Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-28
GLEANINGS.

d law requiring butchers 10 XIII DcoftS
either by cerebral conclusion or by
cutting the spinal cord.
In 1900 towns west of the Mississ
ippi river there is no Protestant
preaching. The Home Missionary
Society of the Congregational Church
is aiding missionaries to occupy that
field
A colony of bats has been djsposs-
essed of It's quarters IN the s'eeple of
the Episcopal Church at HopkInton,
n. FL. No fewer than SIG of the noe
turnal wanderers were counted, but
there were more than that.
The gratuitous food kitchens at
Marseilles are described as being de-
cidedly unsuccessful institutions.
Food is given without supervision to
all who apply for it, and the applicants
feeling sure of obtaining abundant
nourlshment, give up work and con-
tract idle habits
The Catskills have as varied an or
biography as the name of Shakespeare.
They are spelled Catskill, KatsKill,
Kaater kill, Kanterskill. Kalzkill,
Kalzberg, Katzemberg, Kanterzkill
Kaatensberg. but are as pleasant and
picturesque by one name as another
The aboriginal name, Ontorios, is the
best of all
Lille Devereux Blake says "a bach
elor is a nam who has lost the oppor-
tunity of making some woman mlser-
able" Just so, Lille. It is impossible
for fellow to marry without making
all the other girls who happen to be in
love with him miserable.
Drink wine when you 60 to Paris, y"
say travellers; "the water is seldom
fit to drink" But how good is the
wine? In the last report Of the NUM-
opal laboratory, under whose scrutiny
the wines of the city must pass, the
number of good samples found among
1861 was only 357, while 1908 were
passable, 1, 700 were bad and 2O2 posi-
lively dangerous.
In an action for breach of promise
the other day in England the defend
ants counsel asked the fair plaintiff:
did nay client enter into a positive
agreement to marry yous" Well,
not exactly" she replied, "but he
courted me good deal and told my
sister he intended to marry into our
family"
The natives of Stonington, Ct,
assert that it has never rained tEere
on the 10th of August for 101 years
That is the day they celebrate, and
the weather record, they say, has been
accurately kept in the borough ever
since the first anniversary Of the bat
tie Of Stonington.
Mozart, who, while he lived, wanted
bread, now gets a stone. Vienna is
building him a monument to cost $50,
900, which is much more than he re-
ceived for the whole work of his life.
He died in want, and his uncoffined
corpse was trust into trench in the
potter's field.
Michael Dryer, bad boy of Am
sterdam, is alleged to have waylaid his
father one night last week, and with
a cooked revolver presented to the old
mans head, induced a surrender of
| his vest and what money he had.
| Michael is now wanderer.
The War Department at Rome has
invited all Italian emigrants settled
In foreign countries to return home
and fulfill their military duties, every
male twenty-one years old being sub
Ject to conscrptiOn, regardless of
naturalization abroad. Italy has re-
peatedly refused to exempt her sons
naturalized Ia the United States.
The Columbia (Ga) Sentinel con-
tains the following short sermon:
Young people who are disposed to
misbehave in church while worship
- Ill III L. !
ate, as they may possibly come to
grief for such conduct. Because SEN
tence is not speedily executed against
such behavior, some take license to go
on. This may prove a Sad mistake.
People should make up their minds
on going to church to deport them
selves right, Or not go at all. :"
A coal dealer asked some law stu
dents what legal authority was the
faVorite of his trader One answered:
Coke" Right" said the coal deal
err. Another suggested: Blackstone. "
Good, toop said the questioner.
Then little man piped out " Little
ton" Whereupon the coal dealer sat
down.
There are now about dozen bridges
dCIOSo Vic 1ndu1SS dG duu IllC
corporation has just decided to build
another. Two centuries ago London
bridge was the only one, and the bold
proposition to throw across another
as far up as Putney was kicked out of
the House of Commons. One states
man went so far as to urge that the
second bridge would be an end to
Londons' prosperity.
The plan of using the enormous
water power of the Al ps for working
electric railways in Switzerland is
!, about to take definite shape, the
idea being to connect the towns of St.
Mor1tz and Pontresina by an electric
railway four and three-quarters
miles long, the motive power to be
supplied by the mountain streams
the line. in case the plan proves sue
cess, to be extended a considerable
| II ,c+o