Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
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tian era.
Mr.. Moody expresses the opinion
that London is the most religious city
in the world.
A Coney Island cook has been
awarded $3.50 for the invention of q
new chicken soup.
A lump of Alabama coal WEIGHING
140 900 pounds is on exhibition at Biz
mingham, in that state.
All the vessels of the British navy
which carry divers are to be supplied
with telephones for the purpose of sub
marine communication.
The new uniforms of the Russian
army are very simple. Even metal
buttons are discarded, and hooks and
eyes used which cannot be seen.
So well do the American grape vines
resist the phvllOXera that 1900 acres
OF them have been set out in the De-
partment OF the Gironde, France
The whole business of the Dominion
OF Canada in telegraphy is not equal
to the business of the Western Union
Telegraph office in the city of Chicago.
Uncle Henry Logan, the colored
messenger of the Registers office in
Washington, who handles more money
than any other man living, earns 1920
year and lives in $1O-a-month cot
tage.
From the will of a Quakeress, Miss
HaughtOn, who recently died in Dub
lin: Il bequeath the sum of $5, 900 to
the national cause for the independ-
cnce Of lreland-lberty for my country
TO rule herself
Trichinn, if the experimental re-
suits of the work of NM Mionon and
IOuard, in Paris are to be relied on,
are rendered inoccuous after the meat
containing the parasites has been sub
jected TO q temperature as low as 20
degrees centigrade.
The state treasurer of New Hamp-
shire has issued notice to selactmen
OF towns informing them that in pre-
spnting claims for bounties on wood
chuckS they must certify that none of
the animals were killed on Sunday, else
the claim will not be allowed.
The Digger Indians of California
feast upon grasshoppers and wild hon
ely. To secure the former they make
grand drive, getting the s'game"
into pond of water and then catch
them in baskets, dry them, shake their
wings off and store them away for win
ter food.
They say that the upright s'choker''
collar is gradually going out of fashion
which will be pleasing intelligence to
thousands of its victims. The gallants
of the time of Queen Elizabeth were
afflicted by similarly starched cuffs,
which finally attained to such enor-
nous proportions that the fashion died
out.
English papers have charged the
American press with being sensational
and fond of the dark side of life, but
London TRUTH says: ''Qne good. bloody
murder, from a newspaper point of
view, is worth more than anything else
that can happen, and u murder in Eng
land interests LOndOners more than a
campaign on the Nile"
Chicago will 90 down some day
will tumble into the unfathomable
gulf which those tireless miners, the
rats are digging for her. To think that
in this new-looking, first class hotel,
one sleeping in the ladies' ordinary
can hear rats rs large rs poodle doc
galloping over the floor and tables and
beds all night longn' So writes the
editor Of the Nashville World from
Chicago.
St. Bernard dogs are religiously
trained. At meal time they sit in a
row, each with tin dish before him
containing his rcpast. Grace is said
by one Of the monks, the dogs sitting
motion.ess with bowed heads. Not one
of them sLirs until the amen is spok-
en-. II = frisky puppy attempts to sam
pie j meal before the grace is over
one OF the older dogs growls and gen.
tly tugs his ear.
Large fortunes are rare in STitzcr-
land, and the salaries Of public func-
tionaries very modest. The President
of the Confederation receives So. 900 a
year, few Judges more than 81. $50, and
there is probably no bank manager in
the country who gets more than twice
that amount. A man wiki an income
of 50, 800 4 year is considered we'll off
indeed, and TO have 5000 is to be
rich.
A London scientific paper is not SAN
guine rs to the success of the new Rus
sian scheme for reaching the North
Pole by means of sledgeS, starting from
the Siberian islands and having depots
at intervals, inaSmuch rs the most
northern point of the islands is 900
nautical miles from the pole; and judo-
ing by the appearance in other parts. it
would be no easy matter to haul sledg-
es over the hummocky ice.
New Orleans, a sem-tropical city, in
stead of adopting a style Of architect
ure suitable TO the climatic conditions
prevalent there. initiates the methods
of higher attitudes; resorts 10 archi-
tectual forms which, however beautiful
III themselves. are utterly unsuited in
the place The Times Democrat calls
this an endeavor to ''engraft upon the
stock of the equator the product of the
arctics. and wishes reformation.
The people of Washoe county, Ne
vada, wanted the genuine Kentucky