Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

The battle of Hastings, which gave
he English crown to William the
Conqueror, and at which Harold, the
last of the Saxon Kings was killed,
occurred IN the year 1866.
The New England Conservatory of
Music, Boston, Mass. is the oldest In
America It attracted TO lis halls last
year 1878 students from ffty-fve
states, territories, provinces and for
elgn countries.
Forty Moors sent out by their gov
ment 10 study the manufacture of
ereecn- Loading guns, are coming to
the United States, and will enter the
employ Of various arms>manufactur-
ing concerns.
However reluctant Lord Salisbury
might have been to take office until
after election, he has a wife who
thought six months premiership in
the hand worth six years one in the
possible future.
In the winter hotel at Opalacochie.
Fla, there is & trained alligator who
appears around the grounds OF the
establishment and allows himself to
be shot at for certain sum q shot,
provided the guests aim at him. He
mas never been wounded.
A maiden lady who has a chair
which she claims came over in the
Mayfower would not speak to a
friend who asked her if she came
over with it.
One of the queerest sheets of water
in Maine is called Shows Ocean. It
is little pend in Orington, near
Bangor, and it's peculiarly is that,
although situated away up ameng
some hills on the bank of the Penob-
scot, it rises and falls as regularly as
does the river.
A Kingston, Ga, man has curl
osIty in the way of fowl. It is a
cross between a turkey asd guinea,
and it is between the size of a turkey
and guinea, and it makes strange
noise more like a dog barking than
anything else.
The following appears in London
paper: London season. A lady of
good position, without children, Of
fers to take charge of a young lady of
good family, and present her to wide
circle of the very best of society, this
season. Exceptional advantages of
fered. Terms, $500. ALI communi-
cations confidential. Address" etc.
It is said that the third costliest
building in the world is the New
York State Capitol. Started under a
legislative limitation of 81, 600, 900, it
has already cost nearly $18,0OO,O00,
or more than the national capitol
building at Washington. Six or seven
millions more will be required to
finish it.
A man, his wife and three children
reached Ipswich, D. IT,, last week,
from the State of New York, having
travelled the entire distance on foot,
the head of the family pushing a
hand cart that carried all their world
ly possessions. They were in search
of free lands.-Omaha (Neb.) Bee.
Mrs. Melody was arrested for
locking her husband out at midnight.
When the magistrate asked her what
she had to say about it she replied:
'Well, your honor, I'm dimmycrat
and my old man voted for Blaine, and
shure [ turned him out for offensive
partisanship. Begorra, that's the
shtoile now" The magistrate, being
a civilrservice reform democrat, dis
charged the women.
In Ecuador there is a church, it is
said, for every $50 inhabitants; and
10 per cent. of the population are
priests, monks or nuns. The priests
control the Government in all its
branches, and 272 days of the year
are observed as feast or fast days.
Onesfourth of all the property belongs
to the church. Seventy-fve per cent.
OF the people can neither read nor
write
A tall, lank man boarded an out
going western train near the stock
yards. He looked like farmer, and
there was an odor of cattle cars about
his clothes. He walked through the
car and looked all about for a seat,
but nobody stirred to make room for
him. A drummer was spread over
two seats, and awoman and her two
children over three. Several men
occupied a whole seat apiece. The tall
lank man gazed up and down the car
a moment and then exclaimed:
"Well, by gosh, I cum up to Chic
ago with a load o. hogs, bat I'll be
darned if I thought I'd have ter ride
home with load, too"