Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-06-19
GLEANINGS.

AdICo 4OI IIfOS.
Some crank has written to the Detroit
Times solemnly asserting that the fire
which recently destroyed its office was
visitation of Providence.
Holding cartridge between her
fingers, Julia Pegg, OF ST. Louis, be-
gan experimenting with lighted
match. The explosion cost her two
fingers and thumb.
William Rowland, King of the Ork-
ney gypsies, has just died at the age of
102. and his widow, aged over 90, was
able to smoke q pipe vigorously during
the funeral services.
London has seventy-six guilds, en-
dowed by wealthy benefactors for the
benefit of the different trades, and their
trust property alone yields an income
of E200, 900 annually.
1t has been decided that the inscrip-
ton placed upon the bust of Beacons-
field, in Westminster Abbey. shall be
simply: Lord Beaconsfield, twice
Premier of England. y
Captain Rodney Baxter, of Hyannis,
Cape Cod, offers to pay $500 Ito any
person who will produce materialized
spirit in my presence, within my reach,
witness being present, and that will
there remain even five minutes"
Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept
away by the crash of 1873, is to-day
one of the Wealthiest men of Pennsyl-
vania. He has investments in iron,
coal, gold, and silver mines, and rail-
roads reaching far into the millions.
Justice Massey. of Brooklyn, has
sent.Miss Emily Vogel, eighteen years
of age, to the penitentiary to complete
q reunion of the family, all of whom,
father, mother, two brothers, ard
sister, had preceded her to that estab-
lishment.
In the city of New York aloneit is
estimated that there are at present no
fewer than 400 millionaires, Thirty of
whom own from S., 900, 900 to $5OOOO,-
900 apiece, while there are about ten
VINO possess from $50, 1000, 900 to $780,
900, 900 each.
Travellers rave about the soft purple
light which fills Italian skies and gives
q peculiar beauty to Italian mountains.
The light has now been discovered on
the mountains of Southern California,
and tourists are so informed bT the
railroad companies interested.
T. B. Aldrich is taken to task for
making the word Mel Gin describing q
Marechal Mel rose in poem n the
May AtL0ntic) rhyme with ''s5eel'
His critics urge that the French word
Mel of two sylIables might rhyme with
''welT' or ''dwelI," but hardly with
''steel."
There is birch tree in York, Maine,
only about forty feet high, two roots of
which have been able to lift, some
twelve inches, q block of granite COM
puted to weigh twenty tons. The tree
is still growing, and the rock continues
to be raised and pushed sideways st
the rate Of nearly an inch year.
A little boy was buried in Meridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearse in the funeral procession
walked his pony with its saddle draped
with Grape. Strangers even looked
with moistened eyes upon the little fell
lows pet, upon which he had been
often seen to ride through the streets
but little while ago.
The general rule of law is that
person having q pecuniary interest in a
will is disqualified from acting as a
subscribing witness thereto. In re-
cent case before the Supreme Court of
Iowa this rule was sought to be extend
ed to Il case where the witness was a
corporator of q charitable institution
and distributee upon the dissolution
thereof, the will containing beQuest
thereto. The Court declined to so ex-
tend the rule.
A scientific physician says: 'In the
morning there is an acrid state of the
secretions, and nothing is so we'll cal
cuIated to correct it as peaches, apples,
etc. The small seed fruits, such as
figs, blackberries, raspberries, may be
cIassed among the best fruits and medi-
cines. The sugar in them is nutritious,
the acid purifying and the seeds laxa-
tive. We should look more to our
gardens for our medicines and less to
our drug stores.
The New York Graphic says: San
Francisco and Chicago have been using
cable surface railroads for many wears
past. New York now talks about
adopting the system. Isn't this really
reversing the order of things? Does
the star of progress take its way East?
Is it not possible that somebody here
has invented something great deal
better than that which our young folks
out West are calling already half obso-
lete?"
The president of the French repub-
lie sent some little time AGO to the
French ambassador at Constantinople
three handsome cimeters made in exact
imitation of the much-prized Damascus
blades, for presentation to the sultan's
three sons. An Oriental potentate re-
ceiying present from such quarter
would probably have preferred some
product of European art to counter
felt of what he can get better at home.
IF you want to make an Englishman q
present." says a French paper, criti-
cising n, Greyy's gift, you would not
offer him dozen of pale ale, an article
OF Sheffield cutlery, or q coat made by
Poole"