Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

names to get him home, but wait till
he drops into the house-be there
| then.
Great Certificate Dear Doctor. [
| Will be It's years old next October.
| For ninety-four years [ have been an
invalid unable to move except when
stirred with lever. But year ago
| last Thursday [ heard of the 'Sirup.'
[ bought bottle, smelt the cork, and
! found myself a new man. can now
run twelve miles and half an hour,
and throw nineteen somersets without
stopping"
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the
| Washington woman-lawyer, declares
| that the recent order suspending her
| from the privileges of the Pension Bu-
reau was the work of malice, and that
the secretary of the treasury, satisfied
of the fact, has recalled the order of
suspension.
A new taste in men and women
She: what a fne-looking man Mr..
O'Brien isl' He: III H'm-hah-rather
rough-hewn, think Can't say that
l admire that loud-laughing, strong
voiced, robust kind of man. Now,
that's a fne-looking woman he's talk
ing tor She: weller somewhat
effeminate, you know. Confess L
don't admire efeminate women!'
Mr.. Chamberlain proposes to in
troduce in the British Parliament dur
ing the forthcoming session measure
providing that vessels and cargoes
shall not be insured for their full
Ixvo lr1n &c h+ ~
stop to overlooking and the employ
ment of unseaworthy crafts, and thus
tend to.diminish henumber of casual
ties and the losses of life at sea.
Ethel: II can't see what Maud can
see in that ungainly, awkward Capt.
Heavitree Madge: my dear it's
becoming perfectly absurd. Only
think, the gardner told the cook yes
terday that he hoped the Captain
would stay for another fortnight, for
positively there was no necessity to
roll the gravel walks while they kept
perpetually promenading up and
down?"
| When Adam from his sleep awoke,
radiant creature met his eyes,
Whose beauty on his vision broke
AS breaks the morn meath trOpc skies,
With wonder Adam stood transfxed-
| Another day had just begun
| She crossed his vision just betwixt
The dawn and rising of the sun.
'TiS Morn said he lin human gISe:
Fair Morn, my homage pray receive" "
The vision blushed, cast down her eyes,
And said: Il am not Morn, but Eve"
A buttOnwoOd that was a vigorous
tree during the Revolution, still
stands on the farm of George Sanger,
Canterbury, Conn. 1t is 70 feet high,
the trunk measuring 16 feet in cir
cumference two feet from the ground,
and is the same size around, twenty
five feet above, where the branches
first project.
Murphy heard COWS in his orchard
the other night, and, slipping out the
back way, appeared suddenly near the
front steps and yelled; "He-ah Tigel
Heah Hge! He-ah!" Just then
figure rushed past, cleared two fences,
and vanished in the gloom. ''Take
'em! take em!" screamed the old
man; but his daughter Miranda, who
had unaccountably appeared on the
scene, secured the dog by the collar
and refused to let go. "What ye
dOin'?" yelled the old man. don't
We know them COWS has been in here
three or four times?" ooh, pap was
the answer, "but this was only a
calf" The old man was pacifed, but
AdOlphus, who was standing out in
the road waiting developments, wasn't
and Miranda will never understand
the cOldness that has sprung up be-
tween them.