Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
Our Small Change.
H. W. Beecher was 81 wears old

last week.
The days are taking in their slack
all the slack was out the Goth.
We haven't had a show since
last Saturday. What is the matter.
A strong anti-Granger movement
is on foot. The movers are potato
bugs.
/ The Good Templar's Festival in
Centralia on Wednesday last melted
them about $50.
The Stevens Point Journal say.
that the cranberry prospects were new
er better in that county.
A burglar of q years standing
has been converted in INDIANAPOLIS.
There is still chrnce for Butler.
MIR. Thomas, the father of Rev.
Jesse and D. J. Cole of our city, died
at Sheboygan on Thursday last.
--Lo you see the comet these eve
nings? In about six weeks it will be
some two hundred times brighter than
now.
We never realized what the Chi
cago Time, was made for till we travel
ed east with a bottle of pickles among
our lunch.
Cincinnati brewers are purchasing
large quantities of tobacco stems. We
suppose they use them to improve the
flavor Of their beer
The American Sardine, Cos Bone
less Sardines, are much better, and less
than half the cost of imported Sar
dimes. 11yl.
There is a slight error in the bal
ance sheet of the Erie R. r. Compa-
ny's Books. They lack just S3,O00,-
600 of balancing.
The Lodges of Odd Fellows and
Good Templars throughout the county
are invited to march in the procession
on the Fourth, in regalia.
COMMITTEE.
Gov. Bagley of Michigan is a
great Tobacco Manufacture. When
he was last a candidate, he assigned
his success to those only voting for
him who cheaUs.
The Industrial Age, Noonan's
Chicago Paper, devoted to the Granger
interests, says that the indiscretions of
Gov. Taylor have sounded the death
knell of the Reform party i'm Wiscon-
sin
If there is any one thing more
than another, that will awaken the
swear element in dashing young man
arrayed in fine linen and starched mar
seillese, it is to stand or the windward
side Of an old cow eating bran mash.
If you don't believe it, try it.
HOPS. - There have been consider
able many hops shipped from Oneida
the present week, mostly purchased in
the town of Stockbridge. and at % cts
TO % - cts. per pound for a choice
article. Stockhridee has still about
800 bales of choice hops in the hands
of her growers who are not anxious to
sell at present figures The hop pros
poets for the coming crop are consider
ed quite fattering by the growers
The vines are now growing rapidly and
the work of tying has commenced.
They are about as forward as at this
time last year.-Oneida n 7. I'M
i0R.
Ayers American Almanac is now
ready for delivery gratis, by Fl, B.
Philleo & Co., to all who call for it.
Among the problems of high science
which the Doctor presents in it, is the
startling assertion that the friction of
the tides upon its surface, retards the
earth's revolution upon its axis, or
holds it back with force of 5000 mil
lions of horse powers. Hence it is
easy to see that without some counter
force, the globe must rotate slower aud
slower, until its revolutions wholly
cease. Then with perpetual night on
one side, and degree of cold far be-
lew any now known, we should have
on the other a s'fervent heat" from the
sun, which would melt the rocks and
make the mountains run like water.
But we need feel no alarm. He shows
a counter poise which nearly balances
this resistance, and will maintain, sub
stantially, the present mundane con-
dition, through ages upon ages yet to
come.
WHY Ex-Governor WAsHBURN