that these symptoms indicate
that all of these diseases are present to-
gether, and to remove these symptoms we
must take rem ady that will act upon all of
these organs at once. The best article that
we know Of is made by the Shakers, and is
called SHAKER EXTRACT OF Roofs, OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP (not a patent incidence Sold
by Druggists and A. J. White. New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
Selection of Seed.

The impression that care is useful IN
the selection of seed for sowing is very
general one, and yet people hardly know
what it is they would select. Some like
to take early seed, some welI-matured
seed, and others seeds from certain por-
tons of the seed-vessel or stalk. Some
experiments made recently at the German
experimental station at Leipsic, indicate
that the size Of the seed has more to do
with the idea of an excellent selection
than any other test. Peas and beans were
taken from packages as generally sown,
and the largest and heaviest selected from
the rest. An equal number Of the large
and small ones were then planted as near
as good culture would admittogether, and
then treated in every respect the same.
The result was that in every instance the
plant from the large seed was larger and
healthier and the product considerably
more than from the plants raised from
the smaller sizes.
How far this rule will apply is an open
question; still the results as given here
were so uniform through all the plants
tested that they would seem to establish
the rule. We believe in some instances
the product was nearly one-third more,
and if this is to be the case always, we
ould employ our time TO no better adj
antage than in Kidding all seeds sown,
Q as to use Only those that would not
ass through a rather large mesh for the
eeds of the size.
III may be observed that these remarks
DO not apply to what we have recently
SAID II regard to seed potatoes, because
the potato which we cut up for planting
IS only seed by courtesy. The eve, the
single eye, is the analogue of the seed we
are here speaking of; and if that single
eye is strong and good, the size of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
DIR. Sclenck's Standard Remedies.

THE standard remedies for all diseases of the
lungs are SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, SCHENcK's
SEA WEED Tonic and ScHENCK's MANDRAKE
PILLS. and, if taken before the lungs destroyed
speedy cure is effected.
To these three medicines DR.. J. 81. Schenck. of
Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success in the
treatment Of pulmonary diseases.
The Pulmonic Syrup ripens the morbid matter
IN the lungs; nature throws it off by an easy ex-
pectoration, for when the phlegm matter is ripe
slight cough will throw it off, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin to heal
To enable the Pulmonic Syrup to do this
Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic must be freely used to cleanse the
stomach and liver. Schenck's Mandrake Pills act
on the liver removing all distractions, relax the
ga-bladder the bile starts freely and the liver is
relieved.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkal, of which it is composed
mixes with the food and prevents souring. 1t as
sists the digestion by toning up the stomach to q
healthy condition, so that the food and the Pull
monte Syrup will make good blood; then tn lungs
heal, and the patient will surely get well if IRE is
taken to prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult DR.. Schenck, eitI Eper-
son&lly or by letter. do at his princil d Of
flee, corner of SIXTH and ARCH STS., Philadelphia
every Monday.
Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
otato that bears it is of no consequence

potato that bears it is of no consequence
at all.
These. experiments with seeds are so
easily repeated, and the results, if they
come always the same, so valuable, prac-
tically, that it would be well to repeat
them. The habit of trying experiments
is at any rate good one. and every one
should cultivate the natural disposition
which prompts all Of us to make them.
Caution in selecting seed, as says The
Agriculturist, and good sense in apply
ing all you can learn about seed will
make success, while its lack is what
makes so many failures. Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
The Army and Navy Of China.

HE Chinese navy, says French journal,
consists of fcrty-fve ships of war, divided
into three squadrOns, stationed respect
lively at Canton, Foochow and Shanghai
In the Canton squadron are two gunboats,
bought by the Celestial Empire from
Great Britain. An English Captain named
Traver also commands one of the corvettes
at Foochow. Each of the divisions is
under the command of Provincial Gov
ernor. The army consists of 100000
men, stationed at various parts of the
Empire over an area Of 1,5000 miles.
The division under Gen. Tso-Tsung-
Tsang, the vicerov of HANSON and Chensi,
which numbered not long since 40, 900,
has been reduced to 40, 900 by the constant
wars with the Mohammedans of the north
west, the absence of sanitary and medical
organization, and their horrible methods
Of transport The division under ST.
Hung Chang consists of 10000 Most of
these carry ech-loading rifles and
European side arms, and are highly
trained. These are the two best divisions.
-sAVot vi GAAC AO1 10 dIS bClCulltu ny LHgllSI,
German and American cannon. Moth
ing" says Capt. Pryewalski, of the Rus
sian army, can equal the moral degra-
dation of Chinese troops. Officers and
men become complete beasts by the guam
tity OF opium which they inhale, some
times falling down utterly helpless and
insensible in the presence of the enemy.
When it rains it is necessary to threaten
them with death in order to drive them
from their tents, and often the General-in-
Chief is compelled to execute half a dozen
of them before the rest are aroused from
their apathy. Whenever the army is or
dered to tents for night, the officers and
men scour the immediate neighborhood
and rob and plunder to such a degree that
the arrival of the military at any point is
regarded by the inhabitants as disastrous
as plague. In fighting the troops are
formed in semicircle, and attack stimuli
taneously from the front and TANKS, al
ways discharging their rifles without tax
ing deliberate aim, and often dance and
sing during battle"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

Mr.. L. A. ALEXANDER, agent for B. o. &
G. G. Wilson Of Boston, writes: Il have
never been SO fully satisfied with any article
for toilet use, as 1 am with your Forest Tar
Soap. 1t is a perfect sharing soap, yielding
a rich white lather that does not dry upon
the face, and leaves it soft and free from that
smarting common to tender faces after
shaving, It is the best article for the skin
I ever used" If your Druggist does not
keep it, send So cents to the Forest Tar Co.,
Portland Me- for a cake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
Sunny Rooms Make Sunny Lives.

LIGHT is one of the most active agencies
in enlivening and identifying a home
We all know the value of sunlight as a
health giving agent to the physical sys-
tenn; and it is not less so to our moral and
spiritual natures. We absorb light, and
it nourishes US with strange power.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

HoLToN & HILDRETH, 225 and 227 State ST.,
Chicago, sell furniture lower than any house
In that city. Their goods are first-class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

PERsoNAL-Reg: ". z. Easter7ing.-"I
have used DR.. SIMMONS, LIVER REGU-
LATOR in my family for Dyspepsia and Sick
Headache, and regard it an invaluable rene
dy- 1t has not failed to give relief in any in
stance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

AN inquest on the body of frozen man
in Seneca, Cal, was interrupted by his
thawing out and coming to life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

PRUssING'S White Wine Vinegar, warranted
pure and to preserve pickles. AsuPerb article.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

Take something Of your size. Would
YOU strike match?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to
m an.-HGlltdm Penn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30

y O. Visiting Cards, with your name finely
- printed. sent for 25c. We have 1 90 STYLES.
IEES Agents Wanted. samples sent for
- SS stamp. a. H. Fuller & Co., BrOcktcn. Mass
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-17
MONEY MARKETS.
BY TELEGRAPH.

PARIS, March 16.-Rentes, 66t. 15,.,
ex-dividend.
NEW ORLEANS, March 16.-Gold,
114i; sight, { premium; sterling, bank,
557
LONDON, March 16.-The rate of
discount in the open market for three
months bills is 3s@33, or ] below the
Bank OF England rate. Consols-for
money, "a 5-l6; on account, "a 7-l6;
5-20s Of 1865, 1054; sos Of 1857, los;
10 4Os, IO6; new fives, 106; New York
Central, l04; Erie, 1Ss; Erie preferred, 29.
NEW YORK, March l6.-MOuey, 495
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5t96
per cent. Customs receipts, S22l 900 TIE
assistant treasurer discussed $50, 900,
ClesrinRs, $50, 600, 600. S yecie ship
ments, $40, 600. Gold opensd at ll4s
and closed at ll43. Garry ing rates, to
5 Ier cent. Government bonds were
firm; coupons of 1881, 1921; do. 1865
IlSk; do. 1885, new, 1194; do. 1887, l2l8;
do. i6S, 1874; new fives, 1lS3; IO-40s,
regular, 1lSl; coupons, 1909; currency
IS, 1861. State securities vera quieti
Tennessee IS, old, 43; Tennessee
IS, new, Az; Virginia, old, "a;
Virginia, new, IS; Missouri IS, 1851
Railroad bonds dull. Stocks opened If
reeu ar, with frequent fluctuations In
the leading shares. Al the close the
market.wss weak and lower W-stetn
Union fell of from 69B to 68B, Union
Pacific from SIT to $50, Lake Snor5
from ca to 643 Pacific Mail from 24i to
| Oh. Erie from 20s to 203 st. Pau from
43s to Ar, Oaios from q to cog, and
Michiqsa Central from est to 644
| Transactions were III, 900 shares, OF
which 10000 were Poetic Mail, 1900
Western Gdion, 5000 ST. Paul, $4,000
Erie and 81, 900 Lake Shore. The Erie
! bill passed the State senate 10 day. The
| closing quotations were as follows:
| Western Union telegraph, IS; Pa
| cjfic Mail, OF; Adams Express conpa-
nv, 1865: Wells & Fergo's Express CON.
psny, So; American Express COM
| nanV 50; United Ststes Express oomps-
nv. 10; New York Central, 1888; Erie
| oh; Erie preferred So; Harlem, l423
| Hsflsn1 preferred 1874; Michigan Central
! 6lI; Union Pacific stock $50; Lake shore
| sal: Illinois Central, l03; PittsDurgr
| 965: Northwestern common, AIT
North western preferred, g. Cleve
! land, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
| diapcuClis, So; New jersey Central
| 1911; Rock Island, 1l0I; st. Paul, AT
81. Paul preferred, sig; Wabash, 81
Wabash preferred, ct; Fl, Wayne, lO33
Terre Haute, Al; TerTe Hsute preferred
is: Chicago and Alton, D. Chicago
aud Alton preier'd, 10; Ohio auC
Miasissippi. 2Ol; Indiana Central, A
Cbjcag.. Burlington and Quincy, Is
BannisaI and ST. Joseph, lS3; DelsTDr'
and Lackswauns, I9t; Atlantic auC
Pacific telegraph, 19i; Central Pacifi
bonds, Jos; Union Pacific bonds, lO5s
Union Pacific lard grants, 1881; Uniol
Pacific sinking fund, 81 Mariposa, SO
Mariposa preferred, 81; Panama, 81
Missouri Pacific, lag; Atlantic Pacifi
preferred, l04t
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-17
Trustees Sale.

ny virtue OF a decree in the ChaucsTy Court
ID OF Shelby county, Ia the case Of Mary u.
t'arnDbe vs.. Joel =. Wilson ct AL No. HJIs
r. D.. wherein I have been appointed, in the
place Of 3 +. McNutt, dec q, Trustee In Deed
10 Trust executed on the Path OF June, 1870, BY
Joel E. Wilson and J. +. wilson for the pur-
pose Of securing a certain Indebted ness there
IN mentioned which deed Is recorded In the
Registers ONCE OF shelby county, IN Deed
Book No %, pages 1919, 1 Will, by virtue OF
said authority, on
Tuesday, the 2lst Day Of March, 1876
at the southwest corner OF the intersection OF
Main and Madison streets, in the city Of Mem
phis, sell within legal hours, at public auction
10 the highest bidder, for cash, the properly
described Ia said trust Deed, tO-wlt: situated
in shelby county, Tenn, and beginning az
the northeast corner OF J. W. Tay Tors IOt NO
/. thence west six chains and twenty-three
links TOT stake, with three sWeetsum point
ers. thence north four chains and nfty-elShL
inks 10 a stake, with sweetgum pointers
thence east six chains and twenty three LINKS
to a stake In the west slice Of MOsely avenue,
and thence south four chains and hity-eiSlt
links 70 the beg nnlug-contalnlug tw9 acres
and $500. Inc equity OF redemption is
weiyed. Title believed 20 be good, but l sell
and convey as trustee only.
JOHN JOHNSTON, Trustee.
Clamp & Meux, Attorneys. fblS