Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-14
GLEANINGS.
Henry Ward Beecher hates dogs and

| Rp4uCiS are Sttlu 10 eat INVENT ' -SlA
times their own weight each day.
Chartered oppressor' is a new
Western name for blasted monopoly. F"
| 1t is said that Japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use OF
pins.
Notwithstanding all the talk, Chinese
| lepers are as rare as hens teeth IN San
| Francisco.
There are now nearly seven million
| children in the United States who do
not know their letters.
Tennessee has great natural resourc-
es, including 10000 square miles of
| timber as yet untouched.
Nine. Ristori wants to buy a Boston
| residence. She has one in London, one
in Paris, and one in Rome.
1t is estimated that two large parties
| given recently in Boston were produc-
tive of distributing 100000 among
artisans and others.
Small tobacco pipes are frequently
| unearthed in Ireland, and are supposed
to ante-date the introduction of tobacco
in Europe by Raleigh
Gainesville, Ga, claims the honor of
having more boys between the age of
ten and fifteen years than any other
town of its size in the world.
An Andersonyille, Ca, physician
boasts of having watch 213 years old
and a clock over $50 years old, both
running and keeping good time.
Hira Bates and wife, now residing at
South Hanover, Mass, were both born
on the same day, August 5, 1896, and
within few hours of each other.
The Journal of Health says the i'll
health of school children is more large
ly due to lack of proper care at home
than to inadequate hygienic provisions
in the school-rooms.
Cincinnati has under discussion the
building OF an elevated belt railroad
around the city, the length of which
| will be seventeen miles and the esti-
mated cost S5,OO0,000.
Under the cellar of famous inn at
Bath, England, called the Sedan Chair,
which was lately demolished, the work
men discovered fine mosaic pavement
belonging to Roman times.
The tonnage of the effective armored
fleets of the leading naval powers of
Europe is as follows: England, 329, 500
tons; France, POI, 789; Germany, "A, OO7
tons; Austria, 63, Ito; Russia, 83,621,
and Italy, ,9O5.
Since the birth of the first Prince of
| Wales in 1884, more than six centuries
| ago, the title has been borne by seven
teen persons, but the present possessor
of it is the only one who has lived to
see a son attain his majority.
A Montana man has introduced in the
| Territorial Legislature bill to regu-
late inheritances, which provides that
no person shall be allowed by will, be-
| quest, or Inheritance as heir to any es-
tate, money, or property, exceeding the
value of 100000.
Gone to join William Tells apple:
Another famous legend has struck a
snag. 1t is now asserted that when
Rome burned fiddles had not been in
vented and consequently Nero could
not have INDUCED in the musical pas
time attributed to him.
The latest novelty is ginger ice
cream, in which the heat of the ginger
counteracts the chill of the cream, and
the frigidity of the cream nullifies the
fire of the ginger, producing a happy
medium most gratifying to the epicur-
can palate. Mention On J.) Register.
Ministers need no longer preach
against rolIer-skating. The rink has
had its day, and its new rival, the
toboggan slide, will ruin the roller
skate trade. Tobogganing is the sport
of the future, and it will be useless for
any man to try to resist it.-N. Y.
Times.
The cocoanut will not flourish away
from the seashore, and no magnet is
truer to the pole than is the root of the
cocoanut tree to the ocean, for when
the roots break through its husks it
points directly toward the sea, no mat
ter in what position the nut is placed in
the ground.
The venerable Professor Leopold Won
Ranke is great favOrite in Berlin So
ciety. His conversation is brilliant and
epigrammatic, and he is always good
natured. In religion he is an ultra
orthodox Lutheran, in politics a con-
sentative Royalist, and in all things an
intense Prussian.
The Washington monument has had
strange visitors since its erection. A
gaunt and hungry cat climbed to the
top; five rats have made the ascent to
get the crumbs from the workingmen's
lunches; wasps build their nests and
pigeons roost at night 434 feet above
the habitation of man.
The Connecticut legislature has pass
ed bill offering 10 cents to any per
son planting, protecting and cultivating
elm, maple, tulip, ash, Eastwood, oak,
black walnut, hickory, apple, pear or
cherry trees, not more than sixty feet
apart, for three years, along any pub
lie highway of the State.
The temperature of the mines on the
| Comstock vein is exceedingly high. At
depths of l, 800 feet and 1000 feet the
thermometer placed in fresh-drill-
ed hole will show $50 degrees. Very
large bodies of water have run for
wears at $50 degrees, and smaller bod