Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-20
General News Items.

Onions are Suffering from the attacks
of grasshoppers in the vicinity Of Wa
tertown.
Black River Falls shipped from thir-
ty to fifty bushels of blueberries per
day, last week, at two dollars per
bushel.
The farmers in the north part of
Door County never harvested better
crop of winter wheat than they have
this season.
1t is said that Baraum has offered
Weston $500 to walk against time.
why can't somebody offer him g. 600
to walk against a stone wall or buzz
saw" asks the Boston Globe.
The Green Bay Philharmonic Soci-
ETY. elected officers on Monday evening,
AS follows: President, A. w Kimball;
Vice President, Geo. w Watson; Sec
rotary, Willard c. Bailey; Treasurer,
John F. Gooding; Conductor, Geo. i.
North; Librarian. c. T. Kimball; Di-
rectors-Oliver Libbey, NJ. V B. Ben
son, John d. Williams, II. 6. Free
man, j.. W. Briggs. NJ. Ii. Walker.
THE SENAToRsHIP. "A State Sena-
tor for this District, comprising the
counties of Adams, Juneau, Portage
and Wood, is to be elected this Fall.
1t is understood that Hon. Thomas B.
Scott, Of Wood, will be = candidate be-
fore the Republican Convention for a
denomination If such is the case, he
will no doubt receive the hearty sup
port Of large majority of the Con-
vention, if not its unanimous vote.
Berlin Comant.
For CONGRESS- The sentiment in
the Republican party of this Congress
sional District points Enthusiastically to
the denomination of DIR. A. s, McDill
as the candidate Of the party for Rep
resentative. always careful and atten-
tive to TIE wants Of his constituents,
and there is no doubt ofhis triumphant
re election,
The next Republican Congressional
Convention, it viii be seen by the Call
Of the District Committee, will be held
at Grand Rapids on the 23d of septem-
Der. Berth Cowant.
"NEsr- HIDING"- "There is more
expression than originality in that
term employed by Mr.. Beecher, and
which Western people seem to think
so funny" said wanderer from the
Connecticut Valley. this morning.
"What do you 2" asked a Dis
patch reporter. ''Why, | mean just
this, every Connecticut farmers boy
knows 'rest-hiding' as one of the every
day expressions of the farm. Itmeant
we'll enough in its original use. A IA
vorite trick with boarding-school boys
aud farmers sons IS to capture a hen
upon the first indication of the set
ting fever and rush her off to some
hidden nook where she Is placed upon
the proceeds Of some plundered nests.
/ Three weeks after she unexpectedly
makes her appearance with brood
! about her, and then there is great won
derment about the farmhouse, and the
GOOD woman puzzles herself to explain
where and how the hen came by the
chickens This was common trick
when Bcecher was a boy, and is now
in Connecticut. The impure have fire.
auentIy used the expression in refer
ring to intrigues and illusions, and the
term seems to have been well used by
Beecher 81. Louis Dispatch.
And thus we see how in after years
does that old Connecticut { kitta-ka-
daw-cut) hen-reward Beecher.
"A math ematical person writes to
one of the papers to say that, eff Column
4 bus when he first came to America had
mt away one cent. and not disturbed
! it until to-day, it would have amounted
to the sum Of SG78,0S9, 900, 76," If
this is true, it is great pity the idea
never occurred to Columbus. He might
have had nice little fortune to COM
I fort him in his old age. But is it true?
That depends. of course, upon where he
would have put it. Old Siarbuckle, Of
Berks county, Pa, several years ago
read in an almanac that money would
double itself by compound interest in
eleven years if it we're put away and
left untouched. Accordingly Star
buckle put 5000 in tin box and buried
it in his cellar. He permitted it to re-
main there for eleven years. and then
he dug it out with the confident expec-
tation that the amount in the box would
be 81, 500. But it wasn't, and Dir.
StarbucBlle now not only considers the
science Of arithmetic a transparent
fraud, but he don't repose any comb
dence in the almanac when 1t says
Sunday comes on the first day of the
week. Meas