Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-17

Gated sub>arctic variety of the prairie
| wolf"
The British medical association now
mum oers thirty three branches. with
IL, 249 members, and invested funds
to the amount of 919, 541.
During the August term of the SUI
preme court at Bangor, Me-, lasting
five days, the amount of SIS 900 was
collected for liquor fines.
Some New York ladies are said to be
astonishing the natives by reckless
play at the gaming tables in foreign
pleasure resorts.
A New York lawyer says he would
have no trouble ia getting ], 900 men
IN that city to swear falsely in case.
One hundred million pounds of
honey is the American crop foretold
for 1885, in spite of the July drought.
The Union League club of New
York will increase its membership to
800 between now and December.
Since March /, nine thousand ap-
pllcations for Office have been filed In
the interior department alone.
The Colorado Jack Rabbit is the
name OF a new paper published in a
young settlement In that state.
The prospect of having street rail
way has made the people of Burling>
ton, Vt, quite jubilant.
Northern story weeklies of an in
ferlor grade nave an enormous eircu-
lation in the south.
Cbicago's Exposition, which was
formally opened Wednesday evening,
with large attendance of visitors, is
In many respects ali Improvement
upon its preGeces sors. The display in
tee arts, manufactures, machinery.
etc., is extensive aad attractive.
The Philadelphia scheme for ventil-
ating sewers, by connecting them
with the furnaces of steam boilers
along the line Of the sewers, seems on
It's face most excellent In this way
the obnoxious gases of the sewers.
are consumed in the furnaces instead
of poisoning the air. and the draught
in the house pipes is from the house to
the sewer, instead of the reverse, as ia
most cases at present. Great benefits
to the general health will surely fol-
low the adoption of this plan in cities
and towns.
According to the Statistical Years
book for the German Empire" the
population of Germany was, in 1872.
Al, 220, 900 persons; in 1883 it had risen
to 45, o62, 600. In eleven years, there
fore, the increase of the population
was 4,635.O00, and yet during those
eleven years there has been a very
large emigration from Germany.
The German Statistical Department
has endeavored to ascertain the num-
Der of German residents abroad, and
it computes this at little over 2, 500, /,
600, of which nearly 1900, 900 are in
the United States, In Switzerland,
there are as many as 95. 262 Germans,
in Austria SO, 442, and in France 81,
688. The number of Germans abroad
is smaller than is generally supposed.
Considering how continuous the Ger
man emigration to the United States
has been, and how long it has lasted,
it might have been supposed that the
Germans in the United States would
have now exceeded 1000, 900.
A Boston man whose gums had
commenced to shrivel or recede, stop
ped the trouble by the use of common
table salt, applied to the gums by the
ball of the finger.
Scene-English primary school.
Mistress Coaching her class the alpha
beD to Johnny Jagged five) Nov,
Johnny, lets hear how well you can
say your letters right through" John
ny-'Ha, be, Sc, de, he, hef, ge,
haitch," School ma'am-"Can't you
say 'aitch,' Johnay?" Johnny"
Yessem-haitch, hi, ia, ka, sheol-"
Schoolma' am,-"What! There's no
such letter as that. You mean /. :"
Johnny-"Yessem, hi know; but ma
says you mustn't say hell an more,
coz they calls it sheol now."
A farmer was hoeing hard on his
patch of land when one of those town
loafers approached the fence. Hello,
Farmer B., what do you think of the
outlook?" "What outlook2" "Why,
the business outlook" Didn't know
there was one." eve are all talking
about it down at the store. and they
sent me up to hear what you had to
say" "Oh, yes, see; well, tell 'em
if they would stop talking and go to
hoeing that the count try will prosper
without any outlook. Do you hear 2"
It is estimated that at least 10 900
victims of gas generated by sewers
alone are slain every year in this
country.