Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-10
BREVITIES.
AIDEE SPEEcH-"A Ask papa


ed by Napoleon the Great.
a DOG TEAM with sledge, near Ash
land, Mimi, recently made twenty-five
miles in one hour on the ice.
CELERY over two feet long, grown this
winter in Oregon, is something TO BOAST
of, and the papers there do 1t.
TIE FIRST child born in Denison City,
Texas, girl, received a present OF town
lot from the railroad company.
By the completion of the Texas Central
Railroad, there is now unbroken railroad
communication between Chicago and the
Gulf.
A WOMAN servant has served family
In Terre Haute, Ind, for thirty three con-
secutive years, and has 81, 100 to show
for it.
MISS HANNAH JANE DUKE, 500 pound
girl has received $500 from circus COM
pany.in Fayette, KY, for breach of con-
tract:
JACOB KEPLER, a butcher of Williams
port, Pa, won wager by killing
and dressing for market ten sheep within
an hour.
THE Eagle DIstillery at indianapolis
cost SAG 900, but was sold recently for
S21 900, leaving $25, 600 to be charged to
the new temperance law.
THE Roman spirit of Rock Island
Squire was tested and found worth $40,
the other day. He fined his boy that
much and costs, and then paid the bill.
A YOUNG LADY in Beaver Dam, Wis. :,
has recently fallen heir to fortune Of
800, 900 through the death of an uncle.
Thus are the sorrows of death alleviated.
MURRAY MORLEY, a precocious pop
Germ dealer in Marshal, Mich, not yet six
years old, has the snug sum Of $50 in
bank, the proceeds of his winters trade.
PEOPLE who have luxuriated on buck
wheat cakes all winter are backing up
against door jambs and gateposts with a
good deal of pleasing ctivity.--Dan6uay
Aeacs
4 CALIFORNIA firm has set up an incu-
bator OF 2, 900 eggs capacity. II is 8 feet
Tong, 81 feet wide, and IS inches high,
and is expected to turn out live chickens
promptly and unerringly.
PHOEBE A LOwRIE, of New York City,
has been awarded 5000 damages from
Abram B. Chambers for breach of prom
Use. We rather guess that Abe wishes
now that he hadn't done it.
AN INDUSTRIOUS Detroit boy has gath
cred up and piled in the back yard during
the past winter, over eleven hundred old
oyster cans. He has not yet decided
what use he viii make of them.
The La Crosse wis Leader relates an
instance Of a man being attacked by by
drophobia nine years after he had been
bitten by dog, having never previously
felt any i'll effects from the same.
A YOUNG lady having read about man
having invented stove which consumes
It's own smoke, hopes he will devise a
method whereby tobacco-smokers can be
run on the same economical principle
an OLD bachelor says if girl wants to
know when she looks most charming in
the mems eyes, it is when she wears
simple muslin dress, with frill of lace
around the neck and at the waist, and no
ornaments but youth and freshness.
THIS was Mrs. Poyser's remark to the
young ladies who thought her farm house
was beautiful Eyes; a farm house is
fine thing for them IS look on, an don't
know the liftin' and the standin' an the
worritin' O. the inside as belongs tot"
The cerebralmeningitis, or spotted
fever, IS raging fiercely on the Pacific
coast. In one instance four members of
a family died within twenty-four hours
The disease has assumed an epidemic
type and proves fatal almost invariably.
IMPRISONMENT for debt is by no means
so generally abolished as people suppose.
The Hartford (Conn.) Courant mentions
that ten or twelve debtors have been
lodged in the jail of that city during the
past winter, and three are confined there
now.
4 SMALL. boy arrived at Harrisburg,
Pa, the other day, from Texas, having
haIH cf.y,} oil tAnvf La l,
ticket seWed to his coat. The conduct
joyed the journey hugely.
L HAVE known vast quantity of nom
sense talked about bad men not looking
you in the face. Don't trust that conven-
tional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty
out of c0untenance any day in the week,
If there is anything to be got by it
Dickens.
Ina New York City police recently
took possession of the office Of notorious
firm of sawdust swindlers at 566 Broad
way. 1t was found by the books of the
concern that they had deposited within
six weeks over $4,000, the proceeds of
their nefarious schemes.
A MAN who has been engaged in petty
thefts from stores in Concord, N. H, went
TO them all, the other day, and made am
pie restitution, declaring, with tears in
his eyes, that he could neither eat ror
sleep, the matter lay so heavily on his
conscience. He had not been suspected.
THE usual process of subdivision of
the soil into small freeholds is reversed
IN Bourbon County, KY, where, among
other similar transactions, one capitalist
has bought and consolidated twenty four
adjoining farms, the former occupants of
which, 161 in number, have emigrated to
the West.
A HOTEL proprietor at Brattleboro, Vt,
was fined 800 for selling liquor to one
armed soldier, and then turning him into
the street, late at night, in a state of in
toxication, where he must have frozen to
death had not q friend found and cared
for him.
The editors and publishers of Maine
newspapers having met in convention at
Augusta the other day, the Portland
Press ventures to affirm that there were
gathered the very wisest and most vir-
tuous little crowd of men, in the seediest
of last years clothes, that ever met at
the State capital"
THOMAS CALDWELL, President of the
South Nashville Street Railway, under
took to ride with a new driver, the other
night, telling him in response to the de-
mand for fare: 81 own most of this road"
and getting this reply: " Well, you won't
own it long if you don't pay me your fare.
That's all I've got to say about it.'