Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
GLEANTNGS.

one was accepted.
There are 419 type-setters, besides
apprentices, in the government printing
office at Washington.
Mr.. Corcoran, of Washington, has
shaken hands with every President ex-
cept George Washington.
The will of Charles Reade gives TO
the Harpers, ''for their editorial-room,
an oil portrait of himself.
There are 15S, O65 Free Mason lodges
throughout the world, with total
membership of IA, 100, 543.
The Europeans, or white men, in
China number fewer than 10000, or
one to about every 5000 natives.
The total number of separate farms
in the United States is 10000 900, and
their aggregate value is $4,000, 000,-
900.
The most remarkable known echo is
that on the north side of church of
Shipley, Sussex. 1t repeats twenty
one syllables.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that life insurance policy
holds good if the person insured COM
mits suicide while insane.
According to Mr.. Walter Besant's
statistics, novels constitute nine-tenths
of the books read in England and
Observation-Disclosures of the books read
in the world.
Suicides are increasing in France.
Last years statistics show that the
number of women who died by their
own hands was one-third more than
the number for 1882.
Foreign landholders own in America
tracts of land aggregating an area
about the size of Indiana. The time
may come when ''absenteeism" may
mean something even in this country.
William Hyatt and John Bush, of
Marion, Ohio, were eating supper alone
when n thunder bolt struck their
house. They still sat erect, though
both were dead. Not a scar was found
upon them.
In five of the southern counties of
Alabama there are large forests of
pine suitable for lumber, but it is
inaccessible, because there are no rail
roads OF navigable rivers in that part
of the country.
A company in Connecticut manufac-
lures nearly all the liquorice used in
this country-17, 000 900 pounds a
year. Confectionery and medicines
take about 100000 pounds, and the
remainder goes into tobacco.
Henry Ward Beecher said in q recent
sermon: elf some angelic reportorial
hand could write the mothers fancies
of her child, with all her imaginings
and her thoughts, it would be fit read
ing for the library Of heaven"
There are no less than half dozen
dog schools in New York, where dogs
are taught some very neat tricks for
$3.50. Dogs with diplomas vouching
for graduation from this institution are
worth from $500 to $1,000.
Members of the Mexican Legislature
wear full dress suits of black. with
white ties and often gloves. Nearly
all the members are of middle age, with
black hair and eyes, and hardly q gray
OF bald head can be seen.
The Indian pupils at Hampton are
not quick in mathematics. A number
of them exhibited much CONSERVATION
the other day when told that two and
two made four. The general opinion
was that two and two made two.
One of James r. Keene's extrava-
gances was a private barber, who
Travelled four miles daily to scrape the
face and rub the head of the dethroned
Wall street king, who now owes the
barber 81, 900 for services rendered.
An acropolis of immense extent has
Just been discovered at Ekhmeem, Up
combs, already opened have yielded 100
mummies, and the sites of over 100
catacombs have been verified.
John B. Tolman, veteran printer Of
Lynn, Mass, has given the Young
Mems Christian Association of that
city an estate valued at $4,000, stipu-
lating that the income shall be used in
promoting the cause of temperance.
The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, Montana, with
an area of $4,000 square miles. 1t is
larger than the states of New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Delaware and Rhode Island
combined.
1.-The whole Western portion of this
country seems to be hOney-combed with
intidelity, " said Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, of
Brooklyn, Sunday, adding: Live
missionaries must be sent there. 1t
won't do to send fools. [ myself came
back after being there three weeks"
+ Workers in ornamental wood now as
sert that yellow pine, hard finished in
oil, is the rival in beauty of any wood
that grows, not excepting the costliest
of tho h ord cnnoiaC If holm n CI1conY+i b1a
of receiving and maintaining. as high
degree of polish as any known wood.
1t seems little bit strange that
man will sit in his parlor surrounded
by books, and spend his time looking
at pictures of scenery through q stereo-
scope, when he spends his time on the
cars reading instead of looking at pre-
cisely the same kind of landscape ali
around him.
Enocn Whipple, of Ledyard. Conn,
is sixty years old, was born deaf and
dumb and is still deaf, though he
speaks and is able to converse easily