Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-25
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.


A physician of Hamm0nton, n. j.,
has four sons who have adopted the
medical profession.
Vaccination is carried out SO strict
ly in the Prussian army that not a
soldier has died of smallpox since
1875.
So far fifty one persons have com
mitted suicide on account of losses at
the Monte Carlo gaming tables this
season.
Iowa has thirty five and nine-tenths
cattle to the square mile.
Lord Tennyson is writing another
historical drama as a sequel 10
Beckett"
Calcutta is the second largost3tea ex-
porting city in the world, the leading
being Foochow.
Blacksnakes are stripping the gov
eminent fish ponds near Washing
ton of their flnny occupants.
The electric light has not proved a
success in lighting the Leeds Public
Library, and gas has been substituted.
The United States are said to con-
sumo more lemons than all other
countries combined.
There are seven hundred Chinese
scholars in twenty nine New York
| Sunday schools.
In Boise valley, Idaho, it is estimat-
ed 500, 900 of fruit was destroyed by
the late frosts.
Prof. Agassiz's oldest son takes
more to fields than to books, and he
owns an extensive sheep rancho in
| Colorado.
In Boston II 1890 quart of rum
cost the same SIS poUnd Of coffee
to wit, shilling q pence, and IN some
old account books it appears that both
were ustd in the household in about
| the same proportions.
A baby 2 months old and weighing
only FIVE pounds is the latest sensa-
ton at Los Angeles, Cal.
A New York banker suggests that
as a precaution against embezzle-
ment every bank should have an
album containing the photographs OF
every employe from President to JAM,
itor.
| A little girl in New Orleans was
recently stung by bee on the bali of
one of her eyes, the sting causing the
lsight to be utterly destroyed.
| Sturgeon from Lake Ontario are
said to be manufactured into smoked
halibut to as great an extent as the
real article.
There was never any law enacted
authorizing the use of sc Pluribus
Unum" upon United Statesscoin or
paper currency.
A sanitary association formed on
modern prir ciples was established
two years ago ID Japan, and now has
over 5, 600 members.
The negroes in Macon, Ga, are
greatly excited IN consequence of the
number of cases of insanity occurring
among them within the past month.
The horse which General Grant
rode the day Lee surrendered is own
ed Ia Vernon, Oneida County, n. Y,
and marched in the procession on
Decoration Day this year.
The dies from which the first Unit
ed States cents. those coined in New
Haven and called the Franklin, were
cast are now used as paper weights in
a counting>room at New Haven.
i Miss May King (Kin YameD grad
uated at the Woman's Medical Col
lege of the New York Infrmary,
Friday. She is the first Chinese
woman ever granted degree Of
| M. D. IN this country.
| The English Admiralty has order
| ed that all the guns of every vessel
leaving Chatham shall be supplied
with arrangements for beirg diss
charged by electricity, and that sew
eral of the larger ships will be pro,
vided with the electric light.
i The vital statistics Of Washington
show that the death rate of the color
ed population is so per cent greater
than the death rate of the whites.
The Jewelers. Circular says that
never i'll the history of jewelry in this
country have colored stones, both
gems and semi-precious stone, been
more IN request than now.
bduI3 JOu ak IlcO DolcOb. w Ii Y
did you put all the good peaches on
| top Of the measure, and the little ones
| below?" "Same reason, sab, dat
/ makes de front of your house marble
and the back gate chiefly slop bari,
sah."
Professor John Ogden, q scientist,
and one of the new settlers of McTn-
tosh County, Kansas, sees the posi-
bility of utilizing the steady winds of
| the prairie, and predicts that in time
they will be used to drive machinery
for all sorts Of purposes.
a curious discovery was made re-
Gently when a lightning rod, which
had been in place fifteen years, en-
bedded in soft clay, was removed.
There was found attached to it solid
lump OF iron ore weighing ninety six
pounds, supposed to have been pro
duced by the conversion of the CLAW
by the action of electricity
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