Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1hE IaWnee reservation, which Is i
practically abandoned, contains some
100000 acres of good land.
4 NOTED architect when asked what
was the best system OF ventilation" re- !
piled: Open ire-places in every room
A BosToN man who retaiIs sheet music !
at forty cents per song makes thirty-six
cents profit on each. These are profta-
BILE notes.
A YOUNG Jockey in California who has
ridden horses in several races during the
past two years has been discovered to
be girl.
a DETROIT lake captain spells it
naverjation, but he sails his schooner
just as well as if he had published
spelling book.
GREAT Cesar! There are S,157, 200
women in the United States absolutely
doing nothing" No wonder the winter
is backward
Two welldressed girls, neither of them
over fifteen years of age, staggered up
jefferson avenue, Detroit, lately, in a
shocking state of intoxicatiop.
Mrs. GRANT, of Pennsylvania, has
killed eight deer thus far this season,
but there is many day when her hus-
band has had to make his own bed.
a FAsHIo6 exchange says: Light
trousers should be worn only in the
morning and dark trousers for semi
dress" Sposin" you have only one
pair?
Boston is the place to look for in
stances of ilial affection A dutifuI son
in that town had the hacks engaged for
his mothers funeral eighteen days before
she expired
A MAN in Rutland, Vt, eating roasted
| chestnuts, put hot one between his
teeth and bit. The nut thereupon ex-
ploded, and seriously burned and LAGER
ated his mouth.
DIo LEWIS says Goldfish gravy imparts
| cheerfulness. AS soon as the defeated
political candidates learn this fact there
| will be deafening clamor for Goldfish
gravy.-N0grtStoeO,1 (Pa) Herald.
SOME of the Southern planters are 60
ing too far with their new pet theory of
small farms. An Alabama nabob has
cut his plantation into patches, not one
Of which is bigger than Rhode Island
In NEVADA recently a woman knocked
| down seven men, one after another who
had entered her house for the purpose of
robbery. It is superf1uous to say that
the robbery was indefinitely postponed
Mrs. CATHERINE BROWN attempted to
| throw tub of water ont of a second
story window. in Troy, N. Y. She lost
her balance and fell to the ground, sus-
tanning injuries from which she died the
same day.
CHRISTMAS and New Years will come
on Friday this time. If anybody who
expects a nice present should fail to re-
Ceive it the disappointment must be at
tributed to the fact that Friday is an
"unlucky day"
No NURSE girl should hold pins in her
mouth; it is too dangerous. 1t is much
more convenient and safe to make pin
cushion Of the baby. If the baby cries,
drive the pins home by patting the child,
and if that won't do, give it paregoric.
A MASSACHUSETTS man bet ten dollars
that he could ride the fy-wheel in a saw
mill, and as his widow paid the bet she
remarked: William was a kind hus-
band, but he didn't know much about
fy-wheels."
A CHARMING little fish story comes from
Vermont: q A boy caught an immense
pickerel, which broke the line and dis
appeared. The boy fell into the water
and sank to the bottom, whereupon his
brother grabbed him by the hair and
pulled him out, only to find the lost pick
erel firmly clasped in the boys arms"
IT is told of the late Judge Benjamin
Tappan, of Ohio, that when he applied
to the judges of the Supreme Court for
admission to the bar of that State he
was asked the following questions, to
which he gave the answers as follows:
" Mr.. Tappan, what is law" Answer
4" An unjust distribution of justice"
" Mr.. Tappan, what is equity?" Answer
-" An imposition upon common sense"
No other questions were asked, and he
was given a certificate of admission
A CALIFORNIA Justice was asked to fix
the bail in the case of a thief, Hewanted
to know the value of the property, and
the complainant said $500 So the bail
was put at $4,000 The Court afterward
learned that the property consisted of a
bulldog, whereat hereleased the prisoner
on his own recOgnizance This reused /.
the anger Of the owner of the dog, who
remarked that " the Jestis as can't ap-
preciate animal what's whipped every
thing wuth whippin' on the coast amt fit I
to sit"
THE city Of Poughkeepsie has adopted I
a wise policy in reference to the modern
. tramp" If the impecunious, able
bodied traveller applies there fora nights
lodging with supper and breakfast he is