Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-20
GLEANINGS.

money loaned him ana Sot d Judgment.
One of the former mayors of Milwau-
kee, Wis, saws he would not take the
office again for $4,000.
The next General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will meet
in Philadelphia next May.
The mayor of Rochester, n Y, has
put his veto on street electric lights
He did it on the ground of economy.
Bill Lucas, of Logan county, Illinois,
has nine children, and says his tobacco
costs as much as his flour.
People in Alabama are enthusiastic
over the great ''boom' which the
state will have when the railroads, now
building, open up the coal-felds there.
In northern Ohio town twelve
year-old boy, while blowing a tin horn
burst q blood-yessel, and died in a few
hours.
The Mansfield (Ohio) ShicId and Ban
ner has q subscriber who has read and
paid for the paper continuously for 50
years.
a traveller who made tour of Kan
sas says that the only thing cOnspicu-
Gus about that state is the youthfulness
Of the railroad conductors.
''Well, | think women have about as
much power and influence now as is
good for them or for us. / don't think
it would be wise to give them the bal
lot. Hordtjo Seymour.
There is a clock in good running or
der in the postoflice in Monmouth, Ore
gon, which was brought across the
plains in 1852, and has been running
over forty years.
1t is said mixture of four parts
tincture Of capsicum to one part spirits
Of turpentine, applied to the hand and
wrist once or twice a day, will cure
writer's cramps.
Maine has 1000 miles of wilder
nesses, and the whole state Of Massa-
chusetts could be set down in the mid
die Of them and not be able to find its
way out
General Washington and General
Sherman, by q curious historical coin
cidence, issued their farewell orders to
the army on the same day a century
apart-Nov. l, USELESS.
Nashville will give an exposition and
musical festival next year The bust
ness men have taken hold of the mat
ter in earnest. A brick building to cost
$50, 600, will be erected.
"A distinguished botanist has found
that by simply soaking the stems of
cut flowers in Il weak dye solution their
colors can be altered at will without
the perfume and freshness being de-
strOycd.
The first cotton factory in California
is to be erected IN Alameda county.
The c0mpany's capital is 5000, 600.
Most Of the cotton IS to be transported
from Texas, but ultimately Southern
California will, it is expected, supply
all the cotton needed.
The economy OF French cooks"
says LippiHcOH'S, lis something to Oxen
American eyes. Not drop of the
water in which vegetables are boiled
ever drains away wasted, but with
dash of milk and a little pork fat or
butter is made a good Soup-vehicle
by which to consume dry bread.
Pearl street, New York, is the crook
eldest street in the world. 1t is a mile
and a half in extent, and vet its curves
are 50 incessant that you cannot in any
place see more than two squares ahead.
It intersects Broadway twice, forming
4 half circle whose arc is nearly one
mile in length.
The French are alarmed by the num-
Der of foreigners who are crOwding
into France. 1t has rapidly increased
OF late years, and now over 1000 900
persons, nearly 4 thirtieth of the whole
population, are aliens. About One-half
Of them are Belgians, but the Italians
are coming in regiments, and the Span
iards, and even the Germans, rapidly
increase.
Thousands of young American swells
are said by a fashionable tailor to wear
nothing Of American make. Their
measures are sent to London tailors,
hatters and furnishers, who provide
the articles ordered very promptly. 1t
is true that garments thus obtained are
liable to prove poor fits, but there are
English tailors here also whose sole
employment is to complete imported
suits in manner to make them fit
Large fortunes are rare in Switzer-
land, and the salaries of public func-
tiOnaries are very modest. The presi-
dent of the confederation receives for
his services only $4,000 year; few
Judges receive more than 81, $50, and
Inere IS PROBABLY no bank manager IN
the country with a salary of more than
twice that amount. A man with an in
come of 50, 500 is considered very we'll
off indeed, and to have $1,000 year is
passing rich"
4 room underground, y by IS feet
square, was discovered in the jail yard
of Vicksburg. 1t contained the bones
OF dead man, but no clew to its his
l.. I
been white-washed, contained various
articles of Union clothing, and had evil
IDENTIFY been inhabited. The mystery
of its origin is exciting the curiosity
and investigation of the Oldest inhabi-
tants.
The buying mania is the disease
that q foor-walker in q large New
York store has found to atf1ict women
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