Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-16
MISSING LINKS,

ID tIlC largest ever kuOWu.
A melon on a shrub is the latest
fruit novelty reported from Califor-
MA
The walls of several of the British
war ships are constructed out of pa
per.
Cape May County, N. j., pays a
bounty of five cents on every GROW
scalp"
The four Senators from South Caro-
lima and Arkansas have only FIVE legs
under them.
Tombstone front" is the term ap-
piled to ''b2led" shirt by the poetic
citizens of Arizona.
A large diamond ring was swallow
ed recently by -year-old boy, of
Stockton, Cal.
The average value of horses in Mas
sachusetts Is greater than in any
state in the Union.
Sixty-three varieties of grapes are
growing on the grounds of a physician
at Lake City, Fla.
The Mormon Church has more mis-
sionaries than the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
In Saco mill man sawed 49. 100
feet of boards in one day, beating the
record.
The ties and wood fuel used by the
railroads of the United States, cost
annually about s25, 100000.
The largest vineyard in the world
is in California, and contains between
100000 and a, 1000, 600 vines.
The authorities of Dalton, Ca, have
prohibited marble playing upon the
public thoroughfares of the town.
The southern part of Africa has
70, 900 tame ostriches, producing S.
600, 900 worth of feathers annually.
The advertisement of a Nebraska
tailor reads: ga complete stock of
suitings and paintings is offered for
sale. "
The criminal court of Douglas
county, Oregon, complains that it has
not had case before it since this time
last year.
Swans have beea known to live to
the age of 800 years. and Cuvier
thinks it probable that whales some
times live 1000 years.
About a hundred marriages between
Christian and Calnese couples are
reported as having taken place in the
San Francisco Mission Chapel.
The moistest climate known is in
India, at Cherrapongee, where over a
small area the yearly fall of rain is
more than 610 inches, or about 81
feet.
The ages of a jury of twelve men
impaneled at Woodland, Cal, recent
~, aggregated 763 years, an average
of over sixty three years for each
man.
Some journalists say that 10000
writers are employed on the 800
daily newspapers published in the
United States.
Near Salisbury, Md, there reside
six sisters whose aggregate weight is
1,116 pounds. The largest tips the
beam at 216 pounds.
Louisville papers assert that not
gambling house is now operated in
that city. The Chief of Police gave
them the choice between closing up or
being raided.
A bottle Of medicine was prescribed
to Toledo man, with direction to
take a "teaspoonful in water three
times a day" He took it daily in
his bath tub-and got well.
A coal dealer suggested that prem-
ium be offered to the housekeeper who
can exhibit the largest pile Of ashes
during the wiAter aud spring.
The remains of Thomas Parr lie
buried in Westminster Abbey for no
other reason than that he was the old~
est man Great Britain had ever pro-
duced, so far as known.
A two.year-old child in Macon, Ca,
is exciting 10 little interest as music
al prodigy by her singing, and also
the playing of her own accompani
ment on the piano.
The Bible Church, of Sanford, En-
gland, makes vegetarianism as well
as teetotalism and total abstinence
from tobacco an essential condition of
it's church and membership.
A Mansfield, Conn, lady has par
rot which was brought from Mexico
thirty-three years ago by Captain
Henry Allen, of New Haven. The
bird has been shipwrecked three
times.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of
San Francisco has raised $4,000 to-
ward an Episcopal residence, and hope
soon to obtain sufficient money for
handsome house for Bishop Fowler.
At the last official reception given
by President Grevy, of France, some
young fashionables, who thought to
Introduce scarlet neckties for evening
dress, were summarily elected from
the Elysee Palace.
Crawford, Ga, boasts of negro
who can neither read, write or figure,
yet who can correctly multiply any
two figures up to one hundred as
rapidly as they can be given out to
him.
Treasure hunters have found en-