Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-01-19
IN 4 NUTSHELL.

The Herdic coaches will be intro
duced N Buffalo next week.
Rochester capitalists are to build g
100000 hotel in that city.
Anew law in Kansas forbids marriage
within six months after divorce.
A resident of Belfast, o., has been
put under bonds for $500 to appear be-
fore the grand Jury on the charge OF
opening letter written by his wife to
her father.
A Missouri woman spent eight years
IN making a collection of II 900 spools,
and sold the lot for 10 cents; which
shows that perseverance as well as viz
tue Is its own reward.
Next Christmas and New Years will
fall on Monday. The " glorious
Fourth u this year will come on Tues
day.
East Sweden, Saxony, Denmark and
Lower Austria exhibit the highest per
centage Of suicides, varying from 218
TO 81 per million inhabitants. South
ern Italy, Portugal, Dalmatia, Ireland,
Spain and North Russia show the
smallest percentages to q per mil
lion inhabitants. English landlords Kill
themselves sometimes, but suicide is
almost unknown among Irish tenants.
When Governor Long of Massachu-
sets, asked permission to quote por-
ton of Mr.. John G. Whittier's poem
after an extract from the Psalms IN his
recent famous Thanksgiving proclama-
ton, Mr.. Whittier replied that he was
'entirely content, but he was not quite
sure whether David, king and a war
rior, would care to be found in the
company of a Quaker and a republi-
can"
The common practice of having
night lights in the bedrooms of chill
dren is deprecated by DR.. Robert H.
Blackwell. He says that it has a most
injurious effect upon the nervous sys-
tenn of young children. "Instead of
the perfect rest the optic nerves ought
to have, and which nature provides for
by the darkness of night, these nerves
are perpetually stimulated, and, of
course, the brain and the rest of the
nervous system suffer. Children thus
brought up are excessively timid for
years after on going into the dark"
While General Sherman was walking
about the east room of the White
House, on Monday, with a young lady
on his arm, the Marine Band burst forth
with a waltz. The Generals eyes glis-
tened and his elbows twitched, indicat-
ing a sudden inspiration to whirl his
companion about the room. Noticing
this, she said "Why, General, | do
believe you want to dance" II do" he
responded, "and am half inclined to
give you a firt or two in the face of
social discipline"
"America is sending us prime beef
and mutton. American wool is ousting
English from the market. American
apples are more numerous in the mar
ket than home grown. America is now
sending us English plumb buildings
ready TO boiling. American horses
last year won the principal races in
England and France. And now that
America is bestirring herself about her
navy what will be left for poor old
England to plume herself upon ?"-
London Truth.
The idea that American grapes are
unsuitable for the manufacture of rails
ms must be considerably staggered by
the announcement that the raisin crop
of California this year viii aggregate
more than 10000 boxes. In 1873 the
report of the assessor did not mention
that any such industry existed. Per
haps it did not then; but in three years
it has reached an annual production OF
$3.50, 900 worth, and is rapidly increas-
ing. An interesting circumstance con-
nected with it is, that all of this years
crop was raised on about ], 400 acres,
while to produce a crop Of wheat OF
equal value $4,000 acres would be re-
quired.