Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
MISSING LINKS.

itor of the London Times. is only 50
years of age.
In Russia in 1888 there were pub
lished 5,31S books, of which Il, S95, $50
copies were printed.
English cutters who used to pay s.,
600 ton fcT ivory have recently had
to pay as high as $4,000.
Mrs. Lizzie Weaver of Bridgeton, N.
j., has, after forty-seven years OF labor,
finished a crazy-quilt of 30, 075 patches.
Noah Armstrong, owner of the great
race-horse Spokane, reports that his
famous steed cleared last season about
$4,000.
Mr.. Hamilton DisSton, the saw man
ufacturer of Philadelphia, gave about
81, 900 in Christmas presents to his
employees.
The manufacture of oil of roses is to
begin on large scale in the Crlmea,
where the roses grow in great pro-
fusion in the mountains.
1t is said that one of the English
novelists is able to repeat from memory
every word he has written, and he Is
the author of many books.
Quincy Stodder, who died in Hing
ham, Mass, the other day, aged 81
years. has been fifty-two years fisher
man and was never ship-wrecked.
Col. Bob Ingersoll is real mad. A
New York tobacconist has seized his
genial face and is using it as a colossal
chrome advertisement of a cigar.
Miss Amelia Edwards has announced
that she will not write book on Amer
lea. This is a great innovation on the
part of visitor that will be appreciat-
ed.
Stepniak, who is coming to this
country, is described as black-haired,
bristly-bearded, vigorous-looking six
footer, with gentle-manners and kindly
ways.
Last year Germany granted only
1921 pensions, against England's o.
779 and the United States 20, 420. The
number granted in Germany has fallen
off 927 in five years.
A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone, has had it
rugged up on a dumb-waiter arrange
ment so that he can answer a call from
any part of the house.
The largest and best paying graphite
mine in the country is in Warren
county, N. Y. In the same region are
also extensive garnet mines, the ore
from which is worth $40 a ton.
Mary Routh Ellis of Philadelphia,
one of the beneficiaries under the will
of the late jefferson Davis, is the
grandniece of the testator on her faith
er's side and of Gen. Meade on her
mothers side.
Coils p. Huntington is preparing
to erect palatial mansion of granite in
New York. Few millionaires can afford
two such expensive luxuries as a genu-
inc German Prince and a New York
palace in the same year.
For several years the receipts from
the sales of public lands in Canada
have not been sufficient to cover the
expense of surveying and manage
ment Last year there was deficien-
cy of more than $S1, 900.
President Eliot says that Harvard is
the only college from which profess
sor was ever taken for President of the
United States, John Quincy Adams
having held the chair of rhetoric and
oratory in that institution.
Kansas raised "a, 100000 bushels of
wheat this year. If made into bread,
reckoning a bushel to sixty pounds of
flour, it would give each man, woman
and child in the United States thirty
four two-pOund loaves of bread.
Herman Merivale, poet and dramat-
list, prints card deriving the word
'smasher'' from masha, a Roumanian
term meaning fascination of the eye"
He gives as his authority Leland's Die
tionary of the Roumanian Language.
Mrs. Haggard of Brakeman, Eng,
the mother of Rider Haggard, lately
died at the age of SO. She was an ac-
complished woman Of literary tastes,
and was known as the author of vol
umes and verses. One of these was a
tale of the Afghan war.
Secretary Blaine spends an hour or
two a day on literary work. He is en-
gagged upon some historical treatise
the subject of which is not known. Mr..
Blaine has been much pleased at the
success of his book, Twenty years of
Congress, and longs for further liter
airy laurels.
Gen. Jubal Early, now an annex of
the Louisiana Lottery, goes SLOUGH
ing about the corridors of the st.
Charles Hotel in New Orleans like
ghost of the past. One of his fads is
that he will never accept National
bank note with a portrait of Gen.
Grant on it.
aunt Lucy Griffin, who lived for
twenty-three years in the family of
Noah Webster, celebrated her goth
birthday anniversary Christmas Day in
a New Haven Comm benevolent in
stitution, of which she is an inmate.
There has been something of the Una
bridged about ''Aunt Lucy's'' years.
1t is related of a Traverse City girl
that she has made her best fellow
promise to come around at noon for an
answer to his proposal of marriage.
The girl says she has seen him several
thousand times, but always in the
evening, and she will marry no man
unless she knows how he looks by day
light.
Ex-Gov. Cornell of New York re-
Gently held reception at which moth
ing but ice water was served to the
guests. He had large throng of men
conspicuous in affairs and literature,
and the evening was spent most de-
lightfully, but there was nothing for
the guests to eat or drink. except ice
water.
Ben Buffers eccentric attire is the
subject of considerable gossip in Wash
ington. When he envelops his short,
chunky figure in thick fur overcoat'