Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-17
GLEANINGS.
South Carolina will impose q heavy
tax on pistols


Nine. Modjeska supports school
Cor Polish children in New York.
Senator Miller, from California, owns
the finest residence in Washington.
The largest city in Japan is Osaka.
which contains 1885, 695 inhabitants.
NJ Tourgeneff's brain is 10 be pre-
served in the museum ut S.. Peters
burg.
The Ohio Legislature authorizes Gin
cinnati to raise the flooded district by
filing in.
DR.. Al Watts, OF Boston, has caught
and killed 4,052 dogs during the past
seven years.
\ correspondent writing from Mani
toba says the country resembles huge
bankrupt sale.
A factory with facilities for making
1O0 1000 wooden dishes per day is to be
erected in Chattanooga, Tenn.
In a Chinese city when man goes
out after dark he carries paper Ian
tern with his name and address upon it.
1t is estimated that the scheme pro-
posed for filling in some of the low
lands at Cincinnati will cost 800, OOO,-
900.
The man who buys the wood burned
by the Maine Central Railroad says that
wood is growing faster than it is cut in
Maine.
Archibald Forbes says that the great
weakness of the Australian character
is the hunger after titles and decora-
tions.
A Georgia nurseryman is said to have
realized already this season $4,000
from the sale OF fruit trees grown on
one acre of land.
Bonanza Mackey has given his old
Aloe gulch friend, Ike Hardenheimer,
now in Texas, 100000. Some years
ago he gave him 100000.
An Anti-Starvation Club is novelty
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The object is
to provide for members the best board
ing accommodations at the lowest
terms.
Resolution by the miners of Alene,
Idaho: mot q Chinaman shall ever en-
ter the diggings unlacs he climbs u
81 tree, with one end of q lariat over a
limb.
President Taylor, of the Mormon
church, said the other day: when
they come West to wipe out polygamy
they will find 1905 mUskets pointing
eastward. "
Russia, which has an area in Europe
two-thirds as large as the whole United
States, with q population of more than
10000, 900, lies almost entirely north of
the latitude of St. Paul.
At meeting of the Irish National
League in New York, the other day,
one speaker recommended that bal
looms be sent up over English cities
and that dynamite be dropped from
them.
A resident of Cover, Vt, has the dis
tinction of possessing the largest sole
in the state. He wears shoe that
measures twenty-five inches in length
and is eight inches wide. His friends
nave no difficulty in keeping track of
him.
An effort is being made in New Or
leans, La, to establish and maintain
there the same facilities as exist at Cas-
tie Garden for receiving, accommodate
ing and forwarding foreign immigrants.
Charleston, S. c., also desires the
same.
Mr.. Goshen, of England, a distin-
guished statesman, learned historian.
and philosopher of the pessimistic
school, calls attention 10 the circum-
stance that the two final decades of eV-
cry century are invariably consecrated
to revolution.
A young man sends the following
advertisement to the Boston Globe:
Wanted, by Il handsome, virtuous
young man in easy circumstances, of
brilliant talents, refined tastes and low
ing disposition, situation as son-in-law
in q wealthy family"
A Michigan father objects to his son
taking up the study of physiology,
which is in the regular course OF the
schools. The authorities insist. The
parent thinks he can select what stud
les he chooses for his boy, and will
take the matter into court.
Hugh J. Jewett is director in
twenty railroad companies; Samuel
Sloan in twenty-three; JAY Gould in
twenty-four; George B. Roberts in
twonty-six; Augustus Schell in twenty
eight; Sidney Dillon in thirty-six, and
Frederick L. Ames in tifty-two.
a good story is told about resident
of Brattleboro. VT, finding yale"
lock key that bore the imprint of the
company's name, and how he yerv
conscientiously advertised for its own
er, saying that MIR. Yale can have his
key by calling on the undersigned in
person"
There is type of social life in Amer
lea which / hold as inestimablv higher
than that of any other land 1t is as
quiet, as self-respecting, as well-bred
rs any, and, added to these, it is more
genuine, moro human, more loyal in
friendship, less at the bidding of Mrs.
Grundy, than any social life [ know
Robert LAIRD Collier.
Good shellac varnish is made as fol-
1oy-c. Tol-o of vary ,oo1o