Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
GLEANINGS.

The crops in Ireland have fallen off
because of the emigration OF Iaborers.
New York is beginning to talk about
Worlds Fair eight years hence.
A blacksmith at Mokelumne Hill,
Cal, after heavy rain the other day,
picked up $40 nugget in the street.
Oscar Wilde is telling the people of
England that American prairies are
shockingly devoid of artistic finish.
Transportation and commission cost
the South Florida orange raiser $3.50
for oranges that are sold for $4,000
wholesale.
New Jersey people are dispensing
with the luxury OF state tax this year,
and there is $200,000 in the treasury
beside.
Titus Sheard, the new speaker of the
New York Assembly, arrived in New
York City in 1856 from Ireland, alone
and almost penniless.
Alfred Whitcomb, of Harrisburg, Pa,
made fuss in New York hotel dining
room because he found mouse in his
oyster soup.
Depauw, the wealthy glass manufac-
turer of Indiana, predicts that gas wells
will revolutionize the manufacturing
business of the country.
General Jackson was the first Presi-
dent to inaugurate the custom of shak-
ing the hands of all who came to his
public levees.
The Utica Herald estimates that the
new Capitol building at Albany, n. Y,
will cost $25, 0O0,O00 before it is COM
pleted.
Beer brewed in 1888: In New York
CITY, 8, 239, 900 barrels; in Philadelphia,
1923, 600; in Milwaukee, $50, 300; in St.
Louis, 943, 900; in Brooklyn, $50, 900; in
Chicago, 676, 900.
The Philadelph ia Call says that Mrs.
Piatt has written poem to show that
the only happy woman is dead. She
should now write poem to show that
the only happy man was never born.
The cigarette must 90. If it does
not, the small boy will. Where cigar
ette-smoking does not kill boys, it
stunts them, and this country has
enough runts.
Eight years ago q poor New York
mechanic invented a glove fastener-a
a dozen little hooks or buttons. He
now owns a block of houses that would
sell for $500, 1000.
The Jesse james show was refused
license in New Haven on the ground
that Jesse James, being noted thief,
rObber and murderer, u recital of his
lawless acts would have pernicious
influence upon the minds Of our youth. -
Mississippians feel very proud of
their state library in the Capitol at
Jackson. 1t comprises $4,000 volumes,
which include the legal text books and
reports from all the states in the Union,
making a collection which ranks third
in completeness in the whole country.
A bill has been introduced in the
Mississippi Legislature for the abolition
of city government of Jackson, the
capital city of the state. Prominent
complaining that the city is run by
gamblers, prostitutes, and riff-raff.
Connecticut lawyers are credited
with the expression of the opinion that
the state tramp law is not a success, as
the tramp has only TO swear that he is
looking for work, or trying to work his
way TO his home, to escape conviction
by a jury.
The negro population of the Union
increases faster than the white. In
eightY-one years, at the present rate of
increase, it will be larger than our
whole population ut the last census. In
1880 the black population of the repub-
lie will be, according to estimates, 1922
600, Geo
The most remarkable, if not the
largest collection of photographs In
the United States is owned by Detective
Henry Weyl of Philadelphia. It con-
tains 1000 pictures Of crooks" and
with them are newspaper clippings de-
scriping them and their exploits, re-
ports Of trials, and other memoranda.
Drunkards in Germany viii for the
future be sternly looked after by the
State Each town must keep q record
OF all the hard drinkers, and the city
medical men are bound to report those
who habitually imbibe TO excess, so
that the authorities may subject them
to strict course of treatment.
Maine is becoming quite a cotton
manufacturing State. She has twenty
7A-N SOCOOAl-Au1AlS, Win tCOs TO- ptlINiISS,
and requiring an investment of S12,-
987, 400 The yards Of goods manufac-
tured last year aggregated 142, 783, $50,
besides $50. 1S4 pounds of other goods,
10000 quilts, 100000 bags ana p
$40. oil mounds of baos.
The hungarian patriot, Kossuth, is
now eightv-one years of age, and lives
quietly in Milan. He neither believes
in the alliance of the Latin races nor in
that of the Teutonic. He fancies that
Austria and Russia will ere long be at
daggers drawn, and fancies that, as he
has no infirmitieS save those of old age,
he may live to see it.
In the stores of Paris glass is taking
the place of wood for flooring. 1t costs
more than wood, but it lasts longer
and, besides being easily kept clean,
allows enough light to be transmitted
through its roughened surface for the
emnloYes TO work hY in the floor be-