Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
NOTES BY THE WAY.

100, COO French Canadians.
Boston uses 1886 street lamps, of
which 401 are electric and 2, 591 oil.
Marion Harland (Mrs. Terhune, of
Newark, is about fifty years of age.
There are in the United States 81, ;
600, ,00O,O 900 of watered railway stocks.
The salary of lady IN waiting to
Queen Victoria is 81, 500 per annum.
Telephone subscribers in Mazatlan,
Mexico, pay an annual rental of only
S. per phone.
A Frenchman who loves his wife
calls her his darling cabbage" or his
little blue rabbit" d"
Mirrors of 100 square feet surface
are now manufactured in France with
but little difficulty.
It has been SAID that swallows and
sparrows forsake a district when
cholera is about to appear,
The United States patent office did
a larger business during April than it
ever did IN any previous month. The
applications for patents were 8, 159 and
the fees $100,64O.
Oregon is suffering from drouth.
Every day of delay" says the Ore
gonian, ''costs $1,000
A matchmaker IN Milwaukee has
trained a common canary bird to
sing faultlessly 1--WE Won't Go Home
Til Morning"
All the principal daily papers in
Mexico now take the daily telegraphic
news report of the New York Associ-
ated Press.
During the past 26 years more resi-
dents of Massachusetts, committed
suicide than fell ia battle during the
en- ire war.
Protection, in the way of mail sub
si9ies, cost Great Britain last year.
nearly $1,250,000 1uore than the
amount received for postage.
The richest coIored man IN Phila-
delphia is John Mckee, a real estate
dealer, who is estimated to be worth
between $500, 900 and 100000.
Railway loans constitute almost the
entire Prussian debt of &274, ,444, 100.
The charge on this debt amounts to
81, ,25O, 900 for interest.
The current of Lake Erie has an
effect upon the adjacent shores sufi-
clent to make the spring season from
two to four weeks earlier in and
around Toledo than at Buffalo.
Maurice Kingsley, son of Charles
Kingsley, the English writer, is about
to settle in New Haven for the purpose
of educating his children. He pos
sesses a fortune, made in Colorado
silver mines.
M. Lauth, OF Sevres, has, after ten
years of experimentation, produced a
porcelain far superior to the famous
old Sevres. It will take all kind of
glazes, and is susceptible of the highest
kinds of decoration.
One of the new laws of Nebraska
prohibits the marriage Of divorced
persons within six months after the
granting Of the decree, in order to
allow time 30 be g1veD for setting
aside said decree by proper legal pro-
ceedings.
San Francisco city hall is furnished
with water from a reservoir placed on
the roof. Recently several very large
and many small fish were discovered
IN the tank, although it is shown that
none We're ever put in there by any
person.
In 1859 the whole of the congreea-
tional contributions to the Presbyter-
ian church in Great Britain were
$400, 900, while in 1883 they reached
1866, 799, more than half of which was
given by congregations that were not
In existence in 1859.
During the first year of the Crimean
war the value of exports of farm pro-
ducts Of this country increased from
$33, 500, 900 the previous year to S67.-
100000. The following year the value
was $42, 500, 900, and IN 1856 we ex-
ported breadstuffs amour ting to ST.
csc, ass.
Among catfish it is not the mother
fish which takes care of the eggs and
young, but the male or father fish.
He not only guards and matches out
the eggs, but also, after the Matching,
takes a paternal interest in his some
what yoracious as well as numerous
brood or school of ''kittens.' y
In order to reach Northwest India
it is proposed to construct Trans
Arabian railway from Port Said to
Koweit Harbor, on the Persian Gulf.
q distance of l, 600 miles. The esti-
mated cost is $50, 900 per mile. It is
deemed an important undertaking as
a checkmate to the Central Asian
railway scheme cow being pushed by
Russia.
Clara Morris is a Canadian. She
was born IN Montreal thIrty~fve
years ago. Having lost her father,
she became a ballet~girl in the Cleve-
land Academy of Music in that city
at ffteen, to support her mother. She
rose SO rapidly IN her profession that
at nineteen she was leading lady in
one Of the Cincinnati theatres. The
year following she was engaged at
Days.
In a mine in Grass valley, Cal,
that had for many years been flooded,
it was found upon renewing operas
tons recently, that drill hole in a