Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-11-05
New Orleans have scarcely felt a change

breeze comes from the Gulf as l write this
quite as cool as from Lake Michigan requiI
ing plenty of flannel and heavy clothing
Indeed, we all wear the same clothing a
when at home with perfect comfort. TIL
stories about the q heats" we have heard s.
much of are all bosh, and Northern men Cal
| live anywhere in the Southern States, bu
| especially they can be quite as sure of healtl
and pleasant climate in Kentucky, Tennes
see and Northern Mississippi, as in any North
ern State, while the charms of profitable la
Dor at the close of the war will be far better
The frightful stories of yellow fever wer,
the raw heads and bloody bones" which
| slavery used because it wanted the country
and did not want Northern labor as a compel
itor. Men of the North, seeking new loca
tons will do well to heed this y.
Miscellaneous Items.
The editor of a Democratic paper il
| Nevada Territory acknowledges the defeat o
his party in his city very briefly. He says
eve met the enemy yesterday, and are ou
on parole this morning"
Folks are getting married in Boston at {
fearful rate. The city registrar issued TWEEN
ty-six licenses on Saturday, the biggest days
work ever done, except one. 1t is generally
understood that the coming winter is to be {
cold one.
= Victor Hugo is travelling in the Grand
Duchy of Baden with N. Hetzel, the son OF
his publisher. An enemy of railways and
conveyance by steam, coach and pair has
been hired by him to 60 to Germany.
A MEAN MAN.-The Lafayette Courier says
We know of 4 man in Lafayette, one Of the
stingest men in existence, who has got al
idea into his head that he will die before the
first of January next, and is now engaged in
wearing out all his good clothing for feal
they will fit his wife's next husband.
A Berlin professor finds that Europe
contains 272O00,O0 of inhabitants, Asia
100000, 900, Africa 80 ,OO0, 900, America 300
0OO,O and Polynesia 1900, OOO-total
!, 2S3, 100000. OF this little crown, about
81, 000, 900 die in each year, which is 81,
Il day, or 81 per minute.
"A strong-minded woman, up town, was
heard to remark, the other day, that she
would marry man who had plenty of money,
though he was so ugly she had to scream out
every time she looked at him.
A New York man, who had not been out
of the city for years, tainted away in the
pure air of the country. He was only resus-
citated by putting a dead fish to his nose,
when be slowly revived, eXclaiming 'That's
good-it smells like home"
On the occasion of a magic-lantern e1-
hibition, the scene of the children of Israel
crossing the Red Sea was given, and the small
children were asked if they could tell what it
represented One little fellow Immediately
sang out, Burnside crossing the Rappahan-
mock !"
= The late DR.. West having married a
very tall lady, whose name was Experience,
was asked his opinion Of matrimony to which
he replied that, .'by long Experience, he
lad found it to be a very comfortable thing"
THE WEDDING RMG.-A late philosopher
says-'Before PEOPLE take the leap through
the wedding ring, they should be quite GER
tain that the blanket of connubial content
ment is held tight on the other side"
- One day, little Molie, six years old, said
to her uncle, who was visiting at her fathers,
r = Harry, do you say your prayers to
God?" He alphabetically everybody
does who is good" ''No they DON'T" said
Molly, 'ior ma is good, and she always says
hers to CHAIR
= Little Charlie came to the table very
hungry, and he had his fork in a potato, and
the potato transferred to his plate before he
thought of the usual blessing. Looking up
to his father he says, "Pa, YOU talk to Heaven
while | mashes my potato" His hunger made
him wish to improve every moment.
= little boy once said to his aunt
" Aunty, I should think that Satan must be
an awful trouble to God" Gle must be
trouble enough, indeed, | should think" she
answered. 81 don't see how he came to turn
out SO, when there was no derHto pat him mp to
It,"
= A London professor lectured recently of
food. He handed round coffee, which was
pronounced excellent, then told the audience
that they had been RECALLED with q mixture Of
bullocks blood, chicory, sleeps liver dried,
and old co1fec-g rOuts. He gave them splen-
did porter, too, made of spirits of wine, gum
arabic and burnt sugar.
= A six-months' infant disturbed and irri-
tated an audience at Washington theatre
for an entire evening, and its parent at the
close added the appreciative consolation that
Hamlet was a h-ll Of play to charge fifty
cents for"
= They make paper of straw up at Niagara.
tured daily at Niagara Falls, for the New York
Tribune. The company are building large
storehouse for straw, just below the bridge, in
the "midst of the waters"
HIGH JINKs.-The Prince and Princess of
Wales were having ''high inks in Edinburgh.
At the public reception, "Ally" wore a grey
silk dress, trimmed with black lace Her head
dress consisted Of boquets of peoples, with
-I1,- 1,orI !, i
ted en- s1ate-that is sweetly
- The trunk of the celebrated "Shakns-
peare Oak" at Windsor. which was recently
blown down, is to be converted into orna-
mental furniture for the principal rooms of
Windsor Castle. The tree is supposed to have
been flOurishing three hundred years previous
to the reign of William the Conquerer, and
there is little doubt that it is the identical
tree alluded to in Shakespeare's 'Merry
Wives of Windsor" Some portions of the
trunk are nearly in a state of petrifcation.
BUTLER ON RIGHTS OF REBEL STATES
BosToN, Oct. %.
The State League of Massachusetts, has
elected Gen. B. F. Butler, Of Lowell and Mr..
Claif1n of Newton, Delegates at large to the
the National Union League, which meets at
Washington in December. Delegates from
each Congressional District were also chosen.
Gen. Butler addressed the meeting at
length, taking ground with those who believe
that the seeded states have annihilated
themselves as states, while the power Of the
General Government still remains active
over their territory. He opposed the posi-
ton of member of the Cabinet that rebel
commonwealth, by throwing down their arms
should be received into the Union with unim-
paired rights and with all their local institu-
lions.
His reasons for debating terms before all