Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
BREVITIES.
CUT GLASS fringe is fashionable.

victiOn with it? Because it makes you a
bee-leaver at once.
WHEN you hear man say the world
owes him living, don't leave any hams
lying around loose.
A PHILADELPHIA belle has broken her
engagement because her intended called
her by her first name
A PLANTATION of 900 acres in Randolph
county, Ga, with two good houses, sold,
last week, for $500.
"AU REvOIR" is French phrase, pro-
nounced 70 revwar," and means farewell
lor good by till we meet again.
IELEGRAPHING is a good and profta-
pie employment for ladies, and requires
| only common school education.
WHAT disposition of the butcher of
| Santiago de Cuba would best please the
Cubans? His Burriel, of course.
| SAN FRANCISCO has a hotel equipped
Tor twelve hundred guests-with a gen
tlemanly hotel clerk in proportion.
REVERSIBLE Elizabethan ruffies are the
latest They are worn with any costume,
| and are lined with light-coiored silk.
NEVER keep anything from your bet
ter half.-Bro0klyn argus. Quilp says he
| never has, and that is the reason he is so
poor
| AN Oshkosh poet asserts that Dat the
dawn's effulgent breaking, voices whis-
per to his ear" He shouldn't get up so
early.
A SUFFERER suggests an improvement
in the photography of the word panics.
| He thinks it would be better to spell it
| pGy-aaaS!
INFLUENCE, good or bad, comes not
| from the opinions man possesses, but
| from the character he has formed, and
| the life he leads.
A NEW material for sacks has just been
| introduced, called seal-skin cloth. 1t
equals in appearance the seal-skin, and is
very much cheaper.
SOME ladies still cling to the hustle,
Notwithstanding the fact that they are en-
| tirely out Of fashion, and it is to be hoped
will not be revived.
THE belle of Milwaukee carries peck
! etful of prunes, and chews them on the
! horse cars, and then snaps the kernels at
| the conductors eyes.
The prevalent fashions preclude ladies
| from wearing white skirts They have,
| after mature deliberation, adopted the old
fashioned quilted skirt.
A NEW style of collar, said to be intend
ed for gentlemen, is the nearest approach
to the kind worn by lend men" in min.
| strel companies we have seen.
ADMINISTRATORS have definite time in
| which to settle estates, but the courts
have the power to lengthen the period.
| The time varies in different States.
A BANGOR man has run off because he
| thought he had killed the man who was
| counting his sister-in-law. The poor lover
was terribly beaten, but survives.
A WESTERN journal, on learning that
| Rhode Island is crowded, suggests that
| the Governor of the State be authorized
| to hire one or two families to go West.
THE Missouri HdrrSS0n505 advertises
| 400 COW bells for sale, and explains that it
| took them of a hardware man in payment
for job work. Live and let live is it's
motto.
CALIFORNIA agriculturists are going
| largely into ginger. They haven't got
much beyond the first syllable yet, but
| hope to do so when their plants germi-
| nate.
ST. PAUL papers are cOngratulating the
climate of Minnesota because it permit
ted bricklayers to work out of doors, in
their shirt-sleeves, late in the month Of
December
THE Detroit Post says: "Good wood is
selling in GratiOt County for 81 cord,
but you couldn't beat that into the head
Of a Detroit wood dealer with a ten-ton
pile-driver."
WE believe not one of the New York
great dailies had enterprise enough to send
its Gown correspondent to Shreveport to
write tho IJallOyU faupr nj - NO1s1s1e
tOaon Herald.
THE Titusville girls have voted not to
purchase any dry goods where the stores
keep open in the evening. They think
the clerks can find some better business,
and more congenial, too.
A RUMoR is prevailing among the Piute
| Indians that the Government intends to
| remove them to other quarters. The In
dians declare they will die fighting rather
than leave their present reservation.
RoLLs.-Mix one pint of milk, half a
| pint Of fresh lard, one teaspoon of soda,
| the same of salt, mix stiff and roll about
the size of your hand; sprinkle with sugar
and ground cinnamon and cloves.
A BRIDE at the depot in Terre Haute, a
| day or two ago, created a sensation by her
stunning outfit. She was arrayed in a
| white tartletan dress, black shoes with
white rosettes, and carried black null
THE Boston Globe says that the workmen
celebrated the opening of the Hoosac tun-
mel by tapping two or three barrels OF
beer There was no interference by the
police, as the barrels were marked nitro
glycerine."
CHICoRY is said to be one of the most
hurtful things that can be taken into the
stomach, causing Inflammation and dys-
pepsia, and several of the Eastern States
are talking Of laws against its being put
into coffee.
SPRING GUNS have been determined lille
gal by the Supreme Court of Iowa, sitting
in Des Moines. A man set one to guard
his vineyard, and it shot rogue, who not
being sufficiently shot, brought action and
obtained judgment
IT is to be noted that out of the list of
complaints made by ladies about servants
one complaint is universal, and is almost
always made in the same language, ''They
will have the last word" This IS pecu-
liarly feminine grievance.
THE cruelest young female is the girl
some Western papers are Boosting OF.
They are telling how she sheared thirteen
sheep in five hours "the other day." and
now, of course, these thirteen innocent
sheep are left out in this weather without
Overcoats.
THE american University of Philadel-
phia," which has the reputation OF supply
ing bogus medical diplomas to applicants
therefor, is to have its business examined