Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-15


1.-THE funeral of marriages. is what
Chief-J Justice Peters of Maine calls
divorce day in the Supreme court.
A Greek wedding ceremony lasts all
day and the richer the family the
more priests are employed for the SER
vice.
An Anglican curate performed the
marriage ceremony for child eleven
years old in Kensington, England, re-
Gently.
Two young Massachusetts women
have gone to Buffalo with the inten-
ton of embarking in the profession OF
dentistry.
Queen Victoria sent 1925 to Mrs.
James Lees of Goole, who was injured
by the exposition of fireworks during
the jubilee celebrations.
Berry, the English hangman, has
executed 113 persons up to the present
time, sixteen of them having been in
Ireland and two in Scotland.
A farm in Greene County, Alabama,
consisting of 945 acres, was sold under
mortgage at Eutaw the other day, and
brought only 40 cents per acre.
Muscalonge fishing has been very
good near Ogdensburg this season.
The largest fish taken weighed forty
one and one half pounds drawn.
A girl in Oconee County, Georgia,
married at the age of nine years, her
husband being forty-fve years old. 1t
is said she became motner before she
was ten years of age.
The last public whipping in the
State Of Rhode Island took place in
Providence July II, 1927. Two horse
thieves were logged with a cat-o'-nine
tails by order of the court.
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Jackson,
seyenty-three years of age, recently
took part in a public concert at the
A. M. E. Church in Reading. The
local paper says she has fine voice.
The gavel used by the presiding
officer Of the United States Senate has
been in use over tifty-six years. 1t il
made out of an elephants tooth and
has no handle, nor did it ever have
one.
Mrs. Riley, of Brooklyn, run needle
into her heel seven years ago. Las
week she took it out from a small fes
ter in her thumb. 1t is needless tC
say that she was a good deal sur
prised.
DR.. Voisin relates the case of Cir
IL years of age, who was a most in
veterate and persistent liar anC
whom he cured completely of this
reprehensible habit by means of hyp
notism.
Benjamin L. Hume, native of Vir-
rinia, who was StoneWall Jackson's
guide during the late war, is now liv.
inc on Il farm near Madison. Ga. He
is a Methodist minister, now on th(
retired list.
Hannibal Hamlin refused to don III
overcoat even during Il severe blizzard
in Maine when the mercury sunk GU
Of sight. He SO far compromised him
self, however, as to put on a pair Of
wooden mittens.
Mr.. Carson recently moved from
Inlay City. Mich, to Benkleman
Neb., taking with him fayorite dog
The dog returned to Inlay City the
other day, having found its way bacl
on foot and alone.
The Russian sculptor Opekucshin ha:
just commenced a statue to form par
of monument to be erected in th(
Kremlin by the car to his fathers
memory. The complete cost is to be
at least 100000.
William Aiken, of Greensboro, GA.
has an ear of corn which presents al
almost perfect picture of a human
hand. The wrist and every finger are
represented. No grains of corn are
on the hand of the ear.
The young Duke of Newcastle, who
is now in Florida, is the possessor Of
th" famous blue diamond-a gem
weighing forty-five carats and the
most perfect specimen of its kind in
existence. 1t is worth $150,000.
Mrs. John Guest, of Wichita, kas..
during her twenty years of married
life has presented her husband with
twenty-five children. She has twice
given birth to twins and once to trip.
lets and all were welcome Guests.
A tombstone weighing sixteen tons,
and cut in the form of tree with
birds and squirrels lodged in its
branches, and ferns, flowers, an open
book and a scroll of music at the
base, is curiosity at MenoSha, Ohio.
Scientists assert that the newly dis
covered cities of Arizona are the same
as sought by Cortez and the early Span.
ish adventures in their expeditions
after gold. The cities are seven in
number and show evidences of former
civilization and wealth.
Ex-Gov Merriwether of Kentucky,
who succeeded Henry Clay in the
United States Senate, is prosecuting a
claim against the Government for ST.
500 which he claims for balance oil
salary due him as Governor OF New
Mexico thirty years ago.
President Cleveland has adopted the
habit of slipping away from his desk
for half an hour at about dusk fol
a sharp walk through the unfre-
quented portion of the West End. He
is said to have already reduced his
weight about twenty pounds.
During the last famine in China il
required fifteen days to transport re-
lief to the people over Il distance OF
200 miles. Contrast with that the fact
that at the time of the big Chicago
fire in 1871 Il relief train from New
York travelled l 800 miles in twenty
one hours.
William Carrow, 4 farmer, was
thrown out of his sleigh by striking
against a lamp post in Ionia, Mich.
He was picked up insensible but he
still held his clay pipe between his
teeth, and his first sign of conscious.
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