Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES OF THE DAY.
! Four crops a year can be raised on
Cuban soil.
! Fifteen women's clubs were ORGANIZED
in Maine last year.
The winter is so mild in France thu.
year that daisies are already blooming
in the Partisan parks.
Thirty-seven years ago a Brookville,
Me-, woman received a present of a
lamp, two chimneys and a globe, and
though in constant use are all yet I'M
broken.
Experiments are still being tried in
England in preserving fresh fruit in
boraX. 1t has been found perfectly sue
cessful with cherries, and is now being
tried with vegetables.
During 1895 the London mint struck
off 72,245,29 coins, about 100000
more than in 1894. The value of the
gold coins was 1882 ,625 of the silver
coins, FL, 1861 and of the bronze, f40
955
In Tartary onions, leeks, and garlic
are regarded as perfumes. A Tartar
lady will make herself agreeable by
rubbing a piece of freshly cut onion
on her hands and over her counter
aLce.
/ A farmer named Christ Bennecke ar
rived in Princeton, KY, last week in a
prairie schooner with his family and
most Of his household goods, having
driven all the way from Chadron, Neb,
a distance of about !, 400 miles.
Dean Hole of Rochester, England,
/ having seen Wilson Barrett's new play,
''The sign of the Cross" calls it ga
sacred endeavor to ring out the false,
ring in the true" and calls on call
earnest Christians to support it "by
their presence and their praise
A man in Barton, VT, married his
stepmother a few weeks ago. The
match was interesting, but not success
full. Domestic difficulties brought them
into the police court very few weeks
after their marriage, and the troubles
are not smoothed out yet
A former superintendent of the New
| Haven, Conn, almshouse died an in
mate of that institution few days ago.
/ He was removed from office twenty-five
! years ago because of cruelty to the in
mates. About a year ago he was
| obliged to seek shelter in the aims
! house for himself.
| It is said that the health of the bru-
nette type of eye is, as rule, superior
to that of blonde type. Black eyes
usually indicate good powers of ply
steal endurance. Dark blue eyes are
mere common in persons of delicate,
refined or effeminate natures, and gen.
orally show weak health.
4 A hunter, while roaming fn the
woods of Cromwell, Conn, recently
came upon an excavation in bank.
Turning over an iron vessel which was
imbedded in the sand, he found a note
in an envelope, the contents of which
were: 1--WE are satisfied that Captain
\ Kfdd's treasure is not buried here"
The French minister of agriculture
gives the number of wolves destroyed
in France in 1894, or rather of those
for the destruction of which premium
!
in 1898, and it has to be noted that
the total has been decreasing since
1883, when the government increased
the premium.
A. W. Paine of Penobscot, Me-, has
attended every term Of supreme court
at Bangor for fifty-nine years, with the
exception of one winter, when illness
kept him at home. He was on hand at
the opening of the court last week,
with a case for trial. He has argued
cases at every term of court, except
the one when he was ill.,
Over 36,00e,000 pairs of gloves are
used in England every year, and of
these fully three-quarters are worn by
the ladies. The value spent by them
in these articles amounts annually to
no less than 81, 800 900. One manufac-
turing firm alone finds employment,
directly and indirectly, for $4,000 peo-
pie, and at Worcester alone nearly five
miles are covered by glove factories.
For social, beneficial and altruistic
purposes" is the motto of the Coach
mans club of Baltimore, which is be-
ing organized by the veteran and ex-
pert jehus of private turnouts The
name is to distinguish the organization
from an existing coachman's club of
colored drivers, which is said to be
formed solely for social purposes and
does not deal in altruism.
A romantic smugglers' cave has been
found at ST. Margaret's, Dover. While
field was being plowed the ground
gave way and disclosed a subterranean
chamber, which is supposed to have
belonged to a famous smuggler living
in neighboring wood at the begin
ming of this century. This part of the
coast was a regular happy hunting
ground for smugglers at that time.