Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-03
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''bear" meat.
Denison Tex, sports, have their dog
fights on the main street of the town,
and some of the unappeciative citizens
have yentured to complain.
Tramps from this country have be-
come 50 numerous in the CITY of
Mexico, it is said, that they have be-
come great nuisance to Americans
residing there.
Gov. Buckner of Kentucky is a
veteran smoker who finds more soIace
N 4 pipe shan in a cigar. He is
rarely seen without cob-pipe in his
mouth.
James H. Beard has just completed
striking three-quarter portrait Of
Sen. Sherman which gives great salts
lection to the grizzled veteran and his
friends.
The Prince of Monaco, who is now
20 years old, is blind. Still he
manages to rake in an income of
5000, 900 q year, and is economical in
his expenditures to the verge of penuri-
business.
Mr.. G. II. Andrews, who has just re-
tired from the head of the Boston
Herald, was a worker who stuck close
to his desk. He is said not to have had
vacation of more than two weeks in
thirty-iive years.
John Spring, an Englishman 20
years of age, who lives at jamestown,
n. Y, boasts of being the father of
thirty-two children. He has also ac-
cumulated considerable property, and
still works every day.
Aunt Hannah Cary, a negro woman
living at Montevallo, Ala, is ITO years
old, as is proven by the slave records
of her former master. She gained her
second sight some time ago, and is now
cutting n new set of teeth.
Daniel Dougherty recently said that
lin every respect Philadelphia is small
rs compared with New York" And
the New York papers, with the Grant
monumental disgrace constantly be-
fore their eyes, have the cheek to
chuckle over the remark.
A hotel in Ness City, Kas, it is. re-
ported, displays this sign in its office:
ANY tenderfoot calls suit of rooms
sweet, or spit-box cuspidor, or
loOkin' glass mirror, cannot stop in
this house, and will find the climate
healthier farther east"
Nine. Melba is the singer who will
probably be chosen to fill the part of
Juliet when Gounod's ''RomeO and
Juliet" is brought out at the Grand
Opera in Paris this spring. She is an
Australian, is pretty, and is regarded
as possible rival and successor of
Yatti
Valentine Winter, banker of Day
ton, o., at family dinner recently
distributed 100000 of his estate
among six children and the heirs of
;wo others. He had previously given
them $400, 900. This is not the Winter
of discomfort among the lucky re-
Gpients.
Edward Brown, brother of John
Brown Of Harper's Ferry, is still living
at Columbus, o. He much resembles
his dead brother, and has the same
earnest and at times almost fierce way
of speaking. He recently declared he
was glad John Brown was killed Just
when he was and as he was.
Lord Courtenay, who is heir to the
Earldom of Devon, made his third ap-
pearance in the Bankruptcy Court last
month, when it was found that he
owed 1929, 235, and had no assets what
lyer. In the twenty years of his
pecuniary embarrassment he has con-
sumed 100000 of his creditors money.
George Francis Trains dislike to
young women dates back to the time
when he lived in Camden. Several
bold, bad girls employed in a canning
factory, asked him to hold a red-hot
tomato can while they went to dinner.
The warmth of the can cooled his
warmth for the fair sex most cffectu-
ally.
The Duchess of Hamilton has opened
butter store at Ipswich. The place
is crowded with customers who are
ambitious to be waited upon by one of
the quality. Thus one by one the
members of the nobility are gradually
dropping into occupations where they
may be of some real service to man
kind.
Gen. Greedy of the signal service is
Inscribed as Il tall, tinely-formed man
of about Is, with large, well-shaped
head, abundant black hair, and a broad
black beard. Before he went to the
Arctic regions he was strong and hardy.
But now his eyes demand glasses, mis-
bones and his muscles are weak, and
his skin is pallid.
John w. Du Bose of Birmingham,
Ala. will soon publish Il life of William
L. 1ancey, in which he promises to
tell the true story of the encounter in
the Confederate Senate between
4ancey and Bob Toombs, in which
Toombs struck Yancey with. a heavy
inkstand and from the effects of which
he never recovered.
A Doylestown (O0 man discovered
that his chickens were being stolen
srom time to time. He missed half 4
dozen more hens the other morning
and while looking around the coop
discovered pocket-book containing
$50 and the name of a well-known
neighbor who was respected MEM
Der of the community.
DR.. William A. Hammond, disciple
of Buddha and ex-Surgeon.General,
will next fall abandon his practice in
New York and take up his abode in
Washington, where he is building q
hne house for himself on Columbia
Nights. and about one-third of mile
farther north a private hospital for his
patients, to cost $780, 900.
The mayor of Hannibal, Mo-,
Whipped out his red bandana the
other day and gave nasal blast, where
upon an unhitched horse, terrified at
the great noise, dashed down the
street, ran against an electric-light
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