Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Crete, being fomented by certain indis-
Crete parties.-St, Louis Times. .-..-..
IF Brigham Young wore an additional
weed" on his hat every time he lost a
wife or mother -in-law, it is estimated
his hat would have to be twenty-sevenf feet
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A PROTESTANT CHURCH has been built
at Smithfleld, London, to commemorate
the martyrs burned there, and the Catho-
lies intend to build one at the Tower to
commemorate others. .<aeT 30
THERE is not a base-ballist killed vet,
and the sporting editors are becoming i'm
patient. Some good work can be done on
the Chicago nine by discriminating muir
derer.-Chscago Tribune. .L'I@
The announcement that in 1906, 900
years the Falls of Niagara will have sub
sided has driven two hotel proprietors in
sane and trebled the highest rate of hack
fare known in twenty-five years,
ALL the myths Of the century are fading
one by one. Spotted Tails daughter never
loved a pale-face; he never scorned her
love; she never died of grief for him. In
short, Spotted Tail never had a daughter.
Detroit Free Press
FAREWELL, for one year or Whereabouts,
to the startling cracker, the annoying tor
pedo, the decorating Chinese bomb, the
impaling rocket, the sight-destroying Ro-
man candle, the fixing pin-wheel, the
suicidal pistol, the holocausting cannon,
the metropolitan shotgun a#
THE district in Kentucky known as
Trosper's Chapel has sixty children and
eighty-two dogs. Allowing all the dis
tricts in the county (ffty-two) to average
this and there are 4, 1854 dogs in the coun-
ty; allowing each one pound Of bread per
day, they consume 1866, 800 pounds of
bread per year H..
q IN some ginseng root received at a store
in Nashville. Tenn, the other day,
piece was found that had bullet i'm
bedded entirely in it. 1t had either been
shot into it while growing, or the plant
had grown near the bullet and enveloped
it as it grew, completely covering and hid
ing it. The ball was not discovered till
the root was broken in two.
THERE is large and dangerous rock in
the harbor Of Victoria, British Columbia,
and it is intended to construct a Golfer
dam ten feet square over the center OF the
rock. A shaft will then be sunk to the
depth OF twelve feet, and four headings or
drIT II Al
quantity of giant-powder will be placed
in the shaft headings and the whole ex-
ploded by electricity about Aug. 1.
On being asked by one of his fair
daughters why the bulldogs nose is placed
so far behind his mouth, the very reverend
gentleman discovers another instance Of
the merciful consideration ever shown by
shall we say Nature ?''-to the hum
blest of her creatures, and replies: MY
love, it is to enable him to breathe more
comfortably while he is hanging on to the
nose Of the bulln'-Punch
RECENTLY, while workmen were en-
gagged in making repairs in the wheel-pit
at pottery in Bennington, Va, one of
their number, while feeling under de-
cayed plank came in contact with Shiny,
slippery something, which proved, after
somewhat protracted struggle, to be an
enormous eel. It's length was six feet,
seven and three-fourths inches, and it
weighed nine pounds and seven ounces.
A Boston gentleman is the happy pos
ofl3 mi
teen feet long and forty-two-inch beam
Her hull weighs about 100 pounds. She
Is propelled by steam boiler weighing
only forty-eight pounds. The cylinder is
IL inches, and the stroke 234 inches. The
propeller is four bladed and is placed un-
der the boat, two feet from the stern. One
gallon of water fills the boiler, and as it
condenses it is only necessary to supply
the waste. The boat draws twenty-four
inches of water, which carries her pro
peller clear. She cost about $500, and is
rated at half-horse power. Her owner re-
Gently made voyage with her from Bos-
ton to Portland
A THEORY of the Boston drugstore ex-
plosion is that it was caused by the vapor
of ether. Several bottles of ether were
kept in the rear Of the store, and the sud
den breaking of any one of them by fall
ing, or by pressure, would, by the ignition
of the air-miXed yapor, be sufficient to pro-
duce the disaster. The vapor of ether,
when mixed with atmospheric air in the
proportions of one part Of ether to six or
eight Of air, affords very powerful and
dangerous explosive agent. On one oc-
casiOn known to the editor Of the Boston
JouT7a01 Of Chemistry, in 1859, by the leak
age of retort, the air-mixed vapor trav-
eled over a space Of more than fifty feet in
contact with the furnace fires, and an explo-
sion occurred which lifted the building
from its foundation and leveled brick
wall of great strength even with the
ground, though fortunately circumstances
prevented any serious calamity.
An English medical journal has accom-
plished what has always been thought an
impossible task-Numbering the hairs of
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