Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
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! Removable hoods fastened with silk
cord are worn with tailor-made dresses in
the streets.
! colony of two hundred Missourians
has arrived at Portland, Oregon, and will
settle near corvallis.
A company has been formed with ST.
100000 capital to supply the city of
Portland, Oregon, with water.
There are six dentists in New York
who it is said, receive as nigh as $4,000
year for their services,
The outlook for whale fishing on the
Pacific coast is very encouraging accord
ing to reports.
Five cows died from the effects of a
rattlesnake bite one day recently near
Fort Gaines, Ga.
A new industry In Gotham is the steal
ing of cats, their skins being sold for
fur.
Oysters this season are expected to be
larger and more plentiful than hereto
fore.
A negro at Norwood, Ca, slept so
soundly that he didn't feel the rats gnaw-
ing his fingers off.
Kansas City, Mo-, is said to be the larg-
est market in the world for straight Ken
lucky whisky.
At Fargo, OAK, good wives bewail be-
cause housemaids are not to be had at a
dollar.
Twenty-four rattlesnakes were killed in
one thicket, on Spoon river, in Knox
county, ILL.,, last week.
Milwaukee is disposed to crow over "the
successful establishment of a summer
| school of philosophy there.
Near Monroe, Ga, black snake seven
and a half feet long, with foot and a
half of its tail nearly white, was recently
killed.
Miss Heaven is the name of a young
woman recently confirmed at Lundy Isl
and by the visiting British Bishop of Exc
ter.
The keeper of a convict camp near
Lampkin, Ga, says that among the eigh-
ty-six negro cOnvicts thirtv-five are
preachers and ali are members of the
church.
Moorefeld, W. Va, claims the youngest
band in the world. The Oldest member
is scarcely twenty-five years old, while
the youngest has seen but twelve sum-
mers.
Minnie Wilson, rosy-cheeked maiden
of fifteen, drives the stage between Mil
nor and Hamline, in Dakota. The route
is extremely popular, as might be ex-
pected.
Three young tiger kittens made their
appearance in the New York museum the
other day, but two of them died soon
after birth. The third is reported doing
well.
The boat which was the occasion of the
! recent drowning of a young couple at
SpOrford Lake, Chesterfield, n. H., has
been dragged ashore and burned, by Or
der of her owner.
Since the purchase of the Yosemite by
Canada the government of San Domingo
has been looking for similar fast steam
yacht to aid in quelling the revolution in
the island.
glittering tale comes from Bar Har-
Dor to the effect that Mrs Whitemore. a
dressmaker of that place, has become the
helress of an English estate worth $780,
100000.
An ingenious Maplewood, Mass, boy
sent up some lanterns On the tail of a
kite recently, and many of the inhabi-
tants turned out to view what they sup
posed was fine meteoric display.
stalk of corn twenty feet high and
bearing thirteen well-developed ears is
reported to have been grown at Encinitas,
Cal, this season.
Hop-growers in the western part of
California are unsuccessful trying to hire
white men to take the place of Chinese in
hop-felds.
There Is pear tree in Nevada which
measures but one inch in diameter yet
bears forty pounds of fruit every year.
The excursion of Frenchmen to this
country to attend the Inauguration Of the
library statue will take place Oct. ?.
Three halibuts whose weight in the ag-
gregate was 574 pounds, were recently
captured near Portland, Me.
A tree called the Pinus Torreyana grows
no where else in the world but in San
Diego county California.
Mrs. Sarah Young, of Washington, Ca,
has never been known to weigh more
than 80 pounds, yet she has given birth
to 20 children during her thirty years of
married life.
George Root, who is said to have assist
ed IN making the coffin in which Robert
Fulton, the steamboat inventor, was bur
led, died at Waterbury, Conn, aged 80
years.
New York city has been unusually
healthy during the past six weeks. Not
single case of small pox or typhus fever
has been reported during that time.
little girl wrote in her composition of
Boston recently: 1.-THE state-house is a
handsome building on Beacon street, with
a huge abdomen on top"
California is making preparations to
celebrate on the 9th of this month the
seth anniversary of the admission of the
state into the union.
A Rondout, n. Y, couple, who have
been on spree for three weeks, have in
that time pawned every article of furni-
ture in their rooms, and if they do not
die of delirium tremens, viii be sent to
the almshouse.
A magnetic storm ragged at Rochester,
\. Y, Wednesday forenoon. heavy
needle nine inches long, swung one and
half inches to the west of the magn etc
meridian at intervals A needle two and