Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-11-03

Fact, Fancy aud Fun.

IS when he has S0Glethl1g to say.
The most ince sscnt writer in the
world is he who is bound 10 Ad a line
w hatthroat is the best for a singer
10 reach high notes with? a soar
throat.
q When Shakespeare exclaimed, 90,
Wood divinem did he mean Wood
county?
may adore your wife, but You
will be surpassed in-loye when your
wife is Dora.
Many men Of high moral print.=
pies, and who would not gamble for the
world, will not refuse to take a Bet.
No man can be in two places at
the same time but Douglas has shown
that he can be two things in the same
place.
IT you respect yourself IS much as
you do others, YOU Will be as careful
to do nothing mean when alone, as in
company.
If some mems bodies were not
straighter than their minds, they would
be crooked enough to ride upon their
own backs.
"A tiirt is like lipper attached to
a hvdrant-evcry one is at liberty to
drink from it, but no one desires to
carry it away.
You may find it very difficult to
keep away from bad company, but
you needn't on that account throTs
yourself away.
.-F'I know by little, what great
deal MEANS" IS the gander said when
he saw the tip of fox's tail sticking out
Of a hollow tree.
We fear that the Towering Of re-
mantle love in the bosom of the boy
does not usually long stsrviye the bud
ding of the chm.
Too many Of our modern poets
sing Of little else than their own per-
sonal suferings. They mix their NAL
aides with their melodies.
APEAcEFUL NATIoN-A correspon-
dent of the Home Jo,umal, in a halls
years residence IN Japan, has never
seen a quarrel, even among children.
A lady being asked the place OF
her nativity, replied:
81 am SO unfortunate as to have no
native place; am the daughter of q
Methodist clergyman"
I Capt. Ericsson's admirable inven-
ton for setting in motion sewing ma
chimes without the aid of treadle, is
meeting with much favor. Compress
ed air furnishes the power used.
AN American traveller recently run
large invoice Of valuable cigars into
England by putting them into box,
under false bottom, with rattleanakes
on top. The officials did not Wish to
Investigate.
"A subscriber to moral reform.
paper called at the postotfice 4be other
day and asked if the Friend Of Vutec
had come. "Eo," replied the postmas-
ter, s"there has been 10 such person
here for long time"
An old soal,er in Boston being found
III the gutter Oil a rainy night, the Wa
ter making q clean breach over him
from head to heels, was asked by d
passer-by what he was doing there
"Oh," said he, II agreed to meet
man here"
Sammy, you little wheIp! didn't
l tell you to let that eats tail alone 90
said an angry father to his son who was
trying to elongate a cats narrative.
"Wel', old boss, what if You did .
It's old Browns cat, and I'll just yank
thu,ader out of it if I please y
Some years ago, it is said a party
was going in a stage coach through the
Jersey pines, and saw in the distance
what they supposed was the frame
work Of log house. On approaching
they found it was the skeleton Of a mus
queto which had starved to death, the
flesh having fallen from the bones.
a little faxen-haired four wears
old girl was looking at some PIGS the
other day, when she inquired Of one
older # God made pigs. She was told
hat he did. "WhY,"" said the LITTLE
larling, i shouldn't think he would
make pigs, when he has everything else
o nalse''
Cats are in demand at Fixes Peak.
Is mice are plenty, though rats are not
Known in that part Of the country.-
Cats sell at a high price. Indians are
laid to be fond Of them, and have been
Known to give three or four buffalo
klns, valued at four or five dollar.
zach, for single eat.