Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
BREYITIES.

coats.
DENVER has had a "snorting snow
storm"
A PACK of wolves roam over Clearfeld
County, Pa.
The Boston tailors have abolished the
credit system.
MANY Pennsylvanians are emigrating
to Southwest Missouri.
A GREEN COUNTY (Ill.) colt one year
old, weighs 1850 pounds.
DRESSES much worn will be much worn
tor the next several months.
AN early spring-Jumping out Of bed
at i've O'Clock in the morning.
The least shore" in Michigan is afiict-
ed with virulent horse-disease.
The buffaloes are a good deal further
Oh IN Kansas this year than last.
CoLoRED hosiery is the latest affecta-
ton among our fashionable women.
TRUTH sometimes tastes like medicine,
but that is an evidence that we are Ill.
OLD girls should never trust handsome
mllllners to try on their bonnets Tor them.
NEVADA boasts of the richest silver
mines and the best patronized penitentla-
ries,
SOWING wild oats would be very fine
thing were it not for the crop one has to
reap.
THE editor of the West Point Georgia.
paper alleges that hanging is ''barbar-
iOus."
4 DIVORCED woman who reassumes
her maiden name should be addressed as
"Miss."
WHEN a man is saddled with bad
wife, there are sure to be stir-ups in the
family.
A PARTY of bears recently destroyed
five acres of corn for a HOrtOnville (W1s.)
farmer.
ARIZONA is improving. A man has
been indicted for f1ourishing a deadly
weapon.
GREAT PUMPKINsn is an expression
used to signify that one is utterly
squashed.
A CHLENo found gold nugget worth
$116 while hunting quail near Mokelumne
Hill, Cal.
THE first steam grist-mill in Idaho was
recently erected on the Camas prairie, at
Mount Idaho.
THE two best rules for a system Of rhet-
ORIG are, first, have something to say, and
| next, say it.
THE Western girl who spelled euchre
''you cur'' was evidently thinking OF the
| bow-wow-ers.
A MAN at Omaha is said to have pet
wildcat. Some night that wildcat will
have pet man.
CLEAR LAKE, Cal, swarms at this sea-
son with wild geese, swans, and various
species of wild ducks.
TwEED's conviction will induce great
many other gentlemen of his style to steer
wide of the penitentiary.
THE river of extravaganza this year
leaves many people on the bank remark
ing that they can't ford it.
A VIRGINIA husband opened his wife's
| letters to see who was writing to her, and
he was sent to prison for ten years.
WASH FOR HEAR-White soap dis
| solved in spirits of wine. Cleanse after
wards with clean, blood-warm water.
A MILD winter is predicted-the mus
taches of the dry goods clerks, poor fel-
lows, are uncommOnly thin this season.
A LEXINGTON, KY, whisky firm filled
an order, the other day, for three gallons
Of old Bourbon, to be sent to Babylon.
YOU'VE, the Washington murderer hang
ed the other day, wanted to smoke cigar
on the gallows, and was allowed to enjoy
it.
PIANOFORTES were invented in Dresden
in 1717. FREDERICK, an organ builder OF
Saxony, made the first square piano in
1853.
MEDICAL men say the white veil, dotted
with black, is injurious to the eyes; but
the ladies don't care dot so long as it is
becoming.
THE crisis of 1857 brought about a
shortening of credits, and if that Of 1878
will do the same great advantage will
be gained.
ARISTOTLE, who is high authority on
many points, treats seriously of puns,
classifying them, and Recommending their
Dse by orators.
ware of being obstinate in anything that
is evil; consistency is a virtue, but OBJ
stinacy is sin.
THE society that is free from manner
ism is always agreeable to itself, whether
cough or refined, as Nature loves her own
atmosphere best.
MIKE leo, the pugilist, was so insult
ing to justice of the peace at Red Wing,
MIMI that the magistrate knocked him
down with a chair.
HOLMES disposed of bigot at once,
when he compared his mind to the pupil
of the eye-the more light you let into it
the more it contracts.
A TBRRE HAUTE man is afflicted with a
strange insanity. He believes himself to
be locomotive engine, and is great an
noyance to every one.
The colored Baptists of the Southern
States have resolved to practice "feet
Washing as a token of humanity and
love for one another.
PEEKsKILL, n. Y, is excited over a
bigamy case. A Canadian came there
and married a widow worth $4,000, leav-
ing wife in Canada.
+ THE London Times says that life is
lived so quickly in the United States that
man who has been five years IN public
| life is almost veteran.
THE English courts have just decided
that railway tickets marked good for
this day only" can be used by the pur-
| chaser on any other date.
THE obituary notice in an Eastern paper
contained the touching intelligence that
| the deceased chad accumulated little
money and ten children"
WIT in its proper place, and in a
proper theme, is refreshing. Rude
slang, devoid Of feeling and careless of
private right is intolerable.
| VOTING 1ad1v Il, T,5;apo VOC raccI1p6