Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-10-29
Miscellaneous Items.
A Picture.

Whose tender sweetness made one love it,
face that told now souls aspire
That 10 Ok beyond to-day's revealing;
boy with all Of manhood's fire.
man with al Of boyhoods feeling.
He who is just as old as his dog, is a
man of cur-age.
Happiness is like pig with creased
tail, which every one runs after, but nobody
can hold.
- Some rich men keep cross dogs around
their houses, so that the hungry poor who
stop to get bite" may get it outside of the
door
- VIII there never be being to combine
a mans mind and woman's heart, and who
vet finds life too rich to weep over? Never?
- Most of the rebels are pledged to pay
ten-fold what they are worth, and when they
die, says Prentice, therell be the devil to
pay.
-EsMy party, sir, will not lie in ideness,"
| said politician. Every true, sir" retorted
his opponent, 'syour party is neither chargea-
BILE with lying in idleness nor idleness in ly
ing"
| - The captains of some of our new Sub
sttute" troops say it is dangerous to make
the rear rank take close order, for fear it
should pick the pockets of the front rank.
- You need not make mouths at the pub
lie because it has not accepted you at your
own fancy valuation. Do the prettiest things
you can and wait your time.
| - Sorrow for the dead has a sacred effca-
cy. There may be some truth in the old su-
perstition that no touch is so healing as that
of dead mans hand
- Pity is a sentiment so natural, so appro-
! pirate to the female character, that it is
| scarcely merit for woman to possess it, but
| to be without it is a grevious crime.
| = No less than eighty warnings were given
| during June and July to Partisan journals
| ffty-six of which were given once, twelve
twice, one thrice, and one four times
| An exchange comes to US with notice
| that " Truth is crowded out of this issue.
| This is almost as bad as the up-country editor
| who said For the evil effects of intoxicat-
| ing drinks, see our inside"
"A yonng widow in Western Tennessee,
| reciprocating the Union sentiments of one Of
! our battervmen, shuts the mouth of secesh
grumblers by the assurance that her husband
is not Yankee because he is Dutchman.
A clergyman who had sought for prefer
ment in many quarters, and had failed, once
said to a bishop: II never got anything 1
asked for" ''And l." replied the bishop,
''never asked for anything got
- The very best and cleverest men have a
| hobby of some sort, which the rules of socie-
ty forbid their mounting outside their faml-
lies. Every man would bore you to death if
you would only let him.
COMFORT IN DEATH. "A good man, who was
dying, once said Formerly death appeared
to me like a river, but now it has dwindled
to a little rill and my comforts, which were
as rill, have become as the broad and deep
river"
A RIDDLE BY LORD DUNDREARY-Why doth
a dog waggle hith tail 3? Give it up? think
moth fellahs will give it up! You see the
dog waggles hith tail becauth the dogs stwon-
ger than the tail. If he walnut the tail
would waggle the dog
HUMILITY.-Those showers Of grace that
slide off from the lofty mountains, rest on
the valleys and make them fruitful. He Civ
eth grace to the lowly: He loves to bestow it
where there is most room to receive it, and
most return of ingenious and entire praise
upon the receipt. Such is the humble heard,
and truly, as much humility gains much grace,
SO it grows by it.-Leighton
In Australia it is summer in January and
winter in July. 1t is noon there when it is
midnight in Europe. The longest day is in
the cold from the south, and it is hottest on
the mountain tops. The swans are black, the
eagles are white; the bees do not sting, and
the birds do not sing. The cherries have no
stones the trees give no shadow, for their
leaves are turned edgeways to the sum- and
some of its quadrupeds have beak and lay
eggs!
49, Henry Ward Beecher has taken quite
a fancy to the monks in Europe. In his last
letter he says:
81 am bound to say that have been agree
ably disappointed in the appearance of the
monks and priests in Roman Catholic coun-
tries As a general rule, they have appear
ed to be clear-faced, intelligent, and sincere
men. Only once or twice did we meet the
legendary type of monk-round, fat and
worldly. In Switzerland and in Northern
Italy the general impression produced upon
| me by the priests has been highly favorable
to them"
- Men go an undulating course, sometimes
on the hill, sometimes in the valley. But he
| only is in the righI who in the valley forgets
| not the hill prospect, and knows in darkness
| that the sun will rise again. That is the real
| life which is subordinate to, not merged in the
| ideal he is only wise who can bring the low
est act of his life into sympathy with its
| highest thought. And this take to be the
one aim of our pilgrimage here. | agree with
those who think that no true philosophy will
| try to ignore or annihilate the material part
| of man, but will rather seek to put it in its
| place. as servant and minister to the SOUL
| Margaret Fuller.
| PAR1s-Of the hundreds of elegant seats
put up all over the city for the repose of the
| public | have not seen one disfgured by a
| pen-knife. From one end of the town to the
| other, everywhere the choicest flowers are
| blooming with only a barrier foot high
| around the beds, and yet not a single plant
| or flower is ever touched Paris has become
the best lighted city in the world, and will
| soon be, if it is not already, the best venti-
| lated. It's drainage is nearly perfect. The
policemen are not ruffians, but as civil as gen
tlemen-ushers of the black and white rod
In the most polite and obliging manner all
| your questions are answered, and every rea-
| sonable assistance is rendered if you get into
| a strait If an Englishman should tumble
into gutter in returning from an evening
party, he would be lifted as by the gentle
hand of the good Samaritan, an placed upon
his own beast.
- Mr.. NJ, of a certain town in Vermont is
not distinguished for liberality, either Of purse
or opinion. His ruling passion is fear OF
being cheated. The loss, whether real OF
fancied, of a few cents, would give him more
pain than the destruction Of an entire navy.
He once bought large cake of tallow at q
country store, at ten cents pound, On
breaking it to pieces at home, it was found
to contain large cavity. This he consider
ed terrible disclosure of cupidity and fraud
He drove furiously back to the store, enter
ing in great excitement, bearing the tallow