Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-28
GIEANNSS.

Triplets, named Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob hile, aged Y years, are living in
Bucks county, Pa.
Millais, the painter. is worth about
$1,000, 900. He is said to be anxious to
be made baronet.
Two of Brigham Young's sors have
died drunkards, two of his daughters
are married to the same husband, and
another son writes poetry.
Mrs. Susan Garfield, of Nashua, n.
H, has a mania for collecting buttons
of odd patterns. She has 1,160 but
tons of different kinds on one string.
Cleveland's 1876 mills, with $21. 2O2,-
500 capital and 17,114 hands, turned
out $50, All, 600 worth of manufactured
iron this year.
Joe Howard says that William H.
Vanderbilt would give $10,000,000 for
a new nose and $10,OO0,O0O more to
have the curl taken out of his fat lips.
The claim is made for Cleveland. O.,
that it shows a lower proportional
death list for 1883 than any other city
in the union.
The official report of the committee
appointed to investigate the earthquake
on the Island of Ischia fixes the num-
Der of persons killed at 2,313 and of the
seriously wounded at 762.
Six hundred and fifty bottles of wine,
bought in different parts of Paris, have
been analysed at the municipal iabora-
tory, and the wine was pronounced
pure in only sixty cases.
The Boston Congregatjonaljst wishes
that ministers afflicted with drawing,
drowsy, clipped or other Objectionable
habits of utterance, could have business
talks through a telephone half an hour
very day.
Mr.. Gladstone has been discoursing
learnedly and yolubly on jam as sub
stitute for butter, and has in conse-
Quence further enhanced his claim,
in the estimation of his admirers, to
Immortality.
The daughter of an Orange Earl in
Ireland has eloped with her groom.
The. wretched experience of daughter
of an ex-governor of Connecticut, in
the same mOOn-calf business, had no
deterrent lesson for her.
Mrs. Merkleham, Jefferson's favorite
and only surviving daughter, who lives
at Georgetown in utter restitution, was
seventy years old Thursday, and Con-
gresham Potter sent her $3.50 as
present and said that if congress didn't
take care of her for life he would.
Robert Laird ColIyer, writing from
London, says: Religion is not dead
in England. 1t is not dying in En-
gland. Nor has the Established Church
OF England in the least lost its hold
upon the reverence and affections OF
the people of England"
The hairs Of ones head are all num-
bered, but the rabbits of australia have
got beyond that. Until they are killed
off farming will be q most impossible.
About three millions have been poison
ed without making the slightest i'm
preston upon their swarming, teeming
prolificness.
The sale of secondhand food is an
industry conducted profitably by a
German citizen of New York. He
gathers up that which is left over from
meals at the large hotels, and sells it
to the poorer classes at nice though
modest profit.
In the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers there are now 237 divisions,
including the United States, Canada
and Mexico, with a membership of
10000 10 49, 900 active members. The
object of the Brotherhood is the per-
sOnal elevation, mutual relief and pre-
lection OF its members, the rules being
especially rigid as to the moral char
acter and abstemiOus habits of the
men.
4 Massachusetts, editor has the Ros-
ton Gazette of 1869; the Essex Journal
OF 1884; the Independent Chronicle of
1853: Massachusetts, Gazette, 1885; Es-
Sex Joaen0J and Salem Mer~2uy, 1855;
NeaO Hampshire Gazetteer, 1871; Salem
Gazette. 1894; Co acnbian Ce125t3leL, 1895;
Political Gazette, 1896; Columbian Cen
tine, 1897; Newburyport Herald, 1898,
and one or more papers for nearly ev-
cry year from 1900 to 1884.
Somebody has been unearthing a
lot of old dispositions in a Kentucky
clerks office, and taking notes of the
bad spelling of some of the great men
of the past. A deposition in the hand
WfIl1ng Oh Andrew OdchSOu cOuIdluS
such spelling as reference" ''depo-
nants,' 'untill," ''ballance," ''Ial-
lue," and difficult" Old Hickory's
use of capitals was quite remarkable.
Such words as Dollar and Money
he capitalized, while he also wrote
"almighty god"
Speaking of the new hotel to be
built in St. Louis, q gentleman from
that city says it will have accommoda-
tons for 5000 persons. IT will be the
largest hotel in the world, but will not
design to do transient business, as
really its position will unfit it for that
kind. The hotel will be for the &C
commodation of those families and per-
sons who wish the surroundings of a
comfortable home but do not find them
in the ordinary flats or boarding houses
of the city.
a group picture of ten of the hand
soonest young ladies of Port Jervis, n.
Y was offered Recently as q DriZe TO