Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-11


atrOphied, it is equivalent to saying in
the United States that he can't talk IA
tiOnally.
So great is the demand for Paris green
and arsenic, used to kill caterpillars and
cotton worms in the South, that both ar
ticles have considerably advanced in
price.
THE proposition of Brigham Young to
compromise with No. II, who wanted
more wages or more husband, has been
defeated by the interference of her at
torneys.
PROFESSOR WISE declines to take any
female with him. She would want to take
fourteen satchels and a trunk, and would
De growing all the time about her lost
band boxes.
THE smallest baby exhibited at the
San Francisco baby show weighed two
pounds and a halt. 1t is nearly two
months old, and is to be exhibited through
the United States.
The superintendent of Georgia rail
road was asked for half-fare tickets to
those wishing to emigrate to Texas. He
replied: OF once cent for emigration
thousands for immigration"
A REMARKABLE bull-frog, which was
in the habit of Selling and hopping off
with the young chickens of a Mrs. Otis
Holmes Of Taunton, Mass, was lately de-
tected and killed by that lady.
THE Toronto Globe is making vigor-
GUS assault upon hereditary titles in Can
ada. While titles may be well enough IN
the old country, here, it thinks, that every
tub should stand on its own bottom.
THE California mines are queer places.
A Golden State reporter heard 1.-THE groWl
of a bear, the howl of a wolf, the voice
of prayer, the cry of a child, and the
clash of bowie knives from one gulch.
BY intense application it has been dis
covered that the divorce case between
Ann Eliza and Brigham resolved itself
into purely business transaction, a
matter of prophet and laws, as it were.
A BOARDING HOUSE fiend tells the story
that in a recent thunder storm the warning
OF the elements was so awe-insplring that
the hair in dish of butter in the pantry
turned completely white during tn,
night.
To REMOVE BERRY STAINs.-If you
should be so unfortunate as to crush d
berry on a book or engraving, strike a
birthstone match and let the fume come
in contact with the stain and it will d."
appear as if by magic
A CANADIAN editor announced that che
had a keen rapier to prick all fools and
knaves." His contemporary over tie
way said he hoped his friends won d
take it from him, for he might .-.-:
suicide
"IOU say" said a Judge to Witness
" that the plaintiff resorted to an ingenious
use of circumstantial evidence. State just
exactly what you mean by that" "Well,"
said the witness, my exact meaning is
that he lied
WATER from wells still remaining in
crowded cities is wholly unsuitable to
drink. The sources of these water veins
have become Initiated by percolating
through ground impregnated with the
drainage OF cutters and sewers.
AN exchange gives this timely warning
Look not upon the water melon when it
is red, nor the stewed cherry when it
giveth its color in the cup; at last it
biteth like soft-shell crab, and stingeth
like the cholera morbus.
THE carpet worm Is a new pest just
discovered. 1t is of dark color, less than
half an inch in length, and covered with
hhe nan: LII makes haToc Win carpets III
fine cadar cbinS Snr;ni,lo lI nn +bo aI,os
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