Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
BREVITIES.

90.
A NOTED soLnoQUY-2 Bor0 eB is
the
GIVE pigs a warm nest and plenty OF
straw.
THE one thing needed by farmers is en-
ergy.
To tell a horses age-Say how old he
is, of course.
EARLY rising is good; getting at your
work early is better.
A KENTUCKY paper speaks of the " re-
vfled" statutes of the State.
MAKE your hennery tight and warm,
and feed poultry warm food.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, don't allow It's
BARRIERS to shave on Sunday.
SILENCE is the safest course for any
man to adopt who distrusts himself.
BETTER hire an extra man than devote
your whole time to mere routine work.
SHELTER saves food. 1t sometimes does
| more than this. 1t saves the life OF the
animal
IT a good suggestion that people who
advC rtise on fences mix little spelling
with their paint.
Quincy, H., papers are having q stir
ring controversy over the question: why
do mules kick?''
JOHN ZEAGLER, of Pulaski County, Va,
climbed a creased pole by the aid OF sand
and indomitable grit.
TAKE care of your health and your
wife; they are the two better halves that
make a man of you.
THE widow of a deceased soldier is en-
titled to draw his pension so long as she
shall remain his widow.
1T is wonderful how few evils are re-
NEEDLESS if you fairly face them, and hon
estly try to remove them.
Poor Jones says he always gives Mrs.
j. her own way, because it is the only
thing he has to give her.
An Indiana widow wants 100000 dam
ages from the man who refused to keep
his promise to marry her.
THREE men were badly wounded by
| the bursting of wheel in Springfield,
ILL.,, planing-mill, recently.
WHEN feeding hay it is a bad practice
to let the horse stand with rackful OF
| hay before him all the time.
JAMES SMITH, of Racine, Wis, recently
walked one hundred miles in twenty-five
hours and thirty-three min utes.
THE deduction to be drawn from the
panic is reduction, and this view of the
| matter is permeating the country.
A SOUTHERN paper tersely says of a
man who was kicked by horse, "that
| his life was extinct for some time"
A PHYSICIAN advised Peck Roberts of
| Troy to take iron, and he took 500 pounds
| from foundry and is in jail for it.
JONES complains of the price Of tea
He wouldn't wonder if grocers thought
| it reasonable to make Unreasonable.
To PREVENT boots from squeaking hang
the wearer. That is the way they did at
Weston, Mo-, and it cured the boots.
WoRTHINGToN, Mass, boasts of house
one hundred years old, in which no
funeral ceremony was ever performed.
A BOSTON lover committed suicide the
other day before perpetrating matrimony.
| He merely got the cart before the horse
A GREEN BAY woman took teaspoon.
| full of creOsOte instead of lung balsam,
and had a rough time of it in cOnse-
quence.
MACHINERY does not do away with the
necessity for labor; it merely changes its
character. 1t demands brains rather than
muscle.
A NEW YORK paper intimates that the
young bloods who are favorites with the
bellies of that city suffer terribly from
| painters collie.
A CONNECTICUT man recently shot his
wife, and then pretended he was aiming
at stray cat The Coroner's jury com
mitted him for trial.
a YOUNG lady in Illinois recently be-
| came so much embarrassed by a proposal
from her lover, that, in her agitation she
swallowed a needle.
ANIMALS require daily care. Make
them comfortable. Feed regu arly and
| literally, and see that they have con.
slant supply of fresh water.
THE Louisville C0urier-J0unGl will
support the postal savings bank project
provided the scheme be enlarged to in-
| clude saloon attachment.
The C0uq5er-J0u7n0E classes as the prin-
cipal contributions of Kentucky to the
| national repertOry: women, horses,
whisky and blue grass
A MAINE Justice indicated the dig
nifty of the law by sending a newspaper
| editor to prison for calling him a mud
| dle-headed mannikin.'
How TO TAKE CARE OF OUR FURs-
| If furs or apparel be enclosed in a box
with little oil of turpentine they will re-
main free from the Larvae of moths.
AN opium-eater in Greenfield, Mass,
has consumed $4,000 worth of the potent
drug, without mentioning, as local
| paper has it, "the consequential dam
| ages.''
| RUsKIN maintains that lying is justifi-
| able if done for a good purpose, which
would be consoling if q person addicted
to lying cared whether it were Unsuitable
or not.
| A BIBLE, placed IL a neat little rack,
| ornaments each Pittsburgh horse-car, and
the average Pittsburgher frequently burst
| into interrogation as to the name of the
book.
A TAILOR sent his bill to a magazine
| editor 1t was returned in a couple of
hours, and at the bottom was written
Your manuscript is respectfully de-
| clined."
He who cultivates the farmers mind,
cultivates their farms, and the best crop
in the whole round of agriculture is a
crop of sagacious, reflective and industri.
! Gus men.
WHEN man goes into bankruptcy for
the sake of making money, he always
finds it more pleasant than his creditors
do. 1t is not pay-in-fuH operation for
| him at all.
MAD1soN, Ind, is letting the fence
around its cemetery fall to pieces. 1t
| thinks that the people in the cemetery
| can't get out, and those who are out don't
want to get in.