Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


SOMETIMES gets out of temper-Steel.
A PAIR of pinchers- Those tight boots.
THE hardest part of the cradle-The
rock
OFTEN "hauled over the coals'-The
poker.
EMILY FAITHFUL does not believe in
wearing Grape.
A BAwL of worsted-The cry of
spanked child.
BUSINESS when fiat on its back of course
has to look up.
THE bears IN Montana are alternating
under SIX feet of snow.
There were Al, 400 deaths from cholera
in Syria the past summer.
IF you find it hard splitting wood, sup
pose you split the difference.
BoNNETs with capes are beginning to
make their appearance again.
THE young French ladies do not, in
skating, exchange word with their part
ners.
WEAK men are the hardest to control.
They have no more backbone than an an
gleworm.
THE man who was asked TO sing a solo
said he would if his friend would help
him duet.
The old custom of having wedding in
vitations given orally by the bride herself
is again being revived.
WHY must the letter cd" be the most
wonderful letter in the alphabet? Because
it is the center of " wonder"
AT recent fair held in Baltimore a
chair was voted to the LATEST policeman,
but he was too lazy to accept it.
A HORSE was sold at the market at OF
tawa, Canada, for the sum of one dollar,
that being the only bid for him.
THE Ssloer World published at Lake
City, Col, was started before the town
had Postoffice, and the editor carried
his earlier editions about 100 miles to mail
them.
THERE is an ola lady in the vicinity of
Old Fort, N. c., who has, with the assist
ance Of large dog, captured two or three
escaped convicts, delivered them to the
officers and received the reward.
IT does not follow that man is a Chris
tan because he accepts creed and at
tends fashionable church any more than
that he is a gun because he swallows the
physicians powders.-N. 7. Herald
A PARIS letter says that the Americans
are not at all behind the Russians as &C
complished skaters, and there are two or
three Americans in Paris who can hold
their own with the best of the world.
A YOUNG man in San Francisco, shoe
maker named E. Remer, who had been
rejected by the girl he loved, put an end
to his life by swallowing a quantity of
laudanum. He fled to poppy when she
declined to refer him to pappy.
A sYLPH-LTKE lady school-marm, in
Yonkers, N. Y, lately whipped thirty-fve
school children one forenoon for refusal
to learn their geography lesson. Then
she kicked the stove over, slammed the
door of the house from its hinges and
walked home like queen of victory The
children say that her touch was warmer
than the thickest wooden drawers, and
that her arm moved liked the hind leg of
a mule
THE following almost incredible state
ment is copied from the Providence Press:
Hannah Percell carried away few
yards of cotton waste from the shop of B.
f. Almy, day or two ago, and this morn
ing the case was tried in the Justice
Court. The value of the waste was nine
cents, and Hannah said she carried it
home to wash, as she used it for neck
cloths while in the shop. Hannah has
worked for Mr.. Almy nearly twenty years.
Judge Randolph fined her one cent and
costs" The Danbury Nea0s says this is
about the meanest thing we ever read of ~
THERE is more or less incredulity of the
centenarians so frequently reported
nowadays. 1t is certainly true that peo-
pie are living longer, or the newspapers
are more industrious in finding out the
old ones, or there is more lying on the
subject of old age, than formerly The
State census in New York, this year,
shows 100 people in that State who are
over 100 years old, which is nineteen
more than were found ten years ago.
Brooklyn has several of the oldest, includ-
ing the very Oldest, Sarah Hicks, aged
ia. About half of the whole number
were foreign born, twelve were colored,
and two Indians
A GENTLEMAN named Wall, residing at
Phenixville, has several very fine canary
birds which he has given much attention.
One of the birds he has taught to sing
" Home, Sweet Home" clearly and dis
tinctly. His mode of instruction is as
follows: He placed the canary IN a room
where it could not hear the singing OF
other birds, and suspended its cage from
the ceiling so that the bird would see its re-
Election in a mirror. Beneath the glass
he placed musical-box that was regu-
lated to play no other tune but Home,
Sweet Home" Hearing no other sounds
but this, and believing the music pro-
ceeded from the bird it saw in the mirror
the young canary soon began to catch the
notes, and finally accomplished what its
owner had been laboring to attain, that Of