Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AN Art Union-A love marriage.


HE best Of nurses-Mother Nature. 4
SKATING Kinks are ali the rage in En-
gland.
WHEN does laborer do the best dig
ging' When he's spade by the day. 3
WHAT world of sorrow is contained in
the simple item &" A poor, houseless I'D
man"
WHEN the Declaration of Independence
was signed there was not a bank Ia
America, .yeIfefTsFu
r Il MONTREAL physician, asking for the
renewal of note, writes: 1--WE are il
horrible crisis; there is not sick man in
the district"
AN itinerant preacher from Ohio has
been holding open air meetings IN Bal
timore, near the City Hall, his ctief OBJ
ject being, confessedly, to convert the city
officers.
WHAT is there in the constitution of a
baby tEat prompts it to lay asleep ali day
in order to set good square opportunity
Of believing the roof of the house off at
midnight?
BROOKLYN is the home of a charming
girl with face so sunny and alluring ;hat
an old gentleman recently said to her: IF
kisses had been entirely unknown she
would have invented them"
| A WRITER in Fraser remarks that aman
| is man whether he be bachelor or bene-
dick; whereas a woman may only be
properly so-called when she has fulfilled
her desti ny as wife and mother. ..
You would not think from the way that
some people strut around and lord it over
others that all men have sprung from one
or the other of the three brothers who
climbed down. from the ark
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that
/ young men from nineteen to twenty five
ought to be put under barrel. It does
seem as if the average young man about
that period in his life should have head
! put on him. ESQ, $. ..-.... s.s...l.s,.
THE German woman is described as
absolutely contented with her lot, de-
| spising the frivolity Of the French, the
freedom of the English and the fearless
strides and absolute independence of the
American women
NEVER presume to shake hands with a
red-hot poker until you have been prop
erly introduced A little politeness on
the part of one and all # US in matters of
this kind will do much toward improv-
| ing the civilization OF the nineteenth cen
fury.
| IN the Hartford Courant of a century
ago is an advertisement of runaway
wife, wherein the deserted husband deli
cately speaks of her merely as having
" behaved verie odlY." It might be we'll
to adopt that substitute for the too-plain
| language of to-day. st#
| THE Communists at Wallingford, Conn,
are about to start university, in which
will be taught printing, book binding,
stereotyping, electrotyplng, engraving,
| hygiene, commercial transactions, agri-
culture, wood working, machine bust
ness, domestic industry, Journalism, Com
munism, etc.
The Woman Suf1ragists of New Ha-
| ven, are discussing the question: Are
| the women of the country more respon-
| sible than the men for the extravaganza
of the times 2" But to a thoughtful mind
it would seem that as long as men don't
wear eighteen yards Of cloth in their pan
| falcons there's not much need Of consid
ering the matter seriously Bul-
JetSn.
AS the space set apart in the Exhibi-
ton building for the American book -trade
has been found to be inadequate, it has
been proposed to double the space for
books by erecting an ornamental struct-
ure of iron, forming a second floor over
the entire space, reached by staircases on
either side. A willingness has been ex-
pressed by the leading publishers to share
| the expense Of $4,000 for this structure.
A CASE of chronic laziness is reported
at Washington. Ayoung man appointed
to clerkshipin the Treasury Departln ent
! was conducted to his desk and informed
what his duties We're. The chief of the
department discovered him, short time
after, comfortably reposing in his seat
with his feet Enthusiastically resting on
the desk. "Hellor said the chief; don't
you expect to do any work ?" Work
be hangedn' exclaimed the astonished
youth; / had to work hard enough to get
here" .a DISC
The Messenger du MIDI states that
merchant vessel arrived at Marseilles
lately, laden with sugar, from Batavia.
" While in the act of unloading the work
men suddenly left their task, and, rush
ing up to the deck. gasped out inaIticu-
late words. Among the hampers they
had found three immense boa constructors
These reptiles seemed to wake from
state Of lethargy, snd advanced toward
the terrified men, who had only just time
to hoist thems selves On deck and close the
matches. The Captain was, Of course
Obliged to suspend the operation Of IN
loading and to look for the means Of get
ting rid Of these strange passengers. Two
pigeons were poisoned with strychnlne
and dropped into the hold They were
GGTn1-rp6 Of I,,t !