Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-05
BREVITIES.
A RING pOyE-A bride.

take something to drink, and man when
he takes too much.
THE casL value of farms in Massachu-
sets has decreased $1,000 600 in the last
ten years.
SOMEBODY has figured up the progeny
Of common house-tiy Tor a single season
at 1850, 500
The Russian telegraph lines are sup,
ported across the steppes on brick pillars,
no wood being available
New HAMPSHIRE was first called
Laconia, An attempt was once made
to change the name of Massachusetts, to
"Oceana
The Baltimore papers complain that
their streets are lighted SO poorly that
even the policemen get lost on their
beats
TIE other day Boston youth applied
at the Registrars Office for recipe" to
get married, He received certificate,
and departed rejoicing.
' THE British Government has applied
for partcuiarinformatipn in regard to the
American system of educating the deaf
and dumb
AN exchange says: "a clock in New
York factory has been seized by the work.
ingmen, because it has not struck for
eight hours"
A voLUSTEER at Wimbledon, shooting
for the Queens prize the other day, made
the remarkable score of five consecutive
bulls eyes in five shots at two hundred
yards.
INCLUDING Sundays Russia has 1853 aol,
ldays, leaving only 2O2 working days in
the year. The average compensation of
Workingmen is siXty-ttve cents for the
working days.
lloPEs are entertained that in course of
time Oregon will supply the tea consumed
in this country, Experiments are now
being made in the State in the cultivation
OF the tea plant.
john BIDwELL, x-Congressman from
California, has 10000 grape vines, and
proposes to keep on planting until he has
a vineyard Of 1000 acres, OF variety for
the production of raisins.
A YOUTHFUL Connecticut lover who sang
and played before his young lady's house
for two mortal hours the other night. was
electrified after short pause by a cordial
THANK YOU" gracefully pronounced by
the "other fellow" who appeared at the
window.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
1ribune has noticed lately that the cab
bagc butterfly Peers rdpg) has an inyet-
crate enemy in bird that closely resem-
bes the king bird. They perch on the
garden fence and the moment butterfly
is seen, a rush is made, and il is soon dis
posed of"
The London Mn Journal says: ain
England the system of associated diaries
steadily gains ground, and butter facto.
ries on this principle are being opened
The quality also of the butter is steadily
improving, and bids fair to rival that pro
duccd in Holstcin aud Mechlenhurg,
which now stands first in that market
FROM an abstract of the census returns
of 1870, we have some interesting facts
concerning eun.strokes. The number of
fatal cases that year was 391 Gcograph.
iCally the belt of central States was the
most fatal region. From this it will be
seen that cases Of sun-stroke are compar-
ativeIy rare in the Western and Southern
sections Of the country
LAST Saturday evening a young gawk,
nineteen years of age, escorted "a young
lady to the Northern Liberty market from
the eastern section Of the city, paying her
car fare Nen cents both trips, as a matter
of course Next morning Sunday the
young gcntleman's mother called on the
young .a9y iof 'lG zen GEMS lha' ner son
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A PARIS correspondent relates story
which may be taken rs an illustration Of
sublime impudence He states that
gentleman walking with his little boy on
the banks of the river, the child slipped
over the bank INTO the water, and would
certainly have been drowned but for the
courage of man who was fishing, who
jumped in and saved the boy. The
father thanked him cordially, but asked
him If he would add to the obligation, us
ne was already wet through ny SWIM
ming lot inc ooy cap
IN reply to inquiries made by circular
letters the Pension Bureau has Just heard
from one who is probably the oldest in
the pension list of the widows Of Revolu.
tiOnary soldiers. The Postmaster at New
Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio,
writes that Mrs Lois Miller, widow of
Philip, q soldier of the Revolution, was
living on the 231 ult., at that place; that
she would be 1903 wears old on the 18th of
AUGUST, and that her sight is somewhat
defective, hut that her mind is good for
one of her are.
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