Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-12-09
SQUIBS.

one OF the institutions of Connecticut
this fall is the cider beat, who, pretend
ing to be out buying cider, sam eles the
farmers apple juice, gets invited to eat
dinner, says he'll call again, aud goes on
his dishonest way,
David Wright, colored citizen of Col
umola City, Fla, Is the father of twenty
hve children, most of whom are living
His present wife is worthy of her third
husband, for she has borne 81 children of
whom 10 live.
large and sound Missouri pumpkin
recently cut open, was found to be filled
with thrifty vines and leaves The seeds
had sprouted and sent out vines, though
there were no signs of decay, the meat be-
ing sound and sweet
Joe Demones, fifteen wears old. and
black, went down to the landing at Jeffea-
sonvllle, KY, to see q steamboat GO out.
AS he stood looking she blew her whistle
V1clously, and immediately the boy lost
the power of speech, and hasn't spoken
since.
TIE Great Western Glass Works at st.
Louis were closed down Friday, the man
ayers claiming that owing to the tipping
propensities of the men, the factory
could not be properly operated. The
workmen enter a denial and assert
strike was impending, due to the employ
ment of boys to do mems work.
A. HUNGERFoRD and Charles Bickle were
arrested Thursday by Government dstec-
tives at Holton, Kas., for counterfeiting.
Spurious half dollars, dies and other i'm
plements were seized.
A negro we'll digger in Lcesburg, Co.,
was alarmed at the disappearance of the
crowbar which he was using in the bot
tom of a well. An investigation showed
that thin crust of stone was between
him and pool of cold water 20 feet in
diameter.
The other day Michael O'Brein went to
the cemetery and spent some time attend
ing to a new lot that he had just bought.
Then he went down town and ordered
fine monument to be cut, inscribed, and
erected on the lot. Then he went home
and laughingly said to his wife: every
thing is ready now, If l get sick and die,
to be buried" In less than an hour he
was seized with congestion of the bowels,
and died at midnight.
Connecticut has plenty of aged per-
sons. The oldest man in Sterling is
good democrat. He is ninety one years
old. Miles Camp, of New Presto, is
ninety-six, and his wife ninety-fve. They
have been married seventy-one years, and
have lived seventy years on the same
farm. Marvin Smith, of Montvilie, was
one hundred and two years old the other
day. His wife is ninety years old, and a
son seventy-two
One of the heroines of a famous his
tor1cal escape from prison has just died
in Parasitic Caroness de Forget, former
ly Josephine de Lavalette, who helped to
rescue her father on the eve of his execu-
ton. Few episodes in French history are
more familiar than the pathetic story of
Nine. Lavalette Disgusting the condemned
Bonapartist in her own clothes, and send
ing him out OF the Couciergerie on the
arm of young Josephine, then a girl of ID.
In her nervousness Jose phine forgot her
instructions to keep on her fathers right,
so as to prevent the turnkey from handing
out the supposed Nine. LavaIette, and
thus ran great risk of the plan failing.
JOSEF hine nursed both her father and
mother until their death, and has now
followed them at the age of 50.