Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-01

Inc French propose to SEND pigeon
messages from ship to ship upon the
broad seas.
Savannah is now the largest cotton
port in the United States, and Norfolk
second.
A Modesto (Cal) lady has raised a
sunhoWer tWenty-nine inches in diam
eter and weighing eight pounds.
A Butte, Cal. man who began farm
ing on rented land ten years ago has
this year $61,000 worth of wheat to
sell.
Irish agriculture continues to de-
cline. Last year tillage decreased by
$4,000 acres, and grass lands increased
by $4,000 acres.
The island of La COST, on the Flori-
da coast, is being set out with cocoanut
trees so rapidly that it will soon be one
immense cocoanut grove.
a tract of land containing 100000
acres in Aroostook County, Maine, has
been sold for 100000. The deed re-
corded contains $4,000 words.
The chief reason for Moltke's resig-
nation, expressed in his letter to En-
peror William, is that at my great
age L am no longer able to mount a
horse"
Cattle are so cheap in Nevada that
the present season will prove a very
Improbable one for stock raisers. Beef
is selling at to 81 cents a pound, with
few buyers.
A correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury says that he heard some cor
net playing from a photograph which
had been repeated more than a thousand
times, and all the notes were as clear
and distinct as ever.
Paris T9duStre, without question the
most elegant illustrated paper in the
world, is to be published in an English
edition, and the International News
Company, of New York, has the ex-
elusive agency for the United States.
An absent-minded Albany clergy
man having forgotten his appointment
to attend a funeral, a neighboring
cooper, vino is gifted with the power
of prayer, was called in and performed
the function of the minister.
The Institute Of the Brothers of the
Christi9n Schools now numbers 1920
establishments, scattered throughout
the world. There are l1,712 brothers,
and 1,070 schools, with 307,3 pupils,
besides many colleges and boarding
schools.
The doors of St. Paul's Chathedral
are kept closed during the week on ac-
count of the mischief and indecorum
which would take place if they were
opened. 1t is said that even with a
restricted right of enterance the cathe-
dral is constantly polluted.
The Country Court House at Pitts
burg, Pa, cost nearly 100000. The
tower rises to a height of APO feet. 1t
has bridge over which the prisoners
pass between the court-rooms and the
Jail, which is modelled after the famous
bridge of Signs in Venice.
The oldest woman's club in the Unit
ed States is the Woman's Physiologic-
al Institute of Boston. Forty-one
years ago it was organized with the
purpose of promoting the more perfect
health of woman. There is one surViv-
ing charter member, a Mrs. Hobbs, and
she is eighty years old.
An old writer says: ga long chin
declareth man to be peaceable, yet a
babbler. They that have little chins
are much to be avoided and taken heed
of, for they are full of impiety and
wickedness, and are spies like unto
serpents. If the end of the chin be
round, it is the sign of nice manners;
but the chin of a real man is square"
1t is said of Samuel J. Randall that
there is hardly another man in public
life who is so poor. The plain brick
house in Washington is owned by Mrs.
Randall. The Randall estate does
own large tract of Southern iron and
coal lands which he hopes some day
will be worth something to his chill
dren. The lands are not developed.
When they are they may be worth
millions.
Miss Lois M. Royce, the little school
teaching heroine of the Western biz
yards, has received the pair of artificial
feet to provide which teachers and
others in Boston contributed the means,
and they have already proved wonder
fully efficient. She writes: ''They fit
so far admirably, and walk very well
with them. [ walked to the carriage
this afternoon just by taking hold of
my fathers arm"
German journalism has just entered
on its third century. In 1858 Christian
Thomasius who thought that the ex-
elusive use of Latin was an impedi-
ment to learning, and who wanted to
see Germany free from the influence
OF scholastic pedantry, established at
Lelpsic a monthly periodical in the
German language, in which he showed
great skill in dealing with the questions
which interested him. Thomasius'
monthly lived two years, and was the
first journal or periodical printed in
the German language.
Philadelphia has new religious sect
whose title is fearfully and wonderful
ly constructed. 1t is The Ecclesia Of
Israel; the Cyipz or Worshipping Con-
gregation of Our Fathers Kingdom on
Earth. They have revised the open
ing sentences of the Lords Prayer so
that they read: ''Our father who art
in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy
hand of power our souls do fear; thine
ear of love our prayers do hear; thy
voice of light ilIumines our feet; unto
thy house our steps we bend, eternity
with thee to spend; thy kingdom has
come; now let thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven"
John A. Robinson, of Norwich, Conn.
had horror of being buried alive. and
SO he left directions as to the manner
of his burial after he should have
seemed to have died. His body was to
be kept three days before being placed