Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-01
GLEANlNGS.

A canary died In Connecticut agec
twenty-five years.
Mrs. McElroy, the Presidents sis
ter, will go to the White House mex
week.
The Lords Pray er engraved on one
side of gold dollar makes popular
charm.
They have a good joke on John
Roach, says the Detroit Free Press.
lie has for years been chock-full OF
1.-The pauper wages of Europe" but
the last cut Ia his ship yards dropped
wages 5 per cent below anything
paid in England for twenty-five
years.
Mrs. Lucy Hamilton Hooper, who
is always ready to rush to the rescue
of her sex, denies from personal
knowledge the story of Mile. Van
Zandt's drunkenness, and pronounces
the attacks of the Paris press on the
prima donna 'Ebrutal, low minded and
cowardly."
A New Haven man has taught a
two-year-old colt to pick of the brush
and attempt to brush himself. What
a god, send to hostlers it would be if
somebody would invent a brush
which horses could manipulate upon
themselves. It would give the over
worked barn man more time TO attend
10 the serious business of life, which
in cold weather IS sitting by the
kitchen fire counting the cook.
When Mark Twain appeared before
his Buffalo audience the other even
ing he scanned them carefully. He
then said that he missed many faces
that he knew well fourteen or fifteen
years ago. "They have gone," he
added, sadly, gone to the tomb, to
the gallows or to-the White House.
All of us must go to one or the other
of these destinations, and it behooves
to be wise and prepare for all"
A writer in the Plttsburg Dispatch,
noting the fact that large proper
ton of the good newspaper reporters
of the day are from country towns,
says: "One thing that is in favor of
the country boy is that things in the
city are strange to HIM, attract his at
tention, whereas one used to them
every day would not notice them at
all. City hoys are apt to want to
write editorials at the start IF they
can't do that they study law or medi-
cine, or play pool"
Philadelphia S great city nall, begun
many years ago, is not yet completed
The great tower is now about $50 feet
high, and when completed it will be
537 feet 4 inches, The tallest structure
in the world except the Washington
cbelisk. The building is of white
marble, 1856 feet inches by 40 feet
IN site, Covering Al acres of ground,
with $40 big rooms and total of 141
acres of floor room. It is to have a
big clock with diaIs 90 feet in diane
ter, and if they get off with bill of
costs of $40, 10000 the taxpayers will
rejoice.
Not only are there letter carriers in
the large cities of England, but in the
towns and villages, and even ia the
rural districts, letters are delivered
direct to the houses of their recipients.
Formerly the letter carriers went their
rounds afOot, but now all those in the
rural districts have been provided by
the government with trIcycles, which
Iun excellently on the admirable
roads of England. These carriers also
take with them stock of stamps and
stamped envelopes for registered let
tiers, to sell TO the people who live at
3 considerable distance from the
Office.
At a small French village named
AnberiEe, in the Department of Isere,
lives a woman named Marie Durand,
whose age is said to be 1913 years.
What is claimed to be the certificate
of her baptism declares that she was
born on MAJ ch Is, 1761 She belongs
to the peasant class and lives on pub
lie charity. She has been widow for
forty-six years.
Arab Bey and his fellow exiles in
Ceylon complain of i'll treatment.
They pleaded guilty on the distinct
understanding that If their country
was confscated they would receive an
adequate allowance to support them
selves and their families ia exile.
Two governors of Ceylon have sue
cessively declared that their allowance
not adequate. But the Egyptian
government refuses to increase it.
Lieutenant Schwatka TANKS Alaska
is a good investment for the United
States. 1t already pays nearly per
cent. interest on the purchase money
of 81, 600, GEO, and it has great future
before it. The coast line is greater
than all the rest of the United States;
its chief river would reach from Salt
Lake to New York bay, and, in short,
this explorer thinks that Alaska has
an inexhaustible store of timber in the
south and facilities On. the Aleutian
Islands to furnish beef for a score of
San Franciscos. In other word,
ALASKA is bonanza.
The height of the principal struc-
lures IN the world is as follows: Wash
ington monument, $50 feet; Cologne
cathedral, 513 feet: pyramid of Cheops,
495 feet; St, Peters at Rome, 4S5 feet;
st. Paul's in London, 465 feet; St.
Marks at Venice, 32S feet, and the