Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
BREyITIES.

LEAD ore has been discovered three
miles north of Lyons, Iowa.
DEATH is as the foreshadowing OF LIE
We die that we may die no more.
PEORIA, H., claims tC be the most an
cient settlement west of the Alleghanies.
NILSSON expended $50, 900 in gold upon
toalettes from Worth before leaving Paris.
HASH is said to be connecting INK DC
tween the animal and vegetable king
doms.
THE richest man in Denver is Mexi-
can, with an Indian wife, and she leads the
| fashion.
VIRTUE, though in rags, may challenge
more than vice set off with the trim OF
greatness.
AN incurable type of yellow fever-the
rage for gold, because it breaks out IN rash
speculation.
MANY lose the opportunity of saying a
kind thing by waiting to weigh the mat
ter too long.
AN inveterate old bachelor says ships
are called she because they always keep a
man on the lookout
WHY do girls kiss each other, and men
do not? Because girls have nothing bet
| ter to kiss, and men have.
| IT is estimated that the gross receipts
| of the Pennsylvania Railroad for this year
| will exceed $4,000, 600.
WOMAN ought to do all she can to make
| this earth paradise for man, as it was all
| her fault that she lost the other.
| NINETEEN million cigars are annually
| imported from Cuba. They are princi-
pally manufactured in Connecticut.
AN experiment shipment Of uncooked
meat, preserved by freezing process, has
been dispatched from Australia for Lon
| DON
INTERNAL REVENUE receipts since the
beginning of the present year exceeded
those for the same period last year by
about 81 100000.
| You can tell when a newsbOy has been
stuck with one of the new $500 greenback
counterfeits by the unusually thoughtful
expression upon his countenance.
THE Tobacc0- Leaf says: Pennsylvania,
next to Connecticut, is now raising the
most superior tobacco for smoking pur-
poses produced on the continent.
Mrs. SERA WILBUR, of Greeley, Col,
once Michigan schoolmarm, has plowed
and sowed thirteen acres of wheat this
season. Women have rights there.
A GooDHEARTED but partially deaf old
lady is much disturbed by the talk about
| the Kickapoo Indians. She doesn't see
why anybody should kick a poor Indian.
| THE new Illinois homestead law eX-
empts from seizure for debt homesteads to
the value of $1,000, and adds a sewing
machine to the list of personal property
exempt
| THOUGHTS come into our minds by ave
nues which we never let open, and
thoughts go out of our minds through av-
enues which we never voluntarily opened.
Emerson.
THE largest run ever made in Eureka,
| Cal, was by the Richmond Reduction
Works, which, in twenty-four hours, turn
ed out $4,000 pounds, nearly thirtytwo
tons, of bullion.
| THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that a
piece of slate was taken from the Mayfeld
quarry, recently, thirty-three feet long,
| thirteen feet deep and three feet thick,
without crack or scar.
| JAMES HoUsToN, Natividad, California
sowed 300 pounds of white Chilli club
wheat to twelve acres, and harvested "A,
S02 pounds. Some portions yielded nine
| ty bushels to the acre.
THE new Capitol building at Albany,
| n. Y. will, when finished, be the finest
structure on the continent. The selection
Of ornaments for the lobby is said to en-
brace some rare specimens.
THE more people do, the more they can
do. He that does nothing renders him
self incapable of doing anything. While
we are executing one work we are pre-
pairing to undertake another.
"WHY," asked a governess of her little
charge, "do we pray God to give Us our
daily bread? Why don't we ask for four
days, or five days, or week." eve want
it fresh," replied the ingenious child.
THE hottest military post on the North
| American continent is Camp Mohave, on
the great Colorado River. For many
| days during the past season the mercury
has stood at 1872 degrees in the shade.
FRUIT JEILIEs may be preserved from
mouldiness by covering the surface one
fourth of an inch deep with finely pulver-
lied loaf sugar Thus protected, they
will keep in good condition for years.
THE Dominion Government has for
warded a gold watch and $500 to the Rev.
Mr.. Ancient, in acknowledgment Of his
| gallant conduct toward the passengers and
crew of the Inflated steamer Atlantic.
THE plan of correcting the echo in pub
| lie halls. by stretching wire across them
from wall to wall, has had practical
trial in the cathedral at Cork Ireland, and
is said to have given satisfactory results.
New JERSEYS contributions to the
statuary hall in the Capitol, at Washing
| ton, will be semi-cOlossal statutes of Rich
ard Stockton, and Gen. Phil kearney, the
| former in marble, and the latter in bronze
| IT is not so generally known as it ought
| to be, that the kernels of some stone
fruits, especially peaches, contain prussic
acid to an extent which may prove poison.
Gus if large number Of the kernels be
| eaten.
TUMMAs: "Well, Mrs Simpson and low
be it that the milk in these parts are
rose?" "Mrs. s.: "Why, you see, Tum-
mas, this late rise in coal hev caused hiron
to 60 up so, that they hev riz the price of
pumps"
IT is not isolated great deeds which do
most to form character, but small con.
terminous acts, touching and blending
into one another. The greenness of field
comes not from trees, but blades of grass
John Kerr.
OWING to the war among the dry-goods
merchants at Denver, calicoes were reduc.
ed to two cents per yard and every editor,
reporter and minister in the place now
wears shirt-gaudy in some instances,
but still shirt.