Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES THOUGHT.

The summer girl is already begin
ming to get ngaged.-Albany Press.
It's easy enough to tell Yale man
anywhere this year, but you can't tell
him much.-Boston Globe.
Yale seems to have selected Harvard
for it's own special pudding until
further nOtice-Chicago Record.
Few men are of less value to party
than those who indOrse its errors alike
with it's worthy aims. Chicago Times
Herald
There is a paper in Texas called
The Empty Bottle. 1t is supposed the
force take turns in filling it up with
good stuff. Albany Argus.
Judging from some of the games he
bags, we should say that Cupid must
do most of his hunting blindfolded.-
Chicago Times-Herald.
If New York drops her first syllable
and becomes simply York" why
should not Chicago drop two and be-
come Chicago Dispatch.
The logic of the situation will de-
mand a democratic victory in 1896.
All signs point to it now. The people
will be overwhelmingly for it next
year-Utica Observer.
That ''yague, unsatisied longing"
Which poets tell of can be easily sat
isfied at this season of the year at any
seaside hotel by a good fish dinner
Boston Globe.
The horse may be run off the track
by the electric car and the bicycle, but
it will not be so easy to supplant the
egg laying hen and the milk giving
cow by mechanical CONFERENCE.-The
ton Herald.
Plattls enemies will never get his
scalp until they bride his barber.-El-
mira Gazette. But the barber may be
bound to the boss on trade for city
office, and, therefore, would decline
the bride for mis- scalp.-Buffalo News.
The difference between Blaine in
1888 and some of the gentlemen who
now have the presidential bee i'm their
bonnet is that Blaine had to write two
letters and a cablegram ITO keep from
getting the nomination.-Aubu Ad-
vertiSer.
A Scotch paper says that Mary Ellen
Lease is one of those strange Ameri-
can men who write under a feminine
nom de plume. Time was when Mary
Ellen would have resented this impu-
tation on her sex, but she has her BIZ
cycle and her Syrian boomers now,
and her mind is too fully occupied to
itcoIf yUith =
Boston Herald.
Mr.. Justice Browns address before
the Yale law school promises to Oc-
cupy the first place in the long list OF
the commencement addresses this
year. 1t discusses some of the impor-
tant problems of the day in a clear
and cogent manner, and it will I'm.
doubtedly set people to thinking more
seriously about certain problems OF
government that have already en-.
gagged their attention.-Boston Herald
From early times great deal has
been said in joke about women wear
| ing the trousers. But it is a Joke nc
longer, for she now wears them. The
| bicycle has done it. Last evening q
young woman, arrayed IN a mans bl
cycle costume, rode through the streets
of Rochester. She wore a regulation
mans cutaway coat and close fitting
knee breeches. 1t is needless to OBJ
| serve that she was the observed of al
/ obsery Democrat.
Up and down the land it was urged
that the Mckinley bill should receive
! the support OF the people because i
would create a home market for oul
| produce: we should according to pro
! lection theories consume all our fooi
! products at home; the home narke
was to be the market of our depend
ence. Now that it is discovered tha
exports fell off during the years end
: ing June 80, 1S93-94, the falling off i