Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-09
NeWSY ParagranhS

The Picayaspe says it is settled that
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi Gras.
The Paris Exhibition building, minus
the pavilion of the city of Paris, is to
be retained. $685. ft-A
Since the attempts on the continental
soverelgns' lives several additions have
been made to the police staff at Wind
sor castle, and detectives regularly
watch the arrival of all trains.
: A so-called "expert" in an Ohio
murder trial testified that " any man
holding opinions differing from those
entertained by majority of people has
in him an element of insanity"
Texas has seventeen hundred con-
victs, FIVE or six hundred of whom are
kept within the walls, and the rest are
hired out to work on railroads and
farms. One is said to be hired to his
wife and lives comfortably at home.
Mrs. S. Angler Chace, of Fall River,
Mass, who is liable to the amount of
100000 on account of her .ndorse-
ments of her husbands paper, is offer
ing her creditors per centum, and
they will probably accept. Mrs.
Charles 2. Stickney VIII sell her'private
property and raise $15, 1000, if the cred
itors will accept that sum for Mr.. Stick
ney's defalcation Of 100000.
Answers to inquiries from Canada
prove that nearly half of the new
Canadian loan remains untaken in
London. The London Times of the
9th said. "Much difficulty has been
experienced lately in placing the new
Canadian loan upon the market. 1t is
indeed not yet nearly all placed. Mid
dlemen have it now. Canada had the
advantage Of an imperial guarantee"
Washington Post: Chicago seems
content to let Cincinnati enjoy her
prestige as the musical centre of the
continent, SO long as Chicago packers
can take all the hogs away from Gin
cinnati and pack them. This is q good
exhibition of practical philosophy.
A new bell has been blessed in Mos
COW in memory of the emancipation of
the Bulgarians which, though smaller
than Ivan the Great, still is larger, the
London Times says, than any other in
the world. It weighs 63,976 pounds,
though the contractor asseverated that
it weighed 1928. ~. .@'S@A ~ ."at'
The corporation of Liverpool have
given public notice that they intend to
apply, in the ensuing session of parlia-
ment, for an act authorizing the light
ing of the public streets, places, and
buildings within the borough by means
of the electric light, 4" or otherwise
than by means Of gas" ,ffI
A familiar but not diverting joke has
been repeated lately by French sol
der at Nancy. After instructing a
recruit in the management of mis- rifle,
he leveled the piece at him, exclaiming
at the same time by way of jest, Now,
am going to shoot YOU" The con-
script lending himself to the joke, put
his head against the muzzle, the soldier
pulled the trigger, and the gun suddenly
going off nearly severed the head from
his shoulders. A blank cartridge had
been left by mistake in the barrel
The Debats says the produce of the
indirect taxes in France for November
is very satisfactory. 1t presents an
excess of 6,SS6,000 francs on the esti-
mates, 36z, 900 Of this sum being under
registration duties and stamps, 1887 900
francs under customs, and 2,482,000
under other rubrics. This excess Of
produce over the. estimates, added to
that of the first ten months, raises the
total excess for the past eleven months
to 81, 100000 francs. The Debats thinks
there can be no doubt that the current
year, like the preceding ones since
1875, will wind up with surplus, not
withstanding the considerable amount
of the supplementary credits. ia".s
Mr.. Linton Chapman, who claims to
be the inventor of what is known as the
Hosmer magnetic motor, published a
long letter in the New York Evening Post
of Saturday, in which he denies the
claim of Miss Hosmer to be the invent
or Of q process by which soft lime
stone can be changed to marble. After
quoting the extracts from the London
letter to the. Post, in which the invention
and its results are described and Miss
Hosmer's declaration given that she is
the originator of the process, Mr..
Chapman copies at length declaration
made by two gentlemen who, he says,
are we'll known and honored in Rome,
which declaration is to the effect that
the process of turning limestone into
marble is not Miss Hosmer's invention
at all, but that of Ludovico Cicaglia, a
Roman manufacturer of artificial
marbles. N -.u.-s.- e. r...n.-.r4
Boston wants a new court house, and
has been sorely in doubt where to put
it. Available lots are scarce. 1t was
even suggested that the exigency of the
case would justify the occupation of
one of the two old burying-grounds on
fremont street. There are the grave
yard attached to Kings chapel, and
that called the Granary. In the first
are inferred old Gov. Winthrop, with
many members of that ancient family.
In the Granary ground are buried Gov.
BelHngham, Paul Revere, Peter Fan
euil, and the parents of Benjamin
Franklin. The same spirit which has
led to the preservation of the Old South
church will save both these spots from
dissertation; for, after great deal of
talk, the site of the new courthouse
has been selected. 1t will be built in
Pemberton square, where the leading
law firms already have their offic
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