Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-26
GLEANINGS.

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Rice birds are canned and shipped
from Georgia to Northern markets.
1t is said that Mary Andersons arms
are so long than she can wrap them
three times around Romeo's neck.
There are 800 newspapers published
In London. OF these Is are morning,
9 are evening, and 375 are weekly.
Quill pens are again in fashion. They
are well adapted for the large, angular
penmanship now in favor among ladies.
Girls, as the Governor of North Caro-
lima said to the Governor of South Car
DINA, it is a long time between leap
years.
An English firm has begun the man
ufacture of casks and barrels of steel.
They are lighter than wood and more
| durable
Twelve wagon loads of letters and
papers are delivered daily at the Capt.
toll for members of the House of Repre-
| SentatiyeS.
Infants born on unlucky days among
the tribes of Madagascar have pieces of
cloth tied over their mouths and are
Thirty thousand roller skating Kinks
have been built in the United States
within the past two years. The num-
| Der of broken heads is not recorded.
Attention, you manly young fellow:
| Speak rudely to your mother; she loves
you, and will forgive you. Keep your
| politeness for others. Christian AdU0-
| cate.
Eugene, ex-Empress of France, is
highly esteemed by the people of Farm
I borough, on the streets of which town
she is often seen afoot, not only shop
ping but on errands of charity.
A vampire bat was recently captured
at Lewis Station, Ell Dorado County,
the wings of which when extended
measured twenty-one and a half inches.
1t had tail two inches in length, like
| a rats.
If a cent be placed on the first square
| of a chess board and continually doub-
| led the amount after the siXty-fOur
squares have been covered will be more
money than the inhabitants of the world
| possess.
In a Michigan perjury trial it came
out that the prisoner had uplifted his
left hand instead of the rightin making
oath to the lie, supposing that thereby
he exculpated himselffrom legal respon-
Sibility.
Asocial scientist has discovered that
Joe Smith, the founder of Mormonism,
too. was Vermonter. John III. Noyes,
fo+ /, =
| VermOnter.
The Georgia House of Representa-
| tiyes has imposed tax of 5000 on
dealers in futures in Georgia, and re-
| duced the tax on foreign loan compan-
les to $40. The Georgia Supreme Court
has declined to recognize or legalize the
future business at all.
Glass floors, of heavy blocks imbed-
ded in iron framework, are largely re-
placing wood floors in Paris business
houses. The French build for time.
| The many mirrors set in their walls are
not alone for show. They are cheaper
than paint or paper in the course of
years.
Mrs. Tom Thumb recently started a
| show on her own account, acting as her
own manager. The show disbanded
out III New London Saturday night, the
| little widow having lost S1,100. She
returns to her home in Middlebury, sat-
| isfied that running a show is not her
forte. Hartford (Conaa.J Times.
| The average duration of life among
well-to-do people is forty-five years;
among the middle class it is twenty-five
years; among the laboring class, TWEEN
| ty years. Among 100 people the
wealthy could not number more than
| five, the middle class no more than fif-
teen, and the working class eighty.
| Marshall Northrop, of Woodbridge,
Conn, has novel barometer in the
shape of four hullfrogs which live in a
half hogshead in his spring. In fair
weather. they sun themselves around
! hole in the hogshead's bottom, but
when the storm center moves their way
they dive through the hole and out of
sight.
The tithes of some of the richest
| English bishops are: London, $50, 900;
Durham, $50, 900; Winchester, S25, 800;
| Ely, S27 800, and Bath, Lincoln, Ok
| ford, Salisbury, Liverpool, and Wor-
cester, S25, 200 each. The bishop of
Sodom and Man, who has neither ca
thedral nor dean, gets $4,000 a year
for doing nothing.
They are telling the story in Boston
that lady in that city who wanted to
know when Elizabeth Barrett Browning
was born wrote to Robert Browning. to
find out, and received the answer; =
know neither the day, month, nor year
of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birth.
1t is d subject upon which l have never
had the slightest curiosity"
Vaseline is said to be good preserv-
ative for eggs. The vaseIine is melted
with per cent of salicylic acid and
rubbed on the eggs after they are thor
oughly washed. The coating SO given
may be renewed after while. As the
air is thus thoroughly excluded, the
eggs, if they are fresh to begin with,
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