Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
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Mr.. Berg, the teacher or Jenny Llnd,
is now Sc years old and is still pro-
fessor of music in Sweden. He speaks
of his great pupil with enthusiasm.
1t is well-known fact among ar
lists that maiden of 50 summers and
$500, 900 is a more beautiful being than
one of Is winters and no cash to speak
of.
Frenchmen were the first to discover
that Hebrew novels were worth trans
lating. The first translation into Eng
lish of Hebrew novel will shortly APP
pear.
The Chief Justice of the United
States receives a salary of $1O,5OO,
while the clerk of his court receives
$4,000 per annum in fees and per-
quisites.
The Quebec government has taken
out over d hundred actions in the su-
perior court against insurance and
other companies for emitting to pay
the commercial tax.
The White House fountains have
been shut off and the bases filled in
with Norway spruces planted in boxes.
The effect of the rich green is excel
lent That is Mrs. Clevelands idea.
When Alonzo Bowman, of Lowndes-
vile, S. c., goes fox hunting he al
lows his pet sheep to run with the
hounds, and he says that in nine cases
out of ten 1t is the sheep that runs the
fox down.
The maladministration of justice is
said to have become such an evil at
Montreal that the lawyers are consid-
ering the adyisability of repeating
their action some years ago by refus-
ing to plead. /.
a San Francisco dentist charged a
customer $336.50 for twenty-five hours
work in his mouth. The sufferer
wouldn't pay. The dentist sued. The
courts cut the bill down to $40 and the
defendant paid promptly.
There are the graves of eighty con-
victs in Chester, ILL.,, and but one of
them contains the body of a woman.
She was Emma Jackson, who died in
the Chester Pepitentiary in 1879, while
serving a sentence for stealing.
81 do not want to destroy all the
capitalists" said French anarchist
the other day, ''for if there were no
capitalists we anarchists and COM
munists could get no work to do, for
we would have nobody to denounce. "
Little Johnny Sharp, of WellsvilIe,
o., wanted to be a man before his
mother. So he ok a chew of to-
bacco and it made him so sick and
dizzy that he fell over a bank and
broke his arm and otherwise banged
himself severely.
The London Geological gardens have
for the first time IN their history liv-
ing gorilla. Two weeks after it was
received it would take fruit and nuts
from the hands of visitors. 1t has
been placed in the same house with
"Sally," the educated chimpanzee.
Residents in the vicinity of Pasadena
and Santa Monica, Cal, have offered
to the State board of forestry two
tracts of land, one of so acres and one
of 120 acres, on condition that the
board will use them as experimental
stations and plant them with fresh
trees"
An enthusiastic materialist put a
headstone over the grave of his wife
in a cemetery at Nievre, France, upon
which there is the following inscrip-
tion Deprived of all vitality. here
lie the remains of the material that
formed Madame Durazd. No prayers
and no cards"
A stick of timber seventy-fve feet
long and thirty-one inches through,
and destined for the Panama Canal,
was recently loaded on three flat rail
road ears at Youngstown, o. There
is not much difficulty in transporting
such timber if the curves of the rail-
road are not very short
The oldest living native of the great
State of Indiana is said to be Samuel
Morrison, of indianapolis. His par
ents were Pennsylvanians, who were
living in the Hoosier State when Sam
uel was born in 1898. The old gentle
man is vigorous, and is said to be "a
verjtable encyclopedia OF Indian his
tory
in the first year of the existence of
the French divorce law 1,240 divorces
were granted in France. 1t must be
understood, though, that in many
eases it was 4 transformation of de-
crccs of separation into those of di-
vorce. The last twelve months pro-
duced 4S8 Parisians divorced, the most
being in the rich quarters.
A runaway team in Hamilton, Ont.
knocked down and ran over John
Smith, and three of his ribs were
broken. One rib pierced his lung,
and the air coming through the hole
made by the ribs but confined by the
skin which was unbroken, has pulled
him up like balloon from head to
feet. 1t is thought that he will get
well.
Pope Leo XIII, is very fond of agri-
culture. and has passion for planting
trees. One of his first works after his
election was to plant the garden of the
vatican with fruit trees and vines, and
this year for the first time the grapes
of the vatican garden are turned into
wine. His holiness superintends the
operation and gives the necessary or.
ders.
The government experiments this
year in making sugar from sorghum
are said to have been very successful.
On fair soil the yield of cane was an
average of twelve tons. The average
yield of sugar per acre was about
1,5O0 pounds and of sirup $50 gallons.
1t is claimed that at this rate, even at
the present low price of sugar, the
business of making sugar from sor.
ghum would be very profitable.
Recorder McCord of the Probate
court in Cincinnati, says that as a rule