Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE courageous vowel: brave-o!

A PAGE of Shakespeare-Mrs. Ann
Page
A NAN always feels put out when he is
taken in.
A BOOK in which the hard times are first
noted-the pocket book.
RAILROAD music might be called car
toons, but it is not.-PomerOys Democrat,
SOME language mauler in the Cincn-
natl Commercial refers to &C. the severaith
timen'
"SILvER to any amount taken at par''
is the sign that meets the eye at every turn
in San Francisco.
THE Chinese spend their holidays in
paying their debts, torgiving their enc
mics and shaking hands all round.
A New JERSEY railroad proposes to
substitute cane-seat chairs for the old fash
Toned cushioned seats during the coming
summer
Miss HoBERT, Massachusetts girl,
has purchased twenty acres of land in
Westminster, Cal, and is devoting half of
1t to-onions.
The London Bookseller condemns Amer
lcan newspapers for tiippancy and an alb
sence of scholarly dignity and polish; it
does not condemn them for stupidity.
WoMENs clubs are springing up all
over the country, and the majority pro-
Tess more or less connection with the
womenas department Of the Centennial
In a garden at Los Angeles, Cal, is
shown a tusuS 310turde jim the shape of a
sprig of geranium grated upon two
year old tomato vine in bloom and grow
ing finely
EMERSON says: "The domestic man
who loves no music so well as his kitchen
clock, and the airs which the logs sing to
him as they burn on the hearth, has SOL
aces which others never dream of"
A Mar. TAYLOR recently shod four
horses at Rocky Bar, Idaho, with snow
shoes, and brought them a distance of
fifty miles through snow so deep that they
could not have travelled through it other
wise
A CHICAGO man declines to run for Of
flee. Owing to the loss of all the excla-
mation points belonging to this font we
can t make this news stand out half as
.conspicuously as it shOuld-Detrost Free
Press.
A NEVADA sheep man, who had tried
and succeeded with sheep, said: "Sheep
can tear off a coupon every six months
half as big as the bond, and the bond is
left as big as it was'
THAT wicked Detr0ir Free Press fellow
says " While an Iowa woman was strug-
CLING in the water and likely to drown,
her husband yelled oft: New bonnet
swim for lifer and she kicked out and
safely reached the shore"
QUEEN VICTORIA has intimated to Lord
Dutferin her desire to contribute to the
projected improvement of Quebec by
gift of ten thousand pounds sterling for
the construction of one of the proposed
city gates, which is to be called Kent
gate.
THE Sultan's fourth son is seven years
old and a minor, or rather Major. He
will be a colonel in few days, and about
a month thereafter will be General. 1t
is good to be Sultan's son. 1t is better
to be born rich than lucky.-R0chester
Democrat.
"DoGs," says the Austin New Re
ge5lIe, twas the subject of discussion in
the Sazerac Lying Club last evening. A
number of marvellous tales were told about
dogs, the most remarkable of which was
about a dog belonging to a member pres
ent. He said that one day while hunting
over a sage brush plain his dog stared a
coyote which ran into a squirrel-hole
The dog pursued the coyote into the hole,
and in about three minutes dog and coyote
emerged on the surface of the ground 600
yards distant from where they went in"
a YOUNG woman on West Madison
street, having taken course of chemistry,
has been assisting her father in his drug
store. The other day there was sent in d
prescription for some simple medicine for
a sick baby, and next day baby's father
went down town to buy pony coffin.
The chemist was requested to rise to
personal explanation. "Great Jehosa-
phatr' he said, looking at the powder,
why, there's arsenic i'll this! It ought to
have been bicarbonate of soda! Eliza,
how ia this?' oh, pap replied his IN
moved assistant, eve had no soda, and
arsenic was the nearest shade that
matched !''-ChScago Tribune.
Mr.. BURROUGHS, of South Africa, hav-
ing no dog to love, bought an ostrich, and
now he advertises as follows: "e10 Re-
ward Lost, tame ostrich. Said ostrich
was missing yesterday, directly after hav-
ing devoured certain pieces Of machinery,
which one of the ladies of the advertisers
household had apart and was cleaning on
the front veranda at the time. He is sup
posed to have wandered off in a fit of
melancholy directly after committing the
deed. The above reward will be paid
for the return of the pieces, as they are
invaluable on account CT tie long time
required TO replace from the manufactory
IN the United States. The parts wanting
are face plate, needle bar and shuttle of