Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04
GLEANINGS.

creased Is, PSI last year, and is now
322, $50.
The wheat crop of Oregon this ear
will be 80 per cent. IL excess of last
year.
Seventy-nine per cent. of the SOL
diers in tbs Russian army are unable
to read or write.
A tree has been found on the nouns
talns in North Carolina that promises
to be of great value for making fine
paper.
It costs each of the colleges whose
crews participate in the annual boat
race on the Thames about 81, 900 for
the sport.
Mrs. Gerald Eyre, while playing in
''The Black Huzzar" in New York.
last week, was severely injured in
the rock scene, by the whole pile of
rscks giving way beneath her. She
was UNCONSCIOUS for day.
It is the popular fancy in Scotland
just now to heap honors upon Burns
Several monuments have Just been
erected, or are under way in different
parts Of the country.
The largest Touring mill in France
has recently adopted rollers, fact
which has not little disconnected the
stone mill advocates, of whom in
France there are not a few.
a Russian traveller predicts that
Thibet will prove to be a second Cali
fornia, as, during recent visit there,
he found the natives gold>washing In
the crudest way, but with the richest
results.
AID experiment designed to test the
efficiency of crude petroleum az a
steam generator ia fire engines took
place in BrookIy recently, but sixty
pounds pressure was the highest that
could be maintained.
Louis Hamburger of St. Louis, a
commercial traveller, received Motif
cation, Monday, from Bavaria, that
his father had fallen heir to So, 000,-
900.
Ell. Campbell Bannerman, chief
secretary for Ireland, replying to a
ibeaal resolution IN darllament, says
the government would rejoice if they
were able, in CONSCIENTIOUS discharge
of their du,y, to abolish corrosive leg
islation in Ireland.
The official Gazette at Havana an
nounces that all American products
entered under the tariffs embraced IN
the third column Of the custom house
lists must come uLder the American
flag.
The Hahnemann Medical college
and the Homeopathic hospital OF
Philadelphia, which have heretofore
had a separate charter existence, are
to be consolidated into corporation
to be known as the ''Hahnemann
Medical College and Hospital Of
Philadelphia"
A jealous Christian woman in LO W
ell has left her husbands bed and
board because he will pot be convert
ed She has reached the perfect
state" and is SO outraged that her
husband, otherwise an exemplary
man, wilno come to her way of
thinking that she will no longer live
with him.
a clock company at Thomaston,
Conn, after making up $50, 900 worth
of stock, began putting the movements
together, only to discover that all Of
them turned their hands or pointers
backward, and were therefore, worth
less.
A recent tarveler in a Corsican
village says he saw troop Of young
girls carrying on their heads jars cons
tanning five or six gallons of water.
Before them marched their male rela-
tives bearing flaming torches to light
the burden bearers on their way.
The Amalgamated Society of En-
gineers reports an increase during the
first ten months of from /, 1913 to 4, 900
men out of work in England, owing
chiefly to the collapse of the ship
building trade, which makes an an
nual difference in the labor market of
$37, 5000
The Argentine government is more
successful than that of any other
Spanish-American country in secur
ing immigration from the Mediter-
ranean countries. 1t pays part OF the
passage money and assigns each fam
lily immigrating to the confederation
farming lands to be paid for on in
stallmentS.
In Arizona and Northern Mexico
experiments are making with the cas-
LOT p6dn lOr LI10 ulauu idClUE5 VI O1l,
The estimates give 1900 plants 10 the
acre, which produce 600 pounds, worth
$50. An oil factory is contemplated
at Tucson. s. T., provided sufficient
beans can be contracted for.
It is said the stories which have the
largest popular sale of any are those
which have 1.-The Duchess for an
author. The identity has been care
fully concealed. The books are Or
iginally published in London by diff
ferent firms, through whom Ameri-
can publishers of advance sheets have
dealt. All efforts TO get at the writer
have failed.
The Montreal Herald prints much
solid and convincing testimony, show
ing that it is folly to talk of securing
a permanent water route to Liverpool
by Hudsons strait and bay. The
arctic character of the climate and the