Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
BREVITIES.

PEOPLE ABOUT Dull I1cau cOlAplaih Va
tough beef
CAN ship with two owners be calico
partnership?
BRIGHT AND SHINING LIGHTs-The lit.
tie bOotblacks.
THE colored school population in
Washington is S,532.
A COUPLE of horse-thieves in Kansas
qave just suspended"
A HOT shovel held over vanished furni-
ture will take out spots.
The water in Lake Cnamplain is lower
| than for tWenty-one years before.
THE bones of a mastodOn have been
eXhumed near Bakers Prairie, Mich.
THE Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
was attended this year by SOY ,65S persons.
THE six chief offices of the Erie Rail
way divide $4,000 salary per annum.
A WITTY housewife says there is no
| venison in this market, but plenty of dear
meat.
THE proceeds Of the taxes upon car
riages and horses in England amount to
nearly 100000 per annum.
| IT is said that about 10000 Swiss an
| nually go forth into the world as walters
and as ladies' maids.
IT is estimated that the wool clip of
Colorado and New Mexico this year will
| reach 100000 pounds.
A SUFFERER suggests an improvement
| in the photography of the word panics
| He thinks it would be better to spell it
| pdy-n5r!
ONLY about 500 feet of the Hoosac
| Tunnel remains to be bored The com
pletion of the undertaking is promised
| by November Is.
THE Union Pacific Railroad is building
a snow pillow to be driven by five loComo-
tives. They expect it to go through
drifts twenty feet deep.
A FAMILY consisting Of widowed
mother, three sons, and two daughters all
married at once in Cincinnati, recently.
That is a sensible family.
| FIFTY vessels laden with grain, valued
at So, 500 900, have been dispatched this
year from California for Europe, and a
| dozen more are taking cargo.
PERISH that power which has been OBJ
| tanned by evil means, retained by similar
practices, and which is administered as
badly as it was acquired.-C5cer0.
| THE oldest lunatic asylum in America
is at Williamsburg, Va. 1t was opened
October -, 1878. There is but one insti-
tuition of the kind in Europe older than
| this.
THE partial cleanup of fume at
Cherokee, Cal, few days ago, yielded
| gold which, when run into brick,
weighed 142 pounds avoirdupois, worth
about $4,000
a SOUTHERN editor pops the question
in his paper in this public fashion
There's certain girl in this town who
can carry our smoke-hOuse keys for life
if she'll only say the word"
THE vigilance committees in Montana
no longer hang small thieves. They
merely fetch out the rasCals in a new role
put them in hOgsheads, which are
closed up and set rolling down hill.
| - HERE is the latest description of kiss
"'Twas night. a real warm couple stood
in the pale, cold sunbeams. Their lips
touched, and there was sound like a
cow hauling her hoof out Of the mud"
CAPTAIN CAULFIELD and the Rev. Mr.
Jackson killed notorious man eating
tiger with strychninc recently in Madras,
India. This tiger for the last three years
| had killed a man a week on an average.
Up to September 81, 395 ,2S0 tons of ore
had been shipped from Escanaba, Mich,
and 6,442 tons of pigiron. From Mar
quetee the shipments of ore amounted to
All ,4S3 tons, and of pig,iron to 1908
| tons
IT was a saying of DR.. Arnold that no
student could continue long in healthy
religious state unless his heart was kept
tender by mingling with children, or by
frequent intercourse with the poor and
suffering.
THE report of the Michigan State Salt
| Inspector, for August shows that las, 1884
barrels were manufactured during the
month, being the largest yield for one
month in the history of salt manufacture
in Michigan.
How MANY troubles might mankind be
spared if they would only stop to hear
each others explanation How many
ailments both of body and soul, if expla-
nations only came more frequently and
freely
THE new Masonic Temple at Philadel-
phia was recently dedicated, with much
ceremony. The temple, which was five
years building, is the largest, costliest, and
| most magnificent structure consecrated to
| Masonry, in the world
MINNESOTA farmers who sowed winter
threshed wheat have been the losers One
man, who last year raised $4,000 bushels,
reaps but II 900 this year, a difference
which he ascribes to the use Of winter
threshed wheat as seed.
A YOUTH, four years old, and his young
sister, saw rat hasten into hole in the
barn floor Said he, ISIS, the Bible says,
Watch and pray You pray while l
watch the hole, and I'll swat him acrost
the snoot when he comes out.''
A MISS RYE has gone into the business
of furnishing English women with en-
ployment in this country. Is it possible
that she is daughter of Old Rye, who is
so we'll known in this country? If so, the
less the women have to do with her the
better.
A MAN who was discovered asleep
among lot of tombstones in stonecut-
ter's yard, said, on being awakened, he
had come in to buy monument for him
self, and, having picked out one, made up
his mind he would try it one night before
purchasing.
A LADY in New Hampshire recently
died from the effects of ether, taken for
the purpose of having tooth drawn
Moral: Some ladies should either quit
having teeth drawn or let ether alone
either one horn Or the other of this di-
lemma must be adopted.
IT is related as an instance of the ex-
travagance Of New England humor, that
when a young farmers wife made her
fret how Ia Infc