Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-31
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has been founded in St. Louis.
A Wisconsin man recently died who
bad voted for twenty Presidents.
Ex-senator Ingalls, will soon start a
stock ranch few miles south of Atchi-
son.
An expert electrician insists that an
electric train, making 125 miles an
hour, would require 1000 feet in
which to come to standstill.
Jason Brown, the second son of the
hero of Harper's Ferry, lives at Pasa-
dena, Cal. He is grcy-haired. grey
bearded patriarch of sixty-eight.
Hon. J. M. Avery. who has just died
In New Orleans. discovered the salt
mine on Avery Island that furnished
the South with nearly all it's salt dur
ing the war.
1t is Il mistake to suppose that polar
research has costenormously in human
life. Despite all the great disasters.
ninety-seven out of 100 explorers have
returned alive.
Mr.. Flagler. the Standard oil man.
appears to be back of an enterprise to
erect 81 900 900 hotel in Atlanta on
the general lines of his Ponce de Leon
At ST Augustine.
DR.. r. F. Gatling. the inventor Of
the gun that bears his name, says that
he is yet at work inventing aud the
habit has so grown upon him that he will
keep it up until he dies.
The late General Albert Pike told
,Nf l,,;,> 1,
from that city to Washington because
the people whistled so much they dis
turbed his literary labors.
A Chattanooga dentist lost valua-
BILE diamond ring the other day in
curious manner. He was examining
the back teeth of a patient when the
ring slipped down the latter's throat.
Atlanta, Ga, has child named
Albert Werner Feusch, only years old.
and yet his knowledge of anatomy is
SO great that he can give its scientific
term to every bone in the human body.
Sarah Bernhardt bears her mothers
name. Her first name was originally
Rosine. which she changed of her own
accord. She is Catholic in religion,
and until she was sixteen she was edu-
Gated in a convent.
Julian Hawthorne has n fad in chick
en- raising. He owns q chicken farm
on Long Island, where he INDUCES his
propensity for ROSTERS and hens, and
from which he makes a neat sum year.
ly selling eggs aud poultry.
Grant Allen. the English novelist
and assayist, is thin and intellectual
looking man of 40. His eyes are light
blue and his hair grey. He was born
In Canada, but has passed the greater
part of his life in England.
A Downey (Cal.) editor is in trouble
from having published the following:
MISS Jones, who came here before the
food is still the guest of her brother. -"
He found it difficult to convince the
lady that he meant no reference to her
age.
The Emperor of Russia has lately
been wearing at all outdoor functions
a sumptuous mantle of the richest
violet velvet which is lined through
out with ermine and adorned with a
splendid passementerie of old gold and
violet
Sir Provo Wallis, who was Second
Lieutenant on the Shannon when that
frigate captured the Chesapeake off
Boston harbor in 1918. is still living.
and the ranking officer of the British
bavv. He celebrated his Tooth birth
day recently.
They say Julia Marlowe receives
through the mail an average of one
offer of marriage day in every town
where she plays. Such communica-
lions, says the Boston Herald, ought to
be excluded from the mails under the
anti-lottery law.
Money must be scarce i'll some parts
of California. as q Centerville young
man went to 4 half-dozen prominent
ranches recently and offered to sell
1900 feet of lumber for Sc in cash. The
farmers were all eager to buy, but no
one could raise the money.
Four different mountain peaks in
Idaho are from thirteen TO twenty
three feet lower by actual measure
ment than they were fifteen years ago,
and it is believed that this settling is
going on with many others. The idea
is that quicksands have undermined
them.
A Wheeling journal announced that
the people of that town would soon
have the pleasure of seeing certain
actor lin his great role of King Lear in
Macbeth. The paper has, however.
since stated that it was miSinformed as
to the particular role, and interest ia
the approaching event has abated.
A girl in Kentucky has recovered
$500 damages from steamboat COM
pany for naming boat after her with
out asking her permission, and they
must rename the boat. She took
offense ut marine item stating that
"kittie Marshal took the lower chute
and run her nose into n plantation"
Judge jackson. of Louisville, KY.
has decided that the property i'll a
dog cannot be set up unless the dog
has been duly registered according to
the law of the state. This ruling was
made in a case wherein man sought
to recover possession of Il masliff worth
800, which had been stolen from him
and sold TO third party.
Emma Abbott's ashes are to be sur
mounted Ivy an $50 600 Gothic monu
ment of Westerly granite, which Is tC
be erected in Oak Grove Cemetery, a
Gloucester. 1t will also serve as !:
tomb for the body of her husband
Eugene Welherell. The monumen
will be fifty-seven feet high anil will
resemble the Prince Albert memorial
at London.
The Indians in North Carolina vote
Thoy b.ya recourse to North C.rolin.