Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-04

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would decline the honor ana remain CON
tent with being licensed
THERE is project on foot, suggested
| by the Iowa outrage, to have each 'rain OF
| cars on Western railroads provided with
mitrailleuse, to be worked from the
roof of the car by an experienced gum
ner
The young person who blows out the
gas, shuts the window and retlres to his
| peaceful couch has turned up again, TINS
time at Dubuque, where there were two
Of them, man and wife, and both had
narrow escape.
THE father of one of the principals in
the Troy IN. " prize-fight wagered his
farm up in Vermont and three horses
against $4,000 that his offspring would
beat his man, and he won, though the odds
against him were six to one.
| PATIENT industry is not always reward
ed. There is, in the Albany penitentiary,
a convict, who toiled no less than eigh-
teen months to perfect false key. TWAS
completed on a recent Tuesday, and that
very day the guard took it from him.
THE precocity of the rising generation
has been further illustrated by an eight
| year-old cracksman, Of Rochester, N. Y,
who successfully executed burglary in
| that city, and was only caught through
| indiscrcet display of some of his booty.
THE disconsolate widower is in Della
ware The last words of his late departed
were: "Henry, if you marry again, re,
member that it only takes cupful of
| sugar to sweeten quart of gooseberrles. 4"
He is satisfied he will not see her like
again.
JUSTICE SHARswooD, Of the Pennsyl-
vania Supreme Court, has decided that it
is good law that all persons must come to
full stop before crossing railway track,
and that if they do not, and injury to per-
son or property results, they cannot re
cover.
A RELIGIOUS paper in Ohio was sent for
nine years to a subscriber who never paid
a cent for it. The other day the newspa-
per was returned to the patient and long
suffering publisher with the affecting pen
cil-nOte on its margin: "Gone to a better
world"
WHEN mans grief is at the point of
writing poems upon it, it may be loud,
but it is not very severe. When man IS
cudgeling his brain to find any rhyme for
sorrow besides "borrOw'' or tomorrow"
his woes are nearer an end than he
Unsatisfactory
WHEN the great Nassau balloon fell into
the sea- in 1860, sixty rounds of ball car
fridge had to be fired into it before any
perceptible effect was produced in its size
by the escape of gas, each bullet passing
right through the balloon, and thus form
ing two holes in the bag.
THE people of Nebraska are determined
on fair play. The other day twenty-six OF
the sovereign voters Of that State stood
around for half an hour TO see that man
who had beaten his W ife with a harness
strap, got fair play at the hands of com
mttee of married ladies who were fog
ging him.
AT Mont Clair, n J., recently, the rods
on dwelling house were struck by light
ming and the fluid passed off into the
ground, thence upon gas pipe near the
terminal of the rod, to an air-gas carbon
izer, located a short distance from the
house. The gas apparatus was blown up,
but no other damage was done.
FOND DU LAC, Wis, voted one of her AL
dermen cane for being the homeliest
man in town When the votes were
counted up and the result announced, Mr.
McHenry took off his coat and mauled
that crowd Of friends and acquaintance
until the sacrednesS of the ballot box was
forever DESTROYED.
A COUNTY clerk in a western city re-
fused to issue marriage license because
the man was only four feet high, while
the woman was six. He knew something
about domestic life with the proportions
reversed, and couldn't assist fellow to
buy into lottery when the odds were SO
fearfully against him.
A TROY father tied his fourteen-year
old daughter hand and foot, and kept her
in that condition for two weeks to prevent
her attending pic-nics. About that time
she fell from the third-stOry window,
striking an awning, and was picked up
and carried back by her kind father. She
will probably be heard from again if that
window isn't nailed down.
A GENTLEMAN in Salem, Mass, received
recently, legacy of $17,O from "a young
man who had died at the West and to
whom several years ago, he had given
work on pile-driving job when the young
man was in a destitute condition. Let
the man who doesn't own pile-driver
borrow one and set all the lOafers to
work
A LEAvEEwORTH photographer tells
how he procured spirit" picture. He
says he first took a picture of Mr.. Harris
and painted his Whiskers out Then he
cut the face out of an old lady's photo
graph and pasted Harris in. He made a
negative from this, and then a transparent
positive. He next held his head before a
sensitized plate in dark room, and the
spirit picture was made
THERE is q part of the town of Norwich,
Conn, which is sometimes called the
Saints Rest, and sometimes the Widows
Haven. In this sacred precinct, with its
population OF 300, are 40 widows, 81 maid
ems past thirty years Of ape, - widowers
and bachelors, 9 deacons, ! ministers and
ministers widows, while of marriageaEie
women and men under 80 years Of age
there are but 25
A CARGO OF rotten tea was recently sold
in New York for onetwelfth of a cent
pound. 1t was taken to a malt house,
washed and dried, and will soon undergo
what is termed the doctoring process, the
most important part of which is the use
of poisonous chemicals to give it taste
astringency and color! The fortunate
buyer expects to realize a large fortune
out of the fraud.
Ice CREAM-A correspondent of Hearth
and Home gives the following recipe for
ice cream: ave have used the following
recipe for several years, and the combina-
ton seems to suit the most fastidious
taste. For four quart freezer, 9 pints
rich cream, 3 pints new milk, 9 we'll
beaten eggs, e pounds of sugar, and one
fourth vanilla bean dried sufficiently to
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