Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-16

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expensive seat in chu'ch. '-Colorado
Springs Gazette.
There is now complete from Boston
to Omaha a double-track line of rail
way, of which every mile is guarded
from wreck by the block signal.
H. L. Asher of Lexington, KY has
sold to c. c. Patrick the famous High,
land stock farm, formerly the
property of W. c. Frances, contain
ing go acres, for $1,000 1t was the
home of Red Wilkes and other of the
great Wilkes family
Bronco BiIl-We had tel expel that
temperance exhorter fer tn good Nv
the community Grizzly Peter
How's that? l thought tn boys wuz
all signing tn pledge? Bronco Bill
They wuz? An got ter shootin' so
blamed straight that we wouldn t
have had 70 community left in a
little while,-puck
Westminster Abbey is being divest-
ed of the woodwork erected for the
| coronation ceremony. The work is
being done with the utmost care, 70
| N.
the removal Of the timber will come
thorough cleaning and busting, and
the replacing of the pews. 1t IS
hoped that the regular daily services
will begin early in October.
Il noticed in your last ISSUE" said
the stranger, that you say, During a
game at Gildroy's Golden palace last
night one man held a royal flush
twice in succession 'Well?" re-
marked the editor of the Gulch It'd
ings. We'll, l just want to say 1
don't believe there's a man living who
can do that" There isn't, but there
was. '-Philadelphia Press.
Edward P Call, who has been pub
Usher of the New York Evening Post
fer the past four years, has resigned
that position to become publisher of
the New York Mail and Express. MI.
| Call began his newspaper career in
Boston under the late R. M. Pulsifer
Of the Herald, and is one of the at
tractive and popular men in the news
paper fraternity.
An article in Pearson's magazine
tells Of the latest fad in regeneration
! for women. A woman tired of con-
stantly rouging applied to Gambler
| Bolton, the famous tattoOing expert.
After numerous experiments including
one that left patch Of pale pink be-
| low his right eye, the artist consented
to perform the operation. The sub
| ject left the studio with the freshest
and daintiest of compilations, and one
warranted not to wash Off, but fixed
for the rest of her days.
So dissatisfied are some of the in
habitants of Llanelly, Wales, with the
public lighting arrangements of the
! local authority that the other evening
| they lighted portion Of one of the
main thoroughfares with candles,
with the object of putting the
authorities to shame. The sight at
! tracted such crowds that the police
were kept busy clearing the pave
ment, and the urban council con-
! templates taking proceedings against
| the owners of the candles for Obstruc-
ton.
Coat hangers of his own manu-
facture from the stock-in-trade OF
Charles Ebert, a Bavarian, who is a
familiar figure on Cleveland's main
! business streets. Evenings and
stormy days he stays at home and
makes the hanger. He never solicits
custom, although naturally anxious
enough to sell, taking the position
that every one can see what he has
| To nd ho+ hoe inc tTo5 do
be useless. Ebert is from Nuremburg
and has been in this country six years,
selling coat-hangers all the time.
A north side boy, five years old,
who had recently become the brother
of another little boy, was sent to the
grocery the other day to get some loaf
sugar. By mistake the grocer gave
him granulated, and the boy was sent
back to have it changed. How do
you like your new brother?'' asked the
grocer, as he was weighing out the
right kind of sugar. "Oh, l don't like
him very much" the little fellow an
swered. HE cries all the time"
"Why don't you change him, then
as you do the sugar." eve can't
change him now, cause we've used
him three days. "-Chicago Record
Herald.
A writer in the London Argus gives
the following peculiar old street
names, with the modern substi-
tuted: Adam aDigging-ya Peter
street; Aggat's Passage-Cutler
street, Houndsditch; Alphabet court
Il Clare Market; Baalzephon street.
Long lane, Berondsey; Bully Rag row
-Bethnal green; Jealous roW-St.
George 's-in-the-East; Antigallican pas,
sage-Temple Bar; Lally Pot lane
Posted lane. The derivations of these
, names Continues the writer would
would be an interesting study, but
thing it would be found that in d
large number of instances the love OF
eccentricity had led to the selection.
l The oldest licensed village ale
house in England is claimed to be the
5 George inn in North ST. Philip. The
license dates from 1897. Each story
r of the picturesque old structure over
hangs that beneath. The front is
: broken by bay windows, a porch an(
flight Of stone steps leading to {
= doorway in the wall. At the bact
more quaint doors and windows and {
turret built against the wall incIoses
:, an outside stair, while in the yar(
still remains part of the old gallery
found in SO many hostelries of The
middle ages. Most of the front Is