Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Fate.
DESIRABLE bonds for exchange-Vaga-
bonds.
IT IS believed that base ball. as nation
al game, is on its home-stretch.
IN what ship has the greatest number
of people been wrecked? Courtship.
GooD jugglers-The pawnbrokers; they
keep their balls in the air all the time
JUST as she went away, August began
to grow warT-hearted and affectionate.
WAGON immigration across the plains
to Oregon this season is unusually large.
A TILTED one pathetically sings:
IT'S sweet to wait, but OH how bitter,
To wait for a girl and then not git 'er.
THE Courier-JOurnal says 1.-the Bank of
California has experienced a slight
cramp."
ANTHRACITE coal of a good quality has
been discovered about twenty-five miles
north of Deeth, New.
"THUs far and no father''-as the child
in the founding hospital remarked when
he was five years old.
THE oyster that would have poisoned
you on the 31st of August will nourish you
on the 1st of September.
IT has been found that in nearly every
civilized country the tree that bears the
most fruit for market is the axle-tree.
DIR. HAMMOND says that for sudden
attack of burglar nothing is more effica-
cious than Galena pills applied exter-
nally.
THE editor of the Providence Press
wears kid plaster on his bald head, and
the flies have "ResoZ0ed, That some folks
are born mean and can't help it,"
SNAKES are good for something, after
all. One killed and cut open in the Lee
high Mountains the other day was found
to contain a quantity of potato bugs.
TEXAS is going to get up lottery and
raise funds for a monument to Sam Hous-
ton, Those who don't strike prize can
take it out in cursing Sans memory.
"MA," inquired little West-Side girl,
last evening, brushing her hand across
her face, "what makes musk-eaters come
and eat US? We amt musk-melons!"-
Chicago Journal.
A NEW fuel, composed Of common ma
tive peat saturated with crude or refuse
petroleum and coated with rosin, is here
after to be used by the New York Fire
Department in place of camel coal
A ST. LOUIS physician has offered re-
ward of $1,000 for an authenticated case
Of death from eating ripe watermelon. He
may supplement the offer by another of
$1,000 for watermelon he will call ripe
THERE comes report from woman in
New York of woman who sheds tears
over the perusal of the City Directory
She weeps because it refers to a number
of men, alas! who have never been in love
with her.
A VILLAGE pedagogue, in despair with 6
stupid boy, pointed to the letter A and
asked him if he knew it. eyes, sir
"Well, what is it?'' Il know him very
well by sight, sir-.but rat me if l can re-
member his name"
A FLOCK Of $500 sheep at Mission San
Jose, Cal, got frightened, recently, and
ran into patch ofpoison oak. Here they
got tangled and piled one on another in
layers six or eight deep, and some zoo
were smothered or crushed to death.
THEcelebrated boiling spring of Pagosa
at Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Col, is
an immense caldrcn of water sixty by
eighty feet. The water is remarkably
clear and of unknown depth. 1t is prob
ably the largest spring in the world.
A CONSCIENTIOUS young trotting horse
at San Francisco, unwilling to aid in
swindling the public, took the bit between
his teeth on the first day he was trained,
swan into the sea and drowned himself
The driver escaped. The sad events have
cast gloom over the community.
1T has never been accounted for, and
probably never will be, why a boy who
will eat four meals, play ball three hours,
gorge himself with unripe fruit and go in
swimming six times daily during all va
cation and be healthier than tomb
stone, will be seized with all sorts of
maladies the very moment the schooI-bell
rings.
THERE has resided near the Stone Cor
raj, in this county, for number of years,
an old man by the name of Barber, who
made VOW many years ago, when Henry
Clay was candidate for President that
he would never cut his hair until Clay
was President This old man has lived
the life of hermit, and last week he
went over to Marysville and was found
dead in bed. The machine had run
down, and he passed to the other side to
join his great idol Clay, but his VOW
was never broken.-Caletso (CaZ.) San,
dag. 81.
A Boston drummer, with ears large
enough to hang carpet-bag on, took the
noon express for Hartford. Taking his
seat besides beautiful, but, as he thought,
rather green, country girl, he endeavored
! TO draw her into conversation. After
making several remarks about the weather,
lateness Of the season, ETC., he told her he
had always lived in the city and was
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