Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-21

it, is soon to be sold under mortgage
foreclosure by the sheriff of Cumber-
land county. New Jersey, where the
town is located. A Trenton building
and loan association holds the mort
cages. which aggregate SAC, 1000 For
year no one has lived in the place.
The penny-in-the-Sloi gas meters are
such a success in London that one COM
pany is taking in over a ton of pennies
day and is behind in its riders to
the extent of $4,000 machines. The
consumer pays in advance and is salts
fed that he gets the worth of his
money, and the company does a cash
business with very light expenses.
A cat belonging to a resident of
Cameron, Mo, is nursing a litter of
wild rabbits and caring for them with
motherly solicitude Several kittens
were born to the cat week Or so ago,
but they all died. A neighbor found
nest OF very young wild rabbits about
the same time and they were put in
charge of the cat, with the happy re-
suit told.
A number of Philadelphia capitalists
have decided to build in that city
colosseum to be devoted to all forms of
sports. 1t will be two stories high,
with an auditorium seating 10000 peo-
pie on the second floor The first floor
will be used for an artificial ice rink,
horse 6no nd SbN
hibitiOns, athletic games, conventions
and concerts.
One effect of Overcentralization of
which French authors complain is the
restriction in the number of new plays
produced. Whereas there were in
France last winter 1872 first perform
ances, in Italy, where the production
of a play at Turin, Florence Milan,
Venice or Naples is of as much i'm
portance as its performance at Rome,
the number of new plays was 292.
The great drouth has effected the
Persian gulf and Mekran coast of In
dia to such an extent that farmers have
forsaken their fields and taken to raid
ing travellers in so much that it has
been found necessary by the local au-
thoritieS to warn the European resi-
dents of some of the coast ports not to
leave their quarters after dark unless
in company or we'll protected against
attack.
Gotham merchants seem to be trying
TO Guido each other in the matter of
perambulating advertisements. The
latest thing of the kind is a seXtet of
men marching in Indian file, each one
carrying an imitation sample case en-
blazoned with the sign of the enterpris-
ing firm. AS these cases are painted
in different colors, the procession has
che appearance of a small rainbow in
motion.
The naming of ships is one of the
difficulties that the English admiralty
overcome by using the old names over
and over again. To adopt new name
into the navy seriously interferes with
the service signal books. The old
names are in the code and are as disable
for the ships of today as for those OF
Nelson's days. But the introduction
of a new name neceSsitates an altera-
ton in all the books. That is why the
old names survive generation after
gel GRAFTON.
A beautiful cedar and mahogany
center-board lugger has been built at
Southampton for Lady Londonderry.
The little vessel is twenty-six feet on
the water line, has aluminium, silver
plated fittings and gun-metal center
plate. The entire fittings are of the
newest description, the sails being of
silk. Gold beading and scroll work re-
lieve the sheer plan from all stiffness. .
The yachtlet has been named the Me
tuenda- "Metuenda corolla draconis''
being the Londonderry motto-and it
is expected to sail unusually fast.
A dozen or so of San Francisco
clergymen have been expressing their
opinion on that Objectionable clause of
the marriage service that binds the
women to "obey" Their solemn de-
cision, which will be a welcome one
to western brides, is that the word
and its implications are repugnant and
that obedience will be optional with
the woman of the future.
Professional mourners frequently sit
before the doors of dying people wait
ing to be engaged to raise their voices
in lamentation, and recently at Luxor
a chorus of women sat on the banks
of the Nile and cursed, tore their gar
ments and screamed as a steamer took
a man to prison for stealing. AS soon
as the boat had left the pier these out ,
bursts ceased and the women chatted
together quietly and calmly.
The origin of several military titles
is the subject of much dispute, and
among them the various grades of gen.
erals have occasioned much contro-
versy. One authority states that the
brigadier is a Spanish title, originally
borrowed from the Moore and applied
to any officer who commanded a de-
tachment of troops made up of the diff ,
ferent arms of the service, as infantry,
and cavalry. The French enlarged the
of the title as well as the
detachment, and added the word gen
eral. The lieutenant general, accord
ing to the same authority, was the Of
fcer who acted in the place of the gen
eral. as the lieutenant governor, in