Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

The number of medicne-suppIying
plants in the world is nearly double
that of fruit-yielding.
The Mormon temple at SaltLake will
yet require more than four years for
its completion. and will cost S3, coo, 900.
Charles Dickens used to say that he
judged the quality of housekeeping by
the conditions of the casters on the
table.
A New Jersey town has fitted up the
Town Hall as skating rink for the
purpose Of raising money to pay off its
debts.
If the day is not cloudy on Aug. y,
1899, England may view total eclipse
of the sun, the only total eclipse in the
next $50 years.
Irregular eating at restaurants is be-
coming fruitful source of dyspepsia
in our cities, according to an eminent
writer on hygiene.
Newfoundland dogs are better for
sledging in the arctic regions than ma
tive animals. A man, however, can do
more work than any dog in proportion
to the amount of food consumed.
Tablecloths, one would almost
imagine, are entirely out of date, for
everything in that line appears to be
called '.scarf" Jane, be sure and
put a clean scarf on for dinner to-
night"
Sturgeon has turned out 6SS preach
erS from his s'Pastor's College" in the
twenty-eight years it has been estab-
lished. Surgeons theory about learn
ing to preach is las a dog learns to
swim; jump in. ,;
The London Daily Telegraph nets its
owners 4 million dollars year, and
runs ten Hoe presses. OF the four
original proprietors the sole survivor is
the owner of country weekly, and
another died in a poorhouse.
A machine is in use at Melbourne,
Australia, for shearing sheep by steam.
1t operates in the same manner as the
ordinary shears, but cuts much quick
CT and cleaner, without the least dam
ger of injuring the fleece or the sheep.
1t is q remarkable distinction to be
the father of eleven daughters. but
much more remarkable to be the father
of eleven married daughters. This is
the privilege of Mr. Burnand, the edi-
tor of Punch, who has not been in good
health of late.
For long time past the head man
of the Paris Petit journal, who used to
be q workman at three francs a day,
has made an average of two million
francs year. 1t is claimed that the
Petit Journal has a circulation of $780,
600 copies day.
Map publishers have about all they
can do to keep up with the times, be-
cause of the progress of exploration,
the changes in frontiers, and the build
inc of new cities and towns. Africa
calls for more changes than any other
part of the world.
In the Russian town of Sysran there
is now living a man whose age is 127,
fact of which there is said to exist in
dubitable proof He was wounded in
the battle of Borodino and afterward
entered Paris with the allied armv He
is supported by charity.
The average number of eggs laid by
an ordinary flock of hens is eight and
q half to the fowl, yet instances are re-
corded where hen has laid 250 eggs
in one year. From sixteen to seven
teen dozen is considered remarkable
yield by poultry raisers.
Lulu Hurst, Professor Newman points
out in Scie nee, produces her ''manifes-
tations" simply by physical means,
striking example of the untrust-
of
ING force and action.
When on visit to Orange, Cal, ten
years ago Calvin Fletcher stuck his
walkingstick into the ground. The
cane took root, and is now a stately
sycamore tree fifty feet high, with
wide-spreading branches and its base
three feet and half in circumference.
An Illinois philanthropist wishes to
benefit the poor by teaching them to
eat their bread with the buttered side
down. The sense of taste, he asserts,
is most acute on the tongue, and that
very small amount of butter is satisfac-
tory, if put in the obviously right spot
Many artesian wells are being sunk
in Southern towns in order to obtain a
good supply of water. The well at
Choctaw, Ala, recently reached
depth of l, As feet, since which time the
water has been gushing out to height
of sixty-four feet above the derrick
floor
The islands along the coast of Maine
range in size from LOCO to 5000
acres, and 402 of them have been sold
to private individuals since 1888. A
large number of these islands are set
tied, having fine farms upon them;
others are wooded, and still others are
barren.
Hira Bates and wife, OF South Hano-
yer, Conn, are over lightweight years
old, and, what is an uncommon coin
cidence, were born on the same day,
Aug. 5, 1896, within few hours of
each other. Barry's history of Hano-
yer says that they were married Feb.
"A, 1926.
A we'll husbanded lady, sixty-five
wears of age and now residing in the
State of Arkansas, is living with her