Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-07
BREVITIES.

is $50 per cur.
SYMPATHETIC ink is now the rage for
writing on postal cards.
THE chignon is no longer seen at fash
ionable watering places.
BEES have been found in trees on the
Sierras at an altitude of 5000 feet.
A sEA-LIoN weighing over 800 pounds
has been captured off Wells Beach, Me.
A DARING youth recently swan across
the Niagara River at the foot of the falls.
THE grape crop of Santa Barbara Coun-
ty, California, will be very large and fine
this year.
BosToNs Model clearinghouse Asso-
citation has proved failure, and will
close up its affairs.
UTAH is one of the best stock-raising
countries in the world. The COWS get so
strong that their cream churns itself.
SOME very original young New York
swells wear little thermometers for scarf
pins and upon the lapels of their coats.
In Boston Office hangs a sign with
the following inscription: "Peple are for
hidden to spite tobaker JUG on the flor"
THE peach crop, usually so abundant
about Walla Walla and the Dalles, Oregon,
IS this year almost failure from late
frOstS.
To CLEAN WHITE OR LIGHT GLOVES
Put them on the hand and thoroughly rub
with white bread. This will clean them
nicely.
A NEW swindle is being practiced on
several New York railways. Counterfeit
tickets are being sold extensively by
putative agents.
To REMOVE IRON RUsT-Take the juice
of lemon and drop on the spots and lay
the articles out in the sun, when the rust
will soon disappear
THE movement recently started in Gin
cinnati, to give working women holiday
on Saturday afternoons during the sum-
mer, bids fair to be successful.
THE President of the second branch of
Baltimore's City Council was arrested and
fined for setting off fire crackers in the
street on the Fourth.
To REMOVE FRECKLEs -Powdered
nitre, m0istened with water and applied
to the face night and morning, will soon
remove freckles without injury to the
skin.
TWENTY EIGHT different kinds Of 'bit-
ters" sold in Rhode Island for strictly
medical use" are undergoing analysis by
the State chemist from an excise point of
view
Work is being commenced in Arizona
on the military telegraph, and the people
are greatly rejoiced at the prospects Of
speedy communication with the outside
world.
COMPTROLLER GREEN, of New York,
refuses to pay judgment against the
city, and a levy has been made upon the
portraits of the Governors room in the
~. 1T 1a
by the Sheriff.
PURCHASERS of accident policies should
be a little particular about dates. A gen
tleman purchased one recently, good for
two DAYS, but discovered subsequently that
the date on the card make it expire two
days before the purchase.
A DUTCHMAN and an Irshman once met
on a lonely highway. AS they met each
smiled, thinking he knew the other. Pat,
on seeing his mistake, remarked, Faith,
an | thought it was you, and you thought
it was me, an it's nayther of US"
A TENNESSEE lady presented her hus-
band with pair of twins and in due sea
son added triplets. Dear me-" ex-
claimed an astOnished neighbor, Il s'pose
Mrs. Stebbing will have quadrupeds next,
and then centipedes."
THE forty thousand live shad sent to
California and Great Salt Lake by the
United States Commissioner of Fisheries
under charge of Livington Stone, deputy
for the Pacific coast, and two assistants,
have arrived at their destination in perfect
order.
THE second party of Chinese youth,
about eighty in all, who are to be educated
in this country under the direction of
Commissioner Laisun, sailed from China
June 26, and are expected to arrive in
| Springfield, Mass, during the last of the
present month.
| A LYNN (Mass.) lady sold rags to Sa-
| lem buyer A week afterWard she called
at his establishment and desired to see
what she had sold. After searching the
| loft diligently she found her 81 800 in
currency, and savings bank book calling
for So, 400. Moral Never hide your val
uabes in rag bags.
THE Coffeyville KAN Courier recon-
ommends itself after this fashion: "The
! Courier is printed nearer the scene Of the
| late Bender horror than any other newspa-
| per Those wishing to subscribe for good,
live newspaper should make note of
| the fact"
JUMBLEs-One-half pound butter, one
half pound sugar, three-fourths pound
| flour, three eggs; flavor with rose-water
and nutmeg. After the ingredients are
mixed take out little on Well-sugared
board and cover with sugar. Cut in short
strips, and cross on well-buttered tin.
| A LITTLE boy in Dover refusing to take
pill, his mother placed it in piece of
preserved pear and gave it to him. In a
few minutes she said: tom, have you
eaten the pearl" He said, Eyes, mother,
| all but the seed"
EGG CAKE-Two cups of sugar, one
egg, piece OF butter the size of a large egg,
one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of
| soda, a little salt and nutmeg, one tea
spoonful of lemon, three cups of -four
beat the white Of egg separately, the sugar
and yelk and butter together; bake in a
thoroughly heated oven.
Miss MARIA PORTER, the Yankee girl
who toiled eighteen hours day learning
to show off on skates, and who acquired
such skill that she had the honor of skat-
ing with Napoleon III, and became the
belle of the Partisan skaters, has received
her reward. She lately married a Prus-
sian nobleman old enough to be her
grandfather.
ONE of the latest inventions is porta-
bic travelling bed, which can be rolled up
ike shawl in a cylindrical package
some two feet long. 1t consists Of light
hair mattress, including single or double
air pillows, a fine wollen coverlet, a camp
stool, attachments, and cords for adapting
the mattress as hammock, and apparatus