Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-19
BREyITIES.

-. LOS a Guy Clei VIM "eoiihS
vacation OF three months after twenty three
years continuous service.
A SwEDE woman, of ST. Paul, recently
astonished the natives by carrying an Oil
barrel through the streets on her head.
A SMALL bird, somewhat resembling the
sparrow, is eating up the devastating
grasshopper in Texas, and the farmers are
happy.
Isaac RICE, of Henniker, N. H., has
been POSTMASTER of that village since 1909,
having been first appointed by President
Madison.
A CAss COUNTY Iowa school-marm has
bound herself not to spark at night with
any young man during her term of
school.
A ClUMsILY-DRAwN ordinance makes
any man who shaves himself In Des
Molnes, Iowa, on Sunday, liable to fine
of five dollars.
A BUSINESS man in Boston recently in
vited all the city missionaries to his house
and gave each, as they left handsome
sum of money.
YOUNG lady from the country called
at book store, the other day, and asked
for "a deck of them new postal-keerds-
double headers"
THE Detroit Chief of Police gives no
tice that no more lottery tickets, gift dis
tributions, or enterprises OF chance Will be
allowed in that city.
THE difference between country and
city greenhorn is that one would like to
know everything and the other thinks he
can tell him.
A VERMONT man who caught the small
pox four years ago and communicated it
to some of his neighbors, has just been
sued by them for damages.
Mrs. MARIA PARKER, of Stamford, Vt,
has borne twenty-siX children, ten Of whom
were boys whose united weight when they
arrived at manhood was over two thousand
pounds
A WOMAN named Courtney, of Torrance
Bay Nova Scotia has given birth to four
children, being the second time within
two years. She has had seventeen child
rem in ten years.
A PITTSBURGH merchant declares that
he knows of thirteen first society ladies
who steal his goods whenever they Can
get a chance. Washington merchants
complain of the same thing
a FARMER at GeneseO, Ill, recently
found, under an old straw stack, six wolf
cubs, and about fifty pounds of meat and
half dozen chickens, provided for their
comfort by the provident mother
CAPTAIN A j. JENNINGS subscribed to-
ward building Methodist church in Eu-
dora, Mo. He refused to pay up, was sued,
and was put in Jail, where he says he is
serving out his time like man.
A GIRL not far from HoltOn, Kansas,
was at a dance recently, and when asked
to of Will off, oft ohio
piled II can't dance these whirl-around
figures; they always make me puke."
Corn STARCH CAKE-One cup of but
ter, two cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup
Of sweet milk, one of corn starch, two
cups Of flour, one teaspoon soda and two
Of cream of-tartar. Flavor with nutmeg
and lemon.
To KEEP FURs.-One ounce gum cam
phor, and one powdered shell of red pep
per Macerate in eight ounces of alcohol
for several days, then strain. Sprinkle
furs, etc, with this tincture, roll up in a
clean cloth and lay away.
A KENTUCKY paper says: A business
man in CovingtOn bought a postal card
yesterday, wrote a few lines On the back
of it, and putting it in a stamped envelope,
mailed it to friend in Lexington. He
Says tlcy are great convenience.
THE oldest blast furnace now in Mary
land is the Catoctin, built in 1774, and re
built in 1887. Pig iron was exported from
the State to England in 1717, the mother
country not allowing at that date any kind
of iron except pig to be made in the colo
MES.
Wool WASTE for grass lands is COM
| mended, spreading it on the grass late in
fal1 !,
The odor which arises from it renders it
Objectionable as top dressing for lawns
about dwellings; but for meadows it is as
serted to be excellent.
THE young married man who found
himself at the theater, the other evening
with feet encased in steel-colored boots
from liberal application of stove-black-
ing, in the dark, wants to know chow long
this housekeeping is going to last, any
how"
THE police of Milwaukee apparently
can't tell dead man from drunken one
by gaslight. The other night they carried
to the morgue what they took for fresh
laid corpse. Just as the Coroner, next
morning, brought in six men to sit down
On it, it arose and walked off,
The Post-office Department declares
tIlde ucdu 1ctltIS Will DC returned 10 the
writers thereof without cost to the writer's,
although the law providing for it is abol-
ished by the repeal of the Thanking privi-
lege. The department will, it is said, use
the official postage stamp for returning the
dead letters.
A PEORIA woman lately sent II 500 old
postage stamps to a friend in New York,
to help make up the number of 1900, 600,
for which quantity gentleman has agreed
to build an Episcopal chapel in her neigh
borhood. They are utilized in Europe in
the manufacture of special quality of
papier mache.
A MAN in Philadelphia bought ticket
at theater for fifty cents. All the seats
were occupied, and he demanded seat or
the return Of his money. Both were re-
fused, and, in suit to recover, the court
said that the purchaser of ticket is emit
tied to a seat, unless he is notified before
the purchase that all the seats are sold.
A FEW years ago there were scarcely
any shad in the Hudson, and the fish was
rare and costly luxury in the New York
markets. Now, according to the Troy
Times, "shad lie like snowbank on the
Shores" and are retailed to the city house
holders at thirty cents pair. This is the
result of stocking the stream with young
fish
A GREAT struggle is prevailing in
Shamokin, Pa, for the possession of over
ten thousand acres of land in the anthra-
cite coal regions, valued at $4,000, 000