Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

Gently died, and has b:Quathed to
Miss knowles $1,000 in money and
five shares 10 thesfrst National Bank
| ia Framingham.
According to the Lyon Medical,
the late eminent German surgeon,
Frerichs, was rather tough man to
consult. He one day examined a
patient for an obscure malady, and,
recognizing the case as hopeless, dis
missed the Individual without a word.
But, Doctor, " said he, what is the
matter with me?" ''That," said Ere
rich, twill be settled by the autopsy"
| In Boston court Judge Allen adj,
ministered a severe rebuke to clergy
men who marry minors without the
consent of their parents, the case in
hand being a wife deserted by her
husband, and she was but fifteen
when the clergyman married them.
He said that the laws of marriage
| should be stringent and well enforced
If we would check the fearful tide Of
divorces.
Science has come to the aid of base
ball players, and announces for the
| benefit Of batsmen who are am bilious
| to make heavy hits that the ball
should be struck at an angle Of %
degrees IN order to send it the greatest
possible distance. Repeated expert
ments IN artillery have proved that a
ball hred from cannon at this angle
will carry further than if fired at any
other angle with like charge of pow
der.
4 "would- be poet" writes: ''Believ
ing [ possess q faculty for rhymiag, I
am ambitious to be poet. AS I have
heard q great deal about the poet
| license, l am anxious to know whether
or not it is necessary for ne TO take
out one Of these licenses, and, if it is,
where shall I apply for one" The
proper person to whom to apply for a
poetic license, 1t seems to us, says q
contemporary, is Walt Whitman. At
all events, he uses the poetic license
himself frequently, ana with remarks
able success, being able, through it's
aid, to make "Afghanistan" rhyme
with ''green cucumber"
The Grand Duke of Resse has just
paid to the lawyers of his morganatic
wife, Nine. de KaIomine, the first
quarterly installment Of the 10000
marks he had agreed to allow her an
nually. Nine. de Kalomine, through
her lawyers, has Indignantly refused
the payment, adding that he should
be ashamed to offer her pecuniary
recompense, and that she does not
wish him further to annoy her with
letters or offers of money.
During q very tedious ride on 8
Southern railroad the passengers,
tired, dirty, and thirsty, all berated
the company with the exception of
one single passenger. His fellow
passengers commented on this, and
asked him why he didn't denounce the
road too, ''It would be hardly fair"
he replied, ''as I am travelling on a
! free pass; but if they don't do better
pretty soon blame me if [ don't go out
and buy ticket and join you"
Hawaiian currency is not on a
heard from the poorer classes, who
are compelled to pay for clothing and
provisions Ia gold, but many of whom
receive their pay In silver or depreciat
ed paper. Some firms are honorable
enough to pay in gold, but it is notori-
GUS, observes the Hawaiian Gazette.
that the government invariably pays
its employees in the cheating cur
rency.
Mr. J. E. Carpenter, whose songs
have been known to the public for
welI-nigh half 2 century, died in En-
gland recently. He welded singus
larly prolific pen, and is said to have
published considerably over $500
songs. His What are the wild waves
sayIng?" founded on the incident of
Little Paul ia 'Dombey and Son"
was vastly popular fve-and-twenty
years ago, and, it is said, brought in
much gold to It's publisher.
A man named Bowen died in
Brooklyn thirty-two years ago, leavS
ing an estate valued at ST., 500, 900, to
be divided between three heirs by two
trustees. 1t has been in the courts
ever since, and now ali of the heirs,
two Of the lawyers and one of the
trustees are dead, the surviving trust
ee being more than ninty years of
age. An English Chancery Court
could hardly have done better.
& remarkable oil discovery recent
~ is that found in the Arago oil bas-
in, in Wyoming territory. In shaft
put down on the east side Of Bath
Creek to a depth of twelve feet oil
flows in of exceptionally high specific
gravity 1t is, when first exposed, of
a brownish color, and can be cut with
a knife like butter. It gradually
turns black or exposure, and has little
odor when it comes from the shaft.
A woman in Springfield, Ohio, has
invented and patented an overshoe of
cloth, which can be made nearly as
small as the ordinary shoe. The sole,
shank and heel is one piece. The
shoe is light. comfortable and warm.
She has also invented screw with
four~pointed heads, which screws into
the sole and prevents all danger of
slipping, either on the ice, car tops or
elsewhere.
The transition from the arm chair
to the easy chair was not made all at
once. When men and women want