Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-25
sQUIBS.

Ohio Pentitentiary.
A cremation society has been Or
ganized in Kansas City.
Eight thousand dollars worth of
diamonds which had been stoler were
recovered IN Chicago.
It is said there are only about a
dozen wooden houses IN London.
A ranchman in Montana has dog
which can pick out cattle with his
brand from all others.
The famous Partisan bury ying>ground
now has over $4,000 tombs, mauso-
leHms, and memorial stones within
its limits.
A Michigan rooster is going round
with a brood of chickens Matched by
himself while his wife was absent
looking after grain futures.
Victor Hugo once defined paradise
as "a place where parents will always
be young, and children always little. y
A Montezuma lady said to her
young hopeful: johnnie, why
don't you rock the baby? You'd let it
squeal its life out" Il would if I
could" why, Johnnie! Want
your little brother to die 2" "Well,
wouldn't it be good deal better fur
him to be up in heaven flynn around
than to be Iayin' squealin' in that
ere cradle?"
Cottages are not renting rapidly at
Newport this year, and $4,000 year
places are renting for 81, 500, and the
reaI-estate market is altogether de
pressed. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, Mr. and Mrs. William Astor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre LorillarI, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Goelet, and, indeed,
all the old-timers will be there; but
Of the class who take a cottage for
this season, and who may be in
Europe or California next season,
there will be very few examples.
General Grant intends to start for
Mt. McGregor on the morning of
Tuesday, June %, IN President Rut.
ter's private car, on the Hudson River
Railroad. This car will run to Sara
toga, but there General Grant will
have to change cars for the road to
Mt. McGregor is a narrow gauge. His
family and DR.. Douglas will accom-
pany him.
There are 412 different species OF
trees in the American forests.
A son of a Mr.. Robbins, of Fish
Creek, is 81 years old and only weighs
about thirty~three pounds. He talks,
walks, looks and acts like grown
man, and is about the height of q
common Swear old child. His parents
have had several offers for him, but
they will not let him 90 ON exhi
bition for fear some one will steal
him.
Two Irishmen named Moore, living
at Cavan in the greatest poverty, have
suddenly found themselves possessed
of large fortune. It seems their half
brother emigrated to Baenos Ayres
some forty years ago, and has just
died, leaving $3.50, 600, three>fourths
of which he has bequeathed to his
brothers, after deaucting some trifing
legacies.
Rhode Island is the smallest State
in the Union, but she boasts of being
| first in respect of manufactured pro,
ducts according to population. Rhode
Island makes 1878. on worth of manu-
features for every one of her inbabi,
tants, while Mississippi makes only
Sc 81, Or in the ratio of 81 to $56.18
Taking the area instead of the popula
ton, the contrast is even greater
Rhode Island produces $79,757.75 pei
square mile, while Mississippi pro
duces only $15e. .43-about 500 to 1
Rhode Island may congratulate her
self upon being SO small that there i:
no room for waste land within hel
boundaries.
To those who remember the ole
9risI mill, with it's single or double
run of stone, it's lazy wheel, and the
miller who was boss and all hands
the feat of one of the great Minneapo
lis mills ia turning out 5000 barrels
of flour Ia one day seems to mark as
great an advance in mechanical ap'
pliances and business enterprise as
can be shown in any manufacture s.
A correspondent writes to the Sci
entifc American describing an acci
dent, by which 10-year- old girl had
two upper teeth knocked out. She
was taken to the dentist, who replaced
the teeth and strapped up the jaw.
For two days she could scarcely
speak, and no solid food was allowed,
but the operation was successful, and
the teeth are as firmly set as ever.
The teeth are a little Clipped, but
later on when it is safe to work On
them, they can be patched Up with
gold and be about as good as ever they
were.
A roller rlnk patron has been fgur-
ing some on roller skating and finds
that there are In round numbers 80, :
600 rinks in the United States. Allow
ing six persons to each rink as fair
estimate for the force necessary to
manage the concerns, there are 1885,
900 employees attached to the rinks.
Then there are 80, 600 to 40, 900 pair of
skates sold each week; turned out
from 500 establishments which keep
200, 900 hands at work. Adding these