Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


still alive and, perhaps, kicking. She
is over thirty years old
THE salaries of bank Presidents in
Boston range from four to fifteen thou
sand dollars per annum.
SABA Vermont paper says: 1.-The
town pump is frozen up and the handle
is busted; no insurance"
HIS NAME was Hamlet, he was sexton
at Norton, Mass, and was killed by fail
Ing into newmade grave.
AT a dinner party lady once asked
DR.. johnson if he liked children. Don't
know, ma'am. Never ate any," replied
the doctor.
It's high time that grocers got out
their old stock, melting it over IN the
back room and hung out signs of New
maple sugar"
A WHITEHALL (Pa.) girl, whose lover
refused to buy he a seal-skin sacque for
Christmas, returned good for evil by Civ
ing him the sack.
A THICKNESS of newspapers between
the bed-quilts will help wonderfully to
keep you warm these cold nights. " Now
is the time to SUBSCRIBE
A CONSTABLE attempted to levy OF 9
Rhode Island woman's sewing-machine a
month ago, and ne isn't out of bed yet
She struck with her foot.
AN aged lady of Fontainebleau left
her physician an enormous oak chest
as a legacy. On opening it he found all
the drugs and potions he had given her
during the past twenty years.
THERE is scarcely any perceptible
change in the styles from month to month
in mid-season. By the first of March we
may begin to look for the advance spring
fashions, but at present there is not
much that is new.
A PROFEssEDLY religious paper, the
Echo de Rome, was fined 1000 francs a
few days ago, and it's printer imprisoned
for three months, for an article grossly
insulting King Victor Emmanuel. The
paper has since been suppressed.
THE total number of species of birds
included in the fauna of Norway is $50.
Of these ia have been observed within
the polar circle, and 100 of the ia have
ranged as far north as within the limits
of Tromsoe Amt, while 80 species be-
long to the fauna of Finmark proper.
Tn England Town Clerk af1rms that,
in his observation, the majority of hus-
band and-wife quarrels take their rise in
the fault of the wife, who, by her " in
fernal tongue" aggravates her husband
to assault her. This, of course, has no
application to the United States.
A RICH old widower of Oswego, n.
Y, told young girl there to drop her
other beaux She obeyed. He often
took her out riding, and assured her that
when we get ready we can go off, sud
den like, and surprise the gossips." The
young lady did not demur. Then the
rich old widower popped off, very sudden
like, and married rich old widow about
his own age. The jury is asked for 49,,
900 damages.
way can you so rapidly tell thousands as
through the columns of that never-rest-
ing public servant, the newspaper-read
while you are awake, read while you
heat, always in somebody's hand carry
ing it's messages of JOY and sorrow, hope
and fear, mingling the announcements of
euterprising merchants and manufacture
ers with all. In no other way can you
so cheaply keep your announcements be-
fore the people; in no other way make
upon peoples minds the impression you
would place there. The first considera-
ton to determine that you advertise is,
that it pays" After fair use of ad
vertising your reason for continuing will
be, 1t ys."-TOZedo Commercial.
NoTING that common usage adopts
longitude 100 degrees from Greenwich
as the point where person travelling
westward around the globe will find his
Monday changed to Tuesday, CORE
spondent of the New York E0eaing Post
calls attention to two curious exceptions.
Manila, in the Philippine Islands, is
one day behind the rest Of the East
Indies in it's expression of the days of
the week, while Alaska is one day ahead
of British Columbia. The explanation
is that the Philippine Islands were
colonized by Spaniards, who first came
there from the east across the Pacific;
but the rest of the East Indies was col
onized by Europeans, coming from the
opposite direction. Each set ofcolonists
brought its own day of the week, and
consequently it happens that Manila is
weekly keeping its Sunday while the
islands are having their
Monday. So in regard to Alaska. That
country was first settled by Russians
coming from the west, while the remain
der of the eastern coast of the Pacific
was settled from the east Thus it hap
pens that when Alaska is keeping Sun
day it is only Saturday on the rest of the
coast. And what is more wonderful still,
Alaska, being ninety degrees east of
Manila. will have already enioyed one