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


liquor disguised In soda water is twice as
intoxicating as the poteen pure and Sim
pie.
An inventor has supplied a long'felt
want by inventing a gate hinge strong
enough to support two lovers suspended
by the armpits.
1t was a Titusville man who became
SO affected by the smell Of a bottle of
whisky, broken on the sidewalk, that he
went off and tried to pick the pocket of a
billiard table.
The attempt of California to aecli-
Matte the Cashmere goat promises sue
cess, the animal attaining a larger size
and yielding q finer fleece than in its ma
tive India.
The Halifax Chronicle says that in
Beuna Vista harbor a gigantic cuttle-ish
has been captured, measuring thirty feet
from the tip of the horns to the extremity
of the tail"
The Providence Herald man, after
evolving 775 paragraphs On the horse dis
order, burst into tears because he couldn't
think of anything that would make a
good 776th.
1t is estimated that a sufficient num-
Der of logs are hung up in Grundy Flat
and Rouge Rivers, Mich, to supply all
the mills in that region with material for
full two-thirds of next season.
1T requires more delicacy of touch, n
better acquaintance with the inner emo
tions of the heart, and grander pathos of
sentiment to make a declaration of love
than it does to put up a stove.
The most senseless election bet yet,
was made in Norwalk, between a man of
the Greeley persuasion and a Republican,
the former agreeing to swallow a dozen
rotten eggs if Grant was elected, and the
latter to take the same dose if Greeley
was.
The young man who scissors for a
Picayunish New Orleans paper, parts his
hair in the middle and claws the piano.
Owing to the immensely of his paws, q
| piano has been constructed for his es-
pecial use, with shingles for keys.-S.
Louj$ Gi0be.
There is now in course of construC-
ton in Washington city a sewer of nine
feet interior diameter, through which a
siX-mule team can be easily driven. Seven
hundred brick and two barrels Of cement
are required for each foot of advance
made.
Baltimore oysters are now sent to
London by the ship-load. During the
past winter a British steamship made two
trips from the Chesapeake to that city,
loaded exclusively with Baltimore oysters,
and SO great was the success attending
the experiment that three large vessels
are now on the way to that port under
phortnr IN tala nvCtarg IN TppIpD
The steep hills and deep cuts of Kan
sas City, Mo, are family imaged by the
following from the Leavenworth CAM
m%,e1r50l, If that paper didn't steal it: "An
individual at work in a celler of a house
in Kansas City, the other day, fell out and
was dashed to pieces on the roofs of the
two.story buildings at the foot of the
hill"
"A man named Pierce was digging q
cellar under his house in a village oppo-
site L~eavenworth the other day, when he
suddenly came upon an old carpet.sack,
in which had been buried about ten thou.
sand dollars in Missouri State Bank bills.
When exposed to the air they immediate
~ cTumbled to dust, and the poor man
saw what ne believed to be a fortune fade
before his eyes into n~othingness
1t is assumed, in one Chicago paper,
that lager beer is as lacking in intoxicat-
ing properties as the gentle tea which
CHEERS but not inebriates." We aIe not
aware that tea has any alcohol, while it is
quite certain that 10 beer has yet been
manufactured but has. In an analysis of
beer made a year ago for this paper, one
| specimen was found to contain 8. 100 per
cent. a second, 6 1852, and a third, 5.631.
Cincinnati Commercial.