Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-02
GLEANINGs.

producing State.
A Cincinnati capitalist proposes to
utilize the Mammoth Cave rs n Summer
theater.
The graduating expenses of the last
class ut Vassar College were about 800
for each girl.
Cold asparagus with oil is a dish
served at some of the most fashionable
| hotels for breakfast.
Charles Z. Brush, the electric light
man, is worth S1,500,000. He is letting
his light shine most profitably.
Moncure D. Conway will lecture in
! Australia. The inhabitants Of that coun-
try want to flee to America.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart is the second
largest United States bondholder. hay
ing 100000 invested.
Clarence Parker, the 16-year-old-son
| OF Nevada State Senator, weighs $50
pounds.
The young Queen of Spain reads
American children's stories to the little
Princess.
Statistics show that 5.417 pupils in
our public schools are studying the Ger
man language.
DR.. Large and DR.. Small are rival
physicians at Great Darlington, Massa-
chuSettS.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has set
tied permanently in Colorado, where
she finds a pleasant home with her
friend, the wife of General Palmer.
Mount Etna is now to have railroad
which will 90 a considerable way up it,
and connect many villages lying around
its base.
''Uucle Jake Vanderbilt. the Com
modore's brother, is worth only half
million. He owns the lower Staten Is
land ferry.
Judge Hitcher, of Mount Vernon. In
diana, is the only surviving member of
the first Indiana Legislature, which met
sixty-seven years ago. He is 80 years old.
Boston has just opened home for the
accommodation of working bows who
receive small pay-errand boys and Of
flee boys.
Baron Rothschild's carriage at Vienna
is lighted by electric light. The appa-
ratuS is beneath the cOachman's seat,
and the light, which will burn 100 hours,
within ordinary carriage lamps.
Charles Lee, the first attorney gener-
al of the United States, was buried at
Warrenton, Virginia. His grave there
is described as overgrown with weeds,
and almost unmarked.
Bees will 60 from three to seven
miles in search of honey, but it is be-
lieved that when they have to 90 over
two miles they bring back but little
honey.
King Alfonso, of Spain, wants all the
nations to take part in the grand cele-
bration in Spain of the Columbian dis
covery of America, and not to hold the
celebration in Italy or America.
The person referred to in Leigh
Hunts Jenny Kissed Me When We
Net was Mrs. JaneWelsh CARLYLE. No
wonder Mrs. Carlyle disliked Mrs. Hunt,
and no wonder that Thomas found Mr..
Hunt sometimes tiresOme.
The Toronto Globe says that the man.
ufacturers of Canada have reached the
stage of over-production. They are al
ready capable of producing more boots
and shoes, woolens and cottons than can
be marketed in Canada.
Mrs. Parloa, the well-known lecturer
on culinary science, was chief cook of
the st. James Hotel, Jacksonville, Flor
ida. ten years ago, and afterward be-
came a teacher in the public schools of
the State.
A piano firm in Berlin has bought the
oaken piles which have just been taken
out of the Rhine at Mayence, and which
are said to be the original timhers of
the bridge which Julius Caesar con-
structed.
A celebrated circus manager is on the
hunt for new curiosity for his show.
He is seeking to find young married
man whose wife can cook as well as his
mother did. Twenty-six States have
been explored thus far without success.
The church which Eugene intends
building at Marlborough, England, in
memory of her son, will cost $3.50, 900.
The collins of Napoleon III. and the
Prince Imperial will be placed in this
church.
A tramp printer in Cleveland has just
fallen heir to the half of a fortune of
$4,000. His aunt. who died in Eng
land, left that sum TO him and his Sis
ter. True to his instincts, he got drunk
as soon as he heard of his good luck.
1t seems that machines as well as
men work harder here than in Europe.
The RajLe0ay Gazette says that 100 loco
motives here do as much rs 131 in Ger
many, 139 in Switzerland, and 40 in
Austro-Hungary.
Next to Texas Wyoming is probably
the greatest stock-growing region in the
United States. 1t is said that about
1000, 900 cattle are now feeding on its
plains, the estimated value of which is
about 100000
When the productive powers of ma
ture are carried beyond certain point,
the imperfect knowledge of uncivilized
man is unable to cope with them or in
any way turn them to his own advantage.
BUCKLE.
Burdett-Coutts, of England, holds
$40, 900, 900 of our A bonds, the Duke of
Sutherland and Sir Thomas Brassey
$4,000, 900 each. Mrs. A. I. Stewart