Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-16

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two miles and breadth of twenty-five
miles to length of twenty-five and
width of fourteen miles.
At Biggs, Cal, recently baby was
to be dead and was laid out
a week or two ago, but the mother did
not agree with the attendants, and
with a good deal of work the child
was resuscItated and is still alive.
A New Hampshire shoemaker, who
was drawn to serve as a juror, and
was thereby greatly excited, has COM
mitted suicide from no known reason
other than the fact that he was called
upon to serve in the above position.
In the village of Dinker, Germany,
there recently died the organist and
teacher, Dahlhoff, the last of long
line of predecessors in the office,
which had gone uninterrupted from
father to son in the same family for
the past 216 years.
Those now in London who were
here during the war say that the ex-
element and constant extras, cried
sometimes up to midnight, recall to
them wildly 1862~'65.
A varnish company is said to have
recently paid a well-known animal
painter 81, 900 for a picture of coach
load of monkeys driving a four-in-
hand team of rabbits.
Two adventures are travelling
through Nevada exhibiting a flying
snake. The reptile is four feet long
and has two wings attached to it's
body, about four inches back of the
head.
The Children's Aid society, New
York, sent a party of sixty one to
Kansas last Tuesday, and will send
out another party on the 30th inst.
The roller mill being finished and
reftted at Brainerd by DR.. J. r.
Howes will start on Monday. It will
have an output of 800 barrels daily.
A Connecticut baby, thirteen months
old, weighs eighty-three pounds and
few ounces. His mother weighs
seventy-two pounds and is getting
lighter.
In Southern Vermont over a large
area the snow is four or five feet deep
and the roads have to be abandoned.
Last week the murcury was II deg.
below Tor several days.
[. S. Hyatt of Newark, n. j., one
of the Inventors of celluloid, formerly
connected with Illinois newspapers
and once sheriff Of Henry county, ILL.,,
has just died in Florida.
In the suit Of Miss Curtis VS.. DIM
non, for assault, at Huron, Oak, the
jury was out twenty-four hours, and
came Ia yesterday afternoon with q
verdict Of damages for the plaintiff Of
81, 500.
The somewhat remarkable states
ment is made that the city of New
York, covering only $4,000 acres,
supplies to q per cent. of the popula-
ton of the country 10 per cent. Of all
the water used for domestic purposes
throughout the land.
The Manic case. at Montreal, was
decided Monday. The youngest child,
a girl of eighteen months, is handed
over to her mothers care. The two
boys remain in the Catholic institu
ton in Montreal, under the direction
Of the father, the mother to have
access to them.
Mrs. S. r. GODDARD, of Lockport,
n. Y, tried to kill herself at the
breakfast table on Wednesday with
carving knife. Being deprived of the
knife by her husband, she pounded
her head with fat-iron, and nearly
killed herself before she was disarmed.
T4nonorarv insanity
Protracted drought and extensive
irrigation ia the neighborhood have
reduced Tulare Lake, in California,
from length of foGty-tWo miles and
breadth of twenty-five miles to a
length of twenty-five mile sand width
of fourteen miles.
Notwithstanding the melanch oily
experience in the past with an unsal-
able over product the manufacturers
of fine Kentucky Whistles are mash
ing away at rate which will make
the output about ID, 900, 000gallons for
the year. It had been agreed not to
exceed 100000 gallons SO as to keep
up prices.
Emma, the eighteen year-old daugh-
ter of T. A. Marvin of Sioux Falls,
disappeared from her home on Sunday
night. She was heard from at Hart
ford, where she had been taken care
of by friends. She had walked the
entire distance on the railroad track,
and was but scantily attired. It is be-
lieved that she has been misled, and
through shame and the fear of expos
ure wanted to leave her home.
On the Western & Atlantic railroad
near Dillon, Tenn, Thursday, as an
express train went around a curve
near the station. Engineer McKabb
saw a two-year-old girl toddling up
the track. He did all IN his power to
stop the train. When the locomotive
whistle sounded, the child turned,
and, seeing the train, puts its hands
TO its face and knelt down on the
track, where it met It's death. The
child was a daughter of Engineer
Walker.
Several American telegraph opera
tors have recently been offered good
positions to go to Siam to work on the
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