Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14
GLEANINGS.

Tie State of Louisiana has imposed
a license fee of IS on all newspaper
men.
The wool clip of one ranchman in
Maverick County, Texas, weighed over
twenty tons.
Yankton, d. T., is 10 have pork
packing establishment with q capacity
os 1000 hogs per day.
OF ninety-six railroads in the State
OF New York, only fifteen paid divi-
dends IN 1888 The total capital stock
OF the railroads is S62S, us, 500, and
me total amount of dividends paid was
80. o'4, Ia, or about ? per cent of the
apital.
A man, during . lifetime of so
years, according to paper recently
read before the Academy of Sciences.
Paris, sleeps away IN aggregate of
5000 days, works away the same per-
io6, eats away 1900 DAYS, walks away
500 days, and amuses himself with the
remainder of his half-century on earth.
The street fakir rolls a 81. 50 or S5
bill around cake of soap. adds .
wrapper of paper, throws the bundle
his neck, and invites the crowd to in
vest IN chances at ten cents 4 grab.
This is slight-of-hand game. say the
detectives, and the parcel with money
IN 1t never reaches the sachel. There
are gangs of these sharps at work in
different cities.
The descendants of the penns now
living who are to share the G6T.GJ1
pounds designated by the British Ma
tional debt commission in communication
of the "a, 600 annuity, paid that family
since 1870, as indemnity for the prop
ertv it lost in Pennsylvania by the Rev
dictionary war, bear the names of Fell,
-tawlins, Newcombe Barrow. Comm,
Gaskill, Baker, Coates, Hall, Read,
Alexander, Walker, Golf, Clayton and
Raynter.
Gold has been found ut Bommelo, in
Scandinavia. The place at present
presents very primitive appearance,
but an old and enthusiastic English
digger believes that in the dwelling
houses now springing up he sees the
foundation of q future city, with fac
tory chimneys, spires, schools and the
aters. But these things" he adds,
cautiously, take time, like LAWYERS
way to heaven"
In this day and age of the world sci
ence answers some of the knottiest
questions, and fearlesSly takes up every
branch of human knowlede. And so
when the Hartford Sunday Journal in
its wild search for truth, asks: Sin
waltzing with q young lady not over IL
tN Of hA
dizzy sort, does the young man 90
around the lady or does the young Ia
dy go around the young manp" we re-
fer to our scientific sapiency, and I'M
hesitatingly answer ''undoubtedly."
Rev. Robert Laird, Collier, in speak
inc of London, says: There is no
mistaking the American anywhere.
On the street, in the galleries, at the
theaters, he is to be met. He IS the
heartiest, frankest, all in all the truest
man to be found walking in shoe leath-
er. He is different from all other for
eigners in London. He speaks the
same language rs the Englishman. [
can instantly understand all he is say
ing, and so it is that his voice and IN
tonation and accent seem somewhat
unframed, and, perhaps, just the least
bit under bred. :"
To Escape Lightning.-Carry as lit
tie metal as possible about your per-
son. When the storm approaches
shelter yourself in the nearest brick or
stone building. If none be near you,
stand still or lie down on Your face, re-
gardless of the rain, which is really q
protection. Avoid the shelter of trees
L L
barn or stables, whether of stone or
wood. especially of the latter. con-
slider that open, low, dry, stong ground
is safer than high, wet and grassy
ground, and that leeward sites arc
safer than wine ard ones. On seek
ing shelter laborers should leave their
tools behind, rs the metal is apt TO at.
tract the electric tiuid.