Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-08-29

derstand how it was.-Ne,o Hauea
Register.
Something to wear means this year
lat Saratoga three new dresses day
with hat to match, and nineteen costly
parasols.
Raking side combs are coming into
fashion with women, both old and
young. Then no longer rest on this
bosom, my own stricken dear =
The compositor who made it read.
" In the midst of life we are in debt"
wasn't so much out of the way.-Gn-
einnati Breakfast Table.
Does the cassowary belong to the fam
lily mammaha ?-GeniuS. In cassowary
future need of information of that sort
you mammalia inquiries to the Hamkeve
man. Yonkers Gazette.
Correspondents say that many of the
summer resorts are short of men this
season. Would'st know the wherefore?
The men are "short" themselves
NorristOlc1 Herald.
Seth Green says fish have no sense of
hearing and are not alarmed by noises.
We wish he would explain then how it
is that when a 10-year old boy falls
from the bridge into the creek, he
spolls the fishing in that vicinity for the
rest OF the day.-BurIington Hdaukeye.
"Talking about the jaws of death, -
exclaimed Fifth-ward man, whom one
of our reporters interviewed the other
day, who is living with his third scold-
| ing wife, 81 tell YOU they are nothing
to the Jaws of lifer,-SWacuse Journal.
Tourist (who wishes to make a
diversion from the track: "How far is
it from here to Ballinagar?n Irishman:
Sure, by the Peat Moore, it's niver a
step less than four miles there and
about six and a half miles back"
Fun.
a little fiveyear old daughter of one
of our prominent business men in of
fering up her evening PRAYER recently.
uttered the following: "God bless
mamma, bless papa, and make him
buy me dog-a great big one that'll
help me whip the devil out of all of
everybody"
Little Blivens, who lost his grandma
short time ago and who, in his childish
simplicity, believed that she had gone
away on a visit, repeatedly asked his
parents why they didn't hear from her
and why they didn't write to her. AT
last they showed him conclusively
wherein death consists, which kept him
quiet until the death of neighbor, a
United States mail-carrier, by the name
of Collins, whereupon young Blivens
triumphantly ran to his mother shout
ing, Ma! ma! you can write to grand
ma now, and send the letter by Mr..
Collins, can't you ?'-C5eUeldnG Plain
Dealer.
! He was young man of a scientific
turn Of mind, and it was his first out
with new girl. He remarked as be
cast his eyes heavenward and referred
to the glory of the skies: "Such stu
pendOus wonders are entirely incom-
prehensible: one becomes wrapt in
feelings of admiration, coupled with
awe, giving one a spiritual elevation, a
transmOgrification of earthly desires.
at mnst be the fumes from the fur
naces, broke in the young lady, they
often affect me in the same way. Pills
are good for the complaint" She was
all sympathy the remainder of the
walk, while he relapsed into gloomy
silence and bid her good night at the
gate without an attempt to renew the
conversation.-Eureka NeU.) Leader:
Birth poetry is the latest inf1iction
born to a suffering people. Now look
out for jingle after the following pat
! tern: