Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12
GLEANINGS.


$50 complimentary dinners, and is not
dead yet.
There is not single lawyer among
the 1000 convicts in the Virginia Peni-
tertiary. Virginia lawyers seldom get
found out.
The highest priced clock in America
is owned by Wall street broker in
New York. 1t cost S34, 1000, and was
made in that city.
Pneumatic tubes, through which are
transmitted letters, papers and tele-
grams, have Just been introduced be-
tween all the sub-postofices and the
main office in Paris
Brunettes are said TO be preferred to
blondes as Treasury clerks at Washing
ton. They are steadier at their desks,
and less liable to Mysteries when the
Chief Clerk speaks sharply.
Mrs. Langtry is said to have the most
beautiful shoulders and back of any
woman on the stage. The Jersey Lily
has photographs taken of her shapeIy
back as it is seen upon the stage, and
its beauty is marvellous.
London, with its 100000 inhabit-
ants, does twice as much telegraphing
as Paris and three times as much as
New York. 1t has 10000 miles of un-
foreground conductors and not tele-
graph pole in the street.
A close observer says that nothing
exasperates woman who has been
shading her eyes from the gaslight with
her hand all the evening so much as to
find that after all she had left her best
diamond ring on the washstand.
There is on exhibition in a window
on School street, Boston, a squash
which girts 7x65 feet and weighs 166
pounds. 1t was grown in Nova Scotia,
and the owner of it last year raised
one that turned the scales at 292
pounds.
Writing from Lynn, Mass, a CORE
spondent reminds the Scientific Anaerj-
can that, as an instance of remarka-
BILE flight of an exploded boilery about
two years ago a boiler exploded in that
city, and the flying portion, describing
a circle high in the air, landed 900 feet
from where it started.
..Are you consumptive? Stay at
home, make your will, be happy and
comfortable and try and live as long as
you can. Study up the climate of Flor
ida and keep away if you have been
expectorating blood" This is the adj
vice given by DR.. Bushrod W. Jones,
in SANITARY Gleamings
A doctor claims to have discovered a
way to prevent the ravages of phyllox-
era, from which the rape-growing dis
tricts of France have been suffering so
seriously of late years. Experiments
with the use OF arsenic have proved
successful, and the doctor is making
still others upon a larger scale. Much
public interest is felt in the expert
ments, and their result is awaited with
eager hope.
M. Urueta, in a recent paper about
snakes, relates that in Colombia their
chief destroyers are two species of birds
the calabrero and gaucabo- and the
cats and hogs. The latter are suppos-
ed to be protected from the sting on
account of their adipose tissue. Cats
receive bad sores from the venom, but
10 not die. The writer saw cat eat
the heads and tails of two large ones;
its wounded places liberated, but soon
healed.
"a remarkable tenor voice., p" says the
Baltimore american, ATTRACTED much
attention from those who attended the
Plenary Council services at the cathe-
dral. 1t belongs to Father O'Keefe, of
the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, of Philadelphia. He is not only a
fine vocalist, but he is a theoretical
musician The range of his high notes
l. ~ ~ Ho+ which hn 70 To-,
and not only holds at length, but exc
cuted an impromptu cadenza of deli
cate trills, touching again this high
note"
A few days since, as workmen were
removing old ice from ODER & CO. ice
house, in Dresden, Me, says a CORE
spondent of the Boston Journal, they
found large frog between two blocks
of ice that were frozen together solid
and had been in the house two years
A number of heavy blows were requir-
ed to separate the blocks, when, on be-
ing released, his frogship stretched
himself a few times to get limbered up
and then hoped away as lively as ev-
er apparently none the worse for his
trigid imprisonment.
A prominent lawyer of this city was
during the Presidential election a pro-
nounced Independent. At the Repub-
ican caucus in his ward a few even
ings since objections were made to his
taking part in the proceedings on ac-
count of his departure from the regular
ticket. Upon returning home he re-
marked to his family that lie was dis
carded because he was a ''mugwump."
His attentive little daughter heard the
conversation. and the next dav said to
several callers assembled in the parlor,
''Papa was turned out of L meeting
last night because he was chipmunk!"
Boston Budget.
An old broken-down gambler of Paris
may be seen daily promenading in the
shabbiest attire, with magnificent
white camellia in his button hole.
Some years ago he won great deal
of money, and determined to make
sure that he should always be supplied
with his favorite flower. He therefore