Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-17
BREVITIES.

tons to a fashionable wedding Weic issue.
on postal cards.
A WYOMING woman lawyer lately
argued for the plaintiff case wherein
her husband was defendant, and won 1t.
BosToN banks use postal cards to notify
their customers when their notes 1all que
and the customers are indignant at the
publicity thus given to their business at
fairs.
PoTATo FRY.-Slice (thin) cold boilet
potatoes into pan; cover them with goot
milk; add salt and pepper as soon as ths
milk bo.ls; hash them while cooklng)
adding little butter.
Mrs LYsTER, aged ninety-one years
was buried at Graysville, Ind, recently, II
her wedding garments, which she wore
seventy three years ago They were o.
linen which she herself had spun and
woven.
A COUNTRY maiden lately drove an OK
team into indianapolis, hauling load Of
wood. She said she cut the wood, and
with tie wood she bought 3 highly trim
med hat, and with the kat she'll cut q
country swell
CAMBRIDGE, Vt, is proud of family
which has moved thirty times in eleven
years, has been in sixteen States, and
moved seven times in one year. The long
est time they stayed in any one place was
eighteen months.
der horn, hunting knife, and section of
beech log on which he cut his name and
date, 1774, are in the public library at
the powder horn still bears the marks of
his teeth.
A NICELY dressed gentleman applied for
a marriage license at Dover, Tenn, the
other day, but when he spoke the Iady's
name the polite County Clerk suggested
that, if it was all the same to him, he
would prefer that he should name some
other party, as the one mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening.
A LATE Kentuckian bequeathed his two
daughters $4,000, and left debts of only
S5S. The administrator prevailed upon
them to put the estate into the courts, and
it came out last week, after a two years
course, when every cent of the $1,000 was
found to have been swallowed by insatiate
justice.
A CoLORED youth in Thomasville, Ga,
was hired by charitable man to carry
shoulder OF pork to any poor family he
could find. He went to every house in
town, but all denied that they were poor
In some instances he was even pursued to
the front gates by excited females, who ex
pressed desire to curl his hair.with the
small end of a broom.
EVEN burglars are sometimes handy to
have around. This was the case the other
day at the jail at Springfield, Mass, when
it was found impossible to open locked
door. Locksmiths were sent for and
worked hours without success upon it,
and finally the sheriff called upon an old
burglar who was in custody to try his hand
at it. He opened it in few moments.
WE read in the Utica IN. " Herald
the statement that an Ayrshire cow be
longing to General Hungerford, of Adams,
Jefferson County, averaged over eighty
pounds of milk per day, from that she
went to ninety pounds yield daily, and
under regular tactical inspiration She on
one day gave one hundred pounds and
eight ounces of milk. 1t is averred that
no bovine in existence can beat that
1NcENDIARIsM.-The National Board of
Fire Underwriters, at their late meeting
in the city Of New York, resolved to raise
a fund Of 500, 900 for the detection, con-
viction, and punishment of parties en-
gagged IN the nefarious business of in
and arson. The Executive
Committee of that Board at their meeting
on May Il, 1873, carried out the resolution
and opened the subscription. This is a
step in the right direction.
THE farm lands of California are gen
orally detcriorating, according to the San
Francisco Bulletin. During the last ten
or fifteen years the crops have constantly
been growing smaller. The trouble is at
trlbutable to bad system of agriculture,
and the failure to SOW crops of fertiliz
ing character The evil is widespread
and serious, and, if not abated, will inter
tere with the progress and prosperity of
the State.
PROFESSOR w. c. KERR, State Geologist
for North Carolina, has discovered that
the supposed "silver caves" in Mitchell
County are probably mica mines worked
by the contemporaries of the mound
builders. This view is substantiated hy
recent discoveries in the West of plates of
mica cut into different shapes and posi-
bly, intended as mirrtEs and windows.
Since there is none of this mineral in the
Valley, it is possible that
these Carolina caves were excavations
made in search of it,
CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, q fruit farmer
near Reading, Pa, has probably the larg-
est refrigerator in the country 1t is So
feet square, and holds, when filled, about
140 carloads Of ice and 1000 bushels of
fruit. Last fall Mr.. Shearer placed in it
100 bushels Of apples, $50 bushels of
Bartlett and so bushels of Lawrence pears.
His brother, who is the owner of an ad-
joining farm, also stored 100 bushels of
apples i'll it, some of which are still there
and as solid as when they were taken from
the trees.
The New York practice of using a re-
Hector and throwing a ray Of rose-colored
light upon the brides cheek as she passes
up the aisle Of the church was sought to
be introduced in San Francisco, but the
man managing the reflector was a little
and directed the rays upon the
nose Of the bridegroom, and the conse-
quence was that those who assembled to
witness the marriage, and were not N the
secret, thought the bride was throwing
somed nose. 80
FRENCH MILK CAUSE.-THE milk cans
in which the milk is conveyed over the
railways of France are made of similar
shape to ours, but the lids are so arranged
that by turning a screw they can be forced
down on the milk, and thus prevent all
motion. The cans are wrapped in wooden
cloths, and these are wet from time to
time as they may need it. The evapora-
ton of the moisture keeps down the tenn
perature of the milk, and no difficulty is
in carving it q long distance