Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20
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A sponge eight feet in circumference
is on exhibition at a store in New
York.
A young lady at Dayton, Tenn, has
died of hydrophobia caused by the bite
of cat.
D'Albert, the pianist, is strict vege-
tartan and eats an enormous number
of apples.
A youth of eighteen at Baysnire, L.
l., has become insane from the excess
i've use of cigarettes.
Last year Germany granted only ST.
92l patents, against England's 9,779,
and 20, 420 in the United States.
The Royal College of Physicians has
passed a resolution that the medical
curriculum should be extended to five
years instead of four.
William Greer, who is engaged in
the cattle business on the Canadian
River. Deer Fork District, Texas, shot
and killed a white deer recently.
A one-legged tramp who jumps on
and Off trains with the agility of a cir
Gus actor, is known to the train hands
OF every railroad in Pennsylvania.
The Prince of Wales has become
much more careful in his habits. He
has given up cigarettes, and never
drinks anything until after o'clock.
The entire French army is to be
armed with new helmet. 1t is of
nickeled copper, with cockade, worn
for the first time by the French soldier,
upon the top.
The prices of camphor and gum
promise to rise. The German govern
ment is making gigantic purchases of
these articles for the manufacture of
smokeless powder.
j. Ramon de Ibarrola, of Mexico, is
travelling in this country. He is an
engineer of the Mexican Government,
He says that Mexico would rather
have the devil than annexation"
Edward Bellamy AYERS that to him
one of the strongest proofs of the
strength of his Nationalistic theories is
that they are beginning to be most
vigorously condemned in many quar-
tiers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has taken to
a peculiar course of life. He always
retires at the same hour, eats dinner in
the middle of the day and walks at
least two miles every twenty four
hours.
According to recent paper read be-
fore the French Academy of Science
the temperature at the top of the Eiffel
tower is frequently much higher than
at the ground, though the contrary. as
rule, is to be expected.
Lydia Bacon, of Sudbury, Mass, who
has just been cut off in her 1O3d year,
attributed her longevity to hard work,
plenty of exercise. plain living, and
reading enough to keep the mind in
peace with the body's vigor.
A Florentine millionaire, the Mar
quis Carlo Guigneoni, has just pur-
chased the far-famed island of Monte
Cristo. He has started to build castle
there, with villa on the seashore and
a hermitage in one of the most retired
spots.
A Berlin professor while dissecting
a shark recently found in its stomach
dolphin weighing 1913 pounds, forty
three fish, decomposed seal, human
arm and four human legs. Nothwith-
standing this feed" the brute was
probably after bait when he was cap
tured.
If the stupendous railway bridge
across the North River at New York is
constructed. as contemplated, the
trains will run at a great height above
the house tops of Jersey City and will
span the stream at height sufficient
for the highest-masted vessel to pass
under.
A farmer living in the southern part
of Douglas County. Kansas, has G.s-
covered a vein of marble and granite
about thirty feet in thickness and about
twenty-feet below the surface. Sue
cessive strata developed different col
ors, beginning with a notified gray and
running through blush, pink, blue.
red and clear white.
1t is fact we'll known to pigeon
fanciers that the two eggs laid by pig
cons almost invariably produce male
and female. Some curious expert
ments as to which of the eggs produce
the male and which the female have
resulted in showing that the first egg
laid is the female and the second the
male.
The oldest lawsuit on record is now
being tried in the Russian court at St.
Petersburg. 1t was brought 500 years
ago against the city of Kamonez-Podoisk
by the heirs of dead nobleman to re-
cover many thousand acres of his
estate which had been confiscated by
the municipality. The written testi-
mony is said to weigh forty-five tons.
Dumas fills has begun to publish
series of hitherto unpublished maxims
of his. The first is as follows: when
Life appears as God has made it there
is nothing left but to thank Him for
having instituted Death" The last is:
Woman, according to the Bible was
the last thing created by God. He
must have made her on a Saturday
night. for the work shows signs of
fatigue
Paul White, a prosperous ranchman
at Rocky Ford, Col, about a month
ago advertised for wife. giving an &C
curate description of himself and bis
surroundings, etc. DIS Hall mas Deeu
SO heavy ever since that it has been
necessary to put it i'll barrels at the
post office. and Mr.. White was COM
PEELED to bring his farm wagon to town
to haul it home. He has not yet made
8 selection.
1t is narrated in Boston, where he
died, that just before he died, Alonzo
Stoddard, the operate baritone, cleo
trified his attendants and others in the
hospital by sitting up and singing one
of his favOrite solos. "He never sang