Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-07
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Jack Pot
'Trains de luxe is term now ap-
piled to the rich aud comfortable
means of travelling devised by the car
manufacturers.
Thechrysanthemum is plant of such
recent date in this country that many
will be surprised to know that next
year will be the centenary of its intro
duction in England.
The book that tells how person
may live on $3.50 year was probably
meant for a camp in the backwoods,
or it may be read as one of the thrill
ing romances of the year.
The Matthew Arnold fund has now
reached $4,000. After paying for a
modest memorial in Westminster Alb
hey the committee will invest the
money for the benefit of Mrs. Arnold.
Mrs. Southworth, the authoress, has
recently had all the gold pens with
which she wrote her stories converted
into two rings for her children, both of
whom are married and settled at Yon-
kers.
One woman journalist is reporting
the proceedings of the Parnell Com
mission at the law courts. She holds
the seat allotted to an Irish newspa-
per, and does correspondence for some
continental journals.
A New York wedding custom of the
season is that of inviting men to act as
ushers. The grooms prefer to ask the
services of old friends who have pre-
coded them to the altar rather than to
fall back upon boyish acquaintances.
The original of Thackeray's War
rington in ''Pendennis," George StOvin
Venables. Q. c., has just died, leaving
a personal estate of $4,000. He
willed various sums to servants and
life annuity of ESP to former laun-
dress.
The use of tobacco at Yale is de-
creasing this year, owing to the exam
pie set by the athletic associations,
which do not allow their members to
smoke or chew. Gymnasiums have
wide influence over the health of collie
giates.
Charles Marteu and Mrs. Sullivan of
Grafton, OAK, were married recently.
The groom is "a years old and the
bride has tarried on this earth for Is
years. She gave the young man $500
and promised to leave him her entire
fortune when she dies.
Deadwood, d. T., must contain some
tough citizens. One of them was Dig
ging into a hill between two project
weighing 5000 pounds fell, and pin
toned him to the other. He was ex-
tricated only slightly injured.
Jane Hading is delighted with this
country, but she does not like the
cooking at our hotels. She complains
that the high art of seasoning is not
understood, and that our tendency to
indulge in tasteless soup and soggy
pastry is National misfortune.
A crazy man was detected in the act
of blowing up a powder magazine sit
uated OH Douglas Island, near Alaska.
AS there were thirty tons of giant
powder in the magazine, it is safe to
say that he came near making noise
IN the world, even if he was crazy.
The Cumming, (Ga.) Clarion is evil
IDENTIFY not popular with all of its sub
seribers. A number of them gathered
up all the copies they could find, piled
them into heap, covered them with
sulphur and birthstone, and set fire to
them. They then stood at distance
and emitted sulphurous language until
the pile disappeared.
A horse attached to the flying Jenny
at the exposition in Atlanta, Ga, got
scared and ran away. All the dummy
of ha
horse ran around the circle for fully
ten minutes before he stopped. The
riders of the dummies were carried
around with fearful rapidity and were
made deathly sick. No one was in
jured.
Mrs. Anderson of Portland, Ore, is one
woman who is able to take care of her
self. She went out shopping the other
day and noticed that Young man was
logging her steps. Finally he made
an attempt to grab her purse. Mrs.
Arnold laid down her bundle, rolled
up her sleeves, doubled her fists, and
gave the fellow mauling that he will
remember for some time.
Cremation is slowly winning its way
into public favor At congress of
its advocates in Vienna it was report
ed in the course of the discussion that
there exists about fifty furnaces in all,
the majority of which are in the United
States, one is in Germany (Gotha),
twenty in Italy, one in England, one
in Switzerland and one (Which is not
quite completely in France.
The Shah of Persia has an original
way of dealing with railway troubles.
A little while ago there was a riot at
the Teheran Railroad Station. His
Majesty's plan to do away with such
nuiSances in the future is to stop all
traffic on the road and oblige the Min
lister of War and other personages to
ride up and down the entire line warn
ing everybody around not to begin
riOting any more.
There are two kinds of salmon on
the Pacific slope, one kind having
white and the other pink colored flesh.
The former variety are not looked upon
with favor, and do not sell well. This
is said to be the result of a senseless
prejudice, and several firms are push
ing the sale of the white salmon. No
body seems to know what causes the
difference in the two kinds, as they are
identical in species.
A visitor to Japan noticed the pre-
ponderance of German influence in
that country. Many of the Yokohama
shops had their japanese signs trans
lated into German only, while in all
notices which appeared in foreign lam
guages German held the first place.
Next in frequency, and not far be-