Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-25
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than $500 or 81 600.
Miss Mary Wilson, of LightviIIe.
H., had her fortune told by gypsy.
and when she found how muck
/ trouble was IN store for her Jumped
into cistern and drowned herself.
The city vaccinator az Montreal has
been sued Ter $4,000 damages for
causing the death of two children By
using impure vaccine. The official
alleges that the children died from
measles
''A man who went TO a skating rinE
few days ago fell and was picked uR
senseless, says an exchange. Well,
what of II? You didn't expect the
! fall would knock sense into him, did
you?
Miss Addie Kurt is deputy sheriff
Of franklin county, Pa, and accom-
panied by male deputy took
prisoner convicted Of mahslaughter ta
Jail few days ago. She is the onlY
female deputy sheriff in the state.
The fourteen-year locusts are no<
altogether an unmitigated evil. The
squirrels fatten on them; the hens lay
eggs so fast while they are in existence
that the shells do not form with sui
ticlent thickness to preserve them,
and old trees are pruned with nicely
and precision.
The difference between an imits.
ton and genuine amethyst can be
easily distinguished Just pat them
on your tongue alternately, and you
will find that the spurious feels warm
and the geuine icy TO the touch. The
stone which has had the greatest run
of late is tiger eye, which has pecu-
liar, dull fire. 1t is only a piece Of
petrifed wood, turned, smoothed and
polished.
II would like to go on your paper.
the graduate said, sitting down and
looking the editor firmly In the eye.
replied, gladly, you are the man L
have been looking for, 10, these six
weeks" And with nervous haste he
filed up note for 1925. "There,
he said, put your name right there,
just under mine, and we'll 60 out TO-
morrow morning ard flow In the
coupons at the paper mill"
| Two years ago several large iron
spikes were for some purpose driven
into a very old apple tree near Clyde,
n Y, that for years had been nearly
barren. Last year it was filed with
large, fine apples, and now the boss
SONS are plentiful enough TO warrant
a good supply of fruit. The owner
believes that the spikes restored to the
tree It's original prolific qualities. He
is now trying the experiment on
other trees IN the orchard.
President Webb, of Mississippi
college. was interviewed by young
man who wanted to go to school.
Well" said the president, "what do
you know?" Nothing" was the
response. "WelI, you are just four
years ahead OF some of tRe other
pupils. It takes them four years to
learn what you know to start with.
Your prospects are fine, SIR"
People with very large noses may
be interested to learn that an English
doctor claims to have discovered q
method of reducing that organ. The
process, which he calls multiple
punctiform searificatfon, consists In
rapidly pricking the nose with a num-
Der Of minute double egded steel
blades fixed in a handle. From soc
to 5000 punctures are made at a
sitting, and the operation is perform
ed every week or two for some
months; meanwhile the organ is kept
well annolnteG. At first sight the
operation does not seem attractive,
but the doctor says it lis not pain