Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
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liOu OF the united h1nSQOm Is eSGlmat-
ed at FL. 200. O00,O 900.
The right-nand thumb of a hotel
waiter is most unfortunate. 1t is fire.
quently in the soup.
A New York school teacher has just
resigned after twenty-five years of
service. She is in her eightieth year.
1t is said that after fifteen or twenty
more 1nterments are allowed in West
minister Abbey the room will all be
occupied.
Philadelphia has S47. 900 people and
179, 200 houses, while New York with
1,2O0. 900 inhabitants, is said to have
but $4,000 houses.
A Frenchman recently remarked
that every one in this world was oblig-
ed to bear his cross, but that the
| smart chaps bear theirs on their lapels.
There are two Episcopal ministers,
missionaries, on the Yukon River,
Alaska. They are 5000 miles from
the southeastern line of the territory.
An Italian named Boggie, lately
keeper of a peanut stand at Amster-
dam, n. Y, has fallen heir to an eighth
of fortune of 100000 left by rela-
tive in Italy.
A school of carpentry for women
has been started in the English Uni
versity, city of Cambridge, not so
much to teach the trade as to develop
manual dexterity.
The debt of the Dominion increased
last year from $227,314,775 to 1884,
51S,35S. There was an increase in the
cost of nearly every branch of the pub
lie service.
One of the best lawyers in Virginia
says he would on no account leave his
children any considerable amount of
property, and he gives away not less
than 81, 900 year.
The Amalgamated Union of Ameri-
can Carpenters has 464 branches and
25, 226 members. 1t is the rival of the
American Brotherhood of Carpenters,
which has much larger membership.
The genius of America is stepping
high about these days. The average
number of patents issued weekly il
over three hundred, and every inventor
has a sure fortune before him-of
course.
A Floridian states that it takes just
half as much food and clothing for his
family in Florida as it did in Tennes-
see, where he formerly resided. The
difference in temperature effects this
economy.
The Albany Journal says petrified
fish over three feet long was recently
found at Fort Hunter in one of the
ctn Tod 70
lengthening the Erie Canal locks.
The stone is full of petrified specimens.
Bibliomaniacs occasionally pay enor-
NOUS prices for ancient documents. At
a recent auction sale in Boston yell
low old pamphlet, published in 1747 by
Rev. John Norton, entitled Captivity
at Canada" brought $303. A lady of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was the happy pur-
chaser.
Nine. De Barrios, the widow of tho
Gautemalan General, was carried Off
from convent by her husband at the
age of sixteen, and, though she has
seven children, is still young and hand
some She divides her time between
New York and Europe, and her wealth
runs up into the millions.
question whetheriti is as great as bache-
lorhood. A Paterson,N N. J..woman walk.
ed the other night into q gambling room
where her husband was steadily losing
morey, found out how much he had
lost, demanded that sum from the
bank got it, and led her husband of
home. A bachelor would have lost
his all.
The new naval attache to the Ameri-
can Legations in France, Germany,
and Russia, Lieutenant Aaron Ward,
besides being nephew to Samuel j.
Randall and son-in-law to the poet N.
P. Willis, is an accomplished Russian
student. He possesses a historic an
cestry, was educated in Paris and Stuff
CART, has served on the stats of three
admirals, won prizes at French lyceums,
and married fortune.
The pupils of the city schools of Des
Moines, Iowa, express their affection
for their teachers by bringing them
presents of fruit. AS the amount of
fruit brought indicates the intensity of
the affection, some of the teachers are
talking of quitting their present occu-
patton and of going into the wholesale
fruit business. Several of the scholars,
to show their originality, contribute
pumpkins. red peppers, and potatoes.
Professor Kirchoff, of Halle, esti-
mates that the languages most spoken
on the globe for the last thousand
years at least is Chinese, for it is with
out doubt the only one which is talked
by over 100000, 900 of the human race,
the next language most in use, but at
very great distance behind the Chinese,
being Hindustani, spoken by over 1O0,-
100000 Then follows English, spoken
by about 100000, 900; Russian, over
70.000,000; German 100000 and
Spanish, over 100000.
Mr.. Gladstone's absorbing study of
Homer has led him to form numerous
ingenious theories. One is the belief
that the Greeks were color blind.
Otherwise it would be impossible, he
contends, for Homer to have spoken of
''fock of purple sheep" He was
stating this view one day when cele-
brated agriculturist who was present
remarked: ''Ah! but / know that in
certain parts of England there are
1ocks of purple Sheep" Mr.. Glad
stone expressed surprise. Inquiries
were made, and it was found that
these sheep were only of the ordinary
brown color.
Probably the most unique railroad
pass issued this year is that of the
Silverton Railroad Company of Color
ado. 1t is thin silver plate, about
the size and shape of the passes in
general use. On the upper left-hand