Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
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OF all grades, from archbishops to
curates, number $4,000.
1t is in the contract with the Queens
house keeper that she will not get mar
rled for at least ten years.
| Of the 200 goldbeaters of New York
not one is woman, while of the 900
| goldcutters not one is man.
About $4,000 cords of birch wood
have been manufactured into spools at
Foxcroft, Me-, the past few years.
A boy at Grand Rapids, Mich, has
been arrested for stealing trees from
cemetery with which to embellish his
fathers lawn.
A hen which is said to have Matched
and raised sixteen chickens from fifteen
eggs is one of the curiosities of With
lacooche, Fla.
A Michigan woman is developing
rapidly as professional whistler. The
women are very partial to manly &C
mplishments.
Captain John Miller, who recently
died in the Indian Territory, aged
seventy years, had taken thirty scalps
during his eventful life.
A Mr.. Lee, of Toronto, aged fifty,
took notion seven years ago not to
talk any more, and the first word
uttered by him since that time was
spoken some days ago.
st. Petersburg is the only capital of
Europe in which the population is
steadily diminishing. During the last
seven years the inhabitants of that city
have decreased by $4,000.
The total tenement population of
New York City now is about 100000,
or only about 100000 less than the
city's estimated population. There
| are 81, 29O tenements in the city.
A glove shop in Paris has the follow
ing announcement posted over the
door: WANTED, small hands. Per-
sons taking eight and a quarter size
had better not come to this shop"
The largest continuous sleeping car
service in the world is that on the
Santa Fe system, which runs through
sleepers from San Diego, Cal, to
Chicago, distance of 2.311 miles.
A well-authenticated story is told of
Waterbury cat which died of grief
over the death of mistress for whom
it had remarkable affection. AS
soon as the animal saw the face of the
dead girl it fell dead with groan.
A New York shipping clerk, arrested
for stealing from his employer, in
court admitted his guilt, and said he
committed the crime in order to get
money with which to start house.
keeping. He intended getting married
in few weeks.
powders and remnants of an ancient
forest from the bed of the Thames River
still goes on. 1t began seven years ago.
At last accounts 800 trees and 1900
powders had been taken out. The latter
varied in weight from one to four tons.
An audacious tramp sneaked into a
residence in Washington place, New
York, and tarried long enough on the
premises to make an entire change Of
clothing. He even appropriated under
garments. 1t is said that on emerging
he resembled ''swell," carving .
heavy cane and wearing high hat.
James Harmon, of Worth County,
Georgia, has powder gourd that was
carried by his grandfather in the revo-
lutionary war. 1t is we'll preserved.
and seems good for several hundred
years yet. Mr.. Harmon also has a
single barrel shot gun that did service
in the same war, which is still capable
of good service.
Two boys played shrewd trick on
Boston photog apher. They asked
to have their pictures taken, and when
the plate was about to be exposed one
of the rascals realized that he would
appear to better advantage if he had
watch. The photographer loaned his
time-piece, and while he was again
adjusting the camera the customers
ran out of the establishment.
A French physician, DR.. Felz, men,
tons a curious apparent cause of left
handedness. A child in a certain
family was left-handed, and the second
appeared to be so at the age of one
year. 1t was then learned that the
mother always carried her children on
her eft arm. She was advised to
change, and held on her other arm the
infant, having its right hand free tc
grasp objects, soon became right
handed.
The curious fact has been demon
strated by Sir John Lubbock that GER
tin kinds of ants are unable to exist
without keeping other ants as slaves,
though why this is so he has not found
out. On removing the slaves from
nest of fifty slave-holding ants he
found that the latter Immediately COM
menced to die off, and were speedily
reduced in number to six. When the
slaves were returned the mortality
ceased.
The Presidents writing desk Wash.
ington letter says, is made of oak from
the British ship Resolute, which was
rescued inthe Arctic Ocean, thorough
ly rebuilt by the United States and
sent to England. This is not last
card. The British Government took
out some of the oak in the original
framework of the ship and had
superb desk made, which all the
Presidents of the United States have
used since.
The captain of the steamer Benvenue,
which was recently caughtin atyphoon
in the China Sea, says of the center
of the disturbance: at was filled with
lightning, and a heavy roar made it
impossible to distinguish the noise OF
the wind from that of the thunder.
The smell, too, of electricity, like the
smell of burning sulphur, was so in.
tense as to cause an almost overpower-
ing sensation of suffocation, and the
biscuits and food not washed away by
the storm tasted so of sulphur as to be
unfit for uSe