Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-08
THE BOYS WERE TOO SMART.
They Undertook to Lick Tramp and A re
in for Repairs
Dol oitE rnop

"a
in for Repairs.
Detroit Free Press.
A gray headed farmer and his son. a
young man Of 20, were looking for dem
fist yesterday, and the officer to whom
they applied for information inquired:
Has your boy toothache?'
''Wuss'n that replied the father
Jim, take the handkerchief off your
mouth.
jim did so, and there was a hole there
which had once been filled with SIX or
eight teeth.
clicked by horse?"
"Oh, no."
Have fall?'
mo. suppose might as well tell you,
though Jim feels little sneaky about it,
He was with three other boys yesterday,
and they halted tramp in the road and
tried to make him sing and dance
And he wouldn't?'
HE dldn't anyhow"
did jim oct it all p
LA, no! Jim got off light. He was
able to come to town, while the doctor had
to call on all the others. They got hold Of
a Tartar, they did, and I'm rather glad OF
it. They got the idea that they run the
whole country and could wollop anything
that growed. Come along, jim, and well
see about the law first. "
a LeveI-Headed Boy.
A boy about fifteen ears of age applied to
a factory on Atwater street for the
job of running small engine in the
place of a boy who had quit
Have you run an engine?" he was ask
Eyes, sir.
you understand how steam works, do
you
Il do"
You know that water makes steam,
don't you?''
COS course
How is water got in the boiler?''
"By the injector.
Suppose You have too much water?"
Then can t get enough steam until
draw it down"
Correct. Suppose you haven't
enough?"
Then look out FOR an explosion
Correct again. Suppose you found the
water almost gone and couldn't start the
would you do?"
Come up stairs and notify you to get
yN'oi pOlISlCS ouU VI bilC SdlC anu
take a sneak before she busted!'
GU seem to be ali right, young man;
you can come on in the morning"
The New Justice of the Supreme Court
Henry B. Brown of Detroit. sMich., who
is to succeed the late Justice Miller on the
United States supreme bench, will need an
Introduction to the American people
What is known about him, however, is
favorable to his standing and capacity. |
We assume that this is Judge Henry Bill |
lngs Brown, who was born at Lee Rerk- |
shire county, Massachusetts, March 2, 1886, |!
and was graduated at Yale in 1856-that |
famous class which gave US Depew and so |
many other brilliant names Young Brown |
studied law, settled III Michigan, and |
after practicing for few years was APP
pointed assistant United States district |
attorney, an Office which he held from 1868
until 1858. In the latter year lawyer
Brown was made circuit Judge of Wayne
county, and in 1875 he was appointed
United States district Judge. This posi-
ton he has filed with credit, and is much
in Michigan both as lawyer
and man. In his sympathies and culture
Judge Brown Is more cosmopolitan than
the bare facts of his career might argue.
He has made repeated visits to Europe
md has been an extensive and intelligent
traveller. In the line of professional work
lis Admiralty Reports published in
New York in 1875, will be recalled by
awyers. It is certainly in Judge Browns
:avor that he is of Massachusetts, birth.
out he does not appear to have been
specially identified with Lee. He did not
come to the front when that Berkshire
own celebrated her centennial in 1877. for
he names of both speakers and guests are
in tie memorial volume issueo
1T that time. Perhaps he is related to the
ate lawyer L. D. Brown of that town
Probably Justice Field. who was raised in