Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
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far west IS San Francisco.
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts will pay
S12, 500 for the use of Lord Spencer's
London house during the season.
The Princess of Wales takes a lively
interest in hammered brasswork. an
art which is taught at her school in
Sandringham.
A quantity conceived brooch is an
enameled squirrel holding little nut,
which is represented as closely as pos
sible by colored pearls.
The table upon which Cromwell
wrote when he affixed his signature to
the warrant for the execution of Charles
|. was recently sold in England for
$720.
A citizen of Ebert county, Ca, has
well in which he frequently catches
different kinds of fish. He thinks it
connects with creek half mile dis
tant.
Prince Bismarck is still to be adj
dressed as Serene Highness' This is
reasonable. Bismarck is feet inches
in height and as serene as a midsummer
afternoon.
Justin Mccarthy sees Arthur Bal
four, Sir William Harcourt, Henry Lab
ouchere, John Morley. Sir Charles Rus
sell. and Henry Fowler as the coming
men in English politics.
The Emperor of Germany and Grown
Prince Rudolph of Austria were the two
widest boys in Germanland when they
were boys. They once had a serious
quarrel over an opera-singer.
Jaloquin Happole, Patagonian, has
not been heard of Il great deal, but not
because he has not been around a good
while. He is 1913 years old and can see
to chew tobacco and smoke without
spectacles.
The Alnad7aach de Gotha is over a
century and a quarter old. When it
was first issued there were only three
republics, Switzerland, San Marino and
Andorra, while to-day there are twen-
ty-six republics.
The largest vessel ever built in
France, La Touraine, of $4,000 horse
power and more than five hundred and
thirty feet long, will be added to the
feet plying between Havre and New
York this season.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is 6S
years old. His face and figure are thin
ner than they ever were. and his splen-
did constitution is beginning to show
signs of age, He has been one of the
hardest workers in Congress.
Hamilton Hurlbut, of Salem, Ore,
claims to have discovered process of
tempering copper so that it will peck
stone, cut cold steel equal to the best
cast steel, jack knives will cut sour APP
piles without coloring the blades
There is a movement in England
against the employment of barmaids,
although it is felt that the reform will
not be accomplished until the far fu-
ture, and that all that can be done at
present will be limiting the hours of
labor.
Emperor William of Germany is a
hearty eater. He gets away with four
meals day in royal style. He eats
ham and eggs for breakfast, game and
salads for luncheon, soups, fish, and
roasts for dinner and hot sausages and
beer for supper. He has grown feshy
of late.
Bears have become so thick in the
mountains OF Isere, bordering on Sa-
voy. in France that the inhabitants
have organized bear drives, but these
have been so unsuccessful that they
have almost concluded that their only
salvation is in advertising for foreign
spOrtsmen.
In England women patentees are far
more numerous than they are here.
AS rule the inventions Of our women
are for the attire of women. A dozen
or more patents for carriers of an i'm
proved fashion, for instance, have been
granted from time to time by our own
patent office.
Robert Williams, a farmer in Woods
county, Ohio. was told not to 90 down
into an old well without lowering
candle to see if there was foul gas there.
As it was his wife who warned him he
threw club at her, told her to mind
her own business and went down, to be
hauled up corpse.
Count Andrassy had splendid nerve
at the card table, and when he played
at all called for very high stakes. He
once played three rubbers of whist
with the late Count Darn, Prince Peter
Schouwaloff and Baron Kolisch-all
frst-rate whist players-for 1000 franc
points and 10000 francs on the rub.
Hans Won BuIow, the celebrated plan
ist is known in public as the most
quick-tempered conductor that ever
welded baton, and in private as the
III of
men. His memory is enormous, and
he can conduct complicated Chopin
concert without once looking at the
score.
The order of St. Andrews, first in
stituted in England in 7S7, disused af-
terward and re-established in 1850,
is the oldest of the royal and imperial
, orders in the world, which with a
prodigious assortment of collars,
crosses, and other fancy insignia, SOW
ereigns crafty the ambition of their
subjects.
Thirty-seven French soldiers, under
command of a captain. lieutenant
and a sub-lieutenant. are said to have
marched from their barracks at NanneS
to raj road station twelve miles dis
tant in l hour and so minutes to sa-
lutte a general whose train was to stop
at the station Not man fell out on
the march.
Tushkurof, the Russian traveller and
ethnologist. points out in recently pub
! lished statistics that there are in the
Russian army 100000 heathens and
80, 600 mohamedans, the latter forming
| 20 per cent of the Russian Cossack reg