Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01
Our Small Change.
"A spring shower last Monday

seiii Slhail voice keeps saying
FIRE ENGINE.
The recent rains have quenche,
the fires burning only last week al
about us.
A cat was cancelled with buck shot
back of the Kablin House last Thurs
day evening.
More tons of Timothy and Glove
will be cut in Wood Co. this season
than ever before.
F. j. Wood has est" az boob
keeper in the Foundry. Good fol
Frank.
Lord & Stowell are making har
ness and selling as fast as they manu-
facture.
lannon's is plastering, and will
open to the public next week. His
will be tasty store.
"A librarian, arranging his books
according to their subjects-matter, put
"Irish bulls" under the head of agricul-
tural.
.-Voltaire said of Mademoiselle de
Livery "She was so beautiful that I
raised my long, thin body, and stood
before her like point of admiration. I"
An unconscientious Sunday School
pupil after studying the lesson for last
sabbath said he'd pit Joseph against
all the rest of 1.-the boys"
Several miniature Bunker Hill
monuments, serving as hitching posts
are periodically erected in front of
Worden's and Writer'S.
Warner is all ready for business,
as ready as before the fire. He wants
new sidewalk Will our city fathers
see to it.
Rats are making the old rapids
just red hot. Now and then one
strikes fire on the rocks, which is pro-
voketive of deal of bad rhetoric
When a girl grows to be SO tall
that it takes a whole clothes line for
jumping rope, its time she came doru to
her regular knitting.
Reader is this your paper? did
you subscribe for it? Ifnot lay it down
this minute. Valley Sentinel, Ship
pensburg, Pa.
A Yale College student said he
had rather be boss pancake baker in
Vassar College than to have Prof. Tyn-
dall's head on his shoulders.
See the new adve rtisement of Miss
Lizzie Smith under head of new adyer-
tisements. Mis-, S. has fine assortment
of goods including everything in the
millinery line. Ladies, give her a call.
The embellishments,
which is the Hebrew for whip poor-wills
are singing nightly. The french chick
ems which is the Greek for frogs, don't
seem to tune up at all.
A Troy man spent three-quarters
Of an hour, the other evening, in trying
to pick up piece Of moonshine from
his door-steps, which he fondly fancied
to be a newspaper.
Giraffe and Berg, formerly resi-
dents Of Grand Rapids are doing bust
ness together at Wausau as painters,
and yet people think the Grobenbery
Company originated in New York.
Which one of our Doctors is it
that keeps man playing big trum-
bone in the back of his Office to make
people think he is doing big amputat-
ing business?
How are you snow birds? They
don't like this insipid spring; it's too
cold, they bundle themselves up till
they look like dolls muff and their
little legs look like two red wooden
yarns, still they're snow birds and if
the weather d a been warmer last
spring they'd "dusted."
A little urchin Of an enquiring
turn of mind took his little hatchet--
his name wasn't George arlington
the other day and went for the "ma-
ples' in the governors" door-yard.
The answer to the governors conun-
drum was, Il want some of them little
five cent maple sugars. The proud
parent" modestly sweetencd the sap
lent youth.
In letter to his friends at home,
an intelligent foreigner states that "when
a great man dies in the United States,
the first thing done is to propose fine