Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-09
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

IIIUuleu 1850 bouquets, besides a
large quantity of fruit and vegetables.
Fifty-one towns aided the Mission by
contributions.
The Hon. John w. Foster reports
to the Department of Agriculture that
" In Mexico there exists the agricul-
tural capacity to produce all the coffee
that can be consumed in the United
States, and of quality equal to the
best grown in any country
IT is said that, at Ardbracean Pal
ace, in Meath County, Ireland, there
stands se-chestnut which covers
nearly quarter of an acre. It ex-
tends over the ground in the same
way as the banyan tree. Its branches
falling and taking root in the soil.
AN agent representing several COM
panies of English capitalists, has writ
ten to the Tennessee Bureau Of Agri-
culture, Statistics and Mines, ask
ing whether or not there are 800. 600
acres of coal lands in the State for
sale, and If SO, to inform him at once,
that his principals may purchase.
To SETTLE disputed question as to
the predominance of blue eyes and
hair in Germany, the Prussian Gov
eminent lately took a census of the
schools. Over four millions of chill
dren were examined, and it was found
that 1927 per cent. had blue. and
24.31 per cent. brown eyes; Y per
cent. had blonde hair, 26 per cent.
brown, and 1.21 per cent. black.
The high price of provisions in
England brings into the markets vast
quantities of food unfit for use. The
inspectors of the Fishmongers' Com
pany, OF London, seize upon an aver
age every month about fifty tons of
fish unfit for human food; and at a re-
cent meeting Of the London Commits
sioners Of Sewers it was stated that so
prodigious is the mass of Australian
meat constantly being condemned, at
Deptford, that the Commissioners
powers are taxed to the utmost to dis
pose of the horrible stuff.
A MOST interesting example of the
effect Of the demand of a mechanical
product in securing a supply is cited
by the Scientific Amertc0n a recent
inventors experience in his endeayors
to procure steel springs of great size
and power. 1t appears that an En-
gllsh inventor had been actively en-
gagged for some time in the construc-
tlon OF tramway car, to be run by
the motive power exerted by steel
springs; the reports now stating that.
since his earlier experiments, Mr.. Lee
veaux had, by interchangeable persever-
ance, induced the spring makers really
to astonish themselves by their pro-
auctions. Thus, band of steel has
been rolled which. when tempered into
a spring, will give draft of 5000
pounds; another single band of steel
has been rolled having a width of four
Inches and length of 1874 feet. In the
application Of this spring power, the
services of stationary engines will be
needed to wind them up, and there
must needs be decided loss by fric-
ton; and the problem is simply
whether the gain by the use of this 81
lent power will offset the loss above
indicated.
LOVERS Of half-raw beafsteak are
perhaps aware that they have excel
lent chances of swallowing the te,aie
5nerneis in their favorite food, the
tanla being parasite of the OK, WI ich
knows how to make itself perfectly at
home in the human stomach. Nor,
in spite of its distinguishing epithet,
IS 1t by any means a pleasant guest.
But DR.. Normand, of the French
naval medical service, has made the
discovery, as he thinks, of still more
Insldious enemy of man, to which he
has given the pleasant name of an
gatttletza .stercorazis It is about a
quarter of milimetre in length, and
but for it's extreme leanness would be
visible to the naked eye. 1t is alb
sorbed into the system, either in ami
mai or vegetable food, and is believed
to be the cause of the terrible disease
known as the Cochin China diarrhona.
which has committed fearful ravages
among the French troops stationed in
the east, for SO long as the worm re-
mains in the body the malady con-
tlnues, and frequently ends in death.
The best remedy hitherto discovered
is milk, but it is far from being so
efficacious as could be desired. -PazI
Mall Gazette.
Antiquity and Durabil1tv OF
. Brick.