Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FLOCK of sparrows got on grain
car at Boston and rode to Concord, N
H, where they have settled.
"VENUs, vidi, vici," as the photogra-
pher said when he caught the goddess on
the rapid transit.
AN Arkansas grocer has been sent to
the Penitentiary for six years for shoot
ing man who kept helping himself to
the crackers"
THERE is happy couple in the First
Ward of Syracuse, n. i. They have
thirteen children, the eldest of whom
is ten years old. Six pairs of twins are
among the number, and the thirteen are
girls
g CAN'T say as he went to heaven
remarked a Fort Scott citizen Of de-
ceased townsman, "but he paid bill of
eleven years standing only the day be-
fore he died, and you can Judge for your
self"
THE New Zealand Government has
sent special agents over to England for
the purpose of collecting q quantity of
small birds of various kinds, and col
ony of humble bees, for introduction into
that country.
a GUEST at hotel in Lewiston Me,
fearful of thieves, placed his money in
the toe of his boot, and, forgetful, placed
his boots outside his door to be BACKED.
1t may seem strange, but he got that
money again at the office.
THE San Francisco Chronicle dropped
into poetry and welcomed King Kalakaua
thus:
Hoky, poky, winky, wank,
Wen honor the King if we bust bank
To give him a welcome due the rank
Of the King of the Cannibal Islands
THE New York Egening Post thinks
that horseback riding is very well for
those hardened to its use, but for people
who have to eat their dinner off the
mantelpiece after the exercise, they will
find it can unnatural motion" and ex-
hausting to stamina and vitality.
THE editor of a journal in New York
thus appeals to the better nature of his
delinquent subscribers: ''To all those
who are in arrears one year or more, who
! will come forward and pay up, we will
| give them f1rst-class obituary notice
gratis in case it kills them"
Mrs. EX-JUDGE PRATT, of San Fran
cisco, sues for divorce and alimony of
81, 900, 600. If some of the wives of us
fl lows would only sue US for divorce
and that amount, now, get both and mar
ry US again, what big thing it would be
for the family!-St LOUIS Republican,.
CHEERING-The New York Times says:
1t seems to be the general opinion of
our tradespeople that better business
has seldom been done at this time of
year than that which is now going on
The influences Of the holiday season are
opening the hearts and pockets of all
classes, and for the present stagnation in
trade has disappeared, we hope not to
return"
ANGORA, generally celebrated for cats,
is town of Asiatic Turkey, 215 miles
from Constantilople. It contains the
ruins of ancient Byzantian architecture
and Greek and Roman relics. Just at
present Angora is in great distress,
being upon the point of starvation The
Sultan of Turkey, a monarch not gener.
ally credited with charity to his subjects,
has contributed 100000 for the relief of
its inhabitants-an act which greatly re-
bounds to his credit.
THERE are various ways of obtaining
money in this wicked world, and perhaps
as agreeable mode as any is that of ap-
Quoting heiresses. So thought, at least,
Mr.. William Timms, of Idebury, Oxon,
England, aged fifty-six, as he ran off with
Miss Annie Sophia Power Turner, aged
fifteen years, daughter of William
Power Turner, Esq, Of Field Terrace,
Bath Road, Worcester, gentleman. A
few days elapsed when the anguish of
the parents was still further heightened
by the receipt of note asking forgive
ness and mentioning casually that the
young woman had been married at Dover
to William Timms aforesaid. The young
lady is the presumptive heiress to large
fortune and the old reprobate now lies
in dungeon awaiting the sentence of
the law upon his mercenary and heart
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