Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
@EANINGS.

of Bannock Stake.
A worm which thirty years ago de-
stroyed many of the pine trees in
North Carolina is again making havoc
this season.
All the towns and cities of the State
of Massachusetts, are obliged to give
school books and all other supplies to
the pupils free.
One hundred and ninety-two bread
fruits have been gathered from sin
gle tree. The average weight of each
fruit is over two pounds.
According to q correspondent Rev.
w. II. II. Murray, as an oyster cook is
a success. His cafe is conducted on
strictly temperance plan, and they say
he is making money.
Tho daughter of the king of Neither
lands bids fair to be one of the richest
women in Europe. She inherited from
her brother $4,000 and the wealth
of her father is immense.
The New Orleans Picagatne warns
people who contemplate seeking en-
ployment in that city on account of the
Exposition boom, that their chances of
securing it will be very small.
The greatest sleight-of-ha perform
ers were Hebrews Hazlemyer, Hartz,
Heller, Jacobs, Philippe, Hermann,
and Adrian. Biltz, one of the most
popular, was an Episcopalian.
A correspondent of the London Lam
Get says that, owing to the difficulty of
obtaining human skin to graft over
graduating wounds, he is using the
skin of frogs with great success.
Athletes, professional trainers, hunt
ers, mountaineers, all physically strong
and perfect men, habitually breathe
through the nostrils. This is claimed
to be the reason for their freedom from
colds.
The time-lock is not, as is generally
supposed, an American invention. The
first time-lock was made in England in
1881, but American mechanics have
brought the device to its present state
of perfection.
Among the Geauga County records
at Chardon, Ohio, is a musty old book,
containing the license permitting Brig
ham Young and Mary Ann Angel-his
first wife-to enter into lawful wedlock.
The document is dated February 10,
1884.
Mrs Lucy Stone, in speaking of what
has been done in Massachusetts, says
that idiots, lunatics, felons and women
are the only persons who have not the
right to vote in that state. The women
are working to elevate themselves from
the category of fools and criminals.
The police in all parts of England are
making raids upon bakers, and taking
legal proceedings in cases where the
bread has been sold deficient in weight.
There is a widespread feeling that the
profits of bakers are unusually high Just
now, owing to the low price of wheat.
A St. Louis man has discovered that
catfish skin makes elegant leather, and
proposes to get out a patent and make
a fortune. He uses it for everything,
for shoe-laces to slippers, cabas, pocket
books and fancy pocket-case covers.
The leather is light grey in color, very
soft and tough.
The County of Los Angeles has in
creased in population faster than any
other county in California, having
gained 31,6f9 souls in the last four
years. No other county in the state
has gained half as much. The fineneSs
of the climate and richness of the soil
are given as the reason.
The second thimble centenary has
just been celebrated in Amsterdam.
The first thimble was made in October,
1854, by goldsmith, Van Renscholten
whose idea in the manufacture of the
pretty conceit was to protect the fingers
of his ladyloye. The English were the
first to adopt the new invention.
An Arizona editor thus pays his re-
spects to his neighbor: The miserable
scarecrow who tries to edit our dis
esteemed contemporary, is lying, as
usual. We don't want the Post0tfice,
but we are in the hands of our friends:
and by the eternal they'll see that we
get it, whether we want it or not"
There is in New Grenada a curious
vegetable product known under the
name of the ink-plant. It's juice can be
used IN writing without any previous
preparation. The letters traced with
it are of reddish color first, but turn
deep black in a few hours The Juice
also spoils steel pens less than common
ink.
As age petals his brow NIT goos
knowledges of der vorldt, Tommy goes
out to pattle it. From early shildhoot
oop he vas shuck full NIT merriments,
und he vas wride all dis tings down,
he vas gone on der newspaper pishness
und many of diem wood hate found a
CRATE yart out, ofer it don't vas been
for him.-CGrL PretzeJ.
Berrian County, Georgia, has a
''crank," who has not slept in a house
since the war. He carries his entire
wardrobe with him, as well as his pan
try and kitchen utensils, and spends the
night wherever darkness may overtake
him. He,never reads the newspapers,
saying that to read the Bible as it
should be requires all his time.
Charles Dunsler, a blacksmith of
Leesville, Ohio, has made a clock,
mostly with blacksmith's tools, which
has excited considerable comment in