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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Pittsville Dashes.

From the Independent.-Mr J. Q
Severns has been on the sick list dur,
ing the past week
Mrs 0. Denis, of Centralia was the
guest of Mrs. A. Muir, during last
week,
S, L. Mason, of Nasonyille, an ole
pioneer settler Of this county, was il
town Friday.
Mr.. A. G. Schantz, prominent
furniture and wagon dealer Of New
Lisbon, and salesman for A J. Web
ster u Co., was in town last week
A party consisting of Messrs. E. I
Harmon, w. E. Little and Charles
Fredricks brought in 113 fish from {
\ Yellow River fishing excursion, Mon
day night.
Mr. Rietbrock, of the firm of John
sou, Rietbrock & Halsey, immigration
agents, Milwaukee, brought five Ger
mans to Pittsville last Wednesday tc
look over our fine farming lands with
a view to making this heir future
home
FROM DEXTERVILLE.
Jas Farley moved into his new
saloon Monday.
Mr.. Geo. Riles, of Milwaukee, spent
Monday in our village.
Our mill started up again on Mon,
day after a week of idleness.
Mr.. FL. Harding, our popular engi
neer, laid off and went to visit his
family at Grand Rapids for few days
last week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

r. B. Brundage is visiting with his
parents at Dawson, Dakota, this week.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23
An Fort.

DR.. Larkins has lust explored the an
cient fort in the immense Conewango
swamp in Cattaraugus county, n. Y.
He found that the earthworks had never
been disturbed, and he describes them
as being parallelogram in form and 500
feet in length by 300 feet wide. The
ditch surrounding the Notifications was
over six feet deep, and on the bank
trees three and a half feet III diameter
were growing, showing that hundreds
OF years must have passed since the
earth was stirred by the hands OF al
eient and prehistoric men, Inside the
| fortress, a few feet beneath the sur
| face, the v'orkmen employed in making
the .asearch came upon a quantity OF
! human bones which yielded readily to
the action OF the atmosphere and soon
| crumbled. The skeletons were in sit
ting posture, and in a circle around
what appeared to have been a funeral
| pile consisting of arrow heads made
from finely-tempered native copper and
| flint. pipes carved from stone, battle
axes of stone, a ~curiously shaped stone
| instrument resembling an old-fashioned
iron door-latch, and polished smooth as
| glass, a copper plate bearing a rude
picture of IN elephant in harness, a
stone bust, representing a iull-grown
man with high forehead and intelligent
appearance, with a block of mica nearly
one loot square. There is no mica, so
far as known, nearer than North Car
| DINA. In the center OF this fortitica-
| ton there Is still flowing a copious
spring, the space for several feet around
beng covered with flag stone, which
must have been carried no less than
ten miles, as the swamp surrounding
the ridge does not furnish any stone,
excepting rarely a boulder. The only
opening to the fort is on the west, di-
rectly opposite to the point from which
an enemy could Gpproach along the
ridge, and this is protected by wings,
making the place almost impossible to
carry with the rude implements of war
which were then in vogue.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23
FACETIE.

READY WIT.-It was n OF the pider
Wallacks of whom the story IS told that
among a group Of actors and news
paper men the subject of the antiquity
of families came up. 1.-The Wallafks, ,
remarked he, ''are of great antiquity:
IN fact the country in which they 9rlgl'
mated still bears their name; in taeg was
named for them Wallachia." "Nery
likely" said William Warren, one OF
the party, removing his cigar from his
mouth; name certainly indicates 1t.
Now, there's my washerwoman, MOL
Davis; her family undoubtedly brigi-
mated in Moldavia."
HAD HIM ON THE LIsT.-Mi5bress
to tramp: Move W let any one 60
away from our door hungry, but /
really wish you would spread tile re-
port that we put poison in the toPd OF
the tramps that call here. 1t IS becom-
ing annoying"
Tramp: "But you wouldn't have me
impose on them would your | don't
know that what you say is true
Mistress: "Well, just step i'll, land III
give you some, and then you'll know.
What do you prefer, Rough on BATS
or plain strychninep"
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23
FARM NOTES

GIRpLING GRAPE VTNEs'-lt II
well-known that wiring or glr9llns
~Crapevines, while it Injuries the vines,
causes the grapes to grow larger, rs
sooner and become poorer In IeaIity
Some experiments were made at Int
Massachusetts, Agricultural College II
girdling surplus branches, which were
to be afterward cut away. A revolving
knife cut rapidly a rlne OF the PARK q
fourth Of an inch wide, just below the
bunch of fruit, about midsummer
This treatment vas performed on
twelve rows of grapes. The enlarged
and early fruit sold for S36 more than
the same amount of the common OF
main crop, the labor being less IMAM
half this sum. No injury has been
apparent to the vines so treated, the
girdled canes being cut away when
done with. If, however, many surplus
canes were girdled on wine, an obvious
injury would doubtless be the result
There would be no harm in trying tht
experiment on vines intended to be aug
lid
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23
Their Armies.

The SeIyian king is named Milan, and
the Servian army, including the reserve
or landwehr. consists OF 17O,4l2 men
and officers and 418 guns or cannon.
The Bulgarian army is not so large,
and amounts all told to something over
60, 900. Prince Alexander, the head of
the government, is said to be an able
and energetic soldier.
The Eastern Roumelian army, which
will side with Prince Alexander, If we
rightly comprehend the contest, consist,
of about 90, 900 men, which will make
The united armies nearly equaI 10 that
of Servia. That there will be hard fight
ing, there is no doubt, as these people
are hardy, brave and enthusiastic. If
the great powers only keep their hands
off, the world may witness n of the
neatest and most holly contested wars
that the world has yet seen. But 1t is
a great pity, wlthal. 1t is always to be
lamented when national qnarrels can.
not be peaceably adjusted. There is
glory in war, but the glory does not he:
gin to make up for the miseries, the
tears and the desolation that are inflict-
ed.
Servia moved first toward active hos
tilities by crossing the Bulgarian border
and invading that principality. East
Roumelia wanted to come under Bull.
garian rule, as we understand it, and
invited Prince Alexander to receive
her. The Prince, glad to increase his
dOminions by such a generous slice of
freely offered territory, accepted the
trust, but to this arrangement Servja
objects as likely to disturb the balance
of power, and hence the war. II no
truce or permanent arrangement be
made 10 stop it, it will be a bloody
struggle. Turkey and Russia may both
eventually take a hand, and even Eng
land and perhaps Austria may be drawn
in. 1t is to be hoped, however, thai
wise counsels may prevail and the way
be opened for a speedy peace.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

that he has gone too fast, and they
would be very grateful if he would re-
peat. He, there, carefully repeats the
last sentence and goes on again until
more shnfling brings him to another
halt. The minuteness with which The
lecturer treats every detail OF his sub
iect is somewhat marvellous. A single
point often one of no visible importanc ,
may occupy an entire lecture. But
.-hen the professor is done, nothing re-
mains to be said upon the sublec,
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

We have a little book to which the
best humorlsts and comic artists of
America have contributed, such as "Bill
Nye." IN. Quad" Wade Whipple
and Opper, one of the illustrators of
Puck. This book which is published
annually by The Charles A. Vogeler
Company. of Baltimore, Nd, is the 81.
Jacobs OIL Family Calendar and Book
Of Health and Htmor for the Million for
1886. Besides the original contributions
in prose and verse, it contains a calendar
for each month in the year, with rising
and setting of sun and moon, dates of
eclipses and church festivals, and a list
of the most important events of the
worlds history. The book is now be-
ing distributed in large cities by car
riers; and in small towns and villages,
it can be had through druggists. In
cases where it cannot be obtained
through either of these mediums, it
will be sent by the publishers on receipt
of a stamp.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

DR.. Robert Newton, late President Of the
Electric College, ofthe city of New York,
and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used DR.
WIN. HALLS BALsAM very extensively in
his practice, as many of his patients. now
living, and restored to health by the use Of
this iuvaluablr medicine, can amply testi-
fy. He always said that SO good a remedy
ought 10 be prescribed freely by every physi-
clan as a sovereign remedy in all cases Of
lung diseases. 1t cures Consumption, and
has no equal for all pectoral complaints.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

The Dryer Bros. insist that If Miss
Woodford and Freeland are matched the
race must take place in the East, while
Ed. Corrigan just as emphatically says
it must take place in the West. The
compromise is likely to be Saratoga, as
both stables are to race there.
There is no man so great as not to
have some ~littleness more predominant
than all his greatness.
Actions, looks, words, steps, form
the steps by which we may spell char
acters.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

Mr.. OSBORNE is very economical,
but at the same time a very inrascibIe
parent, Last Sunday his boy Tommy
deliberately disobeyed his father, where
upon the latter seized his offspring,
threw him over his knee, and proceeded
to rebnke him in his usually energetic
manner with the palm of his hand.
Tommy. who is something of a strateg-
ist in a small way, thinking TO gain
time exclaimed:
''Pa, remember I've got my Sunday
clothes on. You will ruin them"
THAT'S a fact" responded Osborne,
releasing the youth. "You can take
them off, while l go INTO the garden
and cut a dozen or SO of ~peach-tree
switches
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

SHEET PASTURES.-Some OF the us
appointments and failures in keeping
sheep, are due TO the prevailing, but
mistaken idea, that sheep can live and
DO we'll without good food. Turn
them into waste field, and let them eat
the briers and thorns and weeds, " is
The frequent advice of writers who
never kept a sheep. One might as well
say that a countryman might do well IN
3 city, by living off the garbage barrels
and heaps in waste places. 1t Is all
very well for q farmer to turs a few
sheep into a rough neglected field, and
let them trim down the brlers and
weeds, If he will then provide them
wisl sufficient good food. In this way
the folding of sheep upon an old field
may be turned to good account. But
for regular business, one can not hope
to raise sheep i'll this way. A good
pasture, roots fog winter feeding, well.
made clover hay, and good careful
attention and management, are essen
tlal to success. Sheep are fond OF a
variety of food-briars and weeds, and
such things. But confined to that diet,
they run down fast. They thrive on
substantial food.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

A BREAKFAST DIsH.-MIx half a
pound of cracker crumbs with an equal
quantity of finely minced lean boiled
ham /; moisten this mixture with a lit
tie stock or water and butter, adding
salt to taste. Put the mixture in a
baking dish, make depresslons in it the
size of an egg and break an egg in each
hollow. Bake a delicate brownin good
oven,
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

COLD WATER PEA good substi-
tute for custard pie when milk is scarce.
Two tablespoonfuls of -four, level, two
iablespoonfuls of sugar, heaped, one
egg, a lump Of butter the size of a
hickory nut, nutmeg to taste, and a
good half pint of water. This makes
one pie.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

KEEPING TIE Cows CLEAN.-Great
care should be taken in bedding IN
winter time, and in cleaning the
stables. Unless extra pains are AIKEN
foul-smelling stables will be the result
consequently the milk will be more OF
less affected. l am well satisfied that
Dlthy stables and filthy habits OF milk
ing are the chief causes OF so much
poor butter being made IN winter and
10 spring. | am well aware that butter
made in winter lacks flavor and color,
but with proper care it can be made
sweet and clean. Very much depends
upon the food the COWS eat in order to
have color, corn meal with beans and
ground oats fed literally, and a little
oil meal added, IS about as near perfect
lations as a be given in winter, with
plenty of good, bright timothy hay and
a mixture of clover. 1t is quite a CON-
mon sight to see in this part OF the
country cows in winter time with thelI
6ips loaded down with manure, theiI
bags ditto, also their backs covered
with hay-seed and dust. Tho brush
ind card are never seen in the COW
stables to them the cows are total
strangers. Now this is all wrong. AS
n rule the cows are well.fed'; some
have bank barns, but there is a want OF
| care in grooming and handling. II
DAYS TO card and brush the cows daily.
They look better and are better, and
certainly the milking can be done mort
Clearly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

IT is gratifying to note that mar
ket is not affected by the financial
crisis in New York. Strawberries are
firm and active, cucumbers ten cents
apiece mot including medical attend
ance), and hand.painted stringbeans
are to be had at the ordinary price of
Paris green. Spring butter remains
strong with or without boxing-gloVes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

OLD LADY TO DRUGGIsT.-"I want
a box OF canine pills" Druggist
what's the matter with the dog?o
Old lady indignantly:--"I want you to
know, sir, that my husband is a gentle
manl' Druggist puts up some quin-
inc pills in profound silence.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

When you visit or ieave New York City, save
baggage expressage and 50 carriage Hire, ana stop
lTal Depot.
COO elegant rooms. fitted up. Of a cost of one
million dollars, 81 and upwards per
supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depOts. Families can i've
better for less money at the Grand Union Hots
than at anV other BrSt-class hotel in the city.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

who have wasted their manly vigor and
powers by youthful %follies, inducing nerv.
debility, impaired memory, mental
anxiety, dependency, lack Of seiEcont-
dence and wiil-power, weak back and kin
dred weaknesses, should address, with 10
cents in stamps, for large illustrated irea-
giving u~nfailing means of cure,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
G53 Main Street, Buffalo, n, Y.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

SWEET MILK GEMs.-Beat one
egg well, add a pint of new milk, a
little salt and graham flour until it will
drop off the spoon nicely. Have ready
your gem pans, well creased and heated.
Bake in a quick wen and send to the
table hot.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

"HELLo, Simmons, you look gloomy y
eyes, got dyspepsia the worst way"
"Why, L thought you went to keep
ing house last week."
$50 l did, and tsat's what's the mat
ter"
"Why don't you let your wife do the
cookingP"
That's just what she is dolng--you
see she's a graduate of the cooking
school,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
during the past six months has been
making tests of the Wootten loeOmo-
tive, which has been In use on the
Reading Railroad for the past ten
years. The tests have been satisfac-
tory, and it is now officially stated that
the locomotive will be adopted by the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company with
very slight notifications.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

THE large amount of feed that can
be grown on an acre in turnips makes
this a very exhaustive crop. The sue
ceeding crops will show this plainly,
and unless turnips can be marketed
cheaply it is hardly worth while to
attempt gro wing them on p large scale.
English farmers make turnips a reno
waiting crop, but they do it by feeding
sheep on the turnip patch and giving
other rich food in addition.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

AN AWFUL WARNING.-A young
married woman sitting On the bank OF
a Georgia stream, felt a bite at her
hook. sShe jumped up and exclaimlng,
give caught a whale" fell dead, This
ought to be a warning to fishermen, but
it probably won't be.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

MENsMANis PBPToNIzED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation OF beef containing lis entire nutrl-
ffois properties. 1t contains blood-making, force
generating and DEMONSTRATING properties; lnyalua-
bic for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration,
and all forms OF general debility; also, IN all en-
feebled conditions. whether the result of exhaus-
ton, nervous prostration, oVeT-work or acute dis
ease, particularly II resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard h Co., proprletors,
New York. Sold by druggists.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

BATTER PUDDtNGS.-One egg, one
cupful or sugar, two tablespoonfuls of
butter, two and one half cupfuls Of
flour, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one
t~easpoonful of cream of tartar, Il cup
ful of raisins. Steam me hour. To be
eaten with sauce.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

LADIES tailors now add a tiny peck
ct for car fare in the front of the mas
cu!ine walking jackets ordered by fair
ones who do not keep n carriage. 1t is
a rather important addition, consider.
ing the present state of horse.car ETH
quette, which compels a woman to
stand while men may sit. Anybody
who has observed the difficulty a woman
experiences in keeping her equilibrium,
while holding muff, books and packa.
ges, and opening her purse to get out
some change for the conductor, will ap.
preciate the Importance of a pocket
quickly reached by two fingers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

4 German journal devoted to railroad
matters gives the following method for
checking milesmen as practised on the
Russian road from Charkov to Nico-
laiev. The track is patrolled before
each train by a Waterman on each
section who carries forward a number
found by him at the beginning OF his
section and leaves it on a hook provided
for it at the end, even numbers being
carried in one direction and odd ones in
the other. The numbers which are
painted on metal plates are hung in
view of the trains so that officials pass
ing may readily see them, and by means
of a small table of the positions of the
numbers on any day Dr. hour can ascer-
tain whether the watchmen are doing
their duty. A hook without a number
indicates the negligence of a Waterman,
who can be readily discovered, because
every Waterman IS required to give
notice when he does not find a number
at the beginning of his section, and
must do so to avoid having the obvious
carelessness attributed to linn.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

THE best way of cleaning black
cashmere is to place the dress or goods
in strong borax water made lukewarm
let it remain in soak all night, then
take out and hang on a line to dry, and
when dry press off. Do not rinse or
wiring.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

A LIGHT TEA CAKE.-One cup of
sugar, two eggs, half a cup of melted
butter, enc and a quarter cups of milk,
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartara and
one teaspoonful Of soda. Add flour
enough to make a stiff batter. Bake
twenty minutes in a good oven.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

EGLANTINE PUDDING.-Cut thin
slices of light white bread and line a
pudding shape with them, putting in
alternate layers of bread and orange
marmalade or any other preserve till
the mold is nearly full. Pour V e all
a pint OF warm milk in which four we'll.
beaten eggs have been mixed. Cover
the mold with a cloth and boil for an
hour or an hour and a half.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

TAKE THE TESTIMONY of seven out OF
every ten men you meet. and they will
all complain of annoyance from "eon-
stipation" and its attendant lassitude,
headache, fatulence, &C. WALKERS
VINEGAR BIrTERs is a specific for this
ailment. 1t acts gently, but surely,
and will regulate the system, cultivate
a natural appetite and digestion and in
sure relief,
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

WHITE FRUIT CAKEs.-The whites
Of ten eggs we'll beaten, two c~offee-cup-
tuls powdered white sugar, one coffee
cupful butter, four coffee-cupfuls flour,
one coffee.cupful sweet milk, one tea
spoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar flavor with rose and peach va
ter i; two pounds raisins stoned and
chopped, tive pounds c~urrants, one
pound cltron sliced thin. Beat butter
and sugar together till it is light !; mix
cream tartar in the flour, and stir in a
little flour before putting in the milk !;
then add flour and whites alternately.
Stir well together, and add fruit till all
is in. If baked in one pan bake about
two hours. If divided bake one hour.
Cover the bottom Of the pan with well
buttered paper to insure it turning out
nicely. II it should brown too fast,
put a thick paper yer the top if need
ed, under the pan ; bake slowly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

SACnETs are always acceptable and
the designs this year are quite varied.
Pretty ones are made of satin in TRAN
gular shape fringed on two sides a
spray of sweet pea or punches of violets
or bluets may be painted upon them.
Purse and bag shaped sachets are either
embroidered or painted with some deli.
cate design. Unique sachets are made
of japanese Grape paper mats lined with
satin and tied with ribbon to cores
pond. Heliotrope powder is excellent
for pertaining sachets, and a powder
made of four ounces of orrls powder
and a half grain each of musk and pat
Chouly is recommended,
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

ONE Of the professors of the Uni
versity Of Texas was engaged in ex-
planning the Darwinian theory to his
class, when he observed that they were
not paying proper attention. "Gentle-
men" said the professor, ''when l am
explaining the peculiarities Of the mon
key wish you would look right at
me.n
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

"WHAT's the matter, my boy2" asked
Miss Fussanfeather of little Johnnie
Crimsonbeak whom she met on the
stars crying as if his heart would break,
on her way to supper the other even
ing.
MAMMA - sent me- to bed
without-my supper" sobbed the boy.
"And you are crying because you
can't have any of that nice cake | made
yesterday"
Nom; not exactly that" said the
big-headeded boy, stopping his sobs for
a second; "but you see my brother VIII
lie will eat so much of that cake that
I'm afraid TIN make him deathly SICK
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

WHEAT MUFFINs.-Mix one pint
of milk, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls
yeast, a little salt, with -four enough TO
make a stiff batter ; Let it rise four or
five hours and bake in muffin rings in a
hot oven about ten minutes,
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

Women, as a rule, are not inventive.
They have no desire for e wrinkles,
unless using Carboline the New petro.
leum Hair producer, can be classified
as a new wrinkle; all handsome ladies
usn II
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

Catarrh is a very prevalent and exceedingly dis
agreeable disease liable, II neglected, TO develop
into serious consumption. HOODS Sarsaparilla,
acting through the blood, reaches every part OF
the system, e~Gectlng a radical and permanent
cure OF catarrh. 100 doses 81.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

IT WILL not do 20 apply coarse
manure to newly seeded clover. Nc
other plant is more easily smothered.
and. while the ground will be fertllized
under the mulch, it will lose the greater
benefit from the growth Of clover roots
in the subsoil. But manure applied as
a top dressing before clover seed is
sown is always beneficial, and Is one of
the best ways to insure a good catch.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-23

RAYIG0TE sauce is made by chop
ing fine %two-thirds of a tablespoonful
each of a tarragon, p%eppergrass and
chervil and half a t~easpoonful of celery
and Of burnet. Put all in a saucepan
with a little salt and pepper !; cover
with broth ; set it on the fire and let it
boil for twenty minutes !; then STRAIN.
Mix two ounces of butter with enough
flour to make a paste put it on the
fire with some sauce, adding a table,
spoonful Of vinegar. Simmer until the
-four is cooked and serve.