Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-11
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ameTlCH 1aSt year.
To-day is thing of yesterday
So says Town Topics.
The newest thing IN newspapers is
IAN organ of brass bands. ,"
New England is sending to Eng
land 10000 barrels of apples week.
The students of Williams College,
Mass, have tobaggan slide under
construction. with guauteed speed
OF so miles an hour.
Sir Andrew Walker, who has Just
been made q baronet, owns some 200
public houses in Liverpool. Nearly
all the persons in England who deal
IN drinks are Tories.
An autograph signature OF Bal ard
not the Secretary, but the original
chevaller of that name-has just come
to light IN the archives of the Cham
Der of Notaries at Lyons.
A manuscript epitaph the possession
of an Italian reads: ''HeIe lies Sal
vino Armote d'Armati, of Florence,
who invented spetacles. May God
pardon his sins. The year 1918"
A one-.egged man in Los Angles
was arrested for being disorderly and
kicking in a door. He nonplused
the court by asking mis- accuser with
which leg he had perpetrated the Of
Tense.
a police prosecution in Birming-
ham has brought to light the fact that
the temperance wines" which are
sold all over England without license
contain from II to 10 per cent of al
cohol
Ithas come to be a common practice
IN Irish hunts TO warn the crowd
against a horse that makes too free
with his heels by tying danger sig
nal in the shape of red ribbon on
his tail.
Where post routes in Idaho are sub
let for smaller sum than that by
which the contract was obtained, the
government now annuls the original
agreement, and makes bargain with
the sub-contractor.
During the testing of the bayonets
of the second Duke of Wellington's
regiment lately, at Aldershot, upward
of fifty yielded and broke TO the test.
Over 800 We're found soft, and the re-
maindsr-about 750-bad.
An interesting discovery of prehis-
toric British remains was made by
some Welsh workmen at Llanwit
Major, South Wales. The nipple
ments brought to light were mostly
weapons of very primative construc-
ton.
Masters of vessels approaching the
coast of Tripoh are warned to be ware
of an cratic torpedo which has lately
broken away from it's mooripgs and is
supposed to be wandering wildly over
the waters of the Mediterranean.
Diamonds in plenty, geologist who
has studied the subject says, will yet
be found in Georgia, in belt which
he locates between Atlanta and the
Savannah River, distance of about
100 miles by from ten to thirty in
breadth.
The Suez Canal seems to be one of
the few enterprises which are pros
perlng, in spite of the bad times. The
traffic receipts on the 5th ult., amount
ed to 40, 900 francs, as against $4,000
francs for the corresponding date last
year.
There is steady growth in the use
of the trawl by the Fishermen on the
banks, and so much
has this instrument been enlarged and
perfected that some schooneers now
set as muck as fourteen miles Of traWl.
with twelve or fourteen thousand
hooks.
Few monarchs can boast of progeny
so illustrious as King Christian TX OF
Denmark. Five out of his six child
rem are married and have families.
The eldest sons of each of these fam
lilies are the prospective monarchs, of
Denmark, Greece, the British En-
pire, Russia and Hanover.
Geneva is thinking of getting UP
an international exhibition in 1867,
one of the chief features of which is
to be complete exhibit of the chem
ical and pharmaceutical industries.
A committee has been appointed con-
sisting mainly of German apothe-
carries established in S Hitzerland.
maryland, writes General Brad
ley T. johnson to the Baltimore Sun,
''has furnished 3,750,000 bushels Of
seed oysters per annum which in the
Delaware Sound increase in slzs so
as to make IL, 000,O0 bushels. We
get $4,000 for our export, which
in a year sells for SO, 900.