Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
GIEANINGS.


deep.
; Sallie McCollum, of Allentown, Pa,
claims to be the hanGsomest woman in
the state.
Tennessee now has thirty-three cot
ton mills, with /, 161 looms and rs, 077
spindles.
A trip across the salty ocean and
back gives the Maine sardine the true
foreign flavor.
In thirty-eight years the number of
English daily papers has increased
from IA to 179.
Walt Whitman has purchased house
in Camden, N. j., which he SAYS he in
tends to die in.
There are fifty Illicit distiIleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina
Mr.. Charles Oakley has lived in New
York for ninety-seven years, and is
now approaching his 102nd birthday.
1t requires three days in which to
complete the marriage ceremony in
China, but when it is done it is a strong
job.
Boston gas manufacturer asserts
that the demand for GAS has increased
in that city since the introduction of
electric lights.
Buffalo Bills suit to recover sixty
one acres Of land in Cleveland, valued
1T several million dollars, has been
thrown out Of court.
Wolves are so tame in the northern
part Of FL Paso county, Texas, that
they come right up to the settlers
doors to cat children.
DR.. Vessmayer, an English vegeta-
rian, tried to live on food costing no
more than q penny q day, and he
is now at the point OF death.
A Michigan minister who was about
to be married asked the official to
whom he applied for q license if he
didn't make Il discount to the trade.
Hundreds Of young women work for
40 cents day making shirts in New
York City. They think it more re-
spectacle to do this than to 90 out to
service.
Pittsburg boasts of the possession of
marvel in boy who from sunrise
10 sunset enjoys good health and romps
around like all children of his age, but
1T dusk becomes entirely unconscious,
and remains SO until morning"
Tiller and McFadden remained for
three days few doors from the scene
of their express robbery in st. Louis,
and mingled freely with the crowd. 1t
never occurred to the shrewd detectives
to LOOK right under their noses for the
thieves.
When the Indians of Chill desire rain,
they plant q sacred tree, which a sorcer-
css climbs to pray, while the others
dance around and howl. Then they all
get drunk. Ii it doesn't rain, they get
drunk again, and remain drunk until
they fetch q shower.
A prize of so, 900, open to all ma
tionalities is offered in France, in De-
cember, 1877, for n discovery enabling
electricity to be applied economically
either as a source of heat, light, chemi-
cal action, mechanical power, or as
means of transmitting intelligence.
During the year 1889 there were
posted in Great Britain 100000 let
tiers, of which one in every thirteen
was franked. Next year the number
arose to 1862 900, 900, although franking
was abolished. At the present time the
number reaches the grand total of l.
$50, 600, 600 q year.
BY the last official returns, PA per
cent. Of the births in Nairnshirc, Scot
land, are iilegitimate, while in Aber-
decnShire 50 per cent. are of the same
kind. LII the county of WigtOn 1.24 of
the births arc Legitimate, and most of
the northern counties present an I'M
clean bill Of health.
About $50 miles north of Missoula.
III. L., 4 region has been discovered by
an exploring party in which are TWEEN
Sy-fiYe cascades over 500 feet in height,
and q true glacier with mile of 'front.'
age and five hundred feet fall 1t is
said to be a more wonderful region
than the Yellowstone.
The Chattanooga Times SAYS that
that city is now really but nineteen
years old The war left it wreck In
1867 it had not 4 single wholesale
house. Iron mills and furnaces began
in 1871, In 1872 the population was
5000, now q, 900; manufacturing capt.
tai in 1880, 50, 789, 900; in 1884, $4,000
900.
On the occasion Of Baker Pasha's
battle at FL Teb an English officer plac-
ed revolver to the head of an Eovp-
tian and commanded him to advance.
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the
weapon, said, in an astonished tone: II
advances! adding proudly, No; am
IN Egyptian" and he took to his
heels.
Nearly fifty years ago woman
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vermont,
began to plat the combings of her hair
into 4 rope. 1t was half an inch thick,
and Of various shades, the hair having
changed very materially during the
half century. When she died q few
days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet
long.
A new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the gov
eminent of Brazil She is named the
Riachuelo. and is a steel armored tur-