Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-08-17
WlNNOWINGS.

AZ egg pant weighing two and three
quarters pounds is exhibited at Live
Oak, Fla. '' ''' A1A'o
PHILADELPHIA man has invented a
shirt with sand-paper back One r,,b
against rail fence cures the worst osse
-DetrUit Free Press.
AN AUSTIN (Tex. man three wears 400
planted some seed of Malaga CRANES
few days ago he cut bunch of Graves
from the vines that grew from the seed
The bunch weighed nearly four pounds
ANNA DICKINSON, it is said, made q
pat remark when somebody deprecated
her playing the mans part-of sc Ham
let" YES" said she; ''but there are
not three men In the country who can
play 1t; and 1t is time the women tried"
LoUIsIANA's salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of 140 acres
and is solid deposit of remarkable
purity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without fssure or seams.
Over 200 sacks is the present daily out
put.
The whole country in Albany County,
New York, within distance of fully
mile each side of the West Shore Rail-
road, is stripped of all kinds of weeds.
some of which the lower order of ami
mails will not eat, which the italian
laborers gather and boil for "greens.
THE ive-cent sponges sold by ped
dlers are said to be picked up in the
streets of New York after being used In
the hospitals, and then bleached and dis
infected with chloride of lime. This is
by far the most disgusting and repre-
hensible method of sponging a living
out of society that has yet come to light.
LII is expected that the four factories
of Montgomery, VT, will turn out four
hundred thousand butter tubs the pres
ent season, of all sizes. A large pro-
portion of ten, twenty, and thirty pound
tubs are called for than usual. The
material for hoops has become exhausted
, in that region, and is now brought from
Michigan.
To grow pretty vine from the sweet
! potato, put a tuber In pure sand, or
: sandy loan, in hanging basket, and
! water occasionally. 1t will throw out
J tendrils and beautiful leaves, and climb
freely over the arms of the basket, and
upward toward the top of the window,
Not one visitor in a hundred but will
suppose it to be some rare foreign plant.
A NOVELTY in the shape of strawber-
} ny bed is to be seen at Westfeld, Mass.
J 1t is a hogshead filled with loan and
stones, and from its sides are growing,
from holes bored through the wood into
. the loan, over one hundred thrifty
strawberry plants, bearing a profusion
of large luscious fruit.
LONDON balls, it is said, chiefly differ
! from French and American ones by the
total suppression of the German" or
/ cotilion as it is called in France, British
( prudery having declared that dance to
be improper. The more probable reason
for its exclusion lies in the fact that Eng
! hshmen, as a rule, are exceedingly bad
dancers. Buffalo Commercial.
: EVEN fish are much better when killed
as soon as caught, by striking the back
of the head sharply with stick or stone.
Some of our fishermen now carry little
clubs or batons for that purpose. All
wounded birds and other creaturc
should be killed as speedily as posi-
to prevent injury to the meat.
facts are well established by SC;
authority.
A WORLD of wisdom is contf
the following advice to bathers:
diately after the first plur
} bather should take the most
exercise for about tuc --zz::nat
up and down in the water, orr
the blood moves through your
with increased rapidity, and you
feel warmth which will repay your ca
ertion with delicious sense of comfort.
THE last congress ranks among the
notably long ones. That of 1915 As
lasted till August u; that of 1847-48 till
August 10. The longest session was
that of 1849-50, which held till Septem-
Der 80. The session OF l851-52 lasted
till August 81; that of 1854 till August
7; that of 1856 till August Is, and
then congress reassembled on the 21st
of the same month and held until the
Both.