Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-27
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Stucy Oh lie, as LIE simple truth.
1t is said now that England gave to
the Germans a copy of her new life in
return for the recipe for making NELL
mite.
An Oregon man had in his garden a
tomato vine that was Is feet high and
the branches of which covered an area
of 20 feet.
An orchardist near Walla Walla, W.
T., gathered five crops of Bartlett
pears in 1883 according to Walla
Walla paper.
The London hanson is at last to be
introduced in Paris. Lord Shrewsbury,
the greatest cab owner in London, is
at the head of the company.
a man at Laramie laughed at an In
dian who slipped down on the street
five years ago, and the other day the
red man came around and stabbed him
in the back as a reward.
Samuel Wood, of Cooleyville, Ind,
has dog that beats anything on re-
cord. A hawk caught one of the henf
and flew away with it. 1t got eighe
feet in the air, when the dog gave G
jump and the hen got away all rigk
but the hawk is on exhibition.
In the good old days, when the Ro-
mans used to let wild beasts loose to
devour captives, a fullgrown lion
would Stay as many as seven people
before he got tired of the fun. One
writer tells of q lion which killed
seventeen persons in thirty-two
minutes.
The largest artificial basin for dock
ing and repairing the hulls of ships in
the United States is being completed
at Newport News, Va. 1t is 600 feet
long, $50 feet wide, with depth of %
feet over the sill at high tide. 1t is
furnished with pumps that can empty
it in two and half hours.
A Montreal barber has sued a Gus
toner for the following: Hair cutting,
25 cents 6 cents extra for Sunday;
shampooing, % cents; smuggling, 25
cents; trimming beard, Is cents 6
cents extra for Sundays; singeing
beard, 25 cents; shampooing beard, 25
cents; shaving upper lip, Is cents: total,
$1.55.
Southern Michigan folks who yearn
for cheap living may slip over the In
diana line and find a restaurant at
South Bend where the ''corn bread"
is made of Eastwood sawdust and corn
starch. cit is film, but not fatten-
in" as the old Irish lady said of the
water she fed the pig an hour before
she sold him.
Mabel Hastings, of Ubet, M. T., was
guarding her fathers sheep the other
day, when pair of big gray wolves
attacked them She ran to the house,
got rifle, put herself between the
wolves and the sheep, and, after firing
five shots and wounding one of the
brutes, had the satisfaction of seeing
them run.
Sir Lyon Playfair says that during
! seventeen years service as Member of
Parliament he came in contact with
the most eminent medical men in Eng
land, and he put the question to most
of them: ''Did you, in your extensive
practice, ever know patient who was
afraid to die?" With two exceptions
they answered 'No."
DR.. Eisenmann, of Berlin, has in
vented a piano which, by the aid of
electro-magnetism, can sustain, in
crease and diminish sound. This has
been attempted by other experts, not
ably Boehm, the inventor of the metal
flute. Another novelty will be that,
by moving the electromagnetic, the
timbre of the tone is changed; for ex-
ample, from that of 4 vioIoncello to
piccolo.
AS regards the familiar term corn"
80 frequently referred TO in the Euro
pean journals, it usually denotes in
each country such grains as is the
most prominent production. Thus, in
Central Europe the ''corn" is rye, in
France and England wheat, in America
maize" and in some countries oats.
The term ''pulse" is also frequently
used in England, and has reference to
beans and peas.
Fred Mather, the well-known fish
culturist. has been making some very
interesting experiments with the mi
croscope which prove that there are
100000 eggs ia an eel. How and
when these eggs are Matched has al
ways been, and still is, mystery.
All that is known definitely is that the
old cells run down to salt water in
October, and that in the spring
swarms of young ones, the size OF
darning-needle and about two inches
long, ascend the rivers.
DIR. Variot, of Paris, is reported to
have discovered a method by which to
remove tattoo marks from the human
skin. It has been extensively tested
and with most encouraging results.
His modus operandi is to prick the
marks or spots with needles until the
blood flows and then to inject tannin,
and finally to cauterize with nitrate Of
silver. The wounds caused by the
pricking become black for a time, then
turn red, and after a month or so the
parts which have been treated are al
most indistinguishable from the adj
joining flesh.
A colored man was arrested in Mem
phis the other day who might we'll be
called peripatetic junk shop. When
he was searched at the station house
something more than peck of odds
and ends were found in his pockets.
He had razor and full shaving outfit,
several combs. a looking-glass, four
pocket handkerchiefs, Il gimlet, a brad
awl, two pocket knives, copy of the
Biblical Reason Why" two pipes, a
iewsharp, three fiddle strings, chunk
of rosin. two Jumps of beeswax, three
red flannel rags, plug of navy tobae-
co and divers other articles.
SAYS St. Louis undertaken: The
daily death list in the newspapers is
consulted by more people than those
who have an idle curiosity to know
who is dead. During a campaign can
didates for office are anxious to attend