Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-13
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No less than 2,7oo babies come squall-
ing INTO old London town every week.
The French have taken the American
verb ''to interview" into their language.
A Stockton, Cal, knife-grinder has be-
gun suit to recover % cents from delin-
quent customer.
One hundred persons have recently
died IN New Hampshire between the ages
OF eighty and one hundred years.
In Turin new Raphael, it is believed,
has been found. 1t is a profile portrait
and bears the words, ''Urbino 1897"
By japanese process seaweed is made
INTO paper so transparent that it may be
substituted for window glass.
Little bees so made that they tremble
with the slightest motion of the wearer
are among the new things in French
Jewelry.
A Scotch medical professor lately de-
clared that out of over 100 medical grad
yates not ten ment to "set up" in Scot
land.
boy at Gillingham, England, in try
ing to draw the air from bit of a balloon
sucked the toy down his throat and was
choked to death.
Sixty-nine of her British Majesty's big
ships are said to be ''shams, antiques and
curious, whose proper place is in a naval
museum or colossal marine bric-a-b brio
shop"
boy, fourteen years old,was found in
charge of the boilers and engine-room in
a Brooklyn manufacturing establishment
employing over 100 hands last week by
the Boiler Inspector of that city.
By the will of an eccentric, well-to-do
resident of Port Jervis, n. Y, who died
lately, little waif, whom he picked up on
the streets and since cared for at his
home, comes into possession of $4,000.
Six years ago an artist gave a citizen
of Auburn, Me-, several sheep for an old
violin, said to be Cremona. The Auburn
man thinks he made good bargain. for
his sheep have Melted him $1,000
The Body of a man who was murdered
near Walla Walla, w. T., twenty wears ago.
was found the week before last. A pre-
vious unsuccessful attempt in this direc-
ton resulted in the discharge of two men
tried for the murder
About forty thousand barrels of four
were under water in Montreal, but only
small part of it was injured, because a
thin coating of paste from around the
outside of the packages and the great
bulk of the flour remains sweet and dry
within.
A robin that made persistent efforts to
get into house in Erie, Pa, through an
upper window, frightened the inmates
badly, because within lay a woman very
i'll, and they were certain that the unusual
actions of the bird were a harbinger of
death.
A ten-year-Old Boston girl, says the
Record, asked her teacher the other day
if India was our father country, Just as
England was our mother country. mo,
indeed" was the answer. "Why do you
ask that?" Nothing, only I see it's Far
ther India on the map"
Geoge Ell. Bishop has tried the expert
ment of setting a hen on double-yOlked
egg with entire success. On Sunday a
little head came through each end of the
egg, and when the shell was removed two
chickens were found They were slightly
united but were easily separated.
While John S. Ballard, of dorchester,
was driving just outside of the town
limits the other day a black snake six feet
long darted out of the bushes right in
front of the horse, which whirled around,
threw Mr.. Ballard out of the buggy, hurt
ing him badly, and then dashed wildly
home.