Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
GLEANINGS.

IN California.
Key West is to have big hotel, cost
ing $500 600.
Victor Hugo expects to climb the
Alps next summer.
A Danbury lady says she found a
chestnut in the yolk of an egg.
Five hundred thousand alligators
were killed in Florida last year.
A woman has challenged Bob Inger-
soil to discussion, and Bob has crawl
ed off.
Colonel Pinckney Stark. of North
Carolina, is writing a life of John c.
Calhoun.
Patti has been singing for thirty
years and Nillson for twenty. Both are
sensitive on this point.
Boston, in its desire to keep up with
the times, wants Vienna bakery, but
can't get any one to start it.
The profits of the Indian trader at
the San Carlos Agency are said to be
$50, 900 a year
Captain L. B. Crouch, an unmarried
Texas stockman, has an insurance of
$4,000 on his life.
There is no law in Tennessee in any
way regulating or restricting the prac-
tice of medicine.
At 1ndiantown, Leake county, Miss,
fifty-tiye Choctaw Indians have joined
the Baptist Church.
English doctors say that tea drinking
is causing more mental and physical
diseases than beer drinking.
Colored people edit and control at
least twelve periodical publications in
the United States.
The Government nets $50. 81 on every
1000 of the new stamps sold, on the
cost of making them
There is nothing that tends to en-
courage cruelty more than the preva-
lent fashion that demands the Slaugh-
ter of birds for ornament.
Few persons know that the Queen of
England has a court jester. This relic
of medi@valism is 76 years of age and
his name W. F. Wallet.
The London Fisheries Exhibit was
visited by 2, 703, 051 persons, and not
ease of disorderly conduct was brought
to the knowledge of the commissioners.
There are only nine lawyers among
the 249 Representatives in the Connec-
ticut Legislature, and only three among
the "a Senators.
The New York EUening Post says that
the florists OF that city can tell tales
of extravaganza that even diamond
dealers could not credit"
California wants more people and the
authorities have issued pamphlets call
ing attention to the fact that nearly 45,-
600, 900 acres of land are open for set
Element
The official returns show that the
healthiest class of people in Great Brit
ain are the inmates of prisons, where
are compulsory.
On the bill of fare in New York Ital-
ian restaurants coffee is / cent cup,
steak, chops and stews, 3 cents; pastry
3 cents; beer, 2 cents; whisky and
brandy, cents. These places are
thronged daily by persons of all nation
alities.
DR.. Ladelle has discovered that prus-
sic acid is an antidote for poisoning by
strychnine. Medical men will be eau
tious in using it, however, as the prus-
sic acid to be of any use must be given
in doses which would be fatal under
any other circumstances.
A Georgia dog fell into a Georgia
well during the summer. Not being a
very good dog no fuss was made about
it. Seven weeks after the fall the own
er of she well went down into it to see
why there was no water in it. He found
the well as dry as horn and the dog
feeling well with the exception of be-
ing hungry.
General Sheridan explains that the
frequent desertions from the army on
the frontier are due to the fact that
many impecunjous young men in the
East, who desire to get out to the rich
mineral and agricultural regions in the
West, enlist in the army simply to Sc
cure transportation at the hands of the
government.
A company of Southern capitalists
are preparing to build new manu-
featuring CITY on the south side of the
Tennessee river, in Alabama, near Mus
sci Shoals. The site is 100 feet above
ilISI "dEC1 dIIll IL " III NC CdllSu
Iron City" 1t is at the head of nav
igatlon on the Tennessee, and will be
the terminus of at least three lines OF
railroad which run through the coal
and iron fields of the South.
Prohibition has made great advances
in Georgia within q few years. In or
der to find out just what the existing
situation was in that respect the Allan
Ia Constitution recently addressed TO
county officers 4 circular, which has
elected replies from 125 of the 137
counties in the State. From these re-
ports it appears that total prohibition
prevails in tifty-fve counties and par
tial prohibition in thirty-six, while
from twenty-five come reports that pro
hibition had either been defeated or
was regarded with indifference.
Various are the methods of initiating
Harvard students into the secret socie-
ties. All aspiring young men are put
through, for two weeks, series of
mental and humiliatinp drudgery and