Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
BREVITIES.

DAEt ll1E0s
A GERMAN colony has purchased 10O,-
OO0 acres of land of the Atchison, Topeka
q Santa Fe Railroad.
CHINESE servants don't like Philadel-
PIMA, as they are not allowed to pound on
tin boilers Sunday.
CALEB GREEN, of Osseo, Mich, has in
vented machine to extract shippers
from cheese, and secured q patent on
| it.
HE Inmate of boarding house in
Hoboken describes the programme of his
breakfast as "bells tangled out Of tune,
and hash"
RIPE cheese may be known by its hav-
| ing lost its elasticity under pressure of
the flnger; it keeps soft after cutting
not drying up readily-and melts in the
mouth like ripe pear.
To PREVENT the teeth from decaying,
brush them with lime water. Even if
| they are far gone, it will cause them to
decay with little or no pain. Saturate
the brush well, aud use with tooth
powder.
AT discussion upon the most profit
able disposition of straw, by an English
farmers club, recently, the preponder-
ance of opinion was in favor Of treading
down into manure by sheep fed on clover
and turnips.
A CoNvALEscENT smallpox patient in
England has been sentenced to $50 fine or
months Imprisonment for escaping
from the hospital and making circuit of
the tap rooms of the town in an eight
hour 'bender."
A SMALLPOX patient got into the jail
at jackson, Tenn, the other day, and the
jailer lit out" so quickly that he forgot
to lock up his bastile. When he came back
the smallpox man was gone. So were
the prisoners.
A HEN has unfortunately been killed in
Boston, which might in time have attain,
ed the power of laying golden eggs. A
solid nugget of the precious metal was
found in her insides, weighing four pen
nyweights, and in shape very like an egg.
AN old lady in town of Worcester
County, Mass, lately refused the gift of
load of wood from tree struck by
lightning, through fear that some of the
"huid'' might remain in the wood and
| cause disaster to her kitchen stove!
IMPoRTATIoNs of tobacco from China
is the latest novelty in English trade. 1t
u
| for Turkey, which it resembles in appear
ance, though not equal in quality. The
| leaf is quite yellow, and is almost void of
flavor.
THAT nervous youth in Louisville who
by mistake slipped nickel five-cent
| piece into the parsons hand instead of a
| five-dollar gold piece which he had ready
| in another pocket, after three weeks of
iply no fty do r.
| for his fun after ALL and regrets that the
nickel was not suspender button.
THE politeness of street-car drivers
will never become proverbial. "Do you
want to rider" yelled one of these
worthless yesterday to lady and gentle
man who were standing on cross-walk
as the car dashed up. NO" was the re-
ply. ''Then why didn't you say SOP
Nep York Tribune.
| DIR. CHARLES PUTNAM, of Boston, dis
| courages the popular deluson that the
children Of the poor are the hardest and
most likely to attain to maturity. He
says: "Twentyeight per cent. of the
children born in Boston die during their
first year, and among the poorer classes
| the percentage is over fifty"
TIE pew United States Hotel at Sara
toga Springs is going to be "bigger than
| all outdoors" The principal part will be
500 feet long by SO feet deep, with wing
90 feet in length. The kitchen will be
| 1875 feet long, and the dining-room twice
that length. The piazzas of the wing and
| front will be over half mile in extent
A BIRD SONG
It's year, almost, that have not seen her;
Oh, last Summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
| It's well nigh Summer for there's swallow;
| Come swallow, his mate will follow,
| The bird race quickens and wheels and thickens.
| Oh, happy swallow. whose mate will follow
| Ger height, DER hollowl I'd be a swallow
| To build, this weather, one nest together
Jean Iegel0W.
| THE Lancet asserts that night work is
| not Injurious to adults under certain con-
| ditions. The hours of sleep should never
be curtailed, and the light should be
white, powerful, steady and concentrated
| by a shade on the work. 1t argues that
an insufficient, Pickering, or too diffused
! light is one of the mos, serious causes in
| producing the brain irritation which
troubles night workers. 1t recommends
abundant nutriment and moderate use
| of tobacco.
| A KENTUCKY editor received the fol-
| lowing note from subscriber, asking
| that false notice of his death might be
| corrected: "Sir, l motifs few errors in
the obituary of myself wich appeerd in
your paper of last wensday, l was born
in greenup CO. not caldwell, and my re-
| tirement from bisnes in 1869 was not OWN
to il helth, but tn little truble I had in
connection with horse, and the cors of
my deth was not smallpox, pleas make
corrections for wich | enclose so cents"
THE latest phase of servant galism was
developed in Cleveland. A lady in that
city advertised for "help," and among
those who applied was one who subjected
the advertiser to severe catechism as to
the desirability of the situation offered.
| The questions were all satisfactorily an
| swered, until the young woman inquired
how many times week the man of the
house changed his shirt. The lady Of the
house was obliged to give it up, and the
visitor departed without an engagement
AN immense canal is being built
| through the San Joaquin valley, in Cali
fornia, for the double purpose of irriga-
ton and navigation. The canal will ex-
tend from Iulare lake, at the upper end
of the valley, to tide water at Antioch,
near San Francisco-a distance of two
| hundred miles. 1t will have various
branches and feeders, and will supply
water for manufacturing, domestic and
irrigating purposes to the towns along the
| line. Forty miles are already completed