Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-16
GLBANINGS.

cans residing IN Par1S.
! Last year there were more deaths
from the toy pistol than from cyclones.
It is said that JAY Gould's mortuary
chapel will cost $50, 200.
Mauch Chunk is pronounced Mock
| Chunk. Tucson is TooS II and Manitoba
is ManneJ tobah.
A calculation made ut the Postotfice
| Department shows only one registered
letter in every $4,000 is lost.
The japanese are teaching about .
600, 900 children in their public schools
on American and English systems.
1t may be doubted if any man who
worked in the right way ever died of
work.
There are more Roman Catholics in
New York city than in any other city
in the world
Senator Dan w. VoorheeS wears three
! finger-rings on his left hand and carries
silver snuf-bOX.
According to Il New York physician.
| hydrate of choral threatens to become
more dangerous drug than opium in any
. of its forms.
them how to live happily on small in
come and they will want you to furnish
| the income.
Gum shellac and alcohol is said to
make one of the best coatngs for tree
wounds. 1t etfectuallv excludes the air,
and the wound soon heals over.
1t is stated that only one ruby found
in Rabun County, Georgia, is worth ov-
er $4,000, and is the largest ever found
on the American continent
Mr.. Phil D. Armour, of Chicago, 1.-The
ruler of the provision market of the
world, " is 81 years of age, started as a
York State farmer boy, and is now esti-
| mated to be worth over S10,000,000.
In Manitoba there are large num-
| Der of Icelanders, who by their hardi-
ness, industry and frugality have
proved themselves very desirable set
tiers.
The widow of DR.. Glenn, the great
California farmer. will realize this year
100000 from the grain crop. There are
doubtless single gentlemen who will
soon visit California.
In the little village of Harrison,
Mich, there is q little drug store on
the European plan-one small case of
patent medicines and four barrels of
whisky.
1t is claimed that the ''Old Brick
Church, as it is popularity called in
Isle of Wight county, Va, is the oldest
church of English building now stand
ing in America, it having been erected
in 1852.
Jesse Pomeroy, the Massachusetts
boy murderer, has been devoting all his
spare time at the prison to study and has
made rapid strides in French and Ger
man. He shows great aptitude in mas
tering languages.
a hard-headed New York physician
says: Il believe that code of ethics is
all humbug. If man in his profession
is not instinctively guided by his sense
of honor in his relations to his brother
practitioners in any school, Il code of
ethics will be of no avail"
Fechter once remarked: ACTORS, my
boy. never become decent or sensible
till they get old. When man makes
permanent hit he becomes ashamed OF
his past That is the reason successful
actors shun their interiors. They remind
them too much of themselves"
The Philadelphia Press thus describe:
q word now sometimes used: ''CasinC
is foreign for big shed where folks
drink sherry cobblers and talk about
Mayhower and other early emigrant
ships"
Justice Field, of the United States
Supreme Court, complains that he has
to pay his own travelling expenses. The
Troy Press extends sympathy and re
minds him; There is Il way for hin
to avoid this large annual expense
There is no law which forbds him to re
sign y
1t may not be generally known that |
the hog furnishes more export material |
than the cattle, dairy products, horses, |
mules, sheep and poultry altogether. In |
1879-'SO the hog products amounted to
$3.50. 087, 726, while the product of all |
other domestic animals was only $780, |
$40, 1892.
A notable instance of the enormous
advance in high-class New York store |
property is the fact that the building |
which G.. w. Carleton & Co. have taken |
for their publishing business originally |
cost the owner the sum of SIC, 900, and |
COW rents for $4,000.
T. d. Jones. of Durham, n. c., has
IN his possession long. black whisky
bottle out of which Generals johnson
and Sherman took their last drink after
signing articles on the surrender on the
Goth of April, 1865. This bottle was
eft with Mrs. Bennett, who lives four
miles west of Durham, where johnson
surrendered.
Take your hoes to the grindstone
every morning when in use," says an
old farmer, land make an edge on
chem that they will cut u weed easily. |
It may oblige you to buy new hoes next
season; but as two men with sharp hoes |
are worth as much as three with dull
ones, it will not take long to pay for the
le" hoes. "
Some time ago DR.. II. d. COggswell, |