Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-08
BREVITIES.

print. Ladies like to see themselves in
silks and velvets.
Mr.. CLEMENT BATES has rung the town
| bell in Plymouth, Mass, four times day
for forty-two years
| THE season is approaching when drink
ing men, as well as drowning men, will
catch at straws.-Graphic.
THE Madison City (Wis) authorities
| have placed 900 salmon (Mackinaw) trout
| in Lake Mendoza, at cost of $54.
THE newly arrived Italians do not take
kindly to hard labor Five ofthem drowned
themselves recently in New York, rather
| than to work for the gas companies in
place OF the men who struck.
IT is stated that one of the common
sailors on the Atlantic was a woman about
20 years old, who lost her life trying to
| save lives. Her sex was not known till
she was being prepared for burial.
The Southern papers keep banging
away at the planters, who don't raise corn
| instead OF cotton The Columbus SIN
quotes the exclamation of an old negro
| ''Fore God, | haint seen a corn-cob since
| de war"
| IT seems to be authenticated that a
| woman IN Benton County, ind, is the
mother of four daughters, all alive and
well, and all born at the same time. The
| little quartet of sisters attracts vast
amount of attention
ONE should not be downcast at failures
They are often better for the student ta1
than success. He who goes to school tc
his mistakes will always have good
schoolmaster, and will not be liable to be
come idle and conceited.
A PARTISAN philosopher has just died
leaving the following testament: at is my
Will that any of my relatives who shall
presume to shed tears at my funeral shall
be disinherited. He who laughs most
heartily shall be sole heir"
THE pastor of church in Newark
n. J., refused to proceed with the services
at funeral until the Odd Fellows rcgali5
was removed from the coffin. The lodges
feeling insulted, took away the regalis
and retired from the church
TIE pocketbook of Nelson Curtis, /
well-known builder Of Boston, was stolcr
recently from pile of lumber, where he
had momentarily laid it while examining
some papers. 1t contained $500 in bank
bills and 100000 in notes Of hand
| A LITTLE Concord chap, who lived mex
door to Emerson, was engaged one day il
digging a hole by the roadside A world,
| triticr, passing by, asked him: what ar,
you digging after, little boy?" Witt
gravity he answered: After the Infinite. ,
RUSSIA still reckons time by the ole
Julian calendar. They call year in Rus
STA 3654 days, which is an error of clever
minutes. The error has now amounted tC
over twelve days; so the Russians arr
twelve days ahead Of the rest of the worl(
in their reckoning.
WE have often looked for a sentence tina
would clearly explain it. An exchange
kindly supplies the want in this beautiful
| simile: you might as well attempt t.
shampoo an elephant with a thimbIcfu
OF soapsuds as to attempt to do business
and ignore advertising"
The present fashionable way of ladies
doing up their hair is called IA guilo
| tine" because it was the mode Will
| women condemned to death during The
| French Revolution, to arrange their hal
IN like manner, 50 that it might be out o
the way Of the fatal knife.
ORANGE CAKE-Three eggs, yolks anC
whites, one cup flour, three tablespoon:
milk, one teaspoon bakingpowder, a littl,
salt; CRATE the peel and chop the pulp o
one orange together; squeeze the juice on
| and mix with soft trOSting, and put be
| tween the layers Of cake when cold
PARIS, KY, the county seat of old Boul
bon, and the place where the best whisky
| in the world is made, has so many tota
abstinence people that it is proposed tc
prohibit the sale Of liquor within its limits
| This is not the only case where thu
prophet has lacked reward in his owl
country.
THE practice of shying sptballs at cacl
others heads is not dignificd proceeding
for legislators at best, but in the New
Jersey Legislature it has come to be sucI
a crying evil that member from Mercer
has been obliged to speak on the subject
and secure the passage of a motion prohib
ting it.
THE owner Of "hauntcdn house il
Atlanta, Ga, offers it rent free to any ten
ant three months. He says he can't keel
any one in it over five days, and that FIRE
| quently," when occupants have paid the
rent month in advance, they have giver
up the house after two days occupancy
and forfeited their money
THE Troy Times has story that gentle
man residing in the vicinity of Sandy Hill
holds a note against General Washington
for 81 800, given for supplies during the
American Revolution. There is an in
| dorsement on the note for about one-halt
the amount, and it is alleged that the
balance has never been paid.
| IT is generally believed now by meteor
ologists, says the New York Times, that
we are to have cycle of very hot sum
mers. An eminent sanitaran in the
Health Department, Dr. Stephen Smith
has already issued report suggesting
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects of the
expected heat
| TO WASH OIL CLOTH.-Oil cloth NAV
be made to have fresh, new appearance
| by washing it every month with solution
OF sweet milk with the white of one beaten
egg. Soap, in time, Injuries oil cloth. A
very little "boled oil' freshens up an oil
| cloth; very little must be used, and rubbed
| IN with rag. Put equal parts of copal
varnish; it gives gloss.
LAMBS TONGUES PICKLED-Soak over
night in little salt water; in the morning
| put them in boiling water let them boil
until spear Of broOm-corn will run
through them easily; remove the skin
boil enough cider-vinegar to cover them
add to it a little cloves, cinnamon, etc,
boil ten minutes and pour over the tongues.
They will keep for several weeks.
THE clans of New England have stood
| without rival. But New England must
look to her laurels in the clam field. The
Portland (Oregon) Bulletin says that CLANS
weighing from one Mound to one and ono