Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-06-05
GLEANINGS.

Will be smut oil.
Boiler Empty and Engineer Full, "
is the way the New York World tells
the whole story of an explosion dis
aster in q single line.
Two Young women in New Orleans
earn $48 month by keeping books.
and on this have bought and are paying
for coy little home for themselves
and their mother.
There are twelve manufactures of
artificial teeth in the United States,
which make 100000 of those useful
articles per annum. They are made of
feldspar, kaolin, and rock crystal.
The books of ex-Representative
Acklcn, Of Louisiana, who made such
social stir in Washington q few years
ago, have come into the possession of .
secondhand dealer in Washington.
G, A. Sala says that he had q cook
once who, on entering her duties was
asked whether she understood the use
Of salamander. Perfectly well, ?"
she replied 1T is to kill rats with. "
Shop Tucker, noted Pennsylvania
thief, who during his life stole over
four hundred horses, and who knew
the works of Shakespeare. Milton,
Homer, and Byron by heart has just
died.
George Vanderbilt, the literary
member of the family, is the owner of
the chess-tabIe and chessmen that form
erly belonged to Napoleon l., and
which he used during his exile at st.
Helena.
The scheme for tunneling under the
Straits Of Messina has met with suffic-
lent difficulties that it has been reject
ed in favor of a long ferryboat capable
Of carrying twenty-four railway car
riages.
A London journal informs its readers
that the preservation of the Adiron-
dack forests is at last aoitating the peo-
pie Of the West who wish to protect
their valuable prairie lands from
drought"
An old willow tree in Bristol, Conn,
for many years an old landmark, has
been cut down. In 1927 the late Lord
5. Hits stuck in the ground his willow
riding stick, which grew to the massive
tree that has just been laid low.
The New York professor of whistling
knew what he was about when he adj
yertised that big mouths could, by q
thorough course of study, be made
small, pouting and kissable His
school is besieged by ambitious maid
ems.
1t is stated on the authority of
traveller that buzzards will not eat the
dead carcass OF Mexican on account
of the pungency of the flesh, which is
due to the large quantity of red pepper
he eats on his corn cakes and baked
beans.
''Will you have IN orange or a fig?"
inquired DR.. jackson of a fine little
boy somewhat under the weather "A
fig, !" answered the child with alacrity.
s'No fever there, said the doctor, ''or
he would certainly have said an or
ange. ]"
The editor of the Nashville World
wrote that call the windows in a GER
tain dusty village looked as if they
needed washing" The printers set it
up "all the widows" The World had
some difficulty in making satisfactory
explanation.
Mr.. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, says he will leave his paper at
his death TO the son of A. j. Drexel.
''When / was young,n he says, "Mr.
Drexel came forward and offered to
put money into my paper and not to
interfere in any way with it. =
John Buchwald and Catherine Hoff-
man, who were engaged when babies
in Germany, were married at Castle
Tnh = .o
shouting her name, rs he had no means
of recognizing, never having seen her
or her picture. She proved to be very
handsome.
What was believed to be one of the
Pirate kidd's treasure boxes was I'M
earthed by party of Italian emigrants
near Berkshire, Conn. In a powder
horn, tipped with silver and covered
with hieroglyphics, were found some
old English coins, \ Spanish doubloon
and piece of parchment
In an article by Charles f. living on
Gifts to Colleges and Universities, F"
recently published, it is stated that the
amount contributed to college and uni
versity education in the United States
during the past ten years is $50, 622,-
900, and since 1874 the total amount
given has not been less than $50, 000,-
600.
According to DR.. Cyrus Edison, of
the New York Health Department, the
''coffee essence" which is used in cheap
restaurants for tiayoring the beverage
sold as coffee is composed of powdered
icorice, paste, dried bullock's blood,
chicory, and . very small quantity of
very poor coffee. The manufacturers
are to be prosecuted.
Mark Twain lives in his own house,
near Hartford, house with its back
kitchen on the street, its front entrance
on one side, bristling with peaks and
chimney pots. and in style of architect
ure the crystallized expression of an
encounter between Mark Twain and
Queen Anne. Mrs. Clemens is the
source of wealth from which all this
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