Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-27
MULTUMIN PARYO.


said punnlng cashier; so many drafts
passing through it aid the time"
A large seal has made its home in
New Haven Conn harbor, and amuses
the sailors on the various crafts by his
pranks
Games or umbrellas containing swords
or other weapons cannot be sold hereafte.
IN Paris without permit from the Chief
of Police.
If you haven't sent a poor widow
barrel OF flour this winter you haven't
made any tally-marks in heaven.-Detrott
Free Press.
| William Aston Hayne, son of
HaYne, Webster's antagonist, sits in the
California Legislature for Santa Barbara
and Ventura.
-Forty-fve mutes from the Maryland
Asylum spent Christmas at Baltimore
among their friends. They passed their
holiday very quietly.
The Sabbath School Union of Ohio
has issued request to its friends for aid
to enable it to be represented in the Sab
bath-School Department Of the Centennial
Exhibition.
Missionaries in Egypt say that the
outlook is most encouraging. Calls for
missionary labor come from all directions.
Nine persons have recently been licensed
to preach, and the schools contain ITO
| scholars.
"A man in South Hadley, Mass, who
has just got out of a lawsuit, wants to OBJ
tain a large framed picture of COW, with
one client at the head and the other at the
tail, pulling, and the lawyers meanwhile
quietly milking.
The Flower Mission of London sends
between 5000 and 1000 bouquets weekly
to the hospitals, warehouses and sick poor
at home. The flowers are placed in little
paper bouquet-holders, upon each of
which Is text of Scripture.
A juvenile criminal, sentenced few
| days ago to five years penal servitude al
Loldon, cried because the Judge would
not send him to sea, and as he left the
dock exclaimed: II hope you will send
me to sea next time, my Lord"
The Presbytery of Oregon include.
thirty ministers and nineteen churches.
Its field extends over Oregon, Washington
Territory and Idaho. The presbytery re-
Gently resolved to appeal to the General
| Assembly for the establishment of synod
with three or more presbyteries.
Leaves Of the pineapple, now beng
extensively cultivated in the East Indies,
are turned to account by being converted
into a kind of wadding, which is used
for upholstering instead of hair. A sort
from which substantial waistcoats and
skirts can be made.
There will be four eclipses the COM
| ing year-two of the sun and two Of the
moon. Only two of them will be visible
in this country, namely, partial eclipse
of the moon at midnight. March 9, and an
annular eclipse of the sun March %.
Sept. Is total eclipse of the sun will be
visible in Australia and the Southern Pa
cifc region.
"A German tailor at Des Moines has
invented curious sort of piano, the ham
mer Of which strikes bells instead of
strings. There are in this piano sixty-six
bells varying from two inches to thirteen
inches in diameter, all SO adjusted that
each bell shall give its perfect tone in
response to the touch of the performers
hand on the keyboard.
California comes to the front with a
couple of remarkable girls and the coun-
try is challenged to produce their equals.
They are the Misses Purdy, of Long Val
ley. Besides being posted in all that per-
tains to dress they can and do often har-
ness and drive horses of their own break
ing, and in cases of emergency mount
the reaper and draw as steady a line over
pair Of colts as the best among the So
called lords of creation. This year they
are in the potato business on a small
scale. Last spring they procured six
pounds Of potatoes Of choice varieties
They planted this seed, hoed itthemselves,
and dug 5171a pounds of splendid potatoes
as the result.
Inc western agent OF the Chlldren's
Aid Society reports an interesting Incl
dent concerning one of the boys recently
sent out to the West by the society. This
boy having expressed his thanks to the
agent for providing him with good home,
he was informed that he should thank
God, as the agent was only an instrument
in His hands. Yes" said the boy, {"
do thank Him for keeping me from tax
ing my life" He then stated that on the
previous Friday he had walked to Har-
lem, hoping to get work, but was disap-
pointed. On his way back to the Bowery,
being without money, and having eaten
nothing that day, he determined to drown
himself. At night he went toward the
North River, intending to jump in, but
before doing so he concluded to read a
few verses from Testament which
missionary had given him. He then went
behind pile of lumber to pray to God to
forgive him the sin he was about to COM
nit On returning to the sidewalk he
looked down, and, seeing something,
fshed it up and found it was a fifteen
cent stamp. He changed his course, OBJ
80, - L. 49,