Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LET'S have a machine to carve turkeys
NEXT Christmas will come on Monday,
and next 4th Of July on Tuesday.
IF you have fifty dollars in cash you
can 90 to New York and start savings
bank.
THE worldly New York clergyman
don't put any vim into marriage ceFe-
mony unless he sees the hgures Oh d MY
dollar bill in advance.
Is THE New York papers are agitating the
community BY discussing the question
whether it is proper or not for gentle
man to cross his legs in a street-car.
KATE FIELD carries a revolver. Some
day some malicious person will load II,
and then she will have to put it in a pail
of water and run behind the door until
the danger is over
ss ADIRONDACK MURRAY says pleasure is
the legitimate end of life provided it
trans gresses no law and Injuries no person.
This code of morals is not generally ac-
copied by the philosophers.
A FRENCH doctor says all great criml-
nails have been great smokers. We OBJ
serve likewise that all great criminals
have been in the habit Of sleeping at night
and eating three meals a day.-Rochester
Democrat.
THE Lieutenant-GoYernor Of Rhode
Island should remember that there are
worse things than having $4,000 horse
die on short notice. It might have been
$4,000 colt and SO he has made d saw
ing OF $4,000.
JOHN MONTGOMERY SEARS, son Of the
late Joshua Sears, of Boston, came of age
Christmas Day He owns more than
$4,000 900 Of real estate in Boston, and is
worth many millions more in mortgages
and bonds of various kinds.
CHESTER BARDoN, an Oregon murderer
under sentence of death, has cheated the
gallows by starving himself to death.
Chester always was dishonest, and to out
rage the law was his favorite amusement
He doubtless died with grin on his
countenance.
AS A specimen of deliberately sowing
the wind with dead certainty Of reaping
the Whirlwind, the case Of the small boy
who intrudes upon his grown-up sister
and her young man is especially notable.
Butthe small boy always takes the chances.
st. Louis Republican.
NEXT year will be great year for this
American nation. 1t is leap year, Presi-
Dental election year and the centennial
anniversary of our independence, and for
the purpose Of giving US a rest during SO
much excitement there will be one extra
Sunday, or fifty three in all.
Now THIS is why the sly lobster bushes
50 after being boiled: The shell Of the
lobster is imbued with a black or blush
black pigment, secreted by the true skin,
which also gives out the calcareous matter
after each mott, so that lime and pigment
are blended together. This pigment be-
comes red (pale or intense) in water at
the temperature OF 212 degrees.
ONE night last week one of our saloon
keepers heard a rafting in his cellar, and
procuring q light went down and dis
covered a rat caught by the tail in clam
shell. The rat after being caught, at
tempted to enter his hole, but was stopped
by the clam being too large to follow, and
was found in that position by the saloon
eper-0rZeGns american.
JOHN killer, a private of Company
g. Twentieth Infantry, committed sui
eide at Fort Ripley recently. Five minutes
before he left the mess table, went into the
squad-room, seated himself on trunk, re
moved his shoe, and touched the trigger
OF rifle with his right foot. The death
was instantaneous, and brains and blood
were scattered about the room.
Six years ago Messrs Wolcott, John
ston & Co., Of Freehold, N J., sold to
Eewis D. Mount, farmer, twenty-five
cent package Of what they represented as
seed that would produce excellent early
turnips. The seed brought forth late
turnips of such poor quality that Mr..
Mount was compelled to feed them to his
cattle. Mr.. Mount sued for damages be
fore Justice of the Peace, and was
granted a judgment Of ninety-nine dollars
damages. The plea of the defendants
was that they had purchased the seed I'M
der the impression that it was first-class,
and having paid the ordinary price no
fraud was intended. Appeals were taken
to the Court of Common Pleas, and after
ward to the Supreme Court, and then to
the Court of Appeals, and these all at
t1rmed the original decision of the Justice OF
the Peace IN the suit $40, 900 damages in
legal expenses have been paid
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