Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-11-26

The mightiest of sea monsters is a
Russian ram now being built at cost
of 81, 500,0
A stable of so Clydesdale pedigree
horses have arrived in New York from
England.
A novelty in mems watches is of
Louis XIV. design with gold dial
and blue enameled figures.
James r. Randall, who wrote ''My
Maryland" when he was twenty-five
is about to publish his first collection
of poems.
Three young Cuban ladies who had
been studying pharmacy in New York
opened store IN a fashionable quarter
of Havana.
London Truth defines a wedding
present as the outward and visible
sign of the In ward invisible Joy a girls
family feels at getting her off their
hands.
A short time ago sample of wheat
grown In India was received and in
spected by the Chicago Board of
Trade. The wheat is said to be greatly
inferior to grain grown in this coun-
try.
A Lady and a gentleman recently
fought duel with pistols in the vi
clnlty of Warsaw. Shots were eX-
changed, but both missed their aim.
The gentleman then offered an apollo
gy, which was accepted.
An attempt to punish an unruly
boy IN Holyoke, Mass, school last
week brought on such a general fight
that the police had to be called in to
queli 1t, and the teacher and two pu-
pills were marched off 10 the station
house.
A man in Rome, n. Y, possesses a
remarkable curiosity in the shape of
lamb with one head, two bodies, eight
legs and two tails. Two of the for
ward legs extend upward, directly
over the shoulders. The four hind
legs are naturally formed and support
the body.
In Germany the inspection of pigs
for trichinae is more thorough than is
generally supposed. The Medicinisehe
Wochenschrift states that is one year
there were established in Prussia 90
636 official inspecting stations. Out
OF 100000 animals inspected, 1900
were trichinous.
There are 375 fre-alarm boxes in
Philadelphia, and 5000 fires have &C.
CURED within the past four years. A
boy of fifteen, named Berliner, knows
the location of every box and the date
of every one of the fires. Not only
this, but he is able to give the exact
minute the alarm was struck and
what companies went to it.
THE failure of the natural gas wells
of Campaign, ILL.,, indicates that the
supply in the vicinity of Pittsburg
and elsewhere may not be inexhaus-
tible. But those who have invested
millions in gas wells and pipe lines
would not be rHined if the subter-
ranean supply should fail, for it is
said that artificial gas for fuel can be
made with the refuse coal now lying
at the mouths of Pennsylvania coal
pits and delivered through pipes to
consumers at a price but little higher
than that of the natural gas which the
pipes now carry.
The improved kind of explosive re-
Gently brought to notice ia foreign
journals, and known as cocoa powder,
is said to possess such superior value
for many purposes that it has been
introduced in the famous Krupp fac
tory. It is asserted that, with equal
pressure, this substance gives greater
velocity to ball than can be attained
with ordinary powder. while its
smoke is found to be less dense and
to clear off more quickly. 1t is brown,
or, rather, chocolate colored, In
sundry tests about one-seventh less
OF it was required than OF the ordinary
kind of powder to produce given
results. The merit which is especial
ly advanced in its favor is, briefly,
that of beginning its combustion mod
erately and steadily. and then, when
the projectile has started though the
bore, burning with greater rapidity,
and with, of course, tremendous I'M
polling force. Tine method of prepare
ton and the cost as compared with