Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-12
Miscellaneous.

Making light of cereo things-Burn-
ing wax candles.
The Bump of Destructiveness"--
railway collision.
Lawrence, Kansas, wanting q smart
teacher, has hired Mr. Mustard
Don't take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors. Six per cent,
will do.
tive work rather than aims to the
poor. The former drives out incidence,
the latter industry.
A widow holding policy on her de
ceased husband in the Washington gets
the money herself 1t cannot be taken for
his debts
There is a sign on Nassau street, New
York, which, in the most enticing man
ner, invites passers-by to enter and par
take of Rise Puden."
1t is said that the Government has &C.
Qurcd valuable stock of diamonds,
which have been seized one by one, from
would-be smugglers.
The chief exporter of California fruit
to the East lost SO, 600 the first year he
went into the business. Last year he
cleared $4,000
iiS loltoNlLlS b'ti'N - l'bSNSN WI
spicuously in newspaper office out West;
"Shut the door; and as soon as you have
done talking business serve your mouth
the same way"
The Sioux are very Observant. One
of Spotted Tails followers, who speaks a
little English, seeing one of the servant
girls of the hotel take oil her chignon, eX
claimed, Glow! White woman raise her
own scalp! Indian no good hereH'
How shall | sell my horseY said a
jockey to an acquaintance. ellis tail
came off in less than six hours after
bought him" "Sel him by wholesale,
for no honorable man will retail him."
was the reply
The head cock at one of the Saratoga
hotels gets 81 800 for four months.
Under him are thirty Frenchmen as as
sistants, or cooks in the meat and game
department, and twenty-five women as
vegetable cooks.
A merchant put an advertisement in
paper, boy wanted" Next day he
fourd a bandbox with an infant in it on
his doorstep, with this inscription, How
Will this one answer
The tobacco crop of Missouri for this
year is estimated at 30, 600 hogshcads
against IS 600 hOgsheads last year. The
st. Louis Republican attributes this large
inCreaseto the stimulus afforded by liberal
premiums offered by the Tobacco AssoCia.
ton
BY series Of observations made in
Philadelphia last summer, the singular
fact was asCertained that the advent of
peaches curtailed by full one-third the sale
of alcoholic and malt liquors in retail es-
adjustments, and that the cheaper peaches
became, the smaller were the receipts at
drinking bars.
1t has been proved by repeated ex-
periments that it is possible to rule lines
with diamond point on glass SO close
together that upwards of 90, 600 of them
are comprised in the space of one inch.
The apparent limit Of vision in the best
microscope does not, however, reach be
You'd lines separated one eighty-thOu-
sandth of an inch,
A few days age a car on n New York
Central train leaving Utica was crowded
so full of passengers that twenty three
gentlemen failed to obtain seats, and
pretty well filled up the aisle. Among
the number was a lawyer, who proposed
to his twenty two companions that they
would not give up their tickets until the
conductor found them seats They all
agreed to this, and when the conductor
demanded their tickets refused TO give
them, telling him their reasons for doing
so He said there was plenty Of room in
the drawing room car just ahead, but, as
there was extra charge on it, they would
not enter it, Finding they were firm, h
compromised by sending twenty-three Of
the passengers, who were already seated,
into the drawnE-rOom car without extra
charge, aud So the tickets were handed
over, and the vacated seats taken.
THE PAIN kILLER.-Spccial attention is