Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Northern States and 181 in the Southern
States.
A PETRIFTED GIRL isn't of much &C
count, but they have recently found one
in an Arkansas cave.
MANY men and some women mistake
the won't power Tor strength OF Will, and
sheer ugliness for tirmness.
THE first man to die natural death in
the Black Hills was a Mr.. Hollenbeck.
His remains have arrived at Cheyenne.
AN author says that one Of the uses of
adversely is to bring US out. This is
Internationally at the knees and elbows.
THE saying that there is more pleas
ure in giving than receiving is supposed
to apply chiefly to kicks, medicine and
advice. "
WHEN William and Susan begin by
q billing in public the chances are ten
to one that ere the close of six months
they will wind up by suing"
LADIES have adopted the latest express
sion. When one wishes to express her
envy or contempt for rivals new dress
she whispers to a friend: Crooked"
"A VIOLENT and uncomfortable tenn
per-" was the reason assigned by a juror
at Boston for declining to serve. After
careful investigation the Court excused
him.
LITTLE Willie Featherston, Of Ridge
way, Ga, was eating an apple, and in cut
ting the core toward him the knife came
through and penetrated his breast, destroy
ing life instantly.
The London Builder speaks of a
" bricken" house. Very well; but it
ought. to have a rocken foundation, be
built on sander shore, and equipped
with zinken pipes.
. IT doesn't take me long to make up
my mind, | can tell your said conceited
flop. It's always SO where the stock Of
material to make up is SMALL" quietly re-
marked a young lady.
DYNAMITE is Dad thing to fling from
wagon. Since the Bremerhaven explo-
sion American baggage-smashers have
won eternal gratitude by the balmY man
ner in which theJ handle franks.
SMYTHE was telling some friends about
a wonderful parrot. why" said he,
that parrot cries stop thief so naturally
that every time hear it I always stop.
Now, hang it, what are you all laughing
abOut?"
THERE was-a hard-up man in Louisville
the other day, says the CourGer-J Journal,
trying to sell, as valuable relic, three
cent postage stamp which he declared was
from one of Paul's letters to the CORN
thians.
THE first celebration of an historic event
during the year will be at Boston ON the
18th of March, which will be the cen
tennial of the evacuation of that city by
the British. 1t will be made the occasion
of some noise and parade.
IT is said that some counties in New
jersey, which have been accustomed to
export several thousand bushels of pota-
toes, are now obliged to purchase that i'm
portant esculent, so great were the ravages
of the potato-bug last season.
ATLAS" in his notes in the London
World, says: A friend who was on
board the P0Onah on her last outward
voyage informs me that Blondin, who was
among the passengers on his way to Mel
bourne, created IL mense excitement by
performing a feat hitherto uninterrupted
even by him. The hero of Niagara
walked along a rope stretched from the
main to the mizzen mast, 100 feet long, at
a height of sixty feet. The motion of the
engine and the swaying OF the vessel
made this difficult operation, especially
as the rolling at that great height was
much more pereeptible than on deck
When BlOndin descended to receive the
congratulations of those who saw him
perform this unique feat, he was CULVER
ing and perspiring from sheerexcitement.
and his face was deadly pale. He ex-
claimed: Well, I've done It-I knew it
was to be done, but have never attempted
anything like it before!' "
Mrs. MACIyoR was bitten by tarantula
the other day, and at last accounts was
AA4 CatCLSG Will IL I6dl case o. IdTa0UlSG0,
which is commonly regarded as fabulous
disease. The lady lives with her husband
and children in an old adobe house, an
order of architecture which is gradually
giving place to brick and stone in Pueblo.
Mrs MacIvor, in putting on an undergar-
ment which had been hanging on a nail,
scared a tarantula out OF its folds, which
tumbjed into her bosom, where it buried
its venomous fangs in her flesh. The
breast began swelling almost immediate
ly, and with distressing pains throughout
the body the unfortunate woman soon be-
came delirious. \ physician administered
large quantities of whisky, which failed
Of intoxicating effect. Other remedies.
however, proved more effective, and the
patient is row likely 10 recover. The
MeXicans have a superstition that the only
antidote for the bite of tarantula Is con-
slant dancing, or appropriate music played
increasingly until the patient recovers.-