Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-05
BREvITIES.

BosToN papers report the price of re,
fined sugars lower thar at any time dur
ing the past ten years.
| RUSSIA LEATHER jewelry is the latest
1t IS pretty and unique, the ear-rin gs
being made Of every imaginable pat
tern.
JOHN PETERSON, who is to be hanged
in Georgia next month, has, since his sen
| tence, fallen heir to fortune of
$4,000
ADAM GRIM, of Watertown, Wis.
claims to be the largest bee-keeper in the
United States, with the exception of a
California man.
THE Yoevil colonists .English) have de-
cided not to allow saloons or drink
| Shops" as they designate such places,
within the colony limits.
THEY feed their juries by contract in
st. Louis. The jailer receives the pro-
| posals. The last job was let at the rate of
thirty-five cents per juryman.
MISS LINNAMoRE, a San Francisco lady,
has brought suit against Michael Burns.
the owner of a vicious dog, to recover
$4,000 damages for I'M u!:cs sustained
from an assault by the latter.
A NUMBER of capitalists in New jersey
| and New York have already consummat
ed project for the construction of shin
canal, running under the Palisades at the
rear of Weehawken and Hoboken.
IT may be worth while for scoundrels to
know, in view of the coming postal cards
that a London man was recently sentenced
| to pay heavy fine and 90 to prison for
two years for libeling young lady on one
Of those cards.
JUSTICE BOWLING wants $4,000 from
the New York Sun for saying that he
opened court, the other day, by asking a
prisoner for a "chaW,n and wound up by
| adjourning to the front room to take a
drink
AT small town on the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad the other dav four
able-b bodied white men were seen in a
field playing croquet at was" SAYS the
Louisville CourierJour7aul, "the subiimest
spectacle that an Impoverished country
| ever beheld."
The other day countryman asked one
| OF Barnum's men, where is the num-
N.Y." The latter replied, He is dead"
and the inquirer passed on perfectly salts
fled, for he couldn't expect that even Bar
mum could prevent an occasional death
among his curlCsities.
A NEW advertising agency has been
opened at "a Park Row, New York, under
the firm name of Bates & Locke-the
members being Messrs. j. II. Bates, late of
the firm of 5. NJ. Pettengill & Co, and ID.
K. Locke petroleum V. Nasby), of the To
ledo BLADE.
IT is said that full $4,000 Jews are de
slrous OF coming to this country from the
Old World-principally from Roumania,
the scene OF their recent persecution-and
an organization of their friends in Amer
lea has been established to help them. A
colony OF several thousand will settle near
Lincoln, Neb. Most of them are expected
to arrive during the present year.
THE latest "big thing" in California is
the enterprise of converting Guadaloupe
Island, lying off the coast Of Lower Cali
fornia, into one Angora goat ranch. The
island has an area of 1876, 400 acres, and is
the property of an incorporated company
1t is mountainous, we'll watered, and at
present tenanted by an immense flock of
wild goats, embracing, it is estimated,
100000 head.
SoHE time ago "canny Scott conceiv-
ed the brilliant idea of making a fortune
by exhibiting the Pyramids, and proceed
raohs. But though the Khedive actually
sold him the exclusive right of exhibition,
the speculation failed to pay on account
Of the scarcity of sightseers and the poor
man was compelled to abandon the enter
prise.
THE "Iron-Jawed Woman" who is en-
gagged in ennobling mouth performances
IN connection with travelling circus, was
M orrIp OF Hucfnn1-i1la
day, to gymnast connected with the
same show. An iron awed woman and
gymnast in the holy bonds of matrimonv!
Wouldn't you rather see one of their little
connubial disputes than all the balance of
the circus?
ONE of the new fraternities of secret
character in their organization and work
which is to be established in the United
States this year, is that of Forestry, which,
though only planted in England in 1916,
has now nearly half million of mem
bers, with cash capital of about 81 800
600. A High Court of this order will
be founded in New York some time in
the autumn.
New YORK papers are sounding notes
Of alarm over the threatened diversion of
commerce from that CITY, The immediate
HOosac tunnel, now near at hand, an event
| Of the first Importance in engineering and
| railroad affairs, and which will take rank
as such among the great successes of the
century; nor is it impossible that it may,
as is feared, really mark the beginning of
detection of those currents of trade
which have hitherto made New York the
| shipping focus Of the continent.
DEATH from lightning is thought to be
quite painless. Owing to the velocity
with which the electric current moves, it
is believed that person struck by light
| ming has no premonition of the blow
| which he receives The nervous system
requires certain interval of time to be-
| come conscious of pain The time of an
| electric discharge is but a small fraction
of this interval; hence, as a sentient ap-
paratus, the nervous system is destroyed
before consciousness can set in.
A WILKINSON County (Ga) man be-
came convinced the other day that wo-
mans temper is very irregular. He had
been moulding some bullets, and had neg
lected to cool off the ladle in which the
lead had been melted. While he was
counting the bullets his wife came into the
room humming tender love song Sud
denly the song ceased, and the man was
made aware that something had happened
by catching an adjacent coffee-mill on the
bridge Of his nose. The unhappy wife
and mother had taken thi@ picturesque
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