Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17
BREVITIES.


in Philadelphia cost $500, 900.
He is happiest, be he king, or peasant,
| who finds peace in his home.-Goethe.
been mulcted at Nebraska City in $4.75
damages.
A NEW volcano, with more than twenty
vent-holes, has been discovered near Mo-
leje, in Lower California.
A PHILADELPHIA judge decides that
stealing girls photograph from her
| album is ss bad as stealing horse from
barn.
KATE GRAY, of Kansas City, married
| her lover half an hour before he left her
for the penitentiary to serve out long
| sentence.
NEwBURYPoRT. Mass, has passed an
| ordinance forbidding rgan-grinders to
play longer than ten minutes on any
block.
THE Government has established an
observatory at Fort Garry, Manitoba,
which is as nearly as possible the central
spot of the American Continent.
A CONNECTICUT editor having been
elected fence-viewer, calls on all who
have fences to be viewed to bring them
to his office, under penalty of the law.
A SToNINGToN Conn., man stopped his
paper and took out his lone square ad."
because the little black and-tan dog of the
editor nipped pet cat by chewing her
| tail off,
THE people of Southern Oregon-and,
indeed, of the entire State-are in a
proper frame of mind to attend good
sized Modoc funeral with cheerful alac-
| rity-P0GtIand (Or Herald
THE entire sophomore class was sus-
pended from Dartmouth College, recent
ly, for disorderly conduct in the chapel,
whereupon the members hired a big team
and took sleigh-ride.
THE Great Eastern is now taking on
board the cable which she is to lay be-
tween Lands End and New York She
is expected to leave her moorings at Sheer
ness in May or June.
| BRIGHAM You've, according to the Dan-
bury Neaos, is troubled with perpetually
recurring silver, wooden. tin, glass, linen
and pewter weddings He is becoming
demoralized, and the Government is pre-
pairing to withdraw it's troops,
THE clerk of Kenton County, Ken
lucky, recently issued license for the
marriage of William Henry Thompson,
aged nineteen, and Mrs. Mary Brown,
aged forty five. it being the brides third
venture. This one ought to last Mary as
long as she lives.
Two young ladies of Rochester, N. Y,
| sisters, named Cordelia and Emma Bull
volunteered to nurse the families Of some
neighbors during an attack of contagi-
Gus disease. Both took it and died, and
they were buried In common grave,
| leaving behind them the fragrance of a
noble deed.
| SARAH WALKER, seventy-three years of
age, reached Lowell the other day after
twenty mile walk, in search of work in
the mills. She stated that her object was
to lay up little money against the day
when old age would render her unable to
perform hard labor.
THE Rochester Democrat states that the
great fishist, Seth Green, has shipped to
Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister
at Washington, twenty black bass, which
are to be sent to England. The fish were
placed in two twelve gallon cans. They
| were sent in accordance with instructions
from the Fish Commissioners of the
State.
AN amusing scene was created in the
| Treasury few days ago by the presenta-
ton of protest against the United States
| for non-payment Gin gold) of 800 legal
| tender, which its owner had presented at
| the Sub Treasury in New York and asked
for the specie thereon. Being refused, it
was sent to Washington in due form,
through notary.
| SEPARATING TWO SwARMs.-To the
question, "When two swarms cluster to-.
| gether, how would you separate them?"
the bee-keepers reply: olive all together
in large box and they will settle in diff
ferent corners. Four swarms together
have been hived in that way, and in the
morning each had taken possession of a
corner"
THE Dell Rapids (Dakota) Journal is
printed after the following approved
fashion, as explained by itself: "These
tough times we have to keep an eye out
| for breakers. The editor sets all the
type, makes up the forms, washes rollers,
does all the press work, besides chopping
wood for two stoves and doing chores
for both Office and household. We 'holler
in one Of the neighbors to roll"
Mr.. L. B. LEACH, of the firm of Trout
& Leach, Wannego, Kansas, predicted
several years ago that his death would oc-
cur in the year 1878 Last fall he had
his grave dug and walled up; about three
months ago he stated that he would die
In March, and had his coffin and shroud
made and his tombstone engraved, with
name, month of March and year, but the
day left blank. On Monday, the 10th of
NaEc1, he died.
ANTS NESTS IN GARDENs.-A CORE
sLondent of Nature, says: 81 have found
a very effectual remedy for the annoy
ance of ants nesting in the garden paths
and borders. A strong solution of car
bolic acid and water poured into the
| holes, kills all the ants it touches, and
the survivors Immediately take them
selves off. Care must be taken in its use,
as it destroys animal and vegetable, as
we'll as insect life.
A CHICAGO servant-girl, envious her
mistress fair complexion, determined to
rival her if possible; SO awaiting her op-
portunity, one day when her mistress had
gone out, the girl proceeded to overhaul
| her dressing bureau in search of the
wonderful 'elixir of youth and beauty"
Unfortunately it proved to be morphine
that she got hold of, and it required the
combined services of physician and a
stomach-pump to save the foolish girls
life
In RUMNEY, N. H., little dog was re-
peatedly batf1ed in his attempt to catch a
woodchuck as it ran in a long drain,
making its exit at the other end as the
| dog followed through. He finally brought
a neighboring dog, stationed him at one
end of the drain, then drove the wood