Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-12

All OQ1O Youth OF sixteen mas uSN6I-
oped long and luxuriant mustache.
One of the patients in the insane hos
pital at Warren, Pa, is William Nye.
During the last twelve months, JOS
| eph Sepp, Reading newsboy, with
one arm, has travelled !. 200 miles with
out paying a cent for railroad fare.
The sustaining power of the Forth
bridge may be imagined from the
statement that each cantalever would
sustain six of the greatest iron-elads.
Somebody has taken the trouble to
compute that the average consump-
ton of salt petre adult capita in this
country is nearly fifty pounds per an
mum.
Purchasers of old silver in London
are very much disguised at learning
that they have been buying largely
modern ware made from antique pat
terms.
Disease has ravaged some of the
grouse preserves in Scotland to an
alarming extent. On one moor re-
Gently out of 260 birds killed all had to
/ be buried.
A small picture was lately sold at the
Hotel Drouot, in Paris, for 100 francs,
which, on being verified as his work by
M. Meissonier. was Immediately resold
for Is, 900 francs.
A woman living near the line of JEFF
ferson and Walker counties, Georgia,
is Z feet 2 inches high, twenty-five
years old, weighs $50 pounds and can
whip any man in the neighborhood.
There is large body of English mus
sulmans at Cape Town, the descend
ants of Malay seamen. Their language
is English, but they are provided with
mollahs and Arabic teachers from Con-
stantinople.
From a correspondence now in the
course of publication in the London
Spectator it would appear that num-
Der of intelligent men in England still
believe in the efficacy of the divining
rod in discovering water.
David Williams a roller in an An
sonia Conn mill, has succeeded in
making a ribbon seventy and three
quarter inches long, three quarters of
an inch wide and five ten-thousandths
of an inch thick from an 1889 cent.
The smokeless powder intended for
use in the Austrian army is now de-
clared to be perfect. Besides the ini-
tial advantage of being smokeless, it is
said to give a velocity some 20 per
cent greater than that of ordinary pow
der.
The Spanish bull fighters, having
conquered high society in Paris, have
been received lately in the same circle
in Madrid in evening dress. Formerly
they were obliged to wear their war
paint. Next year they will be seen in
London.
There is place in the Paris Expo
sition plan marked Panama." and in
the grounds a little building bearing
that name; but there is no plan and no
exhibit. Just as the exhibition opened
the Panama Company went into the
hands of the liquidators.
In view of the statement from Cape
May that sweet potato three feet six
inches long was grown there, it
wouldn't be altogether surprising if
some day vegetables are sold by the
foot. In Boston, during certain months,
cabbages are sold by weight.
South Sioux Falls is believed to be
the only place in South Dakota where
the deeds for lots expressly stipulate
that saloons shall never be built there
on nor liquor be kept for beverage.
Violation of this stipulation causes the
property to revert to the proprietors.
The Forth bridge has stirred the en-
cheering world so that Schneider 81
Co., the great French iron-makers,
have prepared a design for a channel
bridge from Dover to Calais. The
length is twenty-four miles and the
number of piers proposed to be built
in the sea is 120.
1t has often been reported that the
British army is largely composed of
understood boys instead of stalwart
men, but the returns do not bear out
these statements. Of 202, 761 men only
1896 are under nineteen years of age,
while "a per cent are over 5 feet 8
inches in height.
We are informed by an English jour-
nalist that in Paraguay ''the lady of
the house, as she comes, clothed in soft
raiment and flashing gems, to meet the
stranger traveller with mouth upheld
for the formal kiss of greeting, re-
moves from her cheek the quid she
spends her days in chewing.
Down in little Cape May county, New
Jersey, there is county clerk who has
been continuously in Office since 1910,
and previous to that time was the
deputy county clerk, commencing the
latter duties when about twenty-one
years of age. His name is Jonathan
Hand, of an old and historic New Jer-
sey family.
A gentleman was out shooting near
Totnes, England, the other day, when
he had the misfortune to shoot his dog.
For a moment he was too much over
come to see what damage he had done,
and before he recovered himself the
animal, a black retriever, had come up
to him, bringing in its mouth its own
tail, which had been shot clean off.
Christopher G. Andel is the father Of
the smallest mite of humanity in New
Haven and, in all probability, in Con-
necticut. His only child is baby boy
that is seevnteen days old and weighs
two pounds and five ounces. The boy
is about eleven inches long, but very
thin. His arm is about twice as thick
as the stem of clay pipe. and his fin
gers are so slender it is difficult to in
stitute comparison.
Three years ago small fig tree was
placed in the open space which was
made by taking up brick in a court
in the rear of E. S. jenkins Office at
Marysville, Cal. From the day the
tree was planted until the present not