Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
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Estimates of the number of dogs in
the United States fix it at 10000. 900,
and their cost of keeping at $500, OOO,-
900 per annum.
The first locomotive built in this
country was christened BEST Friend"
and Henry g. Raworth, the man who
first run it, is still living.
Paul Riedel, the furrier of Juneau,
has just completed a beautiful robe.
1t is made of the breasts of the Alas
kan eagle. and Dr.. McAlpine will bring
it East with him.
1t is said that the gold fields of
Grant Parish, La, furnish ore that as
says all the way from $50 to $4,000 a
| ton. Thus far no systematic working
has been made in them.
Gen. Harrison's daughter, Mrs.
Mckee, confesses that she is a great
talker, trait which she inherits from
her father. Her friends say her talk
is always sensible.
| Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain is direct
| descendant in the tenth generation
from John Endicott, first Governor of
| Massachusetts Bay-the same who cut
the red cross from the English flag.
William Writ Henry of Richmond,
Va, is writing life of his illustrious
grandfather, Patrick Henry. With the
| Patrick Henry estate the grandson
| inherited an immense mass of valuable
| historical manuscripts.
The people in Fresno, CAL, are wild
over the discovery of natural gas at a
place fOrty-fye miles southeast of the
city. Local optimists predict that the
find will make Fresno manufacturing
center second to none in the state ex-
cept San Francisco.
Ina Drake of Lake County, Dakota,
is II years old. and during last fall she
plowed forty acres of land with sulky
pillow, working in the field alone and
handling the team and pillow, as COM
fortably as most young ladies can ham
die shetland pony and phaeton.
Francis Simmons of Lafayette, N.
Y, has an old fashioned clock made in
Germany more than 200 years ago
which still keeps good time. 1t was
made entirely by hand, and the maho-
gany case, reaching from floor to cell
ing. is held together by wooden pins.
The Seattle, w. T., officials have
commenced a war against tramps.
! Forty were driven out in one day.
Such decided measures are apt to de-
crease materially the city's population,
but the POst-LnteLigencer consoles itself
with the reflection that ''They never
will be missed"
Mrs. Munsil, a wealthy woman OF
Hartford, Conn, has a peculiar fad.
She takes a Dhilanthropic interest in
twins. Whenever twins are born in
Hartford she at once calls upon the
mother, whether she knows her or not,
and presents each baby with a hand
some silver porringer.
Several years ago George Tritch. a
timers apprentice in Pittsburg, went
West to seek his fortune. He stayed
in st. Louis for time, and then push
ed on to Denver, where he settled. He
now has a business worth 100000
and ranks high among the bonanza
millionaires of the state.
English locomotive drivers are max
ing vigorous kick because the COM
panies will not provide cobs on their
engines to shelter them from rain,
snow and storm. The directors claim
that the cobS are responsible for many
of the railway accidents in the United
States, because they obstruct the view.
A Murfreesboro woman went into
the P0stOffice and demanded a letter.
When told that there was none she
said she knew there was, and made the
clerk look four or five times. When
she became finally convinced she left
the office in great rage, saying that
she was going to make the old colored
fortune-teller refund the money she
had paid her.
Mr. William Black is pictured tight
~ built, 1.-THE of limb, strong in the
arm, capable Of great physical endur-
ance. nevertheless below the medium
hight. Short black hair thick
brown mustache. dark hazel eve, a
firm mouth, a square forehead, Black
gives you the idea of compact strength
"a small parcel, so to speak, we'll
packed.
DR.. Henry Hitler, who made $3,000,-
600 in the manufacture of pills, was
buried at Wilmington, Mass, in a
casket which cost $4,000. Four coal
black horses carried him to a tempo
rary brick tomb, which cost $500,
on a catafalque which cost $4,000. and
at the tomb the casket was placed in a
big red cedar box, which cost $3.50,
held together by sixty big brass screws
which cost $1S.
Miss Lavinia Shannon, the young
Southern actress who recently made
| hon do, ci,i ND 70 cto
in Lady Audley's Secret" is cousin
of the Earl of Dunraven and grand.
niece of the last Marquis of Thomond.
Her uncle married the daughter OF
President Zachary Taylor. Such q
pedigree will doubtless insure success
on the stage, even without the adven-
titious aid of talent or Partisan ward.
robe.
E. j. Cable, of Litchfield, has cat
which is really remarkable. His fuI
is sable. blacker than the blacklist mid.
night, and he is the only vegetarian
cat we ever knew. When any of the
family are peeling potatoes he 'cuts
up" at a great rate until he is fed some
raw potatoes. He usually eats from
one to three. He also eats apples, but
his favorite dish is muskmelon. If a
muskmelon is brought into the house
secretly he will know it as quickly as
most cats would if it were raw beef.
He will jump up, NEW and run around
after a piece of it, and act as wildly
over it as most cats do over mice.
A new field for French painters who
have been rather impecunious, of late,
is painting panels in the sections OF
exhibition. For example, the Argen-