Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-12
Personal and ImDerSOnal


The ties that bind-adyertise.
Nelson has sailed for Europe.
LOngfellow summers at Nahant.
Free of charge-an empty gun.
The army worm is an Ohio man.
The lemon has tight squeeze this
weather
Snow fell on Mount Washington yes
terday
Sothern is getting worse and his case
Is not critical
The Scandinavian population of Min
nesota is S,056.
Dundee ships about fifty cans of but
termilk daily to Chicago.
Mr.. Proctor is lecturing in Australia
to large audiences.
The fugitive President Prado, of Peru.
IS at Newport, r. |.
Mr.. Beecher delivers eighteen lee
lures during his vacation.
A. III. Stephens is reported to be now
n better health than for years past.
The organized volunteer force of Eng
land now numbers 100000 men.
Parliament, it is thought, will not be
prorogued until the end of August
Sailors always have hard time of it.
They are always in a mess.
Advice of the sail-boat to the anna
teur yachtsman-Luff me little huff me
long.
The Hon. William F. Reynolds, of
Lafayette, Ind, is reported to be dy-
ing.
The pants of dog are thickened in
hot weather, while those of a man grow
thinner.
Tanners fast is not original. The old
gentleman, Noah, lived forty days ON
water.
Great preparations are being made in
| Germany for the autumn maneuvers of
the army.
An old thermometer is never very
popular. Nobody wants to see Their
mometer over 20
A Saratoga gambler confesses that he
has not made cent "since honest old
John Morrissey died"
General Bourbaki has entered the
Greek service and is to be chief-Of-staff
of the army.
London Truth hears that General
Grant cOntemplates another trip to Eu-
rope.
DR.. Lyon Playfair sails from Liver
pool for the United States on the 18th
of August
The Marquis of Ri pom has issued an
| order abOlishing official work on Sun
days in India.
Tramps in many places are milking
the farmers COWS to gain their susten-
ance'
Mr.. Sturgeon has bought for himself
a nice house, surrounded by extensive
grounds.
President Diaz has appointed Ro-
man Catholic priest as Judge Of the
supreme court of Mexico.
Chancellor O'Hagan, of Ireland, is the
first Catholic who has held that position
since the days of Queen Elizabeth.
Cetewayo is said to have shown
special pleasure in greeting his old an
tagonist," Sir Evelyn Wood.
Senator Blaine's youngest daughter,
Miss Hattie, has a pet pony, which she
has named Don Cameron.
There are about $4,000 distinct chart
| table foundations in London in connec-
ton with the city parishes.
A high board fence, locust tree and
twenty-three beer tables make q grove
anywhere within thirty miles of city
Sir Charles Ellice will, it is said in
London, next month, succeed Sir John
| Mitchell as commander of the forces in
| Ireland
Anna Dickinson is working OH play
for Fanny Davenport.
An exchange speaks of corn that grew
four inches in one day. This may be
true, but the corn was probably on St.
Louis girls toe.
Any man of public spirit is supposed
to be perfectly willing to lie about the
population Of any town he has lived
three weeks in.
We are panied to learn from the RO-
chester Express that church choir in
that city has been singing "Shoot the
Glad Tidings"
1t has been discovered that burning
the bung-hole of kerosene barrel with
Il red-hOt poker will cause the barrel to
disappear.
Saints and sinners often get mixed.
| Colonel Robert G. mgersoll and Bishop
Mcmahon, of Connecticut, are stopping
in the same hotel in Newport.
The Golden Club has no headquar-
| ters of its own Its chief business is to
| disseminate free-trade doctrines and
dine once a year.
A Berlin dispatch says: Prince Bis
marck will go to Gastien after his visit
to Kissingen, ard is not expected in Ber-
lin again before Christmas"
Gen Stewart /. Woodford and wife
are testing the pleasure of "The Adven-
ures ola Phaton." They are travelling
through Massachusetts III a carriage.
When governor and Mrs Stanford,
of California, went to see ''The
Danites,' in London, one night, Mrs.
Stanford is said to have worn 100000
worth &C diamonds.
After DR.. Tanner gets through, it will
be in order for some member of the
other and more conversational sex to
hire hall and ADVERTISE her intention
to go a month without speaking
''Dr. Tanners experiment" says the
Taunton Gazette lis not new. 1t has
been tried hundreds of times by the
guilible editor VINO wishes to publish a
four-page paper n one-page town."
A memorial Window to Sir Walter
Raleigh is about % be erected in Canon