Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-06

The Augusta Herald wants
printer. A good hand can find steady
employment.
The mills Of the Gods are grind
ing copious grists and not so very slow,
-uide. Credit Mobilier -Tweed-Pom-
eroy-Caldwell etc.
"A fire at Green Bay, on The eve
ming of the 9th, destroyed several
heavy business houses, with loss OF
$3.50, 900.
They have street car conductor
in New York who almost equals the
learned Burritt. He speaks eight Ian
guages.
-"All the boys are going to get a
bounce was what murderer Shankey,
in the New York Tombs, said when
Fosters death was announced.
The ST. Louis Democrat says:
s'whales are running their noses against
that portion of Rhode Island that sticks
out into the water, and the inhabitants
are troubled with earthquakes.
Richard Spencer. hanged on the
Sth instant at Kirkdale, England, for
the murder of his mistress, was born in
jail, end his father was hanged for
murder.
-"Murder is very serious thing,
sir" said an Arkansas judge to a con-
victed prisoner. at is next to stealing
horse or mule, sir, and shall send
you to state prison for six years, sir. "
Some old army buttons, used as
playthings by baby in Iowa, proved
to BE- hollow, with five dollar green
back folded in each Now, how many
old army buttons will 90 unopened.
A Nashville washerwoman, finding
in lot of dirty clothes new-fashion-
ed shirt opening at the back, sewed it
up, cut open the bosom and sewed on
buttons, to the intense disgust Of her
customer.
A broken rail threw the day ex-
press on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway from the track, about twelve
miles this side of Chicago, Monday
morning. All the cars we're ditehed.
but no one was seriously hurt
Hiram Green says 'sall the differ
cnce he can see between Stephen of
old and the readers Of the New York
Herald is that Stephen died stoned to
death, while the Herald readers are
Living to death"
The Chicago Tribune ventures the
conundrum, ''Why do -four mills burn?
We never knew they did, says the
Peoria Review, having never been
burned by one> but suppose it's because
they're combnstiblc. Here's one for
the Tribune. ''Why do summer roses
fade %
A Peoria COW, imbuco with few
! aristocratic notions of her own, walk
ed into her masters parlor the other
day while the family were out, and on
| their return was found standing before
the mirror, complacently chewing her
cud and languidly busting the piano
with her tail at intervals
Some of the principal loggers says
that not less than go, 900 will be
out and hauled on Black river before
next spring. Including the old logs
on hand, now ready to run out, there
will be between 500, 900, 900 and 600,
100000 feet Of logs to be sent to
market from Black River alone next
summer. Last year not more than one
eight OF the logs IN the river were
driven to market.
A sixth Atlantic cable is being
canvassed for amon- capitalists in Eng
land to be laid from Liverpool to New
York direct, 5000 miles, at !; cost OF
$4,000 900. A new French cable,
for which the money has already been
subscribed, is to be 500 miles shorter,
and is to possess carrying capacity Of
twenty-ssven words per minute, which
is said to be double that which can
possibly be obtained by single direct
line of 5000 miles, athe ascertained
fact being that after the first 1000
miles the resistance of the cable is i'm
mensely increased.