Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OWN light.
Is THERE word in the English lam
guage which contains all the novels :?
Unquestionably.
AN old farmer once said, with more
truth thar elegance: "There are two talks
in this world to one do"
A CINCINNATI girl accidentally cut her
tongue off, and all the young men are try
| ing to shine up to her now.
The Cuban lottery-drawings have about
drawn off, fools in general being too poor
to throw away any more money.
GIRLS be true, be honest, and you
To the altar will some day be carried;
And then you can work
For red-headed clerk,
And be sorry you ever got marned.
IT is very convenient Just now to brush
up the acquaintance Of all your Philadel-
phia friends. They will no doubt be
pleased to see you-in Halifax.-TToy
Times.
The King of Ashantee has palmed off
some adulterated gold on England liz the
payment of his indemnity, and England
doesn't know but she'll have to put
Ashantee over his eye again.
THE Smithsonian Institution is making
collection Of specimens of all the ami
mails of the United States that are hunted
or trapped for economical purposes; and
also Of the different apparatus used in
their capture by hunters trappers and
sportSmen.
MOLLIE STOCKTON, of Winnemucca,
New, publishes card in the SGlUer State,
explaining why she was compelled to
"put head" on her schoolmaster. Mol
lie says: Although I am only fifteen
years of age, am we'll aware that the
poor female is too often trampled down
without just cause.'
A LITTLE boy said to his mother the
other morning: Ma, had the beautiful
est dream last night you ever saw. I
dreamt that [ wouldn't go to school, and
that you went out into the yard and cut
great long switch, but just as you was
world came to an end. Didn't I get out
it easy, thOugh?''
a Two YOUNG men were passing along
Washington street the other day, when
the attention of one became directed to
newly-married couple who were ap-
preaching on the opposite side of the
street, and the gaze of the other was at
tracted by a poster headed "Elixer."
The one whose attention was chained by
the advertisement remarked, sententiOus-
ly: Elixer." THE old Harry he does!"
exclaimed the other in establishment; and
it was some time before the two could
come to an understanding in the mattex.
SCENE in Paris: Nine. x. has recently
engaged a waitress, who has been particu-
larly recommended for her honesty ana
other good qualities On coming home
the other day she found that her desk, in
which she was in the habit of keeping
money, had been opened and hundred
franc note distracted Nine. x. told her
husband and he instructed her what share
to take in the dinner conversation, by
which he thought the money could be
quietly recovered. At dinner, in the
presence of the waitress, Nine. x. said to
her husband: "Have you seen M.
Durand this morning." Ono, my dear,
it is impossible to see M. Durand Just at
present. Why so?'' His mornings
are now passed in the criminal court on
account Of the recent thefts perpetrated by
his cook. Unfortunate girl to steal 100
demned to the galleys." "To the gal
leys?" asked his wife ooh, yes; for
that matter, have heard OF persons being
guillotined for less than that" Nothing
more was said at dinner; but one hour
later the bank-note was found returned to
its proper place in the desk.
QUITE serious acc ident occurred on
the Capitol grounds yesterday afternoon
at five o'clock, in which Rufus Wall and
Jack Woody, two convicts, were badly
injured. The squad Of prisoners working
on the east side of the grounds, under the
bluff overhanging Park street, had ceased
work and were packing up their tools
when the accident occurred. Wall had
twenty-five pound keg of powder in his
hands when a spark of fire from the bluff
overhead flew into it, causing the powder
to explode, and throwing him dozen
feet in the air. His hands, arms and face
were burned very badly, and his clothing
set on fire; but, though his eyebrows
were burned off, his eyesight was not de-
stroyed. Woody Was stopping near him
in the act of picking up spade, and was
also injured. Both were wrapped up in
blankets and taken to the Penitentiary,
where their injuries were examined by
Dr. Jamison, the hospital physician. A
negro prisoner had ladder on his Shout
der within few feet Of the spot when
portion of the keg struck him. He
stumbled and fell, his hand being hurt in
the fall Wall and Woody were resting
easier last night, and no serious danger is
apprehended to either of them.-Nash-
ellie (Tenn.) american.
Horrors of the Slave Trade.