Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-10
GLEANINGS.


he has attended the House of Lords but
once.
A lump of Alabama coal weighing
140, 900 pounds, is on exhibition at Biz
mingham.
A detachment of the regular army
still stand guard at the tomb of Presi-
dent Garfield.
| Rowell has made upward of $780,
900 out of the various walking matches
he has entered.
Base ball has reached a stage where
not only the catcher wears mask, but
the umpire as well. In the course of a
few more seasons we predict that the
spectators will wear coats of mail.
During the year 1888 the railways of
Great Britain killed 1880 persons and
injured s, 123 persons. And yet English
men are always talking about the dan
gers of travelling in the United States.
For each 100 miles of railroad in the
] United States there are %. II miles of
second track, sidings, etc.; 1858 loco
motives, 1894 passenger cars, 47.6
baggage and mail cars and 621.4
freight ears.
Among the smart things done by
the girl of the period is having her
head shaved, or hair closely cropped,
and wearing a wig. sit is so much
less trouble" they explain, land we
can have it dressed differently every
week"
The bridal veil originated in the Gus
tom of performing the nuptial cere-
mony under q square piece of cloth
held over the bridegroom and the
bride to conceal the bushes of the lat
ter. At the marriage of q widow it was
dispensed with.
attendance at u drawing room I'M
der Queen Victoria's rule" says the
London Truth, els just now one of the
greatest punishments to which mod
est or delicate woman can be exposed"
| The whole subject is explained in that
| final word exposed"
Washington was childless; Adams
! fayorite boy died by suicide; Monroe
had no son; Madison had no child;
! Van Buren's son went to an asy-
lum; Pierce's only child was killed on
the railway; Polk had no child, and
Johnson's only son was self-destroyed.
A correspondent of the Hartford
! Conn., Times says that in Fiskdale,
Mass, under one roof, are living five
generations, namely, the great-great-
grandmother, 90 years old; the great
grandmother, Is years; the grand
mother, 50 years; the mother, 80 years,
and the child, 6 years.
About 2, 500, 900 acres were soWn in
Ohio last fall for the wheat crop, and
late reports estimate that the yield will
reach fully 34,O00.000 bushels The
same report puts the condition of wheat
at SO per cent. Ohio's largest wheat
crop was that of 1880, when 48, 500, 900
bushels were produced.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says in the
| May ST. Nicholas: There is reason for
! the extensive complaint made by men,
| that women do not work thoroughly.
That it is not because they cannot, we
know, for we know of some of the
most magniticently accurate work in
the world has been done by women"
Fifteen designs have been submitted
for the proposed Garfield monument in
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, but
no award has been made as yet. The
committee in charge of the work linn
tied its estimate to $150,0O0. 1t is
said, however, that none of the designs
| submitted could be carried out for that
price.
A young man was going home with
two young ladies in Bath, Me-, the
other evening, and remarked casually.
in the course of the chat on the way.
that one of his weaknesses was that he
couldn't say no. One of the GIRLS.
Selling upon this cue to his character?
proposed to him after the other had
been left at her door, and was accepted.
A flower has been discovered in
South America which is only visible
when the wind is blowing. The shrub
belongs to the cactus family, and is
about three feet high, with q crook at
! the top, giving it the appearance of a
| black hickory cane. When the wind
blows a number of beautiful flowers
protude from the little Jumps on the
stalk.
It now turns out that London is the
victim Of new Yankee humbug. A
late brand of American cigars intro
duced there and smoked by all the
uuueS vi IseS6uG SII6tG Will great sat
isfaction are found to be made of to-
bacco paper-that is, q cheap kind of
paper soaked in tobacco juice, stale
beer, and strychnine and then rolled
| like the tobacco leaf.
At royal marriage in England q
| few years ago the bridegroom was q
German Prince whose high serenity
was only equaled by his impecuniosity.
and when the words of the service
with all my goods I thee endow" were
repeated, the absent-minded old Duke
of Cambridge was heard by all the
company to blurt out Indignantly.
Good God! the very shoes the fellow
wears are not paid forn'
A loving pair went to Texarkana the
other day to get married, and, being
unaware that one side of the city is in
Texas and the other in Arkansas, the
groom obtained his license in the for
mer state, while the ceremony was per-
formed across the border. Before
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