Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A KANSAS man recently lost his arm
through the bite of a horse.
THE Weep esldent's illness was caused
by taking a bath. Moral-Never battle.
WHEN a lawyer makes love the first
thing he does is to get out an attach
ment.
A DENvERITE has collected the rattles
of 700 snakes and takes great pride in ex-
hibiting them.
CHR1srMAs is coming, and when the
roll IS called that morning every little
child should be able to answer, "Pres-
emit"
FIVE young American ladies have late
" received honor certificates" from
the examiners Of the University of Ok
ford, England.
SOME Icelandic ~colonists on the shores
ofLake Winnipeg, in Canada, have taken
up a tract Of 1000 miles, fifty miles along
the shore and twenty miles inland.
Two M A HAL acres of rock, at Hell
Gate, are to be lifted, next Fourth of July,
with $4,000 pounds of nitro-gIycerine.
Somebody will be very apt to get hurt.
SANTA Rosa, Cal, claims to have the
largest eucalyptus tree in the State. 1t
was planted fifteen years ago and is now
40 feet in height and two feet IN diane
ter.
WYOMING TERRITORY has no public
debt and $4,000 are slowed away in the
Treasury for a rainy day. The assessed
value of property is 1904, 900, an in
crease Of $4,000, 900 in the past two years.
THIS is the kind Of weather that makes
the dashing young man wish that instead
of spending a dollar and d half for that
massive ~diamond-pin last summer he had
judiciously invested it in a pair of winter
drawers.-N0rlGGch Bulletin.
THREE young boys were arrested at
Yamaska, Quebec, a few days ago for
piling logs on a railroad track " to see
the cars jump" the cars !" Jumping and
killing some twenty people. On account
Of their tender years they were held ire
sponsible and discharged.
THE great astronomer of Paris, Leverrier,
who discovered the planet Neptune, which
could eat up this little earth of ours and
not suffer from indigestion in consequence,
has made a prediction which is note
worthy. 1t is that the winter of 1876
will be uncOmmOnly severe. Enormous
quantities of snow are to fall in December
and January.
4 Gur 7 AJrT- T,ay,ar rovy1. - Il $780, T..
Of interest to d large number Of young
gentlemen and ladies in this city Just now
to know that there is no Marriage law in
the Territory. Simply standing up in the
presence of your mother-in-law and say
ing: Sal, let's hitch OF, 'Jerusha, let's
go pards for life, constitutes a legal mar
riage and doesn't cost a cent"
HIRAM S. BEERS, n of the original pro
prictors of the Boston Herald, is now a
type-setter in the Office of that paper. 4
few days ago he had the pleasure Of set
ting d take from an article printed in the
Hcrald thirty-eight years age, which he
recognized as having been set by him
when it first appeared. The take came to
him the second time in the usual way-by
lot.
QUITE q stir has been created in Paris
by the refusal ofthe Government to recog-
nize a title Of nobility conferred by the
Pope, or to permit the newly-made noble
man to bear it at all. It says that the
Pope is 10 longer 4 temporal sovereign,
and has no right to confer titles of nobility
which shall come in competition with
those granted by the monarchs of the
earth.
A MALICIOUS attempt has been discovered
to stop the working of two of the Western
Union Telegraph company's wire be-
tween San Francisco and Sacramento by
wrapping them with fine wire one end of
which Was fastened to a nail driven into a
tree in such q manner that it could not be
seen by the line-men. It twas several days
before the difficulty was discovered. The
company. offers a reward Of $3.50 for the
arrest and conviction of the person or per-
n The act is a penitentiary offense.
AT a festival at a reformatory institu-
ton, recently, q gentleman said, Of the
u + of the use of intoxicating drinks 81
Overcame the appetite by a recipe given
to me by old DR.. Hatfield, one of those
good old physicians who do not have a
percentage from a neighboring druggist.
The prescription is simply an orange ev-
cry morning a half hour before breakfast.
Take that, said the doctor, and you
will neither want liquor nor medicine I
have done so regularly, and find that liq-
uor has become repulsive. The taste of
the orange is in the saliva of my tongue.
and it would be as we'll to mix water and
oil as rum with my taste.''
THE following sad tale of disappoint-
ment is told by the Portland (Me.) Press:
"A lady Of this city recently started to
ride from Boston to this city on a ticket
which read From Portland to Boston,
but the conductor said it wasn't good. and
she was obliged to purchase a new ticket.
On her arrival here her husband was very
indignant at the conductor, and decided to
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