Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-19
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

1t has been discovered that the Bridge
port Conn., Brass Company has been
Systematically robbed by workman who
has been in the hatit of carrying home his
pockets and dinner pail full of fine brass
every day. When two or three barrels
full had accumulated it was sent to New
Haven and sold. 1t is supposed that the
man has in this way stolen in two years
brass worth $1,000. r ........
"A Concord IN H. believer in blue
glass put climbing plant under the in
fluence of it, with tall rod for the pl ant
to climb on. At the end of week the
plant was over the rod, and the delightful
experimenter was relating the circum-
stances to party of friends, when mis-
chievous brother exclaimed that he had
surreptitiously pushed the rod in the dirt
half inch a day, and the actual height OF
the plant was the same as before.
"A Mr.. Roberts and two others were
out hunting buffaloes in Texas. 1t was
agreed that if either of them should go
out of camp at night he would let the
others know A mule became entangled
in a rope one night, and one of the par
ty, forgetting the agreement, went out to
see about it, without apprising the 9th
ers. Roberts, hearing the noise, went out
toward him. He took him TO be an In
dian after the stock, and fired at him with
fatal effect.
A fine gray Australian parrot, owned
by Mr. Feek, of the Queens Hotel,
Guelph, had almost killed itself by pick
| ing a hole in its crop and eating the
seeds which it had swallowed DYer again.
DR.. Thomas, veterinary surgeon was sent
| for to see if he could not do something to
prevent the bird destroying itself. He
| stitched up the wound with silver wire,
and cut off part of the birds beak,
and afterwards placed a collar around
| his neck to prevent the crop being reached
or irritated By the parrot in again at
| tempting to open the wound.-I oTorto
Globe.
Some months ago, Mr. j. SkiGmore
Higbie, of Springfield, Long Island, put
ninety dollars in greenbacks carefully
| away in closet where his wife kept her
| mince- pies. When he looked for the
money, some time afterward, it was gone,
and he gave it up for lost, after fruitless
search, supposing that some thief had
stolen it. When his wife took the last
mince-pie from the upper shelf, however,
she was surprised TO find mouse's nest
in the middle of it, and still further sur
prised to find that it was made of the
missing greenbacks, which had been torn
into pieces so small that not single bill
could be properly reconstructed. MIR.
Higbie does not suffer any loss, however,
as an influential friend has obtained from
the Treasury Department the full amount
of the money-N Y. Herald. CO
"A few weeks since, two boys, aged
respectively three and five years, belong
ing to family named Mckenzie, living
at Green Harbor, about three miles from
Lockport, were playing at the back OF
the house, when suddenly it seemed to
them to grow dark, and, looking up, they
saw tremendous eagle, with wings set
and claws extended, almost in the very
act Of setting them into the smaller boy.
The elder comprehended the danger at
glance, and gave a terrific scream, which
alarmed the eagle and brought the family
at once to the rescue. They say, as far as
they can Judge, that the bird must have
measured at least ten feet from tip to tip,
and would have had no difficulty in lift
ing the boy. 1t was certainly a narrow
escape. The same eagle, no doubt, has
been discovered soaring above and about
the premises.-Halifar N. s. Chronicle.
a NOVELTY from Paris is a crepe lisse
tie, embroidered and having scollops at
the edge, bordered most effectively with
very small peacock's feathers, which
form a pleasing contrast with the dead
white Of the rest OF the scarf.