Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-05
BREVITIES.

MINISTERS of the interior-the cook
and the doctor.
An Ohio man has lived five years on a
quart OF milk per day.
The prodigal son of wealthy parents is
now tending fires in st. Louis hotel.
A MAN in Palmyra, Mo, was recently
lined seven dollars for swearing at his
grandmother.
MISSOURI maidens think nothing of
walking seven miles with their lovers to
attend candy-pull.
The testimony Of St. Louis alderman
should be preserved: Horses is Trader
OF dummies than street cars"
JUDGING from the manner in which he
makes his proposals, Cupid's tabled
weapon is merely pOp-gun.
Snow is such a luxury in California
that when it falls the entire population
turns out to snow bali Cinnamon.
EGGS are selling in Montana at from So
10 10 cents dozen, and the hens up there
are walking on stills with pride.
A WIFE in Chillicothe, Ohio, demands
divorce because her brutal husband put
her to soak in a rain-water barrel"
A HEN stopped train on Pennsylva-
MA railroad, her body striking the trigger
that put on the air brakes; but she will
never stop another.
Mrs. POLLY BICKFoRD, of North Wake
field, N. H., goes all the old folks one or
two better, being 104 years old this month.
She is still hale and hearty.
GOOD brother in Deckertown, N. j.,
advertises in the local papers that he
didn't set out his trees for hitching-posts
for those who attend the Methodist meet
ing house.
UNDER the new code of Iowa, all paper
maturing on Sunday and national holi-
days must be presented on the DAY pre-
vious instead of On the day after such
holidays.
TIE last move which tends to obliterate
the distinction between the Jews and the
remainder of mankind, is to hold their
Sabbath services on the Christian Sun
day.
The latest divorce is claimed on the
ground that the lady is in training for a
pedestrian match, which is not at all the
sort of match the husband bargained
for.
'BooTH will have majority, but can't
say how much,' was the prophecy of
Horace Greeley at a spiritual seance in
San Francisco ten days before the cleo
tion
THE Connecticut hen who laid that egg
containing another egg and two yOlks is
prepared to enter into contract to sup
ply families at the most reasonable cackle.
atoms.
A Dies MONIES boy Of fourteen has
been sent to jail for fourteen days for
pouring and lighting kerosene oil on a
dog which was unfortunate enough to fall
into his hands.
BOSTON has church one hundred and
fifty years old. This has chime of bells
brought from England in 1744, about the
time the ancestors of the bellies who wor-
ship there immigrated.
AN unhappy Wisconsin maiden is
plaintiff in breach of promise case, and
in one of the letters produced on the trial
she declared that "she had shed tears
enough to run griSt mill"
WHITE cambria handkerchiefs with
colored hens are new The prettiest
have white center and deep hem of
pink. Another style is futed and has a
colOred monogram in the middle.
THE hard times in Phoebe, Nevada
have had a depressing effect upon the
UusluCSS vi Tic pIdCC, LII Is Sdlu GlldG OuC
pawnbroker there holds over 1000 revol-
vers and bowie knives deposited with
him by impecunious FIGHTERS as collateral
7 security.
THE most tickle of her sex lives in Oak
land, California. When about to be mar
ried, she insisted that the ceremony
should be performed in French, and
postponement was had until the next day.
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and she thereupon refused to be married
at all.
THE redingote remains the most popu-
lar garment Of the period. Of late it has
been modified and improved, and is now
very stylish. The beauty of the garment
| is that it can be worn with almost any
skirt and look well. Very large buttons
are still used to trim the redingote; also,
ball fringe and fur.
A MARRIAGE contract, made twenty
three years ago, has just been consum-
mated at Foxborough, N. FL. The young
man being of a practical turn of mind,
burrowed all these years for nuggets in
California, and then made haste to lay
his treasures at the feet of his eXpectant
bride. Verify, patience hath its reward.
How TO PRESERVE Moss-Most beauti-
full MOSES grow in the forests upon rocks,
roots Of trees, and upon the surface of
the earth sometimes, and if gathered and
dried, or dyed, may be made to retain
bright lively color. To preserve it, turn
its roots up on the cellar bottom, and let it
remain until thoroughly dry, and it will
be as green as when growing, and remain
| so.
Mr.. F. W. DEARBORN, of Topsham,
Me, some time since left in the Union
Bank of Brunswick certain United States
bonds, as security for a note he had dis
! counted there. After Mr.. d. had paid the
note, he was informed that his bonds were
not to be found. On the banks refusal to
make them good to him he sued the bank
to recover their value and the jury brought
in verdict in Mr.. DPS favor. The bank
then carried the case to the full bench of
Judges, who have recently affirmed the
verdict in Mr.. D. s favor.
WHILE rowing on the river near Savan-
nah, Ga, two men saw the body of ne
gro at the bottom. They drew it up, put
it in their boat, and started for the shore.
They had gone but short distance when
| they found another body, and still others,
until the boat was loaded. They took the
| CHASTITY cargo to the shore, and returned
for another load. Altogether thirteen
corpses were recovered. 1t was after
ward learned that bnat full Of negroes
had overturned further up the river, and
all the occupants drowned.
SHE watches and waits somewhere
about Knoxville, Tenn. Sunday week She
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