Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-26
BREVITIES.

admitted to probate last will and tesla
ment written on slate
THE California farmers have called q
State Convention to consider the proprlety
| of general political movement.
ONE thousand four hundred salmon were
caught in one haul at Hume's Fishery,
Oregon, recently.
| IT is reported that over 1000 hotels in
| Pennsylvania have closed since the cleo
| tons on the license question.
SWELL youths of Gotham have their
cigars manufactured expressly for them,
| and ornamented with their monograms in
| gold.
| IT has been proved that, after kindling
| his fire, miser stuck cork in the end OF
| his bellows to save the little wind that
was left in them.
| A MEDICAL writer says the halethlest
position to lay ia is with the head to the
| north. People who own hens should bear
this fact in mind.
| THE man who mails a postal card con-
tanning obscene language is subject to a
fine Of not less than 800 nor more than
| S. 900 for each and every otfense.
A LOUISVILLE man drank a Sedlitz
powder, one glass at a time, and the boil
inc operation took place inside of him.
His contortions are described as beautiful.
THREE New Hampshire brothers re.
| Gently married a mother, a daughter, and
a and-daughter, and it was the oldest OF
the brothers that married the grand
daughter.
GOLD in paying quantities is reported
to have been found in Morgan County, Ind
| A comnany has been formed and mining
| will he commenced in "a few
| weeks.
NEAR Nebraska City lives sixteen
wear old boy who can neither hear, see
feel, nor speak. He is in constant motion
like Gagged hyena, but harmless. AS he
is so was he born.
THE Little Sisters of the Poor" have
erected and dedicated to charitable pur-
poses at Indianapolis two-story and a
half frame building, capable of accommo-
dating fifty inmates.
| Corn STARCH CAKE.-One cup OF but
| ter, two cups of sugar, one cup OF sweet
milk, two of flour, one of corn starch, one
teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar,
whites of six eggs.
| A REPORTER last week, in recOunting a
death, said, The deceased lady died sud
denly, without medical assistance, which
| came too late" To die without medical
assistance is hardly complimentary
A MAN in Baltimore, who was on trial
| for passing counterfeit bill, was dis
discharged because some one stole the bill
| from the Justice in the courtroom. Then
| they said there was no evidence to hold
! him.
THERE was rush on savings bank in
Waltham, Mass, the other day, and one
man was so elated to find his $50 all
right that he called in his friends and
went on a big spree When he woke up
next morning he hadn't cent
The Pennsylvania Railway Company
are Just now engaged in furnishing all
their conductors with new time, pieces.
| They are Of silver, quite large, weighing
| about five ounces each, and are furnished
with all the modern Improvements.
| IT is stated that the grave Of General
! Greene, famous in the Revolution, is I'M
| known His body was buried in an old
cemetery on South Broad street, Savan
nah, on June 20, 1886, but no record being
made, the remains could never be found
| One of the most eventful epochs in q
| bows history is when he first addresses his
father as the "old man" 1t is a patriarchal
term, and if the boy is rightly treated at
terward by the family physician, he lives
a great many years to enjoy 1t.
HERE is the latest Yankee trick: Prop
| ertv holders at Niagara and others inter
ested are making a spacious park on the
| American side Of the Falls so that nobody
can get view Of them until he has paid
| a certain fee for admission TO the inclo
sure.
AN amusing instance of modern indus
try appears in the following announce
ment contained in Berlin journal: "Anns
AgrikOl, sick nurse, watches dead bodies
repairs straw chairs, applies leeches
and makes pastry, dessert and dellca
cies"
THE Waterbury ADaericnn says parent
IN that CITY thinks, he will have his new
born daughter christened Glycerine. He
SAYS it will be easy to prefix Nitro to i
when she grows up, if she takes after hel
mother, who is always blowing up every
body.
THE murderer Lusignani, lately hung
in New jersey, had some native wit, if he
did part his hair in the middle. Just be
fore he was led out to execution, one o.
the priests said: II would willingly be il
your place; you will be in heaven soon
'>Well. take my place." said the prisoner
II will get under the bed"
A GENTLEMAN unaccustomed to the new
method of paying fare in the horse-cars
in Lawrence Mass, was so fiuStered tina
he threw fifty cent scrip in the box
Finding that he could get no change from
the driver, he began to take up fares; he
had to ride a considerable distance pas
his destination before he succeeded il
getting his change.
JOHNNY CAKEs-Rub two tablespoons
full of lard or butter into one quart Of vel
low corn meal; add to it three tablespoons
full of molasses and one teaspoonful Of
ginger, and pour in enough boiling milk
or water to make it a thin batter. Add
when nearly cold, one or two eggs, and
bake in shallow pans, in very hot oven
AMONG the memoranda of a young man
who was recently married, were these
Things to be done this afternoon before
the wedding: Get some keys to fit valise
engage carriage for train; get license to
marry; get shaved and hair trimmed a
little; sew button on black breeches, and
get pair of suspenders; buy a bottle OF
perfumery; be sure to wash feet we'll"
STRAWBERRY CULTURE.-A strawberry
grower states that to two barrels of rain
water he puts one -quarter of pound OF
ammonia and One-quarter Of a pound OF
common inter, and with this solution he
sprinked his strawberry beds every night
when poisoning. The result was double
the amount of large strawberries to that
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