Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-02
BREVITIES.

| SALMON In the sacramento river, Cdi
are becoming very plenty.
How to keep your head above water
Never be above drinking It,
A GOOD appetite is Il good thing: but
not if it is to be worried by urging or by
neglect.
AFTER all, it is rare that a man gets ut
terly at the end of his rope until he is
hanged.
The upper crust of the soil is richer
| in plant food than the lower portion, or
subsoil.
| A Dies MONIES father advertises that he
| will exchange one of his newly arrived
twin boys for girl.
Mr.. TURNER, of Manchester Tenn,
| celebrated the wedding of his daughter
by thrashing his wife.
a WHOEVER in Manistee, Mich. who
has forly-eight children living, has just
married his fourth wife
A WOMAN named Berks exhibited pat
| ent churn of her own manufacture at a
Kansas fair and secured premium.
A NAVARRO CO., youth severely horse
| whipped his unindulgent father He
wanted to see "who bossed that ranch"
A MAN in Warrenton, Va, poisoned
~
| thieves, and killed valuable colt of his.
CLAY similar to that used in Germany
in the manufacture of so-called meer-
schaum pipes has been discovered at Mid
dletown, Pa.
| MONTGOMERY CO., Kan, raises stalks of
cotton two feet three inches long, three
fourths of an inch in diameter, with bolls
on each joint
THE cost of days sojourn at Niagara,
including the sights, is now $3.50, which
is pretty close to prohibitory tariff
against the place.
AMERICAN ship-building is reviving
Seventy five thousand tons were added to
the registry between June 1st and August
9th of the present year
THE projected tunnel under the Detroit
river has been Abandoned in consequence
of information derived from the small eX-
detrimental tunnel.
A NEW use of anethesia has been devel-
oped by London physicians, in conveying
invalds from place to place, without in
jury to their nervous system.
AN Omaha woman committed suicide
the other day because her husband remon-
strated in profane terms when he found a
dead horsetly in wheat-cake.
A DETROIT lady died Of hydrophobia,
and the dog that bit hel still lives, in
health and spirits, wagging mournful
reproach at her vivid Imagination
CHARLESTON, s. G. claims to be one of
the healthiest cities on the continent, bas-
ing its assertion upon the fact that only
fifteen deaths occurred there in one week
recently.
In Rich Valley, Dakota, VIM. Strath
ern owns four-legged chicken in
good health. The extra legs are more or
namental than useful-do not seem to be
of any service.
WE shall hereafter know what pug
nose is worth, Mrs. Kitty Lake, Of Phila-
delphia, having fallen and broken her
nose and sued the city for $4,000 worth
of satisfaction.
THE people of California have a theory
that the real pearl oyster is to be found in
their waters, and are determined, if posi-
bic, to add pearl-fishing 10 the number of
their industries.
Miss JENNIE BURNHAM, who was
drowned recently in Grand Bay, n. H.,
had been preceded to waterv grave in
the same waters by an uncle, grandfather,
and great-grandfather
~ JEALOUS Saratoga woman recently
prevented her husbands attendance at a
ball by carrying away every article of
clothing he owned, and hiding them in a
barn three miles away.
DURING the past fourteen years there
have been received at the Chicago Stock
Yards over $4,000, 600 beef cattle and hogs,
and over 5000, 900 have been shipped
during the same time.
MANY persons regard hearty desire for
food as something uDrefined, indicate,
and to be constantly discouraged. This
is greater and more harmful mistake
than that of coaxing the appetite
1T is proposed to get up a cemeterynear
New York, Of about one hundred acres in
extent, for the burial of people who have
been talked to death. The idea is a good
one, but the cemetery ought to be larger.
EATING an Indian turnip two years
ago has produced a moustache and side
whiskers on three year old boy in Salem,
Ind. The youths Of the town are now
living on little else than these vegetables
THE value of land affected the rate of
interest in former times. The number of
years at which the rent of real estate
would pay for its purchase, was the test
applied to the value of money for general
uses.
A sANGUINE Virginian is writing a
pamphlet to prove that the Dismal Swamp
is capable of being reclaimed by drain
age, and he predicts that it will at some
future day be the richest district in the
South.
A GREEN BAY man called a young lady
his 'precious darling little hOney-dew of
blooming rosebud and then stood
breach ofpromise suit before he would
marry her.
Now that the new comets are being
frequently discovered, the Professors hav-
ing them in charge should give them a
little less "ascension' and more descen-
sion, to place them within the reach of
our natural vision.
THE question of the taxation of weiss
beer, hitherto exempted, is under consid-
Grafton by the law officers of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, with probability of
decision recommending the imposition of
a tax of 81 per barrel
THE State Geologist of Texas has had
reported to him the discovery, near the first
station from Devils River, of cave the
interior Of which contains very remarka-
BILE painting and sculpture, apparently of
Aztec origin.
BLUING FOR CLOTHEs.-Take an ounce
of soft Prussian blue, powder it and put
it in bottle with one quart of clear rain
water, and add One-quarter ounce of
oxalic acid. A teaspoonful is sufficient