Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30

Jay Gould wears white plug hat.
New York city has IS, 900 paupers.
Pope Leo is a confirmed dyspep-
tic.
The Sultan of Turkey is taking
music lessons.
Phillip Marston, the poet, is now
entirely blind.
A bullet travels mile in three and
two tenths seconds.
Wheat is cheaper now than it has
been for nearly 100 years.
One hundred in the shade is not
an uncommon temperature in Mem
phis.
Saratoga, with six thousand visitors,
believes that the season mas begun
fairly.
A wealthy Cuban has fitted out a
steam vessel for the sole purpose of
catching sharks.
A scientist says that $50, 900, 600
tons of matter in solution are annual
ly poured into the Gulf of Mexico by
the Mississippi. At this rate one foot
Of land over the whole basin would
be removed Ia A, 900 years.
In Arkansas the law forbids the
building of a saloon within two miles
of church; hence the natives build
the saloon first and then erect the
church just across the road.
In a recent issue of well-known
French journal appeared the following
advertisement: wv anted, a distin-
guished and healthy looking man to
be cured patient In a doctors watt
ing room. Address, etc."
An old log house standing near Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, since the time the
morning stars sang together, has been
taken down and will be shipped to
Chicago, where it will form a part of
panorama.
1t is an interesting fact that the
city of Chicago is only a couple of
months older than the reign OF Queen
Victoria. The young princess ascend
ed the throne June 20, 1887, at the
age of eighteen years. Chicago was
chartered as city March 4, 1887.
Sir Henry Thompson says that from
a long course of observation he is
forced to the conclusion that more
mischief in the form of actual disease,
of impaired vigor and OF shortened
life accrues to civilized man from err
oneous habits OF eating than from the
use of alcoholic drink.
An American publisher is produc-
ing an excellent substitute for glue
for the use of binders. It is CALI
ed gum gluten, add is free from smell,
very adhesive and strong. BY its use
it is claimed that saving of rs p
| cent can be affected in book binder
In twelve months, one hundred
weight of gluten going as far a.. six OF
glue.
The Panama Canal, which was to
have been com pleted IN 1888 at a cost
Of S120. 900. 600, woAld not be finished
in ten years, even if the present rat
of excavation were maintained. More
than 800, 900. 900 have been already
expended, and the probabilities are
lthat if the canal is ever finished it
will be after an outlay of $3.50, 900, 600.
The prediction is freely made abroad
that when M. de Lesseps dies the
whole scheme will collapse.
Up to July /, 1885, there were ST.
252 postoffces in the United States,
and the number is steadily Increasing
at about the rate of fifty per month.
The new office, of course, are mainly
in the west and south From Deem
Ger 1 to the close of June but 81 new
offices were established in the New
England States, and the number IN
New York increased by but fifteen,
while the southern states have 80
more Offices than last fall, and the
western states and territories 2oo more.
i Those Offices where the salary is 81 900
and over are filled by nominations of
the President, and the remaining 49,
O19 offices by the appointment of the
Postmaster General.