Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-30
MISSING LINKS.
Berlin has SO. 600 dogs.

DR.. j. I. Chase, of Hallowell. owns
the first tall clock ever brought to
| Maine. 1t still runs and keeps good
! time.
Sixty Neapolitan churches have been
condemned for destruction for the
sake of extensive improvements of the
city.
A Monroe County, Ohio, man raised
1000 bushels of potatoes on two acres
of ground.
John Binkley. of Reading, carries his
helpless mother, weighing three hun
dred pounds, around the house as if she
were baby.
The oldest cat in Massachusetts is
dead. 1t was owned by Colonel Rich
mond, of Ereetown, and was in its
twentieth year.
The French taxes produced 5000, 900
francs less last August and 100000
francs less last September than in the
corresponding months of last year.
All attempts to rear buffaloes in cap
tivity of late years have proved unsuc-
cessful. A baby buffalo born recently
in Central Park, New York, died of
ricketts,.
G. A. R. post has been organized
at Juneau. The post has been named
! Seward, No. &c. in honor of William II.
Seward, the purchaser of Alaska for the
United States.
Many of the new apartment houses
being erected in London are fifteen
stories high. The air at that height is
fresh and COOL and it is said to be like
living in the country.
A big kaleidoscope which revolves for
several minutes for the benefit of the
person who drops a nickle in the slot
with which it is provided is the latest
production in this prolific line.
James D. Reid, United States Con-
sui at Dunfermline, Scotland appointed
the first woman telegraph operator in
this country at Lyons, n. Y. She was
known at that time as 1.-THE Lady of
Lyons"
A peculiar situation is described in
the last novel of well-known novelist.
While the hero is sitting at the feet of
the heroine she is said to look up into
his face and to draw his head down to
her own.
A magnificent English tree known as
the ''Winfarthing oak, which measured
SO feet Z inches in girth in IVA, has
just been measured and found to have
grown Just II inches in the interval of
145 years.
According to London daily there are
about two thousand five hundred build
! ing associations, with over six hundred
! thousand members. in the United King
dom. Last year the receipts were up
ward of 500, 100000.
Women have been admitted to the
bar in all the New England states ex-
cept New Hampshire and Vermont.
Mrs. Kicker, a successful practitioner in
Washington, has now asked permission
to practice law in New Hampshire.
A Watsontown, Pa, man saw adver-
tised "A Sure Cure for Drunkenness. :"
! He forwarded the necessary dollar and
received by return mail, written on a
valuable postal card in beautiful violet
ink, the magic words: Don't Drink. y
An English scientist says that if we
were to visit the moon we should find
the days and nights fortnight in length,
and if we survived the scorching dur
ing the day we should certainly be
frozen to death during the ensuing
night"
The smallest town in the world to
support newspaper is orlando, in Big
Bend County, Oregon. There are
three houses in the town and eight in
habitants-four men, three women and
a little girl. Yet the Net0s is published
every week.
During the last two years the italian
army has been increased by 80, 900 men,
200 field guns and 1000 cavalry. Never
was the army so numerous or power
fully organized as at present under the
attempt to keep up with Germany's
military step.
Samuel Moss, of Essex, Mass, has
been hungry all the time for thirteen
years. He drinks three quarts of water
! per day and eats hearty meals every
hour. His age is siXty-one years and
his weight 135 pounds. His case is a
puzzle to the physicians.
The mohammedans of Lahore are en-
deavoring to bring about reform in
the matter of the expense which now
attends marriages and funerals. Some
times families remain in debt for gen
erations on account of extravagant out
! lays on these occasions.
A farmer living near Hellertown,
Pa, found recently on his place a
curious shaped earthen bowl evidently
! the handiwork of the Indians. Still
| traceable on its surface is the repre-
sentation of a group of warriors en-
| gagged in medicine dance.
| Baron Haussmann, who re-created
Paris, has written his memoirs in four
volumes. He is vigorous old man of
so. He says the best proof that he did
not profit by his improvements pecunl-
arily is the fact that he is living to-
day upon his wife's fortune.
In year or two the country will be
deluged with cheap editions of Ameri-
can works which were written forty
five or fifty years ago and have conse-
quently fallen into the public domain.
Richard FL. Dana's Two years Before
the Mast heads the procession of these
works.
Dom Pedro was not only an ardent adj
mirer of our poet Whittier. but he had
an enthusiastic appreciation of Uncle
Toms Cabin. and it is said on excel
lent authority that the book had a great
influence on him and upon the people
of Brazil in regard to the liberation Of
the slaves.
Gen. Boulangers personal expenses
are betrayed by his admirers in
France. Every week he receives GER
tain amount collected from working