Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-24
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A painter in Louisville, in putting up
his staging, let go the rope to spit on his
hands, and broke his leg on the sidewalk
below.
"A monkey in the New York Central
Park wound up his mortal career the
other day by breaking his back while
turning a somerset He gave himself a
monkey wrench.
Louis Temple, of South Adams, Mass,
is said to have had the sight of one eye,
blind for seven years, restored by being
accidentally knocked down
The other evening, William Stuart, a
livery man at Amboy, ILL.,, while smoking
his pipe, was shot in the eye and severely
wounded by the explosion of cartridge
which had got mixed in with his tobacco
and put into his pipe without his discover
ing it.
In Vicksburg, Il few days ago, two
black women, Rosa Dent and Violet Car
ter, fought duel with butcher knives.
The fight was short, and Violet Garter
died of her wounds in about an hour.
Her antagonist was MORALLY wounded.
A Mr.. McHugh and wife were found
dead in a cistern at Hartford, Wis, the
other morning 1t is supposed the wife
had descended to get out IA pig, and the
husband fell in while assisting her out,
and was killed His wife persisted from
exposure.
"A Milwaukee man dreamed that he
saw his brothers head severed from his
body without the loss Of drop OF blood,
On the following day letter was re
ceivcd stating that the brother in question
| had just been discharged from IA comtorta-
bic pOstmastership.
The pistol as a plaything for pretty
pratters in the nursery has caused another
surgical case in Trenton, Ohio, where a
little boy, aged eleven, shot his cousin,
aged six with whom he was ''playing
robber," with a navy revolver consider
ately left where the children could amusc
| themselves with it.
The Washington Republican announ-
ces the death of IA well-knoHn lady, and
! adds "Fitteen days ago she was in the en-
| joyment Of perfect health, and was among
| the ladies who attended the Inauguration
| ball. That evening she con acted IA cold,
| and has been thus suddenl" arricd to her
grave from its effects"
Mr. Silas Whitcomb of Troy, n. II. g.,
whose winters have numbered upwards OF
| three score and ten, took down his old
| queens arm that had hung long unused
on the pegs over the fireplace, the other
day, and putting in an extra charge went
to the barn, and putting the muzzlc
| through a crack bazed away at crow
with which he had a slight unplcasantnesS
When he picked himself up he found his
| collar-bone badly broken. What became
of the crow deponent saith not.
Mr. Charles S Brown, of Annsville,
Wcstchester County, n. Y, had very ac-
| rimonious discussion with his wife not
| long since, concerning the maritime rights
| OF Il sitting-hen. The nest in which the
! interesting process of incubation was
| going on had been besWept by a tidal
wave from the melting snow-banks, and
| the quick maternal instinct of Mrs. Brown
prompted her to undertake the removal OF
the nest to less humid quarters. Brown
demonstrated by attempting to cut her
throat with the bread knife, but the weapon
was not the keenest, and Mrs. Brown was
| rather pachydcrmatOus of the two and he
ingloriously failed. A struggle ensued for
the possession of the knife, and victory
pcrchcd upon the petticOats of the woman.
Disarmcd, dishonorcd, beaten by Il woman,
the very wcll-donc Brown struck an atti-
tudc and exclaimed: IF | can't kill YOU,
| can kill myself; one of us must die
And he Immediately proved his ability to
impale himself upon this horn of his di-
lemma. Going to the stable, he established
direct communication between his neck
and a beam, by means of halter, and
being mounted on a dry-goods box, he
sprang into the air and gracefully broke
his neck. Five minutes after, when the
muscular Mrs. Brown opened the stable
door in search for more hens nests to con
quer, she discovered the dead body of her
late spouse gently oscillating in the spring
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