Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-20
GLBAEIEGS.

''Two-dollar bluff is the name given
q village recently located on Indian
river. Florida
EN- Governor Hubbard. of Connect
cut. lost his daughter some years ago
by her marriage with his coachman.
Now he has lost MS fortune.
Girls in bad health are not admitted
to Wellesley College. All applicants
are submitted to a medical examination.
to exclude weaklings
The imprint of the London Times no
longer contains the name of Francis
Goodlake, the responsible printer of
that newspaper Tor many years.
Eleven Police Justices in New York
draw salaries of $4,000 each, or nearly
as much rs the Judges on the Supreme
Bench at Washington.
The Los Angeles (CaL Herald thinks
1t is unwise to plant more orange trees,
as there are more planted now than
will be needed in ten years.
Mrs. Florence Jones, near Gerber. on
Lookout Mountain, fifteen miles from
Chattanooga, found under large rock.
q tin box containing S415 in gold
The Schooln1aster, an English Educa-
tionaI journal, is discussing the question
of midday meals in the schools. 1t
states that the introduction of a hot
Irish stew in London mission school
has been a great success rs an incentive
to study.
The greatness and the prosperity of
this country, after all, depend not on its
tinanciers nor on its statesmen, but on
its soil and sunshine. Even Wall street
itself, in u moment Of frankness. says:
Its all in the crops" And the crops
are good. York World.
Susan Anthony says that there are
1000 women practicing medicine in Eng
land, and that, so far as she has been
able to learn, ''they kill as large Il pro-
portion of their patients, and receive as
eXorbitant fees for SO doing, as male
practitioners.
We have in the Southern States in
operation, or in course of erection, 1911
cotton factories. This outnumbers bv
land, outside of Massachusetts, and eX-
ceeds by 16 the number in that State
-Petlaskj (Tenn.) Citizen.
The bicycle is invading the South. 1t
has rolled through Georgia. One has
Just reached Mobile. and nobody can
be found who can ride the fiery, I'M
tanned machine. The reason given is
that the streets and roads are too sandy.
The real trouble probably is that there
is not enough sand in the young men.
DR.. c. E. Page, of Biddeford, Me-,
IL
means of knowing OF over ), 900 families
in this country who adopted the vege-
tartan diet for curative purposes, after
becoming diseased under the universal
meat eating, and they rarely have oc-
casion to call n doctor into their homes.
Although Chicago won't believe it,
St. Louis, as Il city, lies in an atmOs-
phere Of poetic legend and story. With
in three miles from the business center,
on the Illinois side, at the old French
town Of Cahokia, generations are born,
live and die, who do not speak the Eng
fish language. The people are provin-
cial in the extreme. and jealous of their
origin, customs and language. -BufaIo
ErpreSS.
Some of the literary men of America
have been severely handled by q Balti-
more critic. He says: ''James is q tuft-
hunter and sycophant, Howells q
sD0oth-bOr Stedman u dead failure.
Stoddard q man who has turned his
wash-bowl into q paste-pot, Cable q
blower OF literary soap bubbles, and
Richard Grant White Il critic who dis
covered in q cockney beauty with legs
like piano and voice like q fOg-horn
the lost arms of the Venus de Milo and
4 voice of yocalyelvet."
Here are the rules laid down by the
Baron de Lesseps for the physical Gull
ture of his ten thriving children: Little
meat; less clothing; unlimited exercise;
food to be given in the hand whenever
it is asked for, but only twice day ut
She table. 4 child who plays while
eating merely eats to appease hunger,
and does not run into gluttony. A
child who is only allowed to eat at fixed
hours and at table-meaIs is sure to
gorge itself and take more than it re-
quires.'
| was talking to prominent steel
manufacturer at Pittsburg the other
day. He told me that few years AGO
they had to bring from England nearly
the whole of the skilled labor used in
steel works, and now they employed
none whatever from the other side OF
the ocean, for the best skilled labor
from England was unable to compete
with the native skilled labor, which by
superior aptness seemed to discern and
invent. cath" IN Nea0 York Tri-
bune.
Some OF the merchants of PhiIadeI-
phia develop an amount of business
enterprise that does much to acquit that
city of the charge of being behind the
age. A shoe store has had photo
graph gallery fitted up in the top floor,
where every purchaser of 4 pair of
shoes is entitled to have his photograph
taken. A cigar dealer exposes the
legend, "A ticket for the Mannerchor
Garden and a good Havana cigar for
25 cents" And q popular dentist at
tracts custom to himself by giving teeth
on trial.
Among the society women of London
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