Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
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/ A barber at POughkeepSie says that
eight out of ten men are bald nova.
days, and he attributes it to food adul-
teration.
Miss Eta Cleveland, of Cassadaga,
n. Y, has just removed from her side
a rusty needle which she thinks she
swallowed when child. She attrib-
utes to it her poor health during the
past 50 years.
Miss Clara Barton, the President OF
the American Red Cross Society, in
addition to her other decorations. has
just been presented by the Grand
Duchess of Baden with an amethyst in
the shape of a pansy.
| A Chinaman named An Lin has
been placed on the pension list. He
served as ''landsman" in the navy at
San Francisco during the rebellion,
and broke his leg. He is probably the
first of his race to receive such recog-
| milton.
The Rev. D. II. Ella, in a sermon in
Boston the other day, seriously dis
cussed the question: sis Boston q
Heather or Christian City?" He
finally decided that it was Christian,
but that its title to the name was
clouded.
| Halliwell Phillips, the Shakspearean
scholar, says that all the documents
| lately discovered at Stratford-on-Avon
were long ago scrutinized by an
| tiquaries, and that in the ''hnd" no
new Shakspearean fact could possibly
have been found.
The report of the State Treasurer
SHOWS that 344 bears were killed in
Maine in 1887. AS the bounty is S.
for each bear, the total sum paid the
hunters was $1,720. Greenville, Pts
cataquis county, leads the list, %
bears having been killed in that town
alone.
Miss Emily Faithful and other agi-
tators in England are urging State as
| sistance to enable the superfuous wo-
men of Great Britain to emigrate to
| this country as rapidly as possible,
while on this side the great question is
what to do with the superfuous women
already here.
Ernst Won Wechmar of Berlin claims
to have invented fying-machine that
will make it perfectly possible for hu-
manity to compete with the birds.
The apparatus is ugly, the wings being
| about thirty feet by two, and the body
supported by air-cushions as we'll as
by the wings themselves.
S. M. Zahn, of Lancaster, Pa, is an
idol collector. Among his collections
are an Aztec idol, taken from a mound
in Mexico, and supposed to be thou
4 20 al II 1ol
japanese god, Arizona Indian idols,
and a sandstone god taken from the
banks of the Susquehanna.
A stained glass window was recent
ly set up in the parish church of FL
stow, the birthplace of Bunyan. 1t
forms the jubilee memorial for Elstow,
and is the fifth window of stained glass
that the church now possesses. Two
of the Others illustrate the Pilgrims
Progress" and The Holy War"
In little town in Oregon lives a
beautiful young lady 10 years old, who
| is webfooted. She wears & small
shoe, and, except in the matter of webs
between her toes, she has remarka-
| bly, shapely foot. When child she
was never so happy as when wadingi in
| the water, and she is now an expert
swimmer.
The attempts to employ dogs in the
sentinel service have so well succeeded
that it has been decided to extend
them to the whole army in the mount
aims of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Con-
sequently the dogs are being trained
this winter so as to be able to be en-
ployed in the great maneuvers in the
summer.
The average Russian Is said to drink
from ten to twelve glasses of tea day,
| Every Russian merchant has tea-urn
in his counting-room, and the lawyer
| or mechanic goes out to his cafe for
| tea as often as the German for beer or
| the Frenchman for wine. At the
| cafes at all hours of the day and night
one can sec crowds of people slipping
| tea.
Congressman Breckenridge, Stone
and McCreary, all of Kentucky, have
"done time" in the penitentiary. They
| were members of Morgan's band on its
raid through Indiana and Ohio, were
captured by United States troops, and
McCreary and Breckenridge were
lodged in the Ohio penitentiary and
Stone in that situated at Allegheny
City.
Jordan Little, Wadesboro, NC,
negro, trapped a rabbit the other day.
and in his delight held the frightened
animal up to his face, saying: ooh.
Bre'r Rabbit, kiss Bre'r Jordan"
Bre'r Rabbit thereupon grabbed Brer
Jordan by his ample lower lip and
hung on until another negro choked
| the rabbit to death. Little's lip was
badly lacerated.
Senators Vest of Missouri, Sawyer
| of Wisconsin, and Jones of Nevada,
| are considered the best story-tellers of
the Senate. They are ali members of
the Commerce Committee, and relieve
the monotony of routine committee
| work by anecdotes, witticisms, ard
funny stories, rivaling each other in
| the effort to pose as the leading HUI
| morist of the trio.
A singular freak of nature, original
| ly discovered in Western Australia, is
| likely to remain unexplained. 1t con-
sists of nine white pears adhering to-
gether in the form of Latin cross
seven in the shaft and one on each
side of the second pearl. A suggestion
is that fragment of seaweed in the
she'll of the oyster formed the frame
on which the cross was built.
The Due d'Aumale may be described
as one OF the most forgiving men alive.
EXiled from France, which he dearly
loves, he has not only bequeathed his
estate at Chantilly to the nation, but