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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Sheen Farming.

The Indiana Farmer has the follow
ing remarks on the cost of raising
sheep:
The question has been asked us.
how many sheep can be maintained
per acre on farm as a speciality. We
have submitted the question TO several
persons having some experience in
keeping sheep. Those who have ans
wered have agreed generally that the
large breeds require more food to
maintain them in good condition than
the smaller, or Merino breed, which
weigh only about 100 pounds Two
reply that light average sized sheep
require about the same amount to
keep them that the cow does. Another
says that he has found that with large
Shropshire grades that will average
eight to nine pounds of wool per
fleece, and weighing $50 to $50 pounds
each, are as seven to eight to one cow
IN food to keep them. Now it is esti-
mated that the product of two acres
of what we call good land in Indiana
will keep one COW under the pastur-
age and dry feed methods of farming.
So by these statements it is seen that
the product of an acre of good land will
keep four head of sheep per year.
This is on the assumption that the pas
ture season is a fairly average one
With these facts one may readily esti-
mate the profitableneSs of sheep farm
ing on our fairly good lands. Con-
sidering that fiocks of large breeds
may and do average seven pounds 10
the fleece, and that about 80 per cent
of the increase is saved, it will be
found that there is profit in sheep hus-
bandry. The value of sheep as fertil-
izers of course must be taken into the
count.
But new era has dawned in live
stock farming. and its advantages are
as great in sheep husbandry as in
other stock. We refer to the soil and
ensilage feeding. This noted dairy
man of Wisconsin. the Hon. VIM. Smith.
says that he fully believes that with
this new method of stock farming one
acre of good land may be made to keep
a cow. If it will, then the products of
one acre may easily keep seven to
eight head of sheep, for it has been
found that ensilage may be fed to
sheep with most excellent results. A
gentleman who has tested this matter
says:
The effect of feeding ensilage to
sheep is very gratifying in the past
few years, and feeding it to ewes is as
excellent as feeding cows with it.
They were in splendid condition at
lambing time. and | never saw health
Ter or more thrifty lambs. | fed all
my sheep corn ensilage and some hay
daily. but they very much preferred
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Moths in Clothing.

More than $50 years ago Reaumer,
observing that clothing moths never
attacked the wool and hair on living
animals, inferred that the natural odor
of the wool or of the oily matter in it
was distasteful TO them. Consequently
he rubbed various garments with the
wool of fresh pelts and also wet other
garments with the water in which
the wool had been washed, and found
that they were never attacked by
moths. Experiments with tobacco
smoke and the odors of spirits of tur-
pentine showed that both were equally
destructive, but it is necessary to close
the rooms very tightly and keep the
fumes very dense in them for twenty
four hours to obtain satisfactory re-
suits. Chests of cedar or sprigs of this
tree are so disagreeable to them that
they will not deposit their eggs where
this odor is at all strong; but should
the eggs be laid before the garments
are packed away the odor will not
prevent the Matching of the eggs nor
the destructive work of the Larvae after
ward. Clothing may also be protected
from moths by packing it in stout cot
ton or paper bags made perfectly
tight, but this must be done before the
moths appear on the wing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

ran down the hillsides, making great
gullies and doing much damage, while
the fields through which the brook
flowed did not yield as good crops.n
L. A. Stanley related at meeting of
the Connecticut Board of Agriculture,
an experiment performed on a piece
of land which he obtained for 800 an
acre. 1t was plowed, MANFRED and
sowed to corn fodder. 1t received the
usual cultivation, but the moist soil
prevented the work from being done
in the best manner. There was not
half crop, hardly enough to pay for
the labor. 1t lay idle one season. and
was then underdrained. 1t was sown
last year to ensilage corn. The drain
ing had already done so much good,
that although naturally wet. this land
could already be worked much sooner
after rain than any other part of the
farm. high or low. AT harvest, said
Mr.. Stanley, ''Sueh a field of corn |
never saw. Evenly throughout the
whole field, the corn stood from thir-
teen to fourteen feet high" A single
drain was put in another field planted
with corn fodder. When it reached
maturity, all the corn was foot high
er over and near the drain than in the
west of the field.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Notices for Various People.

The Toper-Put me in my little bed.
The Collaborating the bell softly.
The Doctor-All's well that ends
well.
The Hatter-Will he ever shoot that
hat?
The Barber-Silence is the fools
salvation.
The Cabman-Han'som' is that ham,
som does.
Inc Piekpocket-My heart goes with
The Policeman-Far from the mad.
ding crowd.
The Insurance Mana long life and
a merry one
The Thin Man-May my shadow
never grow less.
The Pugilist-Knocking, knocking;
who is there?
The fat Man-Oh, that this too, too
solid flesh would melt.
The Politician long pull. a strong
pull, anu a pull altogether.
The Old Maid-'Tis better to have
loved and lost than to have never loved
at all.
EDITORIAL liars shall have their
part In the lake that burneth with fire
and brimstone.-NeIoY York Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Selling a Newspaper Man.

Once in while the smart Aleck
gets in his work on the newsgatherer,
says the Toledo Bee, and on the whole
he is hardly to blame, inasmuch as the
newspapers jump onto Aleck on every
possible occasion and on the slightest
preteuse. They were standing at the
Body house ratings few DAYS ago.
and to the customary question, ANY
news?" the deacon-he is a deacon in
a prominent church and Sunday
school superintendent to boot-mildiy
replied.
Not thing. except-but of course
you heard of that scandalous affair on
Monroe street?n
mo, haven't. What is it?"
Did you not hear of the man who
buried two children yesterday morn
ing and went to the baseball game in
the afternoon Strange"
mary thing. Give us his name
and particulars. and visions of scor-
pions and vitriol with which to drench
and lash the heartless villain flashed
through the mind of the newsgatherer.
There was twinkle in the deacon's
eye as he shyly replied:
cit was, the undertaken"
The stone columns seemed to ioin In
the laughter that shook the Body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Suggestions for Sick-Rooms.

A large, sunny room should be
selected for the invalid; if without o
carpet so much the better. Sunshine
as dislnfectant is worth bushels OF
chloride of lime.
The bed linen should be changed at
least once in three days; the blankets
once week, those that have been re.
moved being hung in the open air for
a few hours, then thoroughly aired in
a warm room.
The room should be kept thoroughly
ventilated and temperature not lower
than 6S degrees nor higher than 20
degrees. If the patient is kept warm
air may be freely admitted without the
least danger.
The carpet of sick-room should be
lightly brushed once a day with q
wetted broom. { The furniture and
woodwork should be wiped with q
damp cloth. Dry busters and feather
brushes are worse than useless.
The cross sheet should invariably be
kept free from crumbs and wrinkles,
as these are frequent cause of bed
sores. Whenever the least redness
shows on the patients body the skin
thoroughly dried and busted with
powdered oxide of zinc.
A sheet folded once lengthwise, laid
across the bed, with the upper edge
just touching the pillows and the ends
tightly tucked under the mattresses,
will be found to act greatly to the
patients comfort. 1t does not wrinkle
like single sheet, and crumbs may be
readily brushed off it.
The nurses dress should invariabl
be neat, tasteful, and pretty. Slippers
or boots of felt should be worn. To
be continually smoothing the bed,
Fostering the patient with sympathy,
and saying a dozen times an hour
"How do you feel now?" is enough to
drive sick man wild.
Meals for invalids should look as
tempting as possible. The tray should
be covered with the whitest napkin,
and the silver, glass, and china should
shine with cleanliness. The patient
should not be disguised by a display
of too much food, and should not be
consulted beforehand as to what he
will eat or drink.
In bathing the invalid should never
uncover too large surface at once.
Pin blanket round the shoulders.
fastening it behind. and remove the
night-dress under that. Put the hand
under the blanket and sponge the skin,
small portion at time. A woman's
hair should be combed every day if she
is able to bear the fatigue. If it has
become tangled little sweet oil will
loosen it.
Household troubles should be kept
far from the sick room. Above all an
invalid or an apparent cOnvalescent
should be saved from his friends. One
garrulous acquaintance may in half an
hour undo the good of a week of tender
nursing In long illnesses a small bed.
table will be found indispensable.
Every cup, glass, spoon, and utensil
used should be taken out of the room
and washed as speedily as possible.
AS to walking on tip-toe and whisper
ing. nothing can disturb sick person
mOre.-HO71le IODIcS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
How a Darky Can Sleep.

| saw a queer illustration of the
sleeping qualities of negro the other
day, says writer of the Atlanta Con-
stitatioaa. Every one knows that
genuine, unadulterated negro can sleep
on board with his face to the sun
and without covering for his eyes on
the hottest July day; and he sleeps as
peacefully as white man on the soft
est cot and in the darkest room. 1t
has been said that he could sleep I'M
der the mouth of cannon in opera
ton, and | believe it. Or. at least, !
believe the one of which | shall speak
could. In going down to Augusta
few days ago on the regular day pas
senger we were a few miles below
Union Point when the train suddenly
stopped. The fireman jumped from
the engine and ran back to the passen-
ger coach crying. "There'r dead mig
ger behind" Every one looked out,
and sure enough just behind the rear
coach, with his head resting on the
cross-ties. was what appeared 20 be a
dead negro man. Two or three train
men and crowd of negroes ran back
to see if the train had struck him.
dat Niger ant dead. He's er
sno'in,'' said one of the negroes, and
he jerked and kicked him until the
sleeping negro awoke, arose and walk
ed off, followed by kick from the
brak eman.
The wheels of the engine and cars
had passed within a few inches of the
negro;s head, and had not even affect
ed his snoring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
ABOUT ELECTRICITY.
Twenty Questions Answered on Subject
of General Interest.

l. How strong a current is used to
send a message over an Atlantic cableP
Thirty cells of battery only. Equal to
thirty volts.
2. What is the longest distance over
which conversation by telephone is
daily maintained? About $50 miles,
from Portland, Me-, to Buffalo, n. Y.
3. What is the fastest time made an
electric railway? A mile a minute by
small experimental car; 20 miles an
hour on street railway system.
4. How many miles of submarine
cable are there in operation? Over
100000 miles, or enough to girdle the
earth four times.
D. What is the maximum power gen.
Grated by an electric motorP Seventy
five horse power. Experiments indi.
cate that 100 horse power will soon be
reached.
6. How is a break in submarine
cable located? By measuring the cleo.
tricity needed to charge the remaining
unbroken part.
z. How many miles of telegraph wire
in operation in the United States?
Over million, or enough to encircle
ehS soiooO AOl
8. How many messages can be trans
mitted over wire at one time? Four,
by the quadruplex system in daily use.
9. How is telegraphing from a NOV
ing train accomplished Through a
circuit from the car roof inducing a
circuit in the wire on poles along the
track.
10. What are the most widely separ-
ated points between which it is posi-.
BILE to send telegram? British Colum.
bia and New Zealand, via America and
Europe.
II. How many miles of telephone
wire in operation in the United States?
More than 10000, over which 1885,
900 messages are sent daily.
y. What is the greatest candle power
of arc light used in a lighthouse? Two
million, in lighthouse at Houstholm,
Denmark.
IL. How many persons in the United
States are engaged in business depend
ing solely on electricity Estimated.
100000.
IA How long does it take to trans
NIT message from San Francisco to
Hong Kong? About fifteen minutes.
Via New York. Canso, Penzance, Alden,
Bombay, Madras, Penang and Singa-
pore.
10. What is the fastest time made by
an operator sending messages by
Morse system? About forty-two words
per minute.
Is. How many telephones are in use
in the United States? About 100000.
IL. What war vessel has the most
complete electrical plant? United
States man-of-war. Chicago
Is. What is the average cost, per
mile, of a transatlantic submarine
cable? About 81. 0O0
10. How MANY miles of electric rail
way are there in operation in the
United States? About 100 miles, and
much more under construction.
% What strength ofcurrentis dang
ernuS TO human life? Five hundred
y".t-. but depending largely on physi-
cal conditions. Scribaers lUaQgzt,ae.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Good Butter-Nfakinp,

Too few realize that their way of
making is not the method by which
the butter is made which brings the
highest prices. No one is selling but
ter now at advance and paying prices
who still clings to "grandmother's"
way of making. Neither does the
market put premium on butter made
from actively sour flavor, or made
sharp with over-salting, cream not
over thirty-six hours old, slightly acid.
1t must be washed free from butter
milk with weak brine and salted not
to exceed three-quarters of an ounce to
the pound. Butter also needs to be
packed in some of the cheap but taste
full packages now obtainable and sent
to market Immediately. Long-keep-
ing butter is no longer called for But
ter is made to sell. not to keep. and
the consumer says, ITO eat fresh, not
held until devoid of fine flavor, or
aroma" The great evil is that's much
butter is made by those who have 3
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Dog-CoIIars on Girls Waists.

Girls with slender waists have taken
to wearing dog-collars in the place Of
belts. Vanity, of course, is at the back
of the fad but it is a 60 nevertheless.
The collars vary in appearance, but
most of them are of the mastiff size,
and nearly all of them can be let out.
In a walk down Chestnut street yester-
day afternoon five young ladies with
this highly original kind of belt on
were counted. Three of them looked
as if they wanted to sit down and take
a fresh breath, but the other two, who
were more slender, were as easy and
clipper as you please. -PhiLadeLphia
Inquirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

few cows that they can not make a
specially OF fine butter-making, and SO
make as best suits them. This butter
made from old, and often fermenting
cream, is at the start destitute of but
ter favor. 1t is not washed free from
butter-milk. but worked-oFer" with
ladies, ''balled-up" and sent to the
grocery store, unprotected from the
light and the air, and then consigned
to the .'shoe box" When at last,
weeks, may be, though it should only
have been days at the most, this but
ter finds it way to the city market to
be rejected and neglected, it is finally
sold for few cents per pound, and
actually scoffed at by the prescribed
oleomargarine. Agricultur-
EST
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
The Reason.

Boys" said the merchant to his
employees, 81 am sorry to say III have
to make a reduction of your salaries. -
what, asked the head clerk, "an't
business good?" "Oh yes, business Is
pretty fair s.WeLl. if business 10
good L shouldn't think you would want
to reduce our salaries. You own a
yacht, and have been sailing about in
her with your friends all summer. ]
shouldn't think man who owns a
yacht would want to reduce the pay of
his employees" There you are wrong,
my friend. 1t is precisely because |
own yacht that / am obliged to re-
duce your pay. When YOU own a
yacht and have lots of friends coming
on board to visit you in "a social way
you will see the point"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Colorado's Grand Canyon.

| went to the bottom of the Grand
canyon of the Colorado last winter,
and one of the few men who ever at
tempted the descent, says w. I. Hart
in the st. Louis Globe Democrat. /
went there to examine mine said to
exist in the bottom of the canyon. I
have been all through the Rockies,
from Montana to Central America,
and know what chasm is, but the
sight OF that abyss took my breath
away. From the top to the bottom it
is fully 5000 feet. Over a mile below
you see the river tearing through the
gorge, but not a sound can be heard,
it is so far away. From one bank to
the other it is apparently not over a
quarter of a mile, but as matter of
fact it is fully fifteen miles. My guide
told me | would never be able to reach
the bottom, but | was determined to
go and | went. 1t was terrible climb,
and it took us eight hours to reach the
bottom. 1t is certainly the most desc
late place in the world. There is not
a living thing down there-no insects.
reptiles or animals of any kind.
Everything is absolutely dead. The
mining prospect was worthless. Be-
fore the sun was up the next morning
we were on our way out, and it took
rs until 10 O'Clock that night to climb
the wall of the canyon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Utilization of Civilized Articles.

The savage who has recently been
discovered in the depths of Africa
proudly wearing in the lobe of his
right ear bishop that had strayed or
been stolen from a set of chessmen is
doubtless determined to utilize all the
resources of civilization that come
within reach. a while ago an African
chief was making silver watch-case
do duty as tobacco-pouch, and an
other wore around his neck as his
chief ornament the gilded knob of an
explorers tent pole. Even trousers
can be utilized by the most scantily
dressed natives, as was recently shown
by chief to whom a pair was pre-
sented with the request that he wear
them. He appeared in public soon
after with the garment carefully ar
ranged over his shoulders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Comforting

The chances of loss of life in rail-
road accidents in this country are one
person killed for every 100000
carried. Statisticians claim that more
people are killed every year by falling
out of windows than there are in rail-
road accidents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

the silage. After over two years
practice, | find them more thrifty than
my flock ever was before, and / think
that l can keep nearly double the num-
Der of sheep on the same quantity Of
land l could in the old way of feeding
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

The Homer (Cal.) Inde1 says j. 6.
Thompson has discovered a flowing
spring of vinegar on his ranch, and
will start a pickle factory. The fluid
ia equal TO the best cider vinegar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

A recent census taken by French
consuls shows that only 408, 900 French
men are residing abroad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

Boston Is to erect statues to uraaL
Sheridan and Farragut
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-03-26
Love at The yYash Tub.

Manageable young women are In grea
demand In this part of the Queens do
mlnions, writes q CORE, poDdeut from
Roekhgmpton, Queensland, Australia
The sexes in this colony are In the pro-
portion of one hundred aud twenty-five
males ard eighty eight females. The
towns, however, iutain more than thsii
share of the fair sex, and in the sugar
planting di,tricts there Is deplorable
dearth OF women. Nearly all the land
owners and large planters are married,
but most OF the whites in their employ
ar4 bachelors, and, what is worse, many
OF the poor fellows haven't chance to
change Their condition II they wish to
The result is that whenever a nice white
girl goes into the interior on the planta-
tons she has to get married In self pro-
lection or else she is 80 pestered with
attentions as almost TO drive her out OF
the country.
A remarkable case of sudden and al
most unprecedented mstrimony occur
cd on lantstlon near Winton few
weeks ago. A planter had been to Rock
hampton, and had engaged etrapping
gOod-looklIg girl to assist his wife In her
household duties. After she had been in
her new home several days she took her
Whbu-buD Otl VI uuOIb OHt uiuIHluR W uO
the family wasting. While hard at work
with soap-suds up to her elbows, along
came a squatter who kept a small herd of
Gait lie in the neighborhood. He didn't
intend to lose this chance to make the ac-
quaintauce OF wo nan. So he sided up
to the wash-tub and began to talk, and
II wasn't long before she was giving him
more thad half her attention.
AT ter awhile the young man owned up
that 1t was a case OF love at frat sight as
far us he was concerned and he popped
the question without any ado. TIE girl
said she was willing II her mistress would
indoree him as n worthy young man. That
lady thought 1t would be good match,
and said 70, and quarter Of an hour
later the brand-new lovers, In their work
day clothes, were footing 1t three miles
away to the house of a magistrate, where
the knot was legally tied in short order.
The bride finished her washing in the
afternoon and that evening she t'ans-
lerred herself to the home OF the squat
ter, which she now adorns, apparently as
happy a woman MS there is in Queens-
land.
A great many people do not like this
climate, for We are twenty degrees nearer
the equator than the residents of New
70 k. But those who do not object to our
super abundant sunshine, which makes
most OF our days pretty warm, though not
unhealthful, are doing well; and any pre-
sentable young woman who ventures into
this colony is apt to have her name
changed almost before she knows It,
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-03-26

About II. 20 O'Clock last Saturday night
q north-bound freight train on the p, W.
II Is. Railroad was wrecked ju above
Sharon Hull, and some OF the cars thrown
down an embankment. Four men and u
boy, who were riding on the train, were
badly injured. Patrick salter, aged rs
years, of larry own, N. Y, sustained a
fracture OF the thigh aud leg; Patrick
Ward, aged 20 years, OF Liverpool, Eng
land, was injured on the head and face,
and Benjamin Geiper, aged 10 years, OF
Reading, Pa, had his thigh broken aud
was otherwise injured. The names Of the
other injured men could not be learned.
A valuable trolting hoTso that was in one
oil the cars was killed, but the man III
charge escaped uninjured. Ali the south
bound trains were delayed, and II took a
wrecking crew nearly two hourG to clear
the track.