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


thirty melons, averaging thirtyone pounds
in weight.
I THERE are several laDaneso studying
! the art of drcss-making in this coun.
/ try. They will make great hustle,
says an exchange, when they return TO
Japan.
/ A NEW NoRK lottery writer says that
/ in one Broadway business house there
are not less than nine divorced hus-
/ bands, two of whom are members OF the
! firm
NEW loRK fashionable residences now
/ top uh with chicken Coors. The roofs
| are covered with large wire ncttings for
upperton aviaries in which are enclosed
pigeons aud other harmless fowls,
IL Richmond, Va, the other day, a
whole colored prayer neutrality-suspicious.,
deacon, converts, peuitents. brethren and
sistcrs--wero arrested and carried TO the
police station on the charge of disorder
TINS Chicago man who stepped behind
pair of mules that he intended to pur-
chase, asked with much feeling when he
was picked out of the gutter, "if thoder
rick killed anybody clse!'
"ARruuR, saba good.naturca ,ather to
his young hopeful al diiu know till
to-day that You Ind been whipped last
week" Didn't you, pa, replied hope
full; 81 knew it at the time
ALADg lost pockct.book containing
seventy odd dollars A little urchln
/ found il, and returned it to the owner,
who presented him with peach. He
calls her cold peaches, fora pet name,
A GOLDEN rule for young lady is to
converse with her female friends rs
though gentleman We're Of the party, and
with young men rs though their female
companions were present
WOMEN require more sleep, it Is said.
than men. Bltkns disputes this, az he
says, the last sound he hears Of nights is
the voice of Mrs Il. in her nocturnal lee
turc, and the first in the morning is her
matutinal admonition.
Mn. RIDER, who runs the Mcrideu,
Conn telegraph office, really enjoys his
busincss--its so lively He had two in
strumCnts in his office melted by light.
ming this summer, and expects to get
melted himself T., and by,
A lrrTLE boy, after watching the burn.
ing of the school house till the novelty of
the thing had ceased, started down the
street saving, I'm glad the old thing
burned down; | didn' have my iogfry les
son, no howl
An n concert ON Staten Island some
time since, an unseen horn was sounded
10 give the effect OF II distant echo of the
chorus. This effect WAS slightly married
By some ones Immediately hawNng "Por
gtcsr
WALNU1.TWEE stumps have become an
article Of merchandise, and many OF them
are very valuable The curly grain Of the
root is used for vcueeriug, and some
stumps are worth $3.50 after being proper.
ly worked into shape,
MAN who has red headed sweet
heart addressed her AS Sweet Auhurn,
loyelicst Of the plain Sweet Auburn got
mad about it, She objected TO being
CaBsrd among the "plain,' even though
called the lovoIiost Of them
To PREVENT FIIEs FROM lNJuRINu
GlGT FRAMES Boil three or four onions
in pint of water, then with IA gliding.
brush, wash over your frames, and the
ilies will not alight ON the article washed
No injury will result to the frames.
A MAN with good clothes on, set of
Of the applicants nj the Providence (R ~
Central Station, the other night With
all these outside evidences Of comf0rta.
bic circumstances, he had but eleven cents
in money.
A CLERGYMAN asked Garrick to explain
why it was that Garriclt madc SO much
deeper impression on his audience than
the clergyman ON his. Garrick answered;
II speak falschoOd ~ though believed It,
you speak truth as though you dtsbeleycd
It,
lT is announced by German scientific
periodical that silk dresses dyed with
picrate of lead are liable to spontaneous
combustion. We are not told what tint
is given by pcrate of lead, though from
its explosive tendency we suppose itmay
produce q somewhat loud effect
A PARTY by The name Of Loomis has
invented an aerial telegraph He flies
two kites, covered with fine copper wire,
and connected with the ground ljy an
other wire II is claimed that messages
have been sent 500 miles, with this appa-
ratus, without either line or artificial
battery.
THE most remarkable chime of bells in
this country ia on the chapel of Notre
Dame University at South Bend, Ind. It
consists of twenty four bells the largest
weighing $4,000 pounds, ranging through
two octayes II may be heard in It's deep,
sonorous reycrberatiOns full twenty miles
away.
TnE WmaRs J1it1yeai says that the way
in which men reason 0b0uwomeu s till
recalls that touch of nature in the "MiIl
on the Floss, " where Tom Tullvcr makes
his sister draw lots with him for the pie
ccs Of tart, and when she gets the biggest
refuses to let her give it up to him, but
calls her greedy thing when she eats
II herself.
A FACKTIOCs traveller describes the dif.
ference between society ~ the metropolis
and that in provincial town in the fol-
lowing Language; an the country, If
you have a boiled leg Of mutton for din.
ner everybody wishes to know whether
you have caper sauce with it, whereas in
New York you may have an elephant for
lunch, and no one cares pin about 1t"
PArnIcK MoRRissEY was hanged st
Buffalo, n y, recently, for the murder
Of his mother. On the scalIold MOrrlssey
read brief address, admitting his crime,
but declaring he had no knowledge Of
what he did and wanted those esprcnt ~
beware Of intoxicating drinks and TO shun
evil associates.
LADY belonging to the family Of
summer resident in Providence, r. l.,
having occasion Sunday morning, to
carry home some fish, ordered the night
before, fastened them to the wires Of her
hoop skirt, and then covered them with
her brp4a LggallEc che said she WptliI moi