Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
BREyITIES.


Lewisburg, Pa.
A MASSACHUSETTS State constable fright
ened a woman to death.
WHEN is fowls neck like a bell
When it is rung for dinner.
THERE were only 179 divorces granted
in New Hampshire last year.
Moss agates have been found in the
vicinity of Clear Lake, Iowa.
SOME men are fond of their species, but
all men are fond of their specie.
THE latest scientific discovery is that
" the man in the moon" is woman.
KROUGuKAIG is the way they spell a
popular game in western locality.
A BAND of wolves has taken possession
of the poorhouse at Oskaloosa, Kansas.
A IAN with one leg celebrated the
Fourth of July by climbing to the top OF
Pixies Peak.
THE guests at Mount Washington have
snow-balling for one of their amuse-
ments.
MONEY is reported to be very ''easy'' in
Wall street, but it is very hard to get 1t,
nevertheless.
A wELL-KNOwN belle is writing "the
American society novel" Won't the crit
les have fun?
WILLIAM BUTLER, of LenoXa, Kan,
raised !, 342 bushels of oats from twenty
acres of land.
WHAT a clever paraphrase that is which
tells us that In the midst of life we are
in debt"
THERE is man O. in Hartford who
drinks keg of lager-about seven gal
lons-every day.
A CIVIC describes marriage as an altar
on which man lays his wallet and woman
her affections.
CALIFORNIA, after electing a Legisla-
ture in September, will elect Supreme
Court Judge in October.
THE arkansas Gazette reports its State
scrip as advanced to 45 cents" There
is room for future advance.
THE Catskill Mountain House, az this
season of the year. is sufficiently warmed
by two old-fashioned stoves.
A YOUNG gambler, aged fourteen, lately
tieeced member of the Texas Legislature
of 81 200, at "a little game"
DR.. Hermann KLEIN concludes that
the earth has been 1000, 100000 years
forming since first it had crust.
DURING the last six months 1850 Chi
nese emigrants have landed in California
OF white folks there were 900 less.
GIVE us water or give us DEATH" cries
the Denver Tribune. Most Western men
would prefer the former alternative.
AN Ohio woman fears to 90 overland to
California this summer, because she
would have to go through Cholerado.
THE grasshoppers of Iowa are addicted
to bad habits. They chew tobacco, and
are making a bad raid upon that crop as
it grows.
A GRAIN dealer at Davenport, Iowa, got
neatly swindled out of $50 in money and
fifty grain sacks, by an "honest farmer
looking" fellow.
A HoTEL-KEEPER in Sterling, Mass, got
up few nights ago to take some essence
of peppermint, and swallowed corrosive
sublimate instead
MAN is, physically as well as metaphy-
sically, thing of shreds ana patches,
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors.
AN Ohio man who had his choice be-
tween marrying writer for the maya
zines and girl who could bake bread,
wisely chose the latter.
A WASHINGTON paper announces that
the public printer will shortly issue a
complete complication of the postal laws
of the United States.''
A FLORIDA paper has ascertained that a
| healthy alligaeor can eat seven negro chill
| dren inside of seven hours and not display
any symptoms of disquiet.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE paper speaks of
| the "idiOts who are climbing the White
Mountains to get view Of the cows pas
turing in the meadows below"
THE new $40 National Bank bill is to
be issued about the LIST of September. No
issue of other denominations is to be
made before Congress meets.
THE Missouri State Editorial Conven-
ton recently presented to the officer at
tending them on their late editorial eX-
cursion an elegant gold headed cane
AN old couple living near Sparland,
Ill, were recently divorced. The hus-
band has since married the hired girl and
the eX-wife taken the hired girls place.
A FARMER in St Clair County, H. has
just harvested from twelve acres of ground
$685. bushels of wheat, being but frac-
ton less than forty-tive bushels per acre.
Two Kentucky youths were invited into
the bushes to see serpent. They didn't
see the snake, but saw pair of pick
pockets decamp with their money and
things.
SOUTHWESTERN sanitarians have settled
it to their own satisfaction that "indigen-
Gus cholera owes its origin solely to eat
ing fruit containing the germs of cater
pillars"
THE golden" sand-ridges of Morgan
County, Ind, are selling for more money
than business lots in Indianapolis. The
people are still excited over the gold dust
of those parts.
A RESPECTABLE English magazine re
cords, with evident pleasure, that of the
80, 900 clergymen of the Church of En-
gland fully 1000 abstain from the use of
| spirituous liquorsn'
4 CURIOUS sight is to be seen at meal
| tiaes at any Of the seaside hotels, when
seven or eight hundred ladies are stimuli
| taneously using the huge fans now so gen
orally fashionable.
AN Iowa paper says that commercial
| travellers from the city are of great advan-
tage to the country dealer, as matter of
economy, and hopes that the system will
| not be abandoned.
THERE is promise for a novel sensation
| for some of the reporters who will accom-
pany Prof. Wise in his transatlantic bal
| loon voyage The sensation will probably
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