Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01
BREVITIES.

| the cheese Is sometimes mitler than the
pen.
IT has been decided to remove the North
ern Pacific Railroad offices from Brainerd
to ST. Paul, Mimi.
J A wooD-HAULER of ,Om has his old
age giltedged by an inheritance of $4,000
from Montreal aunt.
| BARNUM has engaged forty-five Indians
from Nebraska, whom he intends to send
to the Vienna Exposition.
| THERE is woman in Fairfield County,
! Conn, who, although but thirty-two years
of age, has three grand children
WHEN the new Post-oflice in Boston is
completed the various newspapers will re-
ceive their exchanges direct by pneumatic
| tubes.
| JUDGE KANARD. a native Indian, is hold
ing his court at Taskeetown, Indian Terri
| tory, and breaches every night during the
session. He belongs to the Baptist denom-
| nation.
THE epizootic has been traced to its
| fountain-head. 1t originated with the
ponies OF the Piegan Indians and descend
ed first into Upper Canada whence it eX-
| tended theto rest of the world.
AN indignant young woman in Utica,
who had not received cards to friends
| wedding, sent in q bill Of 500 for twenty
weeks board of a canary, which she had
cared for during that friends winter in
| the city.
| Postal-cards I'll be a convenience to
people who wish to tell you all they
know. Smith says to his landlady: Amy
| letters for me today? And she
answered: "Only two postal cards, but
there's nothing particular on them"
THE Jonesboro (Ga) Times recently
published vigorous poem, in which APP
appeared this stanza:
When spring comes with her floral gifts,
Then time will glide wings so swift,
Well gather flowers sick and Sore,
To decorate the young. the fair
The editor explains by saying that the
third line should read: well gather
| flowers rich and rare" But the explana-
ton comes to late. The poet has com
mitted suicide.
THE bones of a great mastodon lately
| eXhumcd near Laketown, Wabash County,
Ind, are now on exhibition at Peru They
show the animal to have been some forty
feet in length by eighteen feet in height
THE Fort Scott, Humboldt and Western
Railroad have negotiated their securities
on the European market, and the work of
| track-laying will be commenced mme-
| diately between Fort Scott and Humboldt
| The largest catalogue of stars that has
ever been published in America is now
about to appear from the United States
! Naval Observatory at Washington. This
| publication has been long expected by as
| tronomers.
| A STREET car conductor in Detroit
| picked up navy revolver from the floor
| as several passengers were departing A
wcll-dressed woman claimed it, with the
remark: That's the second time I've lost
that pocket-companion today"
| COLONEL Z. L. DRAKE, the first to bore
for petroleum in Nenango County, is now
, living in Bethlehem, Pa, in very feeble
| health and very reduced circumstances
Like many other great discoveries, he has
never protited much by his discovery
TOMATO SoUP-Boil one pint canned
tomatoes for twenty minutes in one pint
water, then add one pint milk very @ra-
dually, that 1t may not curdle season az
for oyster soup, and serve with hot crack
ers or squares Of toasted bread.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew, in
Middletown, Conn, the other evening,
complained that one Of the oysters was
full Of bones, and careful, if not attractive,
examination showed that it contained
fOrty-tive pearls varying in size from
pea to pins head.
A JUNIOR who violently assaulted fresh,
man at New Haven, CT, because he refls-
ed to give up "bcaver'''ha that he wore
was promptly expelled by the governing
board and the rule has since been estab-
lished that any attempt at "haZing' or
similar outrages committed upon students
will be followed by the immediate eXpul-
sion Of the offender.
CANNON weighing about 1000 pounds
arrived recently at Sheboygan, Mich, from
Germany, addressed to Rev Edward
SchlotheiH, pastor of the Lutheran
Church 1t was captured by the Germans
at the battle of Sedan and was sent to Mr..
Schlothcim by the Emperor of Germany,
free of charge to New York. to be made
into bell for his church in Sheboygan
THE Legislature of Kentucky has re-
Gently passed bill that, on the affidavit
of two respectable citizens, any person
who through excessive use of opium,
arsenic, hashish, or any drug, has become
incompetent to manage himself or his
estate, may be confined in any asylum,
and placed under guardianship, as in the
case of habitual drunkards or lunatics.
A PARTY Of twenty, including women,
left Boston, for Petersburg, Kansas, a few
days ago, to join other members of their
families who had gone out ahead to pre-
pare for them. They belong to the Massa-
chusetts colony, which has grown to be
an organization of considerable proper
tons, and numbers among its members
many of New Englands better class of
mechanics and farmers
NICKNAMEs.-A man used to live down
in Southern Illinois by the name of
Aerxes or Here's. His neighbors used to
call him X for short, and sometimes Ten,
because X is the Roman numeraI for ten
When at length, through accident, the man
lost an eye, the wags of the place dubbed
him Eleven, being X one l. Colonel Inger-
soil, of this city, is responsible for the
story, and it is good enough to be true,
and he says it is true.-Peoria TRANSCRIPT.
A DECIDEDLY curious suit has Just been
decided at Manchester, N. II. Some time
since, a horse belonging to David J. Moul-
ton, OF Weare, was frightened by the sud
den barking of dog owned by Benjamin
Holt, of Dunbarton, and inflicted severe
injuries upon the formers five-year-old
daughter. Moulton brought suit for dam
ages, and the supreme judicial court has
just awarded him 81 ,450. Owners of bark
ing dogs take notice.
The pleasure of travelling in palace cars
Is not to be confined to the human race
The Palace Stock Oar COmDanv ic crrap