Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ALL work on the Hoosac tunnel has
been completed.
If you want to commit suicide keep
on chewing down cloves.
UNIFORMED pages or bell-bOys are
employed at leading Eastern hotels.
THE Turkish army is reported to be
well trained and highly disciplined.
A DELAWARE horse prefers ice
cream to oats. He's human in that
respect.
THE true gentleman needs no pla-
card to announce his breeding. Meth
er does an ill-bred man.
THE mountains east of Winnemuc-
ca, Cal, are covered with snow to a
depth Of several inches.
STYLISH lunatics at the seaside do
not call it a button-hole" bouquet any
more, but a boutO2a7riere.
THE ancient mariners at MARTHA S
Vineyard say that blue-fshing was
never better than it is this season.
If we could only manage to have no
weeds go to seed how soon we would
have a final triumph over this enemy.
THE millionaires Of the Nevada gold
regions are noted chiefly for their pos
sessions Of mines and ragged clothes.
THE most joyous and gladstone ma
lures are those most keenly alive to
impressions Of reverence, wonder and
awe.
WOMEN who work find no task
masters SO bitterly harsh, so unchari-
table, as those of their own sex.-Roch-
ester Union.
''MEN who quarrel with their bread
and butter nowadays must expect to
starve," says the New York CONNER
ci0l Advertiser.
"TIME and my right" is the motto
Of SerYia. A little harder fighting
could be thrown in around that motto
and not hurt it any.
MOB law is not right, but if the
tramps come about the premises of a
farmer, tell them to ''get up and get"
and enforce it with a stiff-toed boot
OF mild shOt-gun.-IO1OaS State Regis
ter
SOME observer has noticed that es-
pecially wicked men are always giving
vent in their public speeches to such
expressions as "Thank Cod" Heaven
be praised and I'm the mercy of
Providence
HERE is hot work. Says a late Bos>
ton Herald; cat 1920 last evening
the mercury in the editorial room of
this office stood at ninety-six deg; in
the lower composing room at 100 deg,
and in the upper composing room at
104 deg.
By the time railroad conductor has
sailed down enough to make him COM
Portable for life, the company general
ly discharge him and take on a man
who is poor, and who, consequently,
has everything useful and needful yet
to obtain.
PROF. Gross, of Philadelphia, writ
ing about American progress in sur
gerry since 1916, expresses the opinion
that surgeons treat fractures and dis
locations more scientifically than in
other countries, and makes substan-
TALLY the same claim as to general af-
fections of the joints and amputations.
THEY have queer way of quieting
title to land in dispute in Hindoostan.
Two holes are dug in the contested
premises, in each of which the law
yers on either side put a leg, which
remains there until one of them is
tired, or complains Of being stung with
insects, in which case his client is de-
feated. In this country it is the client,
not the lawyer, who "puts his foot in
it,
AN exchange paper describes the
appearance and character of the Hes
sian fly as follows: The fly itself is
black, dusky wings, brown legs and
black feet. The eggs are of a pale red
color, are deposited on the plant, be-
tween the leaf and the stalks. With
warm weather they hatch out in four
or five days, and the maggots do the
damage. They work their way into
the root just below the surface of the
ground, abstracting the substance
from the plant. They are about the
size and have the appearance of flax
seed.
THE Buffalo EgpresS predicts that
the suspension bridge over the Niaga-
ia river is going to fall, one of these
days, not from any defect in construc-
ton, but simply because iron suspend
ed, either horizontally or vertically, Ill
timately becomes granulated and brit
tie, and, in this state, breaks easily by
vibration, while to this change in
structure is to be added the inevitable
weakening of the iron by the alternate
contraction by cold at temperature of
twenty-five degrees below zero, and the