Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
HERE AND THERE.

An English soldier, who was order
ed to Osborne house to be decorated by
the queen for bravery, could not get
a nights lodging on the evening pre-
ceding the event and sal all night in q
park in heavy rainstorm.
An clearinghouse proprietor in Ia
coma arrested for selling game out
of season escaped on evidence, salts
factory to the jury, that his wife
could prepare mutton to make it taste
like venison.
Work and Play in Girls Schools
written by three head mistresses in
London, allots to meals and outdoor
exercises four hours a day, and to
sleep eight hours, leaving eight for
school work and four for social family
life and general reading. OF outdoor
recreatiOnS it recommends lawn-ten-
mis-, fives, bowls, quOits, golf swim
ming, tobOgganing, basket ball, round
ers, as we'll as cricket and cycling,
which are in some quarters stigma
tized as unfeminine.
A son of the Emerald isle, attending
wedding, conducted on a free-and-
easy plan, observing an attendant
who was bearing himself in an offici-
Gus manner, accosted him abruptly
with the demand, Who are you, any
way?" and received for reply: Sure
and I'm the best man" His interro-
gator not being well informed as to
the technicalities Of such occasions,
briStled up in defiance, remarking
with a vehemence more pronounced
than polite, You claim to be the best
man; let's see you prove it" and
squaring off he proceeded as to the
truth Of the arrogant pretension. The
contest, however, substantiated the
assailant to confess, that instead of
the best man, he was, in fact, to be
registered as second-class male mat
ter.
New York contractors have arrang-
ed with the penitentiary authorities at
Raleigh, n. c., for the labor of a GER
tain number of cOnyicts in shirt-mak-
ing. The men are to work ten hours a
| day and each man must make at least
one dozen SHIRTS per day. For their
services the penitentiary is to receive
| twenty-five cents per dozen shirts.
One result of the survey of the
mouth of the Yukon river this sum-
mer by Captain Pratt of the coast and
| geodetic survey, is to add an area of
$500 square miles to Uncle Sans do
main.
The industrial commission created
at the last session of congress held it's
opening meeting at the capitol and
outlined the general work before it.
A committee on organization was
named as follows: Philips, Gardiaer,
North, Daniel and Livingstone.
The tug L. P. Smith was sunk at
| the Cleveland harbor entrance as the
result of a collision with the steamer
Olympia. The captain and engineer
were rescued but the fireman was
drowned. The Olympia was unin-
| jured.
The western coal and mining COM
pany, operating three shafts at Jenny
Lind, Ark, and employing 900 men,
!
mines, the men refusing to work. The
miners demand the reinstatement Of
two men discharged for negligence re-
sulting in the death of a. mule
The vast peach orchards Of south
western Michigan are being destroyed
| by new tree disease said to be more
damaging than the dreaded yellow.
Owing to its peculiar effect, which is
stunning of the fruit when about the
! size of hazel nuts, it has locally been
given the name Of little peaches"
In future the French government
will prohibit the importation of for
eign-born pigeons, even when merely
destined for pie purposes. Their rea-
son is to prevent a system whereby
foreign spies would have the upper
hand in the event of war.
The best examples of Cyclopean
buildings are at Baalbec. There are
stones in the Baalbec walls 80 feet
above the level, several of which are
90 feet long, "a feet thick and 1e
broad, each stone weighing over
$500 tons, all cut, dressed and brought
from distant quarries.