Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
MISSING LINKS.
a New York street merchants sign
reads .sLemenaid."

irrigation has produced a great crop
of mosquitoes at Los Angeles, Cal
A new cradle on the top of new
coffin was seen a few days ago in 4
wagon leaving Atlanta, Ga. Life had
come at the price of life.
Among the miscellaneous articles in
vented for the promotion of beauty are
artificial veins, the wrinkle effacer and
the Circassienne, which imparts a
brilliancy to the eye.
A new Catholic high school, with ca
pacity for 900 pupils, is nearly COM
pleted in Philadelphia The funds for
its construction came from the estate
of the late Thomas Cahill.
Thomas B. Barry, of the general ex-
ecutive board of the Knights of Labor.
says the country was never so free
from strikes as at the present time.
The board has no strikes to settle at
all.
Nicholas Murphy, watchman on the
Boston tea wharf, was presented the
other day with gold-headed cane by
his employers for his braveryin having
saved 100 persons from drowning dur
ing the past five years.
No other nation boasts of so many
| grades and varieties of sweetmeats as
the Chinese. Over ninety varieties of
sugar-cured fruits are on their bill of
fare, the most valuable of these being
their preserved gingers and apricots.
Guys Hospital, the richest of the en-
dowed charities of London, has been
obliged to ask for share of the hos
pital Sunday fund. The agricultural
depression is the cause. The endow-
ments of the hospital consist chiefly of
landed property.
The value of the real and personal
property of California this year, as re-
turned by the local assessors, is 81, 083,-
333, 1913, which shows an increase of
$175, 213,848 over last year. Thisis ex-
elusive of the railroads, which foot up
about 100000 900.
One of the most successful farmers
of Cuthbert, Ga, is Hebrew. He be-
gan business there as a baker, then be-
came a merchant, and finally took to
| agriculture, which is very unusual for
a Jew. In all his undertaking he has
been prosperous.
Mile. Esmeralda, q snake charmer,
while performing at New Brighton,
England, was attacked by large CO.
bra, which coilcd around her body and
badly bit her. the blood flowing in
streams from her wounds. She never
theless finished the performance.
An English woman who has made a
special study of deer says that the
| chief use of their antlers is not so much
for fighting as for facilitating the pro-
gress of the animal through the woods.
By throwing up the head, thereby
placing the horns along the back, they
are enabled to go forward with great
rapidity.
The grand reception room in Mrs.
Secretary Whitney's Washington house
is said to remind one of the salons Of
Versailles and Fontainebleau. The
walls are covered with brocaded silk,
made in France to order, after the
styles of Louis XVI. and old masters,
and there is an abundance of GObelin
tapestry hung about.
A survey has lately been made in the
North of ireland and on the Null of
Kintyre for the purpose of securing
data for an estimate of the cost of a
tunnel across the narrow strait
which separates Ireland from Scotland.
The result reached was that tunnel
would cost eight millions sterling, or
about a million per nautical mile.
Prairie chickens, like other natives
of the wilds, are opposed to ciyiliza-
ton, and are being pushed back to-
ward the frontier with the advance of
the immigrant. During the last ten
years they have been moving west SO
fast that they are no longer seen in
Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, and
now flock in Western Nebraska or Da-
k0ta.
One Of the jewels owned by Mrs.
Robert johnson, of San Francisco, is a
necklace of diamonds that forms an
exact counterfeit of q snake. It is
composed of solitaires set in illumin-
| tapping each other like those in chain
armor, render the necklace perfectly
pliable and increase the resemblance
to the snakelike sinuosity.
Considerable excitement is going on
concerning the actions of men and
women at Bog Hill, near Belfast, Me-,
who have been digging up the hills and
pastures for some time. The seekers
are strangers, and the men retire when
approached, while the women only an
swer questions with a blank stare.
There is an old theory that Captain
| Kidd buried treasure there.
Professor George Davidson, who re-
Gently examined the great Lick tele-
scope on Mount Hamilton, CAL, says
that when the astronomers in charge
make public their discoveries the whole
world will be astonished. Some of the
discoveries they have made are, in
fact, so novel and wonderful that Pro-
| fessor Holden and his assistants are
timid about announcing them for fear
the world will consider them illusions.
The youngest grandfather in the
United States has been discovered in
Augusta, Ga. His name is James
Lindsay and he will be thirty-fve years
| in 1870, when but seventeen years old,
and year after his son William was
! born. William resolved to follow the
paternal example, and in June, 1887,
eloped with young girl nineteen
years of age, and on the first of this
month Mr.. Lindlay became grand
! father.
An instrument called the autograph
ometer, which records automatically
the topography and difference of level
of all places over which it passes, is q
new French invention, the utility of
which cannot certainly be questioned
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