Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
IN \ NUT SHELL.
Lawn order-Keep off the grass.
Now, shoot the prairie chicken.

Lawn order-keep off the grass.
Now, shoot the prairie chicken.
The midnight hush Soothing syrup.
Eternal watering is the price of a
green lawn.
The picnic season is subsiding- tired
| out as 1t were.
Jefferson, the actor, is investing in
short horn cattle.
The Empress of Austria is said to be
Il skiful fencer.
4 mosquito always settles before he
presents his bill.
The genrl adopshn of fonetic speln
wuf nok Josh Billings hirn kite
Lace mitts to match costumes are
worn for evening.
Isle thread gloves are the favorites
| for summer wear.
Large lace butterfly bows are seen on
| imported toilets
Speaker Randall is i'll at his country
home, IN Chester county, PIT.
An ounce of conviction is worth a
pound of concern.
One day is worth three to him who
does everything in order
Handkerchief bows for the throat
have gingham-like borders.
Zones pointed back and front are
again worn with dressy toilets.
Just now it is the left side of the
neck that the bouquet is fixed.
Buttons on boots worn with fancy
costumes match those on the suit.
Very small bonnets, worn on the back
OF the head are again III vogue.
Maggie Mitchell gives recitations
parties at her Long Branch residence.
The fashion of wearing flowers,
either natural or artificial, never goes
out.
Countess Mojeska, the great actress,
is not coming to America this year.
Queen Victoria has tabooed bangs
and fringes of hair on the forehead.
Lace covers to fine carriage sun
shades remain in vogue season after
season.
Cords will play an important part in
the trimming of dresses and wraps
this fall.
The Goodell family had its annual
gathering, the 18th, at Lake Maespaug
Conn.
The only way to hang murderer in
Texas Is to charge him with stealing Il
s. mule.
The girls fiirt more during the hot
weather, and so also do the cows
tails
Evening dresses are worn at the mo-
ment in Paris with high necks and
short sleeves.
1t is again fashionable to wear the
hair in coils, in which strings of pearls
are twisted.
He is not only idle who does moth
ing, but he is idle who might be better
employed.
The youth who thinks the world his
oyster, and opens it forthwith, finds no
pearl therein.
Many very charming bows for the
neck are arranged with painted muslin
mixed with lace.
Thomas Carlyle will be 80 years old
next December. He can no longer
read or write.
1t is complained that loafers and
tramps are taking possession of New
York Central Park.
The San FranciscOans are anxious to
have Brother Moody to visit them
again. They need him.
Rev. w. H. Milburn, better known
as ''the blind preacher" is lecturing at
San Francisco.
The reports of DR.. Tanners stomach
and its achievements are becoming a
disgusting bore.
New reticules to match dresses are
richly trimmed with gathered lace,
cord and tassels.
Asparagus ice-cream, with rum
sauce, was feature of Il recent Sar-
atoga bill of fare.
Sir Walter Raleigh is to have a
memorial wind W in St. Margaret's,
Westminster London.
Professor Swing writes that the old
intellectual giants of Boston have de-
generated into "ittle parlor essayists."
Manhattan Beach has dlsWashlng
machine which does the work Of ten
women, except the breaking of crock
cry.
A young man of society out max
ing call may wear two watches and
yet not know when it is time to go
home
In the first place, according to
Ccio,,oo IN, rFonnor cnI1l1n't do If Now
that he has done it it's of no conse-
quence.
DR.: Bulls Baby Syrup is in good de-
mand: evarvbodv sneaks we'll of II Tho