Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-22
BREVITIES.

A LATELY deceased millionaire's estate
in San Francisco is claimed by four lawful
widows already.
THE tunnel under the city of Baltimore,
built at a cost of So 100000, will be com
pleted about the first of July.
THE new Gardner gun fires twenty six
shots per minute. After it has banged
away at man two or three hours he be-
gins to feel sick.
THE complete file Of the Charleston 6
c. Courier, for seventy years, was bought
by G.. A Spotford for $2,250, for the Con-
gressional library.
THE Fairplay Colorado Sentinel boasts
that it is published at greater altitude
than any other paper in the world-10,0 6O
feet above the level Of the sea.
A MAN was fined So and costs, at Dun
ieith, H., for cutting Oft colts ear with
jack-knife, and perpetratjng other cruelties
on the helpless animal.
Mr.. BERGH's latest proposition is that
dogs shall be caught with scOOp-nets early
in the morning, and taken to a house
where they are to be gently asphyxiated
by pure carbonic acid gas.
THIRTY years ago a man living near
Lacrosse sold a pair of boots tor gun,
traded the gun for pony, sold the pony
for thirty-siX acres of swamp land and
now owns sixty-six city lots, worth $500
each
INTENDING visitors to the great Austrian
exposition will do well to look to their
vaccination marks as we'll as to their let
tiers of credit, the deaths from smallpox
in Vienna at last accounts, averaging six
ty week.
THE salt we'll near Leavenworth,
Crawford County, Ind, which is 1865
feet deep, and has, for several years.
yielded paying brine, has suddenly ceased
to be salty, but is pouring forth coal Oil
in strange abundance.
THE heirs of one Peter Gleason have es-
tablished their claim to $4,O00,00O worth
of real estate in the city of Trenton, n. j.,
which had mostly been leased for long
terms by another party, who came iato
fraudulent possession OF it.
FIFTEEN hundred singing birds Of diff
ferent varieties, imported from Germany
by a society organized for that purpose,
were turned loose in the suburbs of Gin
cinnati recently The object is to domes-
ticate them in this country if possible.
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that all
hotels should be supplied with small bal
looms which should be so secured to the
windows of the sleeping apartments as to
be easily entered theretrom. In case of
fire dodgers could enter these balloons, cut
the cord, and in a very few moments be
safe from danger of confagration.
WHEN fuel is burned in an open fire
place at least seven-eighths of the actual
or potential heat passes up the chimney
unused. About one-half is carried Oft
with the smoke, one-fOurth with the cur
rent which flows ia between the mantel-
piece and the fire, and the remaining loss
is represented by the unburned carbon
aceous matter in the smoke.
4 WOMAN in Reading, Pa, used to buy
peaches when they were sixty cents a
quarter Of peck; when her husband re-
mOnstrated with her for her extravaganza,
she would burst into tears, and say she
was not extravagant, because when she
bought those peaches she intended TO put
them in the refrigerator and keep them
until they got cheaper.
A PHILADELPHIA woman wanted safe
place in which to secrete her money, some
81, 400, and so placed it in that ingenious
article of feminine apparel known as a
hustle. Unfortunately another woman's
wit contrived a plan to chlorofOrm her
and relieve her of her funds, which was
successfully accomplished, and the dar-
ing operator got off safely with her booty.
A FUNNY lawsuit is to come off at Fort
Madison, Iowa. 1t is an action for $4,000
damages, brought by a lady for being
fOrcibly elected from a church. because
she stopped her ears with her fingers dur
ing the prayer Of a party personally OBJ
noxious to her, and who had been instru
mental in the communication of herself
and husband from church membership.
WHEN Miss Faithful delivered her lee
ture in Cincinnati gentleman in the
audience was about to speak to a fashion
able girl by his side in praise of the plain
ness OF the fair lecturcss's dress, but the
words were taken out Of his mouth in this
wise: ooh yes, am Of course sorry she
is not dressed in more style, but then you
know she is really very good"
NEVER Commemorative a man the
necessares of life, and he wants the CON
veniences; give him the convenences,
and he Graves for the Injuries; give him
the Injuries, and he sighs for the elegan-
eies; let him have the elegancies, and he
yearns for the follies; give him all together
and he complains that he has been cheat
ed both in the price and quantity of the
article
A YOUNG man advertised for correspon-
dence with ladies in Cleveland short
time ago. Some fellow answered, and ap-
pointed an interview one night on Euclid
avenue One of their number dressed in
woman's clothes and met the advertiser
and then another pretending to be her
brother, belabored the romantic youth with
stuffed club, purposely prepared. He ran
away crying loudly for the police.
A DOCTOR in Greenville, S. c., writes to
the local newspaper to say how he treats
cerebro-spinal meningitis He bathes
the spine with spirits of turpentine, and
then passes over it well-heated smooth
ing iron for fifteen minutes. At the same
time he gives quinine in heroic doses, each
followed by heroic dose of bromide of
potassium, combined in solution with an
ordinary dose Of solid extract of hyoscya-
mus. He throws in at the same time great
doses Of calomel.
ONE Allen, of Chicago, is now collect
ing documents and searching records, pre-
paratory to commencing suit to recover
possession of a tract Of land four miles
square in Livingston County, n. Y, on
which the village Of Mt. Morris has been
built. Allen claims to be lineal descend
ant of EbeneZcr Allen, to whom the land
was ceded by Indians in trust for his
daughters, anu who improperly disposed
of it to Robert Morris, who, in turn, sold
it to individuals. Lawyers inform Allen
that his claim is good
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