Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


CAN ladies with enameled faces be said
to belong to polished society.
KENTUCKY judges and Legislators cannot
receive free passes on railroads.
THOSE persons who decide instantly
make about one hit to four plumbers.
THEORY may be all very well, out
yeang doctors and lawyers prefer prac
dee.
FIFTY Bostonians will start fora LA
iona in February, intending to settle
there
A PLAN is being elaborated in Paris for
the recovery Of small commercial debts
through the postottice.
ELASTIC Iacings, covered with cotton or
silk, gold or silver threads, are the --latest
inventions for making tight corsets com
Portable.
THE New York Musical Monitor sa1s
that the next President will be the man
whose party hires the brass bands during
the coming eight months.
SHOES with fur around the ankle-tops
are the latest agony among the the ladies
They are called Polish, but that doesn
signify anything alarming.
A sLANDERER in Schoharie who walket
out to take the air got fogging at tho
hands ofhis neighbours wife. Well, oxide
and cOwhide are both tonics
FIFTY THOUSAND pins are lost in the
United States every minute, notwithstand-
ing Young Americas persistent search for
them to pay his way into some other boys
show.
SCRIBNER's Monthly calls out that the
modern bookcase shall be done away
with as unwieldy, unsightly, and of no
use except to hide good deal that people
don't know.
Few popular fallacies" have done
more mischief than the maxim that char
ity begins at home" Avaricious people
quote it, not intending that charity shall
begin anywhere.
FITCHBURG, Mass, is laughing over
one of her richest citizens, who dresses 50
shabbily that he was arrested in a neigh
boring town recently for tramp, ana
only got off by showing thousand-dollar
note.
THE Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Children in New York has discov
cred that the world is on the downward
track, as children are becoming fewer
each year, and parents less careful Of
those they have.
OUR Florida friends are now enjoying
rare and luscious luxuries. The apricot
and tarantula are ripe and fit to pick and
the orange, the alligator, the banana, and
The gallinipper hang purpiing On the
7ine.-N. Y. G7a0htc
THE most notable overshOes are the tail
arctics, coming above the ankles, made of
India rubber cloth, tipped with rubber
and fastened with buckles and tongue on
are preferable to tile half-high arctics
worn last season.
A FRENCH lady of title fell i'll and called
in doctor, who cured her. The man Of
medicine requested to be permitted to
print on his card, Physician to her
grace" Impossible" said the latter
81 have a physician in ordinary"
"Well, we will get over that difficulty"
replied the doctor. 81 will put on my
card: Physician to her grace-when she
is ILL., "-Figaro.
A PHYsIOGNOMIsT writes that regular
White teeth, seen at once upon the mouth
opening, but not projecting, nor always
entirely seen, denote acuteness, truth and
goodness. Small, short teeth, which are
seldom pure white, denote strength long
teeth always imply weakness and want of
spirit. Those whic.. are firm and strong,
whatever the color, denote strength and
firmness. If the upper gum is much seen
Immediately on opening the mouth it
generally denotes dizziness and GOODNESS.
A FEW evenings ago German woman
of Thirteenth and Grove streets, jersey
City, picked up and attempted to carry off
a four year old child of Mrs. Feeley, re-
siding near the same place. She was fol
lowed by the mother and others, but re-
fused to give up the child, saying it was
her own. She was stopped by an officer,
but she still insisted that the child was
hers. The officer took the child and &C
companied the woman to her home, where
he found another child, so like the first
one in appearance and dress that he was
unable 10 distinguish them from each
other. The mother, however, recognized
her child, and the first one was returned
to its mother.
OK Saturday night, not long ago,
three girls came home with their weeks
pay, and, as the first one said "Mother,
hold your apron" all three threw their
money into it. [ congratulated the mother
because they were so good She answered:
I" wish they were bad, then it would not
break my heart to see them deny them
selves every pleasure and work like
slaves" One girl who was out
Of work and in debt last spring could not
bear the cross looks when she went to the
table, so in her despair she wandered into
the Metropolitan car house, sleeping I'M
der a car three nights and sitting in an of
fee in the daytime. This exposure to the
cutting cold winds of March nearly cost