Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-03
makes the "old man" keep the flies off


I looks bloody, it must be scalded and more
salt added when cold, pour back.
A PREPusTERoUs story is circulating to
| thu effect that sponsmen in New Jersey
| mir take mosquitoes for snipe The much
! gre alter length OF the Jersey mosqa'tO's
! bill should render such AN error impossi-
| BILE
AN old bachelor in Greenwich avenue
! New York, utilized the recent hot weather
| by cooking his meals with a burning glass.
| He said the mutton tasted Of sulphur,
and the steak was strongly impregnated
with magnesium.
1 NATURE is the only workman to whom
no material is worthless, the only chemist
/ in whose laboratory there are no waste
/ products, and the only artist whose com
/ positions are infinitely varied, and whose
fertility Of invention is ine1haustible.
MIKE, why don't you fire at those
4 ducks? Don't you see you have got the
! whole flock before your gun ?" II know
have but, you see, when l get a good
aim at one, two or three others viii
| swim 'twiXt him and me i"
4 A NEW dish is grape leaves, fried in egg
batter 1t is called French dish, and IS
imported from Lake Mallopac. We can't
/ think Of anything that would be more de-
licious than fried grape-eayes, unless il
| is a circus poster on toast.
SOME Missc ri editors do not indulge
in coarse elituets They merely remark
Of 4 culemI Grary, in the spirit of quiet
sarcasm, that "his ears would do for
awnings to a ten-stOry wholesale hog
/ packing establishment.
! A MAINE sheriff, who had writ to
serve, ascertained that the defendant was
/ dead, and tossing the paper over the wall
/ Of the cemetery, he made return upon the
writ that he had left the summons at his
/ last and usual place Of abode.
WITHIN two months Mr. Bergh's men
turned out s. teams of disabled street car
/ horses on the Belt road, in New York.
The drivers backed up Mr. Bcrgh and
TWO of them We're discharged the other
! day for refusing to drive sick horses
which the animailarian had condemned.
THE salaries of the justices Of the dis.
/ trict civil courts of New York city We're
raised two years ago to $4,000 a year.
/ Comptroller Green now says that the in.
crease was illegal, and refuses to pay them
more than 5000. The Judges have sued
for $500.
HABEAs Bridget" said
brought from the House Of Correction,
/ wasn't you brought here on hobeas
CorpUso No, ndade,' she Indignantly
replied; 81 came like a dacelt woman,
on the cars
\ LOUISVILLE reporter rGolces over
BABY or ten months mat weighs iltty I'VE
pounds and measures twenty five inches
roond me waist, nineteen lhcAes ROUND
NY 'nlEn anu Llile 'hCHea "C'oaS INC le",i'
nG , n'o5nti MoiSn' 'o' h'Ne'J Po"l'"'
anu 'ie '"'nc' I""'
LOCKE, the deceased author o. the
moon hoax, instructed Jersey, ScAooi'
teachef now 10 square Lhe cree lh5
man AT once conceded that cree nae
45op degrees. NO" aga uhlt, say
Locke, aho you nave "pI the square Oh
l'--'l'a' sq"''''' 'DI 'I'lt'
A stAHDNABLE jhealIieW programme
lot not nIGhj would ne 'he Iolo" h&. I;
me performance VIII commence Wi'h
1ool as a NQcumbtr, a-ler WA,ch
me Sea u ice. to conclude WIN
Nothing 10 W ear Inc oIchcstra Wal
occasionally iblI"du'e SOME itesn an
\ MOBILE young man got up the other
night to obtain 4 drink, and mistaIling a
Babcock fire cXtmguisher for the water
cooler, tinEered with II until he received
Il heayy charge of acid on his shirt
bosom lie didn't wait for Il second dose
nor to explain his action 10 the boss.
A FISHING schooner from Gloucester,
Mass, set her seine around y school Of
mackercl on recent occasion, and sue
ceedod IN getting it full, when whale
went clear through the seine, tearing The
net badly, and allowing the macherel to