Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-21
GLEANINGS

According to the meteorological
summary for July, compiled at the
Signal Office, last month was excep-
tionally cool, being in fact the coolest
July in IL years. In July, 1871, the
average temperature was "a degrees :;
last month it was IA.
A bank cashier at Sterling, Mich,
paid stranger 800 for a genuine silver
dollar bearing the rare date of 1904.
An Eastern numismatist, to whom the
coin was sent, discovered that the date
had been altered in the most artistic
manner, and that the piece had no
special value.
Two very old fools-one of "a and
the other three years his senior-had a
falling out the other day in North
Carolina, though they were members
of the same church and had been
warm friends for years. They appeal
ed to the code, and had met, ready
for business, when they were discover
ed and dlsarmed.
Wooden pavements are now put
down in Paris on a concrete founda-
ton, and the contractor guarantees
them for eighteen years
VIM Ell. Montague, of Boston, has
in his possession the bullet with which
Gen. Warren was killed at the battle
of Bunker Hill
Swedish botanists have discovered
along railroad seven species of plants
which were unknown to the region
before the track was laid.
Pittsourg is noted as the dirtiest
city In America, and also as the health
lest. But it is ''clean" dirt, so far as
effect on health is concerned.
Kansas has eight surviving gov
errors, and all of them are expected to
speak at the old settlers reunion in
Bismarck the first week IN September
The centennial of the organization
of the Congregational societies at
Manchester and at Dorset, Vt, will
be celebrated the last week in August.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis continue
their race for a lead in population.
This year st. Paul's directory contains
80 $50 names, and that of Minneapolis
80, 533.
The sale of edible snails has become
a regular trade in New York City.
Most of them come from New Jersey,
where there are at least half dozen
snail farmers.
The oldest and largest tree in the
world is a chestnut near the foot of
Mount Etna. The circumference of
the main trunk is 212 feet. The Grizz
ly giant, monarch of the Mariposo
Grove Oona SIIpaS % foot
A London letter, July %, says:
THE weather is lovely ia London
just now, the recent heat having given
place to cool breezes and bright skies.
The streets are beginning to look de-
serted, and evidently the season is at
its last gasp"
Orange peel is now said to be col
lected, dried in ovens, and sold for
kindling fires It burns readily and
with great ierceness, and is safer than
kerosene.
The castor-bean plant, says the Los
Angeles (Ca1 } Herald, has been found
very efficacious in killing grassheppers
by the million, and is also useful for
killing flies, multitudes of which are
found dead on or under the plants.
The Parisians have reduced poodle
shaving to science. One skillful
operator goes the length of figuring
out the crest or initials of the owner
on the back of his canine pet.
Near Panama a whale seventy-fve
feet long became entangled in the
submarine cable, and in his struggle
to free himself was so severely wound
ed by the wire that he died.
A company in Connecticut manu-
features nearly all the liquorice used
in this country-17, 900, 900 pounds a
year. Confectionery and medicine
take about 100000 pounds, and the
remainder goes into tobacco.
In Cleveland a COW choked on a
! big carrot and was about ready to
kick the milk bucket when an 1ntelli-
gent dog ran to the house and by
barking and other strange antics call
ed his master to the stable in time to
save the cows life.
It is we'll said of the young man of
Caledonia Springs, who falls in with
popular mania and is trying to see
If be can drink 500 glasses of sulphur
water in four days and still live
''that he is seeking to anticipate his
surroundings in the future"