Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-16

(ShausD having no less than 81 900 square
miles with veins from IL to ~ feet In
thickness.
A MORMON farmer has succeeded In
playing thorough confidence game on
the potato bugs. He planted grain OF
corn in each potato hill, and as the corn
came up first, the bugs thought 1t was
corn field and started for other scenes.
LAKE TAHOE, Nevada, has curiosity
Half mile from shore a tree stands per-
pendicular in eighty feet of water. 1t pro-
jects above the surface, and is fastened so
firmly to the bottom that it affords safe
moorage to the largest craft on the lake.
KNITTING-NEEDLEs are made in the
United States only at LaWrenceville, Pa,
where about 500 varieties are produced /;
and New Haven, Conn, is the only place
in the country where common sewing
needles are made entirely by machinery.
JOSEPH GALES FORSTER, the we'll known
spiritualist, claims the Kirby reaper and
mower to be the work Of some inventive
soul in spirit-land, who dictated through
a medium the manner of its construction
out Of such materials as this poor sphere
affords.
TuE new blacksmith shop at the Rock
Island Ill.) Arsenal is one of the largest
in the United States, if not in the UOrld.
1t is built of stone and iron, has front
age Of 80 feet on the main avenue, with
two wings, each 800 feet long and 60 feet
wide
Two BABIES were shipped several hun
dred miles by express, in Oregon, recent
ly, and arrived at their destination all
right; but the express agent was almost
fnln Ia oh lIy
shingles for spanking purposes, and other
necessaries.
THE Ann Arbor Mich) Courier talks Of
the champion sunflOwer. The stalk is nine
and half inches in circumference at the
ground, and the lineal measurement Of
the stalk and stems is 151 feet. 1t has
eighty-one fruit bearing flowers, with more
in prospect.
To KEEP up the fertility Of our pastures,
it is evident that we must do our best to
check the growth of such a vegetation as
is rejected by stock. But it is not enough
to destroy the useless and injurious plants
we must encourage the growth Of the
valuable ones
WEAR YOUR learning" said Chester
field, like your watch, in a private peck
ct, and do not pull it out and strike il
merely to show that you have one. If you
are asked what O'Clock it is, tell it, but do
not proclaim it hourly, and unasked, like
the Waterman"
MUCH anxiety is felt in Sonoma Valley,
Cal, from the discovery of grape-louse
on the roots of the vines, similar to the
one that destroyed the grape crop in
France a committee of wine growers
has been going around among the vine
yards examining.
A BosToN preacher, in speaking Of the
danger of permitting the Bible to be
crowded out by the newspaper, perpe-
trated the following pun: "Men nova
days." said he, care like Zaccheus-desi-
rous of seeing Jesus, but they cannot be-
cause of the press"
a TOWN in Massachusetts is the proud
possessor of cat that picks up pins and
puts them into a paper, whenever she
finds one. After getting a hundred, she
exchanges them for meat at the butchers.
The likelihood of this tale is It's chief
beauty. One can't help believing it.
A GOOD lady, who on the death of her
first husband married his brother, has a
portrait Of the former hanging in her din
ing room. One day visitor, remarking
the parting, asked, 1t that a member of
your family?" "Oh! that's my poor
brother-in law was the ingenious re-
ply.
PROFESSOR WYMAN, during his eXamin-
alton Of the mounds in Florida, found
many human bones split up in the same
manner as those of animals. From this
he concludes that the abOrigincs were
cannibals, and that the bones were broken
to obtain the marrow after the flesh had
been eaten.
THE other day an Irishman with very
heavy trunk got into an omnibus and sat
himself down and held the box on his
knees. The conductor wanted to take it
from him. But says Paddy, "sure the
door creatures Of horses have enough to
do to drag along without that, and I'll
carry it mesclf"
''HUMPH" said an Englishman to a
ScOtchman, as they were walking over
the field, ''Oats are all very well in their
way, but in England we feed them to our
horses, while here they are food for men"
"Ay, ay!" said the ScOtchman, land just
see what fine horses there are in England,
and what fine men we have in Scotland. -
DURING an earthquake the inhabitants
OF village were much alarmed, but were
at the same time astonished at the calm
ness and apparent JOY of an old lady
whom all knew. Some one asked her if
she was not afraid. NO" said she, II
rejoice to know that | have God that
can shake the world
"INDIA, my boy" said an Irish officer
to a friend on his arrival at Calcutta, "is
the finest climate under the sun; but a
lot of young fellows come out here, and
they drink and they ea:, and they drink
and they die, and after that they write
home to their parents pack of lies and
say that it is the climate that has killed
them"
WHEN Horace Greeley visited Yosemite
he picked up in the trail horseshoe, and
hung it on the knot of an oak tree for
whoever might choose to use it. No one
took it, and in time the knot grew over
the horseshoe, and recently the portion of
the tree containing it was cut out and
brought to San Francisco as a memento
of Mr.. Greeley's economy
JOHN G. SAKE sends the following to a
temperance convention:
You have heard of ''the snake in the grass nv
boy,
OF the terrible snake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadliest foe
Is snake of different class,
Alas
Ills the venemous snake in the glass
NJ.