Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30
Breyity Budget.

Endeavor 10 be what you would APP
pear to be.
A rat IN a trap does not believe in
the early-closing movement.
Isn't It queer that contractors should
be employed to widen streets?
Gambetta, the French republican
leader, IS hunting in the provinces.
Truth will be uppermost some time
OF other, like cork, though kept down
in water. -
Henry ". Longfellow, the poet, has
returned from sHmmering at Nahant,
Mass. @--
Lords Dalhousie, Sandhurst and Thur
low have been gazetted LortS-in-Waiting
to Queen Victoria.
Where there is much pretension.
much has been borrowed; nature
never pretends. .-.--..
a St. Louis firm is building steam
boat for the exclusive use of its COM
mercial agents. -
Ingersoll says: you have got to
fight for everything that is good, and
the work is never done"
JOHNNY. Bend, the oldest book mer-
chant in Baltimore, died Tuesday, in
his 81st year.
General Grant will visit Boston on the
18th Of next month, and not on the 9th,
as previously announced.
John NJ. Mauger, of Pottstown, Pa,
who is 50 years of age, uses a razor
that has heen in the family 200 years.
They met they smiled, they wept, they loved,
He called her Jane, she called him Thomas
richer man rode down the lane
| And Tom brought suit for breach of promise.
The New Orleans Pjcayune thinks
that in this country professional beau
ties are crowded out by amateurs.
True friends visit us in prosperity
only when invited, but III adversely
they come without invention.-The0-
phrdstus.
This is the time of the harvest
moon," and the young man walks forth
with his young woman reaping rich
harvest Of-mOOnshine.
A recent visitor to Thomas Carlyle
was disguised at finding the venerable
sage engaged in killing rat with pO-
ker
Stanley Matthews is visiting at Con
cord, n. H., where he has a son in st.
Paul's school, with the boys of Garfield
and Evarts.
The London pilgrimage to Lourdes
is postponed Cardinal Manning has
expressed an opinion that it would be
liable to political Interpretation.
He who is false to the present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and Will
see the effect when the weaving Of life
time is unraveled
Mr.. Pierre Lorrillard generously pre-
scented the owners of Luke Blackburn
with s., 900 just to see the colt run.
Three british generals have fallen in
to disgrace because of recent failures
in Observation-Disclosures, Primrose and
Phayrc.
The Boston Transcript says: ct is
very much the same with secret socie-
ties as with silent men. They have
nothing worth divulging"
Rev Robert Collyer recently caught
by the tail at that, with a slip-noose.
The shark was awfully mad.
Anna Dickinson'S new comedy, can
American Cir" will be produced at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New Y Ork,
on the 29th of this month.
Owing to poaching by dynamite, the
River Eden, one of the finest trout
streams in Fifeshire, has been almost
totally ruined for angling purposes.
Those who, without knowing us,
think or speak evil of us, do us no
harm; but it is not us they attack, but
the phantom of their own imagination.
What folly it is to dread the
thought Of throwing away life at once,
and vet have no regard to throwing it
away by parcels and piecemeal.-
HoWe.
No newspaper must shoot the big
pumpkins at a state fair.-DetrOH Free
Press. Nor plug the soft squashes that
are negotiating in some of the news
paper garrets.
Those passionate persons who carry
their hearts in their mouths are rather
to be pitied than feared; their threat
enlngs serving no other purpose than
to forearm him that is threatened.
Turkish officers, long unable to get
| CClIG VI pay lIOiiI CllC olllIctlI, ttIC OIlC1-
ing their services to Greece. Whole
regiments are ready to desert on the
smallest encouragement.
Capt. Gerard de Nisme of the Royal
Irish Hussars was killed in India by
stone, dislodged by a goat on hillside,
striking him on the head when he was
taking his afternoon ride on horseback.
The first male child born in Louboun
county, Virginia, since General Han
cocks nomination is named Winfield
Scott Hancock TalliaferrO. This child's
parents are cOlored.
Rheumatic and paralytic Anglo
Americans go to Savoy, where there
are hot sulphor baths, saline waters and
gymnastic and electric apparatus. Patti,
who is rheumatic, goes there.
Cottage life at Newport has beenvery
extravagant this year, particularly IN
the matter of entertainments. One re-
ception cost $25, 700, on one dinner
$500 was expended, and Il picnic cost
$500.
Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt is to have in
his new house a splendid square block
of stone containing 1876 feet, which has
just been shipped from an Indiana
quarry.
Dr. Stanwood, who recently disap-
peared off the Maine coast at Bruins
wick, was principal of the Waterbury,
| Conn classical school, and his friends
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