Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
General Intelligence.

$4,000 hogs this season.
The jaw bone of whale has been
dug up in Jewel county, Kan.
Baltimore exports annually SS,-
000,00O worth Of canned oysters.
Single sleighs rented as high as
SIS in New York New Years Day.
Poison, said to be concentrated
strychnine has been found in Stokes
! late cell.
The new starch factory at St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, uses up 1900 bushels of
corn daily.
California expects an average yield
Of four hundred pounds of castor oil
to the acre.
Tom Thumb has bought a yacht,
hired a goose pond, and is going to try
pirates life for a time.
The obsequies of Louis Napoleon
were attended by over 80, 900 persons
and were very imposing in their char
acter.
The telegraph brings the tenth
intelligence of fearful earthquake in
India, with loss Of 1900 people in one
city alone.
"A missionary in China states that
if the present ratio of conversions goes
on as it has been going on for some years
back, by the year 1900 the native Chris
tians in China will number over two
millions
The editor Of a Western paper
advertised for an Office boy who desires
to become Greeley, Sumner, Col
fax, or Wilson, and who is willing to
pay the price by faithful work as an ap-
prentice.
Col Bogy-pronouncod bo-gec
with the accent on the latter syllable
has been elected TO the L. S. Senate
from Missouri, in the place Of Frank
Blair. Bosy is a liberal with "power-
full secession anteeeients.
Hon. F., 3. Washhurne, United
States Minister to France, sailed on
Saturday, in the steamship St. Laurent,
Of the French line. The distinguished
gentleman was accompanied down the
bay BY many Of h, friends
i The redoabtahle Long Sessions,
who once lived in Waapaca, and didn't
| get elected, now turns up as speaker Of
the Nebraska Legislature IF that
Legisla arc don't have long sessions
now we're mistaken in our man.
These Is a coal famine IN Dixon,
H., which has not only caused sus-
pension of manufacturing, closing Of
stores, etc. but has actually caus d
mach suffering among tie poor who
have been utterly Destitute OF fuel
-Chilis. Of the Philadelphia Lcig
er, attributes his success to the rrlia-
bility AMI responsibility of hrs pa
per. lie asserts that he viii not allow
line to 90 into the paper that is
unfit FOR the eye Of the most refined
lady,
In anticipation Of the recent cold
snap, undoubtedly, adam Batshe, a
cabinet maker employed in the Union
Factory Of South Bend, Ind, con
cciyei the brilliant IDEA Of illuminating
as we'll as Internally heatiuz h,nsen by
eating the birthstone ends Of matches,
which resulted in bis death, The
deceased was iil-Inatclled there was
too much friction for perfect cenjueaE
bliss. i divorce ensued he endeav-
ored to strike another match with
young lady, but the lady SouIln't
strike ami finally, after much trouble
with money matters and love, he found
his match and subsidized a. above.
The compositors of the Tribune,
at a special meeting Jan. 9th, approved
the proposition that the printing Offices
in the United States give one or more
pounds of old type each for the pur-
pose Of making a statue OF Horace
Greeley, to be erected over his grave
in Greenwood, and ask the compositors
of the country to give the proceeds Of
1000 ems, set up on February Sd,
next, the 62nd anniversary of the
birth of Greeley, the money to be for
warded to the President of the New
York Typographical Union, No, 6, at
No 80 Duane street, this city, Of
which Union, Greeley was the first
President
The Juneau School House in Mil
waukee, was burned to the ground on