Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-05
GLFANfNGS.

Mrs Chief Justice Waite frankly tells
visitors she cannot return their calls.
Henry James, the novelist, is some
times mistaken for the Prince of
Wales.
The welcome announcement is made
that paper cigarettes are going out of
fashion.
Mrs. George Bancroft is said to
WELD the needle as ably as her husband
does the pen.
Sergeant Mason, who shot at Giteau,
IS living in peace and quiet on his farm
in Virginia.
Maine claims 5000 books and pam
Phlets written by Maine people or re
lating 10 Maine
Swinburne, the poet, has a small
body and big head. This is a failing
OF poets generally.
The Mormon Church has more mis-
sionaries than the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
Jules Levy frankly said to Louis
vile reporter: Il am the only great
cornetist in the world
Wooden shoes keep their wearer's
feet warm and dry. But it must be
confessed they are not pretty.
There should be no pardoning power
to save from the gallOws the wretch
who deliberately wrecks train.
General Sherman is a heavy eater,
and occasionally the guest who comes
in after him finds the pie all out.
A human iawbone of great size and
perfect state of preservation has been
found sixty feet below the surface in a
Georgia limestone quarry.
The eldest daughter of Rev. Tai
mage is said to be one of the prettiest
girls in America. 1t is needless to add
that she resembles her mother
In Western Nevada prospectors pile
up vast quantities of snow on the
mountains and cover it with brush, in
order to provide a water supply for
summer use.
A Hartford man, now aged eighty
years, who has smoked for over sixty
seven years, has kept an account OF his
expenses, and finds that if he invested
the same sum every six months and
placed it at compound interest he
would now have 100000 to his credit
A lecturer has been down in Nan
tuCket lecturing on the whale. 1t is a
town of old whalers, and when he I'M
dertook to tell his audience how whales
were harpooned he wasn't exactly '.all
at sea. He showed very plainly that
he had never been thereon a whaling
cruise.
An English shoemaker has patented
a reversible boot which may be worn
indiferently on either foot 1t buttons
by a series of tongues repeated on both
sides of the opening, and can be fasten-
edso as to look as if the pair were
rights and lefts. " Its inventor thinks
it is the only boot which cannot ''tread
over to one side. y
The American steam brake is now in
use upon nearly all the railways of both
England and France. These brakes
are In most cases manufactured abroad
but Americans hold the patents.
Though no account of this appears in
the export figures, American brains
are exchanged for European cash in
considerable quantities.
The boss cold wave is that discov-
cred by Professor Hiscox, of Brooklyn,
which he said is advancing from the
pole to the equator, reducing the mean
temperature at the rate of tenth of a
degree IN 10000 years, and is likely to
freeze Us all dead in some millions of
years unless somebody can start up
big ire at the earth centre.
The census bureau reports that in
1850 there were Is Mormon church or
CARNATIONS and 10. sittings; in 1860
% church organizations and Is, 500 sit
tings; in 1870 l89 organizations and IL,
83S sittings; in 1880 267 organizations
and 60, go sittings. The actual MEM
bership of the Mormon Church, accord
ing to the census of 1880, was 70,
$50.
There are nineteen known metals val
ued at over $1,000 per avoirdupois
pound. The most costly is vanadium
which is said to be worth $4,000 per
pound. OF these nineteen metals, only
one is produced or used TO any consid-
cradle extent, and that is iridium,
which is valued at $1,000 per pound.
1t IS sometimes but very sparingly,
used in electrical experiments.
A Cincinnati man was using chloride
OF potash lozenges for throat affection
and had taken two of them from a box
and placed them in his pantaloons
pocket. He stopped down to button
his shoe when the friction caused the
substance to ignite. In the space Of
about two seconds hole about a half
foot square had burned in his panta-
looms and part of his flesh was almost
baked
Instead of the muller commonly
worn in Nebraska in cold weather a
man of Doranyille put on uncovered
BEARS head which had been left behind
by pantomine company. With this
concealing his own head to the should
ers he went out of an evening for
promenade. He declares that he had
no other motive than to secure warmth,
and thinks it an outrage that the au-
thorities arrested him, and he regards
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