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

THE Tombs prison in New York has
been condemned by the engineers, ana us
demolition has been recommended.
81 HATE to hear people talking behind
ones back" as the robber said when the
constable was chasing him and crying,
stop thief
WHY is a henpccked husband like an
opera hat? Because he is very big when
he is out, but Immediately shuts up when
he gets home.
THERE is an honest man in San Fran
cisco. He is a tobacconist who has put
out sign reading: Imported cigars OF
our own manufacture"
CAsT-IRoN monuments for the boundary
line between Oregon and Nevada are IN
process Of construction at the Occidental
Foundry, San Francisco.
Two young ladies, very well connected,
have been sent to jail for seven days in
Richmond, Va, for stealing human hair
from hair-dresser's shop.
A BosTON girl who was married four
years ago in dress worth $1,000 may
now be seen splitting her own kindlings
and doing her own washing.
VERMONT forgcts all the hardships Of
the past winter in jublation over its ma
pie sugar season, and chcerfully asks,
What's the odds so long as it's sappy?
4 New YORK dry-goods merchant re-
ports among the items of sales, last week,
twenty camcl's-hair shawls at $4,000 each,
five Of which were disposed Of to one fam
lily.
CHARLES MOORE and Frank Morton
have been convicted of SaWdust swindling
in New York, and sentenced to years
Imprisonment and 20 pay fine of 81 600,
WOMEN who hold 81, 800 worth of prop
erty, and pay taxes on it, are declared by
the Judiciary Committee of the New ork
Assembly to be entitled to vote in elections
in that State.
THE number Of persons out Of employ
mcnt in Philadelphia is appalling. One
insertion of It little advertisement for
clerk in a railroad office brought $50 APP
plicants in Il single day.
THE State Treasurer Of iowa has given
notice that the State Of Iowa is prepared
to redeem all its outstanding warrants, and
they Will cease to draw interest on anC
after the 22d Of April, 1878.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE says it takes
an attack of malarial fever or two to teach
the Northern man that he cannot labor the
day through under Il tropical sun as he
can in the mountains OF New Hampshire.
SOME of the voters in one of the White
Mountain districts went 12J miles by rail
to the voting place on the recent election
day The long journey was taken on &C
count Of the depth of snow in the Notch
through which they had to pass.
A PARTISAN gun-makcr has the follow
ing notice outside his window: ITO those
Disappointed in Love \ Great Choice
of Patent Rcvolvcrs. Y. BIN the case
is all the apparatus necessary for extract
ing the ball and dressing the wound"
THE Legislature of Kentucky has en-
acted that married women may receive di-
rectly from their employers the wages or
compensation for labor performed by
them, and that the money 50 earned shall
be free from the debts and control of their
husbands.
\ Mass ACIIUSETTS man has a dog that
watches for the afternoon train regularly
every day, gets the evening paper which
the cXprcssman throws off. and conveys it
to his master. He knows the time when
the train is due as we'll as his master, and
if it is late he waits for it,
PHILADELPHIA has discovered that one
of the most noted street beggars, whose
income from fraud is ottentimes thirty dol
lars day, lives in an ariStOcratic quarter,
loans money at usury and gets drunk
nightly Another, a dctormed young
woman, owns a row Of houses, and is a
large dealer i'll real estate.
SIXTY acres of the farm owned by the
late Edwin Forrest, near Philadelphia
which he named "SpringbrOOk," has been
set apart by his executors for the Home
! for aged and INDECENT actors provided
for in his will. The Home Will be sur
| 1ol Nv. Oh,
| the public will have free admittance.
A WESTERN engineer has invented a
hot water pump with which to squirt hot
water on To deaf persons who walk on the
track. Thus another source of interesting
items is ruthlcssly cut off by the inventive
genius Of this country Next they will
invent non-explosiye kerosene, and then
| what will the newspaper itemizers do?
THE postmistrcss at Villa Ridge, Ill,
has resigned in order to get married. In
her letter of resignation that she sent to
the Postmaster General, she remarked that
she would rather have one man where she
could lay her hands on him when she
| wanted him, than to be handling mail
bags irregularly on a small salary, and
getting sworn at by people who expected
letters that never came.
\ HARTFORD topper appealed to mer-
chant of that city for the wherewithal to
buy a drink. The merchant, being tenn
perance man, could not comply with his
| request; but the fellows imploring manner
and condition touched him. Well" said
the persistent fellow, IF YOU can't give it
| to me- couldn't YOU lend that gentleman
| ten cents pointing to the clerk and he
could give it to me-" 1t is needless to say
that the chap got his ten cents.
A VERMONT dog was heart broken at
the recent death OF I; horse owned by its
master. He followed as chief mourner to
a point on mountain, two miles from the
stable, where the dead horse was dumped
over a ledge, and the laborers left him
gazing down upon the body of his old
| companion and whining piteously. After
ward they returned, and found him lying
in the snow beside the body, and some
| force was necessary to get him to the
sleigh to take him home.
EVERYBODY eats peanuts, and everybody
knows that some are full and plump,
while others have little or nothing in
them: but every one does not know that
before the retailer gets his peanuts they
are separated, the full from the empty, by
means of a fan, and sold at different
prices We mention these facts for the
benefit of a ng-suffering public, that it
may know, whenever expectation is baked
by one of those empty shells, that the fraud
is a purely legitimate matter OF business.