Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-26

1t is said that it is American En-
glish that salutes the ear all over
Paris.
During the last eighty years $780,
900 people have died of phthisis in
France.
A p%ostoffiee in Fulton county. Penn
sylvania, bears the brief and unro-
mantle name of ISIS"
The mouth of Calumet River, empty
ing into Lake Michigan, has moved
east $500 feet since 1886.
An Ohio farmer says that one of his
hens has produced an egg every day
for the past six months.
A large quantity of arrow and spear
heads were recently unearthed near
Old Salem, T~uscarawas, county, Ohio.
''Show me a man who rides a yeloci-
pede or bicycle and I'll show you a
case OF spinal complaint" says DR..
Agnew.
A western paper CALAMITY remarks
that 'the lady prisoners in our jail are
about the most desperate lot we have
seen in a long time"
John Templeton, of Adams county,
Pennsylvania, 76 years of age, has a
jack-knife thai he has carried since he
was sixteen years old.
George Henninger, aged ninety, and
Henry Geist, aged eighty-nine, are
among the warmest base ball zealots
in Bethlehem. Pa.
According to an exchange. the NUM-
hnr- rf ah,ro1nc hprnnl lnSt unar xuac
1872, and all but twelve of them took
fire from their own furnaces.
A salesgirl employed by a New
York dry goods house was polite and
agreeable to an aged customer, who
has just died, leaving her $4,000.
Workmen taking out sawed lumber
on Ransom's island, near Williams
port, came upon a petrified log sixty
feet long, which they could not lift.
Sir Charles Russelrs fees in the May
brick case amounted to LOO guineas.
He had 500 guineas as a retainer and
a 'refresher" of 100 guineas a day.
There are more than eighty national
cemeteries in America, containing in
all 315, 300 graves. OF these 1873, lac
are the graves of unknown soldiers.
Of the $1,000 tons of wire fencing
annually imported into the Argentine
Republic it is said that Belgium fur
nishes half, Great Britain about a
quarter and France somewhat less.
The japanese are learning how to
eat meat. In 1884 only 10000 head of
cattle were slaughtered in all Japan.
In 1885 the number increased TO 49,
900; in 1886, to $50, 500; in 1888 to
200, 600.
w. K. Vanderbilt's steam yacht Alva,
which is the handsomest and most per-
fectly appointed pleasure boat in the
world, cost $500, 900, and the expense
of running her is said to be about $780,.
600 a year..
In a cowboys tournament at Auga
Fria, A. t., John Lane roped and tied
three steers in 3:49 minutes, this being
the best time ever made in Arizona.
John Morrill, beat the record also by
roping and tying a single steer In 3
little over half a minute.
The desire manifested by the fair
sex for miniature paintings set as
brooches amounts to almost a craze.
These paintings are imported, and
leading manufacturers claim that they
ha We difficulty in mounting them fast
enough to supply tue demand.
A large retriever dog owned by DIR.
| Beaver of Conshohocken, Pa, walked
into the residence of Mr.. Robert Stew
art a few days since, retrieved a cold
roast of veal from the dining-room ia
BILE while no one was around, and
took it home to the Beaver family.
For heroism in one of the battles of
the Mexican war, the Legislature of
Missouri granted TO Absalom Hughes
the right TO keep a dram-shop during
his natural life without paying State,
county or municipal Licenses. AL
though over 70 years of age, he is still
engaged in the business at Cedar
City.
The cigarette has advanced to the
dignity of being an element of debate
in the British Parliament. Mr.. Gosch-
en- said in his last budget that in his
opinion the increasing toying with the
cigarette after dinner was partially
accountable for the decreased con-
sumption of wine. Men smoked more
and drank less.
A shrine has been erected at Auries-
VILE, in the Mohawk Valley, on the
plot of ground where two missionary
priests, Fathers Jaques and Gonfil,
were slain by the Indians in 1912. A
pretty little chapel and grotto COM
prise the shrine. which is being visited
now by hundreds of pilgrims of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Professor Horsford, of Cambridge,
has. after much study, located the site
of Nerombega. the .'lost city of New
England" supposed to be in Maine, at
the mouth of Stony Brook, Waltham.
He has begun the erection there of a
round stone field tower, t be ~ feet
in diameter at base and 40 feet high,
and to contain a flight of stairs inside
to top for a lookout.
Who ever heard of a cheese mine?
Yet one has been discovered az Pal
myra, Wis. 1t isn't precisely a mine; in
fact, being a large quantity of cheese
which was buried many years ago be-
meath a factory and there in some
I'M forgotten. 1t has just been
discovered, and the valuable product
is being quarried out by the present
of the factory.
The latest use of photography is to
make a cannon ball take a picture of
its own wabblings. An arrangement
something like a camera is to be
placed in the forward end of the pro-
~jectile, and when it is fired directly at
the sun, the light traces lines upon the
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