Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
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Uncle Billy Bowers of Bowersville,
one of the two men in Georgia who
voted for Abraham Lincoln, is still
alive and vigorous.
Col. B. j. Jordan and Mrs. M. j.
Read were married the other day in
Rockbridge County, Virginia. The
groom is rs and the bride 20.
Mr.. Charles johnson, aged %, son
of Kansas City grandmother. has
been offered situation as artist for
Harper's Weekly at a salary of $4,000
year.
A man at Walla Walla, W. T., eats
an egg for each year of his life on
every birthday. He wasrecently forty
two, and ate that number of eggs on
that day.
A Connecticut newspaper, speaking
of American ladies who have married
British noblemen, refers to 1.-THE
duchess of Marlborough, nee Widow
Hammersley."
While the church members of San
Jose, Cal, were raising $1,000 as an
inducement for certain reviyalist to
start a revival in the town a poor,
Aard-working man died of starvation.
An oyster recently dredged up in
English waters measured z inches in
length, the same in breadth, and 20}
inches around the outside edge, and
weighed three and half pounds.
An Irishman named Casey died re-
Gently in Albuquerque very wealthy.
By his will he left to General J. A.
Williamson, of Iowa, nearly 100000
for favor to Casey long ago forgot
ten.
Mrs. Martha Yoakley of Sullivan
County, Tennessee, celebrated her
18th birthday Jan. 1, 1889. Her hus-
oand committed suicide at the advance
ed age of 50 some years since, but the
old lady never married again.
A duck was killed in Spottsylvania
County, Virginia. which had nail
two inches long protruding through
the gizzard into the entrails. 1t seemed
to cause the duck no Inconvenience,
as it was as lively as a cricket before
it was killed.
Mormons of the conservative type
complain that converts are being made
too fast, and that the character of the
women in particular, is not up to the
mark. Some of them even show tenn
per toward their liege lords, a thing
strictly forbidden by mormon rules.
Nine. Patti, while in Paris recently,
formally adopted as her own child the
only daughter of her husband by his
divorced and dead wife. This girl,
who is about 16 years of age, is said
to be possessed of rare beauty. She
rs now installed in the diva's castle in
Wales.
James Whitcomb Riley is authority
for the statement that Private Secreta-
nv Elijah Halford was never known to
whistle in his life. Mr.. Riley and Mr..
Halford were brought up together in
the same newspaper office, and it may,
therefore, be assumed that Mr.. Riley
knows whereof he speaks.
Vaccination is compulsory in Eng
land and optional in France. In the
large cities Of France the number of
deaths from smallpox was 1856, or
O.31 per 1000 of the living population.
In the large cities of England doring
the same period the number of deaths
was 1872, or 0.04 per 1000.
Jacob Cover of Chambersburg, Pa,
has in his possession copper badge
worn at Washington's Inauguration,
100 years ago. In the centre is en-
graved an eagle w it'll outstretched
wings, above the head of which is a
star. Around the edge is inscribed,
March the Fourth, 1889. Memorial BILE
Era"
A correspondent recommends tar
smoke for diptheria cure. His treat
ment is to put few drops of tar, like
that used in shipyards, on a warm
stove lid and to require the patient to
inhale and swallow the smoke ten times
a day for five minutes each time. He
has been invariably successful in his
experiments.
The ballet pantomime, 1.-THE Belle
Sofia" now being produced at Cassel,
pictures Bulgaria and introduces the
emperors of Austria and Russia, the
sultan, the kings of Greece and Italy
and Bismarck. In the final scene the
emperor of Germany sits on his throne,
surrounded by dancing beauties, with
Bismarck by his side.
An English gentleman who has been
making a tour of New Zealand, says:
I once saw a Maori that | knew walk
ing up and down the veranda of
hotel, and looking very much Disguised
about something. On my asking him
what was the matter, he told me that
he had had thirteen glasses of whisky
and couldn't get drunk.
Mrs. Mckee, the Presidents young
married daughter, is, according to
the Albany Journal, the Mrs. Cleve-
land of the new Administration. She
has, it is said. the happy faculty OF
making every person she meets for
the first time believe that she has
particular interest in his or her wei
fare and acquaintance.
The athletic culture fad, which orig.
mated in Boston, and has been steadily
spreading, has now reached Milwau-
kee, where young women are evincing
lively interest in il. A new feature
of the fad is the craze for fencing and
boxing-two masculine accomplish
ments, which, for some reason, are very
dear to the feminine mind.
The state telegraphs in England still
fail to meet expenses The outlay last
year exceeded the receipts by more
than six thousand pounds, and there
was still interest to pay upon loan of
f10,S8O,5 81. The total deficiency
amounts therefore, to no less a sum
than f332, 501. Since 1872 the eoun-
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