Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


CRANBERRIEs will keep fresh and good
all winter if kept in water.
TINS is the hottest and driest autumn
ever known on the Pacific coast.
THE latest weather prediction is that 1t
will blow great guns next Christmas.
AMONG the mineral treasures in the
Black Hills are mountains of isinglass.
THE last census of the British Isles was
taken in asingle day, and cost $93O,O 900.
THE average flight of stairs makes the
most noise when you try to 60 easy on
them.
GOSSIP has been defined to be the put
TING of two and two together and making
five of them.
A RECENT writer says some plants have
sullen and awkward ways-dead beats,
for instance.
SINCE last January we have imported
$9O,O00,0OO worth of dry goods. There
are 100000 women in the country
Two CHILDREN were recently poisoned
in Ohio by eating fungus growth which
they found on stump. One of them
died
A MAN who has travelled says it didn't
take him long to find out that the brake
men own all the railroads and the clerks
all the hotels.
a SUGGESTIVE sight at Jacksonville,
Fla, lately, was three sharks swimming
after boat in which was seated a man
who had cut his foot.
THE Boston AdUertaSer tells an actress of
that city that among the rudiments she has
yet to learn is the fact that her nose is too
pretty to be talked through.
A Boston butcher has just received a
legacy of $4,000 ia recognition of his
kindness in sending a chunk of meat daily
for four years to the testator's cat
ACCORDING to a recent statement, pre-
pared for the Centennial, the Navy De
partment, since its organization, has cost
the Government total of 81, 900, 100000.
OwTNG to recent statements in regard to
the value of Missouri Pacific Railroad
stock it-has Topped down to nine cents on
the dollar, or fall of 30 per cent since
the summer-a most extraordinary col
lapse.
The Geographic administration in
France propose to encourage the introduce
ton of private wires, and to offer such
inducements that no great factory and no
rich mans house in the country shall be
without its means of communication with
the outside world
AT the recent session of the Kentucky
Conference of the Southern M. E. Church
resolution was adopted declaring that it
rejoiced in anticipation of the time
when the great Methodist churches of this
continent should everywhere, with true
Christian fraternal feeling, cooperate in
the great work Of the worlds conversion"
THERE is in Chicago a very interesting
relic of the great fire of 1871 in the form
of boy fourteen years old named Albert
Busy. He has never seen his parents
since that awful night, when hewas taken
from a burning house on West Van Buren,
street and carried along with the mad
dened, atfrighted tide of humanity which
rushed toward the lake, and does not with
certainty remember their Christian names.
A FRENCHNfAN said to an American:
"Tere is Won word in your language |
do not comprehend, and all re time Ihear
it. TattletoO, tattletoO-vat you means by
tattletoo?" The American insisted that
no such word exists in English. While
he was saying SO his servant came to put
coal on the fire, when he said: "There,
John, that'll do" The Frenchman
jumped up, exclaiming: ''Tare, tattletoo,
you say him yourself, sare; vat means
tattletoo?"
CANADIAN Postmasters are required to
remit quarterly the amount due the de-
partment, and in the mail containing the
remittance to send letter of advice, for
which blank is furnished. The Post
master at Ratham Center, not having a
blank, wrote the following: "To Post
merchandising by the Postoffice
regulations that am required to send you
a letter of advice, | must plead in excuse
that have been Postmaster but a short
time; but this l will say, if your office
pays no better than mine | advise you to
give it up"
AT a French village, the other day,
Nine. Rene, an English actress, at one
time popular in London, committed sui
eide in the role OF Ophelia. She was six
ty-five years old, and had lived in the vii
lage ten years. Nobody thought of ridi-
culing her odd ways and appearance, for
1t was well known that she had carried a
dead love in her heart for nearly half a
century. She had left London years be-
tore because her affianced married an
other woman. The last part she had
played on the London stage with him was
0phelia to his Hamlet, and what news had
come to her of him no one knew; but she
was found floating under the surface of
the river, her gray head decked out with
flowers
THE killing of R. P. Benton in game
of croquet at Titusville, Pa, was recently
announced It seems that Mr.. Benton
and a Mr. Strickland were playing to-
gether. Both gentlemen were on the
most friendly terms and were in the habit