Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

church.
SPELLING MATcHEs"-M-a-t -c-h-e-s,
matches
How TO make a clean sweep-Give him
good washing.
THE fee of Mr.. Evarts in the Beecher
trial is $4,000
NAsBY got $4,000 for his interest in
the Toledo Blade.
SILKS that "stand alone" now give
| place to softer ones.
THE Baltimore Council has forbidden
| the construction of Mansard roofs of
combustible material in that city under
heavy penalties.
THE Erie (Pa,) papers announce with
| pride that not a single person was ar
rested for drunkenness in that city on
| st. Patrick's Day
HIGH living has it's penalties among
cannlbals as we'll as among white folks.
| The measles have broken out in the
Fejee Islands.
HoRRID! A New York paper speaks
of gentleman who was Quartered at
hotel, but does not tell us what became
of the quarters.
A SWEET little twelve-year-old Of
Brownsville. Tenn, is on trial for poison
ing three little children. She did it
"just to see 'em die"
GEN. CUSTER says that it takes but
four minutes for an Indian to perform
the scalping process, but time is money,
and four minutes are worth mule.
AN ingenious Detroit dentist makes
crayon sketches, canes chairs, and repairs
watches and jewelry during his leisure
hours. Hope he doesn't get his tools
mixed
The steamship business between New
Orleans and New York has declined
fully two thirds, and two of the weekly
lines of steamships have been discon-
tinued.
In Denmark the farmers try the vitali-
ty of clover seed by putting some on
knife blade and heating it over candle.
The good seed pops off and the poor seed
burns on the blade.
A YOUNG lady who accompanied her
beau to spelling sociable the other even
ing gave him the mitten because he
spelled it with one and an o. Served
the stupid fellow just right.
A SPECIAL dispatch to Erie, Pa, says
that oil has been struck on farm in
Warren. The stream forces itself above
to the top of the derrick This strike
develops an entirely new belt of oil ter
| ritory.
ACCORDING to the recent report of the
| Massachusetts Commissioners of Taxa
ton there are 100 church edifces in Suf-
folk County-the county in which Bos
ton is situated. Their estimated value is
81, 100000
He was an old man Of eighty, and he
said that he'd figured and calculated and
pondered, and had come to the conclu-
sion that the man who drives the band
wagon around town had a perfect right
! to look down in contempt on bankers and
mill-owners.
THE fashion of wearing linen cuffs
outside the sleeve is again revived.
Colored cambria collars and cuffs, such
as blue, brown and gray, with a flower
embroidered at the corners, are to be
worn somewhat. The diversity in the
| shapes Of collars is bewildering.
A GIRL screamed in lecture audience
in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the other
| girls screamed. General CONSERVATION
ensued and rush for the doors. People
were bruised, clothes torn and the room
at length was emptied. The first
screamer had seen rata real one
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of
the newspapers to this effect "There
is one good wife in the country and
every man thinks he has her" Old
Brown, who lives on Olive street, who is
bald, and whose wife has red hair and a
wicked eye, read this and murmured, as
he meditatively passed his hand over his
head: 81 dunno! l dunnom-St. Louis
Republican.
The Rochester Express has the follow
ing on the fruit prospect: From all we
can learn through our leading nurserymen
the peach bud is beyond a doubt safe.
In fact the prospects for an abundant
fruit harvest have not been better for
years. When the fruit harvest promises
well in this region it is generally consid-
cred safe throughout the State, if not the
whole country"
THE recent combat between the lion
and the ass at the Geological Gardens
has spoiled the contrast of these two an
imals in warlike qualities, which Hsop
thought the height of humorous absurd
ity, and which has done so much service
in the literature of all ages For twice
did the enraged lioness assault the ass
and twice was she sent retreating with
as much as her ferocious stomach cared
for Cincinnati Gazette.
THE present rage for spelling-schools
revives al anecdote of Gen. Scott. He
had drawn up the rough draft of an
order in which the word Waoonn oc