Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-05
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drew pig.
A dog and hawk were seen in fierce
combat near Norristown recently. The
bird was victor
A Lancaster youth of twelve years
has built a toy engine. Two men at
tempted to test it and got badly
scalded.
Peat fiber is coming into considerable
use in the manufacture of brown paper,
being about so per cent cheaper than
wood pulp.
The grade of the cogged-track rail
way which is being built at Pixies Peak,
Col, will be twenty-five feet to the one
hundred, or 1920 feet to the mile.
Natural gas is becoming scarce in the
Ohio Valley, and the majority of the
largest manufacturers at Pittsburg are
gradually resuming the use of coal.
An enormous eagle recently alighted
on house in Monongalia County,
West Virginia. but flew away before
the owner could hunt up his shotgun.
A young woman organist and boy
organ blower of church in Utica
were married the other day. 1t was
the first instance on record of true
gratitude of an organist.
Among the aged domestic animals
owned by Farmer Brown, of Tuscan
awas County, Ohio, are a dog sixteen
years of age, a cat that is nearly seven
teen, a rooster of thirteen summers
and a COW of twenty-five.
People who object to shutting up
shop fifty-two days in the year would
not make good citizens of Servia, as it
is stated that law, rigidly enforced,
compels all business to stop on Sundays
and holy days, which count up 100 in
the year.
A young farmer and his best girl liv-
ing in Tyler County, West Virginia,
have established a code of signals
whereby they communicate with one
another when they are both at home.
Their abodes are on opposite hilltops
nearly two miles apart.
Charles P. Houpt, of Germantown,
recently sold an old Bible for 1925. 1t
was Bradbury edition, published in
Philadelphia, and one of the first pub
lished in this country. Very few cop
les are now in existence. The pur-
chaser was descendant of the pub
Usher.
The managing director of a bic tea
dealing firm in London stated that he
once saw a leading broker in Mincing
lane have sixty teas, ranging within l
penny per pound in value, weighed up
in duplicate, the 100 pots numbered
and mixed up, he then picking out the
sixty duplicates without a single mis-
take.
The State Horticultural Society OF
California has decided that the fig
culture promises most of all the
branches of fruit planting in the coun-
try. 1t recommends also the more ex-
tensive cultivation of apricots and
prunes. The grating of the Japan
plum has produced remarkable results
in California.
A German scientist wishes to deter
mine, by means of photography, if the
moon is inhabited, and it is said that
the King of Wurtenburg has decided,
in order to solve the interesting prob
lem, to cause to be made, in the best
possible condition, photographs of the
moon; then to enlarge the negative
10000 times.
One of the notable men in Pulaski
County, Virginia, is William Craig.
He is eighty-ive years old and the
father of twenty-one children, the
youngest being twenty-nine years of
age and the oldest siXty-fve. His wife
is eighty-four. He works on his farm
every day and says he feels as young
as when only forty.
We do not wonder at the strike in
the public schools in Scotland, for
pupils all through the United Kingdom
are beginning to understand that brutal
treatment is nowhere else practiced in
schools as in the British Isles. If a
teacher were to use a cane in an Amer
lean school as it is used by English
masters, he would be assaulted by the
indignant parents.
A letter from Paris SAYS that at a
Buffalo Bills show popcorn is sold be-
tween the first and second parts, and it
is added: cit was fun to see the peo-
pie when they first tasted after smell
ing it. A single grain was cautiously
put between the lips and masticated.
A look of delighted surprise spread
over the face as the novice exclaimed,
Why, it's maize and honey; Peanuts
were being roasted and sold under a
fine name-Algerian almonds"
The work of William Duncan among
the Indians of the Northwest coast has
received such commentator recently,
from Bostonians. that Mr.. Ballou's
testimony may be added as interesting
confederation from a traveller. In his
new book upon Alaska Mr.. Ballou says
of the missionary: by his individual
effort, with almost miraculous success,
he raised from the depths of barbarous
life, law-abiding, religious, industri-
Gus and self-supporting community,
who justly consider him their moral
and physical savior"
A curious industry of North Dakota,
which will decrease in time, is buffalo
bone picking. The vast herds of buff
falo have been slaughtered and their
skins sold, and now the pioneers make
merchandise of the bones scattered
over the prairies. The bones are ship
ped to st. Louis or Chicago and turned
into glue and fertilizers. Kansas, Col
orado, Nebraska and even older states
have all been the scene of this strange
contribution to wealth, and no one
knows how many thousands of car
loads have thus been CLEANED after the
slaughter of the American bison.
An eastern Tennessee woman who
went out to Utah as mormon con-
vert, came back disguised some time
since, and made her report to her old
neighbors. The consequence is that
the white Caps" took some visiting