Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15
SQUIBS.
Ants usually live but one season.

~ ~ PSA
1t is good thing to learn caution by
the misfortunes of others.
A secret is too little for one, enough
for two, and too much for three.
Many men employ their first years
SO as to make their last miserable.
Faith builds the bridge of prayer
that spans the chasm of human need
Let no one overload you with favorsi
yeu will find it an insuferable burden
Oleomargarine, despite It's high.
sounding name, is butter fraud after
all.
Gratitude is fruit of great cultiva-
ton and not to be found among gross
people.
Gentlemen's patent leather shoes.
with silk tops, cost only $18 a pair ID
New York.
Great deeds need to be tested by their
spirit. There can be no saintliness
without humility.
There are more fools than sages; and
among the sages there is more folly
than wisdom.
The less of hand was one of the
penal mutilations enacted by William
the Conqueror.
1t is within the last two centuries that
the first attempt was made in Europe
to establish quarantine.
Never does a man portray his own
character more wildly than in his man
ner of portraying anotner's.
Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York.
is seriously i'll of pneumonia, at his
home at jamestown.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others Judge
us by what we have already done.
We do love beauty at first sight, and
we do cease to love it if it is not ac-
companied by amiable qualities.
Cardinal McC Closkey is physically the
thinnest of the sixty-fve Cardinals, but
Intellectually one of the abIest.
Commander Terry, of the navy,
brother of Major General Terry, died
in Colorado, of consump ption.
The return of sunshine brings re-
turn of courage in farming and busi-
ness circles, The effect is magical.
The yogng lady who did not sport
rubber circular last week was not
dressed in the ''height of fashion"
Instruction does not prevent waste
of time or mistakes; and mistakes
themselves are often the best teachers
of all.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustable
wealth of nature. She shows sus only
surfaces, but she is millions of fathoms
deep.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has sailed for
Europe with an invalid daughter, for
whose health sea voyage was pre-
scribed.
. Mrs. Horatio Burchard, wife of the
director of the United States mint, who
has been seriously i'll for some time, is
now recovering.
Senator Bayard's wife, who has long
been an invalid, is now at Warm
Springs, Va, where her health mas
been much benefited.
Bismarck has been invited by the
German emperor to act as sponsor for
his great-grandson, the infant son of
Prince William of Prussia.
One ancient Mexican penalty was to
have the hair cut at some public place;
and during medieval times in Europe
cutting the hair was enacted as q pun
ishment.
Mrs. Langtry is making a conquer
ing tour as an actress through Great
Britain, and is appearing in round OF
characters. She will return wealthy
woman to London.
1t is said of the wives of Zulu king
that they were never permitted to stand
up while their lord and master was in
the house, but moved about on their
hands and knees.
In the Chinese famine in 1875 some
of the inhabitants ate the thatch from
their cottages. A statement hardly to
be understood that some of them at
tackled red slate-stone.
The Rhode Island legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 for g. statue of the
late General Burnside, in Providence,
when the popular subscription shall
reach $4,000.
Miss Ada L. Howard has resigned as
president of Wellesley College, Mass,
and has accepted a position as lady
principal of the Foster School at Cliff
ton Springs, New York. e.
United States Senator and Mrs. Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey, sailed for Eu-
rope Saturday. The Senator has just
secured a judgement against the New
York Herald for 81 900 for libel, and
is now going abroad to squander it.
The much-abused dragon flies are
perfectly harmless to human beings;
they neither bite or sting, but destroy
vast quantities of mosquitoes, flies and
other insects. They can be brought
into the house to catch flies and mos
quitoes, which duty they perform if
unmolested. While in the lav@ state
they perform the same good work.
Mallock, who tried to answer the
question, 'Is Life Worth Living?" and
failed, and then wrote romance of
the Nineteenth Century," has produced
another book. The title is Social
Equality; a Study of a Missing Sci
ence." .... ..
DR.. Pusey, the celebrated English
theologian, will attain his 82d year in
August. In spite of his advanced age
he is very well, and is still giving three
lectures week at Oxford University,
where he has been professor for many
years.
Verment's poetess, Mrs. Julia G. r.
Dorr, whose legendary poems have
gained for her a public name, lives in