Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-01-15
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
- Two lovers, like two armies, general
~ get along quietly until they are en-
gagged.
- Artemus Ward is getting up vol
1nteer company Of nine months womeni in
Baldinsvills.
Somebody has discovered that the
largest room In the world is the Groom
for Improvement
Noticing the beautiful hue which
spreads over a certain DANES cheeks.
Widdikins mutters, A real Lady of the
Lake."
- A little girl has made soldiers hos
Fltal shirt which is to be sent to Washing
ton, bearing the following inscription:
THE little fingers of Alice Heath, of
Bunker Hill, Charlestown. Mass, aged Al
years, sewed every stitch in this shirt.
She loves the soldiers"
cts all very pretty to talk" said
recently married old bachelor, who had
finished residing the Rev. DR.. Fields essay
On the Couture of Women" just as q
heavy milliner's bill was presented to him.
Its all very pretty this for bonnets is
rather heavy top dressing-in my judg-
ment"
- Gen. I. F. Meagher is laid up, in New
York city. with severe ulcer n the knee.
The Augusta Chronicle says that ma.
ny members of the Georgia House of
Representatives are shod with dog skin
leather.
"A city editor says that man in New
York got himself into trouble by marry
ing two wives. A Western editor assures
his contemporary that good many men in
Michigan have done the same thing by
only marrying one.
A gentleman had bad memory a
friend knowing this, lent him the same
book seven times over; and being asked
afterwards how he liked it, replied, 81 think
it an admirable production, but the author
sometimes repeats the same things"
- A little girl, who, like all other good
little girls, repeats her prayers nightly be-
| fore she goes to bed, had had her mind SO
| occupied with certain plaything during
the day and evening, that it mingled with
her customary evening devotons, so she
commenced thus Our father who art in
Heaven-mamma,w won't you give me
little horse9-Thy kingdom come-with d
string to t?'
Are you thinking of what I'm say
ing said poor music master to young
Miss A, after explaining to her at some
length, the difference between the major
and the minor key. why, sir, replied
Miss A, I've been thinking all this time
whether these keys were ivory or bone.'
A very remarkable talking automa.
tod is exciting the curiosity of the Paris
lans. 1t has been constructed by NJ Faber,
late Professor of Mathematics at German
university, and is stated to be by far the
most successful effort that has yet been
made to initiate the human voice. The
figure, which is that of woman, is exhib-
tied on the Boulevard Magenti.
"BLUNT. AT the interview with Gen.
erals Hindman and Marmaduke, after the
battle of Prairie Grove, Blunt was ready
and brusque. Hindman asked for an ar
mistlce OF thirty hours, which Blunt per-
emptorily refused, adding that he would
| fight the whole rebel army with his Kan
sas regiments, in ten minutes, if he want
ed" General Hindman remarked that, if
, his army was whipped, he (Hindman) was
not, to which came the blunt reply
Well, pull off your linen, then, and you
will see Major General whipped in less
than FIVE minutes"
GOOD NEWS FOR THE SoLDIERs.-"Occa-
slonal' writes to the Philadelphia Press
that arrangements are now in progress by
which all the accumulated debt to the
troops will be rapidly liquidated. The
Secretary of War has directed that over
30, OOO,OOO should be appropriated to pay
the immediate wants of the troops, and a
similar amount will continue TO be set
apart at short intervals, so long as there
is any money Gntended for other creditors,
who will be compelled to waltz from which
TO draw