Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

III tnS WOrkut
Sixty newspapers on the Pacific coast
have failed during 1870,
The Mutual Life of Chicago pays It's
profits TO policy. holders only
PITTsBuRan ii is said, has more news,
papers than any other city In the United
States, New York alone excepted.
AN Irish painter declares, In an atvcr.
| tisement that among other portraits, he
| has a representation Of Death Us large as
| life"
| A FOND pu LAC, Via. husband cele,
\ brated his wooden wedding the other day
by saving and splitting cordwood for
| household consumption
/ THE idiots throughout the country send
one hundred thousand dollars n month to
/ the swiudling firms in New York city.
Fer per cen,age Of increase OF policies
I IN The " ttsaiusfur -fslie fusr h3t ag tbiUt
( years have been greater than IN any ot.,~f
company in the world
! THERE are ut Manistee, Mich, eight
| lawyers and q Judge, and not man OF
them ever uses liquor in any form, or
elbows tobacco, and only one OF them over
smokes,
A YANKEE inventor claims 10 have de
vised a car In which an invalid can ride up
| or down a stairway or elevator way, with
| no more eNertion than to iii y one pound
weight,
BOY, why did you take mn armfal Of
my shingles on Sunday y Why, sir,
| mother wanted some kindllng wood, and
didn't want to split wood on Sunday
PLAYING At DocroRs--" Ma, dear Ada
won't take her physic. have mixed her
dose of vinegar aud sand, and she says
| must take some first. Doctors never do
| do they, maY"
| AN old lady, not remarkable for the
| clearness of her ideas, describing fine
/ summer evening, said :" 1t was a beauti
! tul bright night; the moon made every
thing as light as a teatherW
! THE Mothers Friend says Never re-
prove n child harshly Tor chewing, or
smoking or swearing No, never reprove
him harsbly. The only way to cure him
| is to thrash him within an inch Of his life
Louisrjld Journal
| ONE OF the ilntehinsons lately called al
| the Danvers Mass Pottery 70, a wagon.
scat that had been forgotten by him thirty
years ago 1t was found TO be still In a
tolerable state of preservation.
A MAN was boasting to Lord Palmer
ston; IL spend half my income in charity,
! | assure you ] do indeed | give
| thousands of pounds away. Generosity
covers everything" Including modesty,
! sometimes" added His Lordship.
| TX the Antarctic sens there are sea weeds
which have stems about twenty feet high
and with diameter SO great that they
have been collected by mariners in those
regions for fuel, under the belief that they
were drift.wood, They are as thick as d
man's thigh.
1nE Belfast, Mo, Jguraal says one oI
the German clothing dealers in that city
recently sold a nlan 4 psirof boots. few
n ssez~- ggy,.49 saast. ee,gS .fs4 h58ef a. va
them, apd aid that he vent out In the
I barn ward 10 work, where twas little wet,
and the soles came of "Tcar me- mine
! friend, you didn't ought TO walk round to
dem Dey ish cavalry boots made To ride
! NIT"
| AN old agricultural laborer in Eng
! land tried a muscular method of evsngel-
| izing his family. Being demonstrated with
| by the pastor, for not bringing up his
! boys rs he should, he replied / donno
| 'ow 'tis, sir 4; order EN- down to pray
| iisal anu mini hoii'in INV VIZ" ny ,, Jn re-,
~ uoNh - SiioohS e''' w" ~'''ia Se' ''o'
an sooo'
THE Jonr7tat ~ Tours reports inc iol
lowing instance ol sung Jrpta III tbe mlas'
of danger at the battle OF Orleans:
young Mobile bad asked ms oillcer ior q
drink, and the latter was about TO pour u
into the cup which the private held IN ma
hand, when hostile bullet carried the
cup out OF his hand. The young sotdief
turned to The officer WIN smile, ana san SAD
'o''li,apoiY ',, nv ~ VOC a "a fr,,,, {, a,
nI a,..,t'. ~" w. anS lc ,a,hinn had hn,,n",aJ
oa'"''y W. II 'i'''i'''s ""' A"fpo""
SoNE few years since one OF the CLERKS
in prominent banking house OF Albany
having had an iniimation that 1t was IN
tended 10 dispense with his services, boldly
entered the office OF the President, and
said Mr. President, have made up my
mind that the interests Of this bank re.
nuIre that eithrr vou or myself should leave
its service. As "a are the leading owner
Of the bank, and have n large family TO
support, have concluded 10 leave You In
your position aad retire myself The
young man retired
THERE recently died at DudlsJ, snss',
q horse, which, when IN coca coidi'ipp'
weighed 2,250 pounds whlch ~ cnoIio,''is,
when II Is remembered that less man hh'i
that IL the weight of an ordinary morse ne
was imported from Scotlaad ie" ysats
ago. sfnce which Tune he iias pceh e1illp!t,
| ri through the Ne" England STATES, ahti
Y IA - fFn he WhS DlTrnHAfAi anu