Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-10
BREVITIES.

ONE woman has set out 5000 forest
trees in Greeley, Col
The new drink mixture of New York,
is " Emotional insanitier."
THE poor children of Boston will have
a series of picnics given them this sum-
mer
THE meanest pickpocket in the world
stole 1924 from blind soldier in Dayton,
Ohio
AN indianapolis parent has been fined
So for giving his minor son glass of
lager beer
The man most likely to make his mark
in the wOrld-one who cannot write his
own name
THE New York gamin amuses himself
by dropping lighted matches into street
letter boxes.
RECORDER HAcKETr, of New York, sen
fenced man to State Prison for picking
up and spending ten cents.
A Boston finn of clothiers have got
out patent trousers for boys, with copper
rivets and steel knee plates.
Lucy Gum, of Philadelphia, sold her
new bonnet so hat her lover might pur-
chase ball ticket That's true love
A YOUTH in Hampton Comm school
has been working on the alphabet eight
years, and hasn't mastered it yet.
A THIRTY-PoUND salmon is worth but
fifty cents in Portland, Oregon. In San
Francisco it would sell for three dollars
A COUNTRRMAN at Dyersburg, Tenn,
was noticed the other day gravely setting
his watch by painted sign in front Of a
jewelers..
FASHION and common sense now go
hand in hand as regards feminine foot
gear. The broader the sole, the more
stylish the boot
The Aldermen of Boston have refused
to furnish Professor Wise $4,000 to make
and start his balloon from the Common
on its Atlantic voyage.
THE skeleton of a boa constructor be-
longing to the Transatlantic Circus, which
died at Davenport Iowa, is at the State
University. It's length is twenty-three
feet.
A PARTY of American boarding school
girls started for Europe the other day, I'M
der the charge of competent instructreSs-
es, for fifteen months tour of Observa
ton.
DOVER, Vt, has not had a death for five
years, and the town hearse was put up at
rattle the other day and won by a man
who is going to alter it over into milk
cart.
THE babe born aboard the Polaris open
ed his eyes one hundred and sixty miles
nearer the pole than ever babe did before.
And still it is not Pole but an Esqui-
mauX.
FLORIDA proposes to supply the United
States with oranges in few years Over
million Of sweet orange seedlings are
under cultivation on the St. Johns River
alone
NoRTHw EsTERN Iowa exchanges notice
the presence of untold millions of grass
hoppers in their localities. AS yet, how
ever, little harm seems to have been done
by them.
a MOST remarkable cure of the desire
for tobacco is that of an indianapolis al
derman. He was thrown from his buggy
some time ago, and since then has loathed
the weed.
A wEIL-POsTED fruit grower in Della
ware estimates that the peach crop Of the
present season will aggregate about 3,570
600 baskets eXcee ding by 100000 baskets
that Of last year.
THE Mayor of Nashville publishes a
proclamation asking druggists to furnish
all persons unable to purchase cholera
medicines with the same, and to charge
tnem to the city.
AMONG the Kickapoo warriors slain
during General Mackenzie's recent raid
into Mexico was one of gigantic size,
measuring seven feet in height, and stout
in proportion.
THE heaviest larceny that has lately
come to light is the carrying off of "a small
safe in Westcott, Ind. The thieves took
it away in wagon, that it might be
opened at their leisure.
AN old lady passenger was so much i'm
pressed by the polite attention she received
from railroad conductor, in Connecticut
that she recently left him twenty-five hun
dred dollars by her will.
AN engineer has invented a machine
which will cut off the general reporter
from many an item. 1t is a hot-water
pump with which TO squirt hot water on
deaf persons who walk on the track.
THE town of Pomeroy, O., is literally
cracking to pieces. A slip" Of the earth de
stroyed large Touring mill, the other day,
and subsequent cracks threatened serious
damage to other valuable property.
A YOUNG man who prided himself on
his mental qualifications, once speaking
of the advantages of these, remarked:
What is better than good education?"
Common sense, you fool, you," quickly
remarked one of his hearers.
NEwBURYPORT, Mass, produces a
smart woman who don't like to be called
old at nearly seventy years, who last Mon
day did the weekly washing for her family
OF five persons, cooked for them, and
cleaned the paint and papered two
rooms"
CURRENT PARAGRAPH-'Thet two hun
dred divorce lawyers of Chicago are in
mourning over the silver wedding that
occurred there inadvertently last week.
They ask for suspension Of public opin-
ion, since this is the first time they have
slipped up"
The Chinese companies expend about
$50 each for bringing Chinese laborers to
California, and they are paid some 5000
in return. In other words, the companies
make nearly $3.50 on each laborer they
import to California.
TRAGACANTH MUCILAGE.-Take of DOW
dered tragacanth, one dram; glycerin,
six drains; water enough to make in all
ten ounces. Rub the tragacanth in
mortar with the glycerin, and then add
the water. This will produce mucilage
at once of excellent quality
Do LEWIS advocates sunlight He has
been trying experiments. He attempted
to make plants grow in parlor, not very
dark to be sure, but kept in the dim,
twilight condition considered fashionable.
The plants looked sick in four days then
they Turned yellow and finally died Ha