Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-20
BREyITIEs.

brOil.
POSTAL CARDS have just been introduce
ed into France.
A MAN that don't know emmy thing will
tell it the first time he gets chance
Billings.
PENNSYLVANIA proposes constitu-
tional amendment making voting COM
pulsory.
The agitation for the adjustment of
the franking privilege began twenty
years ago.
A TROY man has a dog worth twenty
five dollars. He swallowed that amount
of greenbacks.
A NIMBLE woman, 1877 years old, does
Homework and runs On errands for liv-
ing, in Los Nietos, Cal.
THE young ladies of Vassar College
have formed an "anti falling in lovc-be
fore you-are- out of school, club.
Buzz SAW IrEM.-Henry Stonaker, of
Palestine, Tex. In his life he was lovely,
and in his death he was divided.
A DRUGGIST at Alton, Iowa, has been
sued for $4,000 damages by married
woman, for selling liquor to her hus-
band.
A YANKEE offers to clear the Nile of
all its crocodiles within two years if the
viceroy of Egypt will come down with
100000.
MANCHESTER, Del, still keeps up the
habit of tolling bell at nine o'clock in
the evening as a warning for the people to
go to bed.
THE Pennsy1canaan, at Oil City, has sus-
pended because The editor and his wife
couldn't agree about his employing female
compOsitors.
New JERSEY expects to hang two men
in April, one in May, and three in June,
besides supplying the usual quantity OF
champagne.
THREE drops of nitro muriatic acid in
a teacupful of camOmile tea taken twice a
day, will cure bilious habit and produce
clear complexion.
VANDERBILT says that ahe traffic be-
tween the cities Of New York and Boston
is so constantly growing that new route
is needed every ten years.
A "HoMEsPUN" association is being Or
ganized at Des Moines, Iowa, the mem
bers of which are pledged to wear no
goods not made in that CITY.
A CARRoLLToN (ky.) dentist sent a dol
lar TO the editor of the Democrat, asking
tuGI d lalSc IOtiCC Ol LIS UCdtu Dc COl'
rected. The correction was made.
CLEANING PHOTOGRAPHS. Make soiu-
ton Of isinglass or gum Arabic, and
spread it over with a soft camePs hair
brush. This will give them a nice gloss.
INK spots on floors can be extracted
by securing with sand wetted in oil of
vitriol and water. When the ink is re-
moved, rinse with strong pearlash
water.
THE Polk County Iowa, Agricultural
Society this year offers a premium for
the best preserved man and woman sew
enty years of age; also, for the largest
living family.
FROM December II to January II they
had an earthquake almost every day at
Fort Colville, w. T. A point of land
that ran into Okanagon Lake has entirely
disappeared.
To REMOVE stains on spoons caused by
using Them for boiled eggs, take a little
salt, moistened, between the thumb and
finger, and briskly rub the stain, when it
will soon disappear.
EXETER, N. H., vouches for the woman
whose dead husband warned her twice, in
dream, to remove her little all of $3.50
from the savings bank, just before the
Shute defalcat1On.
AT the Royal Museum, Berlin, there is
guide-a Pole by bir:h-who oonvorsos
f1uently in thirteen different languages
AS may readily be imagined, he is in
great demand at all times.
AN ingenious Yankee proposes to warm
Boston on the plan of building enormous
furnaces somewhere under the pave
ments, and conducting steam through
the streets by means of iron mains.
TEE Supervisors of Plymouth County,
Iowa, offer a reward of 81 500 for the dis
covery of coal mines in that county,
whlchthey believe will be found with
| this inducement to prospectors.
A LARGE number Of taxpayers of Jer-
sey City, n, j., recently held meeting
and resolved not to pay any more taxes
| to the State until the law exempting rail-
roads from taxation is repealed.
THE Board of Supervisors of Greene
County, Iowa, have allowed John Gray,
an enterprising farmer, 81 600 deduction
from the valuation of his property for
taxes, for planting twelve acres Of fruit
| trees.
IT is easy Ia the world to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to
| live after your own; but the great man is
he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence
of solitude.
A NEW ORLEANS woman on the wit
ness stand lately, in a divorce suit, re,
marked: "The estate of widowhood is in
| convenient, for one must have all the
modesty of young girl without being
able to feign her ignorance"
JOHN MIsHLER, of Harrison, Delaware
County, Ind, "a years old, claims to be
the champion hunter of the State He
says he has killed in his time 40 deer, SO
bears and 25 wolves. He has lived in
| Harrison for the last twenty-five years.
FOURTEEN deaths have occurred recent
ly in the vicinity of Naples, Scott Coun.
ty, Ill, by cerebro spinal meningitis.
The disease was rapidly increasing, and
the people Of the neighborhood were be-
coming greatly alarmed at its disastrous
spread.
THE proprietors of the Legal Tender
mine, at Clancy, Montana, have struck
a vein twenty seven inches wide, aver
aging So, 800 per ton. This is the great
est strike ever make in the Territory.
The ore is galena, with sulphate, ruby
and native silver.
ONE of the foundries at Peekskill, N.
Y, has "salamander," as it is termed
a furnace in which the molten iron has
been permitted to grow cold, and as not
even August weather will thaw it out, it
has got to be removed by drilling, which
will cost $50, 900.
| SALMON eggs to the number Of 75O OO0