Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-05
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

If compulsory arbitration could be
adopted for the settlement of football
championships, it would decrease the
national deathrate.
Horace Brooks Marshall, one of the
new sheriffs of London, is said to be
the youngest man who has ever at
tanned to such a position. He is 80.
In the west the rural delivery mail
box is fast coming to rival the rail-
road switch target as a mark for
every foolish owner of a fierarm to
shoot at.
A Henry county (Mo) Justice Of
the peace offers to marry any couple
for 81 and gives the contracting
parties an opportunity Of working
out the costs.
A prisoner escaped from a sleeping
sheriff on a Wisconsin Central train
the other day, and the conductor
awakened the officer to tell him what
had happened.
A Milwaukee woman recently
opened a saloon as rival to her hus-
bands, and got much of his trade.
AS if that were not enough, now she
| is suing him for divorce
Senator Hoar makes a practice of
devoting three hours every day to
reading, and no matter where he may
be he has never neglected this for the
past 20 years.
A country correspondent in the
Pratt (Kan.) Republican sends this
song of gratitude: "The recent rains
have improved the butter immensely.
for which, thanks to God"
What sort of an eagle is that, any
way, which flaps it's wings over the re
publican column on the Australian
ballot, asks an exchange. Did you
ever see bird build anything like it?
A dispatch from The Hague says.
the Dutch wooden shoe makers have
just purchased immense quantities of
Russian timber, and that the demand
for wooden shoes is on the increase.
The time Of year is approaching
when every mayor and governor in
the country will witness their hands
and seal to oratorical Thanksgiving
day proclamations.-Kan City Star.
The Geographer Balbi enumerated
$50 distinct languages and 500 dia~
lects. Another modern writer on
this subject reckons up 3,640 lang
uages and dialects existing and which
have existed.
Fifteen handcuffed convicts on their
way from st. Joseph to the Missouri
penitentiary gave this yell each time
the train stopped: "Two-years, five
years, we-will-stay; didn't like st.
Joe anyway"
The prize of $4,000 for the best
suggestion as to means for preventing
collisions at sea was not awarded this
year. the commission at Havre having
pectations.
The New Hampshire historical so
ciety has the original patent on a
process for the use of steam In pro
polling boats. 1t was issued to Sam
lel Morley, March %, 1895, and was
signed by George Washington.
The growth of persimmon trees in
Did fields in the south has been looked
lpon as a curse, but now valuable
Use has been found for the wood,
which is dense in fiber, heavy and
capable of polish. This is for shut
lie blocks in the looms of cotton
Mills. A few days ago solid train,
Is carloads Of persimmon
nd dogwood shuttle blocks, was ship
led from Chattanooga direct to Eng
and by way of Norfolk.
When some 20 years ago AL at
empt was made to blow up the Win
er palace in st. Petersburg it was
iscovered that the lower regions of
nat imperial residence were in
abited by curious and motley tribe
vagabonds for whom nobody could
ccount. They were hangers-on,
0usins and brothers-in-law and friends
the cooks and other servants,
hose right to domicile In the en-
eror's palace had never been ques-
oned. but was extremely shadowy.