Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

like a canary. She ought to sing we'll
there are twenty choirs in Ream.-Ctn-
cianati Times.
A LITTLE GIRL, upon her return from a
children's party being asked if she had
good time, replied: yes; but there
hasn't much boys there"
COMPARING the two women together,
the Milwaukee NeaOs says that q Mrs.
Grant is not so handsome woman as
Anna Dickinson, but she can get up
better beiled dinner than Anna can"
STATIsTIrIANs declare marked differ
ence between Jews and Christians as to
longevity In 100 Christians fifty die
before the age of ffty-seven and with Jews
the same proportion reaches beyond six
ty-seven.
WITHIN a short distance of Dresden
resides couple Who have been married
twenty-five years aad are the parents of
twentY-three childreA The age of the
father of this interesting flock is forty
seven, and of the mother thirty-eight.
THE child has since died" is the la
comic remark which a Pennsylvania
paper affxes to an account of twelve
year-old girl who had already mastered
logic, rhetoric, geology, botany and the
mysteries of mental and moral sciencO.
THE clash in the fashionable world just
now between the girls with pretty feet
who want to wear short dresses and
those with ugly feet who insist upon
having long ones is described by the
fashionable dressmakers as something
fearful.
LIEUT.-CoL. LONG, formerly editor of a
newspaper in Maryland and now an Off
Ger in the service of the Khedive of
Egypt, claims to have discovered the true
source of the Nile, in south latitude 1 deg.
30 min, and between Urondogani and
Uganda.
AN Austin (Tex) paper advertises to
be ratified for, {" an Indian outfit, consist
ing of bow and culver and an Indian
scalp. There is also one white feather
on a string, showing that white man
had been killed by the Indian to whom
it belonged"
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Tablet,
writing from Rome, says the want Of
priests is becoming perceptible in all the
Roman Catholic dioceses of Italy. In
Rome every year the number of deaths
in the priesthood IS three times as great
as the number of ordinations.
A DELICATELY- NODDED Englishman is
spoken of by the Liverpool Post, who
lately made wager that he would bite
toad's head off, eat an ounce twist of
tobacco and follow this up with three
raw potatoes. The bet was the price of
the tobacco and two gallons of beer,
which was easily won.
BUTLER COUNTY, Mo, has the most
eccentric genius ON record. He is now
sixty five years of age. At the age of
twenty-one he commenced to count two
billions. He has counted almost inces-
sanity ever since and his task is still in
complete. He says he wants to count
IudL anu ulC HAPPY.
AN exchange tells us that "the law in
Minnesota won't allow father to thrash
lucky it is not the law that prevents the
father from thrashing child over six
teen years old. AS a general thing the
child attends to that little matter him
sef.-L0uasUGUe C01L9'6e7-J 0lLTr0I.
A Mrs. BUSHNELL, living in Pike
County, Pa, had a fierce encounter with
a wild deer which ran and hid from it's
pursuers near her house the other day
She bravely seized the animal by the
horns and held On until it's furious strug-
giles broke the antlers off, and it fed,
leaving them in her hands.
"YoU have a pleasant home and
bright freside, with happy children
sitting around it, haven't you?" said the
Judge. eyes, Sir" said Mr.. Thompson,
who thought he saw way out Of the
difficulty. "Wen," said the Judge, g if
the happy children sit around the cheer
full freside until you return, they will
stay there just forty-three days, as I will
have to send you up for that time"-
Cincinnati Commercial.
Cob! YOUR nose is as cold as ice,"
Boston father thought he heard his
daughter exclaim the other evening as
he was reading in the next room. He
walked in for explanation, but the young
fellow was at one end Of the sofa and the
girl at the other. while both looked so
innocent and unconscious that the old
gentleman concluded his ears had de-
ceived him, and SO retired from the
scene without a word
"YoUR young friend stayed uncom-
monty late last night, and I was quite in
clined to come into the parlor and dis
miss him." said an indulgent father to
his pet of sixteen. ooh! yes, it was
pretty late; but we got so interested in
discussing Ritualism that we did not no.
tice the fieeting hours, papa" Discuss
ing Ritualism?" sternly queried the