Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-08-23
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Fact, Fancy and Fun.

II 'NiiI1S, i1S SNiiS 0itNiAi.
beg The. earth is often most refreshed
when it is s'under Il cloud.' ..
at first sight often leads to
marriage with the eyes shut. .-s
The safest and the commonest way
to steal is to buy and not pay.
We do not lose our children when
they die; but the living ones are often
lost. .-. . .. --. ......s
If you would know a man, mark
bis gait. Most men step to the tune of
their thoughts.
lie who has a good son-in-law has
found child; he who has q bad one
has lost a daughter. ........
Wives should know that tears. As
a means Of influence, are to be resery-
ed for great occasions. ... ......-.
Major General Sigel has presented
to Carl Schurz splendid new rcgrla-
ton saddle and bride. ...
-Poi.teness is not always sign of
wisdom, but the want of it is always a
strong symptom of folly. .....
The farmer is q conqueror who
wins victories upon important fields
at the point of the plow-share.
The excuses of youth are promis-
sorry notes at compound interest, paya-
BILE some thirty years after date.
Spinning wheels are said to be in
great demand in Maine-people are be-
ginning to think of cconomizinc.
Suicide is crime, but it would be
o less crime III jeff Davis than in al.
most any other man in the country.
The Mobile Register says that the
rebels 'Shave at least one comfort.''-
That's one more than they deserve.
Why is the first chicken of q brood
like the foremast of ship? Because
it's q little forward of the main hatch.
Almost every young lady is public
spirited enough to be willing to have
her fathers house used as q c02lyt hans.
The rebel confederacy and famine
are staring each other in the face. and
each has gaunt and pitiful face to
stare in.
Hope, with her anchor, makes n
pretty picture for mantel- piece. but
is all the prettier for the eatables in the
cupboard.
An Edlnburg paper states that an
American has invented machine
which is to be driven by the force Of
circumstances.
MANY married soldier, says Prem
tlce, goes through a campaign without
q scratch, and that's better than he
might do at home.
Is it i'll with thee in life? Initiate
the traveller who, amid the discomforts
of bad inn, reflects that he has only
to pass the night there.
Gen. Pope has announced that his
headquarters will be in his saddle
That's place better calculated for his
headquarters, we should think.
Many q poor sore-eyed student
would grow faster, intellectually and
physically, if, instead of sitting up so
late, he honestly slumbcred FOOLS al
loWance.
-"What stlngy fellows they must
be in New York." exclaimed a fine
country girl. ''Our Sally says she nev-
er could get buss without paving five
cents for it,
w hen the new stamp currency
gets fairly in vogue, the old phrase
'What's the price 90 will resolve itself
into another shape-"What'S the post.
age on that"
Any man who has the heart to talk
party politics in these times would be
mean enough to enter into n quarrel
with his family relatives, at his fathers
funeral, about the division of the old
mans property.
A German writer, Boerdes, COM
pares the different stages in the lives
of women to milk, butter, and cheese.
"a girl" he says, S'is ike milk, wo-
man like butter, an old maid like cheese
all three may be excellent in their
kind" -- -5 ..~
The beautiful Mrs. S. A. Douglas,
so well remembered as the Washington
leader of society, is now conspicuous
as a nurse at the douglas Hospital''
in Washington. AT the recent Com
mencement at Georgetown College.
silver medals were awarded to the two
sons Of her deceased husband Dudoe
Douglas; by his first wife. =