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Show 1VISCOXSIX. Devil's lake is leaking out its waters. Appleton woolen milis employ 150 girls. O-hltojh aad Plattcville havo scarlet fever. Green Bay is oheerful over a new cemetery. La Crosse has lost her sawrdut payp ments by the winds. t Watertown hasn't potatoes enough for home consumption. The mutton phobia still animates the 'dogs of Grant county. Grantshurg, a Swede settlement, has imall-pox unanimously. The Northern Pacific paid out $40,-000 $40,-000 in Brainard last week. Nothing but flat-boats, laden with cranberries, float on the Fox river. They are busy digging a ship canal to connect Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Mi-chigan. A Janesville cow reflects doubt upon her ancestry by having the horse disease. dis-ease. The attempt to catch boars with a ' 8prinfr-gun on Sunday last week killed Mr. Hunt, of Black Creek. About Mantorville but very little winter wheat has been sown, as tie crop was a failure last season. About Tomah, this fall, four wild oats hayo been peremptorily tamed. The last one weighed twenty-seven pounds. The assessment roll of Freedom was lately destroyed by fire. That town will take up a collection for its expenses. ex-penses. Some unregenerate animals about Two Rivers recently stole the bibles and damaged the furniture of . the German church. "Goin1 wages" inTrempeloau county coun-ty for boy-whackers and girl hugger?, sometimes oalled school-masters, are $40 per month. Rev. Cowp aod wife, of Waukesha, celebrated their silver wedding last ' week. Who says preaohing isn't a. money-making business? The masters and boys of Beloit col-, col-, lege arc pulling hair over tho school publication. The boys are ahead as ! usuai, and correct their own proofs. Mrs. Colby receives $750 from Beaver Beav-er Dam for tho fun of falliog through . its sidewalk. She might make the , thing profitable if rightly managed. The dogs of Blake's prairie are down . on mutton. Within a few weeks th;y havo slaughtered not less than 150 sheep for the farmers of that vicinity. Two sisters of Beloit have recently , received $28,000 apiece by bequest in the will of a departed relative. That much makes them marriageable. Milwaukee, having resolved to lifl her light from under the bushel, has ordered the erection of one moro lamppost. lamp-post. It will be completed by spring. A musket ball, after seven years of vain exploration for a permanent residence resi-dence Jot in tho brain of captaiD Laoren, of New Holstein, recently walked out of bis ear. An old man named Jones, at Keit, last week, was ohaeing a hen on a haymow, hay-mow, when he foil to the floor and was killed. Moral. Old men should never ohase young hons in the vicinity of haymows. |
