Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-15
GLEANINGS.

| A New Jersey, girl who heard that
some of her callers liked mixed drinks,
| provided four kinds of water-rain,
spring, well, and melted snow.
Colorado women tramp around in
cotton stockings with the thermometer
at 40 degrees below zero. Their feet
don't get warmed up until about the
last of July.
1t has just transplred that the chill.
! dren originals of ''Helen's Babies"
had been dead year before their
amusing pranks were written up and
published for the world to laugh at.
Cinnamon are beginning to monop-
Ollie large share of the business of
furnishing wood for the Central Paci-
fic Railroad, which has constituted an
important industry of the Truckee
basin.
A huge lemon has recently been
picked at Panasofkee, Fla. It meas
ured twenty-four inches in clrcumfer-
ence one way, twenty two inches the
other and weighed four pounds thir-
! teen ounces.
The total amount of authorized
street railroad capital IN England is
$91, $50, 900, and the length of line
opened for traffic TSP miles. The num-
Der of passengers carried last year was
nearly 331, 100000
a conductor in Massachusetts put
tramp off his train and threw him
bundle which he supposed was his
baggage. The tramp threw it back,
and it was afterward found to be a
package of bills containing 81, 500.
The ancient house, which is one of
the few buildings at Stratford- on-Avon
England, that remain in precisely the
same state as in the days of Shake
speare, has lately shown signs OF
giving way. The house is one of the
most interesting sights of the town,
and great attraction to American
tourists.
AS an evidence of the slow pace at
which the British Postofice authori-
ties move, it is noted that the London
letter carriers still use the common
twisted canvass bags, secured at the
top with string. The Philadelphia
Record thinks John Bull ought to
take trip westward and see how
Uncle Sam does things.
The city expenses of New York are
now $50, 900, 900 year. Those of the
general government are about 1866
900, 900. With population of mil
lion and a half, or one-fortieth of the
entire population of the country, the
city expenses of New York are one
eighth as large as the expenses of the
General Government.
One Of the best of the Christmas
stories was written by J. Soule Smith,
Falcon, :" who is lawyer-journalist
Of Lexington, Ky. This versatile
gentleman is u good lawyer, orator,
romancer and a poet. In social life
he is the peer of the best gentleman
Ken lucky ever produced. He writes
for the Louisville Times.
It is a little remarkable that of the
three statues raised to women IN this
country-all within the present year
one is to an English women, Harriet
Martlneau; another to an Irish woman
Margaret Haugherty, g successful
New Orleans baker, and one to an
American, Mrs A Tevis, of Shelby
vile, Ky, a successful teacher.
! QuOIabIOn pdfGlGS are III Sby16. hhCu
guest comes with three quotations,
and the company is given the names
OF the authors. Prizes or favors, as
flower, or whatever you like, are pre-
sented to those returning correst an
swers. When there are number of
correct answers the favors are drawn
by lot. All winds up with supper
at the expense of the hostess.
The superiority of American dredg-
ing machines, which had been shown
in the work on the Panama Canal,
has led to orders for them by four
teen governments. The last of these
is from Spain. A drag boat, with q
screw propeller of 100-horse power,
five iron barges and two tow-boats
have been called for to 3e used at the
port of San Juan Porto Rico.
| Victoriano Nlevez lives at Carmen,
in Mexico. and is a millionaire. The
other day ne and his wife celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
He gave banquet and scattered dol
lars right and left. Five hundred
thousand dollars IN one lump was sent
to the poor in the locust eaten dis
trictS and $4,000 was given to the re-
public to help pay OF the American
debt