Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

gagement ring,
THE BEST PoIIcy--A policy in the
| Mutual Life, of Chicago,
| WALL street, 1t is said, gives $4,000
00o annually in charity,
WHAT is the proper age for parson -
| The parsonage, of course,
VINO ever saw anybody near fire who
didn't want to play pokcry
AN Early SP8lNG Jumping out Of
bed at four o'clock in the morning
THE stockholders in the Washington
! only receive the interest their own money
| earns
A B0sFoN man lispnses of an estate of
over S3000000 in u viii consisting Of
/ eleven lines
| THAT woman was u philosopher who
when she lost her husband, said she had
one great consOlation--she knew where he
! was q nights
NoRTu CAIHoRAlN claims the cham
| pion voter Al the last election he walked
TO the polls followed by seventeen sons,
and they collectively deposited eighteen
ballots.
TnE Boston Post apologies for saying,
in speaking of young American poet,
something about the "sputtcrings Of his
insatiptc pen, and says it really meant to
say the writings Of his industrious pen
THE japanese have hut one newspaper,
which comes ont once a month, in the
shape of a stitched pamphlet of about
| 100 pages. II has been established little
more than year.
TuE average circulation of tho daily pa
pers which appeared in Paris during the
siege, from the lst of October 1870 10 the
lst Of January lSii, was less than 90 900
copies,
A DOWN EAST editor plaintiycly says
that he has original poetry enough to
shingle meeting housc but, ~ he has no
meeting house 10 shinglc, the original
poetry is useless.
A NEW clerk in Chicago dry goods
store recently assured lady to whom he
WAS cndeavofing to sell a set of lurs, that
they were the best furs that ever grew on
It tiir's back
A RlGAMIsr's lawyer, in response to u
question from the Judge, as 20 how many
wives his client had, said :" We have thus
Ear counted up only thirtcen but there arc
yet twenty-uiuc States to hear from, your
! honor
Two notable crimes arc reported from
Australia In one case, AN IriShindn
killed his father, mother and wife, and, in
the other a woman Of German extraction
cut the thruats Of siN children, and then
her own.
A room sinner at Hartford rot IN order
from the ScleCtmun for coffin for his lit
tic girl and then tried 10 pawn it to get
money to buy rum with Meantime the
deceased was at play in the street
A FIRE company in Auburn, n, y ., has
instituted Il very sensible innovation in
conducting funerals. Instead OF hiring n
band Of music To attend the funeral when
It comrado dies, give the amount which n
turn ont would cost to the family Of the
deceased.
BlsMARK is snid TO have kept q com
plcte diary of all public events aud his
personal relations thereto for The last
/ thirty years, and hc intends to- prepare, as
soon az the continental troubles are over II
history Of his own time,
A NEW IlANrsnrHE deacon, on being
! asked If he believed in original i'm, replied
that he didn't know, but thcfe were a good
many original sinners IN bis ucighbor
/ hood On the whole be didn't think That
sin was such IN original thing after NIL
MISS will you take nay armY asked an
! old bachelor " La yes, aud you, too, -
! said the young lady. Can only spare
! thcarm, Miss" hastily replied the bachelor.
"Thcu," said Miss, can't take 1t, rs my
motto is to 20 the whole hog or none at
all -
THE New York GIobc is responsible for
1 the following Mr. Greeley writes to
! Hon VIII Cumback, Lieutenant Governor
] Of Indiana, that rust in wheat is caused by
1 the oXidilatiou Of the surface Of the grains
/ If wiped perfectly dry and incloscd Ia
1 buckakin sacks, well oiled, wheat viii
never rust"
FoRTY years ago Simon Cameron pur.
chased ior 800 spur Of the Broad Moun
tain, in Pennsylvania. 1t ls now worth
/ 81 900 900 Coal has been mined out Of ii
for tbrty.hve years, and he has realized
IN the shape Of royalty about y % " day
I K M WILLIAMS exhaustive demands
for men visiby enlarged wpmenB sphere
in Prussia BY recent oricr Ji the
/ Minister Of Education women who prove
Themselves qualified are to bc accepted as
teachers Of modern languages in public
schools-a profession hitherto monOpoliAcd
by the masculine gender.
-1nrHE lsa citizen of JcHenonYilIc
Ind, who, semc years ago bought a piece
of ground in Chicago for which he paid
a mule md S. in money. lie sold the
property short time altcrward, and il l.
to-duy worth = 100000, and the aforesaid
gentleman amt worth cent?
OWNER Of Brook % trcspagsing sporJ-
"Ill have you to know, sir, lha' / own