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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01

out, the lightest parts burn and leave
the heavy Oil, and as it is filed day
by day the oil gradually gets so heavy
that the draft is not strong enough to
pump it, and then the oil should be
ali turned out of the lamp and refilled
with fresh oil. Then the burner, after
q time gets gummed up and the even
flow of oil is disturbed and causes a
smoky, uneven light that is very vex-
atious. have had burneres brought
into my store condemed aud new
one wanted, when by two minutes
work they were made as good as new
Then when the wick needs cutting
some scrape it off, Others cut it so un-
even that it makes pointy blaze,
which so provokes one that he wants
to condemn it. Of a little reason and
thought were used in the everyday
life, we would soon fad that lots of
our discomfort would be very easily
overcome and banished, but things go
on in slipshod manner year after
them.) But to resume, the burner is
provided with a great number of
small holes to provide air, to the end
that perfect combustion may take
place, and next to collect dust
and dirt until they are all clogged up,
and a smoky, bad smelling light is the
result. Now if in using kerosene we
fill the lamp up with white oil every
day, and once week empty back the
oil in tbe lamp and use q new wick,
cut even and true, once a week or
two weeks, and to be sure the lamp
burner is clean, and g. clear nice
polished chimney used. we will find
that the kerosene lamp is cheap and
great luxury, and not, as is often the
case, a necessary nuisance which has
to be used for lack of anything better.
For little care, daily, in using lamps,
makes all the difference between lux
ury and nuisance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
The Missouri Wool Growers Associ-
alton.
Rural World

Much is being said nowadays about
the grand meeting that is being got
ten up by the merchants of St. Louis,
and the great national shearing that
Is to be held in connection Herewith,
and 1t is all well and will prove one
OF the largest and the best gatherings
OF the kind, or of any other kind, that
ever took place in that city. It is a
st. Louis affair, and when our mer-
chants undertake thing of that kind
there is no halfway measures about
them. They have made all necessary
arrangements for the accommodation
and entertainment of q very large
number of people, will bring them
here under low rates of TRANSPORTS
ton, will treat them reasonably well
while here, and send them home hap
py. They have also made arrange
ments for low rates of transportation
for the sheep and their accomnoda-
ton while here, and we have no doubt
they will be here in vast numbers to
be cared for and sheared. ALI of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
FARM PHILOSOPHY

Rake up and burn all the litter and
trash before the ground thaws out.
Bran and cotton-seed meal are the
best forms in which to buy phos-
phate,
The thoughtful farmer ought to be
very busy now getting tools in order
and making general preparations for
the early spring work.
The Italian bee is the gentlest of
the several kinds, and works on a
greater variety of plants than the
common bee, but like all other bees it
will sting It's best friend.
Neatness about the stable is desir-
able at all times. The man who has
not pride enough about him to keep
his barns and stables clean and neat
should not have the pleasure OF own
ing good horse,
Where several hired men are en-
ployed it is better to give each man
his own special work to do, as far as
possible. Every team should have
its own driver, and the most skillful
be employed in the several depart
ments.
How is it about that gaunt animal
you proposed to winter in good con-
dition2 Now, own to the truth
Wasn't it an out and-ouG failure2 Did
it not eat up more than fat animal
would have done, and nevertheless
fail to Withstand the effects of the
weather as you anticipated?
Points about hiring farm help:
Hire only as many hands as can be
kept reasonably busy; hire only good
help; pay fair wages; pay promptly ::
treat your help with kindness and re-
spect, and when you find that your
hired man is faithful and trustworthy
don't neglect to extend few extra
favors over and above the wages Gov
cred by the contract.
A farmer has no excuse for going
without a farm roller when he can
construct one that will last a genera
ton by utilizing the wheels Of dis
carded mower Just drill holes in the
r1m for bolts, and bolt on pieces of
two by four hard wood scantlings,
beveling the edges so as to make close
JOINTS on the outside. Get an iron
shaft long enough to lold a wooden
frame outside the roller, but in a
tongue and the roller is ready for
work at small expense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
TEXAS CATTLE-DRIVING.
Herders or Drovers who Never Tell
the Truth.
Harper'S Magazine.

Harper's Magazine.
1t is estimated that 220, 600 cattle
were driven or carried into Montana
and Dakota during 1884. The larger
portion Of this stock was brought OF
to the range TO be fats ned. They
were young steers. 1t is also estimat-
I'd by competent authorities that
10000 OF the 220 900 cattle that En-
1888 were soung ratiVe cattle from
the corn states. The number of
through" cattle that were included
in the great herd of Texans no man
can tell. The Texas drover is famous
throughout the aird belt for never
telling the truth as TO where his cattle
come from. He is always willing to
swear that they passed the previous
winter in Kansas or Nebraska. and as
cold weather kills the Spanish fever
his cattle are sound and he is not re-
sponsible for damages if the disease
makes its appearance in northern
herds.
The truth is that large proportion
of the Texas cattle driven into Mon
tana and Dakota during the season OF
1884 were fresh from the southern
range. The young cattle that are
brought on to the northern grazing
grounds from the agricultural states
come from a land of plenty. They
have been well fed and attentively
watered from the day Of their birth
until they are sent west. They have
had Intelligent and anxious care.
Their instincts have been blunted by
the protective care of man. Thsse
immature animals have been taken
west and turned on the range TO shift
for themselves. They can do SO in a
mild winter. Last year, up to Sept.
s, the Northern Pacific railroad car,
ried SO, $50 young cattle from the east
into Montana and western Dakota.
Many thousands have been driven in
and other thousands carried in by
| other railroad companies. But let a
hard winter come, following a wet
autumn and the grazing ground be
covered with snow and blizzard after
blizzard sweep out of the frozen north
IN quick succession. Then how will
these cattle fare, and how will the
through Texans fare? answer, just
as they did in Kansas in the winter OF
1912. They would disappear from
the lange. And if the winter should
be as severe as some of the Indian
traders told me they had seen in the
Yellowstone valley-so severe that
the Indians were forced to cut cotton
wood trees so that their ponies could
feed on the buds and tender linn BIS
the toughened range cattle will be
decimated before spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
To Remove the Rio Grande Bar.
Rio de Janeiro News.

The report of the eminent Dutch en-
gineer, Peter Caland, who was re-
Gently employed by the government
to examine and report upon the Rio
Grande bar, has been presented and
published. He fully agrees with the
Bicalho commission as to the causes
operating to produce and maintain
the bar, which are the winds and cur
rents from the outside, and also as to
the general measures to be Employed
and maintain a Manageable channel.
The assertion of the daily colleague
that the Bicalho commission was the
first to make scientific observations
upon the causes producing the bar is
erroneous for such observations were
made years before by an English
engineer located in Rio Grande, who
not only demonstrated the fact that
the bars were formed by the outside
currents and waves. but prepared
plans and estimates for a breakWater
to counteract their influence. Mr.
Caland concludes that the only efec-
tive scheme to open and maintain
a channel is the construction of two
long piers, the westerly one 1850
meters and the easterly $3.50 meters
in extension, and then to open and
maintain the channel with dredges.
The total cost of the two piers is
estimated at $14, 700, 900 presumably
g0ld) and that of dredging at 81, $780,
900, total cost of $19, 100000. The
time fixed for the execution of the
works is ten years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
Medical Intelligence,
Texas Siftings.

Col. Witherspoon, to whom we
have frequently referred as the mean
est man In Austin, has been in poor
health for some months past The
principal cause of his feebleness is his
unwillingness to feed himself with
sufficient copiausness.
A few days ago, while he was tax
ing the air, he met DR.. Perkins Soon
over, Witherspoon thought this was
a good chance to get some medical ad-
vice without paying for it.
"How do you do this morning, col
onel?" asked DR.. Soonover.
Poorly, doctor, poorly. For some
time past I have been suffering from
weakness. AS you see, I can hardly
walk. What shall I take, doctor?'
Take hack, replied the doctor,
grumy, as he strobe off.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
Hints on the Use and Care of Lamps
B. Samont in the ANALYST


OF all misunderstood things in daily
life, the use of the kerosene lamp prob
ably stands at the head. First, lamp
is bought and fitted for use. and then
filled day after day, and after a short
er or longer period does not give as
good light as it used to-; then come
complaints to the oil man or grocer
about tho oil, when little reason and
Judgment would remedy the fault and
remove the cause of complaint. If
persons using a lamp would remem-
Der that the lamp is a machine COM
bining the furnace and pump, and en-
deavor to learn the principal using of
oil much trouble would be saved, for
while no one expects to use large
machine without learning how to
work it. Anyone can use lamp. Now
the wick is the pump to bring oil from
the fount to the blaze, and, as there is
always more or less dust or dirt in the
oil the wick soon becomes clogged up
and cannot pump oil fast enough for
a good light, so complaint is made
when new wick would have remov-
ed the cause, Then, as we burn oil
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
HOUSEHOLD,

An old fowl Will boil tender very
quickly if half teaspoonful of vine
gar is added.
DOUGHNUTS.
One cup of sour milk, one-haif cup
OF cream, one cup of sugar, two eggf,
one small teaspoonful of soda; flavor
with nutmeg or cinnamon.
SOUR MILK COOKIES.
Two cups of sugar, one cup of but
ter, one cup of sour milk, five cups of
flour, one teaspoonful of soda, spice
or flavor to the taste. Roll out, cut in
shape, and bake.
BROWN BREAD.
One pint of Indian meal. one pint
of rye meal, one-half cup of molasses.
one teaspoonfui Of soda, one half tea
spoonful of salt, one and one-half
pipts of cold water. Mix, and steam
three hours, and bake one-half hour.
A BREAKFAST DISH.
Mix half pound of cracker crumbs
with an equal quantity of finely mine
ed lean boiled ham; moisten this mix
ture with a little stock of water and
butter, adding salt to taste. Put the
mixture in baking dish, make de-
presslons in it the size of an egg and
break an egg in each hollow. Bake
until a delicate brown in a good
oven.
WAFFLES.
Mix together one tablespoonful of
butter and one Of sugar, and add the
yolks of three eggs which have been
well beaten. Beat thoroughly and
mix with one quart of of milk, adding
flour enough, in which has been put
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
to form stiff batter. When we'll
mixed add the whites of the eggs,
which have been beaten to stiff froth
and bake in the waffie-iron delicate
drown.
Paper bags in which many articles
are sent from the grocery stores
should be saved for use when black
ing stove, You can slip the hand
into one of these and handle the brush
just as we'll, and the hand will no be
soiled at all, and when through with
them they can be dropped into the
stove, being much preferable to the
cloth bag or mitten, which requires
frequent washing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
THE WIND AND TIE LILY.
MAUDE amulet ANDREWS

The lily lifted her milk white bloom,
And she freighted the air with a soft perfume,
And the warm wind came from the sultry vale
And he kissed her petals so soft and pale.
With fearless heart she reared her head,
For she thought there was nought from the wind
to dread,
And she wrapped her round in her spotless
pride,
And she shed her fragrance on every side
But the wind as it grew warmer and stronger
still,
And he kissed the lily's cup with an ardent
will;
And her petals dropped in the burning air,
While her sweet beauty waned with mute de
spair.
But the wind passed on with an ever careless
smile,
And he sought new buds in little while;
Yet he gave no wealth to the perfect flower,
But he took from her beauty, pride and her
power.
RI pondered the lesson in thoughtful fashion:
The lily was virtue-the wind was passion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
After Treatment of Scarlet Fever.
DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly.

The last stage of scarlet fever, that
of desquamation Or the time Of the
shedding of the cuticle, is attended
with danger both for the patient and
the attendants; the patient is peculi-
arly liable to complications arising
from taking cold easily, and the des-
quamative scales are a frequent and
most certain source Of contagion to
those about the patient. A writer in
British Medical Journal says:
Nov to obviate this danger, have
for several years been in the habit of
having my patients sponged over the
whole surface Of the body twice a
day-commencing, as a rule, about a
week from the appearance of the erup-
ton, and continuing the process I'M
til the desauamation is complete
with MIXTURE of one ounce of oat-
meal to one pint of boiling water !;
the solution to be made fresh every
day and used tepid, or at such tenn
perature as may be comfortably borne
by the back of the finger, My reason
for using this is that the gluten in it
sticks the scales to each other and to
the surface of the body, thus allowing
of their being removed from one
sponging to another, without the or
binary risk of injecting either atmos-
phere or clothes, and greatly lessen
ing the risk of spreading the disease.
Secondly.the gluten fills up the cracks
OF the new skin, and protects it from
the cold, as, patch by patch it becomes
bare, and thus, to say the least, great
~ lessons the risk of dropsy which so
often follows upon this disease"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01
Not So Mechanical After All.
Boston Record,
At the "Mikado.n

At the "MlkadO."
She--How in the world do they
manage to do this 80 nights in sue
cession without firing to death of it9n
He-Oh, they do it without any
thought of it at all. It becomes pure
~ mechanical with them"
Sac (refectively and after slight
pause)-Do you think Nankipoo's hug
is purely machanical?"
He was obliged to admit that in one
respect, at least, the action was criti-
cised by an eternal freshness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01

In the experiments on the influence
Of outward agencies on the develop
ments of ova, Raaber and Sachsse
have determined that the develop
ment of hens eggs ceases below 25
degrees centigrade, and that these
eggs can bear a temperature of from
40 to 40 degrees for only very short
time,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01

The Englishman will not eat squir-
rel, but will gloat over a meal of bar
nacles and periwinkIes, the latter
species of sea-snail that adheres to the
rocks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01

A ''drag" is the fashionable young
girls term of demi-train.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-01

An old fowl Will boil tender very
quickly if half a teaspoonful of vine
gar is added.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02

EAST LlRERTY, Pa, Nov. 1.-Cattle-
Receipts 2,2Gl head shipments $50; mar.
ket very dull; 100 of from last weeks
prices. Hogs-Rscelpts 6,7OO head ship
ments $500 head; market active; Phila.
delphians 81 4544.00; good mixed $44Ol
4 40; Yorkers 81 20a4 So; common and
light 81 l04420. Sheep-RsCeipts 8, 400
head shipments 1000 head; market firm
at last weeks prices.
Chicago, Nov. 1.-CAttle receipts o..
COO; shipments 1900; market demoral.
izsdi lOA20c lowers shipping steers 50 4Ol
500 stooksrS aud feeders $2OOA3 TO-
cows, bulls and mixed 81 25a2 rs; bulk
"a 0O42 40 thoroughbred Texans cattle 50 q
as %; Western rangers dull; natives and
halt-nreeds $300l3 10; wintered Texans
2.75l3 20. Hogs, receipts 1900; shipments
$4,000. Market steady and strong rough
and mixed s. GOA4 0Oi packing and ship
ping S. 7544 10; light 81 GOi4 O5; skip
50 2Ola20; sheep receipts COCO; ahip
mentg, 1900; market slow; common l5l
VOC lower; natives $500 Q so; western
% 4O4SSO; Texans 81 O0Aa CO., lambs s. Il
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02

CHICAGO, Oct. SO.-TAe beef men in
Morris and switt's houses sigued a con.
tract last night to resume the ten.hour
syntem, commencing on Monday next.
The wages paid will be an advance Of
from twenty-five to fifty cents per day on
all akilled workmen. The advance Ia In
comparison with the wages received
when working eight hours day. The
raise 10 over the schedule adopted on the
Arst Of May. Both sides agreed to give
eight days notice should a change be
needed on either eide.
The arrangement completed last night
not apply to the beef men In Armour's.
Their difficulties, II they have any, must
be settled by themselves and their en-
ployer but all beef men at work in the
paoking.houses will resume the ten.houl
spstem on Monday. No settlement has
yet been finally agreed upon with thu
men In the pork houses, but 1t IL believed
they In their turn will fall ID on ten hours
although there arc those who pretsnt
70 know that predict another strike, ant
that soon, sons fixing the date for the
10Th Of November.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02

CHICAGO, Oct. 3l.-The Farmers Rcrieu
in lie Issue this week will print The follow.
Ing crop summary! More complete re.
turns from the corn belt do not materially
change the averages Of yieldi
In The various States, az AsCer.
tAined from husking than thoss In.
dictated from sattering counties last week.
Total returns aggregate 40 counties oil
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, Nebraska and Minnesota. The
average 10 Illinois 10 % bushels per GCr q
10 Iowa the average Is 2Sl bushels; ID
Kanals the general average Ia % bushels
In Missouri the average IL % bushels II
Minnesota the average Ia 80 bushels
III Michigan tho average yield Ia % BUSH
els, but the rspof9 do not cover a SUN
Clently Wide area for accurate estimates
In Nebraska the yield 10 placed at 9!
bushsls. In ak counties Of Ohio tht
ylll reaches 10 bushels.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02
OTHER srATEs,
Virginia elects ten Congressman.

virginia electS ten Uongrefsmen.
Rhode Island elects two congressman.
New HaMpshire elects Governor, l,sgls.
lRtnrO aud two congressman,
New Jersey elects Governor, LegiBla.
ture and seven congressman.
North Carolina elects Justices Of the
suprOmp Court Legislature and nine
ConGr sssmel. .... ~.
New York eleCtB q Judge Of the Court
oil Appeals, AsHsmblymen and thirty,
four Uongressnen and YoLeH upon
the question oil holding d convention to
revise the Constitution OF tho State.
ia Dakota Delegate Chloride reelection
seems assured 'Fhe Republican plat.
form pronouhces for the division Of the
Territory and the admission Of South Da.
kolp into the Union. The Democratic
nominee for bplsgSls, NJ. Il. nay, 10
known 10 favor division, but tile platform
Of HE party declares that the question Of
division should be submitted 10 vote Of
tho people Of the Territory,
South Carolina ELECTS AEAle oiFcefs, Leg,
iBlatuts and seven Congressman, and
votes upon two proposed amendments TO
tho U0nstltuNon Of The State, one oil which
ptoylleS ioF the renewal d the public
debt, WHICH natures Ia 1903, and the Othei
changes the time for the taking Of the
State penSpa 10 1891 and every tspth yea
thereafter, but AnlhofiA the Leglsla
ture TO accept the enumeration made b.
the Federal Government, and 10 base the
superintendent and assignment OF repre-
sentatlveS upon II.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02
aATuRpAY, OOTOBER 80, lSs6,

commencing at O'Clock p. M, the undersigned
special commissioners win sell ut public auction
Gt the tiOpt door the Court House OF SAID county
the following described piece, or parcel 81 BrOundI
situated IN Ohio County, IN the Suite Of West VIZ:
glnia, on the National RUAd At the extreme end o.
The aeld lying east OF the Fulton Paper MIL, and
bounded ~ follows: Beginning ut the north
western corner Of said field, thence south twenty
eight and q hall degrees west tOEtyone poles, ten
linSE 70 stone, on the bank Of MheellnE creek
thence north ioFIystYen and fourth legTOeA Weat,
i've poles aud twenty one upk8 " BtONei thence
north tWenIy-CghI aud hall degrees east, forty
one polls 10 = stake at the fence by Gaid r0Adi
east AZ poles and IWeutyeght links 10 the bvg gin,
ming, containing one acre tWU rOAuh, anu twenty
six poles, subject however, 70 an aRESemsnt De'
tween Daniel steenrOd and we ana JSnh mh1eEi
which agreement u Of record In saidCOuuty Of OHIO,
sAld real estate will be offered " whole, aud "
tnree parcels, the ant being me hotsl property
troutlnE on the National Road, aud exlendlnR
buck 70 street In the roar the second being me
homestead u said Lewis 0rth; aud thv third the
factory Or SlAughleFhOuse oil SAID Oflh, extending
sen Ut tho office Of the CLERK o. The County Court
y TEXAS xxx SV Of SALE; one.tourth and a much
more ~ the puF htAer may elect 70 pay, Y can On
menS ut tone, two and three Year, nOlea peAtihH m
turebt IRON Lne day OF sale 70 be given Tor the DE-
ierred payments, and the ute y By retained Hnni
money snail DO further secured by personal hecur-
lily on the notes therefor, 10 be approved Dy me
Commissioner, srAI the election o. ne purGhAAeE
BY policies OF insurance on the buildings on SAID
property payable 10 said commissioners IN such
amount as thev shall TeqnirH, and Issued BY com
pRnies 10 be approved BY them
W.T. + VI A 55SbES, special Commissioners
That said special commissioners have, given
bond With security approved bY me, according 10
law, aud as required by tRid degree Is hereby GER
TILED this I'D day Of Septembery lheG;
joins W. MITCHELL, Clerk.
SepEH
TheRbOve sales are adjourned untIl
saturday, November o, 1880,
the real estate 10 DO sold ut 10 clock IN, at the
curt House, aud the personal property Rt2 o'clock
y. M, on the pTcmlAs IN Eullon,
", Z, HUBBARD,
W., " COWDES,
Special Commissioners,