Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
GLEANINGS.

| more imam tnlru OF WhOm are OF pure
! Indian blood.
THAT Ananias of the currency" is
! the New York Herald designation for
the trade dollar.
Within the last eighty years congress
has spent more than 800, 000,O 900 on
the city of Washington.
Railroad journals are discussing the
distance the running of trains can be
heard. Eighteen miles is the greatest
distance claimed.
The Victoria Falls, in South Africa,
are nearly twice as wide as the Falls Of
Niagara, and more than one and a half
times as high.
The Louisville Post editoriallv asserts
that ''to be a Kentucky horse is as DIG
nifed as in olden times it was to be a
Roman citizen"
The Berlin University has a student
siXty-nine years old, who, on receiving
his diploma, intends to 90 to the Trans
vaal country to live.
Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck look
upon the Crown Prince as a dude. He
is too domestic and affects art too
much.
Seven of the largest English trades
unions have spent in six years $4,000
600 for the defense, support and relief
OF men out of work.
There is a movement in Oakland.
California, toward the establishment of
a school of industrial arts, a gift of
$4,000 having been made for that
purpose.
Ten years ago iron rails were manu-
featured by all rail makers and steel
rails by comparatively few; the latter
now form 50 per cent of the total out
put.
Hon. Russell Heath, of Santa Bar
bara county, Cal, has walnut orchard
| covering 100 acres, from which he ex-
poets to realize this year over $4,000
| in the sale of nuts.
The Italians of New York are said to
| be more economical than even the Chi
nese. A whole family will subsist on
81 week, rent excepted. In all quar-
! tiers of the city they are monOpolizing'
| certain industries and accommodating
money.
The United States government owes
Vanderbilt $47, $50, 900 in 4 per cents.
| and sends him a draft for his $1,S82.-
| 900 annual interest in quarterly pay
ments of $40, 500, which is $214. 81
per hour, or 49, in every one of his
sleeping or waking minutes
4 recent official report says that the
mercury in South Australia often rises
| in summer to 115 degrees in the shade.
and this has been exceeded on several
| occasions. In January, 1862, it reach
| ed 116 degrees, and in January, 1882, it
was $50 degrees-only 80 degrees be-
low bOiling-in the sun.
Saginaw, Michigan, has had a spell
| ing bee. The first to fall was the pres
| ident of the Board of Education, who
missed the word ALTAR" A profess
sor stumbled over ''Nonpareil." ''Guer-
| rilla" was too warlike for a clergyman,
and Canon was too peaceful for an
ex-mayOr.
Dealers in sauerkraut all over the
| country agree in the solemn announce
ment that the native American is be-
coming fond of the national dish of
Germany. Lager beer has already
well nigh completed the conquest of
the globe, but it has not been supposed
| that sauerkraut was destined to a uni
versal dominion.
| A society has been formed and incor-
porated under the laws of Georgia for
the purchasing and preserving of the
| historic home of the late Alexander II.
Stephens, known as Liberty Hall, g"
| at Crawfordville. The house and
| premises will be changed in no partic-
| ular from their present condition. The
consideration is $4,000.
The largest farm in the world is
! probably that Of Mr. Samuel Mackey,
of New South Wales. His lands runs
| 700 miles in one direction, and COM
prise 100000 acres, and have been
| nearly all reclaimed from the desert.
He sheared 1900, 900 sheep last year,
and this year he expects to have $780,
| OOO
Herr Krupp, of Essen, has just taken
out patent on a f1at-headed artillery
proiectile 1t tapers slightly at the
butt, and not only pierces the plates
more easily than the pointed kind,
which are apt to defect when striking
iron at certain angles, but it is calcu-
! lated to hit the iron clads below the
water line.
A 12-year-old girl, living in Jersey
City, is a natural curiosity. She has a
foot where one of her hands ought to
| be, and hand in the place of one of
her feet. She can walk without effort,
but uses the misplaced foot as a hand
only clumsily, and has to call her mis-
| placed hand into requisition in delicate
manual operations.
Holland, in the last three centuries,
! has recovered from the sea at least co.
| 900 acres. The lake of Harlem became
terra frma between 1910 and 1852, and
the Zuyder Zee is in process of trans
formation into 500, 900 valuable acres.
Holland has now 1,479,O 900 oxen and
COWS, and the present output of cheese
is estimated as worth s., 10000
That the schools do not exist for the
| benefit of the book-makers is a state
ment which will hardly be considered
reasonable by those gentlemen. A