Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03
BREyITIES.

TPTTH as iii pOSSlUiC W 10 ''oiiSN ~
any outward touch as the sunbeam
Milton.
THE ruin of some men dates from some
idle hour. Occupation is an armor to the
GREAT men and great institutions may
ba bevond the most of us, but great actions
are for Us all.
LADIES in Eastern cities are discarding
false hair, which. is the most sensible
move of the day.
NoNAN ever did designed injury to
another without doing greater to NM
elf.-Heafy Home
low SHOES, and stockings of gorgeous
colors and patterns, are the fashion Tor
gentlemen this summer
Ry taking revenge, a man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing 1t over he
is superior-L0rd Bacon.
TINS season. for the first time, lumber
from the Lake Michigan districts reaches
the Atlantic ria Detroit River.
THE Civ Council of Kokomo, Ind, or
dains that any officer whom it elects who
gets drunk, thereby vacates his office.
THE good wear their years as a crown
of rlorv upon their heads; the bad, as
heavy burden upon their back.
A LOUISVILLE woman bought feather
he'd the other day, and found a shot-bag in
it containing $40 in bank notes.
A YOUNG woman ct Fall River, Mass,
attempted to cowhide young man the
other day, and came out second best.
New JERSEY man who recovered
So 600 for having his ear punched, is
looking for some one to pinch the other
SOMEBODY says the tariff at the extreme
" fashionable watering-place hotels IS
Give dollars day; meals and lodging ex-
ira
AT a coroner's inquest, a witness was
asked, what was the last thing seen by
fhc deccaeed?" Kerosene" was the
reply.
way is to be extended from its terminus at
the west line Of Kansas to Grenada, in Col
orado
New York brewers have gone to max
ine Cincinnati and Milwaukee lager beer.
IT saves transportation and is just as trans
porting
BUFFALO has police dog which has
saved several persons from drowning.
The coroners have vainly tried to kill the
canine.
TT is d curious fact that, while beaux
are permitted to go ON the way they are
ben-, bellies are expected to 90 in the way
thCy are told.
PRETTY country girls are employed as
walters a. some of the Narragansett hotels,
but they are terribly heightened and
ariStOCratic
THE black flint found near Fort
Bridge, Wyoming Territory, is identical,
according to DR.. Leidy, with that of the
English chalk
The wild man in the woods is in Geor-
gia now He has got to be eight feet
high, and tears out a horses tail with one
turn Of the wrist
MISS NELLIE THURsToN is engaged to
make balloon ascension next fall at the
Antwerp q. " Union Agricultural
Society's grounds.
LADIES water proof cloaks, so light that
they can easily be folded into a parcel
small enough to be carried in the dress
pocket, are now sold
An industrious somnambulist in Haver
hill, Mass is said to get up in the night
and do the family washing, without know
ing anything about it.
A MOBILE beggar died recently, LEAVING
fortune Of half amillion dollars Though
formerly an outcast, his funeral was large
" attended by his relatives.
THAT farmer understood human nature
who said If you want your boy to stay
at home don't bear too hard on the grind
stone when he turns the crank"
The work Of stocking the lakes and
rivers II Wisconsin with salmon trout is
being carried on in earnest Over 10000
have y. sdy been put in this season.
MAYOR STocKIEY, of Philadelphia has
given orders that the law prohibiting the
sale of oysters in that city in the months
OF June, July and August be strictly en-
forceG~
TIE most beautiful birth was the birth
in the manager; the loveliest life was the
sublimcst death was the death upon blood
stained Calvary.
\ BIRD upon the wing may carry seeC
that shall add new species to the vegetable
family OF q continent; and just SO, aword
a thought, from a flying soul, may have
results unreasonable, eternal.
A CHICAGO horse doctor nearly lost hi
life last week by the falling of his dia
mond pin on one of his feet. The entir
ankle was badly crushed, and the doctor
think amputation will be necessary.
A NAN who had his new hat exchanged
for an old one in a barber shop advertise
that unless it is returned he will forward
To the wife of the person who took it tn
letter found concealed in the lining of tn
old one.
GENERAL JACKsoN's Bible, which wa
given to him during his Presidency by
Washington lady, and after his death wa
presented to the Hermitage Church il
Tennessee, was stolen from the place re
Gently.
THE iron bridge over the Marias de
Cygnes, at Fontana, Kansas, $50 feet il
length, was lifted from its piers durin!
the late food, and carried to a point op
posite Ncwells mill, a distance of at leas
90 miles.
WITHIN a week after the commission o
his otfense, New York burglar, who wa
caught by one of the ladies of a house h
had entered after he had fired two shots a
her, has been sentenced to thirty years
Imprisonment.
The stock yards in East st. Louis will
when completed, be one of the largest in
situations Of the kind in the country
The land owned by the company consist
of 400 acres, all of which will be used TO
stock purposes.
A JURYMAN in Pennsylvania recentl
informed his eleven fellowjurors, wit
great gravity that ''no external magnetism
being visual he would vote in the deten
sive" No effort was made to change hi