Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-06-26
GLEANINGS.

The New York dog pound has begun
It's summers work.
Los Angeles, Cal, is to have Span
lsh ampaign paper.
Railway, n j.. compromises 50, OO0,,
OF dibt for $3.50, 900.
The Brooklyn fair for the Bartholdi
pedeltal got 81, 400 into debt.
POPULAR editions both of Queen Vic
torias book and the Princess Alice's
lette's will be published early in the
autumn. The Queen is anxious to
have a sixpenny edition of the latter
work.
Oscar Wilde writes that his late
marriage was intended to realize a
poeticd conception he has long enter
tanned and he intends to set an ex-
ample of the prevailing influence of
art IN natrimOny.
Notwithstanding Lourdes entirely
failed 70 give eyesight to their son and
heir The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk,
steadfSst IN their faith, are now there
on another pilgrimage, this time for
the later's health.
Captain Robert w. Andrews. the
ninety three-year-old citizen of Sum
Ter, S. O., now on a pedestrian tour
from that place to Boston, averaged
twenty. three miles a day to Philadel-
phia, which he reached Saturday.
Miss Sallie Jones, of Selma, Ala,
before leaving with her mother for
Europe last week. gave the Ladies' So
ciety of United Charities, of that city.
a available and eligible piece of ground
containing three and a half acres, for
the erection of ON infrlnary for the
poor Of the city.
A proposition made at the last meet
ing of the Missouri Historical society
to invite ladies to read papers before
1t was speedily rejected, because, as
the St. Louis Republican asserts, ''it
would be too dangerous an undertak-
ing, as the ladies might not always
use proper discretion in preparing
their papers,
Miss Nellie Kane, formerly school
teacher at Glenwood, Vt, is now do
ing q successful stock and brokerage
business in San Francisco. A Boston
family, out Of funds in Frisco, were
recently given the means for return
ing east, and other like kindnesses are
attributed to her.
Hard workers out-of-d doors seId
have insomnia, according to an enl-
inent physician" Possibly because
they work hard and get tired and
sleepy. But we are not an eminent
physician and may be wrong.
Peaches and apples, we read, have
been affected by the frost, but as the
watermelon crop hasn't been affected
there is no necessity for the doctors
and druggists going round with
gloomy faces.
Deafness, it is said, can be cured by
one being suddenly surprised. All a
physician need do, therefore, is to
whisper to the patient that he doesn't
intend to charge anything. Ten
chances to one the patient will hear.
An Ohio physician is preparing a
medical lexicon in forty-two languag-
es. Just think of a sick man being
compelled to swallow nauseous pre-
scription in forty-two languages! Il
he recovered after that it would be a
miracle.
About twenty-five hundred Chinese
COINS, s0me of which represent
mintage of thirteen or fourteen cen
turies ago, are to be added to the CON
department of the British Museum
They are from the Tamba collection.
A shoal of Goldfish one mile in su
perhclaI extent contains 100, 100000
fish. Yet not more than half of that
number Of these fish are taken ia one
year on the coast of Norway. The
cod lives on herring, and such shoal
Will eat up 10000, 900 herrings in g
week
A Spanish dagger, IN fine state Of
preservation, was discovered recently
IN digging the foundation for bridge
across the Scheldt, at Ghent. It had
probably belonged to one of the vic
TINS OF the catastrophe in 1911 when
the old bridge exhisting on the spot
fell in.
Matte Lee, magnetic girl" gave
a performance in Frankfort, KY, the
other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and large audience. A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in a chair,
and she easily lifted him and the chair
by touching the chair with the tip OF
her finger.
All British Boston is delighted to
learn that Lieutenant Colonel St.
John Midway, of the British army,
has married the late John Lothrop
Motley's third daughter. whose tso
Older sisters captured English hus-
bands, one OF them Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, present Home Sec
retary III the Gladstone Cabinet.
HE record Of the court of inquiry
IN the case Of General Swain, judge
advocate general of the army, reports
the facts as developed by the evidence,
and concludes as follows: 'The court
IS OF the opinion that, while it is not
prepared to say that any specific act
developed by the evidence is actually
fraudulent, yet the evidence does
show series of transactions discred
liable to any officer Of the army, and
which eSDeciallV demands the SeVnreSt