Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-18
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called scientific research" IN Pr nav
phia. %oel-
CONTINUAL fault-fnding, continual
criticism of speech of this one md con-
duct Of that one, the dress of tn one
and the opinions of the other, will mike
the home the unhappiest place under tn,
sun.
SPEAKING of the failure of &oman's
club, a contemporary says: The women
began to behave disorderly, the neigh
bors complained, and the club broke up
suddenly" Clubs are apt to be broken
up when women begin to be disorderly.
"WHEN the cold wind blows take care
of your nose that it doesn't get froze,
and wrap up your toes in warm wooden
hose" The above, we suppose, was
written in prose, by some one who knows
the effects of cold snows.-Iuner's Falls
Republican.
A DETROIT man who was not used to
the work undertook to slaughter hog
the other day. In the struggle knife
disappeared, and, incredible as it ap-
pears, it was afterward discovered that
the hog had actually swallowed it, han
die and blade.
SOME idea of the railroad business
the fact that 200 trains arrive and depart
from the Jersey City terminus of the
Pennsylvania Railroad every day, and of
these more than ninety are devoted to
passenger traffic alone.
THE discussion of capital punishment
which has of late been revived has
drawn out the TACT that no murder was
ever committed by a Quaker. From
which it is evident that no Quaker ever
lived next door to girl who was learn
ing the piano.-KGlaodukee Sentinel
IT is said that Gen. Spinner, he of the
lightning-struck autograph, is thinking
of resigning. A dollar note without that
mysterious legend on it won't look as
though it were worth two bits, and a fifty.
cent piece will be as worthless as last
years birds nest-sSt. 10. Herald.
THE people glorify the memory OF
| Thomas Jefferson and shed tears over his
grave; and the other day an autograph
copy of his notes on THE State of Vir
ginia" sold for $3.50; but it don't help
his grand daughter who is seeking work
in Washington.
SOME of our exchanges are still slOsh
|
ing over with lugubriOus sentiment over
the death of Mr. 1874 For one we are
glad the old cove has quit. We woulC
advise 1875 to deal less in droughts and
grasshoppers if he wants us to shed any
tears over his taking off.-HamjItOn (QhsO,
Neaos.
| IT is as impossible for a man in this
slippery weather to laugh at his own
downfall, as for schoolboy to sharper
slate pencil properly while laboring
under the impression that his next seat
neighbor has a paper ball Of superior
finish in preparation for his head.-Da'e
bury Neos,
| A RECENT writer says that corpulency
is not disease. The founder of the
| English Church was fat man; Luther
was corpulent; Napoleon l., though his
carriage was erect and soldierly, ha6
much adipose tissue about him; Byron
was inclined to corpulency, as were mos
of the literary worthless Of the Elizabeth
an era.
AN old lady who owns land along the
line of the Pueblo & Salt Lake Railroad
when visited by the committee who were
obtaining the right OF way, said she had
no objection to giving the right of way
| but she had "hearn tell that these rail,
roads always brought smallpox and
| spotted fever, an she was afraid of them
ketchen' sicknesses."
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE has invented
a lantern to see stars with; but we don't
think his invention will amount to much
A man can see enough stars to last him
lifetime by simply sitting down heavily
on the ice on the back of his head. Some
men have seen millions of stars in an in
slant by merely calling bigger man than
themselves liar-NorrGStooa Herald.
THE following marriage certificate was
recently found among some old archives
of the town of Norwich. Conn. There
was no date of the year, but the pen
manship and paper both bore testimony
to the extreme age of the document:
Married at Norwich, Sunday evening,
31st December, DR.. Enoch Smith, so
called, aged sixty-six, more or less, a re-
nowned collier, to the amiable and ac-
complished Miss Mary Melony, cele-
brated tailoress, aged twenty-six next
grass"
DIPHTHERIA is probably no new dis
ease, although such is the popular I'M
preston. Horace Walpole describes
"horrid scene Of distress" in the Caven-
dish family, resulting in the death of
several members from disease exactly
answering to description of diphtheria.
1t is believed that Gen. Washington died
Of it. 1t never became epidemic, how
ever, until after 1850. 1t was common in
New York in 1857-8-9, and in 1861 it
prevailed as a local epidemic in hun
6rpdS of DonI1lOlIS towns from New York