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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
PRACTICAL RECEIPTS.
TO GET RID OF BED ANTS.

TO GET RID OF. BED ANTS.
Mrs. W. J. Twist says: Sprinkle sage
freely in places where they are troublesome
and they will soon depart.
TO USE CABBAGE.
It is not necessary to chop cabbages at
all unless for very young chicks. Simply
tie the heads to short stakes, or fasten them
so that the hens can pick at them when
ever they wish, and they will help them
selves. 1t can be easily noticed how
poultry will utilize green stuff by placing a
head of cabbage in the yard. 1t requires
but short time for all but the stalk to
entirely disappear.
The corn crib should be thoroughly
cleansed of all rubbish, as well as of old
corn, before new is put in. The object
of this is to destroy rats and mice, which
harbor under such protection, and getting
in well filed crib would increase enOr-
mously before spring, with no chance for
destroying them If we have not rat or
mice proof cribs, it is at least an advantage
to begin the year with cribs free from this
kind of vermin.
Many swine breeders regard solid
earth floor as the best for a pig-pen. 1t
must be high enough to be readily drained,
so as to be dry at all times. 1t Is also
customary with some breeders to remove
some six or eight inches of these earth
floors each spring, drawing the manure
soaked eartd on their fields and renewing
the floor with fresh EARTH
There is a point to be observed in fitting
a barn for the protection of horses, and
nat is the size of the stalls. The narrow
dimensions Of the stalls are a positive
cruelty to the horse. Many stalls are built
too narrow to enable the horse to extend
his limbs; its legs are thus kept In a
cramped position, when the animal ought
to be completely at rest.
To expel mosquitoes, take of gum cam
phor piece about one-third the size OF a
hens egg and evaporate it by placing it
in tin vessel and holding it over a lamp,
taking care that it does not ignite. The
smoke will soon fill the room and expel
I the mosquitoes, and they will not return
even though the window should be left
open all night.
Collodion, spirits of turpentine, and the
! common salve called oxide of zinc, are each
an invaluable remedy to apply to burns and
scalds before physician Gas arrive to do
better, if possible, and sweet-oil and lime
water beaten up together make a cooling
and healing ointment for Them as good as
any medicament known.
If hogs to be slaughtered are fed with
in twelve hours of their killing the food
is wasted, the meat will be more Opposed
to be sour, and it will be more difficult to
remove the distended intestines and take
/ from them the lard. Nor is it well to allow
swine to drink on the morning of the day
/ they are killed. Hogs cannot be killed
too quickly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
Fall Planting.

By this we mean the transplanting OF
runners of the present years growth,
whether it be done in July or October. By
care and skill it may be done as soon as the
young roots are an inch In length. or even
earlier. The rule is, however, that plant
is not old enough to set until it has
branched roots: nor is it self-supportlng
until sometime later. For this reason 1t Is
necessary to remove one or more OF the
leaves when setting out very young plants
in the summer, lest more sap be evapor-
ated than the roots can supply. As the
season advances more roots are developed,
and there is less risk in the operation,
While it is true that the earlier the work Is
done. other things being equal, the great
er will be the crop. it is usually true that
plants set early in September when there
is more moisture in the air and soil. usually
do better than those set In a hot and dry
time. If delayed too late, the danger is
that they will not get sufficiently rooted to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
THINGS A WOMAN CAN DO.

The Boston Times in spirit of fairness
admits, and even proclaims, that there are
some desirable things a woman can do.
Here is sample batch:
She can come to a conclusio n without
the slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and
no sane man can do that.
Six of them can talk at once and get along
first rate, and no two men can do that.
She can safely stick fifty pins in her
dress while he is getting one under his
thumb nail
She is as cool as cucumber in half doz-
en- tight dresses and skirts, while''a man will
sweat and fume and growl in one loose
shirt.
She can talk as sweet as peaches and
cream to the woman she hates. while two
men would be punching each others heads
before they had exchanged ten words.
She can throw stone with a curve that
would be fortune to a baseball pitcher.
She can say no in such a low voice
that it means Eyes.
She can sharpen lead pencil if you
give her plenty of time and plenty of pen
ellis.
She can dance all night in a pair of shoes
two sizes too small for her and enjoy every
minute of the time.
She can appreciate kiss from her hus-
band seventy-fve years after the mar
riage ceremony is performed.
She can go to church and afterward tell
you what every woman in the congregation
had on. and In some rare instance can
give you some faint idea of what the text
was.
She can walk half the night with a
colicy baby in her arms without once ex-
pressing the desire of numbering the in
FAINT.
She can do more in minute than aman
can do in an hour, and do it better.
She can drive man crazy in twenty
four hours and then bring him to paradise
in two seconds by simply tickling him I'M
der the chin. and there does not live that
mortal son of Adam misery who can do it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
Pope Leo's Prayer to St. Joseph.
rTo ba Offered During October. 1889. !

To thee, 0 Blessed Joseph, do we fly In
our tribulation, and after imploring the
help of thy Most Holy Spouse, we ask con-
fidently for thy protection. We beseech
thee by that affection which united thee
with the Immaculate Mother of God, and
by the paternal love with which thou hast
encircled the Child Jesus, and suppllant
we pray that thou mayest regard with be
nignant eye the heritage which Jesus Christ
has won by his blood, and that thou mayest
aid us in our necessities by thy power and
help.
Protect. 0 Most Provident Guardian Of
the Divine Family. the elect race of Jesus
Christ: Danish from US, o Most Loving
Father. all plague of error and corruption;
do thou. our strongest support. assist us
from the height of heaven with thy eff
cacious help in this struggle with the
powers of darkness; and as formerly thou
didst rescue the Child Jesus from the great
est danger to his life, so now defend the
HOLY Church of God from the treachery OF
her enemies and from all adversely, and
cover each one of US with thy lasting pro
lection. so that, following thy example
and supported by thy help, we may be able
to live holy. die piously, and obtain eternal
happiness in heaven. Amen!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
The Office of Sanitation.
Sanitary News

There Is an opinion prevailing. to the
effect that sanitary science causes more
harm than good by Its influence on the
general mind, causing diseased imagi-
nation by constantly reverting to the cause
of sickness; that the study of hygiene as
the science has produced it, tends to in
crease ills by infiaming the imagination
rather than decrease them by instructing
people how to avoid disease Those who
present such views are mistaken regarding
the offices of sanitary science Its pro-
vince Is not the field of medicine and the
attendance of the sick, but its labors are
put forth in the broad fields of health.
preserving their beauty, fertility, and
purity. 1t does not go about with a
medicine case, feeling the pulse of man
kind, and measuring doses for all the ills
with which man imagineS he is afflicted,
but with a spirit of health and hope its
office. like the sunbeam, is to gladden.,
revivify, and purify the earth and cheer
and brighten the habitations of men. 1t
is not to teach man the nature and
miserles of disease, but the happiness and
comfort of health. 1t is not to show man
his decay and death, but his growth and
life
The effects of sanitation are directly
opposite to that pointed out by those who
imagine they see in it the dread result of
melancholy and hypochondria, and the long
train of imagined ills that preys upon the
weak and distorted fancies. Sanitation
does not dwell on the melancholy state of
emaciating disease, and point out some
fearful woe for every limb, tissue, and cell
of the body. 1t does not fill the nostrils of
the pale riders steed with whitening
plaques and blighting disease, and measure
the slow pulse-beats of decaying mortals,
but it fills life with hope and scatters about
it the clean sward sparkling water, pure
air, and the gracious sunlight, and leads
man to mediate upon health and forget
disease
Sanitary science, in its most important
sense, is simply the science of cleanliness,
the publication of the elements with which
man comes in contact. 1t does not violate
or change nature. 1t simply removes the
obstacles out of nature way that her forces
may be pure. 1t removes the filth which
man has created that he may become clean.
1t surrounds him with an atmosphere of
cleanliness and healthfulness, and fills him
with a sense of right living Thus man,
conscious of having obeyed the laws of
health, cannot but feel better and happier;
and sanitary science, instead of bringing
disease to his mind, gives it health, puri-
fies life, and glorifes existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
WnOden HOuseS.

On those countries of Northern Europe
where wooden houses prevail, it is contend
ed that, when properly built, wooden
dwellings are warmer, less damp, and al
together healthier than houses of stone or
brick. DIR. Seymour, at the meeting of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Japan, explained
that the remarkably small infant mortality
in that country was due In great measure
to the fact that the Japanese live In well,
built wooden houses. 1t is also noticed
that those foreigners. living in japan.
who reside in brick and stone houses are
much more subject to diseases and illness
than those who live in wooden houses; 1t
remains long time in the walls of a
brick house. Of course, if it were simply
question of health, it might be advis-
able to rebuild all our towns, but then
comes in the question of durability and
danger In case of fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
ngland not Apprehensive Alb out He
Wheat Supplies.
Journal OF Commend


A letter from one of the largest grain
firms in England, having branches In
Odessa and California, discusses this ques-
ton, and no lack of supplies is anticipated
with anything approaching fair shipments
from the United States. The correspond
ent says 1--WE have lately been asked by
several friends in America where we look
for our supply of wheat during the coming
season, and our reply is that of course it is
expected generally that the Atlantic
States of America will ship fair quantity
of wheat and -four, and that California,
which is reported to have a large surplus,
will also ship fair quantity; but it seems
to be generally supposed that Russian ship
ments will fall very short of their usual
quantity In consequence OF supposed short
crop In Russia this year. This, however,
will probably prove to be an erroneous idea,
at any rate contrary to the opinion OF Rus
sian exporters, for last year, when our
senior was in Russia, he was told on the
best authority that the exports from South
ern Russia would not be affected during
the campaign of 1888 '99, whether Russia
had this year a crop or not. The quantity
that remained available for export of the
crop of 1887, which was very large, was
estimated at the end of the campaign at
about 60 per cent. of the surplus of 1887.
The crop of 1888 was estimated at 100, as
against 100 for the year 1887, consequently
there was available for export $50 in 1888,
of which probably more than 100 is still
left available for export, and without the
surplus of 1889, and there is no doubt there
is surplus 1t will at once be seen that
Russia has very large supplies to draw
upon for her export during the ensuing
campaign. The Danube has also again a
large crop of very good wheat, and is sell
ing and shipping freely. The countries
where the crop is bad, such as Hungary
and Austria do not count for very much in
the supply of the leading consuming coun-
tries of Europe, and therefore the state
ment made at the Vienna Congress may be
considered as of little worth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10
THE DRUMMER BOY
CHARLES NJ. DICKINSON.

In the battle-cloud's eclipse,
Mid shower of shot and shell,
With his soul upon his lips,
Benny fell;
And they laid him stiff and cold
In the grave; yet why repIneg
If he had the countersign
All is well.
Hallowed are the paths he trod
And the little nameless knoll:
Earth has claimed his form, but God
Claimed his soul.
Heavens reveille at dawn
Reached it through the battles din;
When the last relief came on
He was mustered out-mustered in
Was his soul.
Pilgrim clouds in mourning deep,
As they journey through the skies,
Pause upon their way to weep
Where he lies:
But the sun when they are gone
Glorifies the tears they shed;
And DER him from dark TO dawn,
Stars and blue he loved are spread
In the skies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10

The largest single span Of wire in the
world is used for a telegraph in India. 1t
is stretched over the river Kistuah, between
Bezorah and Sectauagrum. 1t IS over s.
900 feet long. and is stretched from the
top of one mountain to the top of another
each mountain being nearly 1000 fee
high
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10

Mary Anderson has been staying for
some time at Iban with William Black and
his wife. Mr. Black, the famous novelist,
is in his element in the Scotch Highlands.
One dav during Miss Anderson's visit she
with her host and hostess joined the ex-
clIrsionists ON the steamer Grenadier and
visited the islands of Staffa and Iora. The
actress is in excellent health and spirits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-10

About 200 miners on the Yukon river III
Alaska, are attacked with scurvy and it is
feared they will greatly suffer the coming
winter unless provisions are sent them.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31
A Spanish Legend.

A certain young Spanish friar. ;
skilful painter, especially delighted il
devising new aspects of blessednes.
and beauty for the Virgin, and in set
ting forth the devil in the most re
pulsiye and exhavagant ugliness
Satan bore this as best he could fol
some time, but at last he determined to
be revenged. lie assumed the guisc
of most lovely maiden, and the un-
happy friar, being Of an amorous dis
position, fell into the trap. She
smiled sweetly on her shaven wooer,
but would not surrender her beauty at
less price than the rich reliquaries
and jewels of the treasury of the
monastery. In an evil hour the poor
painter admitted her at midnight
within the convent walls, and she took
from the antique cabinet the precious
things she desired. Then, as they
wound their way through the moonlit
cloister, the sinful friar clutching his
booty with one arm, and his beauty
with the other, the demon lady sud-
denly cried out, ''Thievesl" with dia-
bolical energy.
Up started all the snoring monks,
and rushed in disorder from their cells,
detecting the unlucky brother making
off with the plate. Him they tied safe
to pillar, leaving him there till the
next day should determine his punish
ment, while the brethren went back to
their pillows or their prayers; and
then the cruel devil appeared in
his real shape to the poor painter,
haunting and twitting him and making
unmerciful mockery of his amorous
overtures and his prayers-advising
him now to appeal TO the beauty he had
so loved to delineate in his canvasesl
The penitent monk took the advice and
To- the radiant mother of mercy de-
scended in all her heavenly loneliness,
unbound his cords, babe him fasten
the evil one in his place to the column,
and appear among the monks the next
morning at mathis, which he did, to
the great surprise of the brethren. He
voted for his own condemnation; but
when they went to the sacristy and
found everything marvellously correct
in its place, and when they went to the
column and found the devil fast
bound, they forgave the erring brother
and administered a tremendous fog
ging TO the devil. The monk became
not only ga wiser and a better man."
but better artist; he was now able to
paint the Virgin more serencly beauti-
full, the arch-enemy more appalingly
ugly than ever.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31

this second occasion suffer from a re-
turn of those revival pains he SO vivid
ly described.
Those who have no belief in modern
miracles and are sceptical as to remark
able exercises of Providential aid may
say these cases are all old, and that
much that is supernatural in them may
be accounted for by the superstition of
the ages and by the inaccuracy of
records. But there was a case at
Bristol, during the present decade,
in which there can be no possible in
accuracy of record, for the facts were
fully reported in all the leading jour-
nails, and were discussed in Parliament
atthe time. An elderly lady was found
dead in her bed, and her butler, man
named Lee, was arrested for the crime.
There seemed little evidence against
the man, except his presence in the
house at the time, and the report of
his conviction and sentence was re-
ceived with some surprise. The scat
fold was erected by the professional
hangman who tested it and found it to
work all right. Lee was led up the
steps, protesting his innocence to the
last. The hangman pulled back the
bolt, but the trap did not fall. Sur
prised an annoyed, he stamped on il
with one foot, but il still resisted.
Finally the bolt was replaced and the
miserable Lee led to one side. On
investigation nothing was found
wrong, and indeed the trap fell of its
own weight. Again it was adjusted
and Lee placed on it, but again it re-
fused to act. A superstitious awe
took possession of the assembled spec
tators, which was increased when the
hangInan tried for the third time to
complete his task. Six deputies
stamped simultaneously on the trap
door which resisted all efforts, and,
after over an hours delay the sheriff
ordered the prisoner back to his cell,
and telegraphed to the Home Secretary
for instructions. The case was dis
cussed in Parliament. and it was de-
cided that as Lee could not be hanged
he should be imprisoned for life in
stead. Lee attributed his escape to
Providence, and when three years ago
a tramp confessed to having commit
ted the murder, and disclosed where
the widows valuables had been con-
cealed, public opinion endorsed his at
first Iidiculed assertions, especially as
the rebellious trap-door was subse-
quently used on the actual murderer
with marked success.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31
Bonnd for q Bang.

Two Michigan girls escaped from
the State Industrial Home and tramped
thirty miles across country, begging
food as they went. They had little
money, but they couldn't waste it on
food; they cherished in their maiden
breasts pure and lofty ideal, which
the pangs of mere physical suffering
were powerless to remove. Saturday
night they arrived at a village, and
trembling with eagerness at the pro
spective realization of their hopes they
took the so cents, which was their all,
and went to the barber and got their
hair banged.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31
Unlnckr. Yet Lucky.

While French girl was playing
with rope about her neck, the other
afternoon, in Lake Village On. H.
tenement-house, the building was
struck by lightning, and, as the story
goes, he rope was destroyed by the
electric current, but the child escaped
uninjured. A month ago, it is added,
the same girl was struck and thrown
into ditch by the locomotive of an
express train, but was not hurt.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-24

A Trout which had been caught by an
Angler pleaded Piteously for mercy. You
see | am distended with spawn" it cried
land in a few weeks | shall deposit my
eggs, and these will bring you thousands Of
trout. If you kill me all these will be lost"
The Angler turned a merciful ear to these
pleadings and placed the Trout back in the
water
A few months afterward the Angler again
caught this Trout. 1t pleaded for mercy.
II have within me" it said, ''the germs Of
hundreds of trout, and these will all be lost
if you kill me-"
The Angler, as he placed the Trout in his
creel, replied: Your pleading avails you
nothing. The return you offer me for my
investment is too far distant, and | may
never catch any Of your young. Besides
that, if | were to listen to all your plead
ings should always go home with an empty
creel New York Herald
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-24
Dry Rot.

So destructive are the depredations of dry
rot that it may well be called the terror and
despair of architects and carpenters. No care
or precaution can be too great to prevent its
entrance into building, for if once it finds a
Judgment its eradication is herculean, if not
an impossible task. Professor Burnett, a
competent authority, graphically relates how
house he occupied was twice renovated in
four years, and had ultimately to be pulled
down In the old era of oak built ships, they
were sometimes found to be unseaworthy be-
fore they left the stocks, with such celebrity
does it do its deadly work.
AS for remedial measures, prevention is
the only certain cure. The selection of
sound, well seasoned timber is as essential as
the avoidance Of damp and the securing of
adequate ventilation in every part of the
structure The most efficacious prophylactic
is saturating the timber with creosote under
high pressure, so as to thoroughly permeate
every portion of the wood. This has been
practically proved in coal and other mines
where this destroyer runs riot, and its raw
ages entail much expense and insecurity,
and where its waving fakes of fleecy white
have a most weird and ghostly effect in the
darkness visible" of the pit. In certain
mines in the north of England where only
creosoted timber has been used for the last
thirty years, the extra cost has been amply
repaid by the comparative ndestructibiity
of the timber thus treated. In house build
ing wise precaution is the well smearing Of
all underground floor bearing walls with tar
or pitch, which prevents the mycelium find
ing Judgment among the mortar, in which
it reves and disintegrates its adhesive prop
erty.-Chambers' Journal