Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-02-07

take them out skating afternoons; but
II you should want to measure Ito see
which Of you a.e the tallest. don't get
down horizontally on the ice to do it,
ice has a tendency to contract your
fair proportions, and, besides. it looks
very ungraceful, at least we thought
SO while looking at young gent and
his girl who were measuring lengths
on theice this way, other afternoon.
In Switzerland they do this thing
different from our we'll established GUS
tom in similar matters. For instance,
the following artistic announcement of
funeral is translated literally from a
Zurich newspaper:
Il onmunicate to all my friends
and acquaintance the sad news that
at 3 P: NJ to MORROW, | shall incin-
ate, according To all the rules of art my
late motrer III law. who has fallen
asleep with faith in her Lord The
funeral urn will be placed near the
furnace, The profoundly afflicted SON.
law. Brandolf- LIGHTER.
The Juvenile u. & L. Society
will give another entertainment, or
rather give the same one over, this,
Thursday evening. Ifyou wish to en-
JOY an evenings amusement, go and
hear them The admission is 10 and
10 cents.
The young people of Waupaca
connected with the Cong. Society hold
Auction Sociables - in which the
girls in dominoes are sold to the high
est bidder. They are the property of
the purchaser till after supper. We
don't wonder that old King picked out
Waupaca as just the place to make a
hit. We have some who lack wisdom
over this way, but no such consumate
fools reside in Grand Rapids and Cen
traia
Congressman Rusk declines the
position of Railroad Commissioner,
and says it was rendered him with no
solicitations on his part Washburn,
it is thought figured the business with
an eye On the U. S. Senate. Wash
burn might as we'll lie down. We've
had enough of " ashburn, he made a
grand governor, out when he got down
to intriguing for the U. S. Senator
ship, giving the lie to prior promises
in black and white, why it brought
Washburn craftsmanship, and Wash
burn honor below par.
The following suggestions will en-
able one to measure the height of
tree or other standing object, near
enough for practical purposes; Place
a mirror in level position on the
ground at a little distance from the
tree. Then step backward until the
top Of the tree is reflected in the Gen.
tire Of the mirror The height of the
tree equals your height multiplied by
the distance of the Tree from the mir
ror. divided by your distance from the
mirror.
Professor Wise, the veteran bal
loooiSt, says balloons may be made of
boiler iron, if made large enough He
says it is battle Of cubes and sur
faces. When the surface is doubled,
the cube is quadrupled, and a balloon
400 feet in diameter, of copper boiler
plate, would lift a man of-war vessel
and sail away with it. He predicts
great achievements for meteoro!ogy
when bsllooning reaches its fuller de-
ve.opement.
A Welsh engineer Las invented
an engine Of warfare which consists of
a cannon SO arranged as to discharge "A
sharp sword blade crosswise in the di
rection of the enemy, tie knife being
so poised in lis course through the air
as to cover the whole space in longi-
! tudinal direction described by the
blade itself. An S-inch ball weuld
carry sword IA feet in length 600
yards, moving down every obstacle in
its path
Mr.. Beecher's power of attract
ing people was shown yesterday by the
i fact that Michigan avenue, in the
neighborhood of Plymouth Church,
was filed with five times as many peo-
/ pie as that edifce would accommodate.
! All Of these stood for hours in the vain
hope that they might get seat where
they could listen to the speaker within.
While many people do not coincide
with the views of the Brooklyn preach
er, no one can doubt his marvellous
ability, or question the fact that he is
today the most prominent orator of