Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-12
GLEANINGS.


is stated that the tax on those residing
in theUnited States brings in a revenue
OF S16, 100000
General Roger A. Pryor says: New
York is the strictest State in the Union
in regard to divorce proceedings, and
Rhode Island the most lax.
Talmage condemns half-mourning
He thinks the person who can get half
over feeling sorry for the death of a rel
ative had better leave off mourning al
together.
Benjamin Hawkins, of Indiana, has
been driven by mobs out OF the five
towns in which he has attempted to live.
He begins to suspect there is prejudice
against him.
Saving is too wasteful 4 process to be
used in the manufacture of veneer. The
logs are first steamed until they are soft,
and then put on a machine, and 4 knife
ShaVes off strips as thin as the thinneSt
tissue paper.
Ten years ago the parks of Detroit
were full of blue birds and robins. To-
The miserable nuisance of sparrow
CHdIUcIS dS IlC pOuNtClS ONGI his CIV IL III
fiuence. -DetrOit Free Press.
Near Bozeman, on the Northern Pa
cific, is q curve which. if prolonged,
would make Il circle 600 feet in di-
ameter. This is very sharp curve, as
100 feet is the smallest diameter deemed
safe.
Henry Turnbull, once wealthy New
Il II, =
900 year, and was q member of the
Union Club, is now q clerk in the wal
department inWashington, with q salary
of 81, 200 year.
A Matchmaker, speaking of what he
found in watches, said ''Small pieces
of iron, tobacco, splinters of wood, and
once | found a louise. Hairs frequently
get into watches. | have found them
coiled up and drawn tightly about the
wheels"
The leaders of male fashions in New
York wear white hats now. They have
given up canes with gaudy hammered
silver heads, and adopted canes with
mere thimble of silver on the end.
Their gloves are no longer terra Gotta,
but of crushed strawberry hue; and they
have given up trying to wear the single
lass.
1t is announced that q grand German
musical festival is to be held in Brook
lyn in July, 1885. The announcement
is made thus early in order that the
breWeries in this country may work
overtime and thus have enough beer on
hand in July, 1885, to save the festival
from becoming q failure. -N0rYiSt0lOn
Herald
We are apt to think transportation O.
coal in the United States is high. We
find that there is a business in coal to
London, England, of 100000 tons
annually, and the railroads compete fol
the carriage of the coal. 1t appears, on
the best authority, that the cheapest is
86100 of a cent per mile net, and the
highest is 1 ITO cents net per ton PEI
mile. Distance was 10 to Up miles
from pits to London.
The following expressive poetic prost
was found on the interior of box cal
at the depot by M. T. Streeter The
reader will be convinced, after reading
it, that there is at least one honest
minded tramp in the world: BARNS and
rOOst when [ can; take q shirt off the
clothes line, | am the stuff they spread
on land. Counting ties is my occupa,
ton, hunger gives me many cramp,
work and | am no relation, [ am q
Pennsylvania tramp"
here is an awesome quiet in Wall
street at night-a hard, cold, stone and
iron Quiet-not the hush of the summer
eve in the woods or by the seashOre oil
the mill stream. with its occasiOnas
chirp OF the grasshOpper or the pipe OF
the frog; but q stern, brOOding, merci.
less, crushing Stiffness. as if some cruel,
heartlesS. Inerciless thing lurked among
these granite understanding not TO
be wooed or won by frankness or hon
esty or well-meaning or well-doing to
ones fellow, but that rejoiced rather in
lies and deceit and trickerv and hard
heartedness and greedy craft.
There is on exhibition at Jackson
vile, Louisiana. beautiful masonic
apron captured by Georgian artillery
officer in the Mexican war from the IA
nous General Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna at the time of his memorable re-
treat, when, not only his private bag
gage, but his wooden leg was left be-
hind in his sudden flight. The apron is
of white satin with a back of silk. At
the top is star embroidered in gold
within which is the mystic letter G.; be-
meath this there is an embroidered scroll
resembling a Maltese cross, on either
side ofwhich, in large Roman characters,
are the golden letters M. B., the signifi-
canoe of which no local craftsman has
interpreted.
The channel tunnel project has been
treated to new figures. 1t can be built
in ten years, thirty miles from England
to France, for $4,000, 900, with an ar
rangement, costing only $4,000, by
which the danger of a French army's
oozing up on English soil and Staying
the British lion can be averted. It
would accommodate two railway tracks
and the patronage would need to be
1000 passengers a day at SD each,
and 548 tons of merchandise, to insure
50, 100, 900 q year, which would pay !
per cent. after allowing 40 per cent. of
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