Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

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Reversible pants, to correct the
dragging" are propose by benefcent
tailor of Akron, Ohio.
A young lady in Wheeling claims to
have refused forty offers of marriage
during the past year.
An Akron plumber found sixteen
dead rats in house which, the owner
said, ''smelt of sewer gas"
A society lady of East Liverpool,
Ohio, puts her pet poodle dogs hair
up IN curl papers every night.
A strange and fatal disease has ap-
peared in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Vic
Tins fall in the street, Vomit foam and
blood, and die.
The agent of Broome county, NY,
Bible Society has discovered that there
are 124 families in the county who do
not possess Bible.
David Campbell, a puddler of Lam
caster, Pa, has ferret farm, and sells
good many of the animals to persons
who want them to kill rats.
Lawrence Barrett is annoyed because
he is growing fat. He is not tall man,
more than he does at present.
At concert in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
while every one was applauding,
little child exclaimed: ssOh, mamma,
see all the big men pattycaking."
A watermelon farm at Adams Park,
Ga, consists of 800 acres and produces
400 carloads of melons, is said to be
the largest watermelon patch in the
world.
There are five girls in one of the
HUMPHREYS ia miles of Fleming county,
Kentucky, and their names are Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and
Virginia.
1t is reported that the Russian gov
eminent intends to buy all the Polish
railways and transform them into state
railways on account of their strategical
importance.
The cemetery at Sea Cliff, N. Y,
has been closed because there is so
little use for it-only fifteen burials in
four years, and the receipts not equal
to the expenditures.
An Easton paper says Charles Zinc
has an amorphophallus plant, the only
one of the kind in that section. The
odor of the flower is that of stale raw
meat, but its color is beautiful.
James Buchanan, of Ashtabula
county, Onio, cuts his hair in a very
peculiar manner. He shaves all his
head short. except ridge from his
forehead to the back of his neck.
On the death of Jacob HINES, of
Columbia, lately, his hunting dog
would touch no food until the funeral
was over, and his parrot, which had
been garrulous, has not spoken word
since
The Paris dressmakers are said to
be determined on the complete annihi-
lation of the hustle. The simplest
diapers are now the most stylish.
Fashion at least accords with common
sense.
A richly decorated sign on Howard
street, leaning against the chair of
one of the many street professors" of
the city, informs passers-by that there
is ''the only artistic ebonizer of foot
gear in Boston"
A tramp called at an Oil City, Pa,
blacksmith shop, frankly asked the
price of a drink, was given % cents,
returned shortly with 10 cents change
and disappeared without waiting for
commentator of his conduct.
1t is said of Canadian mother who
died the other day: "She was a true
wife. a fond mother, and so managed
affairs as to marry off her nine girls
before any other female in the neigh
borhood could even get beau
Recent Australian papers announce
the finding of a nugget weighing $50
ounces and valued at f136O. 1t was
found near Wedderburn, Victoria, by
young Australian named Costa Clo-
vich, who had only recently arrived in
the colony.
The English language is pervading
the earth. Most of the large cities of
Europe, and many small ones, now
have their English newspaper. Nice.
Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Rome,
Naples, Geneva and many others have
one or two.
monograph parties are novel enter
tertalnmentS at the summer resorts.
Dancing is carried on by music pro-
duced by the instrument, and when
that is wearisome speeches and reel
tations through the photograph en-
terrain the company.
An Iowa man advertised in western
papers that he wanted good reliable
men to send him 81 each, for which he
would send % ones, 8 twos, 2 fives
and l ten" He kept his agreement,
but sent postage stamps instead OF
dollars. Now he is in Jail.
A railroad regiment" has now been
added to the French army, and the
minister of war is about to set it al
work constructing an experimental
line within a given time. The regi.
ment is expected to do everything con
nected with the laying of the line.
The jawbone of huge monster has
been unearthed recently at the
Wauchula, Fla, phosphate beds. Il
measures eighteen inches in length
and about seven in width. Some OF
the teeth are six or seven inches long
and two or three inches in diameter.
A Philadelphia dealer, not being able
to sell even single pair of shoes of g
certain grade at 81, thought to mark
them down to cost. Instead of doing
so, however, he took the advice of his
Grand boy and added % cents to the
price and they went off like hot cakes
1t has been calculated that the rail
roads of the world are worth nearl,
$500, 900. 100000 or about one-tenth O.
the wealth of the civilized nations, OF
more than quarter of their invested
capital. At this rate all the read,
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