Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of marvelously small grain of religion.
WITHIN a few weeks discoveries of sill
yer deposits of great value have been made
| in Arizona
FOREIGN fruit is rapidly disappearing
from the United States markets and fruit
of domestic growth is taking its place.
THE streetsprinklers of Cleveland are
in danger. The mortality among children
there is charged to the continued damp
ness of the paved streets.
ENGLISH gardeners now gladly pay four
shillings each for toads. They find them
the cheapest and best destroyers of insects
which infest their plants.
A STATEMENT of the liabilities and as
sets of most of the suspended firms might
be summed up in the words: Much due,
about nothing - Commercial Advertiser.
A LITTLE Harrisburg (Pa.) chap found
hook and line and went fishing in the
yard. He caught something-his young
er brother-and surgeon got job of
cutting the hook out of the youngsters
nose.
THE little thirteen year-old girl who was
recently sentenced by an English magis-
trate to fourteen years in prison and four
years in the reformatory for plucking a
geranium has been released by the Home
Secretary.
THE problem of education becomes for
man the problem of self-education. He
who supposes that, at twenty or ffty-fve
ceived of the nature of education or the
purpose of life.
DON'T, says the Louisville Comier-Jour-
nal, sheer at the bad writing in newspa-
pers. 1t is often done in room where
four or five men are disputing about the
last great game of base-ball-a state of
affairs vastly worse than the toothache.
A TRAMP called at house in Norwich.
Conn.,, the other day, and, after being fed,
asked if the man of the house was at
home. mo-" replied she who had
served him, butI'll letyou know, mighty
quick, that the woman of the house is al
homen' and, taking down an old sword,
she started for him, but he escaped
SHE famed herself with her handker-
chief as she sat down on the stool in front
Of the soda fountain, and as the clerk was
drawing the sirup she turned to her
daughter, girl Of fifteen, and remarked:
"Now, Mary, be careful. Don't gulp it
down at three swallows and get exploded
all to pieces by gas, but sip, sip, and don't
run any risks"
AN English boy was fatally injured
through an act Of carelessness not at all
infrequent among farmers and cir boys
in this country. He was sliding down
the side of a hay-stack, when he struck
upon the prongs of a pitchfork leaning
against the stack. One prong entered his
back and broke off, leaving six inches of
steel imbedded in his body.
THERE was big rain in Providence,
R. l., on the 18th inst. A scientific OBJ
server, DR.. Caswell says that but one rain
in forty-one years has fallen at so rapid
rate, and then the amount was less, being
3.15 inches, while on that day the fall was
3.47 inches. In the first case, July II,
1920, the whole amount fell in an hour,
and on the 18th it was about an hour and
a half in falling.
A MAN who had been feeding thresh-
ing machine in McMinville, Tenn, the
other day, felt his pantaloons catch in the
machinery, and had just time to brace his
feet and hands against some firm object
near by in order to save his life. Fortu-
nately the pantaloons were of thin material
and gave way easily; the shirt followed,
and he was left standing with nothing on
but his shoes. Threshing machines, like
time and tides, wait for no man.
A LADY residing in Lansingburgh n.
Y, hailed a passing Car, with her little
son, the other morning, to see him safely
on the horse-car for trip to Troy. He
stepped on board, and scrambled for the
front Of the car. AS he was going his
mother said: "Why, aren't you going to
kiss your mother before you go?" The
little fellow was so delighted at the pros
pect of ride, and in such a hurry, that he
hastily reioined, looking back excitedly:
" Mr. Conductor, won't you kiss mother
for me?''
A YOUTH of highly-imaginative nature
in New Orleans recently saw red-headed
female Of uncertain age standing in front
of a mud-puddle in the street, and he thus
pours himself out in the New Orleans
Bulletin: "a fairer picture never haunted
the dreams of Raphael, and had she but
glanced downward and caught in the
shining water the reflection of her perfect
face, made lovely by dreamy, azure eyes,
and crown of such exquisite auburn hair
as one rarely sees, save on canvas, surely
the fate of Narcissus had been hers"
On the Boulevard DIES Italiens, in Paris,
the other day, a well-dressed man was OBJ
served walking alone. but with his left
arm extended and curved as though he
had given it to lady. He looked around
with an irritated air and suddenly adj
dressed@ person who had in passing al
most grazed him. Look out, you block
head, or you will hurt my wife" How,
your wife, said the other, astonished
!" Yes, my wife" was the reply, accom-
panied by blow. On being arrested and
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