Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-26

whelps, and ours OF low degree, Rerded
and propelled by innumerable men.
women and children. To escape the
nuisance, Fitzgerald and his family fled
from the city.
How TO GO TO SLEEP--A scientific
journal tells GLOW to 20 to sleep" 1t
saws: every few persons can count a hun
bred and find themselves awake; but
should this happen, repeat the dose until
cured" Mr.. Nubbins couldn't sleep well,
so he tried this counting cure. He count
ed one hundred, and was still awake;
then he counted the same hundred back
wards, and was not asleep; then he began
in the middle of one hundred and count
ed each way at the same time, and this
didn't throw him into the arms of Nor
pheus Then he repeated the dose, and
counted about seventy five thousand, he
thinks, which didn't send him to the land
of Nod, even; so he just got mad, and
turned over and went to sleep without
any more fooliug about it.
In an article on Longevity, Professor
Owen has explained how it is that aged
persons are said to have cut new teeth late
in life, Many readers will remember to
have heard or read of such occurrences,
whichare regarded as extraordinary. The
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break or decay, and leave a stump in the
gum. The gum closes over the place, and
the incident is forgotten As years go
by, the Jaw and the gums shrink the
long-bured stump is in consequence laid
bare, and is hailed as a new tooth, and is
sometimes mentioned in the newspapers
as a kind of wonder. Thus a "fact is
shown by competent authority to be an
error and it is always well for public
opinion to get rid of an error.
THE Paducah Macs tells this story, for
the truth of which it vouChes: "a pro-
fessonal gentleman, well known in this
city, had not seen his son for a long period
of time, owing to the fact that the latter
retired to bed ere the former returned
home, and in the morning the father al
ways left before the son cot out of bed.
One morning the lady Of the house man
aged to get the father and son together at
the breakfast table, and by way of joke
remarked: Son, let me introduce you to
your father How do you do, tatherY
said the hopeful; i don't rememember
ever having met you before, but have
heard ma speak of you
THERE was considerable fun at a repre-
sentation of "Romeo and Juliet in d
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audience cou,ht tbe idea and spmnathi2eJ
with her "Loak out. Mrs. Juliet" said
one fellow. 'tther, 'sa wborrcT a-comin'-
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