Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-06-12
GLEANNGS.

WHICH, IHcy pau T-OO'o0O'
The Sultan of Turkey recently gave
reception to the Crown Prince of
Austria at a cost of goo, 600.
Short bonnet strings, fastened cutelv
under the chin with some odd and
fantastic pin, is now the proper ca
per.
AS Jay Gould's income is estimated
ut SO minute, a statistician says that
he lost $135 by the change from solar
to standard time.
1t is estimated that there are now be-
tween 600, 000 and ZOO 00Opeople in Da-
kota Territory, and 200, 600 more are
expected this year.
French artificial diamonds. made of
variety Of flint glass and graded to
conform to carat sizes of real diamonds,
are called ''heliolas"
Upon the fields of Gardeners Island,
off Long Island, are sixty deer, the
largest private herd in the state The
island also abounds in wild turkeys.
The Methodists have grown from 15,-
900 members in 1884 TO 1898, $50 at
the present time. Their centennial Gel
ebration will occur next fall.
Indian story-tellers very often give
their variations in the sign language,
and the laughter of their hearers will
often be the only audible sound for an
hour.
Linen shirts were first worn in Eng
land about the year 1850. The art of
washing" remarks the Burlington
Free Press, twas invented very soon
afterwards.
South Carolina has 1868 flour, grist
and rice mills, employing 4, $40 whites
and blacks, employing q capital of ST.
755,75O, and turning out So, 288, 600
worth OF flour, feed, etc.
''AyoirdupOis parties are the rage
PottaWattamic county, Iowa. Each
young lady is weighed on entering the
dining room and her escort pays for
her supper at the rate Of half q cent a
pound on her weight.
Henry Darr, q worthy citizen of Da-
wilson county, Ga, has attained the
age of sixty and Il snug little fortune of
$4,000, without having q clock, a cook
stove, 4 buggy, q sewing machine, or
4 newspaper in his family.
David +. Whitmer, still living in
Missouri 1T the age Of eighty, was one
Of the three witnesses who in 1880 pub
lished q certificate declaring that they
saw an angel come down with the gold
en- book which Joseph Smith, the NOR
mon, pretended to interpret
Petroleum flowing from a break in
the pipe lines Of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Pompton Lake, n. j., killed
twenty-nine swans belonging to DR..
Rogers Money indemnity was refused,
and the company sent to their London
agent and had thirty-five swans sent to
Dr.. Rogers.
Lieutenant Danenhower is reported to
have won his wife as Othello did, by
thrilling tales of his most disastrous
chances" He first met her during his
lecturing tour and afterwards in pri-
vate he narrated his adventures in the
arctic seas, and so gained her heart as
well as ear.
Henry Grafton Dulany has a magnif-
cent estate in LoudOn county, Va, and
inherited $2,000,00 from his mother
He is young, good looking and unmar
ried, and proposes to embark part of
his capital in the banking business in
Washington on the ground that he is
anxious for occupation.
General Toombs refused to subscribe
for the purchase of Alexander H.
Stephens residence rs q memorial hall.
because, he said Il want the peo-
pie of Georgia to buy the property, and
when they do | will endow it with
enough 10 make it such 4 college as
little Alcck would like to see if he were
alive"
The first cotton exported from Amer
lea was a lot of eight bags sent to Liv-
erpool just 100 years ago, and the GUS
toms authorities detained it awhile be-
cause it was reckoned impossible that
SO much could have been raised here.
The crop last year amounted to g.,
949, 756 bales, of which 4, 766, 597 werc
exported.
John b. Cough, now sixty-se7cn,
came from England to New York In
1920, learned the book binders trade,
and for several years was chiefly dis
tinguished for getting drunk, singing
songs and giving recitations He be-
came q temperance advocate in 1910,
making his first speech in the old
Broadway Tabernacle.
The standard railroad time, accord
ing to w. T. Allen, the originator of
the system, is now in use by all the rail
roads in the country except the Union
Division of the Union Pacific, the
Central Pacific and the Southern
Pacific, west of Deming, n. NJ. Less
than 10 per cent of the people of the
country are using local time.
The latest venture in the newspaper
line is the proposed republication in
America from electrotype plates of the
London Illustrated Ne10s, with a twelve
page American supplement. The
scheme is shortly to be projected, and
by the terms of the arrangement the
London publishers will send none of
the English edition to this country.
The death rate of Russia is the high
est in Europe. This is attributed to
the paucity of medical men and the
habits of the rural DODulation Ac-