Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

are employed in stealing cotton.
j. W. GERRIrH, of Lebanon, n. H., re-
Gently lost his cow by her pulling back in
the stall SO hard as to break her back.
A PARTISAN hat lately imported had for
ornaments twenty ostrich feathers, ten
small wings and four humming birds.
THERE are very considerable forests
everywhere in France, and yet that
country produces only one-half of the fuel
she uses
A MAN OF PARTs-The hair-dresser.-
New York Commercial. And also the
Judge in the Divorce Courts.
Express.
A ST. LOUIS paper gravely asserts that
there will be very little change in panta-
looms this seasonal strong evidence of
hard times.
THE Sandusky Register has decided that
writing two poems per year and catching
fish the rest of the time cannot justly be
called literary pursuit.
AN English Judge has decided that
crying baby may come under the head of
"a public nuisance Crying babies will
govern themselves accordingly.
A WASHINGTON authority estimates that
in 400 years from now the entire stock of
fuel in the country will be exhausted.
Some of US will be dead by that time.
People can bring to bear On babies a
very considerable amount of patience
when they are abundant IN their own
households. Otherwise they are nuisances
THE original hemlock-log foundations
of Long Wharf, in Boston, were uncovered
the other day, and found to be as sound as
when they were first put down 1874 years
ago
BROOM CORN is being extensively raised
in Kansas-nOt on broom sticks in the
arbitration of family disputes-but on a
large extent of the soil for shipment and
manufacture.
EVERY season brings its own pleasures
and luxuries. For instance: The de-
Gcious ice-cream no sooner steps down
and out than the fragrant saur- kraut puts
IN an appearance.
THE English Postoffice author have
just returned number Of newspa pers to
tins country because the parties sending
them had written initials and brief mes
sages on the wrappers.
AN advertisement reads: when you
travel take the Pan Handkerchief Many
man has been utterly routed by the pan
handle-with a lively and mad woman at
the other end of it.-Dan6ury Ne,os
GIRL was recently on exhibition in
Charleston, s. c., having four well-deveI-
0ped legs and feet, the two central ones
being somewhat smaller than the outer.
She eats four hearty meals every day.
A SWARM of bees was recently "taken
up" IN Lancaster, Pa, that had been at
work in the same tree for fourteen years,
and had never sWarmed during that time
Over 400 pounds of honey was recovered.
EVIL is predicted for Queen Victoria if
she continues to hold on to the Kohl
moor diamond. 1t is to be hoped that
there is nothing ominous about the dia-
monds worn by our American hotel
clerks
BAD cooking poisons more people than
all the nauseous drugs ever administered
to poor humanity, and it affords the re-
mote cause for the employment Of two
thirds of the divorce lawyers IN existence.
-EGchaHge
RIGHT in the shadow of the honest milk
man a mean spirited cynic sits and says:
Thirteen million mich cows IN this
country assist TO color the water for which
the average American citizen pays eight
cents quart
THE Moulton House, of Hampton, for
merly hotel was the first house in New
Hampshire, if not in New En-
gland, to be painted white, the paint
being imported from England expressly
for the purpose.
WHEN Eve brought 40 to all mankind,
Old Adam called her aco-mGn;
But when she aCooed with love so kind,
He then pronounced it ,Coo-mGn:
But now with folly and with pride,
Their husbands pockets trimming,
The ladies are so full of tUhinaS,
The people call them 1china-nlen.
IT was young and not at all good
looking lady who yesterday stepped out
of a Third avenue car and disappeared
into store in the Bowery after apologiz-
ing to the conductor for asking him to
wait while she purchased eight yards OF
muslin and materials for a winter dress.
g was back in less than ten minutes"
she subsequently complained to an aston
ished policeman, "but the car was gone"
-Neao York Sun
MANS inhumanity to woman was strik-
ingly illustrated at Worcester, Mass, a
few days since, where a woman was ar
rested and tried for talking to her hus-
band in a loud tone of voice." The re-
port of the case says the woman was &C
Quilted; but it leaves US in painful sus-
pense as to whether the jury found she
had not talked in loud tone of voice or
whether the Court decided such talking
not to be an offense.
PEOPLE live longer than they did when