Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I IL hoIhhh dSkeu HeT IlIIle daughter tC
do something, and the daughters response
was: " A general tiredness pervades me. ,
= Waterfront Refo7mer.
A PAPER speaks of some houses the
roofs of which are shingled with slate. ,
This is almost as good as the Hibernian
description of roof " -bottomed
in the top with sheet-tin."
The Poughkeepsie On. W Neos has
had slight misunderstanding with the
clergymen of that city because one OF
Its compositors made it announce them
as having convened at an infernaP' in.
stead of an " informal" meeting
Ibis is the season of the year when
the farmer tells his son John that if he
will sort over ten bushels of potatoes
feed the stock, repair that fence and re.
single the corn-crib he may have the
rest OF the day to go rabbit hunting.
! AN Eastern paper says that it cost them
two dollars to get a blacksmith to pry
open a Philadelphia charity-box, and
when. he got in it and emptied out four
cents the charity ladies, who had been
engineering that box for year, looked
an awful look at each other,
RosEBUDs, during the party season, are
| articles of no little Importance in the for
ist trade, and the high price asked for
rosebud" bouquets may be better &C.
| counted for when the cost at wholesale
of the raw material composing them is
considered. In New York, from 5000 to
10000 buds are daily sold, at prices rang
ing from $40 to $50 per 100.
WHEN John Chamberlain, the gambler
prince, was looking for a den for his
tiger in Washington, his first choice was
the old Madison mansion, on LAFAYETTE
Square, near the Arlington, now the res.
idence of Admiral Wilkes. The location
was by all odds the best in the city for
Chamberlain's purpose, and he made an
extremely liberal offer; but the sturdy
old Admiral, though anxious to sell on
account of pecuniary embarrassment. in
dignantly refused it when informed of
the use to which the house would be put
So shines good deed in naughty
world
THE original copy of the Declaration
of independence, which has been in the
Patent Office at Washington for years,
has faded so that the signatures are
scarcely visible, and skilled penman
is to go over the document with the aid
OF strong microscope and retrace all
the signatures SO as to make them dis
tinct and legible. One republican ma
ton has outlived ink-r1arks, and the old
Declaration of independence will proba-
bly, have to be retraced with pen and
ink a great many times before it's prin-
ciples shall lose interest in American
hearts. 81.
A WRITER says: "The memory comes
to me of DR.. Clement, who had a series
Of after-dinner graces, When he had
partaken of faultless repast he would
reward Mrs. Clement with a radiant
smile, and, turning his eyes upward, say
emphatically: "Thank God for an er-
ceZZe1at dinner A dinner of merit, though
of inferior excellence, was acknowledged
devoutly with: Thank God for good
dinner An ordinary regalement that
would Justify neither praise nor positive
reproof elected no heartier reproof than
well, / am thankful for my dinner.
But when the repast had consisted of
cold meats and unpalatable reproduc-
lions of yesterdays fare the worthy man
used to pray in a plaintively lugubrious
tone of grievance, as though he were
protesting against iIl-usage and implor-
ing an impossibility: May the Lord
make me thankful for aoIat I haze re-
cej0edP On hearing this dolorous en-
treaty Mrs. Clement seldom failed to de-
liver some equally appropriate and edi-
flying remarks on the sin of daintiness
But the hint was not thrown away. The
Doctors graces were Instructions to his
wife as well as thanks to Heaven"
HORACE MANN used to tell a story of
conversation he once had with an inmate
of a lunatic asylum at Worcester, Mass,
whose peculiar mania resulted from an
i1O1 uihe'0O OOFO1oEuACuG VI llC JUMP VI
self-esteem: whats the news? Has any
thing unusual happened of late, SIR" in
CURED he, with consequential air. Mr..
Mann happened to recollect that furious
storm had occurred few days previous,
gave him some account of it, mentioning
that on the sea-coast it was very severe,
several vessels having been driven
ashore and wrecked, with the loss of
many lives. "Can you remember, sir,
what night in the week all that hap
pened?" eagerly inquired the listener.
Mr.. Mann said ne believed it was the
night of Tuesday. "Ah!" said the
lunatic, with an air of solemnity, min
gled with triumph, and lowering his
voice to whisper, 81 can account for
it, sirl That is the night I whistled sc
I must be more careful in the future"