Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-08-22
BREyIlIES.


MORE people have been killed by light.
ming in England this summer than has
ever been known before, in the same
length of time
'WHoM the gods would destroy they
first make mad. Yes, and when some
men would dye, they first get madden.
\ MAN in Chester County, Penn, has
been fined for allowing weeds TO grow on
his farm to the damage Of his neighbors
THEY have sent 2 900 young black bass
from Saratoga Lake to England They go
over in large glass tanks.
WHEN a man has tried everything, and
found it will not answer let him go where
there is an echo and try that.
Wpl is a moth tluttering round a candle
like "a mao getting off a horseg Because
they are bOth going to light
DAVENPORT, Iowa, has girl who spells
backward. We never thought back ward
was a hard word to spell before.
A "HoME for destitute animals has
been erected in Boston by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
THE average cost of building mile of
railroad is forty.four thousand two hun
dred and twenty five dollars in this Coun-
try.
A DIES MONIES Iowa) barber advertises
for shop boy who is willing to let the
proprietor run the shop at least half
the time.
"Do YOU keep matches?" asked wag
ola country grocer, ooh, yes, all kinds"
was the reply. "Well, ltake atrotting-
match" said the wag
WESLEY, Me, must be a pleasant local
ity for forest rambles. Thirty eight
bears have been killed in that vicinity in
the last twelve months.
A FEW years ago Titusville, Pa, was
unknown, and now business amounting
to SIC, 900 coo is reported as being trans
acted there monthly. Oil did it.
A SPRINGFIELD paper says: eve know
shoes have solcs and tongues and now
chap in Rhode Island advertses, Shoes
made Hear We don't believe it,"
A MASSACHUSETTS cultivator says, in
Secretary FIint's report, that he has no.
ticed in his garden chat that portion
which is hOed or cultivated with the dew
upon the ground produces better crops
than that hoed in the heat of the day
A LITTLE boy was sent to store for
some eggs; before reaching home he
dropped them. In answer to his mother,
who asked, Did you break any" he re
piled, mo, | didn't break any, but the
shells came off some of them
IL the san Joaquin Valley, Cal, is a
grain patch thirty-fve miles long and
eight miles wide, covering an area Of 179,
200 acres The average yield is estimat-
ed at sixteen bushels, which will give a
t,,tu al ,.F L,,gla1p or T.,
Dr. SIGERsoN, an eminent European
savant, has found in the air eXhalcd from
the lungs of tCa-drinkers q large number
Of microscopic globules of a poisonous
narcotic oil, which, according to him, eX-
plains why tea sometimes makes nervous
people coughy and hic,cup py
THE Emperor William |. of Germany
has a private rcntrol of two million
thalers. 1ne Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria has hardly any private fortune at
all. He generously paid the debts of his
brother MdNimilian which consumed
nearly all his private means.
ELI STlNsoN, President of the Wool, .
Growers Association, has proved to a
demonstration that his flock Of 1900
sheep has enabled him to produce eight or
ten more bushels of wheat to the acre
than is grown on the average lands of
Wisconsin, where sheep industry is not
auxiliary to wheat farming
AN experienced housekeeper says that
flies may be kept out of a butterplate on
the table by a simple and novel eXpedent
by planting in it thin slice of bread !
cut columnwise, and inserted in a pcrpen-
dicular position. Whether the bread /