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

door wear.
ALCOHOL and whiting viii clean silver
in any form.
ALBANY is going to manufacture ice by
machinery.
a Troy man has shot another for 1irt-
ing with his wife.
A FOOL is never wrong and smart
man is always right.
The largest room in the world is the
room for improvement.
SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius; there
fore it is good for erUptions.
THE favorite song among Illinois
rogues is: g We may be Joliet"
WE govern our passions; but in gen
eral we let the passions first have trial.
THE Washington Star says every ap-
prOach to both houses of Congress is
blocked with pie-stands.
THE First African Church Of Rich
mOnd, Va, at late business meeting, ex-
cluded seventeen members for dancing.
TIE system of driving machinery by
large belts direct from the fy-wheels of
engines is becoming more general in
England every day.
TIE Delaware peach-grOwers begin to
predict q total failure of the crop, and you
can therefore make up your mind that
there viii be piles Of peaches.
THE production of brick in the United
States in 1870, if laid in wall one foot
thick and ten feet high, would reach
distance Of over zoos miles
A WouAN's club has been formed in
st. Louis, for the discussion of social,
moral and philosophical questions,
and especially questions vital to women.
DOW ESTTC prints are so pretty this sum
me- that housewives of taste are using
shilling calico for home wrappers, and
luXuriating in half dozen Of the various
patterns.
EIGHT HUNDRED MAJ rfagaaDie young
ladies, for whom there is no visible pros
pective husbands, is what's the matter
with Easton, Pa.
A BIG elm has just been cut down at
New London, Conn, which during the
war of 1912 was nearly severed by a blow
from the sword of an army officer.
THERE has not for many years been
time when SO many churches OF the sew
eral denominations have reported reviv-
ais, or when converts have been counted
SO numerously as now.
A KIND word spoken to q husband will
90 farther than a brOOmstick or t1atirOn,
says woman of experience. And the
rule works as well the other way, says a
man who has tried it.
A FoRTUNE-TELLER has predicted that
Mark Twain will die this year-but he
is only going to start a paper, which
IS hitting pretty close for fortune
teller
A BROTHER of Nathan Z. Hull, Of
Killingworth, Conn, who was recently
killed by train Of cars, has committed
suicide from grief by jumping into
well
A BEDQUuT containing 1O,922 pieces
has just been achieved by Mrs. Abner
Coe, Of island Pond, Vt, and the lady
would like to hear of more numerous
quilt than that.
THERE is a suggestion of the expert
enCes to which tourists are liable in the
fact that trunks labeled bug proof" are
c0nspicuously displayed by turnishers Of
COlveniences for travellers.
A Dies MONIES genius who loves his
ease has ] vented an automatOn fire
Lighter. He lies in bed, pulls a string
which sets the kindling on fire, and when
he hears the kettle singing he gets up.
~ DOSIONIAN Keeps a IoSl 50 St6tLi01tlN
dictionary on a slightly-inclined shelf in
his paTlor which the children and adults
of the family can instantly and easily
consult for a definition or a lesson III
spelling.
A TOWN in Kentucky has developed
queer specimen of QenalS homo in the form
OF a facetous dentist who advertises that
he will pull teeth without pain to the
,,-i+J, vvorvr IitfIa RI tho hy
ISLANDERS.
The Columbus GAY Enquirer says:
We are going to quit the newspaper
business; it doesn't pay to run a paper IN
q town where business men read almanacs
and pick their teeth with the tail Of
herring"
On the average of the last six years the
loss of life in English coal mines, by eX-
plosion and other accidents, amounts to
one death for every 100000 tons OF coal,
not to mention injuries Of more or less
serious character.
THE Boston Common Council has voted
that the 4th of July shall be celebrated at
an expense to the city not exceeding
$25, 900, while $500 has got to answer for
June III, the anniversary of the battle OF
Bunker Hill.
A CURIOUS mementO of the late war,
consisting of Federal and Confederate
bullets, impacted by coming together in
the air, which was picked up in front OF
Petersburg in 1864, has just been present
ed to the ordnance museum.
AN Eastern paper says: The Nercan
tile Library Association Of New York
city have decided that the opening of the
library on Sunday is failure, the per-
sons using it being few, and not of the
class it was hoped to reach"
LARGE black sunshades, or, more cor
rectly speaking, umbrellas, trimmed with
either black thread lace or white point
APPLIQUE, have taken the place of the pa
goda-shaped, ringe-trimmed pongee sun
Shades Of the last three summers.
ORANGE FRTTTERs.-Take the peel and
white skin from three large oranges; then
cut til EN- across into slices, pick out the
seeds, and dip each slice Of orange into a
thick batter. Fry them nicely and serve
them with sugar sifted over each.
A CINCINNATI reporter says that there
is something grand in the sight OF a pair
Of runaway horses, but we believe that a
good deai depends on whether man IS
on fence or trying to climb over the end
board Of the wagon.-Detr0jt Free Press.
THE toothless may derive hope from
the fact that at KILN, in Perthshire, an
old man died at the age of ninety-one
years; but five years before his death he
cut six new teeth, which he said were
quite serviceable and as sharp as Ian.
Gets -