Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-12-05
BRETITIES.

A wELL-BREp dog generally bosas to
strangers.
COUNTERPART postage stamps are in
the market,
NEVER ask a wooden manufacturer to
give up his cards.
A WINGED calf was on exhibition at
the Oregon State Fair.
How TO keep your head clesr-Shave
every hair oil.
THEY distribute advertisements on toy
balloons In New York.
A NEW and very fashionable shade of
color is known as neuter.
SEALS are called ocean hounds" from
the way they chase the salmon.
A FLOWING gas.well supplies Titus
vile, Pa, with light and fuel,
A poa epizootic is loadly clamored for
by Louisville letter carriers.
THE High Toned Guards is the name Of
a military company at Albany, N, y.
10, II pecuniarily deficient Indian,
has embraced rag picking in San Diego,
A NUMBER of New York capitalists
have ordered vessels built in Nova Scotia,
SAILORS are not necessarily making
plum-dutf when they are stemming the
currents.
THE Boston Globe wants State and
County Fairs to establish prizes for fish
culture.
GIVING seventeen hundred pounds OF
coal for a ton is among ''the weighs that
are dark"
IT took twenty men, armed with Whit
ney rifles, to kill a mad bull, near Esst
Rock, Conn.
GARDENING around Paris is dangerous
on account OF unexploded bombs in the
earth.
CLEAN straw mating with q coarse
cloth dipped in strong salt and water.
Then wipe dry.
MONKEY fur is the last furore in Turin
parts, and New York is expected to ape
the fashion this winter.
THE largest dairy in California con.
tains 1900 cows, the milk of which is
churned into butter by steam.
THE Roman theatrical managers are
filling their pockets by producing repre-
sensations of the Inquisition.
Four buffalo hunters left Great Bend,
Kan, and killed and skinned one hun
bred buffalo in one day.
In Kansas ana Nebraska alone over ff.
teen thousand entries were made within
the year under the Homestead law.
The Dayaks, of Borneo, believe that
"all whom they kill in this world shall
attend them rs slaves after death"
A FLOATING elevator is being construct
ed in New Orleans double the capacity of
any floating elevator in the country.
AN clipping couple in Kentucky were
obliged to ride ninety miles on horseback
before they could get married.
We have over a billion and a quarter
acres of land in the States and Territories
yet unsurveyed.
AMUD dredge has been named ''Lucca"
because its owner wanted TO doa "Luccan-
ratiye business.
IT is considered that a guest who asked
at a Louisville hotel to have his coffee
weak was innocent.
A BAR Of pig iron, stamped with the
date 1910, was found near the site of an
old charcoal furnace, Bethlehem, Pa,
A New HAMPSHIRE man has discov-
cred how to send messages in opposite
directions on a single telegraph wire.
THE difference between October and
November is that while with October
leaves fall, with November the fall leaves.
AN enterprising Yankee has opened an
institution in Boston for turning left
handed people into r~ght.handers,
MAN proposes-woman opposes, says a
cynical bachelor, who probably never
proposed in his life.
A COOK advertises for a situation, and
adds: "No objection 10 dressing chill
dren." Horrible.
You've married people who have their
house built, should have it built round,
so that discomfort can find no corner
in it,
THE berries of the mountain ash are
employed in some of the forest regions in
Europe for the manufacture Of alcoholic
drinks.
THE cornerstone of the first insane
asylum for homeopathic treatment in
America was laid last week at Middle
town, N. Y.
THE old notion that odorous flowers
are injurious to the health, seems to have
been quite overturned by some ecent ex-
periments.
CINCINNATI wanted to compliment It's
dear citizen, Richard Smith, by naming
a street after him. 1t spells the name
thus "Dyxmith."
THE Danbury Meas says that a commit
tee appointed to canvass Rhode Island,
has sent for the tent Of the Danbury Agri-
cultural Society.
THE japanese are said to be consider.
ing the feasibility Of adopting a new Ian,
guage, and to be wavering in a choice be.
tween English and German.
SIX HUNDRED barrels of whisky and
200 cases of brandy, that have lain in the
bed Of the Mississippi, near Memphis,
since 1861, were fished up recently.
A Poor but honest young lady, who
earns a living by working on hoop-skirts,
in reply to an inquiry, stated that she had
spent the summer "at the springs"
Our in the western counties Of Kansas
squashes are of such enormous size that
after taking the "meat' out of them they
are considered very serviceable for coal.
bins.
metallic roofs are said to be the best
safeguards against lightning, as the root
instantly distributes the electric fluid over
its surface, and by so doing prevents all
danger.
A STUDENT who has been afflicted with
a sermon one hour and q half long, grum.
blingly says that these professors study
SO much about eternity that they have no
conception Of time.
THE one soul that now finds c~onsola.
ton in the mucilaginous malady of the
horse is a Boston lad, who gloats over il
because his rich rivalcannot 0 take the
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