Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-12
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bearing the whole expense.
Buffalo Bill is said to be negotiating
for lease of Alexandria Palace for
three years, and to be thinking of
making his home in England.
After having regularly struck the
hour for 500 years the old clock of
st. Quentins, in Mayence, has got out
OF order and is being repaired.
Philadelphia is not far from the coal
region, and yet the poor of that city
who buy coal by the bucketful pay for
it at the rate of about SIS per ton.
The French council has taken off the
| legion of honor list 157 persons who
secured their crosses fraudulently. and
has suspended sc others pending a
more thorough examination.
Taking six trades as basis, the
average pay of a skilled laborer in
North Carolina is SLIGO day; unskill-
ed, 65 cents; farm labor without
board, 50 cents, and with board, so
cents.
An English company claims to be
able to make one ton of pure tin, from
SO tons of scraps and waste tin, and
figures out profit of $3.50 ton for the
| business, counting pure tin at only
| $500 a ton.
America has ceased to be the great
absorbent of diamonds. Our million
Hires seem to have got enough, and the
country that buys most now is China.
| Shares in African diamond mines are
almost at premium.
E. Hendrix, of Applegate, Ore, cut
down large pine tree and within the
| wood found a small cavity which was
encrcled by forty-tive rings of yearly
| growth. In this cavity was foreign
copper coin bearing the date 1890.
DR.. Garnett. Librarian of the British
| Museum, says that a newspaper runs
through three stages: 1t is important
for the day; the next day it is flung
aside; and finally the time comes when
the paper is worth its weight in gold.
Recent returns give the population
of the Russian Empire as los, 787, 235.
European Russia has SLIPS, 1856; the
PIG, 421; the Caucasus, 1884, 547; ST.
IBERIA, 4,313. $50, and Central Asia,
5,327,0 98.
| The Countess de Chambrun, one of
the leaders of French society, gives
novel receptions. The guests are first
conducted to 4 private chapel, and af-
ter short prayer by the chaplain a
sacred concert is performed by the
organ choir.
At weddings the Greek church uses
two rings, one of gold, the other of
| Tn pnrt,1OoI
rings are placed upon the fingers of
the bride at the words: ''In the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost"
Sitting Bulls Sioux name is Ta-tan-
ka-i-yo-tan-ka. Ta-tan-ka is ''Buffa-
10 BULL" liking of beasts" and i-yo-
tan-ka means literally to sit down on
Dr to conquer. The real meaning of
Sitting Bull is, therefore, 'Fconqueror
OF the king of beasts" or king of kings.
Mrs. Krupp, widow of the great gum
maker, will be an elegant 'catch" for
some impecunious and enterprising
bachelor. By the terms of her late
husbands will she has permission to
take from the late estate any income
she chooses not exceeding 1925, 900 a
year.
j. K. Richie, of Blakely, Ca, found
an animal smaller than mouse, which
| had very diminutiye eyes, no visible
neck or ears, q long tail for its size
and snout. It's fur closely resembled
that of 4 mole, but it had little pink
feet with very distinct toes. He
| plowed it up in his field.
4 citizen of Pennington, Me-, re-
ceiyed a letter from a school agent in
rural district inquiring for a school
teacher. The writer gave long list
| of the qualifications which a teacher
must possess, and among other things
stated that no one that ate with a
knife would be acceptable.
Capt. friedrich desmond, an exiled
| Frenchman, for many years resident
| of Providence, r. l., and keeper of a
| cheap restaurant, has fallen heir TO an
| estate in France valued at $125.00
! He is descendant of Count Henry
| desmond of the fifteenth century. and
q son of a distinguished Admiral in the
| French navy.
The rooster would be a much more
| popular bird if he could only be induc-
| ed to feel that there is no real, vital
| necessity for his reporting his where
abouts between midnight and a. m.
| We know that he is at home, in the
| bosom of his family. So are we, but
| we don't get up in the middle of the
night to brag about it.-Ptc6.
An English traveller told a Belize
! (Honduras) newspaper man that he
| had eaten scorpion pie' while in
| Mexico, and that he liked it. The ma
tives told him that young scorpions
were frequently utilized for food for
the lower classes, who dig them from
their nests in hundreds, remove the
sting, and make omelets of them.
Professor Kirchoff, I, decide a bet,
recently stated that Chinese was the
most popular language in the world.
1t is spoken by 100000. 900 persons.
Hindostani by upward of 100. 900, 900;
English by more than 100 900, 900;
Russian by more than 100000; Ger
man by 58,OOO,000 Spanish by 48, 000,-
900, and French by only 40,O00,0O0.
A traveller in Japan was recently
shown the interior of native printing
office. He found cease" four feet
wide by sixty feet long, where twelve
compositors worked. They did won
derful amount of rushing about in
search of the types needed, for over
fifty thousand different characters re-
posed in the divisions of this vast con-
struction.
Mrs. Sarah E. Representation, who
died recently in Richmond, Va, was
in her youth a sweetheart of Edgar A.