Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
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A Butte (Cal.) man who began
farming on rented land ten years ago
has this year SCI, 900 worth of wheat to
SELL
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author OF
'Robert Elsmere," is the wife of a
London Times writer. She is of slight
figure, with colorless face, dark hair,
and bright eyes.
Mrs. ''St. Elmo" Evans Wilson has
bought and decorated a luxurious
home near Mobile with the proceeds of
her gorgeous novels. She writes in a
Chinese pagoda bower in her flower
garden.
Il. Rider Haggard is just home from
trip to Iceland, which country he in
tends to make the scene of his next
novel He will freeze the readers
blood even if he has to take him to the
North Pole.
Mrs. Burnett is to receive a testi-
monial purse and address from Eng
lish authors in recognition of her
plucky stand for her rights in the case
Of Little Lord Fauntleroy," which was
put on the boards in London without
her consent.
BY the naval maneuVers now fin
ished in the Irish Sea, it appears that
'the average speed of even the best
ships was much below the figure given
in any authoritative naval work" A
Cunard steamer ran by them as though
they were anchored.
The king of the Belgians hates to-
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barehanded as much as possible. He
is fond of bathing but does not swim.
lie is handsome man, slightly built,
but muscular, with blue eyes and a big
brown beard touched with gray.
J. K, Emmett, the actor, has Just
purchased for $1,000 the St. Bernard
dog Plinlimmon, said to be the finest
of the breed in the world. Plinlimmon
is five years old and has never been
beaten but once on the show bench.
This is the largest price ever paid for
dog.
Bismarck has weighing chair in
his bathroom and never fails each dav
to TRY his weight and make record
in his diary. There was time when
the Prince scaled the weight of 247
pounds, but by the practice of some
modern system he has reduced the tig-
ure to 100.
The French Government is said to
have ordered 10000 portable cooking
stoves for camp use for the army. The
inventor, on test, served up dinner
of three courses for thirty persons at a
cost for heating and cooking of less
than 4 cents. He uses steam as the
basis of his heat
The French sugar-makers have COM
menced n campaign against saccharine
extracted from coal tar. Experiments
have shown that it is not noxious,
but the Society of Agriculturists has
petitioned the government to forbid its
manufacture as prejudicial to the beet
root sugar trade.
Among the exhibits in Belgian dog
show is breed Of dogs, the Schipper-
kes, found only in Belgium. They
are made use of as watch dogs on
board numerous inland navigation
boats. They are small black dogs,
without tails and with pointed ears, of
extraordinary intelligence and fidelity.
The colossal statue of William
Penn, which is to surmount the tall
tower of the new city hall at
Philadelphia, will be the largest bronze
figure ever cast standing thirty-seven
feet in height. The model is COM
pleted. but there is no foundry in the
United States whore the casting can be
done.
Queen Regent Christina of Spain is
exceedingly superStitious and is a
great believer in what is called fate;
she has, moreover, great faith in ''af-
flnities" and the influence of one per-
son over another for good or evil. She
is convinced that it is possible for a
person to magnetic another by look,
by touch, or by desire.
Mrs. Kate Chase, as brilliant as ever
and nearly as beautiful, is living
quietly on her estate at ''Edgewood, )"
near Washington. There is n prospect
that the lady. whose life since her
fathers death has been full of care and
anxiety, may enjoy great prosperity
again, as her property, owing to i'm
provements in its vicinity, Is rapidly
rising in value.
A poorly-clad little girl went into
She store of an Augusta stationer re-
Gently. She wished to buy some writ
ing paper, and was finally shown
some for cents quire. How much
will half quire be?n she inquired in 8
half-fed, plaintiye little voice. Three
cents" replied the clerk. IF you
please, I'll take the other half" was
the quick response.
A., E.rI;-b, 49,, who woo r1ov;pc
billiards in public house in Bromley
made bet that he would get one OF
the ivory balls into his mouth. He
did get it in and there it stuck, in spite
of all his efforts to dislodge il. The
surgeon who was called in extracted
the lump of ivory, but only after tax.
ing out several of the experimental
lists" front teeth.
Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley, the
poet, has curious inability TO form
true conceptions of distances and di
rections. He breads = journey NOR,
than child does its first step alone
and never feels sure of reaching hi
destination unless accompanied by ;
friend. Even in Indianapolis, his home
for so many years, he often becomes
bewildered and lost.
A Bridgeport newspaper says that s
cat was caught by a locomotive thu
other day and cut in two by wheel
which passed over the body back O
the shoulders. After the locomo
tive had passed." says the paper
1.-THE forward parts of the cats bod,
dragged themselves to the home yard
two or three rods distant, and there tn
little life remaining flickered out in
few seconds