Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-19


Chicago and other cities escorted them
to Monument Cemetery, where, after
performing the impressive rites of the
order, the remains were consigned to
the vault where they will rest for the
present.
A short time ago New York maa
unexpectedly came into the possession
OF SIS, 000 At the end Of three days
he was penniless and an inmate of an
acylum for inebristes.
The Welland Canal is to be deepen
ed to fourteen-foot draught, so as to
admit large vessels passing down
the st. Lawrence without tightening.
The work will cost more than 81, 500, :
900.
There is talk of establishing dairy
schools in some parts of New York to
teach dairymaids and others how to
make butter and cheese. They are to
be modelled after those in England and
Ireland
Ia London household wages by the
year average: Plain cooks, $97. SO !;
housekeepers. $146; mattresses and
nursemaids, $82.73; barmaids, 1874; ;
buffers, 1896; coachmen, $17O32.
The gold dug from the mines of
Thibet, writes missionary, is so
plentiful that it is used to cover the
pinnacles of the pagodas, and is made
into idols, chairs and ornaments for the
people.
A remarkable Indian shell mound
has been discovered on the coast of
Maine. Some of the shells have been
buried hondreds OF years, but marks
of fire upon them are as fresh as if
made yesterday.
About Is, 600, 900 eggs were exported
from Ancona, Italy, to Englan9 last
year. TO carry them 500 railway
tsucks of ten tons each were employed.
The price varied from 81 los to f3 16s
per 1000.
An Englishman has invented a sys~
tenn of automatically transporting
goods by the agency of electricity.
He calls it telephrage.
ST. Peters Cathedral at Moscow has
five cupolas, to overlay which 900
pounds of gold were used. The mar
bic floors cost 81, 500, 900.
Comoville, Cal, is a town of some
forty houses amd but one inhabitant
Pete Fergus who saw the mining
camp at its rise, at its period of glory,
and at its fall. His only neighbors
are just over the hill, in the ceme-
terry.
A Cincinnati man died last week and
was buried in coffin built by him
self, and painted red, white and blue.
He left directions for a monument
crowned by the figure of an American
eagle to be erected at the head of his
grave.
Hundreds Of acres of sandy desert
near San Francisco have been made
fertile by the introduction of beach
grass. In other places where, few
years ago, there was nothing but sand
dunes, there are now thousands of pine
trees.
A grain ranch in California was
visited by a correspondent, and de-
scribed as sample of the farms of the
region. The house, standing under
broad nut trees, was plain, partly of
logs boarded over, but roomy and
comfortable in that climate, though it
would be thought rough and ricketty
for New England farmer. ''The
parlor has a brussels carpet, piano,
haircloth furniture and pictures; the
family room and guest chamber have
heavy, good carpets and old-fashioned
mahogany, dating yeaIs ahead of any
art period The family live well,
taking three newspapers and magas
zine for the children. The wife has
her silk gowns and gold watch, her
gilt china and solid silverware; but
the ranch is seven miles from any vii
lage, and she has not been OF the place
for five years or had visitor ia tlat
time"