Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-23
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and dentists in that country.
A man tried to raise money in
Americas, Ga, the other day by mort
gaging a twenty-three-year-old-mule.
A man who has been baching in an
old cabin near Blaine, w. T., climbed
up into the garnet one day and found
a skeleton.
A Florida vegetable grower has con-
tracted to deliver three ton Of water
melon seeds to northern seed houses
next autumn.
Two young ladies of Pike County,
Georgia, have rented farm, off which
they are supporting themselves and
an invalid mother, besides laying up
money.
An eighteen-year-old girl was arrest
ed in San Francisco the other day who
testified that for the past year she had
been consuming over 81 worth of NOR
phine daily.
Two ruffians of Bodie, New, entered
the room of man against whom they
had a grudge, tied him to a bed-post,
filled his eyes with red pepper and left
him to suffer.
a San Francisco photographer, who
testified in court that his wife didn't
know where he was, was given forty
days in the house of correction to give
her an opportunity to find him.
A Connecticut reporter won his bride
bv his clever detective work in finding
her long lost mother. Having found
his mother-in-law, he may have the
questionable privilege of keeping her.
The following advertisement lately
appeared in a Partisan newspaper: ga
lady having a pet dog whose hair is of
rich mahogany color, desires to en-
gage footman with whiskers to
match"
"Uncle Chas," the mail carrier be-
tween Evansville and Zebulon, Ga, has
been making regular daily trips for
little more than eight years. 1t is es-
timated that his trips aggregate $4,000
miles.
A man has died at Cherry Tree, Pa,
who was ninety-three years old. His
death will be mourned by twelve sons,
100 grandchildren, thirty-three great
grandchildren and eighty great-great-
grandchildren.
A Dalton, Ga, family owns a clock
which is thirty years old il day. 1t
went through the war, lost one of its
hands by q spent minnie ball, but will
keep accurate time, and has never been
repaired but once or twice.
The Madrid physician who made
the postmOrtem examination of the
body of Pigott declares that he never
saw such a we'll formed skull and
superior force of character and imagi-
nation.
The kangaroo is said to have got its
name in this way: Captain Cook first
discovered the animal in Australia.
When he inquired its name of native
the latter replied, Kangaroo" which
in the Australian language is 81 don't
know"
A fashionable young woman in New
York has undergone terrible surgical
operation, long and painful, by which
her tip-tilted nose, became an organ of
pure Grecian design. The cruel charge
is made that the new nose does not
suit the general conformation of her
face.
Rev. Norman La Marsh, an eloquent
preacher in charge Of the Methodist
church at Searsport, Me-, is totally
blind. A touching feature of the SER
vices at this church is the sweet sing
ing of the pastor as he folds his hands
and turns his sightless eyes toward
heaven.
Some cotton baled while damp. was
opened the other day at Washington,
n. c., and found to be almost hot enough
to burn. Hence it is suggested that
many cases Of mysterious fires at sea
may have origin in the spontaneous
combustion of cotton packed or COM
pressed in such condition.
Dr. Rawlins, of Sandersville, Ga,
was called to visit an aged colored
man. An old woman, who was wait
ing upon the man proved to be his
mother. When the doctor asked the
woman, who was eighty-five how she
was feeling. she replied: I'm purity
well, but my mother is getting rather
feeble now"
Hiram Larnsey and Mr.. Frieze, of
Irwinton, Ca, are greatly puzzled.
They hitched their mules to log the
other day and the log refused to stir.
investigation developed the fact that
it was filled with snakes, eleven of
which they killed. The mules were
then hltched to the log again and
pulled it along without any difficulty.
A merchant recently from Constan-
tinople says that SO, 800 ounces ofattar
of roses were bottled in Turkey last
summer. The greater part of this pro-
duct is shipped to France, and that
which reaches America is said in many
cases to have been diluted by shreWd
Yankee merchants, who buy the altar
direct from Bulgaria and mix an in
ferior oil with it.
A doctor at Corvallis, Oregon, so
the story goes, put thermometer into
the mouth of small boy to test the tenn
perature of his patient, who was i'll
with brain fever. The boy bit off
section of the instrument and sWal-
lowed glass, mercury and metal. In
few hours the boy began to rally. and
at last accounts was on the fair road
to recovery.
A Pacific coast paper reports that
the blowing up of a rock in the har-
Dor of Nanaimo was attended by re-
markable sight. AT the moment the
explosion occurred an immense shoal
of herring was passing over the place.
and thousands of them were thrown
high in the air. For several minutes
afterward the water was of a silver
color from the immense number of fish
which foated on the water to the
denfh of q foot or more stunned or