Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
a BAD hub buD-Jesse POmeroy.


archives in Berlin for documents relating
to the early history of the United States
which he proposes to write.
THE Chicago Times Washington cor
respondent says that Senator Jones
laughs at his recent loss of 100000 in
Panama stock speculations, as it is "a
mere fea-bite" to him.
MORE Americans than foreigners were
committed to the city prison of Boston
during he month of May, which has
never occurred before since the estab-
lishment OF the prison.
OREGON papers are Dragging because
avessel built in that State has made the
quickest run of the season from San
Francisco to Liverpool with cargo of
wheat, outstripping the crack ships of
several nations.
THE town of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
gradually settling into the quicksands
that underlie it. The Record of the Times
estimates that in the brief period of
5000, 900 years it will sink below the sur
face of the earth.
WE'LL, that's catamount to positive
refusal" as Mrs. Spilkins remarked the
other night when Spiikins declined to
get up and prOrogue cat 1Octur71e m1atS5-
caJe on the back shed, under the plea of
sympathy with Mr.. Bergh.-Neao York
Commercial.
UNIYERSALIs8i, says the Christian Lead
En-, has advanced more in New York and
Brooklyn during the past seven years
than in the forty years previous. The
number Of churches has been about
doubled, and churches that were then
feeble missions are now strong.
AUSTRALIA has big tree, too, and 1t is
gratif1ed to think that there is not time
for an American vandal to go over, chop
it down, and take it to the Centennial
1t is $50 feet lOng-an announcement
which will shake the midriff OF hun
dreds with envy, hatred, malice, and all
uncharitableness.
A PUBLIC-sPIRITED citizen of Pitts
burgh, Pa, with an eye to the main
chance, has offered to furnish an excel
lent band Of music to perform every
afternoon and evening in some of the
prominent parks of that city if he will
DE granted the exclusive monopoly of
the ice-cream business on the premises
JESSE POMEROY's sentence is to be
committed to Imprisonment for life. The
Council, after much solemn deliberation,
concluded that there is a punishment
worse than death for Jesse It is to shut
him up where the sight of passing chill
dren will tempt him to feel around for a
bottle of vitriol without finding it.
Brooklyn argus.
"THE average Boston woman" says
Jennie June, els of medium height,
rather slender and neutral tinted. She
wears a gray or brown polonaise, is
grave and serious of aspect and carries
sachel and an umbrella, even on fine
days, so that one sees at once she is pru-
dent, forecasting and does not live in
Boston, but in the suburbs"
PEOPLE have different ways of eX-
pressing joy. One man went into one of
our Main street jewelry stores early
Monday morning and bought a nice gold
chain, remarking as he drew his pocket
book, shouldn't have bought this ex-
cept for the fire, but I am sc happy at
not being burned out that | must do
something. "-Spr5nqfe1d (Mass) Union.
TWELVE or fifteen Vermont lawyers re-
Gently got into a serious discussion in the
courtroom in regard to the Lords
Prayer. Each gave different version of
it. Finally they referred it to the Judge !;
he shifted the responsibility upon the
Clerk, who got Bible, looked all
through the Old Testament, and then
gave it up. a Sunday-school scholar
was then called in, who repeated it cor
rectly
THIS announcement is from the Spirit
uGg Scientist: " 1t is rumored that one or
more Oriental Spiritualists of high rank
have just arrived in this country. They
are said to possess profound knOwl-
edge of the mysteries of illumination,
and it is not impossible that they viii
establish relations with those whom we
are accustomed to regard as the leaders
in Spiritualistic affairs. Welcome to the
Wise Men of the East"
THE grasskopper is nuisance even
when he is dead. The Atchison Kan
Champion calls upon the citizens to
clear the corpses out of town or be pre-,
pared for pestilence. The Champion
says that from the areas of only two
cellar windows of building on CONNER
cial street about three bushels of dead
hoppers were taken out On Monday last.
And the stencil of this mass of putrefac-
ton was oyerpowering."
CHARIvARI has the following: a gen
tleman dressed all in black presented
himself one day at the box-otfice of the
Theater Comique. MADAM" said he
to the ticket agent, with tears in hi:
eyes, f." wish box in order to place
therein the body of my wife at the mo
ment whsn the Requiem of Nj. Nerd
is played" "Why," cried the stupefe(
ticket agent, I" is your wife dead?" g 1es
lost her yesterday, and l thought thai
a requiem would cost me less here thar
at the church, and then would permi