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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
How to Roast Meat,

Mrs. Emma p. Ewing of the school of
domestic economy at the Iowa agricul-
tural college, says:
In roasting meats of all kinds the
method adopted should be the one that
in the most perfect manner preserves the
jucies inside the meat. To roast beef in
the best possible manner, place the clean
cut side of the meat upon smoking hot
pan, which must be over quick fire.
Press it close to the pan until scared and
slightly Drowned. Reverse and let the
opposite side become similarly scared and
brown. Then put it at once in the oven,
the heat of which should be firm and
steady, but not loo intense, and leave is
undisturbeG until cooked. The time
that should be allowed for cooking beef
in this manner is twenty minutes to the
pound, if it Is to be rare, less half an
hour deducted from the aggregate time
on account OF soaring. In other words.
five pound roast of beef will require an
hour AID quarter, a six pound roast an
hour and half, and so On.
If the oven is not too hot the beef re-
qulres no basting and is better without
1t. When the oven is at the proper tenn
per&ture and the cooking Is going on al
right, the meat will keep up a gentle
sputterlng in the pan. IF, upon opening
the oven door tuis suffering is not per
ceptlble, more heat is required. But II
IN addition to the sputtering any smoke
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
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Director Catholic Protectory
ALLAB0UT THE STATE.

Beloit college has an attendance of
265 students.
Racine is to have another paper box
factory.
The So, 900 court house at Grantsburg
burned Monday.
The travelling men of Milwaukee are
arranging to form club.
Appleton is talking of building city
hall this year.
The anti Prohibition club in Fond du
Lac has fifty members.
Beloit college will erect new academy
building.
Eau Claire has Dovre Ski club of so
members.
The Fond du Lac Musical society has
taken up the opera Ermini, and will pre-
sent it the coming season.
According to the registers record there
were 224 marriages, 40 births and 100
deaths in Outagamie county the past
year.
Jacob Marlett. of Beloit, has lost four
children by diphtheria since Christ
mas.
The La Belle Roller mill, of Oconomo-
voc, has been sold to Brown and Son fer
$4,000.
Milwaukee is alarmed at the prospect
of an advance of 20 per cent. il rates by
the Wisconsin Telephone company with
in the aext three months.
Two Good Templar conventions will
take place in Juneau county the present
month, one Maustnn, On the 14th, and
the other at Neenah on the 18th.
The $500" railroad company has ar
ranged to enter Ashland over the Wis
consin Central line using seven miles of
their tracks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

smoke even when not inhaled, being
slowly emitted through the nostrils.
''The cigar is seldom removed to facili-
tate the occasional xpectoration, the
cigar being screwed further back into
the angle of the mouth 60 allow the eject
ion of the saliva in the opposite dIrec-
ton. Every time you see cigar smok-
ed in this fashion you can gamble that
| the smoker is g tough and in nine cases
out of ten you will win.
sThen there is the purse proud, self
made business man who Is OF another
class with distinction of its own.
''He usually keeps the end of his cigar
agloE, representing the thought that is
uppermost, and at the same time the
most pleasing in its owners mine, viz,
that business is ablaze. As he talks he
rolls it deftly about from one end of his
mouth TO the other, now letting off g
cloud of smoke at this side, now at that,
as if bent upon exhibiting the complete
mastery he has attained in the line of
artistic, and indeed fantastic smoking,
as well as in everything else he turns his
hands to. When he is engaged in CON
versation he keeps his head slightly
askew, with one eye watching the smoke
of his cigar, and the other upon the
person he is speaking to Or listening
to.
"Then you have the man of genuine
thought, who is wrapped up in the
earnest contea plation Of many subjects,
and whose active mind and energic body
are engaged in working them out. He
keeps the cigar continually stuck out
straight under his nose, as if acting the
part of a finger post to his mind. eter-
nally pointing straight onward. 1t has
once been lit, but not smoked beyond
two or three puffs, and then allowed to
go out again. There it sticks neglected
and unnoticed,
SIT is never relinquished; the cold,
dead ashes remain on the end like the
projects and hopes that have been blast
ed.
"There is another ,lass whose style is
also remarkable and somewhat ludicrous.
In fact [ never see swell or social dandy
smoking cigar or cigarette that don't
feel a certain amount of pity for him.
He is, as a rule, wrapped up in the con-
temptation of the good form ia which
he smokes it. He is most particular as
to the position it is allowed to droop
from his supercilious lip and the proper
angle at which the elbow should be bent
as he occasionally removes his cigar be-
tween the second aud third fingers of his
delicate hand. All this he can only &C.
quired by long and careful training. Ex-
cept in the handling of his walking cane
alone, there is perhaps no out door &C
complishment in which the average dude
can so efectually display his character as
in the manner in which he smokes.
"The absent minded man, like the con-
templative man, never has his cigar lit.
He ignites the end at every cigar stand
he passes, and lets it go out again before
he reaches the door. He eats the end of
it, and thiks he is chews instead of smok-
ing tobacco, and occasionally he sticks
the fiery enk into his mouth by way of
change. This has the effect of suddenly
recalling his wandering thoughts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
FARM, HOME. AND GARDEN.
HURRAH FOR TIE WINTER
BY h. C. DODGE.

Hurrah for the winter! Hurrah for the snow
We're not frozen turnips. as Jack Frost viii
know,
we won't hug stove and be scared of the cold
Wen go out and meet it. and conquer it bold
Wen skate on the ice and defy any hill;
We'll coast nelly gutter adown the long hill;
Wen ride in the sleigh with the jingle Of bells
And the sweetest of girls, where the moonlight
excels.
Well feast off roast turkey, and oysters and
And ieliirs and sweet-meats and cider vel
claim:
Wen breakfaet on erullets and gridle cakes hot,
And pumpkin and m'pce pie will 30 to the spot.
Well take in the parties and dance at the balls
Wen hear from Kris Kringle and make New
Years calls:
And of en-. quite often, we'il visit our fate,
And lnger, TIL bounced, by her papa's warm
CRATE.
In our arctics and listers that keep US so warm
Wen ga'lg epjoy the worst blizzard and Storm,
And merry fudge through tue slush and the
sleet.
With our flood all tingliDg from our head to our
feet.
Through the long winter nights on warm
Wen rrvel in sIeep and we'I rise without dread,
And take cold douce in a basin Of snow
And come dswn to breakfast with cneeks all
allow.
Hurrah for King Winter, and long may he reign
He's rough but he's Jolly, and health will MAN.
tain.
Queen Summer, though lovely, can never bestow
One half Of the pleasures that come with the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

By a great good fortune a large part
of one of the finest and largest Of the
libraries of ancient times has been re-
covered. It was collected in the very
heighth of the power of Assyria by
king who reigned from Media to Egypt.
the great AssurbanIpal, the SardarapaIus
of the Greeks. This king, whose rule
extended from 667 to 625 B. c., was no
such eliminate monarch as is described
by the Greek historians, but was a sue
cessfnl warrior and very Mfecenas OF
letters. His grand library unlike those
of Egypt, Greece ana Rome, has been
preserved because the books were writ
ten, not on parchment or papyrus, but
on clay. All organic textures perish but
a bit of earthenware is as nearly inper-
ishable as anything man can make. The
Assy rians wrote their books on tablets of
soft clay. 1t was moulded into the shape
OF a cushion or pillow, which for small
business documents would be from little
more than an inch square to about three
inches by two, or even q little larger.
But for large documents-books OF liter
ature or science-much larger tablets
were used, and divided into succession
of columns on the two sides. The writ
ing was done with stylus, which was
not cut to point, bat was cut square,
like the end of pocket rule. With such
square corner it is easy upon a pot of
clay, or of bit of blotting paper, to
initiate the peculiar wedges of the cum :
form writing. The clay tablet having
been carefully inscribed, it was fired, and
produced light colored and permanent
terra-cotta. Ordinary contract tablets
were not necessarily burned, but were
simply sun dried. Thousands of these
bushes tablets have been unearthed IN
Babylon and vicinity, all accurately dated
and Invaluable for chronology.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
THE HOUSEHOLD.

For peach fritters make batter of two
well beaten eggs, half a pint of milk and
little salt; beat very smooth and light,
and then pour in the remainder of the
miIk,and eggs, to which is added table
spoonful of butter or olive oil. Peel and
cut the peaches in halves; dip them in
the butter and fry them in boiling fat I'M
til they are delicate brown. Serve on a
hot disa and sprinkle with powdered
sugar.
For apple marmalade take nice sound
apples, pare and core, cut In small pieces
and to every pound of fruit add one
pound of sugar; put the sugar to boil
with just enough water to dissolve it,
into preserving kettle, add one large
lemon to every four pounds of fruit, boil
all together until the strip gets thick,
then add the apple and boil until it looks
clear. This is well made with half ounce
and half apple.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
TWEEN THEIR TEETH.
Row Men Show Their Character by the Way
They Smoke Their Cigars.

Row Men Show Their Character by the Way
They Smoke Their Cigars.
81 tell you boys" said Victor Sharez
the other evening to New York Star re-
porter and some friends, as he passed
around some fragrant Havannas, 81 tell
you my experience is that there is no way
YOU can better reaG mans character.
than by the manner in which he smokes a
cigar" This was said with an air of con-
viction that bespoke the sincerity of his
belief in his peculiar theory,
81 have carefully observed the various
modes AID manners of cigar smokers,
and have come to be a pretty accurate
Judge of mems characters by this means.
Of course, the most striking example of
this is TO be found in the uniformity of
style amang that peculiar class so appro-
priately styled 'toughs.' In the first
place he smokes, as a rule, good cigar.
A gentleman tough never invests in a
cheap smoke; he would prefer if reduced
to a solitary nickle, to invest it in a
schooner of beer. 1t is always roll of
fragrant weed, and jtsownez usually dis
plays his enjoyment on his face. The
eyes are generally half closed, and from
underneath the dropping lids comes a
shrewd twinkle of satisfaction as he in
hales each aromatic Whit. Then the
cigar is never in the front Of the mouth ;
it is invariably stuck IN at one corner Of
that useful orfice, and held at an acute
angle with tue upper jaw. ! good Whit
rarely comes from between the lips, the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

tire of ornaments and paint would not
be tolerated. They have abandoned their
native custom of sleeping on the ground
for the Indian hammock, which they
weave out of fbers.
White men rarely visit these Africans
of the forests, chiefly, perhaps. because
their streams, which, flowing to the sea,
are the Only highways into the interior,
are very difficult of ascent. The negroes
dislike to miHgle with the whites, and
they never leave their savage homes ex-
cept when the need OF rum and ammuni-
tion drives them TO the settlements. Then
the lazy men, who usually engage in no
toll except fishing and the chase, cut
down few trees, skillfully fashion the
trunks into canoes, and float them down
the creeks aud rivers to sell them TO the
towns. Often still they make little RATS
of valuable varieties OF timber, and in
vest the proceeds in powder and ball.
beads, and bad liquor. Tonka beans also
exc out their trade resources.
These four groups of blacks, like kin
drea tribes in Africa, are ruled by king
lets, and some Of them take their names
from chiefs who led them IN the wars the
Dutch long waged upon their escaped
slaves, only with the result of driving
them further into the woods. They live
chiefly upon vegetable food. which the
women raise and prepare. They make
no pottery, not being descended from
tribes in Africa that are skilled in this
art. Calabashes made of gourds are the
receptacles for their rice and casserva.
The fact is especially notewor' by that
these negroes of the woods are more
a. l..
for generations have continued TO toll on
the coast plantations. They are all of
the same origin, and they afford another
proof of the fact that men can far better
perpetHate his best physical and mental
qualities in a state of sayagism than un
der conditions where he is sim ply con-
demned to hopeless life of unrequited
drudgery.
The negroes, of the woods, however, have
millions of other relatives in the New
World, who, though bondsmen for gener-
ations after the Guiana blacks had freed
themselves, were lifted by their surround
ings to higher plane, and under more
fortunate influences, were finally fitted
as freemen to walk with com parati,
ease in the ways of civilized and enlight-
ened men. From the same coasts that
freighted ships with blacks for Guiana
came the progenitors of the numerous
people who al numbered among our fell
low citizens, and it is an eloquent and
powerful argument in favor of the efforts
now making to reclaim the millions of
Africa, that SO vast a multitude of her
sons, under circumstances by no means
wholly favorable, have so clearly demon
strated the capacity of their race for i'm
proven ent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Feeding Steers OF Different Breeds.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
The Agricultural College of Michigan
has been experimenting with the feeding
of steers of different breeds, representa-
tives have been taken from the short
horns, Galloway, Herefords, Hosteins,
Jerseys and Devons. They were brought
together ct weaving time, cared for IN
der the same conditions, and careful
record of the food consumed, it's amount
and quality, was made, as well IS the
mode of Management. The animals were
not selected on account of phenomenal
development, and it is not out of place
TO state that single test will not posi-
lively demonstrate the value of any par
ticular breed. The ratio of gain is not
in strict accordance with the amount of
food consumed, and il is noticeable that
the gain for each month and the proper
tion of food consumed vary greatly, so
much so as to render 1t almost I'M possible
to estimate the exact gain of an animal
should make on a given quantity of food,
but the changes in the proportions of
hay aud grain as affecting the ratio of
gain are very marked. The greatest
gain from day of birth was made by a
Holestein. and the lowest by Jersey, the
gain of the former having been 2.03
pounds daily, with the Galloway follow
ing, with q daily gain of 50 pounds;
next came shorthorn with a daily gain
of 1.9I pounds, the others having been
but little less. But the gain in weight,
though somewhat regulated by the food
consumed showed an advantage in favor
of some breeds as being capable of pro-
ducing large amount of beef at the
smallest possible costs, for, with the ex-
ception Of the Jerseys and Devons, the
Holstein consumed less food than the
others, while the Jerseys and Devons did
not gain III weight even in proportion to
the food eaten. Looking at this test in
one direction, it Is a decisive victory for
the Holstein as beef producing animal,
but as there were two HoIsteins repre-
scented, the second animal did not show
as good record as the first, yet its gain
in proportion to food consumed was
greater, while its daily gain was fully equal
to the steers of other breeds. 1t is not to
be supposed that this test is disparagipg
to the short horns, Galloways and Here
fords, for in a second test they may sur
pass the HoIsteins, but it demonstrates
that, though the Holsteins are producers
of milk and butter rather than of beef,
the steers of that breed can successfully
compete with the best beef-producipg
breeds of the country. We may not have
reached that stage In breeding which per.
mits us to denominate any breed of AMI
mails as an "all-purpose" one, but in the
various tests that have been made to de-
termine the best beef, butter and milk
producers the Holsteins have come nearer
earning the distinction of all-purpose'
animals than any other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
THGBE DEFEATED.
He Fails to Gust Speaker Carlisle and VIII
Continue to Work in the Shop.

He Fails to Gust Speaker Carlisle and VIII
Continue to Work in the Shop.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE elections
committee of the house late this after
noon decided not to reopen the Thoebe-
Carlisle contested election case, and has
decided to confirm Mr.. Carlisle's right to
mis- seat.
The committee remained in secret SEES
sion until O'Clock. The first motion
put was to postpone the further consid-
GRAFTON Of the case, which was lost by g.
party vote of nine to six. A motion was
made to reopen the case. The motion
was lost. A motion to declare Thoebe en-
titled to his seat was lost, four republicans
being excused from voting while the
other republicans voted with the
democrats. The final motion affirming
Carlisle's righ6 to his seat was then put.
All of the democrats and three republi-
cans voted in favor of its adoption. The
other three republicans, Messrs. Lyman,
Houk and Lodge, were excused from yot-
ing, so that the tally showed vote of u
to O. The republicans who refrained
from voting say that while they do not
claim that Mr. Carlisle is not entitled to.
his seat, they thought it would have been
we'll if the committee had reopened the.
case, so that new evidence might be
heard Under the instructions of the
committee, Chairman Crisp will report.
TO the house a resolution declaring Carl
isle entitled TO his seat.
A long affidavit of Speaker Carlisle was
read, in which he denied all im putations
of irregularity and the various actions of
an unworthy nature imputed to him by
the contestants counsel. One of the
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counsel last week In urging the commit
tee 10 re open the case was that Logan a.
Wood, the first counsel sought by Mr.
Thoebe, had been approached by friends
of Mr.. Carlisle to give up the case. Mr.,
Hallap, in contraventiOn of this, read
long affidavit of Mr.. Wood denying abso-
lutely this fact. Something like sensa-
tion was caused by rhe reading of several
letters written by Mr.. Sypher, soon
after the election in 1886, which pro-
claimed the eminent ACCESSIBILITY Of his
(Syphef) being EN- ployed in the case
One of the letters stated that, IN addition
to most abs legal ability, diplomatic
ard political influence would have to be,
used if success was to be hoped for, and
that he (Sypher) could influence certain
republican and prOtectiOnisJ friends TO
assist Mr.. Thoebe. As Mr.. Hallam began
to read the letters, which were addressed
to Lee Crandall, of Washington, who act
ed as a medium between ThOebe and
Sgpher, the latter, in great excitement,
obi ected to the letters being read. Mr.
Heard, of the committee, thought the
letters ought to be read, and Mr.. Sypher
withdrew his objection with good deal
of heat, saying there was nothing to them
that he was afrasd Of.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
He NfuZZled.

''Must put some muzzle on my dog?"
he asked at police headquarters yester-
day.
swell no, not now"
"Dots how I belief it vhas myself. Can
I do something's nit boy?"
"What forb"
''Yell few days ago boy comes by
my place. My big dog vhas oudt doors.
Dot boy hat dog about dot high. Ny
dog chaws MIN oop in two minutes. Dot
boy comes in ind says If doan' put
some muzzle on my dog he hat BIN
shot,
81 see.''
II puts dot muEzle on. Today my
dog vhas eadt doors. Dot boy comes
along nit his small dog. When he sees
dot muzzle he cries out: Seek him
Tiger! ind dot small dog licks nay big
dog until he can't stand oop no more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
LOOTED BY BANDITS
A Mexican Central Passenger Train
Held Up by American Robbers,
Who Secure Rich Booty.
Mexico Becoming Resort for Ameri-
can Freeb00ters.

The Mexican Central passenger train
due at FL Paso, Texas, Wednesday morn
ing was held up about 800 miles south of
Ell Paso by band of robbers. The train
had stopped at tho watering station at
the base of the mountains, and just as the
engineer was about to open the throttle
valve, eight men suddenly made their ap-
pearance out of a piece of woods skirting
the track. Two of the thieves covered
the engineer and fireman with their revol-
vers. Two others proceeded to the ex-
press car, and the balance stationed them
selves at the doors of the two coaches and
terrified the passengers so completely
that no effort was made to save the ex-
press agent, who in defending the vaiu-
able property in his car was being rough
ly handled.
The robbers are said to have been
Americans, and were armed to the teeth.
They finally succeeded in quieting the ex-
press agent, and secured co 1siderabie
sam of money in gold and in Mexican
and American bills. Quite a large guam
tity of silver was stored in one corner of
the ex press car, and the robbers under
took to. carry it along, but owing to its
great weight, and, also, no doubt to the
fear that they we're probably delaying too
long, they were reluctantly compelled to
leave it behind. So far as learned no
passengers were maltreated, and having
deliberately secured their booty, the ban
dts took to the mountains, disappearing
as suddenly as they had come upon the
scene. As yet the details of the robbery
are very meager, though it is known there
were no casualties. The whole transac-
ton did not occupy three minutes and
those on the train were SO completely
surprised that no attempt at defense from
the robbers was made.