Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-23
IN A NUT SHE'LL.

waist.
A man who opens oysters does things
by halves.
The oysters got into a stew as soon
as they arrived.
The Queen of Spain has a baby. and
it's a girl.
Mast, the caricaturist has made a
fortune Of $4,000 by his pencil.
4 st. Joseph policeman hit a drunk
ard on the head with a club and killed
him.
The Princes Louise says that she
doesn't dislike Canada, and intends
to return soon.
An actress travelling in the English
provinces claims to be a daughter OF
Edwin Forrest.
Acknowledgement Drum is now act
ing cold Probs," and the weather is
trying to beat him
The official representative of the
Greek government at Rome is Mr..
Papparigopoul.
Brother Moody says this republic will
go to pieces in fifty years unless we
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DIR. Anderson, of New York, who is
himself over so years old, is Thurlow
Weeds physician. Mr.. Weed is SO.
Rev. Robert Collyer is announced to
deliver the anniversary address at the
Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes will shortly
visit Mr.. G. W. Childs in Philadelphia,
and Will give lecture at the Academy
III that city.
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, in a
letter to Senator Eaton, Of Connecticut,
denies the report that he is suffering
from cancer on the tongue.
Hon. r. r. Hit, of Illinois, Secretary
Of Legation at Paris, has arrived in this
country, and is on his way hitherwa I'd
from Washington.
The Duke of Argyll begins in the
September number Of the Contemporary
Rerie,o a series of scientific papers on
''The Unity of Nature"
Among the fish of the United States,
the cod comes first III money value,
the salmon second, the mackerel third
and then the menhaden.
The advertisement of a hanged
Michigan murderer's death, says that
he ''died suddenl Y and unintentionally. d
Hans Won Bulow, the German pianist,
has had stroke of paralysis, at Ber-
lin. and lost the use of his right hand.
A romor says that after the winter
session of the United States Supreme
Court Justice Swayne, of Ohio, will
probably retire.
Ex-Governor Henry ID. Cook, of the
District of Columbia, is lying very i'll
at Fire Island, and it is feared that he
cannot recover.
a La Crosse minister prayed fol-
those ''whO are smitten with illness and
those who have gone fishing and also
those too lazy to dress for church.
Here lies our darling babe:
| He neither cries or hollers;
! lie lived just one and twenty days
And cost us forty dollars"
John A Cuthbert, of Mobile. Ala. is
102 years old, still practices law, and is
the oldest living ex-member of con
gress.
A man is astonishing the people OF
Milwaukee by walking on water. He
wears shoes resembling collins, and
goes three miles an honr at swinging
gait.
Sturgeon says that an Englishman
before starting on a foreign tour, orders
the most ridiculous suit of clothes that
it is possible for anybody to wear.
The parliament of Jersey, where
some of the French Jesuits have set
tied, is to be moved to expel them from
the island, under an unrepealed statute
of George ILL.,
Samuel B. Haldeman, professor o.
comparative philology, in Pennsylva-
mia university, died at his home il
Chickies, on Friday evening, aged IS.
The visit of Messrs. Sullivan and Gil
bert to this country, and the produc
ton of their new opera, will probably
be postponed until after New Year.
President Hayes and wife attended
religions services at the First Metho
dist church in San Francisco. The
house was packed with devotees.
A grocer presented bill to Gus
toner at Appleton Wis, and escaped
unhmt; but on the following day he
demanded instant payment, and was
shot dead where he stood
On Lord Plunket's property in Ire
land the "bulP' has been made Of put
ting up a notice to the effect that ''NC
poaching is permitted in these pre-
serves without the permission of the
owner"
Postmaster General Horace Maynard
is native of Westboro, Mass, and i
was not till after his graduation at Am
herst and his marriage that he went tC
live in Tennessee.
Lynn Brooks of Munclie, Ind, wa,
Tilted by his affianced bride because he
took another girl out riding. The pun
ishment was more than he could bear
and he committed suicide.
1t has at last been arranged thai the
post office in the Paris postal distric
are to undertake the business of depart
mental saving banks. The system has
long been in force in the provinces.
Twelve prisoners in the jail at De
catur, ILL.,, had almost effected their es
cape, when the wife ofthe sheriff seizeC
one by the throat, another by the arm
and screamed until her son came with
a gun.
Oar ain no use o tryin' to hide ye1
sins under fine clos, fo' de Lawd cal
see slick froo-broad CLOTH" said the
Rev. James Delavan, at a Kansas camp
meeting. Dan Kirby, a well-dresseC
gambler, construed the words as per
SOna1 insult oD6 .--bIoDoJ +lo ,lroo oh q,