Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-18
GLEANINGS.

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used to be, but the roller-skating pro-
prletors do not yet banker for his pa
tronage.
A New York bride is indignant be-
cause one of her wedding presents, an
alleged seal-skin sacaue, proves to be
dyed beaver.
| 1t is said in Washington that Secre-
tary Chandler will become editor of
the Washington Republican, of which
he is owner.
Letters to the San Francisco news
papers complain that the missionaries
Ia Alaska are, in many instances, I'M
principled adventures.
1t takes the labor of FIVE men an
entire year to build a locomotive.
This is the average at all the sixteen
locomotive works in the United States.
An English doctor says thata per-
son who can move his ears at will is
suspicious character and can not be
trusted.
A worm which thirty years ago des-
troyed many of the pine trees In
North Carolina is again making havoc
this season.
| Florida oranges are booming this
year and coming north very early.
They were canning at the rate of &. 900
boxes a week the week before Thanks
giving.
Fashionable ladies who get them
selves talked about by doing exccen-
trio things are no longer said to be
crazy. Their trouble is boldly as
serted to be malaria.
The Common Council of Bronson,
Mich, posts in ten public places the
names of men to whom, in conse-
quence of their habitual drundkness,
rum is not to be sold.
The Boston Post knows all about
man by passing his house. If he has
a stone deg on the lawn that settles
it, and he is classed under the head of
eminent citizens.
A Newark maiden attempted to
play on her piano the other day, but
could not sound note. Investiga-
ton showed that her small brother
had filed the top full of molasses.
Enough liquor was consumed in
Great Britain last year to make lake
mile long, a mile wide, and thirty
five feet deep. What a lake of fire
that would make if lighted.
DR.. John Buck, OF Bedminster.
England, administered bi-chloride of
methylena as an anesthetic to
patient and put him out of pain and
out of existance in less than one sec
ond.
The Portland Oregonian says:
''The vote of Washington Territory
was about $4,000, of which number |
the women contributed perhaps one
third. 1t was found mistake to saw
that women would not vote. Very |
few omitted to do So"
There is an eccentric old man NAN
ed Patrick Kennedy at the Schenecta-
dy, n. Y, Poor House, who thinks
he must receive his salary every Sat
urday night, and to satisfy him he is
given spoonful of castor oil, which
he accepts as his wages.
Sofa pillows, filed with spikes of
green pine and hemlock, with a pine
Dough and appropriate quotation en-
brOidered ON the scarlet covers, are
among the attractive novelties. These
pillows retain the DELICIOUS piney odor
for long time, and are said to be
hygienic.
An eagle kept in Vienna, Austria,
died after confinement of Ia years.
Swans on the Thames river-about
the ages of which there can be no
since they were nicked an
nually by the Winners Company,
under whose keeping they have been
for five centuries-have been known
to survive for $50 years or more.
Sturgeon says he only finds ten
commandments to keep, and not one
of 'em against smoking, SO he pro
poses to smoke and let such of his
Pensioners as please coatine to
fume.
Nine carloads of Christmas trees
passed southwark through Maine last
week, consigned to New York deal
ers, They were all frs, and there
were about twelve hundred trees on q
car.
Girl grape pickers ia the California
vine yards are tempting Providence
by putting their names and addresses
in the boxes which are shipped East
Their idea is doubtless to catch hus-
band.
The New York State capitol build
ing is the most expensive edifice on
this continent It has already cost
SIG, 400, 900, and estimates of the
further sum required vary from S.,
900, 900 to SIS, 900, 900.
Mrs. Langtry is said to have the
most beautiful shoulders and back of
any woman on the stage The Jersey
Lily has photographs of her shapely
back taken as it is seen upon the
stage, and its beauty is marvellous.
Cremation has made more progress
in Italy than in any other country In
Europe. The cremation societies in
that country new have more than g.
900 members, and there are beautiful
and costly temples IL all the principal
cities.