Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
GLEANINGS.

Twenty eight members of the present
United States Senate are graduates of
colleges and universities. Forty-eight
are not.
England allows children to work In
stores when 10 years old, but from that
age until II they must 60 to school half
the day.
A hundred years from now, SAYS a
tiresome man OF figures, the United
States will have population of $780,
900, 200.
The town of Lexington. Mo, has an
"Old Mems Club with twenty-four
mem bers, to which no one is admitted
under seventy years of age.
The Yuma Indians, on the Colorado,
bury watermelons in the dry desert
sand, and preserve them all winter,
fresh and crisp.
Household servants get 81 month
in Mexico. They require no DAYS out
or company in, and treat their mistress
es with becoming decency.
From the published reports of the
various asylums in the United States it
appears that within the last ten wears
the number of insane persons has near
ly doubled.
Some thieves stole a $500 India
shawl from Mrs. James Turner, in
Brooklyn, and on examining the plum
der, saw from its coarse texture that it
wouldn't sell for dollar, and threw it
away.
The new Mayor of Baltimore seems
to bear no ill-will to the Britishers. He
has ordered the lions that adorn Cal
vert street to be re-tailed at a cost of
$75. An unknown hater of Great Britain
twisted them off recently.
An old colored man in Cincinnati
has made himself rich in a curious way.
Whenever q man bought building lot
the darby would buy a strip of ground
next door and begin to build cabin.
The rich man would buy the darky's
land for ten prices.
''On Wall street." writes a New
York correspondent, ''Gould is an OBJ
iect of alteration and admiration; Van
derbilt is looked upon as a lucky dog
and good fellow; Sage as a miser;
Keene as a typical gambler and Willard
as a sharp man"
There are thirty light large volcanoes
in Java, some of which are more than
10000 feet high. 1t is popularity of
the volcanoes of that region that they
seldom eject lava, but enormous mass
es of mud; drivers of mud as they
have been called, flow from them.
Kansas bids fair to become an active
competitor of the South in the raising
Of 70 IS IL
staple was raised the past season in the
southern counties of the state, and the
cotton gins at Oswego and Indepen-
dence have plenty of material on which
to work.
It is curious and important fact
that pieces of wire cable of the Fair
mount suspension bridge, recently TAX
en- down at Philadelphia, after being
in use some forty years, were found to
be fully equal in tenacity, elasticity,
and ductility to the best wire of that
size now in the market.
OF the seventy-six United States
Senators twenty-one are accompanied
by their wives, seventeen have each
wife and daughter, one has a daughter
and one 4 mother-in-law. OF the $50
representatives and delegates ninety
five are accompanied by their wives,
fifty-three have each wife and daugh-
ter, and nine have only their daug Oh
terS.
Garland, the learned Senator from
Arkansas is a teetotaler. He says: i
was passing by the cemetery near my
home one day, and | saw the graves of
a dozen brilliant men who began life
with me. every one of them fastened
to his end by whisky. | made up my
mind that / had drunk my share, and
stopped"
1t is promised that the ice palace to
be built in Montreal for the carnival
this winter shall be larger and loftier
than that built last season, but some of
the Canadians are protesting against
the whole business, saying that it will
tend to represent Canada to possible
European immigrants as a fearfully
frozen region.
Leo XIII. is almost constantly en-
bellishing the Vatican in some way,
and superintends all work in person.
Recently he had some frescoing done.
and he clambered up to the top of the
tall scaffold to inspect the work at close
quarters. Finding it not up to the
standard, he ordered work stopped and
all that had been done effaced.
Of the six largest sugar producing
countries of Europe Germany this year
carries off the palm, with 800, 900 tons,
or 80 per cent. of the whole. Next
come Austria with AIS, 900 tons, France
with 425, ZOO, Russia with 100000, Bel
gium with $4,000, and Holland with
$4,000. Germany has not only the
greatest number of refneries, 357 out
of 1,2O4, but the largest also.
The printing of the new English die
tionary, which is in preparation in Lon
don, has proceeded to the end of the
article alternate, and at that point
there are over 5000 entries, as COM
pared with under 5000 in Webster.
The statisticians connected with the
project have calculated that the work
will contain nearly 200,O 900 entries, and
the quotations will reach more than q