Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-31

Datricians who were able to purchase
them. The peasants slept on the large
oakeovens to be found in nearly every
house. while the soldiers were provided
with a sort OF cot without bedding.
The middle classes and the students,
on the other hand. contented them
selves with wrapping Il blanket about
them and lying down near rather
notwithstanding stoves.
PauluS PoaeiuS gives the following
description of the unicorn. an animal
now generally admitted by all Zoolog-
lists to have been only 4 creature of
fable: He is a beast in shape like a
horse, OF a dusty color, with a mayned
necke. harry bearde and a forheade
armed witne horne of the quality of
two cubits, being of spiral shape. and of
ivory OF exceeding puritie and wonder
full whiteness. 1t also has the wonder
full power of eXpelling all venome and
poison whatsoever"
GypSies have no religion and some
of them have so strong an aversion to
churches that they never pass by one
without a muttered curse. In European
countries they never suffer themselves
to be buried in Il churchyard, but,
whenever allowed, they bury their dead
in out-of-the-way places. This an
tipathy to churches and religious forms
is supposed by some persons to have
originated from their persecution by
the priesthood in the middle ages, but.
whatever, its origin, it is a fixed fact
now popular with small shopkeepers is
the photographic head printed on
pasteboard and then cut into outline
figures. These heads arc carefully at
tached to rude lay buStS, over which
women's gowns are draped, and the
result is a highly effective show Win
dow decoration. The photographic
heads are much more human in APP
pearance than the lay figures of wax,
wood or paper pulp commonly in use
for Yeas, and artists of some super
fetal ability are employed in making
the designs.
In northern New England the way
farer is often surprised by coming upon
big tomb directly beside the road
and unconnected with a cemetery.
Occasionally the door is open, showing
bier, coffin, boxes and other appur-
tenances, and, very likely, stones and
apple cores tossed in by the prevalent
boy These tOmbS are not intended
for permanent sculpture. They are
merely receiving vaults for use in Win
ter, when the cemeteries on distant
hillsideS are covered with two feet of
snow and the roads to them are i'm
passable.
When rings are sent to a jeweler for
repair he always cleans the stones and
surprises the owners by their brillian-
cy. The accumulation of dirt on the
under side of the diamond or other
transparent gems is so slow that the
dulling of the stones is hardly noticed
Usually they are cleaned, without re-
moval from their settings, with the
chewed ends of wooden toothpicks, but
they cannot be made entirely bright
without taking them out of their
clasps. The dirt that gets into the
space between the ring and the stone
is often as hard as clay.
The largest kite ever made in the
United States is that produced in Dur
ham. Green county, n. G. The frame
consists of two main sticks % feet
long, weighing each 100 pounds and
two cross sticks u feet long and
weighing IS pounds each. All the
sticks We're 2 by 6 inches in dimen-
sions. Over the framework was
stretched a great sheet of white duck,
25 by 10 feet, which weighed 80
pounds. The tail Of the kite alone
weighed so pounds and contained 155
yards of muslin. Twenty-Five hundred
feet of one-haIf inch rope served as
kite strings. The plaything cost 500,
and when it is mounted into the air
it exerts lifting power of 500 pounds.
Six men once permitted it to ascend
1000 feet.
During the revolution the most elab-
crate of uniforms were designed for the
American officers, and the men were
ordered to wear green shirts, eff they
could be produced" AS a matter of
fact very few uniforms were worn,
everybody wore what he happened to
have and the navy was clothed in
INJURY dlIdy. Lie udLIEe UoIu ADleIl-
can seamen, most of them, wore the
canvass pGtticOat, and they all wore
the hair in a braid down the back,
waxing it to make it curl up at the
end. AS many of the Seamen were
foreigners the costumes of ali nations
were displayed on many ships. 1t
was not until 1900 that there is a
record of q crew in white duck uni
forms.
1t was several years ago that Gala
vardin drew the attention Of French
practitioners to the advantages of
treating smallpox according to the plan
suggested and carried out by
John of Goddesden and Waters. The
treatment in question consisted simply
in keeping the patients absolutely
away from all solar light, and this
solar darkness had to be, from first
to last, complete and uninterrupted,
OTHERWISE no beneficial results could
be looked for The same authority has
published the results of his ex-
perience with this method, covering
a period of some sixteen years, show
ing that, if this plan be carried out,
the great advantages ensues of there
being no period Of suppuration, and, in
the subsequent soaring
S infinitessimai.
RESULT OF THE GERMAN ELEC-
TIONS.