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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Found Something to Admire.

| Marshall P. Wilder is telling Londoners
this rather good story about Hebrew
who climbed up two flights of stairs to a
room where Jones & Brown had set up a
bankrupt sale of gloves. The gloves had
| been marked down to $50 pair. Jones
was present.
"Give you seventy-ive cents" said
Moses. mo? Call it dollar? No? Dollar
ten? No? Now Well be reasonable; call
1t one fifteen?"
"No, sireeI' exclaimed Jones thoroughly
eXasperated. Not cent less than $3.50.
Get QUIT" and he seized the Hebrew Gus
| toner and fired him down stairs.
| 1t so happened that Brown was coming
up just then, and supposing it was right
| be fired Moses down the second flight.
| There he CHANGED to fall against the porter,
who conceived it to be the proper thing to
assist matters and he fired Moses down
the steps into the street. The Hebrew
landed on all fours, sat up and looked back
at Jones & Browns establishment with
evident admiration. mine gracious!' he
exclaimed, what a systemr'-New York
| Telegram.
A Useful India Rubber Cement.
| In order to fasten glass letters, figures,
etc, on glass (show windows) so that, even
! when submerged IN water Tor several DAYS,
! they will not become detached, use an
India rubber cement The best for this
| purpose consists of one part India rubber
three parts of mastic and fifty parts chic
| reform. Let stand for several days at q
! low temperature to dissolve the cement
1t must be applied very rapidly, as it be
| comes thick very soon.-New York Jour
nal
| Disappointment.
| "Of cawse you liked deah old Lunnon?''
said Goslin to Sappy, when the latter re-
turned from his first run across.
"No, deah boy; / was rathaw disappoint-
ed, doncher know"
| "Aw?"
"Ya-as. The fact is, Lunnon isn't quite
so English as New York. "-Harpsr's Ba-
Ear.
One of Sheridan's Excuses.
An elderly maiden lady, visiting with
Sheridan at country house, had set her
heart on being his companion for walk
He excused himself on account of the bad
ness of the weather. Soon she intercepted
him attempting to escape. $50, Mr.. Sheri-
dan," she said, ''it has cleared up, / see."
"Why, yes" he answered. ut has cleared
up enough for one, but not for two. San
Francisco Argonaut.
The prize fish lia1 of 1891 is a Dexter
man who says the mosquitoes were so
thick and so fierce that they ate all the
worms off his hook before he could drop
1t into the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Activity is not always energy.
The way to speak with power is to speak
honestly.
Doing nothing is an apprenticeship to
doing wrong. 9
That is the best looking glass which
shows the truest face.
A tender conscience is a stronger obli-
cation than prison.
1t is vanity to wish to live long, and to
be careless to live well.
An evil intention perverts the best &C
tions and makes them SINS
Experience is the name men give to
their follies or their sorrows.
No man can answer for his own valor
or courage till he has been in danger.
Virtue, alas, not unfrequently trips and
falls on the sharp edged rock of poverty.
The man who thinks long face is pleas
ing to God has never rightly understood
Him
The person who can least spare it is Of
ten most willing to give others piece of
his mind.
The man who says, 'Iet me have no
sorrows.'' might as well say, 'Let ue
have no joys
Men would be very wise if they could
only learn as much as their boys think they
could teach them
One reason why some people are not SO
wicked as others, is because they haven't
had so good chance.
If any man thinks it small matter, or
Of mean Government, to bride his tongue,
he is much mistaken.
The heroism that can wear old clothes
until able to buy new, is said to be the
most lonely feeling on earth
Whenever a man wants anything and
can't get it, it's about the same as throw
ing dust over every thing he does have.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,

A spirograph for drawing spirals and
volutes in a simple manner as one draws
circles has been devised in Paris.
The Manila hemp plant which is very
similar to the banana, is found to thrive
best in soil composed of decayed vegetable
matter.
Strychnine has been found to increase
the amount of gastric juice secreted in the
stomach, the general acidity and the guam
tity of free acid in the secretion
Both for scientific and for industrial pur-
poses standard of color has long been de-
sired, and in order to attempt a solution
of the question the society OF arts is inves-
tigating the subject through a committee
Sir William Siemen method Of apply
ing electric light to grow flowers and fruit
by night or on cloudy days has been en-
ployed with good success on board West
Indian steamer to keep alive exotic vines
and other plants.
Hitherto all the fuel used on the Italian
railways has been imported, but an attempt
is now being made to use the Ignite of
which the country possesses large beds.
Very satisfactory results have so far at
tended the experiments.
The method of purifying water invented
by DR.. William Anderson, and now en-
ployed at Antwerp with success, consists
in passing the water through a slowly re-
volving cylinder containing metallic iron
in the form of scraps or filings. The esti-
mated cost of purifying a million gallons
in this way is about S1.50.
The base of celluloid is common paper
by action of sulphuric and nitric acid it is
changed to gun cotton, then dried ground
and mixed with from 30 to 40 per cent of
camphor after which it is ground fine, col
ored with powder colors, cast in sheets,
pressed very hard and at last baked be-
tween sets of superheated rollers.
Prejudice against mussels as being unfit
for food may be dispelled by the expert
ments made by Virchow. The only dam
gerous mussels are those taken from i'm
pure water, but they lose their poison if
kept for time in pure water, and they
can also be rendered safe by being cooked
in carbonate of soda for ten minutes
The use of nitrogen as an anesthetic was
recently successfully tried in England.
Nine patients took the gas, and in every
case the result was the production of COM
plete anasthesia. The pulse was first full
and throbbing, then feeble. In the adj
vanced stage the respiration was deep and
rapid and there was lividity of the surface,
the pupils were dilated, and there was
more or less jactitation of the limbs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Protection for Naval Gunners.

A new system Of protection for gun
ners in exposed places on men-of-wal
in action is to be adopted by the navy
department. Experiments are now
being made looking to the attainment
of that object, and the best result OBJ
tanned thus far is from a wire webbing
made INTERVENING spirals remarkably
flexible and strong. 1t resembles some
what the old-fashioned chain armor OF
the crusaders time, and curtains OF
this material will be used to protect
gunners behind shields from fragments
Of exploding shells. The resisting
quality of this network will be equal,
it is confidently believed to that of a
solid plate of steel an inch thick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
An Old Story That Has a Moral in These
DAYS.


'It happened at Athens, during a
public presentation of play in honor
of the commonwealth, that an old man
came too late for place suitable to
his age and quality" relates a writer
in the Lutheran. Some of the young
men, who observed the difiulty and
confusion he was in, made signs to
him that they would accommodate
him if he came where they sat. The
old man hustled through the crowd
accordingly for the seat proffered him.
But when he came to the seats to w hich
he was invited the Jest was to close and
expose him as he stood out of counte-
nance before the audience. The frolic
went round all the Athenian benches.
But on these occasions there were also
particular places assigned to foreign
ers. So, when the old man skulked
toward the boxes appointed for the
LacedemOnians, the honest people,
more virtuous than polite, rose all to
a man and, with the greatest respect,
received him amongst them. The
Athenians. being suddenly touched
with sense of Spartan virtue and
their own degeneracy, gave loud
applause of admiration. Then the old
man, as soon as the noise subsidized,
cried out: THE Athenians understand
what is good, but the Lace demonians
practice it,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
The Lawyer Got the Same.

In one of the cities where Jews are
permitted to live a son of Israel, meet
ing the wife of the governor, would
not move out of her way. He was
arrested on the spot, taken to the gov
ernOr's stables, and knouted so that
he hardly reached his home alive
The next day his attorney, also a Jew,
appeared before the governor asking
for copy of the judiciary ''act'' upon
which his client had been condemned
to personal chastisement
"You desire correct copy?' asked
the governor.
Just so, your excellency," an
swered the attorney.
You will please address yourself
to the chief of police" said the gov
ernor; Il will order him to let you
have it,
The lawyer went to the chief OF
police the next day. but instead of the
papers he received the same number
of blows which his client had re-
ceived. Wilma Viestnik.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
SCIENTIFIC DROPS.

A camera which is said to take fifty
photographs per second is a French novelty
A substitute for gutta-percha has been
found in the sap of the karite or butter
tree, of Africa
A new wire called the hungarian wire
Is covered with three coats of thread and
two coats of celluoid
Mica in large quantities has been dis
covered in British Columbia near the
head of the Tete jaime Pass
Electric motors are being applied by
the French government to train heavy
guns for armor-plated vessels
Indicators for steam engines are now
made of aluminium, since its light weight
makes it advantageous for this purpose.
A rivet, in the form of a tube to be
used both as a rivet and as drainage
way, is the latest wrinkle in iron ship
building.
In st. Paul a company makes business
OF cleaning and inspecting chimneys and
of finding the cause of bad drafts in
chimneys.
The leading railroads of Europe will
adopt a system of standard time the same
in principle as that used by the railroads
I'm this country.
The new warship of the English navy,
the Royal Sovereign, was constructed in
seventeen months, which is said to be the
best time on record for such work
There has been a machine invented for
cutting tubes for paper of pill boxes The
operations are all automatic, and the
work is said to be rapidly performed.
A fire engine that does away with the
use of horses and forces the water by
means of power generated by a storage
battery is recent electrical invention
The telegraph people in California are
troubled with the green woodpecker,
which bores holes in the red cedar tele-
gra poles for the purpose of building its
nests
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Pity for the DreSi6 emf

When NJ. Theirs, once president of
the French Republic, revisited his ma
tive town, he found one or two old
men who had been the companions of
his boyhood some sixty years ago and
whom he had not seen since.
He asked one of them what he had
been doing, to which the old man re-
piled, with evident satisfaction, that he
had been driving fourishing trade in
the boot and shoe line
"And what have you been about?"
he in turn asked M. Theirs.
The latter explained that he was the
ex-president of the republic.
What" calculated his companion.
care you that Theirs? My poor
friend how pity you!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
DAME NATURES EXPERIMENTS.

A red-tailed hawk, shot in New England
recently, measured thirty six inches from
! tip to tip.
At Lowell, Ark, lightning struck and
killed two-year old baby at play in tho
mothers arms. The mother was not hurt.
| K. Hartman relates a case in which a
lead pipe was cut through by an insect that
| was actually found with its head in the
hole pierced by it.
| The late Harry Edwards, the actor,
owned collection of moths and butter
flies containing more than 800, 900 speci-
mems which were insured for SIT, 900.
A baby alligator, brought from Florida
! five years ago and liberated in a Lincoln
! (Me swamp, has grown to monster that
can eat a dog-so the noble Penobscot In
! dams say.
| A Connecticut hunter shot up into q
tree at what he thought to be an empty
crows nest, and was very much surprised
when a twenty fve-p pound coon came
crashing through the branches.
d. J. Barnett of Crossville, Ga, set out
his tobacco plants two years ago and
raised good crop of tobacco. Last year
the old stalks suckered out and made
better tobacco than they did the year be-
fore, and this year they suckered out again.
The old story about cats being afraid OF
water was upset during freshet in Asotin,
Wash. A mother cat whose premises
were overfowed brought out kitten in
her mouth to place of safety and imme-
diately returned through food and debris
to her bed and secured the remaining mem
Der of her family, which she landed in
safe place.
The town clerk of Posen, Presque Isle
county, Mich, has filed y curious bill of
sale for one live oak tree nineteen feet in
circumference and one small white oak
tree two feet in diameter growing out of
the roots of the parent tree, and common
" known IS the ''Baby Oak" The oak
grows 200 miles from the section to which
oak is Indigenous and how tie SEED got
there is mystery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

add a ounce each of cinaman, alispice.
cloves and mace. Boil the spices in the
syrup tied loosiy in a thin cloth, until
thick. The put in small bottles and seal
RHUBARB PIES.
Peel the rhubarb and chop fine. Pour
boiling water over and let it remain while
you make the crust. Sprinkle -four and
sugar on the crust, after it is in the pan,
drain the rhubarb, fill, aud sprinkle a lit
tie Hour over. Use one third less sugar
than if the scalding had not been done.
Wet the edges, and press firm Do not
bake fast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
THE KITCHEN.

RASPBERRY AND BLACKBERRY SYRUP.
Mash the berries and set in warm
place for 2 or days; strain them and to
each pint of juice allow pounds of sugar.
Boil until thick and rich, then put them
into medium sized bottles and seal.
ITALIAN JELLY.
Half I'll a mould with clear gelatine jel-
ly favored with lemon; lay round this a
wreath of stiff blanc-mange favored with
vanilla and cut in small rounds, then fill
the mould with currant jelly and put it
into ICE one-half an hour before serving.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.
To every pint OF juice add q Do. granu-
lated sugar, and to every 2 quarts of juice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
WISE AND WITTY.

"Well, Jack, was it yes or no with
herr" cit was both" Both! How's
that?" ''Well, asked her if she was 60
ing to gir n'N my answer and she said
yes: The | a ked her what was the an
swer and she said o.''-New York Press
''EXcuse me sir, but haven't we met
before! Your face is strangely famihar."
"Yes, madame, our host introduced us to
each other just before dinner.'' ''Ah, l
was positive | had seen you somewhere
/ never forg t a face. ''-arooklyn Life
In the Free Hotel Bus Uncle. Silas-
''Maria, that driver is the prettiest chap
/ ever met on stage Maria-"'W hy
Silas:'' Uncle Silas-'>Why, he actually
said 'thankee kindly. sir when [ paid
him ten cents for our fares. New York
Herald.
''Thomas-'T don't like to boast, don't
cherknow, but I'd have you to know that
/ am always present at all the society
events. What dyer think O that2''
Henry think you must be a waiter.
Can't account for it in any other way"
Boston Transcript.
The agent for a patent hair restorer
received this testimonial: Dear Sir: A
few days ago l accidentally spilled some
oA your ndlT hatcher on tne corn musk
bed at my boarding house and when l re-
turned home l found hair mattress. ~
~-Philadelphia Record.
When Atchison young people of an
economical turn of mind become engaged,
they stop sitting in the dollar seats at the
opera house and take seats in the seventy
five cent row After they are married
the husband goes alone and takes a dollar
seat ''-Atchson Globe.
MARY, didn't we get fifty pounds OF
ice this morning"' said West End lady.
''Yes, num- responded the girl u
don't see it in the ice-chest." mo, mum;
dropped it and it fell through knot
hole in the kitchen floor. l am very sorry.
mum '-St. Louis Republic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

The hull of the Anchor line steamer
Utopia, which was wrecked at Gibraltar
some months ago, has been safely lodged
on the beech. The skeletons of nine grown
males and several children have been
found Oh the steamer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
Inst the Other Way.

Il am very DID," said the veteran,
''and | have seen many a fight" Ibid
you bear arms in 1922" asked the boy.
"NO, my boy" returned the old man;
at was just the other way. Arms
bore me. Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
preSenpa of Wind

Miss Plumpleigh (choking): 20,
Mr.. Dudekin! I-I-reallv think I've
swallowed a dreadful fly. What shall
/ do?" Dudekin: ''Deah girl. better
swallah some fypapah.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

A tornado at Trenton, Ga, carried off
the roof Of house, leaving sick man
in his bed unframed but shelterless.
His neighbors at once built a temporary
shelter over him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
GINGER BEER.

cool place to stiffen. Serve with sugar
and cream or whipped cream.
GINGER BEER.
Two ounces whole ginger bruised and
boiled for 20 minutes. y or. cream of
tartar, ~ lbs. of moist sugar, little
yeast, white of egg, lemon, 215 gallons of
water. Pour half the quantity of boiling
water on the lemon, sugar, and cream of
tartar, and put the yeast in when luke
warm. Bottle when cold, or next day,
when it is ready for use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06
RASPBERRY sHORTCAKE.

Next to Strawberries, raspberries come
in for excellence in shortcake. Prepare
the crust as for good buiscuit, to which
add little sugar. Bake in layers which
can be easily separated and buttered
Spread over the we'll sugared berries and
and eat with whipped or plain cream if
convenient, though it can be made very
palatable without either.
RASPBERRY BLANC NANCE.
Scsld quart of milk, thicken with 4
tablespoonfuls corn starch mixed smooth
With cold milk add tab!espoonfuls sugar
and pinch of salt. When scalded and
smooth and thick stir in half teacupfal
of strained raspberry juice. This may be
from the fresh berries or from canned
ones. Pour into mould and set III j
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

The London Truth is authority for the
statement that there has been a mutiny in
the famous Coidstream guards, one of the
crack British regiments
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-06

Not long since DIR. T. De Witt Talmage
preached a strong sermon on the following
text from Esther, ''Who knoweth whether
thou art come to the kingdom for such
time as this" He said,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
w. A. FRENCH.

ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF WILL.
STATE OF MINNESOTA In Probate Court,
SSs. Special term.
COUNTY OF REDWOOD January 22i, 1891
In the matter of the estate of Miles Martin,
deceased.
Whereas, An instrument in writing, pur-
porting to be the last will and testament of
Miles Martin deceased, late of said county,
ha- been delivered to tn court;
And Whereas, Mary Martin, the widow of
the deceased, has filed herewith her petition,
representing. am. ng other things. that said
Miles Martin died in said county OF the I'd day
of December 1890, testate, and hat said petit
toner Is the widow of the deceased, and the
executors named in saiI last will and teSta-
ment have declined TO serve as such eXecu-
tors in writing the same being on file In this
office, and she, the widow of sail deceased,
praying that the said instrument be admitted
to probate, and that letters teStamentary be
to her issued thereon;
1t Is ordered, That the proofs OF said in
strums MT, and the SAID petition, be heard be-
fore this court, at the Pr, bate Office in said
county, on the ed day of February, D.
1891, at one O'Clock in the afternoon. when
all concerned may appear and contest the
probate Of said instruments;
And it is further ordered, That public no.
tice Of the time and place of said hearing be
given to all persons interested by publication
OF these orders for three weeks successfully
previous to said day of hearing. in the Red
wood Gazette. a newspaper pr tinted and pub
lished at Redwood Falls. in So d county:
nv the Court E. D. FRENCH,
Judge u Prooats.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
TEAS AND COFFEES.

In Teas and Coffees we have a COM
plete list. None finer in the land
Brew refreshing cup from our ia
nous Red Dragon" brand, and you
will say, as hundreds of others do, 1T
can't be beat"
In Coffees we can show you the fin
est that the earth produce, and can
save you the profits of the middle
man, as we deal direct with the i'm
porter and get the finest brands for
,ur trade.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

COUNTY REDWOOD. S.
Andrew Anderson. County Auditor within and Tor SAD
Redwood, soemy that the within ana
statement Of taxes on real estate IN
county, penalty thereon for 1882 aSnere
appears delinquent Monday Of Jal A. o.
except paid since said date and
been sold for taxes and re.
unpaid in said sheets
from % to twenty seven 2D nclusiye:
ANDREW H. ANDERSON.
County Auditor, Redwood County, Mimi
this 10th day IF January
A. D., 1891, J. L. BYRAM,
Clerk OF District Court
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
A LIST OF DELINQUENT TAXES

UPON COUNTY REDWOOD STATE
MINNESOTA.
For the year A. D. 1889 and prior years. as herein
designated, remaining delinquent and unpaid on
the first Monday in January 1891, and the penalties
accrued thereon.