Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
BREVITIES.
LONG Divisional divorce

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRoRs-Printers'
strikes.
WHEN is match frivolous? When il
makes light of things.
WHY is a retired carpenter like lee
tarer? Because he is an ex-planer.
A CHILD five years old recently dropped
dead from dropsy at Neillsville, Wis.
Boston has more corns than any other
city. Her popular corn doctor has gath
cred 100000 worth.
A PARIS correspondent saws that
scarcely any color but black is worn for
street toilets.
A MILKMAN at Elmira, n. Y, has intro
duced the plan of delivering milk in
glass bottles.
A SABBATH days journey is 1855
yards, which is trif1e less than two
thirds of a mile.
THE Persians say Of noisy, unreasona-
BILE talk: II hear the sound of the mill
stone, but l see no meal"
THE Mayor of ST. Louis has vetoed an
ordinance providing free baked beans for
the INDECENT classes.
THE brewers of Chicago are going to
help the reformers in Ohio. They have
raised the price of beer two dollars per
barrel.
BRAN, shorts, particularly those from
rye, with good tame hay and roots, form
varied and excellent food for mich
COWS.
A MALICIOUS person says that cotton
sheets and newspaper sheets are alike in
the respect that great many people lie
in them.
THE newest veil is Brussels net, dotted
with jet beads. The veil is left unhemmed,
merely covers the face, and is not trimmed
with lace.
IT is stated that raw oysters contain
sufficient pepsin to digest themselves.
Pepsin is the active element in the gas
trio juice.
PEOPLE who figure very closely make
their checks payable one day after date,
and thus cheat Uncle Sam out Of two
cent stamp.
A NEW YORK paper has an article on
"What to eat" A good many people in
that vicinity would prefer to be shown
how to get something to eat.
SAN Francisco is afflicted with min
ing-stock mania which, if not checked,
must eventually end in financial collapse
and its consequent reaction upon mining
operations.
WHEN California paper receives a
new subscriber it records the startling
fact thus: "Still another! Our course in
dorsed by the people" That paper has a
single eye to its own interest
THE apiarians throughout Kentucky
will suffer heavy losses by the coming
spring, as nearly all the bee colonies on
hand have starved to death, and many
more will do so.
THE JeoiSh Messenger says no Jewess,
so far as is known, longs to join the
Woman's Rights Reform, and thinks this
may be an evidence either of their degen-
eracY or of their common sense.
HAsTY RUsK.-Two eggs, one pint of
flour, one cup Of sugar, one cup of milk,
one dessert-spoonful of butter, one tea
spoonful of soda, two teaspOOnfuls of
cream of tartar. To be made up and
baked Immediately thereafter.
THE NeaoS, of Nashville, Mich, says
that man who would leave his horse
naked in the streets of cold winter day
or night would chew plug tobacco at a
funeral. Rather a fine cut that, on some
body.
IF there was ever an illustration of en-
thusiasm hOpelessly run mad, it is in the
case OF the IennesSeean who has preserved
in alcohol an chronological specimen
which was caught on a bed that Gen.
Jackson slept in.
A CHICO (Cal) man who was recently
communing with nature on the top of a
high bluff saw fine deer shaking its
thirst at a rivulet below. The Chico man
dropped big chunk of rock on the deer
and broke its back.
A wELL-KNowN Lafayette Qnd.) land
owner was recently fined for allowing
Canada thistles to grow on his farm. Be
ing somewhat angry at the jury on &C
count of the finding, he {" let out - at them
and was arrested for contempt.
FROM the opening of the New Hamp-
shire State prison, about sixty years
ago, there has not been among the in
mates one clergyman, lawyer, physician,
or editor, nor deacon, steward, church
warden, class-ieader, nor son of g clergy
man.
THE insurance companies contend that
an explosion is not fire. A suit on this
point has followed the blowing I'D of
Bradford & Co.'s phil in Bennington.
The companies will only settle the loss
that was caused by fire after the premises
had been blown into COM ,arative worth |
lessness.
A FEMALE lecturer in California speak |
ing IN behalfof her sex, says: "Man's pleas |
ures would never suit us, and his profits |
we have. We allow him enough to dress |
and to take him to lectures |
and other intellectual circuses; but the |
bulk of his income we appropriate"
INSTEAD of abolishing rec passes alto
gether, the officers of the Southern Rail |
road of Massachusetts are making them
selves and the deadheads more bother |
about it. Every holder of season pass
must leave his signature at the office, and |
every time he rides sign blank for the
conductor, so that fraud may be detected
by subsequent comparison.
The days of Salem witchcraft have not
gone by. John Hunt, of Burke County,
n. O., thought that he was bewitched, not |
in the usual way, by respectable woman
of the place. He drew her figure on a
board and shot it through the heart with
a piece of silver, but that did no good.
Then he threatened to shoot her and was
arrested
RICE FLOUR CEMENT.-An excellent ce-
ment may be made from rice flour 1t is
only necessary to mix the rice flour in
.imately with cold water and gently SIM
mer it over fire, when it readily forms a
delicate and durable cement. When made
of the consistence of plaster, clay models,
busts, bas relieves, ETC., may be formed of
it.
The Legislature of Georgia has been
by persons who represent