Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-07
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New York Mail.
\ ccrner in cereals this fall ought
to result in a boom in farms next
spring Inquirer.
1t makes the average man feel rather
cheerful TO discover that last years
! overcoat is good for another winter
Washington Post.
When a good jockey can earn $50
600 year, it is strange that so many
light-weights try to get into Congress
Washington Post.
As the chorus girl season is coming
on we may begin to look for the dis
tribution of some swollen fortunes
Philadelphia Press
While the President was enjoying
| deer meat in camp, the rest of us were
growing about the dear meat at home.
Washington Post
Salesgirls in Pittsburg have been for
hidden TO wear pompadours. Was not
life in Pittsburg hard enough before?
Philadelphia Inquirer.
All kinds of food are getting so
high in price that cOrned beef and cab
DaSe will soon rise to aristocratic rank
on the menu.-Philadelph Inquirer.
After Miss Gladys Vanderbilt be-
comes the Countess Szechenyi she will
always remind her friends of an incur
able case of hay fever-W ashington
Post
While Paris doctor may. as he as
serts, cure cancer in thirty minutes, so
important a process ought to be worth
at least an hours time.-Philadelph
Ledger
With the price of pie up, the cost of
| Indigestion is again advanced. If this
continues it will soon be so that no
Tribune.
In New England the price Of pie has
advanced 20 per cent. The manufac-
turers must have felt that they have
been mincing matters too long-Wash-
ington Post
The Norwegian explorer who pur-
poses to reach the North Pole with a
team of polar bears would draw a big
ger crowd if he drove up Broadway
New York World,
1t is reported that 10000 pounds of
prunes have been ordered for victual-
ing the Pacific fleet. That ought to
make the men feel like fighting
Washington Post.
Pastor Akcd, recently brought over
from England to New York, says the
story of Jonah is fiction. Then the
nature faker is no modern CREATION
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Russian opinion that war be-
tween the United States and Japan is
inevitable arises, doubtless, from not
unnatural desire to see Japan licked
Philadelphia Ledger.
Women's hats, the experts tell us,
are now the same as they were a hun
dred years ago. That is doubtless the
reason why they seem to be looking
backward.-New York Tribune
Now somebody else is going to glad
den the hearts of mankind by making
a dash for the North Pole" Can't the
North Pole be abolished b information
al agreement?-NewY YORK Sun.
A new opponent of rural free deliv-
cry has arisen. The postmaster at
Mount Carmel, Conn, has become tired
of distributing mail on a daily wage
of 10 cents.-New York Tribune.
A large steel plant has been located
in China, and that country is destined
to discover that for ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain, large steel
plant is Washington Post
Doctors who plead guilty to Prof.
Osler's charges that they smoke too
much may allege that they compound
for their own indulgence by forbidding
it in their patients.-New York World
Hunting the North Pole seems to
have become a popular game. Under
the rules of 1906 and 1907 it seems to
be much safer than football automo.
billing or aerial vigation.-New York
Sun.
The Baltimore Sun says some vaude-
vile artists are paid so Il minute
We have seen some that made us feel
that we were earning that much by
watching their performance.-Was
ingtOn Post
If the reduction in steamship rates
goes much further the competing COM
panies will offer not only to carry pas
sengers without charge, but even to
give them handsome bonuses.-New
York Tribune.
Uncle Sam is gathering crops worth
$7,000,000,0OO. That means about $50
worth Of farm produce for every in
habitant. As a producer of real wealth
the farmer is still in a class by him
Press.
Captain Amundsen announces that
he is having six polar bear teams
trained for dash to the North Pole
in 1910. Matched against the Wellman
airship, an Arctic race between the tor
toise and the hare seems to be prom
ised.-New York Sun.
Some Of those people who are doing
50 much kicking about the Irish girls
face Oh the new gold coins probably
wouldn't get hold Of one often enough
to recognize the lady, and wouldn't
have it long enough to commit her
looks 10 memOry.-Washingto Post.
The telegraphers' strike, begun in
haste. is now ending in determinations
and discOrd. The strike is two
edged weapon, which no organization
should unsheathe lightly and thought
lessly. Unless public opinion sustains
il such a move is always little less
than suicidal.-New York Tribune
John Bull figures out that his coun.
try has been successful in 80 per cent
of the battles in which it has engaged.
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