Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-08
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A New York coachman blew his nose
so hard that it forced an eye from us
socket.
"A little girl in Boston, four years old'
had feast upon matches, the other day,
when left alone She has now gone whefe
they are said to be made.
A Mrs. VIM. Clark, near Spring HUI,
johnson County, Ill, had one OF her eyes
put out, a few days ago, by the bursting OF
a tea canister, while she was cleaning II
with ashes and hot water
Many persons consider the game OF
base ball a silly, nonsensical amusement.
They are mistaken. A Terre Haute
catcher" recently caught coallamp on
the fly, hot from the hands of his lnfu-
rated wife.
"A convict in San Diego received from
his friends number of letters saturated
with morphine. When he had collected
sufficient he chewed them, and, by thus
poisoning himself, avoided death on the
gallows
An Omahaman, desiring to get rid OF
his mother in-law at very short notice, IN
duced her to spread nitro glycerine on her
back to cure lumbago, and then apply a
hot f1at-iron. AT the latest accounts they
had sent into an adjoining county to try to
get enough of the woman together to hold
an inquest over.
An evil-minded Eastern paper gets OIL
the following: GA Chicago drug clerk,
who has already laid out several citizens
cold and stiff by his prescriptions, was
heard to remark the other morning that
he must light the gas hereafter when filling
prescriptions, as he could not go by the
sense of smell so well as he could before
he had the catarrh."
Another brilliant youth has hung him
self for fun He dwelt at Gilmore, Vt,
and was playing on the stairs with rope,
when he attached one end of the line to
the bausters and the other to his neck
and leaned forward to see how it would
feel He did not live to report on the SEN
sation for the benefit CT science but 1t IS
generally believed that there was not much
fun in it.
"A farmer Of cheerful and inquiring
turn of mind, few miles west Of the city,
wanted to scare an old and worthless
dog so that he would run away and never
come back again, and he got his old
powder-horn, put a little pile near the
dogs nose, and coal Of fire a few inches
from the powder He then took the pow
der-horn with the intention of pouring a
little on the coal. He held the horn up,
removed his thumb, the powder struck
the coal; there was an explosion The
old dog was badly scared The farmer
has not seen him since, but the doctors
think he will be able to see him in two or
three weeks, or as soon as he recovers.-
Springfield (IU) Register.
A thunderbolt which came down re
Gently at Milton, Conn, and paid particu-
lar attention TO the house of Mr.. Brown,
deserves record for its singular and vi3or-
Gus behavior. 1t began by dcmolishing
the lightning rod in the most sarcastic and
scOrnful manner. 1t then entered a sec
ond-story room of the house, cut hole
six feet square in the floor, demolished
the stove, and broke every pane of glass in
the windows, after which it mildly en-
tered the diningroom, and ripped up the
floor there. 1t made mincc-meat $50 to
speak, of the wash room. 1t left that
house without any underpinning to speak
Of Then it paid its respects to the barn,
| went back to the house and violated the
sanctity of a servant maids room The
poor girl was just innocently adjusting
her hair in the looking-glass when she
was thrown violently backward on the
bed by the furious thundelbolt, and she
says she will never be vain again. In a
neighboring house the risky element
scattered quantity Of soft soap, and
tore one rivet from a frying-pan There
never was such bolt before.