Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-18

AT Qucchee, Vt, the farmers were plow-
ing in January, and on May-day had the
pleasure of seeing foot Of snow on their
fields. Some Of the hill roads We're rem
dered impossible by snow-drifts. The
birds were starving, and many robins
were found dead.
Lucy G. DONEGAN, Of Dubuque, Iowa,
has sued Frank S. May for $4,000 dam
ages. May had the smallpox, and hung
some Of the clothes he had worn upon a
fence near plaintiffs house, whereby the
woman and two of her children were in
fected with the disease.
MANY Cuban sugar-planters are emf
grating to Southern Texas, clad to ex-
change the comparatively quiet condition
Of affairs IN that State for the existing
troubles at home. The country between
the Sabine and the Rio Grande is well
adapted to the sugar cane.
"a MAN in Pennsylvania lunatic asy-
lum,'' says an exchange, "imagines him
self woman, and for that reason parts
his hair in the middle" Several Young
men outside of the Iunatic ASYLUM part
their hair in the middle because. it is
supposed, they have no reason.
a CHINAMAN shot an American eagle.
near Sacramento, one day recently, and
cooked and ate the deceased monarch of
birds. A few hours later several patriotic
citizens were "loyally" yelling around a
newly-dug trench, and there was a dead
Chinaman at the bottom Of it.-SacrG.
nae7at0 argus.
Il. a. BOTsFORD6 & Co.. Hartford, Conn.
are receiving one refrigerator car loaded
with about 10000 pounds of beef from
Chicago every week, and have ready
market for it, their customers finding it as
good as that killed in that region, and, it
is said, good deal better than the beef
that is brought from Chicago on the hOof.
NORTH HADLEY, Mass, is disturbed by
foul water in its wells, and an old astrOl-
oyer, we'll known in that vicinity, has
traced, with his mysterious rod, subter-
ranean stream from the cemetery, a few
rods distant, to the well at the parsonage
and to others along the street which con-
tain foul water.
IT is said that rats have so great an
aversion to asphOdel that, if it be grown
about the places which they haunt, or if
the plant be placed in their holes, it will
effectually Danish them. 1t does not de-
strOy or injure the rat, but is an intolera-
bic Offense to him. The asphOdel is a
dubious plant belonging to the lily
family.
A DECISION has been given by referees
against the Maine Central Railroad in
favor of passenger, for injuries suffered
at the hands Of a drunken fellow-passen-
ger. It is held that not to exclude from
and quarrelsome is negligence which will
10 TsoJ h 10
for damages.
A LITTLE baby lay sleeping in its crib.
Another, not much older, was looking at
it, and saw a single hair lying across the
baby's lips. He had heard papa talking
about whiskers, and he thought baby was
about having some too, and he ran in
great haste to his mother and said:
F." Tum, mamma, tum twick, baby's tuttin
whisters"
TEE editor of the San Bernardino
Guardian feels impelled to describe the
rival editor of that town as an editorial
empiric-a newspaper quack; a man
without education, without courage, with
out hOnOr-a drifting, mental imbecile, a
slandering falsifer, a rambling adventurer
"a creature-a thing-content to live on
family charity"
LONDON is literally built on foUnda-
ton Of pipes. In some places it would
be difficult to find room to lay another
pipe. One gas company supplies two
districts with nearly 400 miles of pipes
Then there are the underground tele-
graph pipes, and $500 miles of drain
pipes, the lead and iron pneumatic tubes,
the sewers, the water pipes and the under
ground railway.
The coolest larceny on record recently
took place in San Francisco. a young
man from the country was riding in a
street car shen a man next to him in
formed him that the back of his coat was
dirty, and kindly offered to brush it off
for him if he would take it Off He hand
ed his coat to the accommodating man,
and the latter coolly put it under his arm
and left with it.
THE removal of ice from the St. Law
renee River in the spring by the use of
niro-glycerine is proposed. The method
suggested is to plant the explosive all
over the river bottom, having wires con
nected with the charges by which all
would be exploded simultaneously by
galvanic battery. The charges would be
planted before the ice formed, in order to
oNOIu GllC uCSSSSlIJ lOA 1idh1Lo IO1CS'
RECENT experiments performed by
Endemann exhibit the fact that, if meat
be cut in slices and exposed in a room
the air Of which is heated to 40 degrees,
and is allowed to enter and escape only
through cotton filters, it will become so
dry in three hours time that it can be
ground. Since the albumen and fiorin
are not COagulated, the meat loses none
OF its nutritive properties by this process
A PEORIA man arose the morning after
a snOw.storm and found his dog kennel
buried under a drift as high as church.
He worked half an hour to dig his dog
out, and then went down and told his
clerks what he had done, and added: GA
merciful man is merciful to his beasts"
But after he left home the neighbors saw
his wife and daughter shoveling out
paths through the snow and carrying III
coal.
THE noble nature of the male biped has
been strikingly illustrated at Rochester,
n. Y. The local police prohibited the
little boys from playing ball and flying
kites on the street. These ingenious and
ingenious youths now allow the little
girls to elevate the aerial kite and punch
the elastic ball, while they sit upon the
edge Of the pavement and enjoy the sport,
This plan has its advantages in warm
weather.
CAN it be possible that the CANNES East
and West have higher order of intelli-
gence than those in our immediate vicin-
ity? But it would appear so from a notice
recently issued by the Selectmen of a small
town in Maine, to the effect that any dog
that did not pay his assessment of one
dollar was to be shot hY the town agent.