Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-01
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! tempted to commit suicide bv eating
two dozen pads of blotting paper.
Frederick Douglas is one OF the rich
est colored men in the United States.
His wealth is estimated at 100000.
A swarm of bees broke up an auction
sale at Scranton the other day by set
ting down in the midst of the bidders.
The men of Berlin have set a COM
Portable fashion of carrying japanese
fans and sunshades through the warm
weather.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in western paper: "A
middle-aged woman homely as a stone
fence, wants work"
They broke a mans will in New
Jersey the other day by proving that
he always walked up stairs instead of
taking an elevator.
Mrs. z. Chandler of Michigan is
building a house on Sixteenth street
which, when completed, will be one of
the handsomest residences in Wash
ington-
Iron Eagle Feather, a Sioux Indian.
has just completed the scientific course
at Dickinson College. He received
high marks, but was, of course. Lo in
his class.
The farmers and shepherds in the
English moors declare that more
grouse are killed annually in England
by the telegram wires than by all the
sportsmen.
In one of two stone sarcohapgi found
at Rome in the Pratti di CASTILLO the
skeleton of a girl was found along
with a wooden doll with jointed arms
and legs.
Hannibal Hamlin, now IN his S1st
year, writes to a friend in Washington
that his health was never better and
that he can walk with ease from ten to
fifteen miles day..
The commissioners of the Yosemite
Valley have ordered the demolition of
miles of fences and many unsightly
buildings, leaving more space for
campers and tourists.
'sSee Naples and die" There were
$50 suicides in that city last year, and
the deaths arising from the filthy con-
dition of certain quarters counted up
into the thousands.
Jay Gould says that the first year of
his married life he lived on 800, got
up at daybreak, went to church every
Sunday, and was as happy as boss
humble bee in sweet clover.
John Mcdonald, who has been blind
for thirty years, suddenly recovered
his eyeslght while i'll at Waterbury,
Conn. His case is attracting great at
tention in the medical world.
It is sagelv suggested by weekly
newspaper in Idaho. that the govern
mentS interested should place electric
lights on drifting icebergs in order
that they might be seen afaF off.
Gen. Adelbert Ames, who married
Miss Butler. the daughter of Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler. and who was
Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to
1888, is now a commission merchant
in Brooklyn, n. Y.
None of the railroads in India run
baggage cars, and no traveller is al
lowed to take a trunk. Whatever he
carries must be bundled. up, and no
porter Will move bundle three feet
The Rev. Mr. Baxter of England,
the amiable end of the world crank, has
revised the date for the great smash
up. He now declares it will positively
occur April II, 1891, with no postpone
ment on account of the weather.
The Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution proposes to establish
leagues of fellowship, with the descend
ants of patriots in. other republics,
particularly France, in order that the
cause of independence may be strength
ened.
The tradesmanl who, deliberately lies
TO make sale can be punished III the
courts. but an afternoon paper which
instructs newsboys, to- cry out false
news in order to create sales cannot be
harmed. 1t is, looked upon as center
prise"
Recent Australian papers announce
the finding of nugget Weighing 336
ounces and valued at 1850. 1t was
found near Wedderbarn, Victoria, bv
a young Austrian named Costa Ciovich,
who had only recently arrived in the
colony.
Some idea of the extent of krupp's
establishment may be gathered from a.
work just published at Essen. In
1888 there were only nine workmen,.
and in 184S seventy-four. In july.
1888, the establishment employed 20,-
800 men.
In the, case of the steamer City of
Boston, missing for many years, for
tune-tellers have given twenty-sexea
different versions of how she was lost.
Only last week one in New York de-
clared that she was on her way back
to Boston.
Some engineers in Switzerland are
devising an aerial railway by which,
they propose to connect two of til.
peaks of Mount Pilatus with wire rope
about 1900 feet long. and TO senu
tourists from summit to summit in ears
runAing Oh wires.
The city of Berlin is far ahead of
London in telephone progress. there
being 10000 subscribers. The entire
net OF wires in the German capital has
reached length of 1854 kilometres,
and the average number of calls
amount to 1856, 691 daily.
It has long been tradition with the
people Of the Punjauc that leprosy is
not an incurable affiiction. At Tarn
Taran there is a sacred tank, built $50
years ago by the Sikh saint, Guru Ar
jan; and it is believed that any leper
who can swim across it will be healed.
B. B. Wilkes aud A. S. Williamson,
of Emanuel County, Georgia, a few
days ago say rattlesnake about six
feet long swim from one side to the