Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
BREYITIES.

make him high who drinks them?
3OLDFsAHIONED mits are to be revived
nGxt summer for dowagers and spinsters.
ALTHOUGH the father of our country
never told lie, he could be at times very
cutting.
VALENCIENNEs lace is so cleverly imi-
tated nowadays that only experts can de-
tect the real article.
THE kernels of peach pits are said to
cure heartburn. Eat two or three day
till relieved.
a MISSISSIPPI Postmistress has dis
charged her husband from a clerkship for
non-attendance to duty.
L1NIMENT labels are said to circulate
| freely among the Indians of the North
| west, who take them for greenbacks.
Mrs. E. CADY STANTON does not in
dorse "Peripatetic praying" and calls
| those of her sex who indulge in it ga
| mob"
A MAN at CHEYENNE was shot dead be-
cause he wouldn't chip in and help buy
gravestone for some man who had been
hung.
A MAN in Kennebec, Me-, having pur-
chased a COW, has petitioned the Eegisla-
ture tot incorporate the cow and himself
as cheese factory.
AN exchange says: "The wave on
which many poor fellow has been car
ried away is the wave of a lace-edged
cambria handkerchief"
NAPOLEON BLUE, green brown and pur-
pie will be some Of the fashionable colors
in spring goods. Of green there are
twenty different shades.
THE largest dry goods houses in Boston
have decided to send out no drummers
this season. What they make in the
volume of trade they lose in bad debts.
The California State Prison don't pay
expenses. There are 93t convicts, of
whom 631 are engaged in cabinet making
for contractor at forty cents per diem
The agents of the Society for the Pre-
vention, ETC., have brought man to trial
in Providence for throwing cat from
four-storY window and breaking her hip.
THERE is a man in Kentucky who has,
forseveral years past, been drinking coal
oil. He takes a teaspoonful at a DOSE
and he says it has cured him of consump-
ton.
The cerebro-spinal meningitis, or spot
ted fever, as it is called, has broken out in
the western part of Barton County, Mo-,
and number of deaths are reported from
its effects.
JAPANESE silks will be more fashionable
next summer than they ever have been.
Some of the new patterns are exceedingly
pretty, and for evening dresses will make
up lovely"
In Chicopee, Mass, a farmer has Sc
cured an ice supply for next summer at
little cost. He dug pit, boarded it up,
and allowed it to fill and freeze full of
spring water.
A BLAST in which 1,175 pounds of pow
der were used was recently fired in a
quarry at Bolton Conn, and it was esti-
mated that 5000 tons of rock were lifted
from the earth.
IT is an honor to wOmanhood that not
dollar has ever been missing from the
department of the Comptroller of the
Currency, where the women exclusively
are employed as clerks.
IT is vain to put your finger in the
water and, pulling it out, look for hole:
and equally vain to suppose that however
large space you occupy, the world will
miss you when you die.
1T IS always we'll to bear all ordinary
troubles with composure, but when a
mans supply of gas is cut off it can't be
done. That's trouble which it is i'm
possible to make light of.
A SOLUTION of pearl ash in water
thrown upon fire eXtinguishes it instant
ly; the proportion is four ounces, dis
solved in hot water, and then poured into
a bucket of common water.
THE Catholic University of Georgia is
to be established at Macon. A splendid
tract of land studded with oak trees has
been donated by Macon, and an endoW-
ment of 100000 has been guaranteed.
RUBBER bands may be made from a
solution of rubber in a mixture composed
of benzine, five parts and fine turpentine,
seven parts. The benZine and turpenJine
must be free from oil and fatty matter.
RECENTLY, at Thompson, OHIO, two
lads, Jerome Phiney and Peter Snyder
each aged about ten years, having fallen |
out, Jerome stabbed Peter, inf1icting a
mortal wound, and then, going to his |
fathers barn, shot himself with his faith
er's revolver.
Cough Remedy-Many very bad and
distressing coughs may be cured by put |
ting one drop of creosote into a pint of
cold water and taking a spoonful thereof
two or three times day. 1t should be so
weak as to be hardly perceptible to the |
taste-Rural New Yorker
ONE of the three buildings at South |
Bend, Ind, occupied as a mandatory of |
sewing machines by the Singer Sewing
Machine Company was recently burned |
to the ground, involving a loss of about |
$4,000 The fire was evidently the work
of an incendiary.
s. A. HOWARD, of WolcOtt, Me-, has
kept house for thirty years, and when
first married bought paper of pins and
needles, and though he has brought up
four children has never bought or had
any others, and has half of the original
number now in his possession.
IT COSTS $25 and costs in Milwaukee fo~
brute in gallery at a theater to expecto-
rate upon the heads of the people below.
Patrick ORou1k, using the bald head of
an old gentleman as the objective point,
was promptly arrested and fined at the
Police Court.
WALLER, Chief of the Quapaw Indians
of Central America, was bitten on the toe
recently by large tarantula. The insect
crawied up his clothing and gave him
second bite in the back Medical aid
could do nothing, and after lingering
few hours in intense agony he died.
A NATIVE Hawaiian newspaper denies
that the Hawaiian race is dying out. The
worst disease of Hawaii is despair. The
people have lost hope in their country
In Java and Malaysia, where the whites |
have been for hundreds of years, the ma
tives have not died out, and there is no
reason why the Hawaiians should.
L1NDY JOHNSON, a colored woman, aged