Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-14
GLEANINGS.

In England florists complain that
there is less sunshine than there form
erly was.
John McGready, cousin of the
'Avenoer'' O'Donnell, lives in Iona
coming, Md.
Scooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly form
ed tails.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, says he
would have written book long ago
had not his papers been seized at the
close of the war and lost beyond recoV-
cry.
A giantess named Ann Dunn died in
London a few days ago, aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly 8 feet high and measured
round the shoulders over 3 feet.
DIR. Fletcher of the insane asylum at
indianapolis, celebrated Christmas by
burning all the mechanical restraints
and instruments of punishment in that
institution, and instituting a season of
moral suasion.
The Rochester Democrat would bet
ter pocket its theory of sun-spots and
decayed sunsets, and steal silently
away, for the London Times of the 9Th
prints an article, covering three and
half columns and containing upwards
of $500 words, every bit of which IA
gors the theory of burnt Java.
The AtRenacu17a, of Boston, complains
of the intellectual and literary deca-
dence of that city, and prophesies a
day, which will not be far off. when
Boston will ''look back with wonder,
half regretful, but half contemptuous,
on the time when she was known as
the Athens Of America.
Proctor Knott is beginning to under
stand that being Governor is not alto
oether funny. He has at his disposal
the appointment of State Librarian,
and forty handsome widows are tum-
bling over each other to get the place.
lie ought to have made the selection a
month ago, but he hCsitates.
A remark made some time since by
Mr.. Spurgeon, that he considered the
Scotch people owed much of their
strength Of character to the regard paid
TO the book of Proverbs, has led
French Christian to print and circulate
widely 4 copy Of the Proverbs of Solo
IlOIls dS III tlIJIuOLC 10 Tic IdA ulOLdllG1
which now obtains in France.
"A young woman in Holyoke, Mass,
called on the City Clerk, and, after
examining the marriage license regis
ter, told him to erase her name, as the
young man who had taken out o certi-
ticate did it without her leave, and she
did not propose TO marry him. She
was accommodated.
Henry Stanwood, of Philadelphia,
facetiously gave 8 cents to q coIored
minister who was collecting money to
build church, and two minutes after
ward discovered that he had given one
penny and two So gold pieces. He
jumped to overhaul the collector, but
the good old Iaborer in the vineyard
had disappeared.
Apropos OF the recent arrest of pri-
Vate detectives, the New York World
remarks: The detective population
needs thinning out. About three pri-
Vate detectiVeStO every married man and
woman in the country would be a safe
proportion, and it should not be allow
ed TO run over that, for the simple rea-
son that when three-fourths of the pop
ulation undertake to detect each other
confusion ensuCs."
An Alabama paper claims that many
of the persons who left that state for
Texas have quickly repented and are
on their way back, and a North Carroll
NJ journal records with delight the re-
turn OF many North CarOlinians VINO
had tried pastures new" in the South
west without realizing expectations.
Their report is that with similar effort
the old Southern States Will yield as
good living rs those west of the Mis-
sissippi.
During her sojourn at hotel lady
broke m article belonging to q china
toilet-set. On leaving the house she
was charged with the entire set AS
remOnstrance was unayailing she paid
the bill, and, pleading the excuse of
having forgotten something, returned
to the room and broke each and every
article Of the set for which she had
paid. And some people say, women
are not clever.
a French meteorologist has, in the
exposed court of his house, two bars of
iron planted in the earth, to each of
which is planted conductor of coated
wire, terminating in = telephone re-
ceiver. His practice is to consult the
apparatus twice or thrice every day,
and it never fails, through its indica-
tons Of earth currents. to give notice
OF the approach of u storm twelve to
fifteen hours ahead.
Here is a description of n Russian
prison, written by Professor Thun, of
Leipsic: 1.-The prison at Kara, near
Irkutsk, IS said to be one of the worst.
1t IS an ordinary farm house, surround
ell by high fence. There are no Ia
bles or chairs, only platforms, onwhich
the prisoners lie packed like sardines.
The food consists merely of bread and
soup, with very little grit. There IS
no hospital or other care for the sick.
All those condemned to hard labor are
compelled TO wear chains, whether at
, work or in prison, and all correspond
ence is forbidden.
a letter from c. Adams to the Keene