Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-05
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An apparatus is being perfected by
which telephoning can be carried on
between ships at sea, the water being
utilized as a sound conveyor.
1t has been found that the poppy
fiourishes in Florida, and some are
predicting that some day the produc-
ton Of opium will be one of the chief
: industries of the State.
About 1000 species of insects, on an
averare. have been discovered yearly
during the last century. One is al
most excusabIe for thinking that the
work Of creation is still in progress.
Robert Browning has nothing poet
zeal in his personal appearance. He
is short and stout, with Il red face. He
IS great diner-out, and enjoys his
roast beef and port wine like the most
commonplace Englishman.
Mr.. and Mrs. James o. Robinson
are solid citizens of Charlestown,
Mass. They have been married fifty
years He weighs 218 pounds and his
wife 22S, and of their seven living
children none weigh less than 200
pounds.
Mrs. Langhorne, a Virginia lady
whose husband made great fortune
i'm tobacco, wears the finest solitaire
diamonds in Washington. These
stones are valued at So, 900 each, and
she has a necklace to match which
cost $4,000.
Two Dubuque "ladies," both smitten
with the same dude, quarreled about
the possession of his photograph. One
of them, fearing to lose it in the scram-
bic, chucked it into her mouth. chewed
it into wad, and blew it into her
rivals face.
Willard F. Brown, aged weeks, is
on exhibition in Boston. His wrists
measure ore inch in circumference
aud his feet are one one and one-quar-
ter inches long. The infant is wrapped
in cotton batting and lies in a cradle
just Il inches long.
1t has been estimated that the sun
cannot be relied upon to furnish us
light and heat for more than 10. 900, 900
years more. Mr. Kelley will have to
hurry up with his motor if he expects
to make anything from it before every
thing goes TO smash.
A farmer near Dayton, Ohio, drove
some hunters off his land; one of the
men saw the farmer in town Offering
dead GRAY squirrels for sale. had him
arrested, and he as fined $33 under
the law forbidding the killing of this
game between Jan. l and June l.
Mrs Helen Nj. Gougcr admits that
she did say Rats" and under similar
circumstances would say it again. She
also declares that Hell" is a good
strong English word, and if she could
make point she would not be afraid
to use it, but not in a prOfane sense.
William Shakespeare and Anne Hath
away were recently married in Holy
Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-
Avon. 1t is said to have been love
match, in which respect it differed
from the couple who figured under the
same names in tAe parish register 800
years ago
The Duke of Westminster is reputed
to have a larger income than any other
subject of Great Britain. He owns
row upon row of tenement houses and
possesses many square miles of farm
ing land. lie receives $50 minute
the year round, or So, 900 an hour, or
$72, 600 day.
1t seems rs though tea grown in
Canada would possess extraordinary
pickering powers, like unto Il green
persimmon. Nevertheless Prof. ST.
Andrews, of the Central Experimental
Farm, of Canada, proposes trying
some experiments with a hardy variety
grown i'll Japan.
The Yankee propensity TO swap APP
pears to have found root in Florida.
A farmer of Sumter county, that State,
snapped his homestead of 100 acres
for five acres of land, 20 bushels of po-
tatoes, one sow, four pigs, five gallons
of syrup, four hens, two eggs, and a
huge chew Of tobacco.
Anthony Chabot, philanthrOpist of
Oakland, Cal, who endowed many
charities, declined to establish a home
for INDECENT old men, upon the ground
that man generally owed his indi-
gence to laziness or bad habits. He
generously enriched charities for wom-
en- and children, however.
In the south, in counties where pro-
hibition really prohibits. it is said that
Jamaica ginger drunkenness is
alarmingly on the increase. Half a
pint of That mixture is said to put a
mans brain in very noticeable con-
dition of ''fuddIe." Jacksonville, Ga. j.,
HAS prob bited the sale of Jamaica GIN
ger.
A Georgia negress has given birth
to a 16-pound child whose fingers and
toes are webbed to their full length.
One of her neighbors brought into the
world Il still more wonderful being
Its two eyeballS were in one socket
and in place of a nose it had a two
and-a-half-nch trunk, resembling that
of an elephant.
On Feb. %, according to a Spanish
custom, the girls may properly exer-
else the greatest freedom in showing
their affection for their favored SWANS.
To hug and kiss them even is consid-
cred good form. American boys have
not manifested any repugnance at the
thought of the custom becoming pre-
valent in this country.
Gen. Dan Sickles says that the Con-
gress Of 1S60-61 lived on cocktails and
fusel-oil animosities, and that whisky
really brought about the Rebellion.
He adds tat IF the French Assembly
were to drink some morning one-half
the whisky consumed in one day bv
the Congress of 1860, France would de-
clare war against Germany in 20 min
utes'
Worth, the French milliner, lives in
the suburbs of Paris in palace that
covers several acres and is gorgeously
furnished. Once year it is thrown
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