Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-16
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taking rood care to leave the street door
open.
IT is now in order for some newspaper
to come forward and predict a winter
which will freeze the heels off lawn
ornament
No PAPER has any more right to leave
the e'' off of envelope" than to leave
the same off of take" or bake. "-De-
tr05t Free Press.
VENICE, the beautiful Venice, is not
only romantic, but late visitors say that
the city smells worse than the Chicago Riv-
er in its best days.
Oh, yes! Editors, printers and others
Clipped in for monumental Greeley, and
the mon But where is the money :?
Who took charge Of it?
BUDD DoBLE earnestly moves that Gold
smith Maid, who is now in her twentieth
year, be allowed farewell benefit and re-
tirement to private life.
THE latest mineral discovery at New
burypOrt, Mass, is that Of So 900 rough
diamond within the city limits, but how
it got there they don't tell us.
A CHICAGO doctor says that mustard
plaster will cure broken heart IN twen-
ty-four hours by the watch, but the world
will prefer to cling to sentiment.
WHEN they catch man gathering Del
aware peaches at midnight they preserve
whatever good traits he has in him by
shooting half pint Of salt into his legs
" WHAT branches Of learning have you
been pursuing at school to-day?'' said a
father to his son. " None, in particular,
sir; but birch branch has been pursuing
me-"
No MORE grosgrain, big-bowed, long
end sashes, if you please, says Nine.
Modiste, but instead wear narrow rib
bon around your waist with lot of stream
ers at the side
THE demand for one little word, just
one little word, from Mr.. Kelley, of motor
fame, continues pressing, but he is as ST.
lent as the woman with the worst bonnet
at a garden party.
AT Silverton, in the San Juan mines,
Col, a boy thirteen years of age, named
Wallihan, accidentally shot and killed his
mother with a shotgun which he had
taken up to shoot a hawk.
A MAN in the Omaha jail is noted for
his fine penmanship; but the jail is
mighter than the pen, and he will have
to do his stretch" Notwithstanding tai
ents which might be useful on the outside.
IT is stated that over $500, 900 are due to
Albany physicians by patients in that
city \ Troy surgeon asserts that during
the past ten years he has gratuitously
treated in the single departments ffractures
alone 900 cases.
Mr.. NASH, the anatomist of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, says that the av-
erage market value of skeletons is $50, but
that at present they rule dull at $50. Skulls
well prepared, so as to show all the
nerves. bring 5000.
THERE'S a corner in salt. People are
sailing it away, and salt-cellars are inact-
i've Lively discussions are taking place
between cucumbers and green tomatoes
relative to this high-handed attempt to
keep them out of their native brine. Salt,
they say, is their only preservation. ID
A TOO much married Mormon in Salt
Lake City had his clothes torn off him by
swarm of Jealous wives the other day,
who then turned him into the street
While proWling around the house, trying
to get in, he was collared by police Off
Ger, who took him for an insane man.
HARTFORD, Conn, has some queer
horses. One animal will not drink drop
of water on Sunday Another takes a rap
every Sunday morning after breakfast,
and does not doze on any other day. Still
another likes to chew tobacco, and will
masticate paper of tine-cut with evident
relish.
ONE Brutus W. Liski, of New Haven,
has been busy robbing his sweetheart and
her mother, and is now IN Jail. An ex-
change flames him for not calling him
self a Count. If he had the parents would
have pardoned him, and the girl marry
ing him would have chung to and fed and
clothed him as long as he wished.
KRUPP, the German cannon-founder,
has refused to sell the British Government
one of his big guns. In reply to a request
for one, he said he was "willing to con-
tract for the arming of as many forts and
ships as England wanted at home or
abroad, but he must decline to part with
specimens for experimental purposes"
II is proposed in France that the right
to take, collect and use water for purposes
of irrigation Should be granted to the in
habitants of agricultural districts in the
same manner as it is now granted to the
inhabitants of cities and towns who re-
Quire water for drinking or household
purposes. The owners of the land are to
be Unidentified rs when their property is
required for any other public uses.
THE Forestviile correspondent of the
Buffalo Express relates this incident: u
G. Mount was married TO Mrs Grace Ann
Crowell, of Hamlet, this morning, and
about noon the couple drove to the rail
waV station to Start on their wedding tOuI