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

LOWELL Mass has female hack
driver who weighs twenty-eight stone.
MOTTO for the tea merchant Honest
tea Is the best policy
ENGAGED in taking stock"-Mer-
chants and Indians
THE tenderest heart loves best the bold
and courageous one.
SUBSTANCES containing tannin are tho
best for preserving wood.
WATER forms nearly three-fourths of
the entire weight of the boGy.
THE wisest of men arrive at week con-
illusions on Saturday nights.
BUILDERS of the period--Burst of Mill
River and Crash Of Syracuse.
RECIPE for a hot Notwithstanding
your landlady's new bonnet.
THE San Joaquin VALLEY, Cal, is to be
planted with eucalyptus trees.
BRAZIL is to have a grand new arsenal
costing $4,000, 900, near Rio Janeiro.
THE Maine Editorial Association have
been having high times in the noun
tains
A FAMILY of seven persons were bitten
by mad dog at Fort Montgomery, N. Y,
few days ago.
a MAN in Kentucky named Slaughter
made another man the victim of a cha
ade on his name.
WE might have known that Chicago
would have been the first city to run into
the comet-B0st0n Post.
GRAPE-yINEs must have the supernu-
merary shoots rubbed oft as soon as their
needlessness is seen.
To FIX pencil drawings apply thor
oughly-sl1immed milk with camel-hair
brush or soft sponge.
For preserving iron, coal oil of a
medium density, between burning oil
and good lubricating oil, has been found
to be the best.
WHEN your pocket-book gets empty
and everybody knows it you can put all
your friends in it and it won't bulge
out" worth a cent.
THE publishing firm which does the
largest business in the world is the firm
of Messrs. Hachette & Co., Paris. The
total of their business annually exceeds
SO, 100000.
SAID a conscientious auctioneer: "La-
dies and gentlemen, there is no sham
about the carpets; they are genuine tap
estry carpets. / bought them OF old
Tapestry himsef!"
"WHY are you so precise in your state
ment-are you afraid of telling an I'M
truth?" asked an attorney of a female
witness in a police court. enc, sir"
was the prompt reply.
HENRY thinks the reason the fish didn't
bite, Saturday, was because he had no
bait to suit them. He will put a bill of
fare On his hook next time, and let them
call for what they want.
A Troy clergyman went a fishing the
other day, but had no luck. On his re-
turn he stood his pole and line up against
the house and in a short time caught q
hen
GERMANY has sold her needle-guns to
China, not because she has no more need
Of them, but she has found another kind
which can kill twice as many French
men.
| CALIFORNIA housekeepers have discov-
| cred one little objection to Chinese cooks.
When John gets out of spirits and dis
contented he is apt to poison the whole
| family.
UNTIL recently there was horned
tree in Michigan. Somebody had placed
the horns of an elk in the crotch of the
tree and the wood had grown around
them.
Mrs. LAURA FAIR has announced her
mention of emigrating to Japan. After
she has shot a MikadO or two over there
they'll learn to love her as we Ameri-
cans do.
A WRITER in the Rural Neo Yorker adj
vises every farmer who is doing well in
his special line of farming not to change
for dairying. He believes the profits
from dairying are often over-estimated.
AN autograph letter of George Wash
ingtOn was sold in Boston lately for
twenty-five dollars The young man
who wrote it got but seventy-five cents.
There is very little justice in this world.
a KANSAS CITY (Mo) stableman, who
few DAYS ago would have rejoiced at
the chance of making a quarter by rub
bling down a horse, has fallen heir to
S25. 900 BY the death of relative in New
York.
CURRANT CATsUP.-Three pounds cur
rants, two pounds sugar, one pint vine
gar, one tablespoonful cloves, one table
spoonful cinnamon; cook slowly several
hours. 1t is splendid relish with cold
meat-warm either.
IT is said that Dr. Mary Walker now
carries a pistol for newspaper men. We
have always spoken of that beautiful and
accomplished physician with the highest
respect.-LouiSUjtle COurier-J0uqnal
LINCoLN's tomb at Springfield, Ill, was
recently opened to allow his remains to
be viewed by a number of prominent
gentlemen. The body, according to re-
port, is as the day it was inferred.
SUMMIT STATION, Cal, was at last &C
counts still surrounded by five or SIX feet
of snow on an average, and in places the
drifts can be sounded to depth OF thirty
feet without reaching terra firma
In a recent murder case in North Car
DINA, where there was strong Suspicion
that the prisoner was feigning insanity,
one of the iurymen wanted to stick pin
into him to see if he Jumped naturally"
THE influence of Imagination on the
vital functions has always been recog-
nized and it was this recognition that
enabled the ancient physicians to be so
successful with charms, amulets and in
carnations.