Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-09-28
BRIEF ITEMS.

The Bachelors Mutual Protective
| Association, of Knoxville, Tenn, in.
sures against matrimony.
Since the first oil we'll began to flow
8, 800, 100000 has been added to the
wealth of this country by the product
of petroleum.
Wagner's 'ssParsifal" is 10 be produced
With great magnifcence at the Munich
Court Theater on Thursday, October IL.
A travelling circus recently pitched its
tent just outside the city limits of An
derson, S. c., and thus avoided paying
the required $500 corporation license.
a New York man stole parrot, and
if his fine is not over 500, 900 it will be
paid by the parties who lived contiguous
to the abducted bird.
Shoulder capes of black material
studded in the greatest profusion with
steel beads and having steel firing
are new. They are best appreciated
IN the sun or gaslight.
1t Is not probable that the crusade
against the waltz will cause that dance
to be abolished in society next winter,
except probably among the Philadel-
phia Pride family.
Searchers after wedding presents are
now out in increased force every day.
and give "boom" to silversmiths
and jewelers.. The novelties of the
season are innumerable.
Eggs within eggs, says an exchange,
and u,I11 10
fashionable in the new autumn than
the polka dots and moon spots that
are worn at present.
The recent decision of the supreme
court Of Florida, making all railroad
property In the state liable to taxation,
will add about $5,000000 to the taxa
bic property of the state.
Greene county, Kentucky, boasts of
a citizen yet in the prime of life who
is said TO be the father of twenty seven
children, twenty-five of whom are liv-
ing, and fifteen of whom are married.
He also has sixty-five grandchildren.
Mad-stones appear to have d market
value in North Carolina, where local
paper records the sale of half inter
est in one for So, adding that clouded
title lesssened the value of the share
disposed of.
w. IL. Lingard was arrested in Phila-
delphia the other day upon an action
for debt brought by one Of his former
advance agents, Charles Hood, who
claimed that Lingard was owing him
800 for services.
Robert Funk, of Jackson township,
Cambria county, Pa, was attacked on
the public road few days since by
bald eagle The bird was captured
after making g desperate resistance,
was found two measure six feet two
inches from tip to tip of wings.
Every twenty-f0ur hours LAO trains
rush past the signal tower of the Penn
sylvania railroad on Filbert street,
Philadelphia, record that can be
equaled by no other point on the
globe.
About ten years ago Commodore
Watson, of the De Barry line, on the St.
Johns river, Florida, directed that no
more shooting be allowed from his boat
This is done not only for the protec-
ton of the passengers, but that the
game should not be driven from the
banks of the river. The order has had
a good effect, and now alligators and
birds may be seen as of yore.
A Cincinnatian has writtena phamp-
let trecounting the events of "the war of
1886" between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war
is the defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphleteer is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national
oefenses have been neglected and the
army and navy permitted to become
inefficient.
There is authority for each of the
following methods Of spelling and pro-
nunciation: Mo honana ed (short al
Ma hons-et (long az Ma-home (short a J.
Properly speaking, Mohammed name
of the prophet, and Mohammed that
Of his successor, and therefore the
faith should only be known as Mahom-
etanism.