Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-23
GLEANINGs.


1t is said that decaying cabbage will
produce diphtheria sooner than any
other nuisance about the house.
Since red coats are disappearing from
the English army, that color is becom-
ing fashionable in Paris
President Eliot, of Harvard College,
said the other day that there was not
an institution in our whole country
worthy to be called university.
Twenty years ago there were nearly
fifty cotton mills in Glasgow, Scotland.
To-day there is barely a dozen and those
likely to be closed.
Pug dogs have become so common
that when q young lady's pug is men
toned it is now readily understood not
to m her nose.
A war on Washers and street firts is
going on in St. Louis. A similar war
could be profitably undertaken in other
cities.
Amateur orange-culture in Florida is
like incubator chicken-raising in the
North-it leads to pleasant dreams, but
doesn't pay.
Relic hunters are bidding quite lively
for the dilapidated wheelbarrow that
Lyma Potter trundled twice across the
continent. The last offer was 81, 900,
but his widow wants more.
General G. 7. Beauregard, of New
Orleans, does not think that the negro
race is increasing The prevalence of
crime among them is proving very det-
rimental to them.
The Monroe (Georgia) AdUertiser re-
ports that people in that section have
begun to dig pits near their residences
for hiding places in case of visitation
by tornadoes.
Syracuse has been imposed upon by
two young men, who sold painted spar
rows for canaries at two dollars each.
Two good singing canaries were carried
along as advertisements.
The total number of coke ovens in
the United States in 1880 were 1929,
employing $40 persons, and requiring
a capital of So, $40, 058 to carry on the
business
A successful orchardiSt says that if he
were to live his life over again he would
trim his trees higher and pasture his
orchard with more sheep, in place of
ploughing or mulching.
Norvin Green, the President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
not many years ago rode through Ken
lucky as q country doctor, carrying his
medicines in his saddle-bags behind
him.
The average cost OF every school
house in Illinois was 81, 1856; in Ohio,
81, 800; in New York, 50, 584; in Tenn
essee, 1862; in Virginia, S491 in North
Carolina, $130, and in South Carolina,
$47.
When 'stencil7' oil paintings can be
bought of New York firms for from 50
to so cents, without frames, and from
81 to $3.50 with frames, there is no ex-
cuse for farmers not keeping their corn
fields well supplied with scarecrows.
Twenty thousand Cinnamon are to be
brought to Brazil at u cost of $40 a
head. They are to be indentured for
five years as laborers, and will be paid
80 cents day, out of which they will
have to feed and clothe themselves.
Alexander Fl. Stephens, the last Gov
ernor of Georgia, could not walk. Henry
D. Mcdaniel, the present Governor, is
very bad stammerer, and cannot talk.
But, like Stephens, he is man of great
ability.
According to the United States Com
missioner of Education, SCI, 475, 900 has
been given by private individuals for
educational purposes in this country
within ten years This does not include
the recent gift of Slater and others,
to $8,000,000.
In 1868 aDutchman erected a sawmill
in England, but the hostility of tho work
men compelled its abandonment. More
than one hundred years elapsed before
the second sawmill was put III operation
in England, and that was destroyed by
handsarFyeTs.
Antiq narians are jubilant over the
discovery at Cairo of the tOmbs OF the
Abassides, which scientists have search
ed for so long in vain. The hall con-
tanning the tombs is crowned with a
dome of stained glass, and is magnifi-
Gently carved with detailed inscriptions.
It is said that the Indians of Alaska
do not belong to the same race as the
North American Indians, but that they
are probably an offshoot from the Jap
anese or Coreans. The missionaries
who have been laboring among them
say that in many respects their concep-
tons of moral law are better than those
of civilized nations.
Olives are successfully cultivated on
st. Simon's Island, Ga, and oil made
from them has been pronounced by COM
petent judges not inferior to the best
productions of France or Spain. The
experiment in olive trees has been sue
cessfully made, and trees have yielded
regular crops since 1885. The oil crop
from these islands is annually sold at
from Sc to s. per gallon.
The people of Pueblo, Colo, are ex-
cited over a proposal to cut down a GER
tain tree, of which a petition to the
Council says: Judging from scientific
rules, l should decide that the tree was
over 1000 years old, and its seize, over
twenty-six feet in circumference, makes
it the largest tree in the State of Colo
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