Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30

Wales has taken to it.
Selling whisky from the rear end of
bogus emigrant wagon is a new in
dustry in prohibitory Iowa
Curled maple is only sn accidental
form of sugar maple, IN which the
grain is beautifully contorted. This
form is highly priced by cabinet max
ers, and 81, 900 has been given for
single tree.
Peanuts never were so cheap as they
now arc, the price per pound being
from 81 cents to cents. Last year
prices were high, and the result was a
heavily increased acreage and an
Overlooking crop.
A cycle of Opponents and one or
drowning casualties are sweeping
through the country. The only sure
safety is to keep out of love and off
the water.
Governor Patterson, of Pennsyl-
vania, has vetoed eighty bills 1t is
apprehended that the legislative gen>
tlemen Of Pennsylvania are not MAX
ing msch money this year.
They were going to ask w. B.
Brooks to become superintendent of
the Sunday>school at Gierbord Point.
Md, but before the committee got
around to it he was indicted for steal
ing twenty-five horses.
The typical baby walks in fortys
seven weeks, kisses in twelve months,
and jumps in twenty>seven months,
but it takes longer to perform these
operations with intention and success.
The typical mother, however, claims
that her infant accomplishes greater
feats in one-half the time.
Our national air of Yankee Doodle,
says Webster, was composed by Brit
ish officers, in ridicule of American
troops Yet ere long the last of the
| British army laid down its arms at
Yorktown while the same air was
played IN the ears of officers and men
A thrifty resident of Milford, Conn.,,
who is worth $4,000, walked ten
miles to Birmingham to receive his
July dividend ona Sc, 900 investment,
amounting to about $500. He said he
could not afford to hire team or pay
his fare on the cars.
One OF the celebrated protests
against selling slaves came from DR..
Gordon, of Massachusetts,, in 1776.
'1f God" he says, hath made of one
blood all races of men [ can see no
reason why black rather than white
man should be slave"
One of the most extensive orchards
IN this country is that of Robert
McKinsley, of Hudson, N. Y, whose
farm of 800 acres is entirely set to
apples, pears and cherries. The or
chard consists of about 33, 900 trees.
Most of the fruit is shipped to Eu-
rope.
Railway men declare that there is
no advantage in using rail heavier
than sixty five pounds to the yard, as
only so much can be worn from the
surface anyway, when the rail will
have to be replaced. 1t is even con-
tended that heavier rails make the
track too rigid.
Railway newspapers report that the
Monarch Parlor Sleeping Car Com
pany has a capital of SIS, 600, 900; that
it will construct and run cars designs
ed from a new invention, which is
said to be superior to anything now
in use, and that six cars have already
been placed in service.
Watermelon seed pools are the new
est style of gambling. Each player
puts in quarter, or any other sum
agreed npon, and makes his guess,
then the melon is cut and the seeds
are counted, and the best guesser takes
the pool Something over go seems
to be the average number.
A tailor named White, living near
Nuneaton, In England, recently plac-
ed a scarecrow in his garden to fright
en- the birds. A robin has, however,
built her nest in one of the pockets,
while tomtitt has utilized one of the
sleeves for the same purpose. Both
birds have reared their young.
A man at Bath, N. Y, entered an
old tannery to scare up rats with a
hoe handle. About 300 attacked him
and the doctors have given him six
weeks to rest in bed the gang inflicted
seventy-nine bites.
Philadelphia BARRIERS have been
compelled to close up their shops on
Sunday and! theywant to see the soda
water sellers also stopped. They hold
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cessity than glass of soda water.
The Mayor of Helena, M. T., is
barber, and, after enjoying shave
at his worshipful hands, visitor
went to 'tlook for an Alderman to
black my boots" for which disparagS
ing sarcasm he was hunted out of
town.
! The average property loss by each
fire in the United Statee last year was
81, 309. The heaviest average loss
was on ten rubber factories, 500, 727;
the lowest on 7,074 dwellings, 81 1896.
Hotels came neare st the average, $40,
with an average of 1879. On 728
saloons and retail liquor stores the
average loss was 81, 419.
A girl at Harvard, Miss Brown, of
the Annex, has led the entire college
in all its departments. She passed
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