Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
MISSING LINKS.
Gay colors for dress coats are com.
ing in fashion in London.

historic name of Daniel Webster.
The wealth of Frederick Douglas.
United States minister to Hayti, is es-
timated at 100000.
A Kansas editor says that $4,000
railroad cars Will be required to haul
the wheat crop of his state.
The new powder for Russian small
arms gives greatly increased velocity
over that formerly in use.
The Dowager Empress Frederick of
Germany enjoys an income from all
sources of about $3.50, 900 a year.
The first Unitarian missionary has
appeared in Japan, and has begun a
theological controversy in the press.
Mr.. Wanamaker, as postmaster gen.
eral, occupies smaller and palmer Of
fees than any other member of the
cabinet.
Buffalo Bill has been engaged by the
French government to teach one hun
dred cavalry officers to ride in the
American style.
An engagement was broken at Law
renee, Kas.. because she discovered
another girls name written with pen
Gil on his collar.
When walking out the Empress of
Russia always carries large fan with
which to screen her face from those
who stare rudely at her.
President Harrison is a very good
traveller. He never gets irritable and
is calm even when porter brushes his
spotless coat for the third time.
A cat kept in swimming bath at
Albany is said to be an excellent
swimmer, and to like the water, into
which she will dive in pursuit of fish.
Prince Eugene of Sweden and the
Princess Kalakaui of the Sandwich Is
lands are said to be engaged. The
prince lives at Paris, where ne studies
painting.
People with theories about hands, eyes,
or noses can deduce their own con-
illusions from the fact that Gen. Boul-
anger's ears stand out at an angle of
45 degrees.
Lord Tennyson's health has inn
proved wonderfully of late. His ply
siclans say that he shows symptoms of
writing poem to the latest Batten-
berg baby.
The average monthly temperature of
San Francisco for the last fifteen years
has been 554 degrees. The highest for
any month was SO degrees and the low
est so degrees.
Robert Louis Stevenson's mother,
who was with her son in the South
seas, reports him as in greatly improv-
ed health and about starting on an
other years cruise.
Queen Victoria is not fond of Amer
lean girls. She considers them too
firtatious and does not like the way
they dress. Her heir apparent does
not agree with her in this matter.
''Stephen Adams" otherwise Mr..
Maybrick, the song-writer and singer,
is tall, powerful-looking man, blonde
and handsome. When he sings he APP
pears to be working terribly hard.
Sarah Bernhard has developed
great liking for Americans. She seeks
their society, invites them to her enter
tainments and openly asserts that they
are the wittiest people in the world.
A Yankee has set up a school in
Paris, and advertises that he will
''teach any Frenchman to speak the
only sensible language in the world in
SIX weeks, and at cost of only $50"
Nine. de Grouchv, the widow of the
marshal who lost the battle of Water
loo for Napoleon by not coming in
time to it, died at Pau on June Is.
She was Sc. Grouchy died in 1915.
The number of wolves in European
Russia is estimated to be about 49,
600. These wolves destroy annually
100000 head of cattle 800, 900 sheep,
100000 dogs, besides 100 human be-
ings.
A Salem, (Ore.) newspaper recently
printed the following personal: eff
John Jones, who twenty years ago
deserted his wife and babe, will return
said babe will lick the stufin' out of
him.
At Washington Secretary Blaine
rises early and reads the morning pa
pers and attends to all his private and
good deal of public correspondence
before he goes to his office, which he
reaches at 10 o'clock.
The colored people of Tiptonville,
Tenn, don't know the rules of poker.
The other day, when one of their num-
Der won So at the game and proposed
to keep it. they ran him off to the woods
and sought to hang him.
Although he had an income of $780,
900 year, in addition to a couple of
palaces kept up without cost to him,
the late crown prince of Austria left
debts amounting to 100000, ali of
which the emperor has paid.
The care fox takes of her cubs can
be seen from list of provisions found
together about an ''earth." 1t COM
prised 10 rabbits, 20 rats, 2 pheasants,
/ wild duck, 2 fowls, / snipe, 2 wood
cocks, 30 moles; total, 20 head.
A prehistoric round tower of two
stories is reported to have been discov-
cred near Fort Wingate, in New Next
finely built of stone, with indications
of dome roof of the same material.
George G. Min, the actor-preacher,
formerly of Chicago, is now playing a
profitable Shakspearean season in
Australia, and is in a fair. way to
make his fortune. At Melbourne his
box-office receipts for two weeks of
Hamlet" were $4,000.
Charlotte Harbor, Fla, is said to be
so full of fish that it is actually run
ming over. One day recently fully
thirty pounds of fish jumped out on
shore and were picked up by eiti-
zen. There was one fifteen pound
reddish, three fve-pound snooks and