Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-29
TO BE CONTINUED.
SQUIBS.

Peaceful Abode" is the name of q
burg in Delaware County, Ohio.
At the drum tap 100000 drilled sol
diers would take up arms in Europe.
In Boston paper spring poem is
signed with these three strange initials
M. y. d.
It is the Paris Morning Ne,os that
speaks SO soberly of ''Virginia City, Mon
| tana."
| A Cumberland, Md, company has be-
gun to fetch coal all the way down from
| Wales.
A dozen Bridgeport men have 1900
acres of wild land near that city and liber-
ated 200 quails on it..
Land in Connecticut upon which pine
trees were planted a few years ago is
now worth about 500 per acre for its tim
| Der.
Hereafter examinations for admission
to Harvard College will be held IN Paris
for the benefit of those who are Studying
in Europe.
Harvard's 250th anniversary occurs next
October, the students want to celebrate it,
but the faculty remain silent on the sub
ject.
A bill has bsen favorably reported IN
the New York Legislature abolishing She
present Board OF Aldermen of New York
and putting in Els place fifteen men eIecs-
ed on general city ticket.
p The official year book of the Church of
England shows that during the last %
years the church raised and spent for re-
ligious and educational purposes the sum
of $407, $685. 85.
English paper makers report an in
crease ID paper export. Imports of for
eign paper fall off In quantity, but in
crease IN value. During Mise months of
last year 100000 worth of foreign sta
tionerF was imported into England.
The generation of heat by friction has
been applied in England to the produc
ton of a friction still, by means of which
survivors Of ship-wrecks may obtain
steam, and consequently fresh water, from
sea water without the aid of FIRE.
Lime cartridges are coming into use for
blasting purposes. A hole Is bored, the
lime caztrige inserted and water poured
over it. The increase IN volume of slack
ed lime splits and cracks the substance
which ii Is desired to.glast.
new gold country IS said TO have been
GISCOFOG6u pf q Su1 pN1SCheo EIOhCQ SILL
or in Patagonia, betweed the Straits of
Magellan and the river Gglfegos. The
man hsd collected frczn the sands little
fortune when taken off the coast by q
steamer.
In certain Austrian tow1l thirty female
printers were introduced The typo
graphical society adopted a novel way of
removing them. Il took two or three
years TO do it, but It was accomplished az
| last, by the girls ala becoming the wives of
| the printers.
Although Winnipeg is the headquarters
of the Hudson Bay Fur Company it Is al
most impossible for a stranger to buy
furs there. The company's agents will
not sell, and the only chance traveller
| has to get robe or skin of any sort is
| from the Indians.
| "Are we running on timer" said the
conductor, repeating the nervous pas
senger's question. mo, sir; we are do
| ing strictly cash bushes" Your fare,
please"
A boy not yet seventeen years of age,
in Pope county, Minnesota, has invented
"a combined hay rake and cooked" for
which he has just refused an offer of $15,-
600.
/ A carload of fish, including Holsters, ale
| wives. cells and rock cod, is to be taken
to California next July for the purpose
of stocking the waters of the Pacific
coast.