Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
GRAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN.

REPORTS on the condition of crops in
southern Iowa show prospect for large
harvests never before excelled.
PHOTOGRAPHY, it is claimed, is to be
still further advanced by the use of
the air brush. In this device little
holder is charged with ink, and, by bel
lows operated with a foot pedal after the
manner of a sewing machine, the fluid is
blown upon a family outlined portrait,
the result giving apicture superior in
many respects to the best crayon draw
ing-the whole operation involving only
few hours time.
The word month is not likely soon to be
defined in its statutory use by national en-
actment, though bill with that end in
view had been introduced by Senator
Plat. In England legal month is the
lunar month of twentyeight days. This
was the common law Interpretation, but
Georgia is the only state which now ad-
heres to that Interpretation; all other
states go to the calendar. As the question
has never been raised in the courts the
Judiciary Committee concluded that there
was no call for any legislation on the sub
ject, and will report the bill adversely.
THERE are Cerole remedies for headache
which, by their reason of savage simpli
city, seem worthy Of an African origin
These chiefly consist in applications to
the forehead, temples, or head of fresh
leaves, which are changed as soon as they
wrinkle or dry up. Leaves of the wild
plantain are very popular for this method
of cure; fig leaves, elder leaves, and Or
ange leaves are also used. But the orange
leaf is usually smeared with lard before
using. Another remedy is to pour little
hot water mixed with laudanum into the
ear. Wild plantain leaves dipped in cold
water, are very often used to alIay infam-
nation of the eyes, when the fresh skin
of certain fish, or an excellent egg poul
tice is not Immediately procurable.
SUIT now pending in a Philadelphia
court brings out several interesting facts
as to the cost of feminine fnery in the
Quaker city. The suit was brought by
mOdiste against the fashionable wife of a
wealthy gentleman for payment of ST.
700 bill, which the husband refused to
pay, The articles included in the bill of
particulars consisted of two pairs of silk
hose at 500, an alpaca dress at $50,
wrap at 500, an embroidered robe de
chambre at 500, a cloth costome at $3.50
five bonnets $75, wrapper 800, an
opera cloak $500, one corset cover $18,
an opera bonnet $50, one jersey $75, one
chemise $12, besides costly Og-cOllars,
corsests, vests, and other articles of at
tire which delicacy forbids Us mention
ing.
Singular as it may appear the common
herring is fish which it is most difficult
to procure and preserve alive in inland
aquarinms it being so delicate that the
loss of even few scales during transport
tatiOu is sure to cause its death. For
several years DR.. Hermes of the Berlin
Aquarium has yainly tried to obtain some
specimens for his establishment they had
either been rubbed in the net Or been
touched with the hand and died before
reaching Berlin. He has at last succeeded
in obtaining live one of his men
having by this time grown sufficiently
expert to catch it in a sort OF glass balloon
lowered in the net. For other specimens
of the finney tribe in the seawater basin
of the aquarium Trieste is the principal
purveyOr.
PORCELAIN was known to the Chinese