Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21

tional provision, from being used in pub
lie documents and school books.
AT the CALIFORNIAN Club games at Scran
ton, Pa, recently, the feature was fa,
woman's race for new bonnet It was
an oily affair. The leanest contestant
weighed 1870, and three Others weighed
respectively, 200, 242 and 251 pounds.
A WESTMINSTER, Pa, paper states that
"Melanerpes Enthrocephalus' has been
observed in the park; and then, lest this
pOrtentous name should brighten away all
the women and children, explains that the
monster in question is only the red headed
wood pecker.
THE Kansas woman who went to slean
with one limb across a railroad tracfp
recommends that method of amputation
for it's cheapress; the only dificnl,v
about it Is, that it takes so long to get mn
That is what the man said who was struck
by lightning.
A MORTGAGE for $799, upon which
eighteen months interest had accumu.
lated, was declared null and void at
Lyons, n. Y, recently, on the ground that
$25 paid for services in procuring the
money for which the mortgage was given
constituted usury
AMONG the incidents of the cholera in
the South is mentioned the fact that MANY
hooking birds and canaries sickened and
died, while those which frequented the
gardens instinctively fled to the woods,
and did not return until the cholera took
its departure.
FROM some of the letters which have
recently appeared in American papers it
would seem that European kings, princes,
and statesmen are just now particularly
DESTROYS of pouring their secrets into the
sympathetic ears of American newspaper
correspondents.
THE Germans of Chattanooga have
wholly escaped the clutches of indigenous
cholera. They ascribe the fact to the use
of lager beer instead of whisky and bran
dy, and not few say they owe safety to
onions. Such is the sober statement of
the Memphis appeal.
E. ROBES & Co. have commenced suit
against the city of Cincinnati to recover
$4,000 for lumber destroyed by the
great coal-oil fire in June, on the ground
that the oil was stored in violation of a
city ordinance, and that they repeatedly
requested the city to enfo. ce the law.
No ACTION has been taken by the New
Orleans authorities in earnest to bring
Rhett to punishment for the murder of
Judge Cooley in the late duel. Rhett
keeps shady, but yet edits the Picayu1e,
and is in 10 danger of molestation The
reports of his having fled are sheer fabri-
cations.
CONCERNING Wise's balloon project the
o. ~,
probabilities of his success appear to be
little better than those OF an individual
who in an open boat, without sail or
oars, should attempt to float across the
Atlantic upon the surface Of the Gulf
stream"
To make a concrete house a frame is
erected as for an ordinary house, but with
or without studding, as may be desired,
and the concrete is filled in between the
timbers, and may be finished to show the
frame, or faced over all and pointed and
penciled to initiate stone or brick. As
large a house may be built this way as
any other The cost will be about from
half to two-thirds that of an ordinary
building
A STRANGER who is visiting Danbury
proposed to one of our citizens, Saturday,
that he would get barouche if the citi-
zen would furnish ladies. and take drive
out of town in the evening. The citizen
agreed and went home to get ready. His
wife noticed the particular toilet, and
asked him what was up. He didn't APP
pear to know that anything was up, and
she said no more. Shortly after he left,
she went to his place Of business and
learned that he was to take a drive. The
carriage was out in front of the hotel the
party was to start from, and near it the
curious woman found her husbands part
ner in the scheme. She asked him if the
carriage was going to RI, and he, be-
lieving her to be one of the invited, replied
in the affirmative and helped her in. She
was no more than comfortably settled in
the back seat, when her husband came
down the hotel steps with the couple he
had engaged, and reaching the carriage,
proceeded to bow them in, when his smile
was petriie into ghastliness by the vision
of his atfectionate wife, pleasantly located
on the back seat, and going through a
brief rehearsal with her fingers One in
slant he gazcd frantically at her, and then
giving expression to his pent-up feelings
with the simple exclamation, by
hokey!' he turned and fled.-DaabHy
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