Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-21
A big clothing house in New yor,-

A big clothing house in New York
is making suits to order for SIS 10 500.
and taking them back at half the cost
month later IN exchange for new
suits, half cost and half old clothes.
The old suits are washed, pressed and
sold in the country.
In a census taken in April last the
population of Athens is shown to be
"a, 9O3, which is Is, 069 more than was
the population IN 1929, the date Of the
last census. The number of inhabi-
tants in 1856 was 80, 900; in 1861 it was
Al, 29S, and in 1870 it was A, SO.
1t has been ascertained that the
Washington monument is now in
plumb. When it was 800 feet high
an examination showed it to be an
inch out of plumb. It leaned to the
south. By careful calculation and
fine workmanship in laying the stone
since that time this mas beeu corrected,
SO that today it is straight,
The latest fashionable affectation in
London is to have negro MINISTRIES,
who have for years been confined to
the variety shows of the metropolis,
appear at select parties in Belgravia,
where the banjo and the bones are
more in favor than the violin or
piano.
The simple green painted door of
Washington Irving's quaint home at
Sunnyside, is nearly covered with
Virginia creeper, Kenilworth ivy and
blooming trumpetvine, which cling
firmly to the fast-crumbling struc-
ture as if determined not to let it fall
to pieces.
1t was remarked to one of the many
importers at Long Branch, who was
recently criticising public life in Am
erica: There is not a cottage here
which has not been built by stock
watering, smuggling or something
once a penitentiary offense" They
went out singly, one by one, for they
had great possessions.
There are about SO, 900 Italians in
New York City, most of them unable
to speak the English language. About
5000 of these are huddled together in
three blocks in Harlem. At the invi-
tation of Cardinal McCloskey, the
Rev. DR.. Keorner, of London, who
was connected with the Italian church
in that city for a number of years, has
crossed the Atlantic to establish mis-
sion among them.
The other day young man named
Shooter, the constable of the Exeter
Eng.) bathing place, performed a re-
markably gallant rescue by swim
ming 200 yards down a dark tunnel
with a drowning man, and landing
him safely at the other end Shooter
has rescued 40 fewer than 300 people
from drowning
During heavy thunderstorm three
weeks ago at ,,Strasburg the lightning
felled to the ground a high poplar
liberty tree, which was planted in 1892
; to commemorate the advent of the
republic in France. The inhabitants
of Strasburg speedily carried away
as souvenirs the greater portion of the
tree and lis branches.
The last report of the Tyne (Eng)
Commissioners states that the numbe
OF steamers now laid up In the river
is 104, and that the total tonnage of
these unemployed vessels is about so,
900. If one reckons the vessels as be-
ing worth on the average e12 10 shil-
llngs per ton, 1t appears that a capital
of Ell, 1875, 900 is lying idle.
A soldier in POsen calamity rescued
lad from drowning not long ago.
This act caused him to be fifteen min
utes late IL coming back to the bar
racks, and the martinets who held
sway there punished his CRIME by
eight days imprisonment in a dun
geon. They hold that his first duty
as a soldier was TO be back IN time, no
matter who was drowning.
A letter from Germany notes that
nearly 5000, 600 acres of land in that
part of the world have recently been
diverted to the culture of beet root.
The refuse, after the extraction of
sugar, forms fine feed for livestock,
and tends to make the people there
less dependent upon America for meat
than they used to be, but the contrary
is the case with regard to cereal food.
The old witchcraft days of Massa-
chusetts are being outdone at Moant
Morris, Mich, where whole family
of sixteen persons has gone crazy over
the belief that their premises are be-
| cIlC CNCh IlChS
in the ears of their pigs and COWS to
let the devil out, while in Danbury,
Conn, they are curing long standing
rheumatism by the charms Of live
black snakes.
Gladstone has been a member of
Parliament fifty-one years, Granville
fcrty-seven years, while number of
other distinguished Englishmen have
served in Parliament over forty years.
whereas in this country there is but
one member of Congress who has
served even half that time Gran
vile has been in office twenty-eight
years, and i'll the Cabinet twenty-ene
Gladstone twenty-one and twenty
years respectively.
The tallest fiat house in New York
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