Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-05
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| Brazil that persons who die from vel
low fever shall be cremated, the state
bearing the whole expense.
Buffalo Bill is said to be negotiating
for a lease of Alexandria Palace for
making his home in England.
After having regularly struck the
hour for 500 years the old clock of
st. Quentins. in Mayence. has got out
of order and is being repaired.
Philadelphia is not far from the coal
region. and yet the poor of that city
who buy coal by the bucketful pay for
it at the rate of about $15 per ton.
The French council has taken off the
legion of honor list 157 persons who
secured their crosses fraudulentlv. and
has suspended 66 others pending a
| more thorough examination.
Taking six trades as basis. the
average pay of skilled laborer in
North Carolina is SLIGO day; unskill-
ed, 65 cents; farm labor without
board, 55 cents. and with board, 80
cents.
An English company claims to be
able to make one ton of pure tin, from
SO tons of scraps and waste tin, and
figures out profit of $3.50 ton for the
business, counting pure tin at only
$500 ton.
America has ceased to be the great
absorbent of diamonds. Our million
Hires seem to have got enough, and the
iOuntrY that buys most now is China
SiareS in African diamond mines are
almost at premium.
E. Hendrix. of Applegate, Ore, cut
down large pine tree and within the
wood found small cavity which was
encircled by forty-tive rings of yearly
growth. In this cavity was a foreign
copper coin bearing the date 1890.
Dir. Garnett, Librarian of the British
Museum, says that a newspaper runs
through three stages: 1t is important
for the day; the next day it is flung
aside; and finally the time comes wien
the paper is worth its weight in gold.
Recent returns give the population
of the Russian Empire as 10S, 787, 235.
European Russia has SLIPS, 1856; the
Vistula region, 1850, 304; Finland,
2,176, 421; the Caucasus, 1924. SAT; ST.
IBERIA, 4,313, $50, and Central Asia.
5,327,09S
The Countess de Chambrun, one of
the leaders of French society, gives
novel receptions. The guests are first
conducted to a private chapel, and af-
ter short prayer by the chaplain a
sacred concert is performed by the
organ choir.
At weddings the Greek church uses
two rings, one of gold, the other of
silver. In Spain and Portugal three
rings are placed upon the fingers of
the bride at the words: Sin the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost"
Sitting Bulls Sioux name is Ta-tan-
ka--yo-tan-ka. Ta-tan-ka is '.Buffa-
10 bull, liking of beasts" and i-yo-
tan-ka means literally to sit down on
III to conquer. The real meaning of
Sitting Bull is, therefore, ''conqueror
OF the king of beasts" or king of kings.
Mrs. Krupp. widow of the great gum
maker, will be an elegant ''catch" for
some impecunous and enterprising
bachelor. By the terms of her late
husbands will she has permission to
take from the late estate any income
she chooses not exceeding $4,000 a
year.
j. K. Richie. of Blakely, Ga, found
an animal smaller than mouse, which
had very diminutive eyes, no visible
neck or ears, long tai! for its size
and snout. It's fur closely resembled
that of a mole, but it had little pink
feet with very distinct toes. He
plowed it up in his field.
4 citizen of Pennington, Me-, re-
ceived letter from school agent in
rural district inquiring for a school
teacher. The writer gave long list
of the qualifications which a teacher
must possess, and among other things
stated that no one that ate with
knife would be acceptable.
Capt friedrich desmond, an exiled
Frenchman, for many years a resident
of Providence, r. l.. and keeper of
cheap restaurant, has fallen heir TO an
estate in France valued at 1925, 900.
He is a descendant of Count Henry
desmond of the fifteenth century. and
a son of distinguished Admiral in the
French navy.
The rooster would be a much more
popular bird if lie could only be induc-
ed to feel that there is no real, vital
necessity for his reporting his where
ahouts between midnight and d. NJ.
We know that he is at home, in the
bosom of his family. So are we, but
we don't get up in the middle of the
night to Drag about it.-Puc6.
An English traveller told a Belize
(HOnduras) newspaper man that he
mad eaten scorpion pie" while in
Mexico, and that he liked it. The ma
tives told him that young scorpions
were frequently utilized for food for
the lower classes, who dig them from
their nests in hundreds, remove the
sting, and make omelets of them.
Professor Kircboff, to decide a bet,
recently stated that Chinese was the
most popular language in the world.
1t is spoken by 400000,000 persons.
Hindostani by upward OF 100, 900, 900:
English by more than 100000, 900;
Russian by more than 70,00O,0 900; Ger
man by $4,000, 900; Spanish by 4S, 000,-
900. and French by only 10000, 900.
a traveller in Japan was recently
shown the interior of native printing
office. He found a cease" four feet
wide by sixty feet long. where twelve
compositors worked. They did WON
derful amount of rushing about in
search of the types needed, for over
fifty thousand different characters re-
posed in the divisions of this vast con-
structiOn.
Mrs. Sarah E. Royster-Sheldon, who
died recently in Richmond, Va, was