Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
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TO keep a man about the house 10 scare
away tramps.
1t is stated that Frederick Gebhardt
sailed for Europe about three weeks
ago, taking passage nnder an assumed
name, and that he is now In Paris with
his beloved Lilly"
1t was a trifiing circumstance
that clouded the domestic bliss of a
recently married Brooklyn couple =
she had corns, he hadn't a razor.
Eve must have had a good deal more
time in which to do her homework
than the average woman. She had no
looking glass to be running to every
half hour.
The daughter-in-law of Louisville
woman claims that her husbands
mother is the dearest old lady in the
land, because she always does up pre-
serves for her every season.
The Fargo Cd. t. Argus protests
that place is an archaeological city
of IL, 900 people, with twenty-eight
hotels, and that it must not fippantly
be called a village.
A woman who died in Lebanon,
Conn, few days ago, at the age
Of rs years, had lived with her
husband for So years on the place
where he was born and spent his
childhood
cit is not good for man to be
alone" was one of the notices with
which a committee of ladies deco
rated the Methodist Church at Gar
ner, Maine The preacher is a bach
elOr
Commissioner Mcfarland, of the
General Land Office, says that his
special agents report the discovery of
at least one fraudulent land entry
every day, and that he signs a revoca-
ton of an entry about as often.
A leper was carried to San Francis
co by the last steamer from Honolulu,
and the quarantine officer refuse to let
her land. A writ Of habeas corpus
has been sued out The sufferer is of
French descent, but a native of the
Sandwich Islands.
A respectable colored man in Wind
sor, Ontario, has raised a connection
among the equally respectable white
people of that conservative town by
insisting upon sending his child to the
white school instead of the colored
school. The negroes never had such
rights in Canada as they now enjoy in
many of the States in this Union.
A New Hampshire paper relates that
an elderly lady lately went visiting
from Weare to Hopkinton, in that
state, wearing a bonnet that was 10
years old, with Grape upon it that was
90 years old, and with veil that was
81 years old; and yet her head-dress
was not shabby to new Hampshire
eyes.
THE seventy-third anniversary of
Mexico independence was celebrated
with great pOlnp in the City of Mexi-
co Saturday. There was a procession
Of societies, schOol-children military,
alegorical lcars, etc, The procession
was four hours passing a given point
THE Young Mems Christian Associ
ton of Philadelphia has succeeded in
raising 5000, 900 to pay off its unfund-
ed debt Mr. John Wanamaker sub
scribed $50, 000 Mr.. George w. Childs
$1,000, James Talcott $4,000, an I'M
known friend $25, 900, another $40, 900.
and two others $1,000 each.
Among the passengers arriving at
New York on Sunday, in the steam
ship Nevada, was Mr.. L. n. Fowler,
the phrenologist, one of the founders
of the old house of Fowler & Wells.
He has been abroad travelling and
lecturing for nearly twenty-five
years.
A Minnesota man returned after
years of absence TO find his wife mar
Died to another. AS the present owner
declined to yield his claims, and the
doubly-wedded woman showed no de-
sire to return to her first love, he
promptly called on lawyer and ask
ed him to draw up quit-claim deed
IN favor of his successor.
well" observed a fourteen-year
old, knocking the ashes off his cigar
cite, and throwing down a printed
catalogue of a valuable private
library to be sold at public sale. y
well, he must have been a dry old
stick. Five thousand books in his
library, and not a single dime novel
NOOI1U LIZ ILLS VI p1A Ct0o cNfiAO1iS Gil
Enthusiastic professor of physics,
discussing the organic and inorganic
kingdom; 'Now, if [ should shut my
eyes--so-and drop my head so-and
should not move, you would say was
clod. But move, I leap, run;
then what do you call mel" Voise
from the rear: "a clod-hopper"
Glass IS dismissed
At a reception rendered General
Sherman in San Francisco, the other
day, he said in his bluff way, that
when he first knew the city, it was
the most forbidding, God-forsaken
place between Cape Horn and the
North Pole, and that he would not
have given 25 cents for the whole
place, or for the inhabitants eth
er.
Mrs. Tyler, the ex-President's wild
ow, is in Richmond. She enjoys the
distinction of BEING the only woman