Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-25
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peny-bit of 1873 almost as bright as
new.
The wreck of our war vessels in the
Samoan harbor of Apia entailed
loss to the United States of over ST.
100000.
A young doctor in Camden, n. j.,
is counting an undertaker's daughter.
1t will be good thing for the under
taker.
Constable Ike Smith, of Birming-
ham, Ala, has cat which has devel-
oped material affection for litter of
orphaned puppies.
Mr.. McMackin, of FL Verando, Cal,
raised beet that weighed 112 pounds.
Three COWS fed on it for four days and
then didn't eat it all.
The elephant is sharing the fate of
the buffalo. 1t is predicted that
twenty years hence not a single wild
elephant will be found on the globe.
In a divorce case at Pittsburg, Pa,
a woman testified that soon after mar
rage her husband laid down a rule
that she was not to eat meat, butter,
eggs or lard.
An electric fire engine is new in
vention. 1t can be started at full
speed, is much lighter than the steam
fire engine, and possesses various other
advantages.
From Harmon station, small place
in Louisiana. 1,240 bushels of straw
berries were shipped in six days.
Some of the berries were four inches
in diameter.
An Ithaca woman, who is only
twenty-eight years old, has been mar
ried four times. One husband is dead,
one is in state prison, one is divorced,
and she lives with the fourth.
A Tacoma CIV. I'd paper says that
place is being blessed with a perfect
cloud burst of babies. 1t reports the
birth of twenty baby boys and dainty
girls in different parts of the town.
John Shane had his red mustache
dyed beautiful black in Cincinnati
barber shop two months ago. but now
he has none at all. His lips were
poisoned and are slowly being eaten
away.
At Franklin, Ind, two sisters, in
dignant because young man deserted
one of their family whom he had been
counting, followed him to his new
girls house, and there on the doorstep
gave him good thrashing.
Captain A. S. Allen, of Zebulon, Ca,
set out mulberry tree ffty-five years
ago. 1t was then about as large as a
walking stick. Now it is eighteen feet
in circumference, and is the largest
tree of its kind in the state.
A New York bootblack of an enter
prising turn of mind sends out his
business cards with the inscription:
"Shoes sh ined by week or month at
your residence daily, or other job work
done. Send for me by mall
A ghost has appeared near Akron,
Ala, at point on the railroad where
a man was run over and killed last
summer. A ghostly figure in white,
with arms extended, was seen riding
there by a young couple who were out
riding the other evening. Both were
badly scared, and so was the horse.
The widest guesses have been made
in Paris and other parts of France as
to the range of vision from the Eiffel
tower. The real limit, according to
the Temps. IS forty miles, which takes
in Fontainebleau, Nantes and Pom
toise, while even this area can only
be viewed in exceptional clear weather.
There was dearth of hvacinths in
London this year, on account of COM
mercial reasons. Previous large sales
of the flower has reduced the price of
the root, so that the Dutch growers
will not permit the blooms to be col
lected. They are allowed to die upon
the ground and then are carted off in
heaps.
The oldest war horse is not dead,
after all. 1t is alive at the age of
thirty-four and is owned by 8, w.
Barrett, of Stewartsville, Ind. This
animal is mare, known as "Old Fly"
She went into the war in July, 1861,
and served until September, 1864. She
was in several big battles and numer-
Gus skirmishes.
G.. A. Sala tells that the Maoris are
great in oratory. On one occasion he
was being welcomed to a Maori town.
''May your boots" said the orator of
the day, 'be lovely on the hills" in
which G. A. S. dimly recognized re-
vised version of How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings.
The license law of Sweden forbids
any person buying drink without pur-
chasing something to eat at the same
time. Brandy is the national drink,
and it cannot be sold in quantity less
than two bottles. As the poor are un-
able to purchase drink often in this
way, the law is said to have greatly
promoted temperate habits.
Hypnotism has become conspicuous
in Europe of late. 1t has been used
in the place of chloroform for some
time in surgical operations at Paris,
and when, in a recent murder case
there, it was charged that the murderer
had hypnotized the victim and forced
her to kin herself, public opinion ae-
S cepted the possibility of the fact in a
D way quite remarkable.
In certain town in California the
I doors of the calaboose are left open
all night. In the morning the consta.
BILE goes to the Jail and closes the
door, and as a general thing has from
six to ten Migrants inside. Then the
:, men have a farcical trial, are found
e guilty and ordered to leave the town,
E while the justice of the peace and the
constable pocket fat fee in each case.
Soft thing.
A story of Won Bulow, told by the
=. Pail Mall Gazette, illustrates his pecu-