Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
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life will drink about one hundred and
seventy-iive hogsheads of liquids.
A pair of bantam chickens were sold
at the London Crystal Palace for $500.
which was almost twice their weight
in gold.
A little salt sprinklcd over the sur
face of mustard plaster will enable
the patient to keep it on for hours
without much suffering.
A prisoner at Chambersburg. Pa,
made his escape from the constable by
darling into Il party of women who
were chatting on the sidewalk.
The leaning tower of Pisa is 1S5 feet
high. and is, if the cornice be included,
Is feet inches out OF the perpendicu-
lar. The walls ut the base are Is feet
thick.
The people of northern Europe con-
sumo more alcohol. per capita, than
their nei@hbors in the south. for the
reason that relatively. they are not 50
well fed.
An Usage City. Kan. man. has
started a new kind of lunch counter.
He serves only one dish-ground pop
corn and cream, which he sells ut 10
cents bowl.
1t is said that for more than fifty
years 9355. which was originally in
tended to be applied to the education
of slaves in Georgia. has been lying in
the Bank of Scotland.
Take in your hand crystal of quartz.
ct;n oF In,I .l,i.,. 4 N
you will not find in them a single ele-
mcnt of matter that is not also found
in your physical frame.
As an instrument of tillage, the
spade costs four times as much us the
pillow. The horse or the OK, as 4 mo-
live power, is equally at Il Gisadyant-
age compared with steam.
In 1920 Italy was land of beggars.
The people were sa poor that in Il city
of 20, 900 inhabitants u traveller was
unable to purchase pair of gloves, or,
in one OF IL, 600, u cake of soap.
The Italia and Lepanto of the Italian
navy. are two of the largest warships
ever built. They are 400 feet long
A feet broad, and possess IL mean
draught of water exceeding 80 feet.
A physician has compiled some veEy
elaborate statistics 20 demonstrate that
men of thought live, on an average,
three years and half longer than
men in the ordinary vocations of life.
Sheriff Alison is authority for the
statement that, in the city of Glasgow
alone. 81, 600 people get drunk every
Saturday night and crime has in
creased six times faster than popula-
ton.
Senator Dixon Of Rhode Island is
said to be an admirable Sketcher and
caricaturst. 1t might be added that he
finds abundant material for his facile
pencil in the bod of which he is Il
menu Der.
In 1881 Belfast had POS, l22 inhabi-
tants; Dublin, 200, 662; Cork. 80. 124.
In 1871 Belfast stood at III 412, Dub
lin. 346,326. The decrease of the one
and the increase of the other are re-
markable.
The drop-curtain at Mime. PATHS new
theater at Craig-y-Nos is decorated
with an immense portrait of Patti rs
Semiramide driving chariot and n
pair Of horses, the picture covering the
entire curtain.
Hamburg drives what may be called
and tigers may be ordered at 1000
francs apiece. A good rhinoceros.
however will fetch from 5000 francs
to $4,000 francs.
Queen Victoria offers some real es-
tate for sale, and the bears in the stock
market are expected to build story
on this to the effect that Her Majesty S
finances have reached II crisis and the
butcher aud baker are after her.
Mrs. Colt, widow of the inventor of
the revolver. has several millions of
money and lives in the hanlsomest res
idence in Hartford, Conn. She has
out of her own resources erected a
handsome Episcopal church near her
home.
A recent survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at l. -
155, of which 249 have length Of
more than four and three-quarters
miles. The French Alps contain 14t
g'aciers those of Italy IS. Switzerland
al and Austria 462.
President Mcleod of the Reading
railroad will now receive $4,000 a
year salary. This is the largest COM
pensation given any railway official in
the country. it is asserted. except that
paid to Mr.. Depew by the New York
Central, who gets $50, 600.
Careful experiments 20 to show that
for the maximum efficiency of mind
and body of the working population in
the northern countries of Europe and
in the United States, meat Of animal
product of some kind should consti-
tute ut least two-thirds of:thc total sup
ply.
Several attempts have been made to
establish the tack industry in the
South. but they have failed from diff
tcutics in handling the material. This
branch of the. iron trade is in the
hands of New England manufacturers,
and is practically confined to Massa-
chusettS.
Slaves were sold publicly in Liver
pool in the latter half, of the last CEN
fury. Sir James Picton. in his Me
MORALS of Liverpool" quotes two
advertisements of the sale OF slaves in
Liverpool, which appeared in William
sons Liverpool AdUertiser in the years
1865 and 1866.
Queen Margaret of Italy is given to
making unannounced visits to charita-
bic institutions, particularly those de-
voted 10 the care of children. and is
kin, y critical about their manage
ms at This makes things lively for
the attaches, but usually the inmates