Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-01
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The great fair is to be known Off
cially as the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition.
A restaurant at Hamburg is said to
be built and furnished entirely of
paper.
A valuable bed of silver mica has
been discovered near North Greek, in
the Adirondacks.
P. &. Stearns. of Canton, H.. has
been Justice of the Peace in that
town for fifty-three years.
Rider Haggard, the famous novelist,
has been offered $1,000 a week for a
forty weeks lecture tour in this coun-
try.
Chauncey Depew defies the grip as
"a disease which makes man want to
run when he sees a good-sized mouse
if he could only run"
The perfect figure of human body
has been found in large elm tree
trunk that was being cut up in tim
Der yard at Scarborough.
Nearly every town in Georgia is pre-
pairing to put up cotton seed oil mill.
And yet but a few years ago these
seeds were considered worthless
French wine growers have a super
stitious appreciation of comets, and ex-
pect good crops because four comets
will be seen during the summer.
George w. Childs' "reminiscences in
Lippi'acOtts Magazine were dictated by
a reporter who got $1,000 for the job.
Mr.. Childs gave him the matter to help
him along.
In the neighborhood of Harris Road,
Fla. live two families with sixteen
boys, one having nine and the other
seven, and none of the parents is yet
forty years old.
Burial reform in England contem-
plates the complete prohibition of
leaden and other solidly constructed
collins. 1t is proposed to substitute
wickerwork or papier mache.
Amos F. Parker, who was graduated
from the University of Vermont in
1918, and is now 90 years of age. is
said to be the oldest living college
graduate in the United States.
King Leopold of Belgium speaks
and writes English with ease and &C
curacy. He never lets Sunday pass
without writing an autograph letter to
his friend and ally, Queen Victoria.
Herman Guten has for more than
seventy years lived in fish boats on the
Cumberland River. He says he was
born near Lubbock Germany, in 1878,
which, if true, makes him III years
old.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has a
quaint silver teapot which descended
to him by collateral line from Tutor
Flynt of Harvard College, whose
term of service extended from 1864 to
1899.
The British war office has decided
that when it becomes necessary to
handcuff soldier in uniform he must
not be marched through the streets,
but covered conveyance shall be pro-
vided.
A New Bedford clergyman who has
been in service long time advertises
700 sermons for sale, covering all sub
jects and applicable to any locality.
He only wants 81 apiece for the lot if
taken in a lump.
The Gar, upon receiving the report
of a recent duel between officers in the
army, said, ''Duels in the army are
absolutely necessary, and | desire that
reports of such escapades shall not be
brought to my notice.
George Murray, colored man of
D.l+ &c 81 r.,
walks about and is in possession of all
his faculties. The most remarkable
thing about him is that he never saw
George Washington.
Pets to be carried in the arms are no
longer confined to King Charles
spaniels, with long, silky ears, and
softly purring gray maltese CATS but
every conceivable variety of animal is
now considered proper for street wear.
Mrs. jefferson Davis writes that her
daughter. Mrs. |. A. Hayes of Colora-
do Springs and her husband have
changed their little sons name to JEFF
ferson Hayes Davis, 80 that there
shall be one to bear the beloved and
honored name of his own blood"
Queen Victorias yacht cost wheE
built in 1854 nearly 100000, and
more than 100000 has since been
expended on the craft. Prince Albert
designed the internal arrangements of
the yacht. There is nothing gaudy
about it; everything is plain but pretty.
Mrs. Sutherland-Orr is likely to
write a good biography of Browning.
She is sister to Sir Frederick Leigh
ton, President of the RoyaI Academy,
and was one of Browning's most init
mate friends. Her volume will con-
tain great number of valuable remin-
lscences.
Mr.. Simon Yandes, the benefactoT
of Wabash College, has just given $50
600 more to that institution, of which
$500 goes to the general endowment
fund and $780, 900 for new library
building to hold lis, 900 volumes. Last
year he endowed the English Litera-
ture chair with $4,000.
Queen Meebya. one of the wives of
King Mindone Min of Burmah, recent
ly died and her body lay in state at
Rangoon. The funeral service was
impressive. The Queens body was
cremated On a great funeral pile to the
sounds of wierd music. The ashes
were thrown into the Irawaddy.
John McKeogh, the ex-soldier who
was accustomed to stand guard over
the Burnside monument in Providence,
r. l., with a drawn saber. saving
every now and then: Il followed you
at Newberne and | will not desert you
now" was killed by railroad train