Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-09
ILEANINGS.

Froude, the historian. thinks of MAX
ing journey around the world.
Germany is beginning to grumble at
the enormous expense of the standing
army.
The funniest thing about Mark
Twain's new lecture is the receipts at
the box office.
The deficit of the last Worlds Expo
sition, held at Paris, was upward of
S6,000,000. and that of Vienna, in 1873,
was over S9,000,000.
Wooden shoes, of the old Dutch type.
are now made at Danbury, Conn. They
are of butternut, and while impervious
to water are very light.
In Southern Alaska rain falls during
three days OF the week. The other four
days are damp and foggy. The winters
are comparatively mild.
Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Min
lister of Canada, predicts that the Can
ada Pacific Railroad will be completed
to the Pacific Ocean by October, 1886.
A malicious scribe started the story
that daughter of Emma Abbott is to
be married shortly. As if Emma were
old enough to have manageable
daughter.
Large numbers of dried and smoked
lizards are imported by the Chinese
physicians, which are used in cases of
consumption and anamia with consid-
cradle success.
The beginning of the Christian era is
not so very remote, after all. Theodore
Parker once said that eighteen old men
touching each others hands carried us
back to Christ.
''Do nothing; say nothing; time will
put everything to rights" is Emperor
Williams invariable answer when one
member of his family comes to COM
plain of another
There is a cat in Philadelphia which
gets up its back, claws, and splits every
time it hears ''Sweet Violets" In the
opinion OF the Call there is good deal
of human nature in cats
A party of beaver hunters sent two
large beavers to Griffin, Ca, where
they were exposed on sale at the butch
er shops, the meat being regarded by
experienced epicures as very fine.
The, following thrilling sentence is
taken from recently published society
novel: ''FOr a whole quarter of an hour
the young man gazed thoughtfully in
the flame of the eXtinguished candle"
An Italian woman in New York cele-
brated the day before Christmas by eat
ing porous plaster which had been
prescribed for her arm. She didn't
know any other way to take it, and she
found its internal application both I'M
comfortable and dangerous.
The plaster model for a heroic-sized
statue of the late S. S. Stone, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been completed. The
statue will be of granite. 1t will sur
mount a monument now being built in
Lake View Cemetery, which, when fin
ished, viii be in the form of sarco-
phagus. The monument when COM
plete will be twenty-five feet in height.
The Yukon River, in Alaska, is so
long, says Lieutenant Schwatka, that
if its source were at Salt Lake its wa
ters might empty into New York Bay,
and it's mouth is so wide that New York
would be one side and Philadelphia on
the other. Alaska has a coast line
greater than that of all the rest of the
United States, adding together the At
lantic, Gulf and Pacific Seaboards.
A chemist of Munich has invented a
process whereby a white powder, which
has all the properties of quinine, may
be produced from coal. Railways hap
pens this way. Just about the time a
product of nature becomes so essential
that apprehension is excited lest the
natural supply may fail, or its price be-
come so high that the poorer man can
not buy it, somebody comes to the res
cue with a sufficient recourse.
The place where William Tell shot
the apple from his sons head-provid-
ed the incident ever really took place
is now called Altorf and is one mile
from the head of Lake Luzerne. The
site of the tree under which, Schiller
says, the boy stood, is marked by
huge square monument sixty feet high,
the sides of which are adorned with
paintings that are more suggestive than
artistic. On the spot where Tell stood
is now a large white statue of the Swiss
patriot in the act of drawing his bow.
We heard the other day of a belliger-
ent gander in the flock of j. T. Steph-
ems, Carroll County, which met with
singular accident three weeks ago.
Making fight at heifer in the lot he
seized her by the forehead, when the
heifer, by dexterOus turn of a horn,
struck the gander's neck and cut out
the windpipe, leaving it hanging down
like a snout. The old gander's wound
healed over with the windpipe still
hanging out, through which he breathes,
and he seems to be as hearty as ever,
though not as belligerent as before
Norman (GG. J Herald.
In Persia, long ago, they had cheer
full and efectual manner of Furnishing
criminals. For stealing, death was the
penalty. Two young trees were by
main strength brought together attheir
SUBMITS and then fastened together
with cords. The culprit was then
brought out and his legs tied with
ropes, which were again carried up and