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

The Medical Summary recommends
the external use of buttermilk to ladies
who are exposed to tan or freckles.
Florence Marryatt is coming to
America to lecture on the subject:
What Shall We Do With Our Men?n
The gross earnings of the Suez Canal
for the past year, according to the Off
cial report, are SIS, 900, 600, and the
dividends 16 per cent.
Governor Cleveland has signed bill
giving the women of Union Springs, 4
little hamlet of York state, power to
vote on all questions of taxation.
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
is an expert angler, and is said to own
one of the most complete and costly
fishing outfits ever got together.
The Duke of Albany left only f10,-
900, and the Queen has consented to
pay portion of his debts, including a
share of the funeral expenses. There
is heartless clause in the grant to the
Duchess. which takes away her &c, 900
a year if she remarries.
For operating the mile-long electrical
railroad on the Madeira Road, at
Brighton, Eng, the machinery, which
is situated at the eastern extremity of
the line, consists of an eight-horse-
power Otto engine and Siemens I'D"
dynamo-electric machine. Two cars
can be propelled at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, but the speed is restrict
ed to seven miles.
A prominent Presby terian clergyman
complains that the prevailing mania
for what is French in art, science and
literature is undermining the character
of the American people. He says: 1.-The
Anglo-SaXom character inherited by
Americans from English Ancestors is
gradually giving way to q species of
pseudo Gallicism which may become
dangerous not only to morality, but to
our political institutions and domestic
life."
California will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the death of
her first pioneer, the founder of Indian
missions. Padre Junipero Sierra, on the
2Sth of next August. An attempt is
being made to restore one of the most
picturesque of his mission churches
the old stone church of San Carlos
and the Government of the State and q
large number of prominent citizens
have appealed for funds for that pur-
pose. 1t is hoped that the church will
be restored before the anniversary.
The Society for the Prevention of
Crime has served upon all newsdealers
in New York and Brooklyn a copy of
that section of the penal code which
makes it q misdemeanor to sell. offer
for sale, give away or exhibit any
book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper
or other printed matter, devoted to the
publication or principally made up of
criminal news, police reports or &C
counts of criminal deeds or pictures
and stories of deeds of blood, lust and
crime.
1t is said that two discoveries of
large bodies of anthracite coal have
been made in Northern Mexico. The
accounts of these coal beds which
have reached San Francisco are extra
ordinary, and if the experts who are
going to examine them should find
them as sta 10, c; d the he results on mann
will be very important. 1t is said
that the cost of mining and transport
ing, with a fair profit, will not exceed
Sc per ton.
The mention of ''forty stripes save
one'' often recurs in the Bible, and
why thirty-nine should have been select
ed as the number in preference to any
other has repeatedly attracted attention
and called for explanation. The real
explanation is found in the law of
Moses, who commanded the culp rit to
be beaten with q certain number of
stripes, not to exceed forty. They
must be given in the presence of the
Judge, to prevent the possibility of
cruel punishment.
Joaquin Miller is anxious to have all
kinds of tools put on the list of studies
in the public schools. This is what
converted him: 81 attended court the
other day." he says, ''in a civil case,
and the young lawyer provoked the
contempt of all present by his ignor-
ance of the simplest principles of me-
chanical industry. Think of young
lawyer leaning back and asking the
witness to explain to the jury, what is
a jack-plane?" 1t cost him his case.
Of course the fellow was fool, and
would probably have lost it anyway.
But you can clearly see how much
better it would be for lawyer, every
professional man indeed, to know
about all mechanics, if that knowledge
could be carried on as sort of health
full exercise during his school days"
The following, from the Philadelphia
Bulletin, is something for the young
man to consider during the heated
term: ''There are plenty of people
VINO declare that the best thing young
man can do is to marry and settle
down in earnest to domestic life, and
there are others who declare with the
same emphasis that the opposite course
is the correct one to pursue. Giving
both sides of the argument proper
weight, the choice is left with the young
man. One who can give his wife a
home, no matter how modest it may
be, no doubt is justified in taking a
partner for life, but it does seem to be
the utmost folly for young man to
take girl away from home of her par