Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DELAWARE will market 10000 900
baskets of peaches this season.
CHIPS from the late Gen. Santa
Annals wooden leg sell at very fair
price a chip.
| BLWARE of the man who has ''just
one word more to say. He is an
equivocator.
| CARE for your horses in the hot sea-
son. Don't let them suffer from over
| heat or thirst.
NEVER fear, the American eagle
hasn't done squealing resting
her throat for a few days.
DEATH by starvation is one of the
permanent recognized items Of the reg
ular bills of mortality in London.
THE best time to examine the Won
derful architecture of hornets nest
is after the hornets have moved out.
THE only branch of manufacture in
London not suffering from the general
dizziness, is said to be that of artificial
| flowers.
THE London Lancet says that no
woman dies of fright. Her corset is
laced so tight that she can do no more
than utter one yell and fall over.
THE Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company announce that there
will be an advance of fifteen cents per
ton on all sizes of coal for the month of
August.
''SHE makes all the conquests she
DESIRES" said one. "True, said
another, also a woman, "but she
would give all her slaves for one
master"
A GREAT number of lots are being
sold near Boston, a condition being that
the purchasers who build shall have
| free transportation to and from Boston
for five years.
On taking up the bricks at the bot
tom of one Of the furnaces of the
Golden Smelting-W Works, they were
found to contain $500 in gold and
silver. Somebody lost this gold.
WHEN you hear a man very active
in singing In some way or other the
Lord will provide" you may be pref
ty sure his wife is at home cutting
the kindling wood as her part in the
service.
Mr.. AIR is the name of an hotel
clerk, and it isn't inappropriate ether.
-[New York Commercial ADVERTISER.
Don't Boreas with any more like that,
or we may come to elbows. Morris
torn Herald.
IT is not pleasant thought that,
while this glorious Union was spend
ing 81, 900, 900 for fire-crackers on the
Fourth, Sitting Bull and his fellow
fiends were wearing breech-clouts made
of Clusters flag.
A FARMERS wife entered a dry
goods store in St. Louis the other day,
and informed the clerk that she wanted
cone O. them ar womin's hats which
spread out big, covered with white
muskeeter netting, an which is gettin'
so fashionable"
THEY tell story of a Judge in Ala
bama who sent an officer out q few
days since to get him drink of whis-
ky. The officer returned with it, but
the amount did not satisfy the Judge
1I0 ho
tumbler full, and remarked that the
barkeeper said that he "didn't know
that the old fool wanted to take a
bathp'
AT one time Daniel Webster had a
difficult case to plead, and verdict
was returned against his client. One
Of the witnesses came to him and SAID:
Mr.. Webster, if [ had thought we
should have lost the case, [ might have
testified a good deal more than | did"
cit is of no consequence, replied the
lawyer; the jury did not believe
word you said
Miss DOLLY KRAUsE, aged fifteen,
living at Etna, Allegheny County,
Pa, is of a lively executive turn. The
other day she forged her fathers name
to a check for $175, and when detected
in the crime cut her throat with razor
and sat down on a stump to mediate.
The wound was not deep enough to be
fatal She wanted money enough 20
go West and see her brother.
THE peanut boys on the railway
trains have a 'Etrick'' in making
change worth recording. Suppose the
purchaser tenders five dollar bill in
payment. If he looks "green,' and
there are at least four one dollar bills
due him, one of the bills is folded
double so that the ends stick out even
with the others. Two one dollar notes
are held in the usual manner, with the
folded bill between them, and then the
four ends are counted off under his
ain sight. Ten chances to one he ac-
ceptS the count and pockets three