Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-22

happy III possession Of him.
A lecturer has been down in Nan
tucket lecturing on the whale. Tt isa
town of old whalers, and when ne
undertook 10 tell his audience how
whales were harpooned he was wasn't
exactly ''all at sce" He showed very
plainly he had never been thereon
a whaling cruise.
An English shoemaker has patented
q reversible boot which may be worn
lndifferently on either foot. 1t but
tons by series of tongues repeated
on both sides of the opening, and can
be fastened so as. to look as if the pair
were rights and lefts." lis inventor
thinks its the only boot which cannot
tread over to one side"
At recent auction sale of grey
hounds In London some we'll known
dogs brought very fair prices. One
animal which won the last Waterloo
cup, commanded 81 gulneas, while
other less noted dogs sold for 80 and
10 guineas each. Puppies and
''saplings" of well known sreeds also
brought good prices, ranging from -
to 81 guineas.
Crocodile farms are becoming com
mon. The largest animals are killed
and skinned, their flesh being used to
feed their hungry descendants That
these breeding places are of no mean
dimensions is shown by the fact that
the owners of one of them supplied a
tanner at st. Louis during the current
year with no less than 5000 alligator
skins.
A Cincinnati man was using
chloride of potash lozenges for throat
affection and had taken two of tham
from box and placed them in his
pantaloons pocket. He stopped down
to button his shoe, when the friction
caused the substance to ignite. Tn
the space of about two seconds hole
about foot square had burned In
his pantalOons and part of mis- flesh
was almost baked.
Among the most respectable people
of Emanuel county, Ga, are the de
scendants of two women who, as
wives. forty years ago were regarded
as so worthless that one was traded
by her husband for a jug of whisky,
and the other was given by her nus
band to the whisky trader. The first
mentioned wife must have been re-
gar8ed as a bad bargain by the man
who gave jug of whisky for her, as
he traded her for bushel of corn.
Instead of the muller commonly
| worn in Nebraska IN cold weather a
man of Doranville put on uncovered
BEARS head, which had been left be
hind by pantomine company. With
this concealing his own head to the
shoulders he went out of an evening
for a promenade. He delares that he
had no other motive than to secure
warmth, and thinks it an outrage that
the authorities should have arrested
him. and he regards the children who
ran screaming away from him, and
the women who had fits of fright, as
ridiculous.
In Orange Mountain, n. J., has
b cen discovered counterpart of the
famous Giants Causeway in Ireland.
The opening Of quarry brought the
curiosity to light. The formation is
evidently due to repeated volcanic
eruptions that forced the trap rock
while In molten state through the
red sandstone upon which it Row
stands. The columns are from Is to
40 feet high, as perfectly eat as if
nodded in forms, and owing to their
hexagonal or pentagonal shapes are
considered by biologists to be of crys
talline formation.
Heretofore at their demise members
of the British royal family have been
buried in collins covered with crimson
velvet, with massive silver ornaments,
but few years ago, when the queen
paid her first visit to the sepulcher,
she observed that the coverings had
become ragged and faded, and orders
were given that all the collins should
at once be placed In new oak cases, on
top of which are the plates and cor
ronets on crimson cushions. The late
Duke of Albany lies on stone table
in tie center of St. George Chapel
vault, with King George of Hanover,
George Ill, and the Duke of Kent.
The other collins are on shelves on
each side of the vault. The Prince
Consort's coffin was never placed in
the royal vault, the Queen objecting
to her husband being buried, even
temporarily, in the same place witn
George ". The task of covering. all
the collins with oak cases has just
been completed.