Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-05

expedition, got month In Jail for
firing an iconoclaStic shot at that
revered Egyptian humbug, the
sphinx
Two pupils in school in Washing
ton Territory were recently obliged to
stay at home and take care of the
baby while their mother attended
court as a juror.
The London newspapers are report
ed to have q curious etiquette for
bidding one to either quote or com
nent upon anything that appears In
the columns of another.
1t is said thatof the 600, 900 patients
who every year flock to the best Lon
don hospitals for treatment fully one
half are abundantly able to pay for
what they receive as charity.
The sense of touch has been cult
waited to such an extent in Lead
vile hummer who has been the sub
ject of frequent kickings, that he can
tell the make of the boots that hit
him,
It pays the Missouri farmers to shell
their corn and sell the cobs separate
ly. The demand for corn cob pipes
has raised the price of the hitherto
worthless cobs to $24 a wagon load.
Only five colleges in the country
nave adequate endowments, says the
Collegian. 'These are Columbia,
with S., 600, 600; John Hopkins Uni
versity, $4,000, 900; Harvard, $4,000
900; Cornell. 100000 Princeton,
81, ,000,G 600. Less than half a dozen
more have even tolerably liberal en-
dowments: Tufts, $75O,OOO; Brown,
$1,000 Lafayette, $500, 1000; Gin
cinnatl University, $56O,0OO. So far
as we can ascertain, no other college
has an endowment of over $3.50, 1000"
The reply post card in England is
failure. During the past year the
number sold was only 740, 1000, and of
the foreign reply post cards only 3d.
600, whereas the simple post cards the
sale was 153, 100000.
A Port Byron, N. Y, husband,
whose wife had clipped, showed his
good sense when telegram came an
nouncirg the capture of the guilty
pair and asking if they should be ar
rested, by replying: "No, they will
have the worst of it." His words
proved true The false friend who
ran off with his spouse has committed
suicide.
w. =. DePauw, the glass manufac-
turer of New Albany, was so deter
mined upon furnishing the glass for
the new Indiana State House that he
proposed to the Commissioners to set
their own price upon it, so that the
honor of making the glass in the state
might be asserted. His proposition
was declined, but he secured the con-
tract by bidding away down.
A Methodist elder of Fort Worth,
Tex, recently whipped a bully, and
the Methodist of that town thus ap-
pre- ciatively describes the incident:
the elder took him one square blow
between the lockers without stopping
his pace, and it took twelve rowdies,
three dippers of water and two quarts
of whisky to revive the patient and
get him off the grounds"
s- s~- A Washington dispatch says: "a
new wrinkle in telephones has been
discovered and is endorsed by Profes-
sor Bell, by which messages transmit
ted by telephone are taken down
automatically upon paper in the same
way that the telegraph prints the
Morse alphabet upon paper This
telephone improvement is being kept
a close secret, only two or three hav-
ing been given any knowledge of it,
while Professor Bell is working to
perfect it III order to obtain patent
upon it. Those who have knowledge
of what it is expected to do declare
that it is the greatest development of
the telephone since it was originally
patented"
- A correspondent writing from
Shawano, in this state, reproduces
TIE well-known story of Jeff Davis
liaison with an Indian woman, when
stationed as q Lieutenant in the army
at Fort Winpebago, some ffty-odd
years ago, and adds the curions fact
that his son, Jeff Davis, Jr., half
breed now living in Shawano county,
was q soldier IN the Union army, and
as such draws pension.
The late David Kimball, of Ports
mouth, n. H., had on several occa-
SIOHS uuT1DS LIS jHcblIh6 Gne TdT6
experience of seeing under the roof
tree of the ole house at Tepsfeld,
Mass, seven generations of his own
blood, namely, his own grand
father, grandfather, father, mother,
his own generation, his own and his
brothers children and grandchildren,
and his brothers great-grandchil-
dren.
At Sydney. New South Wales, a
few days before Christmas, boats
crew from Her Ma ajesty' ship Miranda
astonished everybody by beating a
crew from the United States corvette
Iroquois over four-mile course. The
Yankee boasted of winning thirty-two
races, and having never been beaten.
They started favorites, at long odds.
The Englishmen led from the start,
Winning by eight seconds.
For the next two years at least the
political complexion of the respective
House of CONGRESS Is to remain un