Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-17
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A Philadelphia oculist declares that
the use of opera glasses strains the OPP
tic nerve and Injuries the eye sight.
John Quincy Adams, of Washington,
Ca, says that he has come into pos
session of various love letters written
by Edgar Allan Poe.
Isaac Taylor, Of Cadiz, Ohio is nine
ty-four and his wife is lightweight,
and they have been members of the
NJ. E. Church for seventy years.
Nearly a quarter of a million acres
of yellow pine lands in lower Alabama
and Northern Florida have been bought
by capitalists from the Northwest re-
Gently.
Engineers on the Great Northern
Railway. England, are given at least
nine hours rest between one days
labor, and another, as a precaution
against accidents.
The Rev, 7. Dewitt Talmage is a
great walker, and thinks nothing of an
early morning spin of eight or nine
miles into the suburbs, tOppled off with
brisk run of half a mile.
The wealthiest woman in the North
west is probably Mrs Sarah A. David
son, of St Paul, the widow of COmmo-
dore W. I. Davidson. She is estima-
ted to be worth about 100000.
Chauncey M. Depew has pair of
old-fashoned eyeglasses that belonged
to Daniel Webster. The framework
of the glasses looks like bone or horn,
and the arch for the nose is metal.
The deepest we'll drilled in the Uni
ted States is that of George Westing-
house, at HomeWood, near Pittsburg,
which reached a depth of 4,618 feet,
when the tools were lost and the drill
ing ceased.
The new museum of religion at Paris,
which is being erected near the Troco-
dero, will cost 100000. It will be a
repository of idols, paintings and other
objects accessory to the worship of
various peoples.
An Arapahoe Indian of full blood,
now taking q postgraduate course at
Hobart College, is a regularly Ordain-
ed clergyman of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. He is known as Rev.
Sherman Coolidge.
Miss Mary L. Leggett; of Beatrice,
Neb., was recently ordained in Kan
sas as u minister of the Unitarian de-
nomination. She is the first woman
ever ordained in that city and one of
the first west of the Mississippi.
Marion Hartranft, q New York girl
who S the possessor of a suit of fiery
red halr, has applied for an injunction
to restrain publisher from printing
or selling Il sOn9-sheet entitled Red
headed Girl and White Horse Song
ster."
A brace Of famous duelling pistols,
exhibited recently in bar-rOom in
Sumter, S. c., were owned by General
i. w. Morse, and have been in use in
a dozen or more duels, including the
famous Cash-Shannon meeting, when
Colonel Shannon was killed.
Mrs. Amanda Ewlambs, of Atlanta,
whose fortune is estimated at $780, 900
is perhaps the richest cOlored woman
in the South. Mrs. H. White, of Mo
bile, n colored woman, is worth $40,-
900, and there are several other rich
coIored women in the South.
1t is curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German in her own
home circle, the present German En-
press disregards it in hers and uses
English rs much Us possible. English
is Tie lireside tongue of the Greek,
Danish and Russian royal families.
A French bachelor advertised for a
wife. 4 typographical error changed
his ame from 81 to 81, but it made no
difference, for he received $50 applica-
tions from ladies ranging from the age
of 16 to 90, and all promising love and
devotion to the rest OF his existence.
Herr Fang, the Vienna journalist,
who d cd recently leaving a fortune of
$4,000 600, had a theory that every line
in Il newspaper ought to be paid for,
and predicted that Queen Victoria
would eventually have to pay for the
publication of her speeches to parlia-
ment.
Miss Smiley PRESLEY was recently
MARI ca to James Spttle, of Mathews,
n. c. The bride is not quite tu elve
years old, and her mother consented
to & marriage only on condition that
the bridegroom must continue to send
her Ia school. OF course, he agreed to
bhiS, iuNt GllS CIllAlt bGCiulS IL WIG.
Al Jonesboro, Georgia, man en-
tered Il store the other day and wanted
to pay for 4 suit of clothes which he
had purchased there twenty-eight
years before. The merchant didn' t
remember the man and had no ac-
count against any person of his name,
but the stranger insisted that he owed
the bill and paid it with interest.
Mr.. Joshua Jones, who died recently
in New York, was the largest stock
holder in the Chemical National Bank,
and was worth $4,000, 900, all of which
goes to distant relatives. 1t is related
Of him that when not long ago his
mother died and left him $1,000, 900
he mourned it as a burden and Il mis-
fortune, but he bravely bore it alone.
Albert Flint, of Birmingham, Eng
land, was sentenced to only three
months imprisonment ut hard labor
Cor throwing his child, eleven months
old, into the fireplace, and, when it
was rescued from there, throwing it on
the floor, kicking it, and trying to
Jump on it, having previously offered a
sovereign to the cnild's nurse to make
away with it.
Letters written by Napoleon and by
various kings of France and auto
g:apns of almost every great man in
French literature are to be sold in
Paris. i ere is an interesting letter
by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1914,
and one from the Duke of Wellington
US-O about an incognito journey
shrough the North of France which
the King of Prussia was then about to
undertake.