Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ever.
a PHILADELPHIA doctor pronounced it
an e electric fit" the Coroner's jury rem
dered a verdict accordingly, and the poor
man went to his grave with that terrible
stain ON his character.
AN elephant is 1928 times larger
than flea, but yet there are women who
growl at paying two shillings to visit
menagerie and will urn a feather bed
over for half day to hunt flea.
A PHILADELPHIA man says that when
his wife gets up in the morning with a
jerk and, neglecting to do up her hair,
goes silently about her work she is mate
rializing her domestic row, which before
night will shake the house to its founda-
tions.
PROF. MORSE says that there are prob
ably not over 100 moose in Maine, where
not long ago they were annually killed
by the thousand. He thinks the species
will become suddenly extinct, the condi-
tons growing more and more unfavora-
BILE for its continuance.
THE young aspirant for journalistic
honors who came into our office four days
ago and wanted to learn to be reporter
has proved himself an interchangeable
worker. We sent him out after an item,
and he's been out after it ever since
| Nelo York Commercial AdUerttser.
You may go on inventing washing-ma-
chimes for the next fifty years, but to the
average eye you can't patent anything
equal to the sight of a lady's diamond
rings flashing in and out of the sparkling
suds as she humps wet towel up and
down the wash board.-DetrOGt free
| Press.
ALL accounts agree in describing the
weather on the North Atlantic this sea-
son as almost uneXampled in severity,
the prevailing winds being from the
| northwest, which reach to the height of
the hardest gale and blow with tremen-
dous fury, day after day, with scarcely
any cessation.
JONES and his beautiful bride are on
their way East, and the Nevada editors
are all wishing that "No cloud may ever
lower upon the path of the happy
couple" We take pleasure in adding
that any cloud associated with Jones
will be very likely to have silver lining.
brooklyn Argus.
If man finds himself "stuck" on a
one, five, or even a ten dollar bill he
stoically resolves to grin and bear it"
as it won't break" him, anyhow, but a
counterfeit $500 greenback is a disagree
! able thing to find in ones small change.
| A very we'll executed counterfeit of that
denomination has lately been discovered
| in circulation in Maine.
A FREsH-wATER clam, according to a
foreign scientific journal, was last year
shut up in perfectly dry drawer for 231
days, and then, being plunged into water
showed signs of remarkable activity.
This was during voyage from Australia
| to England On it's arrival at South
ampton, 498 days after leaving it's ma
tive marsh, it was again put into the
water, where it opened its valves and re-
| newed it's former habits as mollusk.
PROBABLY the largest elm ever eut In
the State was recently cut on his farm by
| Mr.. Harrison Farrar, of Paris, Me-,
and hauled to the Paris Hill Manufac
| turing Company. 1t scaled 1850 feet,
and 900 rings were counted from the out
side to within three inches of the center,
where they became too indistinct to be
counted. It was probably 800 years old.
A VERY hospitable lady, who does not
| live over fifty miles from Utica, gave a
party for her friends, among the young
misses and masters, the other evening.
Round dances were proposed, when the
| lady said: Il cannot allow you to have
any round dances. If any of the boys
wish to hug the girls, let them sit down
upon the tetes and go right at it in earn
est, but-no round dances, mind you"
| Wasn't that sensible?
A LITTLE six-year-old girl in Monroe
went into a store where her father was
the other day, and, slyly approaching
him, said: Papa, won't you buy me
new dress?" What buy you a new
dress, Susy?" eyes, papa, won't you?"
"Well, I'll see; I'll speak to your mother
about it." Elongation to an alarming ex-
tent rapidly spread over that little coun-
tenance, but a thought suddenly struck
her, and with smile she looked up into
her fathers face and said: "Well, papa,
if you do speak to mamma about it, do
it easy, or she may want the new dress
herselfp' The father at once saw the
point, and the new dress was purchased.
-L5ttlet0n (Aass.) Republic.
JENNIE JUNE's notion of sleigh-ride
isn't bad: Young ladies snugly wrapped
up in white buffalo robes, their bright
faces peeping out from abundant wrap
pings, have been taken through the park
to High Bridge by devoted cavaliers,
and there RECALLED with the customary
hot lemonade and mince pie, while
laughter and sleigh-bell, all through the
night, waking one not unpleasantly,
though at unseemly hours, out OF quiet