Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-15
GIEANUNGS.

Colonel John Hays share in the late
Amasa Stones estate is about 81, OOO.-
900.
Mad foxes are reported near Hart
ford Conn. They attack people with
ferocity.
Meissonier, the French artist, who is
| now ~, does not dYe his hair, but
wears beard like river god and as
white as snow.
Queen Victoria dimes at $40 in the
evening, the Emperor of Brazil at 1 in
the afternoon, and the Emperor of Ger
many half way between.
S. r. Macdonald has been in Ludlow
Street Jail five years on civil suit for
$4,000. For three years he has not
seen sun, moon or stars.
William II. Vanderbilt is shaved ev-
cry day by the same barber, an old
German, Jacob Aber, who shaved Fer
nado Wood for over thirty years.
Bradford, Pa, has elected a Japan
csc to the office of City Engineer
This is the first time q Japanese has
| been elected to civil office in the I'm
tied States.
Her latest photograph shows Sarah
Bernhardt enwrapped from head to
| foot in a wonderful wad of furs, swell
ing her to the size of dime museum
fat woman.
The Sheriff of Solano county, Cali
fornia, has received q letter from a man
in Oregon, offering to reveal the where
abouts of a murderer who escaped from
Solano county in 1854
Pensacola claims, and claims it bold
ly, that she is not only the Oldest city
in America, but that she possesses
more lovely ladies of the old Castilian
type OF beauty than any other.
Thus far soapstone is proving itself
an excellent substitute for bricks It
stands very high temperatures and it
does not glaze, and it has several 9th
er desirable properties which renders
it very useful in the house and foun-
dry.
The late Bishop Clarkson, of the
Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska, was in
strumental in building over fifty
churches in Nebraska and Dakota.
Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, was built
mainly through his eXertions and in
tluence. He also established a child's
hospital at Omaha.
The murder of the Penningtons, man
and wife, on a farm near Frankfort,
Kan. last February, has brought up
peculiar point of law. The statutes of
Kansas provide that the estate of a cou-
pie dying childless shall 90 to the
heirs Of the last deceased. AS there is
no proof of how the murder was execu-
ted, or which of the Penninotons
breathed last after the wounds were in
t1icted, the right to the 100 acre farm
remains in doubt.
1t has been discovered that citizen
of Cincinnati who fell dead in a rail
way car the other day was poisoned by
tobacco smoke. He was an occasional
sufferer from heart disease, and the
trouble was so aggravated by the suffO-
eating smoke of the car that he died
after breathing it a few minutes. The
car in which he rode had only one
compartment for men, women and
| children, and the smokers were allow
ed full sway in it. Two other passen-
gers were overcome by the tobacco
| fumes.
| Mr.. William Houston read paper
on Spelling Reform" few days ago
| at meeting of the Canadian Institute
| in Toronto. He stated that he read be-
tween 5000 and 1900 letters year,
and finds that hardly more than three in
100 are correctly spelled, and that as a
rule the uneducated spell more correct
ly than the educated. Modern spelling,
he thought, is a tyrannical superstition
inherited from the eighteenth century,
and Millions spelling was much more
correct, both etymologically and pho
netically. 1t will be news to many that
Edmund Spenser did not use the u in
such words as honor, for emitting which
Americans have been so severely criti-
cised by the English. Doubtless a re-
form in spelling is desirable, but the
practical difficulties in the way of ac-
comprising it are great.-Nea0 York