Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-07
GLEANINGS.
David Davis despises rolling-skatino

brought IN TO It's publisher $40, 900.
The Rothschilds never employ q man
who has the reputation for ill-Iuck.
The desire for Egyptian curiosities
has assumed the proportions of craze
in London.
Miss Lulu Hurst has made $50, 900
within a year out of her wonderful
magnetism.
Brooklyn is said to contain more
gambling houses than any other city in
the country.
The city of Berlin budget will this
year cover S15, 900, 900. 1t is the high
est on record.
The twenty-ffth child has been born
to man and wife in Dillon township,
Tazewell county, III,
Gen. Phil Sheridan has a recipe for
curing cold. It is ''Stay at home and
sit in front Of the fire"
A mule owned by farmer in Terrell
County, Ca, has been actively at work
for the past thirty-four years.
Silver and gold hoop bracelets are
again worn outside the glove Three
OF four are often worn on one arm.
It was discovered after his death that
Signor Brignoi had barely enough
money to buy the necessities of the sick
room.
The new treasurer of Habersham
County, Georgia, has given his bond
for $4,000. There is Just 50. 80 in the
treasury.
Cameron, the correspondent who was
killed in the Soudan, was unmarried.
but his aged mother was dependent up
on him for support. The London Stan
d0rd, for which he was working. has
granted her handsome life pension.
One of the funny bills in the Califor-
MIA Assembly is one which gives to any
young man under twenty-one years of
age, who learns trade by serving an
premiership for three years and is a
moral young man, $3.50 out of tho State
Treasury.
The latest thing in stockings does
away with carriers or supporters from
above. The hosiery is kept in its place
by Iacing from under the knee to the
upper bulge of the calf. Thus the cir
culation Of the blood in the limbs is not
impaired.
The New York World publishes the
portrait of the handsomest woman in
New Jersey, whereupon the Buffalo
E'rpreSS cruelty comments: sit repre-
sents person who is nearly up to the
average standard of feminine beauty as
recognized in the United States''
An eccentric Individual residing in
Detroit keeps his face clean shaver and
his hair clipped close by singing, and
his cheeks, chin and upper lips are
marked with many scars where they
have been scared by the red-hot plate
or steel with which he plays the bar
Der.
During lifetime of fifty years man
on the average spends 5000 days in
and the same amount in work
ing; 1000 days in eating, 800 in walk
ing, is i'll 500 days, and the remainder
of the half century-nearly nine years
is frittered away in recreation and |
In one of George Eliot's letters, to be |
found in the third volume of Mr.. Cross |
she refers to remark which |
Prof. Huxley made on those good peo-
pie of London who have pursued him |
with false witness in their anti-vivisec- |
ton zeal. He declares himself to be
Vexed with the ''profigate
lying of yirtuous women.
The oldest apple trees West of the |
Missouri River are said to be those on
the AlpoWaix. Some of them are over
a foot in diameter. The seeds were
brought over by Rev. Mr.. Spaulding,
the missionary who was stationed at |
Lapwai many years ago, and father of |
Mrs. Eliza Warren, the first white child |
born on the Pacific slope.
BY the recent decision of Maine
Judge all ponds in that State contain
ing more than ten acres are public |
ponds. and the right to cut ice upon |
them free to all. In this particular the |
owners of the shores have no greater |
rights than other persons who can |
reach the ponds without trespassing |
upon the land of others.
London women and girls who make |
up fashionable society have entirely |
the bang and all methods |
of wearing the hair down on the fore |
head. They brush their hair straight |
back, showing the whole Of the fore
head and temples, knot it carelessly on
the very top of the head, and wear it
without the faintest suspicion Of curl
or crimp.
The fellow who threatened to make |
up faces at the other fellows sister had |
better beware if the bill defining as
saults is passed by the Legislature. 1t |
provides that whoever annoys another
by looks or gestures is guilty Of assault.
1t is q question whether, under such a
law, the carrying of an extremely home
y countenance wouldn't be actionable. |
Belfast (Me.) Age.
Superintendent Bennett, of Piqua,
Ohio, has been investigating the extent
to which tobacco is used by boys in city
schools. He finds that in two grades
of IS boys from twelve to fifteen years
old, 81 habitually smoked cigarettes, |
and only could say they never had
nf Oe Io,-- f,.O,,, 90, =. |