Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-06
GLEANINGS.

| L. oIlNcI w CuuGll I1OIllCS' Critics Il
horse-cheStnut in his pocket rs Il protec-
ton against rheumatism.
The walters ut the Thousand Island
Park Hotel are girls mostly from the
Oswego Normal School,
Statistics show that French women
live, on an average, thirteen years long
er than French men.
Since tax has been placed on Rock
| and Rye, it's now sold under its maiden
name Of ''whisky and gum"
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is living
almost the life of u recluse at West
Gloucester, Mass. and working diligent-
Iy on new story.
The Hurry against the trade dollar in
Eastern cities is subsiding, and that
coin, like the prodigal son, is returning
to its par.
Cincinnati's twelve national banks
have a capital of So, 900, 900, with sur
plus and undivided profits of 81, $685.
064
The Patent Office Examiner has de-
clared that, in majority of the details
of the telephone, Mr.. A. G. Bell is the
earliest inventor.
In Oregon you can leave home in
summer, to be gone for four months,
without carrying an umbrella or fearing
shower. 1t makes it up during the
winter by raining every day.
Eight of the graduating class of the
University of Virginia, this year, have
been called to professorships in other
colleges OF the South.
A cloud has darkened the mind Of
Mile. de Ia Rance, better known as
LIQUIDS" She is, in consequence,
strictly secluded.
A traveller in North Carolina saw near
Waynesvillc Il church 28N44 and IS feet
high, with a pine steeple, all made from
one tree. and there was enough lumber
left over to fence the church-yard.
A girl nj Cape May playfully threw
sand into Tie eyes of Il Young man who
scrui.;I Z",! her bathing attire too closely
an, In"r' II da't-er thac he will never
look =. ::,: IL a-ai;i.
\ va :. TON detective arrested a
10 '"H ~":< &c stepped from a
l." -. Gn for u crook -
Pr ..l.~ j.. .iot IN unnatural mis-
tar,
We Iiot tl.> in u Washington letter
to the Aibauv journal: General Crook
has told me thar he had often fought
Indians in obedience to orders, when he
knew they were in the wrong. He is
greatly trusted among them.
An enormous spiders web seen re-
Gently in Franconia Valley, N. H. was
of the geometrical kind, stretched be-
tween two trees. The guys or supports
were fifteen feet long, while the web
was three feet in circumference.
The price of gas in English and Irish
cities, per 1000 feet is as follows: Dub
lin, 90 cents; Belfast 90 cents; Plymouth.
60 cents; Leeds, ii cents; Carlisle. 60
cents; Manchester, 81 cents; Birming-
ham, Sc cents.
Angela Cordelia, Nevada miner.
claims to be the strongest man in the
world. His bones are all extraordinary
lily massive. though he weighs but 1876
pounds. He can lift 200 pounds with
one finger.
It was noticed in a criminal case re-
Gently tried at Brooklyn that one of the
Jurors paid no attention to the evidence.
Investigation disclosed the fact that he
was a Frenchman and understood not
q word of the English language.
The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times is in
dignant because the convicted Major J.
Z. WATSON is allowed to retain his love
ly, dropping mustache' in the Peniten-
tiary, and demands that he be shaved
clean like any thief.
The Austro-Hungarian bill for work
mems insurance against sickness rend-
ers insurance obligatory on all manual
laborers, at a cost OF Il to 2 per cent of
the wages. Employers also pay some
ching.
II" boy who pulled the trigger of
- while bathing in 4 Georgia pond
lna1al b11E