Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-23
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soup. Beef bOne-anza, probably.
4 ONE of the most tedious things in life
is waiting for rich old aunt to drop OF.
The proudest people are invariably
those who have the least to be proud OF
Mr. NARROWING, of Milledgeville, Ca,
while shooting at a cat recently, shot his
only son.
MONEY is one of those peculiar things
that, the closer it gets the harder 1t IS to
reach it.
LEX SPOTTED TAILIONIs is what the
New York World calls the law of the
Black Hills.
LIFE on the ocean wave is all very nice5
it is death on the ocean wave that all so
much dislike.
Don PIATT says that French coffee is
mere slop and London women are as
homely as pineapples.
THIRTY FIVE lives were lost on New
Orleans steamers during the first half of
this year-twenty-one by fire.
A ST. LOUIS paper says that sensible
married couple ought to live on ten dol
lars per week and save something.
MATILDA -CairO-8ingle woman
weighs 422 pounds says she wants
someone to love her for herself alone
CANADA encourages gle-blessedness.
One of the agricultural societies there
offers prize for the best bread baked by
bachelors.
THE Cresset, Of DenisOn, Tex, remarks
See to it that your wife is kissed and
petted and caressed, even if you have to do
it yourself"
THE people in the United States over
100 years of age-ft subjects for the Cen
tennial-now count up just 412 as far as
heard from
AN association has been formed in Lon
don to secure a supply Of live cattle from
the United States to meet the wants of the
English market.
"FATHER's hair is growing gray" is
ahe latest popular ballad; and it is enough
to make it to see the way young people are
acting nowadays.
MIR CORN recently sent in petition to
the Chicago Common Council. They
should certainly grant him an earring
Nea0 York Commercial.
In many localities oysters and the pub
lie schools are opened simultaneously.
This accounts for the raw-oysterous con-
duct Of some Of the scholars.
ENGLISH IVY growing on wall does
not promote dampness, as has been long
supposed; on the contrary, it is said to
produce the opposite effect
A New HAMPSHIRE man sends four
teen Of his children to one school, and
when they combine against the teacher he
knows he can safely bet on the result.
Is OUR civilization failure and is the
auoassian played outg The people of
Iltington, n. Y, wanted to hang a
IAN because he logged his wife. Be-
lighted Huntington.
THE London Mark Lane Express says
hat the British " crop is short as a whole,
I'D large impOrtations will be necessary. :"
these it is estimated, two-thirds will
drawn from this country.
The happiest moments in woman 5
life are when she is making her wedding
garments; the saddest, when her husband
comes home late at night and yells to her
from the front steps to throw him out
,ome key-hOles, assorted sizes.
In Providence, r. l., man who was
nder examination on charge of being a
)mmon drunkard stated that his strange
elton on certain occasion was not owing
} intoxicating liquors, as alleged, but to
the concern OF mind arising from trying
!, negotiate a mortgage on mis- property
to yet money to pay his bills and taxes"
WILMINGTON, n. c., reports a sea ser
pent ninety feet long and as big as bar
rel in its vicinity. He ran on one Of the
hoals and party of brave men ran to
tack him, but he raised his head and
oened his mouth wide enough to swallow
EN- one at time and they retreated dis
eetly. The sea serpent is diffusive