Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
MISSING LINKS.
A state official of Maine is wearing 9
straw hat which he bought in 1859.

1t is estimated that fully 1000 Penn
sylvanians are in the employ of the
United States government.
A German professor says all who eat
water cress consume at the same time
full assortment of minute insects
A tennis shoe, bracelet, a restaur
ant, carpet, tooth powder, and
| polish for silver have been named after
SANKEY'S bride.
! Mrs. Maggie Ellis, a mulatto OF
Chattanooga, Tenn, has given birth to
the smallest child on record. 1t weighs
thirty-one ounces.
A man at Langhorne, Pa, is fitting
! up a pigeon house to accommodate a
thousand birds. 1t will be the largest
flock of carriers in the country.
At L'Orient Arsenal, in France, a
great ironclad war vessel of II, 900 tons
is nearly completed. 1t is strongly
armed with immense cannon in revolv-
ing towers.
1t is said that there are 1000 vacant
! houses in Kansas City. Mo-, and that il
| has lost many thousands of population
the last two years since its ''boom''
collapsed.
The Grass Valley (Cal.) TIdi1ags says
that George W. Jones, who lives in
Nevada County, recently shot rattle
snake, a porcupine and a bear inside OF
twenty minutes.
| The longest American railroad tun-
mel is the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitch
burg Railroad, four and a quarter
miles; the st. Gothard tunnel in Europe
in nine miles long.
The Italian minister of agriculture
has recently purchased in England a
splendid stallion named Melton for
$50 900, It is intended for the royal
stables at Venaria and Pisce.
An English medical writer asserts
that cancer is not hereditary in the
vast majority of cases, no less than
SO per cent being caused by external
influences upon the sufferers.
A bookbinder in Vienna was called
upon to bind volume of 100 leaves
worth 100, 900 guilden. Each leaf was
a bond for 1000 guilden, the book be-
ing the owners gift to his only
! daughter.
Sevres ware has so fallen in public
estimation that the annual sale scarce
" exceeds $4,000. The works receive
a yearly subsidy of 500, 900, but the
quality of the wares produced has
deteriorated.
DR.. Koch read before the medical
congress in Berlin paper in which he
is said to have declared that he had
discovered way of killing the tuber-
culosis bacillus and of curing tubercu-
| losis diease.
The following notice is posted on the
main street at Athena, Oregon: ITO
my neighbors: If my spring chickens
are disturbing your garden kill them
and eat them. Don't pile them out in
the alley to became a nuisance. John
ELLINGTON"
A man named Tins,ey, living in
! Toronto, claims to be 10Y years old. He
is hale and hearty. He says he smoked
once in 1900, but never since, but has
been in the habit of taking a little
liquor. He has worn spectacles fos
| eight years.
The wire to be used for the telephone
between Paris and London is made of
bronze. 1t is estimated that the French
share of the expense of establishing the
telephone will be about $3.50, 900. En-
thusiasts believe that all the tele,
graphic communication will be super
seeded.
The house of commons in England is
obtaining reputation as a dining re-
sort. owing to the custom that has
grown up of introducing ladies to the
privileges of the dining-room and ter
race. Forty walters are employed in
ministering to the wants of hungry
legislators.
That England intends to 90 to
Mecca one of these days is clearly in
dictated by recent utterances in the
English press. Pilgrims have been
treated so badly at Mecca of late years
that the Turks and Egyptians are be-
ginning to be very anxious to see Mecca
in neutral hands.
The Novoye Vrenaya is informed that
several societies agitate the project OF
| petitioning the government for laws
by which the number of foreign labor
ers in Russian factories shall be di.
minished. This, the paper says, would
be a great benefit for the Russian
laborer, who cannot compete with the
foreigner either in skill or in the ability
to economize time.
A new disease has appeared in the
| governments of Wilma and Rovna and
spread so rapidly that there are five or
more persons suffering with it in every
village of the the entire region. The
symptoms are quite similar to those OF
the cholera, vomiting, headache an6
the obstruction of the nasal canal. The
persons inflicted with this disease suffer
for three days. The physicians are not
able to define it.
| In 1864 E. II. Blackshear, a con-
! federate soldier. WIS wounded by a
federal bullet, viii entered his breast,
passed through his body and lodged in
his back. On June %, just twenty-six
years after the wound was received.
the bullet worked its way out of his
back near the spine. 1t was round,
weighed exactly one ounce, and was
of the variety known among the con.
federates as buck and ball"
Don't clean your nails in public, y
said a critic to the Detroit Free Press
reporter. 1t is unspeakably vulgar.
The toilet should be made in the
privacy of ones chamber, or. at any
rate, out of the public gaze. If there
is anything in the world that disgusts
a person it is to see a fellow pull out a
| iackknife in the street car and begin
pairing away at his hands. Don't do it,
fer it is vulger to the highest.