Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
The ties which bind Fashion tnTro

his own yeast. - : =. -
The first of April: the day we sell a
brat-or conversely.
The expense of the Centennial to the
british Government was $3.50. -
When are bracelets like soldiers
When they ground arms. 80
"A very malignant type of measles is
prevailing In the Cherokee Nation.
+ -Pnnch defines a woman as a crea.
ture endowed with seif-ornamental in
stinct. -a s-
-nr tssouII oreis d rsa-.-ard of $4,000
Tor the discovery of a specific for hog
cholera.
"A Jerseyman has wife whose name
IS Betsey, and he always addresses her as
You Bet" 80 =
The Canada thistle is being acclimated
on the Pacific coast. This'1l make the
farmers swear. ,zs;e=zsaa
1t is no longer the bully boy with the
glass eye, but the bovine gentleman with
the crockery optic. .--i-as
- g Wot's hall this Hamerican beef
coming over ere for, hanyway g'' inquiries
the Sheffield butcher
If prison eonvicts are allowed anv
amusement, the New Orleans Republscan
thinks they would prefer skipping the
rope.
:" Crayon portraits warranted to give
satisfaction, by a. Dalber," is the aiIur
Ing sign of an artist on Broadway, New
York
We should feel for the Door in onr
pocket as well as in our heart, but the
pocket referred to is not where the hand
kerchief is carried.-Dan6ury News.
Talk about your blue glass cure! One
OF our subscribers writes: 81 have lust
locke over file of the Bulletin for
weak back.''-PhsIadelpisia Bulletin.
Mrs. Jackson, of Boston, spends her
time in collecting money with which to
redeem articles pawned by poor people
IN that city during the past hard winter.
r Somebody having remarked that
great many people were out of doors YES
terday, Lavender wanted to know WHY
they didn't go to door factory and buy
some.
"A New York paper believes that the
boy who wants to run away from home
should be allowed to shoulder his bundle
and get right along. He will come home
a better boy
"A few minutes before being shot the
Mormon Lee was requested by photog. |
rapher to ''pleaSe assume pleasant
look" This world is prone to ask a great
deal of a man.
Olive Logan says she'd like to be an
Engllshman's wife and have him ask her |
to t., bring him his boots She'd make him
Detroit Free Press. -'icE me mouse =
The newest style Of fancy shirts for
gentlemen are made of white linen.
double breasted, ornanonted with a fine
lire of red, blue, or Gown, and with COZ col,
lars trimmed to mattel
The rich young nen who didn't learn /
trades ten years ago ecanse their fathers
were independent are now in New
YORK sitting on baswood shovels and +
waiting tor snoW-b0k 10 draw on.-N
Graphic.
"A young lady in Boston recently rot
up a handsome subscription for a letter.
carrier and then mrried him. She'll
make an amazinglyyood wife if he can
keep her out of te canvassingfor-a-
church society busins.-St. Louis Re.
publican.
Tradition says tit years ago. when
the headwaters OF the Chesapeake I
swarmed with wild fwl, the hands EN-.
pioyed at an, iron forg at Havre de Grace
once upon a time refled to work because !
they were fed on cana~back ducks in
stead of bacon
A New Jersey mn srgued his own {
case before jury, an nos knowing much
about law-books, quot from Bret Harte,s
works instead: The suit was gratify-
ing success, his argurnt being the means I
of cutting down the laims asainst hin, bim e
from $51 to 1886. r
Chicago is not dy the first CITY on v
the continent IN polntf pigs, but it is un- =
in the orighlity and interest of II
its mdrders. New Yk has updoubtedIv n
produced several goot substantial, work =
man-like murders, bu they have lacked {,
the brilliancy Of CHICO erimes.-NFY q Z
-for the child OF me is waiting still "
A crown and soter bright o,
But their beauty will de like the morn. q,
ing dew in the preses of the silver ii
plated certlfcate that hIawn up for the A
man who can sleep In boiled shirt and hi
get up in the morninwith the boson, w
looking as well as it dit ight.-Fulton W
IN. p Times. ''0'' be m
"A resident of Aterdam, N. Y. CO
made bet on the lateresidentiai elec, th
uon with another citi7, which he lost. is
and then sued the stehoider for his sn
money, fifteen dollaraeposited in his eli
hands. The case was t to a iurv. who its
found verdict for theaintiff, F. Oar. / fo
gen, for the amount 81 for; that the fe,
plaintiff be banished fn the town. and dr.
that all persons be Feby cautioned tai
against negotiating withe said P. Oar CO.
gen, as he is a squealend unworthy of ma
The verdi~as signed nv all in
he jury. asa 90 s. - II thu
An examination one cables of tbe ma
Niagara Suspension Br'e has been made. sec
md some of the weak nts in the struct, is
Ire have been reveals The cables at nal
,ach end of the bridgefore they are an swt
,hored in the pit, are Fided into seven | alt
strands, each strand nbering $50 wires. pa1
md terminating i'll ollar,h which is tina
astened to the anchoir. On examin- get
ng these strands it waOund that nine of ely
he wires ON the unbide of the COL the
ar" had corroded anarted These, it pvt
S said, can easily be raced by splicing. He
)ne piece of the coIed wire. aboIt 197
hree feet in length, been removed. arr
md it was found calle of SUSTAINING Eel
$50 pounds, and DIR down to half its It Y
ize before parting. he of the wires tint
N the bridge have asst shown anv ten. bro
lency to elongation, aKhen weight is savi
emoved from the bfid return to their tbe
formal condition witlh natural sprinp.
3 oz Heavy Sales. Yor
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