Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A NICE TnINe--in horn---Powder
THERE are $4,000 doctors in the United
States
SOMETHING TO WEEP oyER--A bushel
Of onions. a
TuF GREAT AMERICAN BRp-The
bird IN the hand,
WHEN maiden gets married she ends
miss-spent life. "a
BENNINGTON. VI, has a horse that has
killed three owners.
ENpow your children In the Mutual 1jila
Insurance Company of Chicago. III
AN editor thinks that ten pounds Of
sausagcs Tor dollar is dog cheap
A TorEn's idea of hard drinking--sittlng
on "A rock, and sucking icieles. teA
A WEsrERN editor reports money close,
but not close enough TO hc reached.
"A SMILE said six-year old sentimen-
talist, "is the whisper of u laugh"
VERMONT Is one of the oldest States,
but has hfty.thrcc stage routes yet lett
ONE express messenger in Chicago Is
said to have Travelled 100000 miles IN ten
years ...- e.a.,
FuE School Board of Lynn, Mass, has
six women ON 1t, and they make geod
members t.e
The total tonnage Of vessels and steam,
boat craft running on our lakes Is set down
at $50, AGA tons,
II has been decided that "Oh, dcar!'
and Gncious me as used b. the ladies,
Is swearing. "t
THE assets Of the Washington Life are
Of the most solid charncte Cash, Gov
crument Securities, Real Estate Securities.
| Tue town Of Lyme, N IL, has e5 peo
ple over so years old, and eS over 70 years,
out Of total population of only 1888
Tnneprovidence Press insinuates that
the Crispins are tho only strikers who
maintain their principles to the last,
A PoRrL AND paper asserts that man
recently walked into the office Of tho
2t0lfs Ateoeoto in that pleasant little
Maine city, and inquired If Mr., Zion was
in.
THE San Francisco papers announce the
return to that city of boy, not yct auile
nine years Of age, who has Travelled all we
way to Chicago and back, without either
"A pass or money,
Cory OF an order received bya Dubuque
I druggist % sents worth salts sen'a
, werth Ggny acnts lSute Ginger setaS
Sinnamin Give 2ice this amount and mako
up in diiIe Rent Par Sells
FouR squa.hes, weighing in the aggro
oate so,l hounds were recently taken into
pny Cny Mich The largest weighed
/, lodiL n0inds and * Z feet In circunfcr.
ence They were all raised on one vine.
m ,,,s,t,.,,. ,o.,,s th.re is n boe ON
r'ii;,,n ~, p",' rt TswaGre '. III which meas.
,,ro n,'',It, q fent 4 inches In length, o feet 10
inches aronnd the body, and feet incbea
around The neck, and weighs /, ,l40 pounds
Ttu ,,llo,ying unjoue specimen Of
c,,',r,, ,,,tne rD6sntlv annearod In a Bos,
,,',' ,toil,,, z. t,,,narnl services nj his Iale
''idng,, o,rcnt Nyrdnesdav AT 12
F.i1','' Pi,, 'f,,lati,ca ana f,iends invited 10
...i..,d u,,risi' 81 convenipnce of family"
,,,,,,a,,,o unhore -
1, thb cAtohsa'l ~ " ,,,r' . An a. far
a,sis. ., Ara III, dcor abets so oleyeYl.--
1 = .ai.s beT All rcca,Iar with dirt pills.
I Ss,'3 has i,st becn and amnutatcd one Of
a. ~, , 5,,nh tbing's lees md so we're
a'iJ .'lJ,ii,r i,n ", ,a,L,. . dnctor al her.
So w. ,,,,. .-,,,r,,a sbe,,y that b51 ip.
~, ah oSusuS s S,,',,aIan1 ore more than sev,
l''','l'ahts VI Nv, f,'o hundred morn thAu
oii''y y'e'S w. re- ,nnre ,han ninety yenrs.
b,''J y,''o, %, Ir;ahn,on nancd Patrick
d.,@ i,ral,,,D " more than one hundred.
,h,d
n 3ESIbEAss sipi'inh a., ,>,,y,,osa NJ
book put into his hana lof ehe p'ii tiohas, la',@
examining a class ihe Noru ,,asia, ln,sh'
tnce occurring u ltle , seipe, ~ ~ ~
Intercepted one OF tne youhesee,t,,S y, q apo, so
lows what Is an ii,e,,, lnneiilan1 y, osa,ne.
rimonyr What ~ fati"n :, !, Wt,a, could
| thihs ieit ~ a q "a. a@'a0,, o,tery" g Ws.vi.
you eii " u '''' ~ '''0'
ihohf' o,,.,,. h,s
A HAPPY youth IN oom nj .sesi.'' w r,dn. Ia,
three living granaiatners ,Ha ~ dsora,,,t ,'b
gandmothers, making h,hs RianapaiossS3, at aranS,
His grandfather grahdlhosnei' sa'a1 a,t,sr ara
mother, ana great great gisnunItl gun, 49, IT,
living in the same llplIy neAa a upor aras,' ,aye
his grandfather, Bfhiiuitio'no pae 1;iS III,
grandmother, aud within nalIe NY sand' aia
thifd sfahon'o's''' "''N . '''''N e.
mother ,,.o.s
AMONG the most important alscoyeltes
Of the German arctic e&pcditioh ,, was aneT ,e
land, about thirty-six nautical mlles US. ~, -,
Spitzbergen, and situated hoftn % ~"
seventy seventh degree ol iatleuta ~ ao,r
The new territory Is larger liian Jp.enDd p,,e..sd
gen, aud presents very w1ld ana rllgsea
appearance, being filled with almost per
pendicniar mountains ah" e'ni1' ,h