Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

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present year has expired.
A Gainesville boy, seventeen wears
old, ate forty-eight bananas in an hour
on a wager, and then wanted more.
A Spartansburg, Pa, man eats his
meals in Erie County and sleeps in
Crawford County, all the same house.
Herbert Gladstone, son of the Grand
Old Man, whom Mr.. Gladstone refers
to as my boy Herbert, is nearly forty
years of age.
Sir James Miller, owner of Sainfoin,
the winner of the Derby, is but 26
years of age. He paid $500 guineas
for his feet-footed horse.
The largest beer barrel in this coun-
try is an attraction in a st. Louis sa-
loon. 1t is % feet high, % feet wide,
and has capacity of 81, 400 gallons.
The Ceylon pearl fishery. it appears,
was failure last year, the number o.
pearl oysters collected not more than
covering the cost of obtaining them.
There are about Il thousand elk
killed in Oregon and Washington every
year. the antlers from most of which
are shipped to England for ornaments.
Postmaster General Wanamaker's life
and accident insurance now amounts
to 81, 800, 900, the largest insurance
carried by any individual in the world.
Prince d. Chimay, recently married
to Miss Ward, of Detroit, is the head
of the Belgian noble house of his name,
and is reputed as skilIful diplomatist
and violin player.
Our new American Minister, Charles
Emory Smith, and his accomplished
wife, have made a most favorable i'm
preston in court and social circles at
the Russian Capital.
The wealthiest man in Alabama is
probably Josiah Morris, of Montgom-
that was made for the most part from
operating in real estate.
Mrs. Jane Kirkwood. of Eaton, Ind,
is lightweight years old, the mother of
fourteen children, grandmother of
fifty-eight children and great-grand-
mother of thirty-three children.
An Ovid man got mad at his horse
fourteen years ago and has kept it in
side dark stall ever since, refusing to
let anybody see the animal or to per-
nit it to get a sniff Of fresh air.
The monotony of life in a Saccarap-
pa (Me.) undertaker's rooms was va
ried, when man walked in and want
ed to make arrangements for his own
funeral, saying that he contemplated
suicide.
The Egyptian government has paid
to Captain Carsati, in behalf of Emin
Pasha, more than $4,000 as Emin's
salary for seven years services as gov
ernor of the equatorial province in
Africa.
| Mrs. Martha Lumpkin, of Epson
! County, Ga, is in her 9Sth year and
| enjoys good health. When 90 years
of age she knit siXty-five pairs of socks
during the year. She has 400 children,
grandchildren and great grandc hill
dren.
An Australian musician has invent
ed a trombone that is played by steam.
! Its God Save the Queen" can be heard
a distance of four miles. He had hard
luck with it. however, for the people
of his own town drove him out as a
! nuisance.
/ Count Charles Dillon, who died in
Paris recently. was one of the few sur
vivors of the court of Charles X, to
whom he was page of honor during
the last four years of his reign. The
count had lived in England, and spoke
English fuently.
Pierre Loriilard, whose brief career
has been most remarkable. is in the
prime Of life, with Il strong and robust
figure and ruIdy complexion. The an
nuaI expenses of his stable have some
| times reached the sum of quarter of
million dollars.
The chief chemist of the London Gas
| Company has succeeded in making
| from the refuse of gas retort a perfect
emerald. The cost of making the
| gem. however, was many times great
er than that for which a natural stone
could be purchased at a jewelers..
A curious trap at the patent office is
an imitation rat that has piece OF
toasted cheese stuck on the end Of lit
| tie spear that projects from his nose a
| SuOII uiSttnCc w Ucu Il IGdl rat comes
| up to nibbe at the cheese the spear
| jumps out about six inches and impales
| the unfortunate.
In his last will the late Franz Schnitz-
Ter, of the town of Oak Greek, said:
Il will that my wife schal own and
controle the real and personal property
| as long as she lives-after herr death
| herr children from her second husband
schal own and control the real and
| personal property"
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, IKE well known
novelist, lives hermit sort of life on
the summit of the Storm King Noun
tain on the Hudson. She goes to Eu-
| rope to gather material for new
| novel which will deal with the subject
| of Calvinism. Mrs. Barr writes all her
novels with a typewriter.
a strange phenomenon in the heavens
was noticed by many in Lexington,
GA, lately. 1t was hazy, cloudy,
and encircting the sun was complete
rainbow with at least half the hues.
Some of the supersttious looked upon
! 1t IS signs of some calamity to come
and have not rested easily since.
| Several years ago a Richmond, Me-,
man refused to allow the Maine Cen
trail Railroad to put foot on what he
| supposed was his land. A survey
| showed that not only the land in dis
pute, but several rods more, belonged
| to the road, and when the line fence
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