Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-20
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1t is proposed in Toxic, Japan, to
erect large monument to the mem
DRY of General Grant.
Personal friends of President Patton.
OF Princeton College, have recently
given that institution $4,000.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, who
now lives in Paris, has become devoted
to the American game of poker.
The entire fruit pack. about 10000
tons. of three Fresno, Cal, canneries
was purchased by Eastern houses.
King Otto of Bavaria now imagines
himself a black cat, and spends much
OF his time in the effort to capture
mice.
Statistics received by the RQilogay
Age show that during the first ten
months of 1888 467 miles of railroad
was built in Kansas.
A drum major at Flint. Mich, hurt
himself severely while playing with the
gorgeous staff with which he excites
the wonder of the small boys.
Arthur A. Brigham of Marlboro,
Master of the Massachusetts State
Grange, is to become professor of an
agricultural college in Japan.
Princess Metternich, the eccentric
leader of Austrian society, has become
so thoroughly addicted to the cigarette
habit that fears are entertained for her
life.
Young George Hearst, editor and
proprietor of the San Francisco Erdna-
i7aer, is said to be determined to break
into some New York morning journal
ct any cost.
Chief Justice George w. Stone, of
the Supreme Court of Alabama, cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday ami
versary by dancing a jig with his
great grandson.
A young woman in Kansas City has
obtained $1,000 damages from her
former employer, dry goods dealer,
who broke her arm while ejecting her
from his store.
A curious notion in table decoration
is to have the center of the table made
into little pond in which crabs and
padding about.
Miss elizabeth Oswald, of Wabash,
Ind, Vho became famous in 1882 for
her enforced fast of seventy-fve DAYS,
was married recently. She is now
strong and healthy.
The latest woman's club is a New
York organization. 1t is called the
Kindly Club, and its object is the sup
preston of ''evil speaking, lying and
1t has a wide field for
its work.
Alex. Newell, little newsboy of AL
bany, Ga, was standing on the rail-
road track, unmindful of an approach
ing train, when negro pulled him off
just in tie nick of time. Alex. gave
his rescuer quarter.
Charles o. Gage deposited $13 in the
Warren (Mass.) Saving Bank in 1872
Last week he presented his handbook
with request that the interest be
placed in its pages. The accumulated
interest amounted to $130.12.
According to the English system of
billion is million millions;
according to yAe French mode of COM
putation Il Thousand millions AS we
use the French notation in this country
a billion is written, 1000, 1000.
At a recent large convention of
women sixty women reporters took
their places az the tables in front of
the platform. There was only one
man stenographer on duty and he was
said to be employed by a woman.
Four thousand boxes of California
rs. 1ins, sent to London, brought better
prices than the famous layers from
Malaga, and, as q happy consequence,
orders have come to California from
Vienna and Australia.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett, the
well-known novelist, has signed con-
tract with New York weekly paper
to write story for which she will re-
ceive $4,000. This is the largest sum
ever paid woman for any single
story.
A cooking school in Pittsburg makes
a speciality of educating men cooks.
If the women in Pittsburg do not know
how to cook, their husbands will pre-
vent marriage from being failure by
taking up the skillet and the roasting
pan.
The citizens of Dion boast that they
have the oldest poplar in France. but
Just how old it is no one knows. It is
1872 feet high, forty-five feet in circum-
ference at the base, and twenty-three
feet in circumference fifteen feet from
the base.
The Rev. G. A. johnson, whoever he
may be, announces that as result of
much study he decided that Gin just
years from now the electric
ity stored in the earth Will come in
contact with the heated matter inside
and blow the whole world up"
Orwell was four years ago flourish
ing little town in Kansas, with good
newspaper and other signs of prosper
ity. Now it has not a single inhabi-
tant, and the houses gaze vacantly on
the surrounding prairie. The railroad
was extended and the people had to go
with it.
The cause of ill-temper has been dis
covered by dress-reform lecturer, who
does not consider it an evidence of bad
She says that 'softener
than not it is all owing to bodily dis
comfort proceeding from improper
dressing, and that wives would all be
if they were properly
attired and took sufficient exercise"
Two lads met Maine man in Salt
Lake City, when one of them said: |
This boy is my brother, and he is
only one day younger than l am"
OH said the stranger, show can