Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE first grain elevator south of the
Ohio River has just been erected at
Louisville.
CHAIRS and sofas stuffed with aromatic
herbs, (which fill the air with an agreea-
bic, but not too powerful, Perfume is the
latest Partisan folly.
In excavating for ore at Salisbury,
Conn, the other day, the Workmen found
layer Of frost, two inches thick, fourteen
feet below the surface.
DON'T you think things look blue 90
said a man to Spilkins yesterday. "That's
just azure inclined to look at them" re-
piled the incorrigible Leander
RoEDERER said constitution should
be Short" and he would have added
" clear" but Talleyrand interrupted and
said: & Yes, short and obscure"
HAS anybody ever explained why a
young man who is going to be married
invariably casts a gloom over the occa-
sion by having his hair cut, and short?
AN Emperor respectfully asking a Par
lament to give him vacation for eight
cen months, as just seen in Brazil, is pre-
emlnently a nineteenth century spectacle.
NEVER speak harshly to hack-driver.
Though he may not be an orphan, he will
answer you in language SO meek and
gracious as to make you feel ashamed of
yourself.
NAPOLEON ", like other modern
Princes, is going to take tour round the
world. He cannot take one of his papa's
iron-clads for the purpose, however, for
several reasons.
A LAW in Nebraska requires every busl-
ness firm to register its name and kind of
business, and the name of each member
of the firm, with the County Clerk, under
penalty Of 81 900 fine.
THE managers of a New York cemetery
recently gave an excursion to a lot of
jovial undertakers. This is getting the
popular weakness down among the dead
men with vengeance.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD girl of Westfeld,
VT, weighs Ill pounds, measures three
feet six inches around the waist, thirty
six inches around the chest and twenty-five
inches around the head
DIR. CUISINE, of Hanover, n. H., has
been taken to the asylum as hopelessly in
sane. The developments Of his malady
were peculiar. He went about the street
blanketing all the horses he found.
THE good boy who goes home and tells
his mother how he rebuked his cOmpan-
ion for robbing birds nests will perhaps
pass the pantry twenty times that very day
and still find it locked. How ignorant
parents are, and how little they under
stand their children!
AS A passenger train halted at Laramie
the other day for dinner an insane woman
leaped from one of the cars, threw her
babe into a mud puddle and ran frantical-
ly up one of the streets, bowling as she
went. The mother and her infant were
placed aboard the train again,
WILD pigeons, though of late years not
so numerous III Connecticut as they used
to be forty years ago, when they came by
! the hundred thousand, are nevertheless
reported to be plenty just now, in certain
regions. Two of their famous localities
are CRANKY and Simsbury.
IT is rather surprising, writes Paris
correspondent, to see how the dress of
even the most fashionable American la
dies at home occasionally differs from the
Partisan model, which they all profess to
copy. For instance, party Of elegant
and wealthy New Workers arrived in Eu-
rope about six weeks ago, all wearing
bonnets with immensely-broad, turned-up
brims, the like of which had never been
seen in Paris during the entire season.