Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
PERSONS AND THINGS.


taxes on the largest assessed value of
personal property are Gilds Loder.
$15, 900, 900; Richard Thornton, $14,
900, 900, and Baron Lionel Rothchild,
s13, 500, 900.
While England, with population
of 26,0O0,00 has only $500 students
at Oxford and Cambridge, Germany,
with population of IS, $50, 600, has
25, 900 students attending her nniver-
sites.
The lamp which General Sherman
carried from the time he entered the
army, in 1851, until he camped on the
south bank of the Potomac In 1865, is
now preserved at the Soldiers Home
at Dayton, Ohio.
Disease itself may be blessing, for
it appears shat in Philadelphia ''in>
teresting cases" hire themselves out
to clinical lecturers at from 25 cents
to So, according to the instructive
ness of his malady.
The building IN which the postofice
is located at Bristol, Pa, was an even
hundred years old last week. The
timbers were all hewn out of oak in
PENIS Manor, Bucks County, and
RATED down the Delaware.
Sandwiches are q great staple in
London. Forty thousand women are
daily engaged in vending them, not
to mention the thousands who assist
IN their preparation.
In the year 1777 considerable inter
est was manifested in an announce
ment that six stoves had been conn
pleted in Philadelphia. The annual
product of the stove foundries in that
city is now valued at 81, 000,0 and
the industry supports about twelve
thousand people.
Several thousand houses, ranging
in size from eight to twenty rooms
and provided with every aodern con-
venience, are to be built in Philadel-
| phia, besides a number of French
flats, several large and costly church
es, and half a dozen or more public
institutions.
Invalids who depend upon cod liver
Oil to sustain their vital forces should
be careful to get pure article. Cot,
ton seed oil is now doing for the cod
liver product what it long since ac-
complished in the matter of olive oil.
During the recent trial trip of the
new Cunarder, Etruria, she reeled off
twenty-four miles an hour. On two
successive days crossing the Atlantic
her log Indicated 448 and 449 miles
respectfully. She is expected to make
the run from dock to dock in six days
O
than is was ever made before.
The best quality of charcoal is made
from oak, maple, beach and chestnut.
Wood will furnish. when properly
charred, about 30 per cent. Of char
coal. A bushel of charcoal from pine
weighs 20 pounds; one from hard
wood weighs 80 pounds; 100 parts of
oak make nearly % of charcoal, red
pine about %, white pine %.
Professor f., @. Marshall says the
French have more suspension bridges
than any nation on the globe. Their
engineers are putting up suspension
bridges everywhere, and at last one of
the structures approximates to the
size of the Brooklyn bridge. So nu~
merous are these bridges in France
that it is impossible to secare an ac-
curate list of them on this side of the
water.
Buried treasure seekers arc at work
IN Georgia, Near Covington, accord
ing to the Star OF that place, colored
man and several assistants have been
making excavations for several
months, in hopes Of finding $4,000
which the principal in the scheme
AYERS was burieG there three years
ago.
The total number of commandments
at Trinity Church. New York, is !, 354,
of whom SIS, representing $50
families, are from, the working class.
Although Trinity is very wealthy, it
will be seen from. 3his that well-nigh
one-half it's actual commandments are
people IN moderate eircum stances.
The pay of a Russian army officer is
very small. A full general gets from
81, 500 TO 50, 900 a year in our money,
according to length Of service a lieu
tenant general fro,n 81. 172 to 81, $50;
a major general from $3.50 to 81, $50,
and colonel commanding q three
battalion regiment, 240 strong, gets
1854.
The Mexican Indians, when "a war
fare with troops, make shield out of
their blankets by wetting and holding
thena up by the upper edges. Bullets
sway the blankets instead of penetrat-
ing them, the blankets acting like a
ballistie pendulum. These Blankets
are hand-woven, and are fulled until
thick and waterproof.
''Some like it hot, some like it cold,
some like it in the pot nine days old. !"
Thus runs the song about peas por-
ridge, which is not often found on a
modern bill of fare. Our porridge,
| the much abused oatmeal, is in1prov-
| ed. according to scientific writer, by
keeping IN closed jars several days
before using. 1t is sweetened by the
formation of sugar, while the fbrous
material is softened.
| Anna Dickinson's donkey OF which
she made the per1ous ascent of Pixies
Peak before the trail to the summit