Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
MANY THINGS IN MANY PLACES.

Hokssai, Japanese author, mas pub
iished new novel in 80 volumes.
The Harbor Springs, Mich, wooden
tooth-pick factory makes 1,S00,000,00
picks year.
New York city consumes $4,000 melons
a day from the beginning of the season
until October.
Tennessee cannot be said to be "grid-
iron of railroads" There are in the
state So counties in which no railroads
run.
The tallest man in Pennsylvania is
George R. Kersey, of EIizabethtewD, Ian
caster county. He is % years old, is Z
feet tall, and is employed as stationary
engineer.
Zachariah Hash is the Oldest inhabitant
of Chandlerville, Illinois. It is al aston
ishing fact that Mr.. Hash hasn't hair on
his head.
People in Alaska at this time of the
year can see to read without artificial
light, from O'Clock in the morning until
II at night.
Japanese author has just published
novel in 80 volumes. Two or three gen
erations or heavy Williams are consumed
IN the title.
About the meanest gag that could be
devised was one which an Ohio highway
man used. He filled his victims mouth
with sand.
The editor of Die Bsvolkerung (Ger-
many estimates the population of the
world to be 1,434, 100000. M. Levass sur
(Frenoh) puts it at 1, 483, 100000, a differ
ence of 100000.
Canon Siddon, one of the ablest men in
the Church of England, has never been
made q bishop because On one occasion
when he preached before the Queen, he
addressed her majesty as plain madam y
The largest railway station in Europe,
and probably in the world, is the new
| Central railway station at Frankfort-on-
the Main.
An inventor of New York city mas
brought out an automatic fireman, which
climbs up house, breaks windows and
turns or two streams.
In the youngest grandparent" contest
Chapel Hill, N. c., leads with a negro
woman who had a granddaughter at the
age of %.
The coolest town in the world is Wer-
choiansk, in Siberia, where the mercury
has sometimes recorded a temperature OF
| S9e below zero.
OF the 343 swans on the Thames 170 be.
| long to the Crown, "a to the Vintiners
campany and II to the Dyers' company
There is regular keeper.
The young women of Anthony, Kan.
spend so much OF their time in the saddle
| that If is said the horses at that place are
becoming lop-sided.
Eight we'll do colored men living in
Lexington, KY, have formed company
with a capital stock of $4,000 to do q
book publishing business.
French economy is very evident in the
| marketing or fowls. Not only half birds
can be purchased, but legs, wings and
breasts are offered separately.
It is estimated that there are 10000
Tourists in the United States, with 1,00C
acres entirely covered with glass, in the
shape Of greenhouses.
The Liverpool and Manchester railway
she first grand work of the kind in Eng
| land, was opened Sept. Is. 1880. The road
was about 81 miles long.
Stumm BROTHERS of Neunkirchen, Ger
many, have offered prize Of 81, 500 for
the best means of preventing the iLhal
alton of dust by the workmen engaged II
grinding Stag.
| A Connecticut couple couldn't agree OF
a physician to attend one Of their chill
dren, and squabble which followed nov
has its outcome in a suit for divorce in
stituted by the wife.
A head waiter at one OF the Saratoga
hotels died recently and left fortune o
100000. Many of those who contributed
to that fortune are now probably staying
at S. boarding houses.
4 Port Huron, Mich, undertaken vii
have large tent made. Whenever d,
has a funeral On rainy day, he 7il
plass the tent over the grave SO that ser
vices msy be held with but little ineon-
venisHss.
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