Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
GLEANINGS.


blows. The plant is about three feet il
height, and on the stalk are a humble
of little Jumps from which the flower:
protrude when the wind blows upoI
them.
The Free Methodist minister at Colo
RADIO Springs owns cow twenty-five
years old, aud he challenges the coun
try to show up her senior. This may
not be the oldest cow living, but there
are great many people who believs
they have seen pieces of older ones or
their breakfast tables.
A rattle for fawn recently took place
in 4 Montana town. After the raffis
was over the holder of the winning
ticket asked for his fawn, supposine
the animal to be pet in some family
The lady manager of the affair told hin
it was out in the hills with its dam, anC
all he had to do was to go and catch it
A North Carolina colored man re.
Gently found 4 lady's workbag, contain
ing $40 in money and diamond pin.
and kept it intact three months, mean
while searching everywhere for the
owner. When at last he found her, il
proved to be 4 lady of wealth, who
opened her heart and rewarded the
colored mans honesty with gift of p
cents
in Montreal snow is not allowed tc
remain deeper than six inches on the
sidewalks, and the surface must be kept
even. The clearing of roofs and
walks must be finished before a. m.
Twenty dollars and costs is the penalty
for tenants and owners who ignore the
civic bylaw in this respect, and all re-
sponsible citizens are liable to arrest
without warning for its contrayention.
Denmark spends 500, 900 annually for
agricultural teaching. There are dairy
schools and schools in agriculture
Improved methods are taken up by
every Dane, from the King down to the
humblest farmer. The consequence is
that this little, cold, barren country is
able to export large numbers of excel
lent cattle, quantities of farm and dairy
produce, while the producers are thirty
ing and comfortable.
The Turkish woman is superstitious
in the extreme. She believes in charms.
She will not live an hour bereft of her
three-cornered bit of leather which en-
closes the mystic phrase that is potent
to ward off the evil eye. She distrusts
Tuesday as the mother of ill-luck, and
will not celebrate the birthday anniver-
saries of her children, or even record
the date, lest some magician uses it to
cast a spell against the child.
There is a lady residing in Paris at
present who is said to be preparing a
genuine sensation for publication. 1t
is to be a brochure, in which she at
tempts to prove that she is the eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria. She claims
to be able to show that she was substi-
tuted in the place of the Crown Prin-
cess of Germany, with the connivance
of some of the court habitues, and with
out the knowledge of the mother.
Eli Perkins was given reception
worthy of his reputation at Yankton,
D. I. He was advertised to lecture in
the opera house, but when he reached
the hall, though it was brilliantly
lighted, not a soul was to be seen, nor
did any one come in during the half
hour the committee spent in expressing
its surprise to the great fabricator.
Then he took him over to Market Hall,
where a packed house greeted him with
great laugh.
In spite of Signor Brignoli having re-
sided so long inAmerica and the fact that
be married an American lady, he never
learned to speak our language with
any degree of fluency or correctness. At
one time when he was staying at hotel
at Long Branch he missed his hair
brush; unable to find it he rang his bell,
and when his servant appeared he said,
III a very curious. tone: Yesterday |
was a hairbrush; to-dav-where am I?''
The fayorite writing paper of the
Princess of Wales is blue bank paper,
with fac-simile of her signature or
Christian name in gold or bronze across
the upper left hand corner, and the day
Of the week in the same style on the
top line at the right. The Queen uses
black-edged paper, with the address
Windsor Castle, Balmoral, or Osborne
on the top line in plain black and gold
letters, and in the upper left hand cor
ner ''V. r and the crown emblazoned
in red, black and gold.
Tennessee has now sixteen coal
mines in successful operation. 1t is
said that the Sewanee coal-mines are
the best ventilated mines in the State,
if not in the Souah. They have so
many entrances, connected with each
other, that the atmosphere in them is
not only delightful, but the tempera-
ture remains the same all the year
round Miners wear the same clothing
in the mines during the Winter months
that they wear in the Summer. Twelve
hundred and thirty men are engaged in
these and the South Pittsburgh mines,
and 600 more miners would be employed
if they were to be had.
The superintendent OF the New York
Women's Protective Union gives an in
teresting account of the wages of wo
men belonging to the union. Actresses
of the ballet and utility get from s. to
81 and from S18 to $50 week. MILL
ners each from Sc to S1S, dressmakers
from Sc to So. Housekeepers get from
$50 to 800 per month. This includes
board. Trained nurses earn $50 to $50
a month. Proof-readerS make from SO
to $50, and copyists get from 81 to S12