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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
A 2ired Girls Washing Day.

I am ''oniy hired girl,' but I have q
few suggestions which l hope will be help
full tc some reader. l will describe two
washing days-one sad and the other pleas
ant. We will suppose it is cold Monday
late in January; girl has large washing
for family of five or SIX including one
baby: there is snow on the ground; the
clothes must be dried outdoors and only a
few can be hung out at time, as the girls
fingers almost freeze; she feels the cold and
the snow around her feet, and she wonders
with a feeling of bitterness why she should
be poor and dependent on others. Some of
the ladies who have never done a washing
in their lives know nothing of the hard
ships poor hired girl has to endure on a
winter wash day. When the clothes at
last are dry, It is as hard to get them down
as it was to hang them up; they are frozen
to the line, and each piece the girl is afraid
of tearing. Washing is day dreaded from
one week to another as long as it is cold
weather.
Now | will tell you how we do. Sticks
are fastened to the ceiling of the cellar; in
them are bored holes through which the
lines are stretched pretty close together.
The washing l do on Saturday; this gives
the clothes all the time until Monday
morning in which to dry. The clothes do
not freeze nor tear, and just think how
much easier it is for me. Wash day is no
longer dreaded, no matter what the wealth
er is. Of course it is necessary to do each
days special work one day sooner than
usual, but it gives a day of rest between
two days Of hard work, and it is such a
feeling of comfort on Sunda to think the
washing is { ,ne.-Hilda NJ. Lyndin in
Springfield Homestead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Eating a Living Ok.

Only the very few among us run any
risk, in the course of our peregrinations
and vicissitudes, of being invited to such
Objectionable dinners as it was the lot of
Bruce, the explorer. to eat. Such very
nasty feeders as the Abyssinians of his day
are becoming extinct. Fancy sitting
down to table and seeing the meat walk
alive into the room! That was their GUS
tom. And they ate it alive, too, the brutes!
The wretched OK was tied fast head and
legs, and then, by a delicate incision on
both sides Of the backbone, near the
launches, the attendants were able to
strip its skin away, to enable them to cut
slices from the poor animal again and
again without touching an artery. The
guests ate the meat raw and quivering, to
the music of the lower roars and believing
of pain of the OK of which it was a part.
This is hideoUs, and even the least par
ticular of men may be excused for Sinking
an experience of the kind.-All the Year
Round.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Plenty of SIeep.

1t is all very well to commend getting up
early in the morning. 1t would be difficult
to exaggerate either the pleasure or the
advantages afforded by early rising. But
to rise early one must retire early.
A plenty of sleep is one of the first requi-
sites of health. Fevers and other diseases
are often occasioned by excessive fatigue.
A person should sleep enough to get thor
oughly rested For some cause, sleep in
the early part of the night seems to be more
refreshing than sleep for the same number
of hours toward morning
Unfortunately modern social habits are
tending to reverse the order of nature, turn
ing day into night and night into day.
This is very destructive to the beauty as
well as the health of our American girls.
1t has been recommended that when a
lady is going to attend a late party-and
they are all late nowadays-she should
sleep several hours the day previous. 1t is
asserted that the marvellous beauty of some
of the middle aged women of England has
been preserved amid all the designations Of
fashionable society in this way.-New York
Ledger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
A Trick of the Fire Insurance Man.

1.-THE truth of the old saying that there
are tricks in all trades was illustrated by
little incident that occurred the other
day on the street where l live" said a
friend of mine yesterday. 'There was a
slight fire early in the morning in build
ing on the opposite side of the street, and
the windows of the various flat houses in
the vicinity were crowded with the excited
faces of women and children, who appar-
emily thought that the whole city was
about to be burned, although the damage
did not prove to be over 800. Well, with
in few hours after the flames were ex-
tinguished there were no less than half a
dozen insurance agents around canvassing
among the householders in that vicinity.
And they reaped rich harvest. too.
''In talking with an insurance agent
was told nearly all the fire insurance COM
panies make it a point to watch for fires,
and send canvassers around in that vicinity
while the memory of the blaze is still fresh
in the minds of the people. In this way
they get ten takers for policies where they
wouldn't get one were the visit of the can
vasser less timely.'-New York Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
The Life Line in Ones Hand.

There are three prominent lines in the
palm-the line of life, that of the head and
the heart line.
The line of life begins on the inner bound
airy of the palm, about midway between the
thumb and the forefnger. If we imagine
the left hand to be a map, with the fingers
pointing north, this line runs toward the
southeast, then curves toward the south,
and in some hands curves finally toward
the southwest. 1t thus skirts the base or
"uprise" of the thumb, known as the up
rise of Venus. If it is deep, broad, of good
color and extends nearly or quite to the
wrist. and if the rest of the hand indicates
vitality and cheerfulness, the subject may
be expected to live to a green old age; he
has good disposition and the qualities
which good health and good temper usual
ly Created. d. Bidwell in New York
Ledger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Buttons from Potatoes.

Great quantities of buttons are now
made from potatoes. 1t is not generally
known that if the substance of the COM
mon Irish potato be treated with certain
acids it becomes almost as hard as stone,
and can be used for many purposes for
which horn, ivory and bone are employed.
This quality of the potato adapts it to but
ton making, and very good grade of but
ton is now made from the well known
tuber. The potato button cannot be dis
tinguished from others save by careful
examination, and even then only by an ex-
pert, since they are colored to suit the
goods on which they are to be used, and
are every whit as good looking as button
of bone or ivory. Their cheapness is a
great recommendation, and will no doubt
lead to much larger employment in the
future.-Interview in ST. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

solidity of theif bones, wnlcn contained
little marrow, but that little was extreme
ly savory." Mr.. Palmer states that the
bull killed on his run weighed almost a
ton, was extremely broad and we'll deyel-
oped in the forequarters, but tapering off
in the headquarters.
next directed my inquiries to the mu-
scum, and here I was most fortunate in
getting information from the man above
all others in Queensland most competent
to give it-namely, Mr.. Spalding, the tax
idermist of the museum, who spent many
months in the center of their great haunt,
near Port Darwin. Mr.. Spalding showed
me the head and horns of one of these buff
faloes that made its way eastward in the
direction of Charters Towers, and was shot
there some two years ago. The horns are
most remarkable, being square at the butt
and four inches thick. They rise in a semi
circle, but incline backward, so that the
animals, when they charge (Which they do
furiously) have to put their heads between
their forelegs.
The horns are extremely coarse, CORFU
gated, and of dirty brown color. Mr..
Spalding corroborated the statements of
Messrs. Palmer and Purcell as to the buff
faloes being very numerous-in many
thousands-at Port Essington, Raff1es bay
and on Melville island. A man has been
engaged for a number of years shoot
ing them and making handsome income
by selling the hides. On account of the ex-
IRENE thickness of hide they resist an ordi-
nary cartridge, and heavy leaden bullets
have to be used. They are what are famil-
iarly known as mud" buffalo, having
very little hair on their bodies, which are
of dirty reddish brown color.
Itmay not be generally known that num-
Der of Timor ponies were introduced at Port
Essington with the buffaloes. These have
also increased to a large herd, and Mr.
Spalding describes them as exceedingly
handsome little animals-P. r. Gordon in
Brisbane Queenslander.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
A RHYME BYELOW,

Once father sung to his babe
Quaint lullabic3 sweet and old;
"When-you-get-to-th e-end- of-the-rainbow-
then
You-will-find-a-p pot gold.
He galloped away to Boston,
AS he chanted Mother Goose rhyme,
And he rode a white horse to Bambery
cross,'
Without any regard to time.
Then he sung, like lover grooming,
''Byelow-my- baby-dear-
To-the-land-of-Byelo w-we-two-wi1l-go-
To-stay -for-many-a-year."
All, me, in the land of Byelow
He has found the pot of gold,
In other guise, he sings lullabies
To the babes of the upper fold.
Oh, father, who watched my childhood
Oh, father, who loved me So
1t is sleepy time, sing my goodnight rhyme.
And take me nome to Byelow.
Mrs. NJ l.. Rayne in Detroit Free Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
He Scored One.

Mrs Mervileux-What is the longest
word in the English language, Mr.. Pom
soby9
Ponsoby OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ness.
Miss Mervilleux (pouting)-Do you know?
Tell me, then, which is the most difficult
to pronounce?
Ponsoby-When with you, good-by.-
Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
WILD EUFFALOES IN AUSTRALIA.
There Are Many Herds of Them in the
Unsettled Parts of the Big Island.

lhtEe are EleFuS Oh IHefu III tio
Unsettled Parts of the Big Island.
Although l have been over thirty-seven
years in Australia, it was not until eighteen
months ago that I was aware that there
was a breed of wild buffaloes in these col
onies, and L venture to say that not / per
cent. of the inhabitants of Queensland, or
even half that number, are aware OF the
fact Curiously enough, l have two stimuli
taneous inquiries about them-ore from
Professor Wallace. of Edinburgh, and the
other from a gentleman in Michigan, Z.
S. A. laid myself out to make full in
quiries on the subject, and it has occurred
to me that the public will be interested to
know the result. Mr. 3. H. Purcell, who
has seen several of them in the far north,
and was present at the death of one, gave
me minute description of them, which
tallies exactly with what | learned from
other sources
Mr. E Palmer, NJ l.. A, informs me
that one of the islands on the northern
coast is fully stocked with them, and iso-
lated bulls from the herd OF the mainland
occasionally find their way as far east as
one of his gulf stations, and that several
have reached Mr.. Hams Lawn Hill sta
ton. In DR.. Leichhard's journal of his ex-
petition from Moreton bay TO Port Essing-
ton in 1874 Is he mentions that Mr.. Roper
and the black boys, Charley" and
Brown" ran down and shot one thirty
miles from Port Essington, and that they
were said to be numerous there and were
called by the blacks '.anaborro."
Leichhardt states that they ARE the off
spring of the stock which had either strayad
from the settlement at Rallies bay or been
left behind when that establishment was
broken up. They were originally intro
duced from the Malay islands. | was
struck with the remarkable thickness of
their skin almost an inchl. and with the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Victorian Gold Mining.

Gold mining in the colony of Victoria
shows a decided tendency to decline. Be-
tween the last two decennial censuses the
number of miners fell from SO, 425 to 3d.
1S9, and the population on the gold fields
from go, 42S to 230,944, and this in the face
of an increase in the total population of
131, 900. Eight years later-that is, at the
close of 1S89-the mining department esti-
mated the gold miners to number "a, O47
only This total was very nearly equally
divided between alluvial and quartz min
ing-the latter, however, slightly prepon-
derating. The Chinese miners, who only
count for 8, 1881 in this number, are nearly
all engaged in the alluvial mining.-Lon-
don Telegraph
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
A Matter of Money.

Young people of both sexes should early
be taught the use of money, and to rightly
know its value they should be given ways
of earning it, to spend, within reasonable
limits, as they choose. Much of the work
which even little children do in the shape
of chores around the house ought to be
paid for as perhaps better way of getting
money into a child's hand than any other.
1t is very demoralizing to beg, and the
child that is encourag ed or even allowed to
get its spending money in this way is lay
ing up poor foundation for after life
On the farm the means for earning money
should as much as possible be based on
farm operations. When the boys see in
their own pockets some of the money made
by farming they will take more interest in
their daily work. Unless parents who are
farmers desire to discourage their sons
from following this business, they should
be allowed to do something each year on
their own account and have the money
they thus make. The little thus earned
early by themselves will be worth hun
dred times as much as if left to them after
the death of their parents, who had pre-
viously kept them ignorant of any practi
cal knowledge of the value of money and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
= white IIIIterateS.

Education is most common among the
nations of the Teutonic family Germany,
England, the United States, etc., less
common in the Latin countries France,
Spain, Italy, etc., and least common in
the Slavic nations Russia, Roumania, Ser
via, etc.. In the three last named coun-
tries fully 80 Der cent. of the population are
unable to reed and write Spain stands at
the foot of the list of the Latin nations,
with about 63 per cent of illiterates. Eng
land has about Ii per cent. of illiterates,
Ireland 81, the United States white peo-
ple) s, Scotland {, Switzerland and Ger
many 2.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

Dr. Kochs paratoloid, or consumption
cure, is composed of the ptomaines of tuber-
cular bacilli, which is a poison as violent as.
the venom of serpent, cyanide of gold and
glycerine The glycerine preserves the pto-
mainas and the gold gives the liquid its
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
Used One AK Almost Sixty Years

Emery Miller has an AK that he bought
the day he was 81 years old, Jan. IA, 1892.
He cut with it the next day twenty eight
spruce saw logs, days work for two com
mon men. He has used it ever since. and
it is yet good for further service.-Adams,-
Mass, Enterprise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

The sun is tremendously large. 1t is
equal to 100000 globes the size of our
earth, but owing to its lack of density its
weight equals that Of only 3322. 900 such
masses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
4 Conscientious Jury.

Judge-Heml Your verdict seems to be
decidedly mixed.
Foreman of Jury-Yes, your honor. It's
in accordance with the eyidence.-Good
News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

Germany employs 5, 500, 600 women in in
dustrial pursuits; England, 4,OOO,OOQ
France. a.75Q.000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

1t is asserted that Mrs. Mabel Gentry, a
schoolteacher of Neosho county, Kan,
rides los miles every week in going to and
coming froca school
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
LOOK at Your Old Box Labels.

Something ought to be written on the
etiquette of boxes. Boxes, that is, in which
gifts are sent. Mr.. Howells suggests some
of the difficulties that arise out of boxes IN
"April Hopes" The lover wants to send
back the letters when the engagement IS
broken. His faithful friend comes TO help
him. He hunts about in the closet while
for suitable box in which to pack the let
tiers. The first one he fishes out has Glad
stone. No. 49," on the lid. That won't do.
He rummages about while longer. The
next one has something else OF it. There
isn't a box in the whole closet that was
suitable for the return of lot of love let
tiers. Now these young fellows had a proper
perception in these matters But great
many persons haven't, and it is for just
such persons that certain rules epeht to be
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19

tainly it was mystery.
Next morning a servant came into An
dre's room with a great arInful of clothes
and a card, on which was written:
please accept these to serve you until
you can hear from home"
He could not refuse kindness coming in
this way; to have done so would have
wounded some one, perhaps all, of his
generous entertainers. He may, moreover,
have taken half pathetic delight in going
downstairs dressed from head to foot like
a gentleman; and what change it made
in his appearance! MademoiseIle Hortense,
when she met him in the hall, looked at
him with pretty little start and blushed
crimson. He was not less confused than
she, and so they stood moment in awk-
ward silence, looking at each other and
smiling as bashfully as two peasants would
have done.
The weather continued fine, just warm
enough to make the hooking biris sing
morning, evening and at iN-ergalr, all the
night long. Andre did L., part of the
singing, too. You could have heard his
guitar and his rich baritone voice, when
the breeze was right, clear across the bayou.
He must be prince or at least count
in Disguise" remarked Monsieur Armand
- -. -
He certainly has distinguished air, -
said Madame Armand
He has read a great deal: his language
is very refined" added Nation.
Mademoiselle Hortense said nothing, but
her face was flushed, and her heart made
the blood sing in her veins To the quiet
and isolation of Chateau d. Armand, Andre
Duval had brought little stir of life. The
change was a seductive one, affecting deep
lyand strangely every member of the house
hold AS Andres spirits rose, his ready
wit and large knowledge of the world en-
abled him to display himself with singular
and fascinating brilliancy. Suddenly, as
was natural he found himself in love with
Hortense, and he awoke to the terrible
reality of his condition. A penniless vaga
bond daring to connect his hopes with
Pshawi He locked IN snon his life sd
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-29
SLIGHTLY BETTER.
The Cattle Market Opened at
Eastern Points
FIVE TO TEN CENTS HIGHER.
Choice Shipments, According to the Ga
zette's Special Returns, Show Some
thing Over Best Prices of Last
week-The Home Market.
Kansas City Stockyards.

Special to the Gazette.
STocKYARDs, KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept.
2S-Receipts of cattle, 6620 head, forty-hve
cars of steers and forty-ive of cows in
the Texas division; quality. common; best
steers, to 10c higher; medium, steady
common rough, weak; COWS, steady to
weak; light calves, firm; heavy, slow and
weak
Conner Bros, Elgin, sold 242 steers, SSS
pounds average. at $3.50: % cows. III
pounds, 81 40; 1856 calves, AS pounds, 81.
John Doshbough, Elgln, IS steers. -
pounds. 81 50: A steers. 963, pounds. :-.sJ,
"a steers, 952 pounds, $3.50.
R. j. Love, Purcell, IS COWS, SD pounds,
s.. Is; 80 COWS, SOP pounds, $l.65
w. r. Lowery, 26 cows, SIC pounds, Sl.55
Frank Witherspoon, Red Rock, % calves,
126 pounds, $3.50.
LAZARUS, Giles. 80 heifers, 469 pounds,
81. IS: ID cows ri pounds, SLIGO; IS calves,
159 pounds, $3.50.
c. Z. Campbell, Minco, 80 cows, SOS
pounds, sl.75; IA cows, no pounds, $l.75.
aMr Bugbee. Coleman, % calves, l5O
pounds, 81. 80.
Ike Pryor, Chillicothe, 80 COWS, 955
pounds, $780, 81 cows, 747 pounds, 81. SO;
43 cows, 500 pounds, $50; 2S4 cows. 653
pounds, Sl.l5; As calves, 123 pounds, 81. !;
81 calves, III pounds, S.25
NJ. Colbert IS steers, 952 pounds, S1.90.
d. R. FAINT. Okarcbe, "A steers, 1890
pounds, $40; IA cows, 155 pounds, $l.35.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-29
National stockyards-Eastst. Louis.


Special to the Gazette.
fNATIoNAL SToCKYARDs, ILL, Sept. Is
There were only sixty-fve cars of range
cattle on this market, and fair to good cat
Ee sold 5 St6 Is cents higher than at the
CLOSE of last week, but the liberal receipts
at Kansas City and Chicago prevented any
improvement on common to fairiSh cattle.
The calf market ruled about steady at 81. 90
10 Sc 25: COW stuff sold at Sl.45 to 500;
steers, 81. 10 to $500.
j. S. Harris. Fort Worth, sold SO steers,
800 pounds average, at $50; ~ cows. s3l
pounds, at S1.65.
T. j. Howard, Paris, sold 25 cows, COG
pounds, at $l.65.
d. n. McCrea, IampaSaS, sold 80 cows,
662 pounds, at 81. so.
Ouillian 4 Startled, Whitesboro. sold A
steers, 1854 pounds, at SIS
4 Quillian & Lewis. Belcher, sold 25 steers,
1890 pounds, at So
Mrs. Fleetwood. Belcher, sold &c steers,
S95 pounds, at s.. 40; so COWS, 500 pounds, at
SLIGO.
J. H. Tanner, Catoosa, sold IS steers, S31
pounds. at 81 p: 20 cows, S25 pounds, at
81 30 III cows, 1855 pounds, at Sl.45
Grayson Bros, Eufaula, sold "a steers,
s929 pounds, at s.. 50; "a steers, lbs pounds,
at 81 80
Scott & Fuller, Territory, sold % steers,
1l75 pounds, at s.. 20; p steers, l02S pounds,
at 81. IS; AZ steers, 1850 pounds, at $500.
Glenn Hayden, Choteau, sold % steers,
1892 pounds, at 81 S.; 80 steers, $50 pounds,
at 50 so; 25 COWS, $50 pounds, at $l.75.
NJ. w. Wolf, Washita, sold "a COWS, 665
pounds, at Sl.65; 25 steers, 9SS pounds, at
s.. ~; 43 steers, 1893 pounds, at s.. 40.
Cicero Davis, Texarkana, sold 26 steers,
Sls1 pounds, at So. 10; % steers, 1853 pounds,
at S2.65; 22 steers, l1O9 pounds, at s2.15.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-29
Union Stockyards-ChicaSo.

Special TO the Gazette.
UNION SToCKYARDs, ILL, Sept. IS
Receipts of cattle 5000. Generally steady.
II. B. Sanborn, Doss, sold IS steers, So
pounds, at $40; 125 steers, So pounds,
S.. 80: 123 steers, $50 pounds, $3.50.
Boyd s. P, "a steers, $50 pounds, S23
Capitol Syndicate, $50 steers, 927 pounds,
$50.
Day l. S.. 266 cows, S54 pounds, s1.sO
A H. Robertson, Colorado, 213 steers,
$40 pounds, s2.35; 135 cows, 760 pounds,
$l.S0.
L. H. & w. Lee, Elgin, So steers, 1000
pounds, s. GO.
E. Bryan, Quanah, IS cows, 712 pounds,
Sl.65.
J. Hitson, Catoosa, S. COWS, $50 pounds,
ST. 80; 30 COWS, 100 pounds, Sl75
O. Durant, Catoosa, % steers, S07 pounds,
60 80; 90 steers. zoe pounds, 81 20; 93 cows
154 pounds, Sl.65; 81 cows, 776 pounds,
SLIGO.
- Dougherty & H., Catoosa, i69 COWS, 60
pounds, Sl.40; Is bulls, $50 pounds, 81. 15; IL
sBAers, sSS pounds, sl65; 40 COWS. 737
pounds, SLIGO.
A lot of 100 stockers, averaging 800
pounds, sold at $3.50.