Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26
BREVITIES.


sand about three minutes after it falls.
THE ladies of Louisville have resolved
not to patronize any grocer who sells Ilq-
uOrs.
HAVE no respect tor man who has to
feel the public pulse to learn his private
duty.
The SGginduian estimates the standing
timber in Michigan at 33,0UO,oOo,ooo
feet.
THE Gothamites drink so little water
that the Hudson has had three freshets
this season.
OF the 900 and odd children born in
Hartford, Conn, last year, over 7OO were
of Irish parentage.
IT is said that American life insurance
companies having agencies in England
are not doing well.
At several places in Montana the cpl
zooty has reappeared. Some stage lines
have been compelled to stop.
WHY is hen sitting on a gate like a
penny? Because its heads on one side
and its tails on the other.
a CLERMoNT Qowa) farmer put out
poison for the wolves. The next morning
his dog and seven hogs were dead.
KEROSENE does not meet with favor in
Georgia, almost every household sticking
to the time-honored tallow dip.
Mrs. ERCHENFELDER, of Waterloo,
Del, is another gasoline victim. Filling
q lighted lamp, with the usual result.
AN old woman in Illinois has forwarded
ten cents to Washington to pay her share
of the national debt before she dies.
If the new proposition to burn the dead
prevails, what are the medical men to do
for subjects for the dissecting table?
A CONNECTICUT paper proposes to fine
every man $500 who adulterates liquor,
and only two dollars where he sands his
sugar.
A MAN in Keokuk lately dropped dead
while combing his hair, and yet there are
people who will persist in the dangerous
habit
CATARRH is sometimes cured by smok-
ing dried mullen leaves. Use clean clay
pipe and let the smoke ppss through the
nOstrilS.
THE privilege of the peerage recently
saved the Earl of Winchester from being
sent to prison for debt, at the suit of a
London firm.
A MONTANA man has been eXiled from
the Territory, under pain of pitch and
plumage, for the crime of marrying a
ChinawOman.
Mrs. JOHN POLLOCK affectionately
suffocated her baby while riding with
it one cold day in Troy. 1t was a case of
too much shawl.
A PURE quality Of alum is found in
large quantities in the form of incrusta-
tions on the rocks near Lancha Plana,
Amador County, Cal.
THE Governor of Maine recently sent
to the Legislature of that State the first
veto for fifteen years. Both houses sus-
tanned the objection.
WHEAT seeds can bear for several
hours a temperature as high as the boil
ing point of water without losing the
power of terminating.
ELI G. FOWLER, CT Norwich, Conn.,,
speared an eel the other day that meas
ured thirty and half inches long and
twelve inches around its body.
A MUSHROOM was recently found near
San Bernardino, Cal, which measured
four feet in circumference and fourteen
inches high, weighing twenty pounds.
THE courts of Illinois are reported to
have already over 5000 divorce cases on
their dockets, with accessiOns of new ap-
plications at the rate of 80, 900 per annum.
THERE are five members only of the
Utah Legislature who are not possessed
of more than one wife each, and of these
five three are Mormons by profession.
ASTRONOMERS say that their science can
be practically studied under our clear
atmosphere to better advantage than from
the oDservatories of Middle Europe.
OUR great-grandmammas are turning
over in their graves in consequence of the
rumors now current that "pOke bOnnets"
will be revived next summer.
BLONDES are decidedly at a discount
this season. Fair-haired maidens are ex-
peTimenting on kittens at home the eff
cacy of different black dyes.
THERE is on exhibition in New York a
piece of lace five yards long and quarter
Of yard wide, so soft and fine that it can
be drawn through lingering.
BOQUETs for balls and parties are made
Of linen and heavily perfumed. Not one
person in ten is able to detect at little
distance that they are artificial
MooN-EYE, or periodic ophthalmia, in
horses cannot be prevented, according to
the Spirit Of the Times. The disease will
run its course in spite of treatment.
A FLUME is to be constructed from the
mountains, leading into Nevada City and
Grass Valley, Cal, to float down wood
and timber. The distance is thirteen
miles.
PATENT-GATE swindlers are raiding
through Michigan, selling what they call
"Hickman's patent farm gate" They are
swindlers, according to the Free Press, of
Detroit.
SLEEP may frequently be procured,
when hurtful opiates have failed, by taking
quarter of teaspoonful of bicarbonate
of soda dissolved in third of tumbler
of water.
A GEORGIA girl aided a noble charity
at Macon by allowing 800 men to kiss her
at twenty-five cents head. When she
got home and washed off the enamel she
felt better.
To COLOR YARN YELLow.-Cleanse the
yarn, put it in hot alum water; boil peach
tree leaves, making a strong dye; remove
the leaves and pat the yarn in; simmer
half an hour.
THERE were recently in jail in Georgia
twenty men arrested in that State for
illicit distilling Indictments had been
found against many others, who had so
far escaped arrest.
FARMERS in the American Bottom live
in dread lest their crops be destroyed by
grasshoppers next summer. 1nvestiga-
tons prove that they Turk in millions in
many fields of wheat
IT is getting so fashionable in Phila-
| delphia for ladies to get drunk that the
| INQUIRER calls upon husbands to interfere,
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