Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-18
GLEk NTNGS.

nave gone out OF style. lie eNccpCS quI-
nine, of course.
'.'Two-dollar bluff is the name given
q village recently located on Indian
river, Florida.
Elk Governor Hubbard. of Connect
cut, lost his daughter some years ago
by her marriage with his coachman.
Now he has lost his fortune.
Girls ii bad health are not admitted
to Wellesley College. All applicants
to exclude weaklings.
The imprint OF the London Times no
longer contains the name Of Francis
GoodlaGe, the responsible printer of
that newspaper for many years.
Eleven Police Justices in New York
draw salaries Of 50, 900 each, Or nearly
rs much IS the Judges on the Supreme
Bench at Washington.
The Los Angeles (Cal Herald thinks
ii is unwisc to plant more ORANGE trees.
Is there are more planted now than
viii be needed in ten years.
Mrs. Florence Jones, near Gerber, on
Lookout Mountain, fifteen miles from
Chattanooga, found under large rock,
= tin BOX containing $415 in gold.
The Scbo0lmaSJer, an English Educa-
tional journal, is discussing the question
of midday meals in the schools. 1t
states That the introduction of q hot
Irish stew in q London mission school
has been q great success as IN incentive
to study.
The greatness and the prosperity Of
Tbfg ar,,r,,t try nffay all I4nCDI not o.,
financicrs nor on its statesmen, but on
its soil and sunshine. Even Wall street
itself, in a moment Of frankness. saws:
Its all in the crops" And the crops
are good. -Ae2U York World
Susan Anthony says that there are
1000 women practicing medicinein Eng
land, and that, SO far as she has been
able TO learn, ''they kill as large a pro-
portion Of their patients, and receive as
exOrbitant fees for SO doing, as male
practitioners.
We have in the Southern States in
operation, or in course of erection, 191
cotton factories This outnumbers bv
n MI the cotton factories in New Eng
land, outside of Massachusetts, and eX-
ceeds by IL the number in that State.
-PUlusbj (IeRR.) Citizen.
The bicycle is invading the South. 1t
has rolled through Georgia. One has
Just reached Mobile. and nobody can
be found who can ride the fiery, I'M
tanned machine The reason riven is
that the streets and roads are too sandy.
The real trouble probably is that there
is not enough sand in the young men.
Dr. c. Z. Page, Of Biddeford, Me,
makes the statement that he has
means OF knowing of over 5, 000families
in this country who adopted the yege-
tartan diet for curative purposes, after
becoming diseased under the universal
meat eating. and they rarely have oc-
casion 10 call 4 doctor into their homes
Although Chicago won't believe it.
St. Louis, rs u city, lies in an atmOs-
Dhere OF poetic legend and story. With
in three miles from the business center.
on the Illinois side, 1T the old French
town of Cahokla, generations are born,
live and die, who Go not speak the Eug-
lish language. The people are provin-
cial in the extreme, and jealous of their
origin. customs and language. -BufUL0
Express.
Some Of the literary men of America
more critic. He says: James is q tuft-
hunter and sycophaut, HoweIls .
Smooth-bore, Stedman q dead failure.
Stoddard . man who has turned his
Wash-howl into q paste-pot, Cable q
blower Of literary soap bubbles, and
Richard Grant White 4 critic who dis
covered in a cockney beauty with LEGS
like piano and q voice like fOg-horn
the lost arms Of the Venus de Milo and
4 voice Of yocalyelyet.
Here are the rules laid down by the
Baron de Lesseps for the physical cuI-
cure Of lis ten thriving children: Little
meat; less clothing; unlimited exercises;
food to be given in the hand whenever
1t IS asked for, but only twice 4 day ut
the table. A child who plays while
eating merely eats TO appoase hunger,
and does not run into gluttony. A
child who IS only allowed to eat at fixed
hours and at table-mCals is sure to
gorge itself and take moro than it re-
quires.
| was talking to 4 prominent steel
manufacturer ut Pittsbur0 the other
day. He told me that q few years AGO
they had to bring from England nearly
bllC Nit0IG u biIC Shllltu IIUOE OScu III
steel works. and now they employed
none whatever from the other side of
the ocean. for the best skilled labor
from England was unable to compete
with the native skilled labo~. which bv
superior aptness seemed to discern and
invent - Gath, IN Nc3o York. Iri-
b31ne
Some OF the merchants Of Philadel-
phia develop an amount OF business
enterprise that does much to acquit that
city Of the charge Of being behind the
AGE. A shoe store has had photo
graph gallery fitted up il he top floor,
where every purchaser q = pair Of
shoes is entitled to have iS photograph
taken 4 cigar dealer exposes the
legend X ticket Tor the Manuerchor
Garden and good Havana cigar for
% cents, And popular dentist at
tracts custom to himself by giving teeth
on trial.