Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-10-09
The white of an egg is said TO be

thr. at. It is TO be swallowed raw.
During the year 1888 London had
974 hours Of sunshine out of a pos
sible 4,456, an averag of 2 40 per
day.
The expectation is that the Ger
man students, IN their convention
next month, will pronounce against
dueling.
A young lad of abont sixteen sum.
mers married a girl recently in Lum-
kin, Ga, and applied for divorce in
less than thirty days.
Another government exploring
expedition is back, this time
from Madagascar, with the important
discovery by Lieutenant Shufeldt
that the natives wear felt shoes.
The Topography of tie moon Is well
known to astronomers and has been
carefully outlined on detail maps.
There are five mountains on the moon
more than 10000 feet high, the high
est measuring %, 975 feet.
The family of Widow Elizabeth
Ellis, OF Abeville County, South Car
DINA, has just held reunion at her
home. She has II children, and ner
direct descendants, children. grand
children, great grandchildren. and
great-great-grandchildren now num-
Der 1876.
An italian has been studying the
relation of malaria fever at Rome to
the weather, and finds that a wet
spring is followed by an excess of
fever In July and August, while those
seasons which enjoy the longest visi-
tation of the dry sirocco winds show
minimum of fever.
A Boston young lady, cultured and
nteIl ectual, of course, received a
proposition of marriage printed with
the typewriter.
1t is asserted by writer in The
Husbandman that the oder from strips
of paper dipped in coal-tar will dive
rats and mice from garnet, weevils
from granary and lice from hen
house.
Any one who doubts as to the
best way to have clear jcllyis assured
On strong evidence and many proofs
that to allow the juice to drain through
flannel bag without squeezing it will
render this matter easy and satiSfac-.
tory.
Gllroy, Col, has a model justice of
the peace. He recently fined man
SIS for being drunk, and took in pay
ment thereof -bladcd jaek-knife,
a deck of cards, q clay pipe, a days
labor, so CENTS IN cash and a premise
to pay the balance the next time he
came to town.
"A good crop of onion seed ranges
from three hundred to SIX or seven
hundred pounds per acre Last year
the wholesale price of onion seed in
the United States was only 40 to so
cents per pound. Only the best was
salablG, some growers have several
thousand pounds on hand which they
were unable to dispose of.
Nearly $500 people have been ar
rested in London the past year for
assaults upon the police This cvi-
dence of increasing boldness of crimi-
mails, combined perhaps with the
greater activity OF dynamiters, has
weaned the authorities from their
stubborn conservatism, and the night
police have at last been allowed
to go armed into the slums if they
choose.
Russia has q prospect Ia view for
turning the Oxus river from the Aral
to the Caspian sea, which is rapidly
! drying up. This would be only a re-
vivlng Of an old state of things, for
ancient records show that from the
fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
this river, or branch Of it, flowed into
the Caspian.
The Paris municipal council has
voted $500 to enable q delegation of
carpenters to go to Sweden and Nor
way for the purpose of finding out
how it IS that ready-made doors and
window frames from those countries
can be delivered in Paris at less cost
than the price there Of the unwrought
material.
The late John w. Garrett was
brought into close personal relations
with President Lincoln during the
war. Mr.. Lincoln was once appealed
to by q deputatiQn of alleged Balti-
more republicans to take the road out
of Mr.. CARROTS hands for pseudo
political reasons. Mr.. Lincoin's re-
ply was brief and to the point:
when any or all of you" said he,
''have done half as much to aid this
government as John w. Garrett I
may consider your request"
TEN days ago the Mudir of Dongola
telegraphed to Cairo that he had re-
ceived authentic assurances of q de-
cisive victory won by Gen. Gord.n
over the savage forces besi-ging
Khartourn. July gath was the ds.te,
recording to the Mudir's advices, when
the rebel army from Kordofan was
slaughtered, and five weeks afterward
the seige was raised. Dispatches
bearing dates down to July 81 have
now been received from the London
Times correspondent at Khartoum,
and he makes no mention of any sig
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