Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-13
GLEANINGs.

Senator Butler. of South Carolina, is
going to convert his cotton plantation
on the Savannah into a grass and horse
farm.
One of Sam Wards alleged CASTRO
nomic jokes is that diamond-back
terrapins are like fiagstaff's, because
both come high.
The Mormons have raised n general
contribution of 81 head to contest
the constitutionality of the Edmunds
ct.
A large delegation Of manufacturers
and commercial men of Australia are
making arrangements to visit this
country next spring.
Roast elephant is a sacred dish in
TOnquin and Anam, as are also birds
nest pies. made of esculent swallows
with pate of insects.
Uncle Jesse McTeer saw the battle
of Kings Mountain and lived a century
longer to die in Marysville, Tenn. the
other day, aged 10 years.
Doctor McCosh does not know if
there is an inscription on Carlyle's
tombstone. but suggests this: Here
lies one who gave force to the English
tongue"
The once famous tribe of Cherokee
Indians is now reduced to about ZOO
persons, and they suffer Il steady
decrease, which will eXtinguish them
by the middle of the next century.
A bee comb nearly three feet long,
suspended from a tree and pretty well
filled with honey, was recently found
near Santa Ana, Cal. The bees We're
still working in it.
The most important and valuable
stamp collection in the world belongs
to a son of the Duchess of Galliera.
Though it is yet incomplete, the stamps
alone have cost 100000.
Three Cincinnati, Ohio, Gov
ington, and Newport, Ky.-produced
last year 27,119, 203 gallons of beer, or
one-half gallon for every, man, woman,
and child in the United States.
Critics who say that there are no cul-
tiyated people in the West are told that
One-quarter of the circulation of the
North american ReCieaO is west of the
Mississippi.
Samuel Machey, of New South
Wales, sheared 1900, 900 sheep last
year, and this year he expects to have
100000 His lands run 700 miles in
one direction, and comprise 5000, 600
acres, and have been nearly all re-
claimed from the desert.
David Lincoln. OF Mayville, Chautau-
qua county, n. Y, is six feet high,
weighs 215 pounds, and is y years old.
He can lift 1000 pounds. In his life
he has cleared 500 acres of land, and
boasts Of chopping and piling up eight
cords of fOur-tOot wood in II day. In
his youth he was champion
wrestler.
The Mormon settlement of String
town, in Idaho, extending from Clifton
10 Oxford, is five miles long. The home
ste@ders' residences are within 500 feet
of each other, and the farms are mere
strips of land about $50 feet in width.
The land was taken up in this manner
to give every settler a frontage on the
public road.
The introduction of electricity rs a
substitute for lamps and candles on
board ship is making rapid progress.
There is one source of safety in this to
the ship and the passengers. All lights
are put out at II o'clock. After this
time people may talk in the dark, but
there is no possibility of the reckless
use of lights and lamps.
Lexington, Tenn, has prodigy in q
youngster named Claude Barnes. who
has never been to school two months
in his life, and can speak Latin,
German, French and English distinctly,
and can recite from memory many
poems and literary pieces with as much
emphasis and Pathos as any well-trained
orator.
There Is lively contest now going
on between the citizens of the little
town OF Mary Ann, Ark. A number of
the residents have applied to have the
town Incorporated and called "Mari-
ana, while the old settlers object, and
say in their paper that IF the dudes
don't feel satisfied with Mary Ann they
can get up and Sit"
There is no lead pencil" boldly
proclaims a writer in the Scientific
american, and there has been none for
fifty years past. The name of lead
pencil came from the old notion that
the products of the Cumberland mines,
England, were lead, instead of being
plumbago or graphite, a carbonate of
iron, capable of leaving a lead-colored
mark"
The Albany Evening Journal errs in
saying that there is Constitutional
provision that the President and Vice
President must belong to different
States. The only restriction in that
respect is that States Electors, in
voting for President and Vice Presi-
dent, shall not vote for inhabitants of
the same State with themselves for
both. If the persons chosen Electors
of the other States, for example, wish
TO choose the next President and the
next Vice President from this State,
there is no Constitutional prohibition
against their doing so, but the Electors
of this State can vote for but one of
them.-NeU York Times.
The following letter from Charles
Darwin appears in a work recently