Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-08
GLEANTRGS.
A new town in Colorado has beer
christened Wagon Wheel.

I'LL 4SIGucN " ttGOLi w uSCI.
Mrs. Langtry holds mortgages On
property in New York to the amount of
$81, 900.
Wildcats are said BY the farmers to
be SO numerous in the Berkshire Hills of
Western Massachusetts rs to render the
keeping Of sheep impossible.
Leading citizens of Keokuk, Iowa,
intend to remove the remains of Keo-
kuk, the Indian chief to a point near
that city, and erect q suitable monu-
ment to his memory.
Germany has q temperance revival
such as was never known in that coun-
try before. It is led by Count Moltke
and many eminent men are among its
foremost workers.
Maine farmers have been caught at it.
They raised bears in droves in order to
secure the state bounty on their scalps.
This is an infant industry which will not
be protected.
In emulation of the Confederate bonds
claimants, Pole is about to sue the
French government for the repayment
of 2, 900, 900 francs, which one of his an
cestors loaned to Louis XIV.
There is an old lady named Brown
living N Hinton, Michigan, whose hair
| is turning from grey to its original col
or, and she is now cutting her third set
of teeth. For several years she has had
her second eyesight and can see to do
fine work as well as anybody.
A Pennsylvania girl thinks the adj
vertisements of agricultural societies
are the best commentaries on the man
agement of their fairs. ''Look at the
premiums, y she says, '.for the fastest
trotting horse, $50; for the next fastest,
S25; for the best team of work horses,
So; for the best loaf OF bread 80 cents"
Among the victims of Casamicciola
were Signor and Signora Bonavita,
who left property worth S1,O00,000 to
which there is no direct heir. Their rel
| atives, in order to determine the success
sion, have petitioned to have their bod
les Gisinterred, that by an examination
of the external injuries it may be ascer-
tanned who died first.
A fellow working in Maine factory
where young women are employed con-
trived practical joke for the enter
tainment of his admirers. He killed an
adder and left it among some boxes that
were to be assorted by young women.
Miss Stevens uncovered the reptile with
her hands. The shock made her insane,
and the physicians say that she will
! probably die, and in any event will be
a maniac for life.
Our country has become so large that
it is difficult to distinguish men in GER
tain sections by the regular four points
of the compass-as Northern, Southern,
Eastern and Western men. We have
now, therefore, New England men,
| Eastern men, Southern men, South
western men, Southeastern men, Middle
men, Northern men, Northwestern men
and Ohio men.
The Paris Figaro reports remarkable
political precocity on the part of Young
France. BABY is four years old, " it
says. GA morning or two ago he dOnned
his first trousers, and entered the Tuil-
leries Gardens where, instead of trund-
ling a hoop, he bought a paper and
| began perusing it's columns with an i'm
portant air. ''Are you reading about
women" asked companion infant.
No. am reading about Irish politics!'
| The moonshiners of the South have
| little instrument with which they whistle
to each other. 1t is made of copper,
| flat and hollow, about an inch and q
half wide and three inches long, with
kind of q scroll at the end farthest from
the mouth piece. By placing the fingers
at each end of the scroll almost any
kind of shrill whistle can be produced,
which in the night can be heard mile
away.
There is in San Francisco shoe
mandatory which is owned and man.
aged by Chinese firm. The products
of the factory are said to be as diverse
in style, workmanship and price as
those of the Eastern shops. About 200
laborers, Chinese and white, are en-
ployed. The goods produced are sold
on the Pacific coast, in British America,
Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, China
and Japan.
The overthrow of King Alfonso would
be no particular loss to Spain. He has
become tyrannical," says the Paris cor
respondent of the New York Tribune;
sis insolent unless to those who fatter
or amuse him; has the most rudimentary
idea of the duties which he owes the
nation in return for the ample civil list
that he enjoys and the magnificent pal
aces which are kept up for the uses of
himself and family"
The telephone is being used extern
sively in India. The government of that
country maintains telephone in places
too poor to maintain telegraph office
and too important to have no commu-
nication with other places. The tele-
phone is q constant source of wonder
and interest TO the natives. One dig
nitied Brahmin, to whom its mysteries
were fully explained, remarked, Eyes,
think [ understand; but does it speak
Marathi?"
Manuel Lastaye, Cuban, has been
selling the wealthy and prominent bus
mess men of New York American made
cigars for which his customers paid
double the market price, under the i'm
preston that thew had heen smuUplad