Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-29
GIEANINGS.


dozen eggs, a pound of bacon and q
loaf of rye bread, on wager.
Henry Willard is reported to have re-
vived his fortune somewhat out OF 4
land speculation in Portland, Me.
A cat in store at Lincoln, ILL.,, re-
Gently ate a two-year-old alligator that
was one of the pets of the establish
ment.
Huntington. Croker, Pierce and
Flood, the California syndicate, have
bought 200, 900 acres of Mexican coal
lands.
Another woman has been tattooed in
Cincinnati for a circus. There are five
tattcoed persons now in the United
States
An indignant wife in Athens, Ga,
marched her husband home late at
night recently at the end of shotgun.
The husband has now reformed.
The man who fired the first gun in
the battle of Gettysburg lives in Nal
yern, Iowa. His name is Dick Gidley.
He is q carpenter by trade, and is well
to do.
The New London whaler Lizzie Sim
mons has killed q whale at Cumber-
land inlet that yielded 1913 barrels of
oil and 2, 800 pounds of whalebone, the
largest ever captured.
Bad times during the past two years
have told upon the consumption of wine
in England, which is now upward of g.,
000,0 gallons equal to roughly, 3d.
900 pipes less than it was in 1873, ten
years ago.
1t has been discovered in Scotland
that some of the school teachers have
introduced castor oil as means of dis
cipline, refractory urchins being re-
Quired to take dose of that kind in
stead Of a flogging.
A Denver oleomargarine establish
ment manufactures a ton and a half
per day and uses $50 gallons of fresh
milk every twenty-four hours. Just
what constitutes the remainder of the
5000 pounds is not stated.
Fifteen years ago, in Philadelphia,
daughter of General Desha was diYorc-
ed at 2 p. M. and married again at 8 p.
IN. to George Coolidge, to whom she
gave $4,000. She is now suing for di-
vorce from him because the money is
gone.
British Burmah, according to re-
cent census. covers as great an area as
England, Scotland and Wales. Its
population, q little more than that of
London, includes 246, 239 more men
than women. Still it shows signs of
unprecedented growth.
The Irish population of the earth is
as follows: At home 100000 in
England, $500, 900; in Scotland, g.
900, 900; in Canada, 2,000,O 900; in Aus
tralia, 1000, 900; in America, 12,5OO,-
900; elsewhere, 100000 A total in
round numbers of 80, 100000.
Colorado now, 8 years old as a State,
counts a settled population of 800, 900,
and a taxable valuation of $4,000, 900,
representing IN actual property value
Of 5000, 900, 900. 1t is travcrsed by
nearly 5000 miles of railroad, four
trunk lines connecting Denver, the
capital city, with the East.
There is no sadder sight than n
family of growing boys and girls, or
grown-up young men and women, ac-
cepting coldly and carelessly every
form of sacrifice and favor from loving
parents, who are wearing out their
lives in their service, and reaping only
The sources OF our supply of lumber
in Canada and in Michigan are disap-
pearing quite rs rapidly as in Ohio or
New York, and long before the trees
that we plant now have grown to q size
for use, the prices they will then bring
will prove it to have been a good in
vestment from the beginning. DR.
Franklin b. H0uqb.
TWENTY-FIVE young men of BOyerford,
Carbon County, Pa, have formed a CO.
operative society to provide themselves
with cold watches. They pay $IO0
weekly into the treasury for year,
and every two weeks one of them draws
4 watch by lot A Mauch Chunk jew
eler has contracted to furnish them
with twenty-five watches at $50 each.
A young son of a Connecticut preach
er recently joined band of Juvenile
Cut-throats, called the Nv atchful Nut
megners He was introduced by his
guide rs ''Jackass." and the password
at the threshold of the lodge-room was
Can he eat bloody Oats?" He was
treated so roughly during the initiation
that he disclosed the secrets to his par
ents.
A Chinese jossmaker in San Fran
cisco came down on the price of life
sized deity to 4 reporter from twenty
fl dolla to sixee dolla." He explained
that q joss was no better than that
much wood and paper until after a
priest had consecrated it and placed q
speck Of red paint on each Of its eyes.
This is supposed to give it the power OF
seeing not only all the past but through
kr,+I11,a tn % ard of iron
The absence of all surgical attend
ants in the field does not add to the sat
isfaction of service in the Chinese
army The theory advanced to ex-
plain this brutality is not SO much 8
caIlous indifference to human life as a
superstition, akin to that of 1.-THE pc
cuiiar people" who refuse all medical
advice to their children. The man who
gets bad wound is regarded as one
whom the gods mean to die. For q
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