Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-02
NEWS NUGGETS.

al of Mile Nevada to DIR. Palmer.
A pretty girl of Fayette county,
Pa, aged nineteen, has just marie
for the third time.
Prof. Dodge, of the agricultural
bureau, says there is not far from
100, ZOO, 600 bushels Of wheat in the
country now.
Grain men and lnillers IN Eastern
Washington Territory estimate the
surplus wheat for export from that
region at $50, 600 tons.
It is reported that the dominion
government has given instructions to
fit out small vessels for the protection
Of the gulf fisheries.
For calling the Conservative party
a "herd," the Triunfo newspaper, of
Havana, has been suspended by the
government for forty days.
An immense meteor has fallen at
Newburnside, Johnson county, ILL.,,
weighing a ton and half, and I'M
bedded in the ground several feet.
The Pittsburg authorities have dis
covered that the officials appointed
to collect Wharf tolls hasvo boon stea1-
ing cash by the thousand dollars.
The Roman Catholic bishops of
Canada have received permission from
Pope Leo XIII, TO estabiif b 8 semln~
airy in Rome for Canadian students.
At Washington Court House, Ohio,
the cOrn>felds are beng injured by
the ravages of the wire worm, and
the seventeen-year locusts are beng
plowed up.
Five hundred tons of fish are re-
quired daily TO supply London,
The greatest depth of the sea is sup
posed to be about five miles.
A woman is not OF full legal age
in PENNSYLVANIA until she is twenty
one.
The height of the taIlest mountain
inthe world is a little less than SIX
miles.
The assessed value of the real estate
and personal property of Pennsyl-
vania is 81, 683, 469, DIG.
Mosquitoes, flies and other pests will
not enter room IN which the castor
oil plant is growing, or, if they should
enter it, they are soon found dead be-
meath the leaves.
A double white rose Towering on a
red crab apple tree is one of the sights
of South birmingham, Mass.
Switzerland abolished capital pun
ishment q few years ago. but the eff
feet was bad, and the penalty was re-
stored.
Noy,,e ord h7,yio,,e, ,,oorr he I,oI,,oI
and ofttimes removed by the constant
employment of the oleate of copper,
spread as a plaster.
The newly discovered Lake Mistas-
sine, in Canada, is believed to be near
ly as large as Superio. It was frozen
over last winter
Can one man be a mob? a Yon-
kers, N. Y. man was ordered to dis
peFSe, and upon refusing TO 90 so he
was arrested. The legal experts de
eide that the law applying to mob Or
riotous gathering does not apply to
this Individual, who seems to have
been justified, therefore, in not dis
persing.
An Italian caught gathering cigar
stumps confessed TO New York re-
porter that he got 10 cents per pound
for them from a cigarette and cigar
maker. So if your cigarette should
be off in flavor it may be possibly due
to the bad teeth of the other fellow
who had taken a previous chaw at it.
The birds of Louisiana, papers of
that state say, will soon be exGermin~
ated The colored pieopIe there not
only make birds an article Of food,
but have begun to use their eggs for
the same purpose. The eggs of parts
ridges, robins, wrens, hooking birds,
and all others that they can get their
hands on are eaten.
On the banks of the Norbudda, in
India, stands celebrated banyan
tree, which is supposed to be that des-
cribed by Nearchus, the Admiral of
Alexander the Great. This tree once
covered an area so immense that it
has been known to shelter no fewer
than 1000 men. Though now much
power of foods, the remainder is still
nearly 1900 feet in circumference,
and the trunks, large and small, ex~
coed $4,000 IN number.
A lady in Brunswick, Ca, found
nest OF halt>grown hooking BIRDS IN
her yard recently. She succeeded in
capturing them They were put in
temporary cage and the cage put In a
room. During the day the mother
bird flew into the room, and was
readily caught and placed in the cage
with the brood. She began instantly
to feed them with the food which was
in the cage, and did not seem to notice
the imprisonment. On the day fol-
lowing the male bird flew into the
room, and offered no resistance nor
showed any signs of fight when the
lady captured him. He was put into
the same cage, and the lady now has
the entire family They seem con-
tented and happy.
You May talk about the uncouth
Western man with hay-seed In his
hair, but a Boston man rather Grip
pied the frontier notion the other
night at the Columbia Theatre. He
went in. ACCOMPANIED bv two