Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-12
GLEA NINGS,

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1t has been discovered that crows
have no less than twenty-seyen differ
ent cries, each distinctly referable to 4
different action.
In West Virginia there resides wo-
man, aged thirty-fve, who eloped with
her adopted son, to whom she had been
a mother for ten years.
Edmond About was gray-haired,
high-colored, thick-set, delicate-hand-
ed, with one of the shrewdest pair of
twinkling black eyes ever set in human
face.
According to French scientist the
force of storms can be lessened by
placing a large number of lightning
rods on the telegraph poles along rail
way lines.
Nine. Patti wrote in q Boston album
the other day: $50 to strangers for
charity, acquaintance for advice, and
relatives for nothing, and you will al
ways have a supply"
General Hancock lost his only daueh-
ter in 1873 and Mrs. Hancock has worn
mourning ever since for one deceased
relative after another until now she
wears it for her only son.
In photography the left side view of
the face nineteen cases out of twenty
gives the most characteristic likeness,
while to the same degree the right side
is the most symmetrical.
In theBank of France there is an invis-
ible studioin a gallery behind the cash
iers so that at a signal from one of them
any suspected customer will instantly
have his picture taken without his
knowledge.
An indianapolis poultry dealer found
in the heart of a dressed chicken the
other day kernel of wheat which had
sprouted and grown nearly an inch.
The chicken appeared to have been in
perfect health.
Near the village of Richmond, Mo-,
lives David Whitner, one of the three
men who testified on oath that they be-
held the Angel of the Lord bring down
the plates from which the Book of Nor
mon was written and deliver them into
the hands of Joseph Smith, the Nor
mon prophet.
General Sheridan is less popular in
Washington society than elsewhere.
He is too domesticated, or, as one cor
respondent puts it, ''He takes more
pleasure in paying attention to his own
wife than to other mems wives. Until
he reforms in this particular, he Will
never acquire what might be called
great popularity in society,""
For,,,o~'c wife - po11;rc.o-. Co,,,o+,-
Mo, left the baby in his care while she
went to town shopping, The father,
being busy blowing, nailed box to the
pillow beam, in which he placed the
baby snugly, and thus the industrious
and ingenious father proceeded with
his work, to the satisfaction and
amusement of the little one. -PbizadeL-
phia Inquirer.
A sailor who has visited nearly every
habitable portion of the globe was in a
rural district in the town of Wayne re-
Gently, and, standing in the door of
blacksmith shop one morning, he saw
six women 90 by together; each of
the six was complacently smoking
black clay pipe and apparently happy.
The sailor remarked that that was the
most curious sight he had ever be-
held anywhere. These six ladies are
near neighbors to each other and were
merely taking their usual morning
ramble. -Kea7nebec Journal.
TIE well-bred man who smokes only
for the love of it pats but as much of
his cigar into his mouth as is necessary
in order to draw it, keeps it in his
mouth no longer than is necessary, and
never fails to remove it when he talks
or passes any one toward whom he
would be respectful, especially a lady.
Further, our best-bred men never smoke
in any street at an hour when it is
much frequented, nor III any public
place where smoking is likely to be Of
fensiye to others.-AeW York Sam.
A writer in the Weekly Medical Re
vjee0 says: Il have collected every ca
tarrh, asthma, and hay-fever sure
cure that is in the market, numbering
in all tifty-eight, and have carefully eX-
amined them. Eighteen of these sure
cures are bare-faced frauds. One
ounce of quassia chips, Il pound of
table salt, and forty gallons of water
will make barrel of sure cure that
sells for 81 bottle, holding six ounces;
the same quantity of water, a pound of
muriate of ammonia,a pound of ground
cubebs, and little common potash,
will make another sure cure that sells
for fifty cents a bottle, holding four
ounces. These two are the best Of the
eighteen frauds" ..
When we consider how artfully and
effectually most actresses employ their
arms, | wonder that the bellies of So
ciety do not acquire the same accom-
plishment. We are too apt to let our
arms remain as useless as our lower
limbs, SO far as gesticulation is con-
cerned, and l recall only one girl in all
my acquaintance who displays her
arms for all they are worth. AS seen
at an opera or ball they are not the in
sensate things commonly seen, but are
animate, helpful appendages, taking
their active and graceful part in her
movements and conversation. Let
somebody open school of arms for
girls.-Ciara Belle, IN Cincinnati En-