Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
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Artesian wells are being bored in
New Orleans to obViate drOuth.
Theodore Tilton is living quietly
in Paris, attending to his literary
work.
The King Of the Belgians has bought
large estates in Morocco and Tunis for
cultivation.
The Duke of Norfolk is the richest
of English mobiles. They rate him at
$40, 100000
Saturday is the only day on which it
is lawful to beg on the streets of San
Antonio, Tex.
Thirty-two thousand photographs
brought up in the Dead Letter Office at
Washington last year.
It's customary for successful Iitigants
in Florida TO invite the Court and jury
out to take something.
New York has q club called the
'Iitans," to which no one of smaller
stature than six feet and four inches is
admitted
The wealth Of Massachusetts,, as
assessed for tax purposes, is $1,731,-
the valuation Of 1882.
William T. Brockway, the forger,
began life as an apprentice in Job
printing office in New Haven thirty
years ago or 4 little over.
There are now sixty-nine Bricklay-
er's Unions throughout the United
States, with a total membership OF over
10000.
The lumber business in the swamps
Of the Yazoo and TalIahatchie rivers in
Mississippi is assuming immense pro-
portions.
A new coal field has been discovered
in Adair county, Iowa. The coal will
have to be worked by shafts, as it is
400 feet below the surface.
North Carolina has sixty-four cotton
factories. Within a year $1,000, 900 has
been expended in Louisiana for new
and improved machinery.
Colorado has 1000 miles of narrow
gauge roads in operation; Texas has
1,190; Mexico, /, 100; Arizona has 700
under construction, and Utah about l.
600 projected.
a recent university foot ball match
in England resulted in a broken leg,
dislocated ankle, smashed nose, brain
conclusion, and minor casualties too
numerous to mention.
The Norwegians, twenty CT twenty
five years ago, had plenty of oysters,
but now they have scarcely any. Their
oyster banks have been ruined by over
fishing and carelessness.
An Indianapolis man said not word
to the restaurant waiter who brought
him a tough piece of meat, but march
ed into the kitchen and whipped the
cook
General Neal Dow, of Maine, has
just received from an ex-COnfederate
soldier pistol, which was taken from
him when he was captured during the
rebellion.
Frank S. Thomas, 4 gambler in poor
health, killed himself in Galveston,
leaving = note saying: Il take this
means OF getting well. A plain box is
all ! want
The Mobile Register gives as one of
the reasons for the increase of crime
1.-The increase of libertineism, fostered
in its growth by theindecent periodicals
and publications with which the land
has been flooded"
Mount Auburn" in Cambridge,
Mass, is not a very large cemetery,
but it is avery beautiful one. Among the
dead buried there are Sumner, CnOate,
Agassiz, Longfellow, Everett. Charlotte
Cushman, and Margaret Fuller
George Washington autograph, at
the sale Of The library of the lale Joseph
J. Cooke, OF Providence, r. l., fetched
S12; that Of Roger Williams $40;
Thomas Jef1crson's 81, and that of
George ~. $72.
The Governor General and the mem-
bors Of the Cabinet of the Dominion of
Canada are paid salaries amounting to
$3.50 900 yearly, which is $40, 600 more
than is paid the President OF the United
States and his Cabinet.
There is, it seems. to be an umbrella
that cannot be stolen. A genius has
invented a detachable handle, upon
Withdrawing which the ribs are auto
maticallv locked. Replacing it unlocks
them. No two handles fit the same
umbrella
In Z recent sermon Rev. Mr.. Deems,
Of New York, denounced the purely
American habit Of kissing, stating that
while i is bad enough for adults to
kiss, it IS criminal for lot OF dirty
mouthed people TO kiss IN innocent
baby"
One Of the Arabs who have been
peddlin@ in Laredo, Ten, was hauled
up and fined $50 for carrying 12-inch
bowie-knife. The Bedouin paid the
fine in gold, remarking to the Marshall:
That is al right but you will have to
settle with heaven for this outrage"
In the Washington STR, among the
Special Notices, recently appeared
the following advertisement: The
prayers of God S people are most earn
estly requested for the thorough puriti-
cation OF a young church, whose pastor
and officers are inveterate tobacco
users, much against the wishes OF its
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