Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
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The harp, which is the oldest musi
cal instrument. is becoming the latest
fad.
A paper devoted to equine subjects
published in Boston, IS conducted by /
man named Trotter.
The first special appropriation fol
Indian education was passed in 1873.
and amounted to $4,000.
There were 26,945 students in the
twenty German universities during the
last session. OF these 1,643 were for
eigners.
The great Sioux Reserve embraces an
area equal to that of the states of In
diana, South Carolina, Maine and Del
aware.
A peasant has just died in Austria
Hungary who was 142 years of age.
He left a son aged 115 years and a
grandson of So.
Ed Snyder, of Dayton, Ohio. has a
dog that eats onions. The curious ca
nine will dig up al onion bed to get
at the dubious vegetable.
In Baltimore it is proposed to PM
letter boxes on the street ears. This
will bring letter to the postoffice from
any part of the city in half an hour
Chinese pheasants are so thick in
the Waldo Hills, Colorado, that they
have to be shoOed out of the burrows by
the plowmen, so greedy are they in
gobbling up the angleworms. They
are becoming a nuisance.
An officer of an American war YES
sci fell in love with a dusky maiden al
Honolulu. The girls father objected
and a secret marriage was the result,
The officer is still with his ship and
the bride is at her home.
Special china sets, for use in coun-
try houses, are novelties. Each piece
takes the shape of a natural object, so
that one finds potatoes in big cab
bage head and Strawberries in a deli
cately turned up oak leaf.
a French paper publishes the fol
lowing scandalous item: An American
has invented tricycle. which requires
Meth er hands nor feet to propel it. He
seats himself with his wife and his
mother-in-law pushes it.
A correspondent complains of the
expense necessary in viewing the beau
ties of the National Park, regarding 81
day for board and lodging as exorbi-
tant. He suggests that some cheaper
arrangements be perfected.
"Securite" is the name given to a
new explosive which is said to be
tiameless when exploded, and will, it is
expected, be of especial value as Il sub
stitute for ordinary blasting powder
and other explosives in fiery coal
mines.
1t may be of interest to sportsmen
who spend q week in vain endeavor
to get half dozen shots at wild game
to know that the beautiful Monaghan
pheasants, recently introduced into
Oregon, are multiplying so rapidly IS
almost to become pest.
Speaking of Shakspeare's use Of words,
the Milwaukee Sentinel classes ''renege''
in the sense of deny" among those
wholly obsolete Yet the word is still
current among card players in many
places-where the player who trumps
a trick or throws away upon it, when
be had suit, is Immediately told: You
reneged, you reneged. y
The latest Maine romance comes
from Biddeford, where an honest,
awkward farmer, who had been pest
cred for years with a suit for sending
indecent letters to the girl he loved
has just been able to prove that their
author was none other than her rascal
ly brother, who hoped, by preventing
her marriage, to keep undivided their
joint estate.
Some phenomenal fortunes have been
made of late years in the Pennsylvania
oil fields. That of William Phillips, of
New Castle, for instance, which amounts
to $4,000,O00, has all been made since
1879. Vandergrift, of Pittsburg, has
taken 100000 out of the oil fields
since 1880, and dozen men could be
mentioned who have made million or
more in the same time.