Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
BREvITIEs.

coming season.
A PROPOSED Canadian railway from
Montreal to Quebec, is to be facilitated py
a land grant of 100000 acres.
KATIE MCDONALD is the name or q
lucky waiter girl in st. Joseph (Mo.
hotel, who has fallen heiress 20 a fortune
of $500, 600.
A MAN at Fonda, New York, sued his
neighbor eight years ago for the price OF a
bushel of wheat, and the two are still
having it.
A NEW ORLEANS philanthropist, acting
on the principle of slnaitad s1nasteo1s caTn, "a,
tur, has bequeathed complete flle or 1he
Congressional Globe to an insane asylum IN
that city.
THE establishment of diet kitchens,
from which suitably prepared food may
be issued on the requisition or the DIS
pensary PHYSICIANS, is Charity's last pro-
ject in New York city.
AN EcCr ERIC old miser known as
"Black Pl. .p," died recently near Read
ing, Pa, and after his death his heirs dug
up an old copper kettle containing $1,000
in coin of various denominations.
A SMALL boy in New Haven made a
sensation for a short time by quietly
transferring card bearing the words
"Take one," from lot OF handbIlis In
front of store to basket of OF anges.
ONE of the results of having young
medical woman as city physician In
Springfield, Mass, is that a young gen
tleman of that ilk has had himself vaccl-
mated by her twenty-one times within a
few weeks.
1@,y hn
Legislature are sent out after link, and
when they return with it the said fluid is
slyly passed around among the members,
that was good"
A MAN in Hartford, Conn, who lives
next door to the expires office, recently
saw among list of unclaimed packages
one addressed to him, which, on inquiry
he found had been lying in the express
office for two years.
THE Boston Herald says that Boston
has more bar-roOms than Chicago, fact
which attests the efficiency of the pro
hibitory liquor law and the industry and
incorruptibility of the State cOnstabu,
larry
Nor to him who sets out in the morn.
ing with resolution and gallantry, but TO
him who holds out till the evening of life,
does the promise apply, "He that en-
dureth to the end shall be saved. -
Faoel.
A MEMPHIS mule, Sunday, took stub
born fit, and refused to move an inch.
The ladies and gentlemen in the Car
alighted and pushed the car for a square,
when finally the mule changed his mind
Iofa cd off of fra11nYa leo holt nf
the passengers behind.
A FEW days ago, there arrived in
Chicago little girl, Miss Emma Rollins,
aged ten years, who had made the jour
ney from England, travelling alone dis
lance of more than 1000 miles, in order
to join her father, who is type-founder
living in that city.
A VERMONT man thinks bears are
about the best stock a man can raise. The
meat of one he sold in New York for $50.
For the hide he was offered $50, and he
received a bounty of $15 each for those
he raised, which, with the bears grease,
will amount to the sum of 500.
THE Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations in Lowell Mass, and Portland,
Me-, have determined to open houses as
temporary homes for young women,
strangers, who come to those cities in
search Of employment. Portland gentle
men have subscribed 5000 for this OBJ
ject.
THE body of young girl that was
"snatched" from a graveyard in Owosso,
Mich, lately, was discovered by the town
authorities on the dissecting table of the
homeopathic college at Detroit, whel e
II Ini.1c rpaIo tho 1hjaot of N
anatomical examination by several women
students.
Mrs. WEAVER, of Greenville, Mich
whose husband died of delirium trcmens,
recently recovered 5000 by verdict OF
jury, from P. Sanders. for selling liquor
to her late husband. The liquor business
in those parts must be good deal of a
lottery, with the usual large chance of
losing.
A TEN-YEAR old, Boosting to a school.
mate of his fathers accomplishments,
put it thus: My father can do almost any
thing. He's notary public, and he's a
'pothecary, and can pull teeth, and he's a
horse doctor, and he can mend wagons
and things, and he can play the fiddle,
and he's jackass at all trades.
A FREIGHT car has been engaged on
the Des Moines Valley Railroad, by a
party of three or four families in that
vicinity, to run through to San Francisco,
for $500. They will take their families
and necessary provisions for their trip to
California. 1t is decidedly the cheapest
plan of emigrating we have yet heard Of.
Rev. Mr.. HAMMOND approached a man
in Burlington, Iowa, while he was labor
ing there, and asked if he were Chris
tan. "No," replied the man, 81 am
railroad man." "Well," says Mr.. Ham.
mond, II know of several conductors in
New England that are Christians" THAT
may work down East, all right, but a
man can't be both in Iowa" responded
the employe.
RECENTLY, at Grand Rapids, Mich, q
conscience snitten citizen, who stole an
ak from the firm of Conell s. Rose, of
that city, more than twenty years ago,
walked into the store of Mr.. Conell-Mr.
Rose being deceased-confessed the
offense, and rendered the price of the ak.
The money was accepted, and half given
to the widow of the deceased partner of
twenty years ago.
"Now, my young friends, suppose
twelve men buy twenty four bushels of
wheat to be divided equally, how many
bushels is that for each ?" Boldest of the
boys-'Please, sir, we've not gone tn At
far" "How is that? Your teacher told
me you had learned all the first four
rules? Boy-"Yes, sir; but we have al
ways done our sums in potatoes and tur-
nips-we have never had wheat"
On the occasion of the last annual mar
ket in Berneck, St. Gall (says the Saoiss