Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
General Intelligence.

The most successful newsboyain
Memphis is three years and six months
old.
We are told that Miss Kellogg is
going to Havana. But who is going
to have Clara Louise
J "A stone-cutter in Detroit keeps
ready-made gravestones with the name
Smith cut thereon.
-Punctuations first used in litera-
ture 1920. Before thattime wordsand-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS like this.
Pump Carpenters old claim for
printing which passed both Houses has
been vetoed by Gov. Washburn.
RI diculous enough. A 200
pound poetess writing verses about
what she would do ''if she were sun
beam"
When Jonah's fellow passengers
pitched him overheard they evidently
regarded him as neither prophet nor
loss.
Columbus, Ga, wouldn' t subscribe
a red cent for new church, but old
John Robinson circus took $4,000
out of the town.
Oliver Wendell has a brother
named John Holmes, who prefers chop
ping wood to writing poetry because ii
is so much easier
"A somewhat illiterate gentleman
up town has named his dog Michael
Angelo" on the supposition that NJ.
A. was one of the old mastiffs.
/ A Western editor triumphatly ex-
claimed: "Man shall not live by bread
alone" and then acknowledges the re-
ccipt of jug Of cold Bourbon
| Western women are grumbine
terribly because the managers Of agri-
cultural fairs don't give at least year S
notice when they offer prizes for the fin.
est babies.
The Mill. & st. ?. r. X. Co. out.
winded all competitors in the Legisla
ture, on the Land Grant question, and
are virtually already in possession o
quite garden spot.
"A worthy gentleman in Danbury
played euchre at a ncighbcr's house
until an hour after midnight Monday
and beat every game, but got skunked
goiug hoIne.-Danbuy News
DR.. Stillman, who testified Il
Mrs. Fairs insanity, was asked if he
had ever read 'Stobel on INSANITY
He said that he had and was then
told that there was no such author,
The Secreta.y of the Credit Mobil-
Ter testified that the profits of the con
tractors who built the Union Pacific
railroad were 81, S25, 1927. The whole
cost Of the road to the owners was
STA, O33,72s.
A little Green Bay girl called al
one of the stores the other day for &
| hundred spools of thread and took a
ten cent bill out of knot in her hand
kerchief to pay for il. 1t afterwards
transp;re1 that she wanted spool OF
100 thread"
Prof Tyndall visited the Museum
Of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge,
Mass. and expressed himself with
much enthusiasm concerning it. He
said that the British Museum could
not compare with it in either tsJabora-
tory or the facilities which it afforded
to students.
B. Single, Esq, is making prep
arations, getting out timber, ETC., for
the erection Of saw-m:ll on Little
Rib, where the one that was burned
some four years ago was located, 1t is
to be built as speedily as possible
Unlike the old one, it is to have all
the latest Improvements, and Mr.. S.
proposes to have it second to no other
mill in the pineries. WISE. Pilot.
Some persons, who pretend to be
we'll posted in financial matters, assert
that the severe monetary stringency Of
1872 is passing away, and that it will
be followed by great ease during the
present year. This, if true, will be
good news to all business men in this
part Of the country It is said that
money is easier already, and We hope
it will reach here soon.
The largest stick of hewn timber
ever brought to Chiffon, was hauled
there on Saturday evening last. 1t
was brought from the farm of John
torhins, Jr., two miles west or the
vlllage-Was owned bv IT McC.r.br