Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-06
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SOME questions very naturally suggesl
themselves to an inquiring nina. Al
amateur farmer wonders "why, on all
this fair earth, the ground is bottom sIde
up. SO that it must be turned over with a
plow before corn can be raised?"
OVER 100000 in bonds, mortgages,
ETC., stolen from the banking house OF
Carkson s. Co., Lancaster, Pa, on the
10Th January. have since been found un.
der stairway leading to the basement OF
ST. Pauls Reformed Church in that city.
AGATHERINa of the survivors of party
numbering fifty four, which twenty -four
years ago left New Haven for California,
was lately held in .Meriden, Conn. Only
eight Argonauts were present, though let
tiers were received from few others.
TWO men who stole a ride on Texas
freight train were locked in and switched
off the track at way station, and had to
remain in their close quarters for ninety
six hours without food or water, and at
the end of that time were imprisoned as
Migrants.
THE London 7smes asks, "Does brain
work kill?" The man who occupies the
y
evening, and squirts tobacco juice on an
awning post Just to see 1t run down is a
living indication that it doesn't. dan
bury Neaos.
A CHUNK of gold, weighing over 240
pounds, and worth about $4,000, was
found in the claims of 70 Yen 81 Co., at
Moore's Flat (Col) These claims are
owned by a Chinese company to whom
a. 4 oh
posed, been exhausted.
A WEDDING was broken up at Columbus
City, Iowa, in the following manner
The preacher asked if any one had any
objections; the young lady said: eyes;
I don't want to marry him" The ex-
pectant bridegroom folded his broadcloth
and silently stole away.
VIM. CLAYTON, a sanity Mormon, has
lost one wife by elopement every four
weeks for the last three months. Viii.
liam is growing sad and lonely; or If this
monthly exodus continues. in five or six
years he will be entirely deserted by his
wife and become single man again.
A STEAMBOAT landed at Marion Bend
KY, recently, and put two negroes ashore
who were sick with the smallpox. The
citizens were afraid to 90 near them,
They were without shelter, food, or
medicine, and of course died neglected
and alone. The hogs devoured their
bodies.
AN American found himself brought
face to face at Rome last month with an
old schoolfellow whom he had not seen
for years "You herew Eyes, my dear
fellow, | have just been married, and am
come to pass the honeymoon in Italy"
'And your wife," an wife? oh, left
her in New York"
DETRoIT's chief of police had tele-
gram from an interior town saying: Ar
rest a man with red hair for running
away with my wife" Upon walking four
blocks the chief net no less than Is red
haired men walking. with ladies, and he
concluded that the clipping couple could,
pass through the city in safety.
SPENCE PETTIs, convicted at Boston
of forgery, thinks that the old detectives
of Boston were hard to trade with; New
York officers were satisfied with half,
but, in one bargain with the Boston Off
GERS, seven Or eight years ago, he had to
pay them e6 per cent, which he calls tax
ing mean advantage
ANOTHER venerable lady has been dis
covered in the person of Mrs Mary Mil
Ter, of Mount Airy, Penn, who rode on
horseback to attend Washington's funeral
in January, 1900. The race of Washing
toms confidential servants has, we
imagine, become extinct.
PERSONS who wear mustaches are of
ten dreadfully embarrassed when eating
curry or pea soup by the accumulation of
the aliment upon their hirsute append
ages. Such will be glad to learn that a
rubber muzzle, intended to obviate this
inconvenience, has been invented.
A CINCINNATI halter who went mad,
as only a halter could, with love for a
beautiful blonde Of the Thompson troupe,
lately turned up as an applicant for a
nights lodging in the Kansas City police
station after luxurious Western tour
with his tlaxen divinity and $4,000 Of
his fathers money.
10 WASH halr-brushes, never use soap
Take a piece of soda, dissolve it in warm
water, stand the brush in it, making sure
that the water only covers the bristles. It
Will almost instantly become white and
clean. Place it in the air to dry, with
the bristles downward, and it will be as
firm as new brush.
COLoRING BUTTER.-A New York COM
mission merchant makes good point
when he says that one kind of coloring
butter is not at all good thing: Mixing
two or three kinds of butter in the same
tub or firkin does not pay. He also ad-
vlses against coloring with annatto, and
advises little carrot juice, if any color
ing is to be used.
The clerk of San Francisco LAWYER
guarded against the possibility of forget
ting the secret of the combination lock by
writing it upon piece of paper, and
pasting it upon the knob of the safe. He
found 1t hard to dodge the we'll bound
law books that were thrown at his head
when the lawyer discovered it, and is
now seeking desk in another office.
WHILE. the workmen were engaged in
sinking vertical shaft at the Black Dia-
mond Coal Company's mine in Mount
Dlablo, CAL, they came upon a frog at a
depth of 172 feet. 1t was imbedded in
solid sandstone, SO that the impression
OF It's form was perfect upon the rock
around 1t; but, nevertheless, it was alive,
and lived for twelve hours after it's extri-
cation.
A BRooKFIELD man writes for the best
way to manage bull. If our Brookfield
trend has got bull on his premises, and
the bull is well, he don't want to manage
it.. All he has got do is to get few
things hastily together. mortgage his
place and steer straight for the west. He
might as we'll try to ward off streak of
lightning with fifty cent pal brush as