Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
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mons are too long.
1t is said that when he is busy in
''round up" single cowboy will tire
out six or eight horses in day.
An Indiana woman who had no less
than five husbands is now looking
around for sixth. She was divorced
from the last one.
In Matamoras, Texas, wild geese sell
at 81 cents each, all ready picked and
dressed. and ducks sell at from three
to four for 10 cents.
The number of adherents OF the
Roman Catholic Church in America has
| increased during the past century from
44,500 to 100000.
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, has
provided in his will that his body be
cremated and the ashes dumped into
the river at midnight.
| The Jews Free School at Spital-
fields, England, is said to be the larg-
est school in the world. 1t numbers
$500 pupils-2,250 boys and 1850
girls.
| Anew dance called the ''chow-chow"
has become very popular in the East.
! A portion of it consists of waltz in
which you can hug the four ladies in
rotation.
The Maltese cat in a Poughkeepsie,
N. Y. drug store, suddenly developed
an appetite for leeches, and while the
druggists back was turned ate thirty
of them.
4 great Indian cemetery has been
laid bare at Romney. Va, by freshet
on a branch of the Potomac. Numer-
Gus skeletons and many trinkets have
! been found.
A family of five in Dakota subsisted
for three weeks on five pounds OF pork
and a bushel of carrots, and there is no
use in any young housekeeper trying
! to beat that record.
The sum total of all the counterfeit
money set af1oat last year did not
amount to $25, 900, and the queer
men were out of pocket in their trans
actions. There is more profit in steal
ing overcoats.
Strange what queer languages are
spoken in this country. A Western
paper in a local item recently told
of "a regular old razooper. who, hay
ing got skate on, INDUCED in glori-
Gus razzle-dazzle."
A Piedmont. S. c., clergyman mar
ried a couple and published a notice
to that effect before he learned that
the contracting parties were men. They
wanted to have little fun at the
minister's expense.
Eyes, it's just bit awkward-just
Bit" observed Charles McGraw, of
Providence, as seven of his wives
gathered at the Jail to interview him.
Had the other four been on hand he
would have been almost broken up
over it.
The citizens of Dion boast that they
have the oldest poplar in France, but
Just how old it is no one knows. It is
122 feet high, forty-fve feet in cir
conference at the base, and twenty
three feet in circumference fifteen feet
from the base.
One of the English regiments is ex-
perimenting with machine called a
centercycle, which has four small
wheels foot in diameter and one in
the center. 1t is said that the inven-
ton makes climbing Il hill as easy for a
cycler as rolling off a log.
Frank Thornton, of EIberton, has in
his possession a couple of eggs which
are curiosities. They have two shells;
the yolk is inclosed in small one
and the white around it in the larger.
The eggs are as large as a goose egg,
which they closely resemble.
AS soon as an article becomes un-
common, it's value as a work of art
rises to surprising degree. Buffalo
robes, which have become scarce, are
now fashionable floor rugs. Any one
possessing a buffalo robe should take
it from his sleigh and spread it among
the rugs of Oriental manufacture.
M. Jeane ALBERT, whose pictures of
eupids and nymphs find so ready a
sale in this country, married an Ameri-
can woman, for whose death some
four years ago he is still inconsolable.
Her room is left just as it was when
she died, and every day her husband
lays bunch of fresh flowers on her
pillow.
The new American navy, when COM
pleted, will consist of twenty-five
vessels. ranging from the armored
cruiser Maine. carrying 444 men, down
to tirst-class torpedo boat, carrying
four officers and eighteen men. There
will be 5,786 men on board the twenty
two vessels-5O0 officers and $3.50
sailors and marines.
/ They are still pegging away at the
Cape Cod Ship Canal, which was be-
gun nine years ago. The contract re-
quires the work to be finished by June
20, 1891, but as there are r"n miles
yet to be dug, and as durin- '78 there
was only about seven-eight.,- # mile
opened, the prospects are not good for
the fulfllment of the contract.
The Masonic fraternity in New York
State numbers 10000 men and has
$4,000 in cash, besides large pledges
for construction of a Masonic Home.
It has been decided to locate the build
ings at Utica on account of the city
central position and railroad facilities.
Probably cottages will be erected, with
one or two larger buildings for general
purposes.
Illinois census returns show that out
side of the cities the population is de-
creasing. The school census of 1888
shows that in,July last there were in
the state 843,976 males under twenty
one years of age. In 1880 there were
1866. This is gain of $4,000, but
the gain in Cook County was 1927,
SO that the loss in the rest of the state