Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-12

education is about to publish a transla-
ton of the Homeric poems and to give a
sketch of the influence which Homer has
exercised upon the development of Turk
ish culture.
The term of congress that has just
closed is noted for one thing, and that is,
its records exceed, by 1,50O pages, the
records of any preceding congress, and
that is no compliment, considering the
work accomplished.
CYCLONE struck the town of Hartland,
Kansas, Thursday evening and demolish~
ed twenty houses and dida great damage
to growing crops. Sixteen cars were
blown from the Atkinson, Topeka d
Santa Fe track, and telegraph wires were
Frustrated for two miles west of the town.
The extent of tbs damage has not yet
been learned bnt a dispatch stated that
none so far as learned had been seriously
injured. The storm reached other towns
in the vicinity of Hartland. It's effect
cannot be learned.
The boat in which Richard Chandler is
to start from Boston to circumnavigate
the globe will be II feet long at the bot
tom, with about IA feet gunwale. She is
to have a water-tight compartment for
ward and aft. The only open space in
her will be a cockpit in the center. In
width she will be feet, and in depth 80
inches. Besides large supply of food,
she is to be fitted with life suits, cork
pickets, life lines, Boyton rubber suit
and everything that can comfort the voy-
ager.
A LIVELY time was experienced by an
apiarist, one day recently at Bruce Town
ship, Ontario, when sixteen sw6rms of his
bees came off at the same time and be-
seiged branch of a tree, where they
ference and about five feet long. He sep
arated them, finding out each of the six
teen queen bees, which ne put into hive
and gathered enough bees to make a
quietly settled in new hives.
William Adams boy of II, who was
sent to the Detroit House of Correction
from Idaho in 1888, having been sentenced
to prison life for mail robbery, has just
had his sentence committed to imprison-
ment to seven years from the date of his
first commitment. The boy, who has been
a model convict, broke down completely
when told the good news. II won't notice
the time I've got to serve," he said. II
suppose that deserve good big punish
ment for being caught in such bad COM
pany.
The Massachusetts Census shows that
the population of the State averages PAL
persons or about So families to the square
mile. There is an average of 2.65 acres
to each person, or 1912 to each family.
IN Dukes county the acres per family
average 63.O5, and in Suffolk 81. This
showing proves what has been evident to
every observer that the full agricultural
tanned.
AT the close of 1885 the saving banks
of the United States showed not only a
greater number of depositors, but a
greater aggregation of saving than ever
before in the history of the country.
There were 3,071, 495 depositors, and the
aggregate amounts of the deposits was
S1,095,172, lat, an average to each de-
position of $356.56. 1t would be safe to
wager a new hat or box of cigars that
not one of this army of more than 3,OOO,-
900 is an anarchist, and precious few of
them are belching forth riot and blood
shed in gin mills and beer shops.
AUSTRALIA is again in the field with
worlds fair, which she has appointed for
next June at Adelaide. 1t might have
been supposed that with her double dose
of international exhibitions less than
seven years ago, when she held one at
Sidney in 1879 and another at Melbourne
in 1860, she would have had for the pres
have come to be almost exclusively trade
affairs, and Australia finds that business
purposes will be served by holding a fair
in 1887. Doubtless American manufac-
lures will be well represented, as before,
in the antipodal bazaar.
OWING to the political discord and So
cial confusion which have existed in Bur-
nah since the British occupation, the
British government in India has decided
to entrust the command in Burmah to
Major General Herbert Macpherson, COM
mander-in- chief in Madras. Five hun
dred troops will be sent into the country
as soon as the cold season commences, 20
scour it and drive out OF subdue the in
surgents, and thousand additional po-
lice will be sent from India to maintain
order.