Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-27
BREYITIES.
THE autumn silks will be striped.

IHE autumn silks VIII be SCrlpeQ.
SIX men recently caught 200 grown
trout in one day in a Montana stream.
THE latest "charm" for watch chains
/ is a stick of caustic to cauterize dog
bites.
IT is shrewdly observed that sawdust
! pills would cure great many diseases if
the patient would only make his own
| saWduSt.
a GUN standing in the corner Of q
room in a house at Monrovia, Ind, was
fred off by electricity during a recent
thunderstorm.
WHEN a man saves his cigar money to
buy his wife new bonnet and the chill
dren new shoes, it indicates a spell of
sunshine.-Danbu1y Nea0S.
AN old maid is not without power. A
writer observes that he las known one
such to turn a steamboat excursion into
an occasion Of gloom and dependency.
A BRUSSELS telegram says the Wash
ingtOn Government has given notice to
terminate the treaty of commerce and
navigation with Belgium the 1st of July,
1875.
THERE are no bouquets about a news
paper office, but sometimes the contents
of the paste-cup acquire a maturity
which by any other name would smell as
| sweet
A SCIENTIST announces that human
being has 100000 of pores through
which perspiration and exhausted parti-
Giles of the system escape. We are all
pore creatures.
KATE FIELD writes from Spain that if
nature would economic on fieas, and
disburse the extra energy on the men of
that country, she would be doing thrifty
piece of business.
IT is said that the Transatlantic
Steamship Company will appeal against
| the award of the British Admiralty
Court, in the case Of the abandoned
steamship Amerique.
A TRAVELLING circus company has sued
the village of Great Falls, n. H, for
damages incurred through the unre-
paired condition of its roads, whereby
several Of the troupe got great falls.
"THICKER than the surrounding foil
age, with wings like Apollyon's, a beak
| like an artesian auger, and a voice like
the sound of many waters" is poetic
| description of the New Jersey mOsqui-
toes.
Miss MCHENRY, of ST. Stephens Church
Philadelphia sets a noble example to
women who wish to be of real use in the
world. She has raised 100000 for
three church homes, which care for 900
| children.
A STREET BEGGAR in New York says
| that the panic has ruined him. His col
| lections have dropped to So day. rents
have fallen 30 per cent, and he has two
| houses and three stores empty even at
| this reduction.
ACCORDING to the census, there are
| only two men in America who make a
| speciality of the manufacture of hand
organs Just think how easy it would
be to kill those two men, and yet they
still live-N. Y. World.
AN awful animal, ten feet long, with
| yellow eyes, switchy tail, cream-colored
| fur and shrieky voice, is what some rail
road laborers say they saw in the night
| on Dresden Mountain, Vt. Probably a
combination of cat and imagination.
THIsTLEs are growing thriftily in the
| streets of Victoria, and the papers are
| clamoring for the enforcement Of the
| ordinance against noXious weeds. They
| say in effect Thistle never do."-S0n
Francisco Chronicle.
THERE is nothing like neighborly SYM
pathy. A Boston baby fell out Of bed
| the other morning, and during the next
! three hours eight women in the neigh
| borhood made twenty-three inquiries
concerning its health, and its mother had
to drop it twenty-three times to go to the
front window to answer Boston Globe.
| SOME sharpers in New York have been
persuading Western farmers into send
ing them money for Alsatian cabbage
seed, the seed being guaranteed to pro
duce cabbages weighing from forty to
sixty pounds. They have done lucra-
tive business, but the police are looking
after them and their harvest is over.
A MARRIAGE took place in this citvves-
terday, which, on account of certain cir
cumstances in the case" should not 90
unnOticed. The bridegroom, we under
stand, is twenty-siX, the bride about fiftv
The present happy man is her fifth hus-
| band; No. was buried between one and
two months ago.-Cum6erlQnd (Hd.)
Mos.
A YOUNG lady stopping in BrattIeboro
Vt, for a few DAYS sent a friend OF hers
to the store to get a pair of shoes. She
told her friend to get number f1ves, but
her friend, being anxious to secure a good
fit for her, ordered the storekeeper to
change the mark on q pair of sevens.
He did SO, and the lady said they fitted
better than any she had had in a long
time.
A MINNESOTA settler who has suffered
severely from the ravages of grasshop-
: pers, in writing to the Minneapolis Trib-
une, describes a throng of the locusts as
resembling a huge snow-cloud, often
| completely obliterating the sun. The
lower insects fly at height of about
2 forty feet from the ground, and the
others fill the air above as far as the eye
+ can reach. When they settle on a field
of grain every stalk is covered so that
: the entire field seems to have suddenly
! turned brown. They do not eat the
i grain, but bite into the tender stalk and
0 juicy kernel and suck out the vital sap,
5 leaving every particle of vegetation
Il dead, so that within day or two the
entire crop becomes dry and withered.