Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-22
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FIRE ENGINE.
| Tie shades of night were falling fast,
As through numbering city passed
| 4 suuad of merchants, -burnt out men,
! Whose prayer, for decade had been
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| They looked first this way. then looked that,
! And all their hearts went plt-a-pat,
| For all had notes long past matured,
And not blamed one was insured
FIRE Engine.
In other towns they saS the "squirts."
And firemen in their crimson shirts
! Upstairs the Common Council met
Would they incur the trltilng debt,
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Don't ask EN- boys" an old chap said.
| Just brave it out, good on your head"
| They re scared to death because they're taxed
And nos" their vote whene' er theyre axed.
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"Hold on, another chap put in"
Just try 'em agin,-just try EN- agin."
A mansard roof was over his eye,
And his eye was moist, though his gullet wa:
dry.
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"Beware the taxes gathering fast
Beware I! beware like disast
Err this was all the Council said,
Well burn before we Ill vote red"
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Long after understanding bids,
The stubborn Dads of Grand Rapids
Uttered the oft repeated ''No!'
what means this hulabubaloo? ?"
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An Etna agent, Phoenix, too,
Both making terrible ado
Each on II Policy intent,
And each one howling-'ten per cent"
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There in the Council sat the Seven
Stuck fast to earth. and far from Heaven,
And three were right and four We're wrong,
Aud this 5 the burden Of their song.
No FIRE ENGINE.
That ubiquitous cuss oe the
Green Bay Adrocate, we learn, was in
town the other day. We've bone to
pick with him.-Grand Rapids T1b-
une.
We may as we'll explain what that
"bUne' is. One day while in Grand
Rapids, Philleo Of the Reporter and
the ubiquitous cuss" above metioned
went into the Tribune Office Although
it was his publication day Jack was
was not in. We believe he was con
duty as his old army Colonel was In
town. Did we ego about our business?'
No; we sat right down and did up the
Tribune mail : a large list. Now we've
been Watching his paper ever since to
see ''card of thanks. "-~N None has
appeared ; and to add insult to injury
Jack now says he's got ''bone to
pick" with us. We understand it all.
He's mad because we didn't carry the
mail to the post-ofiice, and then come
back and help the boys wash the forms.
90 base ungrateful man ?''---"ULiqui-
y' IN q. b. 4icocate.
Now boys, shall we be obliged to
stand between you as a sort of media
torial agent? Remember, your little
hands were never made to tear each
Others eyes. For the sake of local
item we've good mind to let 'em
scratch.
-''Ubiquities" from the Green Bay
Adrocate.
a arunkard is appropriately said to
be dizzy pate-ed.
There are seventeen churches in this
city. 1t requires 81 saloons to pre-
serve the ''balance of power
Orr piscatorial editor fshed all day
on Satur lay without catching a nsh
He thinks that the fish, to refuse such
tempting bait as he put on his hook,
must all have gore iu-seine.
The appleton Crescent headed its
small articles ':March Wind in March
and now ''April Showers They will
be May Flowers next month and
then what? June Bugs" we suppose.
There is more truth than poetry in
the theory that one $ language is affect
ed and sometimes shaped by his sur
roundlngs. An instance ca me to our
notice yesterday: a man who lives in
the neighborhood of an evergreen
swamp was talking with the agent for
4 patent lock stitch sewing machine.
said lie : Now, I know spruce young
daughter of Norcay who pines for enc
Of these lock stitch machine there are
so many things she can ye,cs it Er,
And then, too, she likes the hen, lock;
stitch" Now a nfan from the seaside
for instance, would never have used
those terms. lie would have talked in
this wise : II frequently sea a tide-y
Norwegian nympk who c!aoa-ors for a
lock stitch machine and her father has
taken an otion to have one shipped to
her. With her needles she gets along
s'ci"'m'nyiy in the main, sgaire-ing a
few objections, but with a machine she
would Huoral-ly have MARTINEZ
--kimball who does the antiquities
for the Green Bay Advocate is probing
Shakespear and finds that the Bard
of Avon had thoroughly canvassed the
to be Wisconsin Press. We quote a
few extracts from Kimball's gleanings
Augusta Herald
"Now by two-headed Janus Nature
hath formed strange fellows in her
time. ''-Nerchaut Of Venice
Appleton, Pos, Crescent and T ines ::
"When shall we three meet again -
-MocJeth.
Grand Rapids Tribune.
"Banish plump Jack