Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-06
BREyITIES.

lHhEE-FOURTHS OF the real estate VI
indianapolis is held by wives.
THERE are fourteen savings banks in
Chicago, that hold in the aggregate Sill,
5l3,9O2 deposits.
The Augusta Herald has for its motto
prominent line as follows: 1.-TWO AL
mighty Dollars Year"
Iris predicted that the Mississippi will
be higher than has ever been known, on
the opening Of navia cation.
The starch factory Of st. Joseph, Mo-,
is shipping five carloads OF starch daily,
and the people there feel stuck up.
EVENING schools for married men have
been started at South Adams, Mass, from
which the South Ewes are excluded.
A DEVOTED Maine wife set up all night
with dying husband, with no compan-
ION except copy of "Jack Shepard"
AN Easton Mass gentleman made
his son, who is medical student, a hand
some present, on his birthday, of dead
body.
AssAFGTIDA is used as "relish" in
the East, and to assist the appetite, as
Worcestershire and Halford sauce in this
country.
ST. JoHN's, N. B., recently shipped to
Haytl cargo consisting of twenty-thrce
good-sized dwelling houses, made in Sec
tons.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, is luxuriating ON
green peas and ripe tomatoes, while San
Barbara prides itself on its fine strawber-
ries.
AN Alabama farmer laughed himself
almost to death "to see a chicken-thief
try to climb fence with his knees full of
buckshot."
For 81 100000 cash in hand New
Yorker agrees to tear down one of the
pyramids, bring it to New York and set
1t up again.
SWELL smoking chairs are now uphol-
stored with seal skin. They are very
handsome, very comfortable and cost a
small fortune.
THE baby hippopotamus, in London, has
no teeth, and an iron-foundry firm are
about to cast him set of uppers to use
until his own come.
WHICH is the Oldest, Miss Antiquity,
old Aunty Deluvian, Miss Ann Terror,
Miss Ancestor, Miss Ann T. Mundane,
Or Miss Ann T. Cedent?
THAT Maine man who has slept on a
hay-mow every night for twenty five
years, had to get into the house this win
ter or lose the other ear.
ONE of the three ablest journals in ali
India is written by Hindoos, and yields
a rapidly increasing influence both among
Englishmen and natives
'THERE is one kind of second hand
article that l shouldn't object to-" said
Softkins, land that is a young, hand
some, amiable and rich widow"
Two CHINAMEN were recently shot in
Virginia City, New, while engaged in
stealing, and a Nevada paper says that
part of the Chinese problem is solved.
WHY are Goals the most contradictory
articles known to commerce? Because,
when purchased, instead of going to the
buyer, they so to the cellar.
THE Pennsylvania tavern keepers
threaten to raise the price of lodging for
man and beast if their licenses for selling
liquor are taken from them.
A YOUNG lady at South Norwalk
explained that her father conducted an
aquarium, which was much better than
saying he kept fish market
A JERSEY CITY gent lately had both
ears grazed by bullets while escorting
home girl whose hand was wanted by a
rival. very unhealthy town is that.
THERE is a family at Newark, N. j.,
whose members are dying off from sheer
excess of fat. One of the children, aged
thirteen, recently returned to $50 pounds
Of dust.
THE Glasgow (Ky) Times says that
there is living in that State q gentleman
who was married by the same minister
each time, in the same house, and married
four sisters
HUMAN footprints have been discover
ed in the rock in Douglas County, Ore
gon, seven feet below the surface of the
ground. They were fifteen inches in
length.
A BosToN lady died the other day at
the age of 112, leaving boy of SO to
mourn her loss. The youth will be taken
to an orphan asylum or adopted by some
kind family.
A GEORGIA negro was Overpaid 800 on
a check by bank, and he returned the
money. The local paper says this is an
other evidence that the race can never be
civilized.
A HUNGARIAN by the name of Bango,
recently arrived at st. Joe, was robbed
by fellow-countryman of $1,000 in
greenbacks which he had concealed be-
meath his pillow.
The recent decline in the price of coal
oil is matter of congratulation to the
undertakers. They say that folks don't
kindle fires with the stuff when it gets be-
yond a certain figure
''KETTLEDRUMs" have been introduced
in Washington on the English style, the
refreshments consisting of peculiar kind
OF cake and tea. The company is invited
from three to six p. m.
WEDDING CARDS in Denver consist of a
jack of diamonds and the queen of
hearts, with the contracting parties
names thereon. If the brides mother is
living the ten of clubs is enclosed.
A NEGRO in Coffee County, Ca, who
bet 1915 that he could ride a roam mule
with pine burr under the saddle, lost
the money. He was followed to the tomb
by large and enthusiastic audience.
The vitality of the human race is said
TO be on the increase. Hercules would
nave succumbed under the weight of
1nvectlve that life insurance agent
Will bear without winking -Boston Globe
LOUISVILLE has new Chief of Police,
and he has awkwardly arrested several
leading citizens whom he found in gam
bling rooms. 1t will take him some
weeks to get acquainted Chicago paper.
Work on the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road, to run from Saucelito northward
near the ocean shore, will soon be com