Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-07

dying of mad itch"
Byron, dark reddish purple, is
one OF the new tints. II is very styl-
Iish.
do not infer that an individual Is
going to spin yarn because he knits his
brow,
| Out West, when lazy man is seen
! at work, they say he is meddling WITH In
dustry.
A St. Louis family nouns the de-
cease Of canary in the eighteenth year
of his age.
Corn. bread ?" said an'Irish waiter,
1--WE haven't got it; and isn't it corn bafe
We name r'
"A Tennessee dog saved the life of his
drunken master by dragging him off q
railroad track ~ As. d.
We cant complain OF woman's ex-
travagance now. She wears her dresses
long enough, goodness knows. I
The Secretary .ofthe Treasury is said
to have decided that imported chignons
are liable to extra juicy.
"A love-lorn swain remarks that the
final rejection of his suit by his inamorata
was of the nature of no sir-ender.
--Forethought and prudence both say
insure your life. Take their advice and
insure in the Washington.
Last from the Nursery. --"Tiddy ickle
tootsey tum, why does it such faces make {?
Is a pin a-sticking in it? Has 1t got a
tummiC-ache?"
ON Woman with Red Hair Who
Wrote Poetry. Unfortunate woman!
how sad is your lott Your ringlets are
red, but your poems are not.
"A Welsh orator recently remarked, in
a fine peroration; Innocence is like an
umbrella; when once we have lost it, we
can never hope to see it back again"
The young man on Olive street who
thinks he has fine tenor voice, was vac
cinated with brick. bat, by sleepless
neighbor, last night. st Louis Globe.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
warns bankers that no thickness of stone
or iron will keep burglar out of a vault
if he can only hire the room next door.
Mrs. Darlington, in Illustration Of the
proverb, "a soft answer turneth away
wrath, " says: at is better to speak pare.
gorically Of person than to be all the
time tlinging epitaphs at him"
New Haven thieves, in broadcloth
and broad day, go to church and steal the
costly lace trimming of ladies' dresses,
while the wearers are absorbed in devo-
tionally scrutinizing the toggery of their
neighbOrs.
--One of the largest chains ever manu-
featured in this country is to be made at
the Massachusetts State Prison 1t will
be made of iron two and a quarter inches
in diameter, and there will be three hun
bred links, each of which will weigh
about fifty pounds.
A Biddeford (Maine) editor writes
"a lady Of this city was surprised, the
other day, to find birds nest cunningly
wrought in hair, on the window sill of
her chamber, the material of which the
little warbler had stolen from the dress
ingroom of this lady"
Two young men in Montreal thought
it an excellent joke to dress in Indian
costume and terrify a young lady of the
hotel nearly out of her senses; but when
she came out of her swoon, at the end of
some hours, her first act was to summon
policeman, and 800 was what the joke
cost.
United States Detective Tom. Lon.
ergan is looking after the showers" of
those "queer" $50 counterfeits. Some
facetious individual perpetrated a practi
cal joke on the Union National Bank a
few days since, by passing one Of these
notes at that institution and the joke.was
not discovered until the bank sent it over
to the United States Depository. CHI
cage Times.
The new silver dollar recently struck
in the san Francisco Mint is said to be
adapted for general circulation in China,
where the want of silver coin as an ac-
knowledged value has been much felt. 1t
is worth six per cent. more than the old
dollar, and will be received in China on
the same terms as the Mexican dollar,
which has hitherto been at premium of
five to eight per cent.
John Snyder, of Virginia, owns a
crow which serves as substitute for
dogs, cats, and all other domestic senti-
nels. He destroys every frog about the
well; allows a mouse no chance for its life;
drives away hawks from the poultry, and
bids fair to act as the best squirrel dog
in the country He readily spies the
squirrel, either upon the fence or on the
trees, and with natural antipathy to the
squirrel tribe, his shrill, keen note is read
lily detected by his owner, accompanied
by rapid darts up and down, and the
owner is thus led to the game. The most
remarkable feature about the crow is, that
he invariably keeps five or six dayskra
tons ahead of time, well concealed.