Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-04

production OF petroleum IN " eStern
Pennsylvania during the year 1874 would
fill canal thirty feet wide at the top,
fifteen feet at the bottom, seven feet deep
and over seventy-five miles long.
REV. CYRUS w OLIVER, of Jersey. City
pointed at two of his lady listeners,
called them by name and pronounced
them the black sheep of Israel, lost in
the mountains of sin. And they had
him arrested for defamation of charac-
ter.
a RECENT number of the Suanyside,
an English paper, contains, under the
head Of " Wants." the following: " A
first-clasS teacher for the Northam School,
Lot Is. a male teacher preferred
one little ordinary, so that he may not
attract the attention of female scholars
Those English people are foolish.
HOWEVER rich man may be, however
titled, however proud, let him go his
way with humility, remembering that he
is only about the two-billionth part of
the population of the world and that he
will some day die and be missed by men
just about as much as q mashed grass
hopper is missed by his swarm.
A SYRACUSE girl declined to engage
herself to the object of her affections
until his father had given her a written
guarantee that his son was not only sound
" IN wind and limb, " but of good morals,
gentle, and warranted to behave both in
single and double harness" That girl
did not intend to be seen in divorce
court.
a SINGULAR case of death from fright
occurred recently at Lerwick, Scotland.
a young woman who was employed to
watch with sick woman was found one
morning dead in a chair by the bed, on
which lay the corpse of the invalid The
medical opinion was that, the patient
having died in the night, the shock killed
the watcher.
SARAH YATES, of Abingdon, Mass,
has always been a strong-minded girl and
opposed to matrimony. Recently, how
ever, she received an excellent offer of
marriage, and compromised with her
principles in this style: "Mr. Bates, l
have reflected on your proposition, and
have concluded to submit to the humili-
ating sacrifice you demand"
A BOsTON girl, sixteen and pretty adj
vertlses that she will marry any man
who will pay for her education, and will
fulfill the contract on the day she gradu-
ates. In her view, therefore, education
is happiness and marriage q secondary
consideration. One can scarcely call
this wisdom; and yet it is more or less
characteristic of Boston.
"PAPA is dead" suddenly exclaimed
the little daughter of Mr.. Jones, a sur
veyor in the Nova Scotia Government
employ, the other day. The mother
hushed the child, but in few minutes
the little one repeated the words en-
phaticallY. During the same day intelli-
gence came that the father had been
drowned while attempting to cross a
small lake on the ice.
A Boston merchant failed lately owing
over $4,000. When a committee of
creditors waited upon him to investigate
his affairs, in reply to their request for
his books and papers, they were politely
Informed that he had never kept any
books, but if they desired list of the
persons owing him he thought he could
easily furnish q list from memory-a
statement which afterward proved to be
true.
Mr.. SUMMERS pictures, which were re-
Gently sold at auction in Boston, did not
bring so much as it was expected they
would. Abouts$5, 900 was realized from
the sale. Some of them were very fine
as works of art, but the great Senator
thought quite as much of the sentiment
OF picture as it's artistic merits, and
often the former made him exceeding ely
tolerant of artistic defects.
" a MAN sent word to me last night"
said the Hon. Sheridan Shook, yesterday,
" that he wanted to see me privately. |
came out of the theater and took him in
to my Office. You have lost your WATCH
SdIu ue. LES, StIU L. 1noTe IL IS,
said he, handing it to me. Amy ex
penses?' said I. None said he will
you eXplain?' said l. No. said he,
you have the watch and that's enough
N. 7. Sun,
THE editor of the Madison Courier,
siding with the chewers of tobacco. de-
clares that the weed is " a powerful tran
quillizer and allayer of irritability," and
that, therefore, it might be " usefully
employed in the household" If he
would step into Texas bar-room about
the time the shooting commences, and
see how lively some of his tobacco-chew-
ing friends can make dull evening, he
would place less confidence in the great
-Courier-J 0urndl.
Nor long since German was riding
along near SAMSON street, in Sacra-
mento, when he heard pistol-shot be-
hind him; heard the whizzing of a ball
near him, and felt his hat shaken He
turned and saw man with revolver1n
his hand, and took off his hat and found