Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-11-26
Miscellaneous Items.

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ton ought to remember that he is sure to
| convict only one.
Grandmother used to say to grand
father, " 1t Is no use quarreling, my dear,
when you know we must make it up again.
= In holy human nature we found no
string to be cut off, only to be tuned-Jean
PAIL
- The greatest hypocrite never imposes
upon his neighbors half SO often as upon
himself.
- Men resort to all sorts of DISCUSSES, and
then complain bitterly that they are not IN
derstood
- The power of fortune is confessed only
by the miserable, for the happy impute all
their success to prudence and merit
- VIM. L. Stone, lately elected Governor
OF Iowa, when studying law twelve years ago,
worked eight hours day, for the purpose of
earning money to pay his board and tuition
A slave woman was recently arrested in
Richmond for stealing dress. Evidence of
good character was otfered-her mistress say
ing that JEFF Davis would as soon steal as
Emelne would. The woman was "sent up"
- Confederate currency has so deprecia-
ted, that the Richmond people say If you
go to the market you have to take YOUR mon
ey IN the basket, and carry your beef in the
pocket-book
- Good enterprises find support in a sell
fish and frivolous age, as the Israelites did
not devote all their treasures to making the
golden calf, but had some gold left to furnish
and ornament the tabernacle.
- Concerning the sweetening REQUIRED for
rhubarb pies, Pittsfeld LADY gives the fol-
lowing intallible rule: ''Throw in sugar as
long as your conscience will let YOU then
shut your eyes and throw in one handful
more"
- The Austrian journals state that COM
pany has just organized pleasure excursion
round the world. The screw steamer Marco
Polo is specially engaged to leave Trieste on
the 5th of March, and the trip is to last eight
months, and cost $4,000.
4 BLAZED TREE.-The Sixth Ward-inclu-
ding the Give Points"-of New York, noted
as the receptacle of all the scum, ignorance
depravity and RIGHTEOUSNESS of the city, gave
2,O37 votes for the Democratic ticket, at the
recent election, and 2l9 for the Union ticket
A printer named VIM, who died at
Rochester, England, recently, was heard to
| mutter to himself few moments before his
death: g / am on my last stickful | am COM
ing to paragraph, and | suppose I'll have to
wait for old Death to put in period.
"A geographical garden is being made in
Paris, Mont Blanc, Is feet high, is the point de
| depart, and the face of Europe, with real min
iature seas, rivers, railways, &c, will be rep
| resented in the same proportion. The seas
will have artificial tides, driven by steam.
-" Would you throw Vallandgham, an
ex-Congressman, into jail with common vaga-
| bonds?" asked a sensitive copperhead of
Judge Holt, when the famous, or rather infa-
nous, traitor was arrested. 'Certainly," said
the Judge, eff the vagabonds don't object"
There has just been discovered Spain,
a document of considerable interest to the
literary history of that country, being the re-
ceipt for 112, 500 Maravedis paid to the Faith
ers of the Trinity for the ransom Of the author
of 'Don QuIXotte' then a prisoner in the
| hands of the Moors. The receipt states that
the prisoner was then thirty-three years of
age and had lost his left arm.
The Poorer Glasses of Women in Eng
land, as late as the beginning of the present
century, were employed in many towns in car
| rying bricks and mortar on their heads to the
masons at work, on even the highest build
ings. Women stripped from shoulder to loins
may even now be seen picking up Jumps of
coal from the Tyne mud, when the water is
| low, much to the offence of strangers, if not
the people Of Newcastle.
Florence Nightingale has published some
observations on the sanitary condition of the
Indian army, at the request Of the commission
! on that subject She was particularly reques
ted to give her opinion on the " consequences
of vicious course of life" The London
Critic remarks on this request that it mnst
| have been thought "she had no more ser than
an angel. But she excepted the task with
the repulsive sigh of mortal woman, and
the courage Of an immortal angel.
How TO COURT IN CHUECH.-A young gen
teman happening to sit at Church in a pew
adjoining one in which sat young lady for
whom he conceived a sudden and violent pas
sion, was DESTROYS Of entering into court
ship on the spot but the place not suiting a
| formal declaration the exigency of the case
suggested the following plan:-He politely
handed his fair neighbor a Bible opened with
a pin stuck in the following text Second
| Epistle of John, verse fifth =" And now |
| beseech the lady, not as though wrote a new
| commandment unto thee, but which we had
| from the beginning that we love one another.
She returned it, pointing to the second
| chapter of Ruth, verse TENTH Then she fell
| on her face and bowed herself to the ground,
and said unto him, "Why have l found grace
in thine eyes, seeing that [ am stranger: "
| He returned the book, pointing to thirteenth
| verse of the Third Epistle of John-'Have-
| ing many things to write unto you, / would
not write with paper and ink, but trust to
| come unto you and speak face to face, that
| our Joy be full" From the above interview,
marriage took place the ensueing week.
Elk.