Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-13

weather was before this winter.
A CHAMPAIGN Gil lady writes to the
editor of the Chicago Tribune that she de
sires to dispose Of herself by lottery
To DREAM of a milestone about YOU
neck is sign of what you may expect il
you marry an eXtravagant woman.
LINCOLN, Neb., is rejoicing over the
prospect Of an appropriation of $3.50, 00f
for Government building in that city.
The Powers Coal Company, at Youngs
town, Ohio, are employing colored
miners in place of those now on strike
PORTLAND young ladies buy black tc
be married in, because it will also answer
for mourning in case any of the family
drops off.
SOME "blarsted" foreigner says: "Give
an American a newspaper and pie, anG
he will make himself comfortable any
where"
A PHILADELPHIA court lately fined 8
juror 500 for disclosing the contents OF
a sealed verdict before it had been rcaG
IN court.
CAREFUL estimates prove that horse
requires for his sustenance the produce Of
eight times as much land as would fur
nish food for man.
PHILADELPHIA papers, having slain
the steam whistle monster, have buckled
on their armor against the ringing Of
church bells on the Sabbath.
AN importation of Asiatic quail, for &C
climatization, has been made at San
Francisco. It is said to be strong on the
wing, and to afford good sport.
ANTHRACITE coal of good quality is re
ported to have been found in New Mex
leo, twenty-seven miles from Santa Fe
and near to rich mines Of lead ore.
II NOW pronounce you man and-hand
over the ten dollars before go any fur
ther;" is the way the Connecticut clergy.
men have of securing their fee.
THE bell used on the first steamboat
that ever sailed on Lake Superior-the
Julia Palmer-is doing service in mod.
est house of worship at Marquette.
REMEMBER that a raw egg will clear
your throat of fish bones Put one in a
little hot wine, add some sugar, and the
fish bones will slip down all the easier.
DIR. PETERS CLINTON, of New York,
has discovered new planet of the tenth
magnitude, in declination north degrees,
Is minutes, right ascension, Is degrees
and 80 minutes.
The Chinese have no dime novels, no
billiards or lager beer, and there is no
place at which young man can pawn
his sleeve-buttons to get money to take
his girl to the opera.
A TERRE HAUTE man who was di-
vorced thirteen years ago, recently mar
ried his former wife in Indianapolis.
Both remained single during their sepa.
ration.
THE Lockport IN. " Circuit Cour,
calendar contains 900 cases against the
New York Central Railroad for over.
charge OF fares. And the suits are all
two years old.
hanging baskets whose vines are made
Of way are n0ysattbHe q h tasHke are Care " Of
Wax canary birds would also be labor
saving inventions.
The newspaper reports of Captain
Jacks fight with regular troops confirm
the statement that the Modocs fought
naked. The regulars were not to that
manner Of fighting born.
THE st. Paul & Sioux City Railroad
Company propose, the coming summer,
to build line of road from some point in
Minnesota to Fort Dodge, to reach the
coal mines at the latter place.
A SERIOUS rise in the price of imported
cigars is to feared if the Connecticut
farmers carry out their present purpose
to discontinue raising tobacco, and plant
their land in beets for the manufacture OF
sugar Chicago Times.
THE Jacksonville (Oregon) Times SAYS
the Indians under Captain Jack in the
late fight used howitZer or small cannon
which, it is supposed, they captured from
General John c. Fremont, or rather fore.
ed him to abandon, in 1916.
A LADY said to her lazy house-maid
"Now, Mary, you know l am going tc
give ball tomorrow night, and 1 shall
expect you to bestir yourself and make
yourself generally useful" eyes, MN:
but I'm sorry to say, MN, can't dance
The pictures for the Daily Graphic, the
coming illustrated daily paper of New
York, are to be made by the photo litho
graphic process, by which the sketch
equal in all respects to the old copper
etchings, can be put on the press in hall
an hour after the design enters the office.
A MIR. WALKER lately read before the
British Association at Brighton, paper
on "Dinitrobrombenzene," which, to
quote the local report, was full Of such
words as romonobrombenzene and
observation-disclosures, and there
fore not calculated for light reading.
THE wearing of false hair is traced
back to the time of Margaret of Navarro.
who, through sickness, lost all of hers
and had to depend upon the blonde locks
cut from plebeian heads. She is among
the first, if not the first, of the ladies who
wore wigs.
THE Cleveland Herald understands
from reliable source that very extensive
stock yards are to be built on the line of
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad. between that city and Paines
vile, to accommodate the largely increas.
ing stock business of the road.
SAN FRANCISCO challenges New York
or any other place to count Of murder
ers IN proportion to population. She has
thirteen murderers now in the lookup
and apartments waiting for as MANY
more, whose claims to entertainment are
lndisputable, if they could only be found.
The Oregon papers state that since the
tight with the Modocs 5000 head of cattle
and 10, 600 head of sheep that were herded
IN the valleys of Sink River, Salt River
ana Clear Lake have been abandoned by
the herdsmen, who have returned to the
settlements out of fear of the Indians.
WE learn from the Danbury Conn. !
Neaos that 1.-THE body of well. dressed
man was found on the Harlem road.
There was nothing about his person to
indicate who he was, except three bril-
liant diamond rings, which seemed to
snow that he was either horse doctor or
negro MINSTREL"