Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

growing his mind.
A MANS action is only a picture-book
of his creed. He does after what he be
lieves.
THE letter mail is the only portion of
the United States postal service which is
seif-sustaining.
a POPULAR actress who died recently
left an unprotected husband without WISH
bic means Of support.
WITH a little sympathy and large
amount Of money a man can get along
very comfortably.
THE late Mary Diamond, jewel Of the
first water, left to religious and charitable
institutions in Philadelphia more than
100000.
AN exchange speaks Of a young lady
with blue eyes dressed in black" She
must have been Engaged in some domestic
squabble.
A SOUTH CAROLINA paper is conduct
ing vigorous crusade against life insur-
ance, which it stigmatizes as gambling
against God
A LEADING citizen of Hampden County,
Mass, recently buried his daughter from
another church than his own, owing to
superstitious fear of passing a church
with a corpse.
THE police authorities at San Francisco
have made their frstSpid on the opium
smokers and will continue the crusade till
they have broken up all the dens frequent
ed by white people.
THE spectacle of man fostering with
the smallpox walking through the streets
of Middletown, Conn, recently, had
somewhat demoralizing effect upon the
citizens of that place.
A RURAI. gentleman who visits Mem
phis occasionally is the observed OF all OBJ
servers while he is in town. He has his
name printed in white letters near the top
Of his boots, which are Of the knee-high
sort.
AN Austin New man, who was fined
$50 for sleeping on the sidewalk, re-
marked to the Judge that he must think
the sidewalk was a seventeen room suite
in the Palace Hotel when he charged that
price.
The time when man fully realizes
that woman's sphere should be enlarged
is when he finds that his washwoman has
mistaken his stockings for his shirt-bosom
and starched them ordingly.-N0rUich
Bulletin.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in France to
abolish the custom of shaking hands As
we never expect to run tor political
office, we don't care whether the custom
is abolished in this country or not.-Nor-
rtstoec1 Herald.
The receipts Of the Boston Base-Bau
Club for 1875 have amounted to S37, 1G7
and the expenses to $34, sos. A motion of
a stakeholder, at the last meeting, that a
dividend of 10 per cent. be declared was
negatiyed by vote Of ffty-seven to nine
ty-fVe.
CATS, foxes and weasels have always en-
ioyed The reputation of being remarkably
sly, and they no doubt deserve it; but
nothing can surpass the sIyness with
which woman, surprised by an unex-
pected caller, will slip a set OF. false teeth
into her mouth.-Brooblyn Argus.
Dr.. j. r. DEAN, Of Spartanburg, s. c.,
has an old colored woman on his place
near seventy years Old, who picked out
over :, 300 pounds of cotton this season,
oftentimes sitting in chair and moving
it along in the row, so as to be within
reach of the cotton, which she grasped
with nimble fingers and transferred to her
bag.
: BENJAMIN. shouted Mrs. Toodles to
her husband, who was going out of the
gate, bring me up five cents worth of
snuff when you come" " Snuff? Mrs
Toodles, snuff" he calculated, as he
paused with his hand on the latch; no,
no, Mrs. Toodles, the times aretoo hard to
admit of such extravaganza; you must
tickle your nose with a straw when you
wantto sneeze. ''-F'ult01 IN y Times.
SHERIFF MORRILL, having a couple of
crazy men to convey from the st. Adams
(Vt.) Jail to the Brattleboro asylum, the
other day, resorted to this strategy: He
called one aside and asked his aid in keep
ing watch OF the other on the journey, and
the man was overjoyed in having such
trust placed upon him. He then did the
same with number two, and started on the
train. The span of lunatics sat side by
side, silently eying each other through the
whole route, and they have continually
kept guard over each other in the asylum
ever since.
AN attempt similar to that of Thompson
Tor Thomassen) to destroy the Mosel was
made in 1856 upon the Vanderbilt steamer
Ariel, sailing from Bremen Haven. After
the vessel had left port she was signaled
to stop, and word was sent to the Captain
that two cases in the hold, marked as con-
tanning silks, held combustihles with
clock-work arrangement to ignite them
when the vessel was at sea. An examina-
ton proved the truth of the story, which
was disclosed by the couscious-stricken
mechanic who had made the boxes. The
guilty parties were father and son, the