Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-17
Miscellaneous.

He does, truly, Susan, '--Chr5asaa jasoa.
Miscellaneous.
49," Tales from real life "-Chiac7c
The surcst slip,knots are said to be
lovers ties.
Was it waist time when Pack ''put
Il girde round the earth in forty min.
utesg'
--Pcrnambuco is the only South Ameri,
can city that excludes billiard tables by
ordinance
The pleasures of the poor man are
few, vet we would gladly see him less fire.
quently yoR IN hi, carriage
A waiter in an Algiers restaurant has
pair OF nustacheS that he can tie behind
the buck of his head in a bow knot
The elevated railroad in New York
has finally got into working order, and is
doing q GOOD and growing business.
A careful observer has noticed that
young ladies with new solitaire diamond
rings never require much urging TO play
the piano
Altoona, Penn, boasts Of having the
purest water supply in the State, 1t IS
from a sDrinr on thp k4rrhpny Noun.
tains
San Francisco reinicca in a railroad
ring, a mining ring, IN express ring, a
bank ring, q Wheat ring, a whisky ring
and real estate ring.
The mother of charming Daubury
girl would not let crmarry conductor.
because she didn't want her doors Slam
A f WiUmartb. Vice President of
fine Home Of New Yorl, isapoliry- hold.
err stakeholder and director Of the Wash.
iprton Life.
-Boston,s hirbrsl judicial tribunal has
decided that it is not burglary to enter a
house through "A window which is left nm,
fastened, torasmuCh as il is the duty OF
citizens to make their ubodes secure.
The New Orleans lady who is the
champion swimmer at Negissippi Civ
succeeded. a fow DAYS since. In sW inning
] 900 feet without stopping. She thinks
She could have made 1000 feet with a
little more eNcrtion.
There is nothing the Chinese won't
learn. Some workmcn of that national.
ity, " no recently left cigarfactofy IN
san Francisco on a strike, gathered in
force the other day, and threatened 10
clean out the new force who had taken
their place
-Housomaid ito constant visitor
"MiSsus sends you this. and you needn't
come again, for were all going to the sen
side on Saturday" Mcndicant Tel
the lady I'm much obliged to her, aud I'm
going to the seaside myself next week.
Hitherto the husk Of rice. known rs
rice chatt, has been considered as refuse
in the South Il has lately, however,
been discovered to be quite valuable in
protecting glassware and other delicate
articles when packed for shipment and a
large demand has sprung up for if,
They have an old stage driver in the
White Mountains, between the Crawford
and Profile Houses. For thirty
years his lines have fallen in pleasant
places He has been travelling this road
for sixty-one years, for wheel or WHOM.
A movement ia on foot in New York
looking to an early abolition of the usurv
laws in that State. A preventiyes Of
usurv these laws are said to have been
thoroughly tested and to have proved
not only useless. but positively injurious
to the business interests Of the com.
munity.
A Lockport On. Y. girl based her
breach Of promise suit upon the slender
ground that her rerreant lover had told
her that if he married any one he would
marry her. II took the Jury all night TO
award her 800 damages, and one or two
If the Jurors do not feel quite satisfied
that she ought to have even that.
An Alabama COTTON planter says that
went into field of his the other day,
in the wide expanse Of which not one
cotton leaf was to be seen, and found the
army worms chartered on the boHs. aud
upon his approach they called out their
guards, gave him salute, and made in
quiries as to the nearest field.
A how vho had not returned after
the holidays 10 school. which the master
charged lin to do, came back at last
loaded with a fine ham. as a bride 10 the
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