Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-08
GLEANINGS.

Drary proper mas Il0,UO0 volumes.
The Supreme Court of British Col
umbia holds that q Chinaman's mar
riage under the Methodist form is void.
Children employed in the lace-mak-
ing schools in Belgium work twelve
hours, and sometimes earn six cents
per day.
The bullet that killed General War
rem at the battle of Bunker Hill, is in
the possession Of William H. Montague,
of Boston.
Archibald Forbes, the war CORES
pondent, has made his numerous for
eign orders into 4 necklace for his
daughter.
A quartctte Of baggagemen who run
through Manchester, n. H., bear the
names of Loyeland, Lowering, LoVejoy
and Lovely.
Abram Fisher, of Knox county, Indi-
ana, has been married five times. He
is now ninety-six years of age, and his
present wife is sixteen.
Joaquin Miller's mother has begun
suit against him in Lane county, Ore
gon, for the partition of certain real
IoCdIC uCINt JOIuOLJ ~ LII1Ii
France offers $4,000 reward, open
to all competitors, to any one who sue
cessfulIy and economically applies
electricity to the heating and lighting
of dwellings.
An apple tree in Mercer county,
Kentucky, has borne fruit for sixty
seasons without falling Five feet
from the ground its trunk is ten feet
and nine inches in circumference.
Deacon Mayberry, of Windham, Me.
recently sold a quantity of hay that
had been cut twenty-five years. He
has been holding it all that time for
$22 a ton, and finally got his price.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunting
knives, with four-inch wooden handle
and six-inch blade, with silver
band around the handle, has been pre-
scented to the Tennessee Historical So
ciety.
Mrs. A. r. Allen heads the list of
mliliOnaires in st. Louis, paying tax on
$1,197, 800. Henry Shaw is put down
as worth ST, 176, 1870; the heirs of Jesse
G. Lindell 81, lis, 400 and Miss Bernice
Morrison 1864, 1890.
A young lady in Hartford objected
TO the mutilatiOn Of a tree in her front
yard by party of telephone linemen.
They didn't heed her protest until she
covered them with q revolver, and
then they decided to stop.
II was a soldier for two years." said
Sig. SalYini to a newspaper reporter in
London recently, land fought under
Garibaldi at the siege of Rome, in 1849
My campaigns on the stage have hap
PLY been more fortunate.
Chasing women who never marry by
their complexion, it is said there are
more blondes than brunettes among
them. This is supposed to be due to
the preference of marrying men for
brunettes. But perhaps the women
who do not marry fade out
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase of the number of insane per-
sons in the United States at, from 1850
to 1860, 1882; 1860 to 1870, $500;
1870 to 1880, a. sos. The whole num-
Der of our insane is given at 81, 987;
idiots, 76, $50. More than One-half are
not under hospital treatment.
The influence of Japan is beginning
to be felt very considerably in archi-
lecture. Some things in Japanese
architecture we shall, of course, says
prominent architect, probably never
intrOduce-the heavy roof, for instance.
But for yerandas of country houses,
for screens, and for interior decoration
Japanese art and architecture is rapid
ly coming into use.
At the recent annual meeting in
Scotland of the Northern Accident In
.surance Company, the chairman stated
that they had abandoned all risks in
connection with football and bicycling.
The risk was SO great that the ordj-
nary premium would not cover it.
The present policies of the kind were
nearly run out, and they had deter
mined not to renew them.
Alice Stone Blackwell, now in Bos-
ton, is good enough to admit that men
mean well enough by women, and
make such laws as they consider for
their good, but she wants to know who
gave men the sole right to decide what
is good for women? She reasonably
concludes that if women had absolute
legal power over men, however we'll
they might treat them, the men would
rebel.
General n. p. Banks daughter,
Maria, is an accomplished elocutionist,
inheriting the gift from her father, who
years ago was a member of theatre
cal company in Boston. Before at
tempting to be an actor he was'a dane
mo master but his most famous eS-
plot in the terpsichorean art was
when StonewalI jackson led him such
a fearful dance down the Shenandoah
Valley.
Last year 22O, 922, $50 lottery tickets
We're sold by the lottery offices in Italy,
on which II, 500 6S3 francs were staked,
being francs A centimes on an aver
age for each of the 29,00O,0OO inhabi-
tants. The winnings on these ven
lures amounted to 44,411, 528 francs,
leaving net profit of q, 415, 154 francs
TO the state. Only fOrty-foor winnings