Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-06

tagc City K. r.. seems to hang fire and
but little work has been done for the
past week, in fact the work has nearly
come to a stand still. Whether the
financial crash has had anything to do
with it, we are unable to say. Not
over nile has been graded yet and
that near tho City Of Stevens Point. =
Whether the Company mean business
it yet remains to be seen.-PtoUer
Times.
The fog was SO thick in London
the other day, If telegraph reports
! can be relied upon,--that nearly all
business was suspended, and pedestri-
ans quit in disgust. An old market
woman walked into yaller dog and
the dog jumped into a jewelry store
window and the jeweler thought some
body had hurled at him club, so jump
ed up and halload for the police the
police came with lantern and arrest
ed tobaccorist's sign for disturbing
the peace, and little CANNON see
ing tie lantern yelled fire !, fire and
then all s'London' came out and peer
ed through IA dense mist but could see
nothing; and all this just because of a
little yellow fog and dense dog.
We'd like to live in "Lonon." An
enterprising yankee wanted to cut it
up into hunks and sell it for new pat
ent bolster stuffing, but staid London
couldn't see it, twas so foggy.
We little deer with horns, that
live in the woods and make their beds
under the spreading hrmlock boughs,
these little velvet deer that gambol
over the dead Autumn leaves, yet new
err ''pass the buck" have been gone
for exceedingly the past week by our
valiant Nimrods, but so far as We can
learn only now and then one would al
low Nimrod to 90 home with them.
This fawn- ing around the little pets
with a shot gun don't always win.
Take a bottle Of perfumc-a little
"Catch me quick" boys, and you will
have better successful town at any
rate. Doe unto others as you would
that they would doe unto YOU is good
doctrine, bat 1t don't count worth a
cent on the war path. The boys 60
fer only those TO: yet in their doe -tage
Wait till snow comes, more bou tifully
boys, then, you can sleigh the Dear
with impunity, or shot gun on snow
shoes, Oh. Deer. Our devil makes
this exclamation. He has been watch
ing dear lick, too.
In Woods Household Magazine
for November. the table of contents
seems spread for Thanksgiving feast,
and gives evidence that no efforts
have been spared that could add to its
excellence "A Sermon on Skim
mer, is not only pleasing in its quaint
uess, and originality, but contains sound
.ogic. i" Mrs Pomeroy's Pin Money"
is capital " Upon the Stand,' is an
other meritorious sketch, by the popu-
lar writer, Kate ". Hamilton. God
fish and Potatoes by Eleanor Kirk,
is short serial which opens we'll.
" Growing aged Together" by the Rev.
Robert Collyer, is we'll worth the price
Of the years subscription F.; it is full of
this great mans eloquence- powerful
in it's very simplicity. There are many
other interesting articles had we space
to mention them. The poetry in this
humber is unusually good. A new fea-
tulc VI tHC IHdSdLlHe 10 Vic iltloouo-
ton of pictures, aud the illustration,
" Past, Present and Future" here
given, is exceedingly pretty.
Price Of magazine, one dollar per
year, with the chrome Yosemite,
one dollar and half Address
Wood's HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE
Ncwburgh, n. Y.
An Ohio paper relates that about
seventeen years AGO young boy, resld-
ing in Wood County, took black cat
skin, from which the original tail of
the cat had been removed and mink S
tail nicely sewed on instead, and sold
it to a certain buyer of furs, not many
miles front Grand Rapids, for S125.
1t was done as practical joke, but the
boy kept the money, grew to be pros
porous business man, joined a church,
br- his conscience upbraided him so
!: .ch that few days ago the ex-fur-
dealer received a note inclosing 1910.
principal and interest. The joke is
now en- the fur dealer, as he put the
cat-skin among u lot of mink skins and
sold it for So As he cannot now find
the purchaser, he proposes to contri-
butte the money to some benevolent
purpose. Des Holmes (Iu) Repn5N-
can.