Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-17
TENS OF INTEREST.

echoes, his amt.
The hardest thing in the world for q
man to do is to settle lawsuit when he
knows he's wrong.
THE Grasshoppered" is what the
Omaha Republican calls the sufferers by
the plague in that section.
ARTIFICIAL orange flowers are now
generally used for trimming and orna-
menting bridal costumes.
THE polite clerk didn't exactly under
stand the young lady who called for a
boa at the furrier's lately-Detroit Press.
In some parts of the country when a
woman begins to get red at the roots of
her hair it is regarded as storm-signal
A YOUNG lady says she longs for fingers
like the prongs of pitchfork, with dia-
mond rings enough to fill them to the
ends.
| A MILWAUKEE mother had to hurry
home from party for fear that the baby
would swallow a fiat-iron or some
thing"
THE beauty of Russia leather pocket
| books is that they're never without a
scent in them, you know.--N. 7. Com.
Advertiser.
Now that the skating has set in, care
should be taken to avoid the air-holes. 1t
is surprising the amount of moisture an
air-hole contains.
KEEP mirrors away from the sun,
says scientific paper; land from the
daughters, too" we beg leave to add
| MtE0aukee Sentinel
A GALVESTON man who died the other
day left " the sum of $4,000 as a fund to
defend persons who kill Southern rail
road baggage-smashers."
A DULUTH woman broke her arm the
other day while washing dishes, and yet
| there are women who will turn up their
noses at this awful warming.
1NCENDIARIsM prevails to an unusual
extent in the country just now. Our in
surance companies are moving for the
protection of their interests.
A CovINGToN man died and they put
him on ice, but he awoke in the night
and yelled out: Why didn't you put
some more wood in that stove?"
CARL SCHURz thinks the country would
be safe if the young men would all get
married and settle down. All the girls
will subscribe to that sentiment.
Don't sit still and croak about the hard
winter that's coming. Husband your re-
sources and systemathize your charities,
audit may not prove SO hard after all.
TALK of chow space clears around a
great man." whet is that to the space
vacated by an irate woman armed with a
skillet in one hand and a sadiron in the
other?
WASH FOR THE SKIN-A good wash to
harden the skin and prevent bedsores in
confirmed invalids is one part sweet
spirits of nitre to three parts of water
| Exchange.
PHILOSOPHERS say that shutting the
| eyes makes the sense of hearing more
| acute A wag says that this accounts
for the many closed eyes that are seen in
our churches.
A BALE of cotton recently shipped to
Macon was found to contain an iron
gudgeon, an old sausage grinder, and
other articles, ali of which weighed
eighteen pounds.
WE'LL give eleven dollars for the sight
of the boy ten years old who can get out
Of bed in the morning and find his hat
and shoes without half an hours hunt
Detroit Free Press.
DR.. LYON PLAYFAIR, well-known En-
glish physician, declares that all parti-
| Giles of the human body change once
every six weeks, instead of every seven
years, as heretofore held.
THEY say now that Kaiser William puts
out the clothes-line Monday mornings.
OF course he does, and he murmurs the
while: Never was a woman yet that
didn't knot clothes-line into snarl"
SIR T. POWELL BUXTON, in addressing
| the girls of a Baltimore school the other
day, said that he could tell his young
friends in England that if they came to
America they would be sure to find
good and graceful wives" The girls
gave three cheers.
AN Eastern paper gives this recipe for
making Rochester editor: "Take just
| the least atom of cheek-say one part
say three ounces of vituperation, five
parts roorback, one and half grains
| concentrated white lie and five pounds
nitro glycerine; mix well; give no time
! to settle"
A FARMER living near Georgetown,
KY, has two pigs that regularly draw
their sustenance from a COW. The COW
will low for them as for calf, when the
little porkers will answer the summons,
and, rearing up, support themselves by
INTERVIEWING their forelegs, and in that
| position take their repast.
THE following remarks fling a blind
| ing glare of light on the subject of dys-
pepsia: " heterogeneous substances excite
the secretion of the gastric juice. The
non heterogeneous, especially those Of a
fatty nature, determine the production
of large quantity of saline serosities,
| derived by exosmosis from the Capilla-