Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-18
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SAA III oIeIi, is 1OuTudllSI ny profession
and the correspondent of two American
papers.
The original inventor of the bell
punch sold his patent for $500, and the
company purchasing it made hundreds
OF thousands of dollars out of it.
A California farmer. believing that
cats will exterminate squirrels and
gophers, purchased large number
and set them at liberty Oh his land.
Miss Julia Rhinelander is the latest
candidate for the honor of being the
richest spinster in Am Vica. She
possesses $50,OOO,0 900 in Ne Nork real
estate.
A correspondent sends the New York
World the following problem, and asks
if it can be worked out: A. man has
| twenty-seven turkeys to kill in six
days; he is to kill an odd number every
day.
Casselrs Magazine tells about new
electric invention; it is electric lighted
spectacles for surgical examination.
The rim shuts out other light and q
strong beam falls on the spot under
examination.
At Buffalo "half off, sale it was
| proven that cashmere worth sixty-nine
cents per yard was sold for ninety
three cents by placing it on the '.bar-
gain counter. Things are not always
what they seem.
Gum chewers should take warning
from the fate of a Newton, Conn.,, girl,
aged sixteen. A piece of gum
slipped down her throat, and, lodging
at the entrance to the stomach, caused
fatal liberation.
The queen of Roumania, whose
poems published over the signature
carmen SYLVIA" have attracted so
much attention, has received the gold
medal annually awarded by the French
Academy for literary prizes.
After hard rain at Andersonville it
| is easy to collect trinkets worn by
| Union soldiers who were confined in
| the prison. A dozen brass buttons
and belt clasp with the letters U. S.
on it were picked up there the other
day.
The statesmen of Holland continue
to sing the praises of their monarch,
| Queen Emma. She manages the state
| business in mastery manner, and be-
yond listening to the counsels of few
chosen advisers, relies solely on her
own judgment.
The Crescent City, Del Norte County,
CAL, Record tells of sixteen-year-old
boy who, with the aid of his dog and a
bush hook, took three young panthers
away from their mother and carried
them home, three miles distant. He
sold them for $50.
Miss Braddon, whose fifty novels
have been produced during her fifty
years of life, is still as retiring and
modest as she was twenty years
ago. She absolutely refuses to permit
her portrait to be published, and does
not like to be lionized.
| There is said to be nothing in all
Europe to equal the extent and beauty
of the flower gardens and fruit orchards
surrounding the new Hotel del Monte,
at Monterey, Cal, which are said to
have cost the railroad company owning
the establishment $150,O00.
Nothing remains of the famous
English settlement of jamestown, Va,
begun in 1907, save the ruins of a
| church tower, and this is crumbling
year by year. Tree roots have cracked
| the monumental slabs in the church
yard, and thus one of the few localities
recalling the first years of American
history is slowly losing its distinctive
| features.
Princess Maud of Wales carefully
collects in the yards of Sandringham
House and in those of Windsor, Bal
moral, and Osborne all the peacocks'
feathers, and begs them also from her
young friends of the English nobility.
With This plumage, received without
cost, she makes pretty hand5creens and
sells them at bazaars for the profit of
poor little children.
Old as is the theory that trees pro-
mote regularity and plentitude of rain
fall, and generally accepted as though
an axiom in natural philosophy, it is
being vigorously attacked, says the
Sanitary Ne90s. The trouble has been
that only facts favorable to this
hypothesis have been available. Now
the result of impartial investigation
seems to show that cause and effect
have been badly mixed.
Mr.. Gladstone is an omnivorous
reader. A list of books recently
ordered from well-known Birming-
ham dealer includes works on litera-
ture, theology, archaeology, mythology
education, metaphysics, and music, be-
sides number of biographies. 1t is a
matter of wonder to his friends where
he is going to put the books he is con-
tinually buying. Hawarden castle is
already lined with them from basement
to attic.
A London correspondent says of the
author of Robert Elsmere": "Mrs.
Ward is most delightful woman, SIM
pie, charming, and entirely unspoiled
by the tremendous success which her
work has brought her. She is highly
gifted in many ways. Her music is
extremely good. She has most happy
and complete life, husband who
adores her and to whom she it devoted,
three very clever children, and quite
as much social success as she wishes,
with money enough to crafty all
reasonable Desires"
Miss Buell., the Cincinnati artist, has
pluck as we'll as talent. While spending
I the summer at Egmont, on the North
sea, she found potato patch well
situated for obtaining sunset effect.
and pitched her easel there. The owner
objected, but she paid no attention to
him. He then complained to the
| burgomaster, who refused to interfere.
The farmer, as last resort, petitioned
the king, and the result was a letter
of reproof to the farmer, in which he
declared that Miss Buell. might tres