Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
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A reproduction Of the Bastiie is about
TO be opened as 2 show in Paris.
Lawn tennis bats, made from trees
felled by Mr.. Gladstone, are becoming
fashionable and popular in England.
For the first time in many wears. it is
said, robins and orioles have again ap-
peared in the New York City parks.
A phenomenon only half as old as
Josef Hofmann, Leopold Spielmau. is
having a great run at Vienna. He IS
only five.
Men employed in the Idaho mine at
Grass Valley, Cal. report that the re-
cent earthquake in that vicinity was
felt below the 1.000-foot level.
j. H Maund, of Talbottom, Ga, has
United States silver coin dated 1862
1t is consequently one Of the first sill
Yer coins struck in the United States.
It is said that some clothespin box
packers can pack 72,000 day They
are paid l cent for packing a box four
gross. At this rate they can make $ 4
day.
! lady who died at Marseilles re-
quested that her heart might be placed
in the tomb of her second husband. hut
her body in her first husbands tomb IN
America.
Ten thousand paintings, not to men
ton water colOrs and engravipgs. were
sent to the Royal Academy Exhibition
this year. There is room for about
1,2G0 only.
1t IS estimated that at least 500 coun-
teTfeits Of the old masters, each Of
which has been purchased alta big
price. are hanging in the galleries 81
the United States.
4 barrel of Ohio River water which
took the place of a barrel Of Cincinnati
whisky travelled 1900 miles and was
kept in a storehouse seven years before
the fraud was discovered.
While Charles Christopher, of Lake
Dow, Fla, was digging a we'll on his
premises he found at a distance of
twenty-five or thirty feet from the sur
face a half bushel Of petrifed shark s
teeth.
\ Mississippi paper says the South's
greatest sOngsteTs, the knocking birds,
are becoming fewer, and the change is
attributed~to the advent of the English
sparrows. Cannot these pests be ex-
terminated?
A Swiss engineer named Ritter wants
the city Of Paris to adopt his plan for
obtaining an '.ineXhaustibie' supply
of water from the Lake of Neufchatel,
Switzerland, 313 miles away. The cost
is given at about $60,000,000
The new metal turrets with which
France has been experimenting have
proved unable to stand the new pro-
jectiles from modern guns. This says
the London Times, condemns ironclad
ships without giving them chance of
showing what they could do.
An Austrian baron, who desired to
commit suicide, consulted Il physician
about complaint about his heart in
order to find out exactly where it was
He then fired five shots into his BODY,
aiming athis heart, and they being I'M
successful he blew out his brains with
one shot.
An Altoona, Pa, youth named Fred
erick Hausser mixed three ounces of
powder with ten ounces of lard the
olnef Gay anu placed Ii on the stone to
boil as a remedy for horse itch. While
stirring the preparation it exploded,
lifting him about three feet in the air
and binding both his eyes.
Fair Haven, Conn, is in a queer pre-
dicament, if a story on the rounds is
true It recites that there is a lot of
land there for which no one has ever
been taxed and to which the city has
no title. The assessors and officials
have spent much time and money in
efforts to find the owner, and now have
begun to unwind a ball of red tape to
gain possession. The city has ordered
a sidewalk built opposite the land and
will then advertise for the owner to
come or and pay for it, y lien can
then be placed on the property, which
il Gs.e course Of time will come into
the city's possession.