Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
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Ind, were sold lately for $40,
President Carnot of France is gaining
reputation of being the most industri-
Gus Cabinetmaker in Europe.
The Ventura County, California,
papers are urging their readers to
plant camphor trees. They are said to
grow as rapidly as the eucalyptus.
After forty years of mormon rule all
the city of Salt Lake has to show is
some sets of books that the most expert
bookeeper in the universe cannot bal
ance.
An instrument has been invented in
Berlin by means of which an exact diff
ferential diagnosis of diseases of the
lungs will be possible. The inventor
is DR.. Janiczewski.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is going to take to
the lecture stage. She has contracted
for twenty lectures to be delivered in
the principal cities of the country be-
ginning in October.
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza far
mer Of Dakota, expects to raise this
year 80, 900 acres of wheat. Mr.. Dali
rymple is not an applicant for seed at
tuo cA peuSe Vi Ine OLdJe.
The Empress Eugene still owns the
chateau of Arenenberg, in Switzerland,
given her by the late Emperor of the
French. There she keeps many relics
of her days of prosperity.
Bronson Howard, writing from
Europe to friend in this country, and
speaking not of poker, but of politics,
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Kings and Queens has passed.
The French army authorities are
considering the adoption of helmet of
one design for the entire army except
the cavalry, and models have been in
vited from the leading hatmakers.
The belle at recent dog feast on an
Indian reservation in Dakota wore a
jacket trimmed with teeth from $50
elks, which she herself had slain. She
is the granddaughter of the chief of the
tribe.
Baron de la Grange, French noble
man, now in Baltimore, has ordered a
lot OF American corn-cob pipes to be
sent as a present to the Comte Jean
de Kergorlay, No. II Rue Matignon,
Paris.
A one-legged negro in Egbert Coun-
ty, Georgia, has produced the first bale
of cotton every season in that county
for several years. He is prosperous
and is accommodating a handsome ia
dependence.
Lady Colin Campbell has written a
play in which she will take leading
part. If she acts as badly on the stage
as she did in private life her profess
sional career will be as short as her
moral repertoire.
The Empress Frederick has become
an enthusiastic archaeological student
at Athens. DR.. Schlemann superin-
tends her studies, and with him she has
visited both Olympus and the ancient
ruins of Mycene.
Experiments have been made in Ger
many with torpedoes made of paper,
loaded with a charge of twenty-five
pounds of dynamite and fired by cleo
tricity. Very satisfactory results are
said to have been obtained.
Aunt Matilda Ruby of Kentucky has
just died at the age of 1876. She chewed
and smoked for century and quart
er. But for her wicked and debilitat-
ing tobacco habit she might have lived
to quite respectable old age.
Mr.. S. r. Wilson of Salt Lake re-
ports on good authority that the Stand
ard Oil company has recently COM
pleted the purchase of 60, 900 acres of
oil territory in Wyoming, and will pro-
ceed to develop the same Immediately.
William Lloyd Garrison is tall, and
slim, and gray, and bald. He has
amassed a considerable competence
out of wool, and is of decidedly liter
ary turn of mind He has a weak voice,
which mars the effect of his public
speeches.
An English physician recommends
the use of nitro-glycerine instead OF
alcohol as a stimulant in case of physi-
cal exhaustion. The widows Of many
torpedo shooter in the oil regions can
vouch for the efficacy of nitro-glycerine
as an annihilator.
A picturesque character who recent
ly died in Washington County, Georgia,
was noted for trading jack-knives.
On the handle of every knife he ever
owned he made little private mark
by which he could recognize it if it ever
came into his hands again.
Mwanga King of Uganda, who has
accepted Christianity, is the man who
used to have few wives slaughtered
before breakfast now and then He
has also killed number of mission
aries. His reformation gives civiliza-
ton a great boost in Africa.
Nine. Emma Nevada, with her hus-
band and little daughter, has returned
to Paris from Madrid to try what
change of air will do to remove the
last traces of the violent and reiterated
attacks of influenza which have kept
her Frustrated throughout the entire
winter,
The London papers print the opinion
of "a distinguished Psychologist" that
the vatican collection of Egyptian anti
quities has been greatly damaged and
its usefulness largely destroyed, by the
manner in which the broken pieces
were restored" and repaired by igno-
rant guardians.
A private letter from England says:
1T has been stated that the Duchess OF
Marlborough is not noticed by the no.
bility. This is not the fact as she is
most popular, and is doing much good
in the Village of Woodstock, but peo-
Pile still look coldly on the Duke, and
hope that she may be able to reclaim
him.
The ex-EmpreSs Eugene has entered