Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
GLEANINGS.

Little girls in India wear gold rings
in their noses.
A prize of 5000 has been offered for
every comet discovered.
W. III. Morton, of Athens, Ga, has a
hen that lays two eggs at a time.
The horse, says writer, cannot
jump more than twenty-seven feet.
Wildcats are becoming the terror of
settlers along the Lost River in Idaho.
Residents of the Hub, claims Bos-
ton man, are nervous because of a pc
culiarity in the temperature.
There are $4,000 veterans going
through the world on wooden legs who
lost their limbs in the great war of the
rebellion.
The women of Turkey wear the same
kind of trousers as the men all the year
round, save when they attend ball or
upon state occasions.
Over three thousand women are en-
ployed in the railway offices in Austria.
They get from S15 to $50 month.
Nearly all of them are widows of men
who have died in railroad service.
In China, according to the CormhilJ
4H0g0z6aoe, they value eggs according
to their age. All eggs are put in pickle.
After several years they become black
throughout. The egg of wealth and
luxury in the fiowery Kingdom is forty
or fifty years old.
The editor of a Russian daily thus
explained the frequent hiatuses in its
appearance: 1.-The paper is often in
want of information, often in want of
writers, and in want of money, and
sometimes, when it has all these, it is
in want of readers"
The English language is not studied
in France on the assumption that the
French vernacular is destined to be-
come the universal tongue. Recently,
published figures, however, prove that
the number of French-speaking people
is declining and that French is not now
spoken by more than so, 900, 900, where
as English is rapidly spreading and is
already known to upward of $50, OOO,-
900.
1t is stated on good authority that
no watch will keep the same time with
different people. This is curiouslv at
wearer, and it is claimed that even the
mere physical difference in gait and
movement between people will affect
the keeping of absolutely accurate time
The magnetism of the wearer is also
supposed to affect the time-registering
machinery of watches.
An artifice employed by the milk
maids some hundred years ago in order
to obtain the milk from new mich
COWS was the ''tulchan." 1t was calf
skin, stuffed out to resemble a calf,
with head bent forward. This rude
similitude of a calf was brought out at
milking time, and while the cow stood
quietly gazing around at the supposed
calf eeside her the artful milkmaid on
the other side was securing the milk
which the unsuspecting cow was re-
serving for her calf.
The entire industry of Mittenwald,
town in Bavaria, shut in by snow-clad
mountains and dense forests, for two
centuries has been violin-making, for
which the surrounding forests furnish
the best OF material. Every yard is
crossed by labyrinth of ropes and
poles, on which hundreds of violins are
hung to dry. Every kind of a stringed
instrument, from the finest to the
cheapest banjo, is manufactured and
shipped in large quantities to all parts
of the civilized world
The transposition of a word in deed
was the foundation of Daniel Clark's
great wealth. He had purchased 1920
square toises of land in a part of New
Orleans that became the commercial
centre of the city. BY carelessness in
the engrossing of the deed his purchase
was changed from ':1,9 20 square tot
ses' to 1920 toises square In
other words, it was increased from a
value of $4,000 to $20,000,O0O Mr..
Clark took full advantage of this mis-
take, and all the law in New Orleans
could not prevent him.