Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-06-28
GLEANINGS.

The circus manager, Cole, has made.
it said, S4,000,000, and is only SO years
old.
The English sparrow has found his
way into every city and town in the
South.
Charles yelling, a New York dry
goods merchant who failed in 1865, pay
ing 80 cents on the dollar, has just paid
his creditors the balance, 100000
A letter from Washington, speaking
of the clerks, says: Women do not
lose any more time on account of sick
ness than the men do on account of dis
sipation."
The ravages of some insects on the
spruce trees of Northern Maine, SAYS
the Bangor Commercial, are becoming
a matter of serious concern 20 owners
of timber lands
The Opelousas GA Courier announ-
ces that lady at CarencrO, who is sew
enty-nine years old and has been mar
ried only a few years, gave birth to a
child recently.
The youngest telegraph operator in
the worlds probably a little girl ten ears
old, Halle Hutchinson by name, who
lives in Texas, and has charge of the
telegraph office st the railway station at
which She resides.
The Bishop of Gibraltar, in letter
to the London Times, states that ''the
moral condition of Monte Carlo, CON
tanning, as it does, the very scum OF all
Europe, is so bad," that he declines to
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erection of an English church there.
Johnsons Island, in Lake Erie, was
the principal military prison for rebel
officers during the war, nearly three
hundred of whom were buried there.
The graves are neglected, the head
boards fallen or gone, and the lettering
upon those remaining well nigh obliter-
ated. a movement is on foot to place
the ground in presentable condition.
An Indian was accused of killing deer
during close time in Maine. He exhib-
tied to the jury treaties from the Gener-
al Government and from. Massachusetts
permitting Indians to hunt and fish.
The accused pleaded for his exemption
from the law, and manifested so much
of the traditional eloquence Of his race
that he was ACCEPTED.
A New Hampshire payer says that the
country district school in that state is
far from being what it was q generation
ago. Benches, which were crowded
then are nearly empty now, and in the
place of merry groups of children scat
tered along the roadway, here and there
solitary scholar takes up his walk to
school. The towns very generally make
liberal provision for their schools, but
they have not the children to send.
Archil, the new dyestuff, is now put
in the market in the form of paste, and
is employed in wood and silk in an acid
bath (by means of ulphuric acid and
sulphate of soda). The shades obtain
ed differ very little from those had by
means of archil, but are slightly yellow.
With equal prices the substitute is said
to be richer in color than archil, and
also faster; it is, in fact, one of the
fastest of dyes obtained from coal tar;
like archil, it can be used in combina-
ton.
1t is said that the greatest dread of a
gambler is that he will be paralyzed.
They nearly all expect to die from a
shock of some kind. 1t may come from
the fact that a great many of them have
gone that way. If a man with a with
cred arm or leg should happen in a gam
bling house the dealer would quit his
chair. Another dread of gamblers is q
man who comes in to play with cane
in his hand. That is regarded as bad
luck to the house.
At Bayview, near the Atlantic High
lands, New Jersey. a large fish-haWk
swooped down into the waters of the
bay, Embedding in it's talons q huge
place. The bird arose with its prey,
but its weight proved too great and pull
ed him down. Several times it struo-
gled to ascend but failed, and, exhaust
ed, it finally fell into the water, still
clinging to its captive. Its talons were
SO imbedded in the fish that it could net
release them, and it was drowned. The
fish died of its wounds and both were
washed ashore, where, with difficulty,
they were separated.
People who chance to be on Michigan
avenue at about MONDAY must be much
preOccupied if they do not give more
than casual notice to General Philip
Sheridan's little family of girls as they
scamper along, sometimes in tandem,
and then again two by two or four
abreast, looking rosy in the sunshine,
and smiling at every passer-by. Two of
the daughters are twins, the others, one
older and one younger, are odd. They
are all less than six, pretty as French dolls.
and are beautifully attired in Mother
Hubbard dresses and white lace caps
that are so snug as to squeeze the little
golden curls out on all sides. The
nurse and goyerness follow in the rear
and never take their eyes off of the live
" little flock. Chicago Herald.
The Philadelphia Times very peril
nently speaks a good word for the pri-
mary school, which nowadays is some
what apt to be neglected. ''There is"
it says, Every much talk about the high
er education, but it is the lower educa-
ton that is really important to most of
us, and there is no more gratifying evil
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