Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-15

The state of Nevada will be twenty
one years old next month.
The Gar eats only one meal day
and is afraid TO eat that.
A Colorado paper says that game is
rapidly disappearing from that state.
a negro and native of Japan are
among the freshmen of Williams col
lege this year.
la Massachusetts, pneumonia has,
since 1857, grown almost twice as fas'
as the population.
! Tie Mother-in-Iaw is the name
of a paper started by some ladies in
Puebla, Mexico.
Nancy Barrett, colored woman,
died IN Hickman county, Tennessee,
last week, at the advanced age of
1876.
A man at cambridge, Ca, was seiz-
ed with spell OF sneezing few days
ago which lasted for eleven hours.
A Pennsylvania farmer has a to-
mato stalk that measures twelve feet
IN length and has eighty-fve per-
feet tomatoes on it.
The Central park authorities in
New York paint the obelisk with
parratine to protect it from the disinte-
grating climatic effects.
A P Philadelphia druggist has forty
defective prescriptions, which he has
received from reputable physicians
during the last six moths.
Less than four out of each hundred
Am orleans lived in cities in 1890. The
city population had increased in 1S40
to s per cert, and is now %.
The Superior Court of North Caro-
lima has decided that railroad COM
pany cannot force a passenger to ride
in smoking car if he objects to smok-
ing.
Mr.. Keppler, the father of Joseph
Keppler, the caricaturist of Puck, lives
in Howard County, Mo.
Statistics show that England is in
creasing her population ten times as
fast as France and Spain.
The loss IN Kansas this year from
hog cholera will foot up million dol
lars or more.
Chill has control of the Straits of
Magellan, and the country called
Patagonia is wiped off the map.
The amount annually paidt to school
teachers in the United States is $780,
900, 900, an average Of about $500
apiece.
Real Italian opera by real Italians
has made decided success in San
Francisco with the price of admission
only % cents.
One of the large English war vessels
the Resistance, is to be coated with
India rubber to considerable thick
ness, to see how that material will
repel projectiles.
Detached" dog collars are the lat~
est feminine folly. The dogs wear
them in the morning, and then they
are detached" and worn by the lady
in the afternoon.
The Provincial Bank of Buenos
Ayres has a capital of S33, 900, 600,
and deposits amounting to $98, 000,.
0C0. These figures are not equaled by
any United States bank.
A new technical school has been es>
tablished in Springfield, Mass,-the
first of its kind in the country, or, in
deed, in the world. It IS a School
for Christian Work ers."
Most of thegcamels in the menager-
les now come from Bastrop County,
Texas, and are the descendants of the
nerd imported by the government for
use IN army transportation.
The American drummers have
agreed not to pay sleeping car port
ers gratuities any more. 1t is calcu~
lated that this will make a difference
to the aggregate of porters of $780,
900 year.
The fifty families that compose the
population of Greenwich, Va, are all
from England, and maintain their
native manners. One resident is
niece and annuitant of Dickens
Cheeryble Brothers.
Lord Lansdowe's official reception
at Winnipeg was ''boycotted by
many of the residents because even
ing dress was insisted upon and two
entrances were provided, one for the
nobs and another for the common
herd.
An Oregonian has invented a
machine that is death to squirrels. It
is a pair Of bellows made to blow the
fumes of burning rags and sulpher
into their holes, and If ever the squir-
rels come out they are dead when
they do so.
A resident of Seading, Pa, on July
9, in housing wheat, accidently Gov
cred up a chicken in the grain. The
chickn was taken out On Monday of
last week, and was found alive after
an Imprisonment of seventy~three
days.
A tender-hearted mother in Athens
Ga, has brought up large family
without ever subjectirg one of its
members to the discipline of the slip
per or the rod. The only punishment
she administered was dose of castor
oil and rhubarb.
The prcctice of writing political
sentiments on walls. benches, and
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