Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-05
Miscellany.

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firm of Green & Wise, auctioneers, of
Alexandria, Va.
| In gentlemen's fashions, trousers are
not cut SO tight as they were, the waist
coat is longer, and the cutaway coat
not so pronounced"
The Omaha (Neb.l Republican, in
cidentally speaks OF Mayor Saint
Andre Durand Balcombe as having
come to this world when names were
going at cents on the dollar.
"Alcohol," said the professor, ''has
killed more people than yellow fever" !"
''That's true" said the somewhat bibu-
lous student, "but that is because
more people have taken it you know"
Twenty-four car loads of seal-skins
from San Francisco for New York
passed through Little Rock the other
day.
The driven-well man has struck On
ondaga county, New York, and is max
ing it unpleasant for people who use
the machine.
They are blasting for silver at Min
eral Wells, Jack county, Tex, and coal
is said to be abundant near by.
An English real-estate company is
negotiating for forty thousand acres of
land in Arkansas.
The Natal Twin association, of Nash
viii, Tenn. pays s., 900 to each member
producing a certificate of the pattern
of a pair of twin babies.
A veterinary department is to be op
ened at Harvard this fall. The course
is arranged to cover three years of the
oretical and practical instruction.
Miss Lizzie E. Robinson, of Peach
Bottom, York county, Pa, on opening
her bureau-drawer the other day found
it occupied by a large snake.
At Elyria, O., the other morning,
nearly peck of young salmon, two
inches in length, fell from the clouds
into single door-yard.
Mary Morris, of Philadelphia, died
the other day from inflammation of
the stomach, caused by a kick given
her in the stomach by little girl play
mate.
The fsh-pond in Benton park, st.
Louis, was stocked last spring with %
carp, and now there are 3, 900 Of them.
a carp should be two or three years
old before it becomes food.
A 7-year-old colored boy fell into O.
thirty-foot we'll in Marion county, Ken
lucky, and then, without assistance,
climbed up the sides to the top. He
was wet, but not much injured.
A boy in Taunton, A years old, was
sent poll-tax bill, and, feeling that
the assessors had made man of him,
decided to act like fine, and proudly
paid it.
Mrs. Tansy has two hundred acre
ranch near Compton, C2', which is
under her own management. 1t is
supplied with several flowing artesian
wells.
Richard Guthrie, of Guadalupe, Cal,
in attempting to correct a fractious
mule, used a board, which the mule
kicked. The board struck Guthrie in
the bowels, rupturing the descending
colon, from which he died.
: The clerk of the circuit attorney of
the criminal court of St. Louis is &C
cused of obstructing the payment of
witnesses fees that he may the better
be enabled to buy up claims at fifty
cents on the dollar.
A recently superseded foreign minis
ter, while passing through London on
his return to this country. registered
himself at Bowles' American agency as
"Col. -, American minister, -,
in rought for home"
Mr.. Eli Brooks, venerable citizen
of Providence, R. l., died recently at
the age of 90 years, and his widow,
who sustained a shock of apoplexy af.
ter his death: died the following Tues
day at the age of 67 years.
The sheep raisers of Los Angeles
county, California, are sustaining great
losses, one man near San Fernando
having lost five hundred head cf sheep
The cause is said 70 be a poisonous
weed on which sheep feed when pas
turage Is scarce, In the autumn.
{ When the war closed the High shoals
| factory in Savannah owned 100000 in
confederate bonds, and they have been
lying in the safe for seventeen years re-
garded as worthless. The other day
the pile was taken to Atlanta and sold
for 1850.
"Baker Sam," wood hauler of Eu-
reka, New, had put away, buried in a
stall, the sum of 5000 in 500 gold
pieces, and when he went to gaze upon
his treasure to weeks ago he found to
his utter dismay that all was gono.
The largest chestnut tree in Lancast-
er county, Pennsylvania, stands within
a few hundred yards of the Mannheim
borough line, en- the public road lead
ing to Sporting hill. Its circumference
is twenty-three feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured forty-hveiy ears ago and, when It's
circumference was twenty-one feet four
inches.
The water at Poquetannoc cove was
phosphorescent one evening last week,
and trail of light seemed to follow
the darting fish as they shot through
the water. The phenomenon was so
unusual that the people went off in
boats to witness it. Several who were
upon the water in boats declare that
the fish were so numerous and the
light so prevalent that the bottom was
Illuminated, and crabs and eels could
be plainly seen.
R. Breckenridge, of Rosenburg, Ore.
has been seriously i'll, caused by open
ing the vault OF a diseased person. He
was in such position that the case:
from the coffin struck him in the face
Shortly efter he was taken with a fever
that for time bafl!ed the skill of the
attending physicians, but he was at las
accounts likely to recover