Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-09
BREYITIES.
GALAXY.


No WISE man ever wished to be young.
The worst men often give the best ad-
vice.
NEARLY all the summer silks are in
stripes.
How to put horse on his metal-Shoe
him.
THE Patti is the name of one of the
new bonnets.
HOPE lives forever, but her children
Ole one by one.
The crack of base ball clubs will soon
be heard in the land.
He who gives a trife meanly is far
meaner than the trife.
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments Of happiness.
FRIENDSHIP is the wine of existence
love, the dram drinking.
SOME people have their thinking, like
their washing, done out.
WOMAN's hopes are woven of sunbeams
shadows annihilate them.
SCHooL-TEACHERs in South Carolina
are called "gad.swingers."
The national sin of Americans, says
DIR. McCosh, is rehabilitation.
he OIoCI vi lLHOSh 10 q uCW SOClEGN
established by Brigham Young.
BosToN's new Postoffice is called a
magnificent heap Of ugliness."
No FASHIONABLE lady ever goes to bed
without first looking in the glass.
No Northern man who goes to Florida
can rest until he has shot an alligator.
AN old sinner grumbles at the govt as
a precious leg-acy''-only it isn't aisy.
THE Detroit Free Press would as lief
die young as eat Graham cruel three times
day.
1T is very ruinous to move, but
especially expensive to move in the best
circles.
CALIFORNIA still sneers at greenbacks,
and if man hasn't gold and silver he is
rated "B g."
THE sands of woman's life run out all
the quicker when her waist is shaped like
an hour-glass.
THE first and only Grange in Arizona
was few days ago organized at Phoenix,
in the Salt River Valley.
A MAN has discovered how to live we'll
on twenty cents per day, but this won't
help the f1fteen-cent people.
Peter Sheets, residing near Locke,
Ind, was thrown from his wagon a few
nights ago, and had his neck broken.
A FLORIDA negro undertook to burn
the grass under his house The house
and black woman in it were consumed.
GLASS will sustain 1000 pounds to the
square inch, it is said. Just throw two
pound stone at plate-glass window and
see.
JONES says that the difference between
his wife and the Pope is that she possesses
per-all-power and His Eminence
doesn't.
A COMPANY has been formed on Bear
River, Cal, for the purpose of manu-
featuring butter from the fat of the seal
and sea lion.
A NEW HAVEN paper has finally admit
ted that there may possibly be one we'll
learned man and one well-bred lady out
side of New Haven.
FOURTEEN fathers in Quincy, ILL.,, have
signed pledge not to allow their daugh-
tiers to take music lessons until they know
how to make good bread.
ARE blacksmiths who make a living by
forging, or carpenters who do little
counter-htting, any worse than men who
sell iron and steel for living?
A TENNESSEE father has got himself be-
hind the bars for thrashing one of his sons
almost to death because the young man
would not go to proracted meeting.
CRoQUETs.-Take any cold meat. mince
it fine; put in an onion chopped fine
Moisten with gravy, make into balls with
yolk of an egg and -four, and fry in hot
fat
BIsULPHIDE of carbon vapor rs recon-
mended in the place of chloroform or
other volatile liquid when used for the
purpose of killing chronological speci-
mems.
The passenger train from Jefferson to
Marshall, La, recently ran off the track
into Little Cypress Bayou. The engineer
was badly injured and the fireman was
killed.
MORE than hundred people are drink
ing warm blood at the Brighton (Mass.)
abattoir, for various diseases, and there is
talk of building hotel to accommodate
the patients
A MONTREAL paper, speaking of re-
cent dualin explosion, says, IN most pa
thetic style, that the bodies of the victims
were spread over many rods, " here piece
and there piece"
REFRESHMENTS were omitted at a re-
cent Kentucky wedding. Some swine en-
tered the kitchen during the ceremony
and anticipated the gustatory programme
of the other guests.
A BALTIMORE jury recently brought in
a verdict for the respondent in the case
OF will contested because it was written
partly in ink and partly with lead pen
Gil and was not signed.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-sIX small
pearls are said to have been among the
contents of an oyster recently opened in
Rochester, n. 7. The number of other
gems contained is not stated.
The AgrGcuIturtSt states that a very fine
White vinegar may be made from the juice
OF the white part of watermelons AT a
certain stage the fluid is bitter, but when
perfected acquires a true vinegar flavor.
HE Maine Solons have curious notions
about the care of the poor. The Legisla-
ture Is seriously considering a bill to
make railroads support persons whom
they have brought to towns, if they be-
come paupers.
10 ExTERMINATE RED REACHES.
mowers OF sulphur, half pound; potash,
Il ur ounces. Melt in an earthen pan over
Ihe IRE; pulverize and make a strong So
luton in water, and sprinkle the places
which they frequent.
IHE Terry Island Second Adventists
SUCK to it that the end as coming pretty
soon, IN spite of the recent miscalcula-
tlon, and Rev. G. G. Barker devotes four
columns of the Watc7tman's Orr to au
argument on the point
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