Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11
BREVITIES.

winter WITHOUT luJu@y.
SAwDUsT from the nearest mill makes
| good bedding and manure.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks we can
have Cuba in ninety days, panic or no
panic.
THE Duluth Herald reports the dis
covery of coal oil in the vicinity of Bis
marck.
SIXTEEN dollars is as low as fashiona-
bic New York ladies 60 on poodles' ward,
robes.
A DISEASE called black tongue prevails
in Crawford County, 0. 1t is worse than
diphtheria.
SET out your ostriches now for next
spring crop. Present price of feathers,
$3.50 a pound.
IRISH lace is worn this season by some
ladies who were abroad last summer and
bought it cheap.
THE Louisville Ledger thinks that if a
pedestrian is run over by a fast driver, he
has a right to shoot.
MORMON missionaries are said to have
made many new proselytes recently in
Hancock County, Maine.
A TEN-YEAR-oLD boy weighing 1853
pounds was an object of interest at a De
troit depot the other day.
New YORK smokes on~e-fourth less
cigars than six weeks ago, and there is a
great demand for clay pipes.
ALPAcAs are looming up again about
this time, possibly because they are cheap
and INES are u~ncommonly hard.
JAPANESE sashes are the latest. They
are gaudy and peculiar in pattern, but
very rich and handsome in quality.
H st. Louis Merchants Exchange
has appointed a standing committee on
the wants OF the Mississippi Valley.
A DANDY is a chap who would be a lady
If he could; but, as he can't, does all he
can to show the world he's not a man.
ENGLISH sovereigns are now used to
compose necklaces. Who wouldn'thave
an English sovereign about ones neck?
THE colored people had a tournament
in st. Mary's County, Md, the other day,
and crowned a queen of love and beauty.
A BOsToN merchant has been driven in
sane by the extravaganza of his wife, who
gave wine suppers costing $4,000 per
week.
ILLINOIS has so little buckwheat that
not more than one citizen out of ten will
be able to get up a decent rash this
winter.
WoRKBAsKETs and bird-cages com
bined are new. They are made Of willow,
the cage hanging from an arch above the
basket.
A MAN at Dallas, Texas, succeeded in
getting a whole apple into his mouth, but
it had to be cut to pieces before it could
be got out.
LIGHTNING rods are to be discontinued
at Sing Sing Prison, as it is proved they
convey more prisoners than lightning to
the ground.
you are never sure of your buckwheat
till you have it in your stomach" as the
chap said when he dopped his pancake
IN the ashes.
MINNESOTA doctors calculate that but
for the threshing machine season one-half
of their profession in the State would
starye to death.
\ GOOD deal of charity must begin at
home this winter, and particularly on the
part Of the family toward the head and
support thereof.
Mrs. Dolly MILLER, of Eaton County,
Mich, aged 103 years, has just had her
picture taken, being the irst time she was
ever in an art gallery.
THE old clo' dealers at Boston report
business very dull. The people are not
in q condition just now to cast off any
thing, especially cover G.
A TRENTON dreared of being
surrounded by Kissing snaAes, and she
struck out with such force as to break
her arm against%the wall.
ONE Of the attractions at a San Fran
cisco theater is d man who, with a rifle
at thirty PAGES distance, shoots a half dol
lar out Of another mans hand.
A sUPERIC;. quality of champagne is
now made with petroleum as the chief
ingredient. The manufacturers claim it
is the best hat has ever benzine.
A MUsCLAR Kansas preacher named
Benson, thrashed three fellows who were
disturbing the congregation recently, and
his salary was increased $50 a year.
THE settlers on the Island of AnticOsti
are represented in a starving condition,
and the Canadian Government has dis
patched a steamer with provisions.
ST. LOUIS surgeons are a wise set. At
ter probing three hours to find a bullet in
a mans back, they discovered that the
victim had been hit with a b~eer-bottle.
IT is a constant recurring order of
phenomena that as soon as a young
woman goes into politics her lovers all
fall off, and nobody wants to marry her.
ANNA PATTERSON, of Freeport, Me,
can afford to leave the almshouse, now
that she has got that $500 verdict for
breach of promise from Cyrus Pritham.
PETROLEUM preserves Woo and pre-
vents iron from rusting. Wash with it
the implements and machines you do not
"a to use until spring, and store them
away.
Few professions are more profitable
thar journalism. A Savannah reporter
hadn't drawn his first weeks salary be-
fore his grandmother died and left him
$4,000.
"A DUBUQUE washerwoman deposited
$400 with a female friend for safe keep
ing. Thinking TO realize recently, she put
in her verbal check, but her banker had
suspended.
The Talbotton (Ga) Standard learns
that a marriage took place in the moun
tains of Talbot a few days since between
a boy fourteen years of age and a girl
Of eleven.
Mr.. DAVIS, of California, found a box
containing $4,000 in gold, and he be-
came so excited over it that he dropped
dead. People should beware how they
find $4,000.
ONE of the effects of the stringent times
in New York City is a large falling oft
from the usual daily street-car receipts.
The decline is from $500 to $500 daily in
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