Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE is horrid rumOr of the restora-
sion of crinOline.
The School Board of Benton, Me-, is
composed entirely of women.
MOST people are like eggs. Too full of
themselves to hold anything else. e.
AWEsTERN man who bit his neighbours
nose off was bound over to keep the piece
TWENTY-FIVE life-saving stations have
been established in this country within
year
A HARLEM IN. W hog weighs 800
pounds Where there's swill there's a
zeigh
MARRIAGE at the revolver's mouth is not
valid So the New York Supreme Court
decides.
The Women's Congress will hold its
annual session in Syracuse, n. Y, in DC
tober next.
IT Is not right, but tie man with the
Least mind has the greatest trouble in max
ing it up. rar
A MAN said his son had well-stored
mind, but the neighbors never could find
mhere he stored it.
No WONDER the American team is dong
steady shooting, when their best musket is
sustained by a Fulton. j 4t
BLACK lace mittens are gradually com
ing into fashion. Those with long-ruffied
gauntlets are most liked.
THE best homemade fire proof safe is
hole in the ground, well lined with brick
and ent.-Scientttfc american.
A DUBUQUE father keeps a stomach
pump in the house, and when he tells his
children not to eat cucumbers they let 'em
alone.
CARLYLE recommendation was: Make
yourself an honest man, and then you may
be sure that there is one rascal less in the
world"
For young lady graduates of colleges
the degree of maid of arts" is appropri-
ately suggested in place of the now newt
able A. B.
THERE has been discovered in San Fran
cisco an insect, new to science, which is
believed to be species of the very valua-
bic cochineal.
NEW ORLEANS has a haunted cell.
Three suicides have occurred in it, and
several other prisoners have been pre-
vented in the very act.
HAIR, nowadays, is twisted into knot
at the back of the head no matter if no
bigger than a hickory nut and only takes
three hair-pins to hold it.
To \ Squire who was boasting of his
horses speed, Foote, the witty comedian,
replied: Pooh, my horse will stand
faster than yours can gallop."
THEY tell in Chicago of a rat that got
into bird-cage, ate the bird, and was SO
dstended by the repast that he couldn't
squeeze out again between the wires.
AN Illinois horse has a liking for raisin
cake, and an Iowa pig squeals for rasp-
berry jam. No one can tell what refining
influence will yet do for the animal crea-
ton.
A GEORGIA farmer has raised from one
grain of wheat 191 stalks and 1870 heads.
The largest head has 165 grains. This is
the most remarkable reproduction on
record.
THE Baltimore tin-can makers, having
to pay for leaky cans, say that sometimes
they find themselves in debt to their en-
ployer instead of receiving wages for
themselves.
THREE children who were Frustrated by
a stroke of lightning that had first struck
a tree at Americas, Ga, all had more or
less photographs of the tree imprinted on
their persons.
4 COUNTRY store III Virginia was the
other day struck by lightning, the fluid
making large hole in the roof, and pass
ing through ,feath6r-bed, the recognized
non-conductor.
GEORGE r. DEAN, of Sacramento, has
vigorous coffee plant growing in his door
yard. It is from Central American seed,
three years old, and will bear this year, as
ii is full of blossoms.
SOME of the Cincinnati ladies propose
60 take whole room in the new Centen
mia1 building, and to inlay the floor with
4iles of their own painting and to tresco
the walls themselves.
THE absence of all jewelry is the choice
of many fastidious men, while others do
not reject those articles that show some
reason for being useful, such as shirt
studs, sleeve buttons, etc.
4 TEPsY fellow, who mistook a globe
Camp. with letters on it, for the queen OF
night. exclaimed: Well, I'll be (hlc)
blest, if somebody hain't stuck an adyer
1isement on the MOON"
Mrs. YOU'VE, the mother OF little Maoei
II, Young, the victim of the Boston
church belfry tragedy, suffers such acute
mental agony since that sad event that she
mas 10 be constantly attended
4 NEW BRUNSWICK court OF equity mas
seen its way clear to declare that deed
given by drunken man, who received
very inadequate consideration, should be
treated as a mortgage only.
THE chronological Secretary of the
Vermont State Board of Agriculture de