Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
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and legs, was found in sarcophagus
containing the skeleton ola young girl
lately unearthed in Rome.
Isaac FL. Wright, of Dorchester
county, Maryland, has an orchard of
$4,000 peach trees. This year he ex-
poets to raise only moderate crop.
At Lexington, KY, lawsuit that
was begun in 1911 has just been set
tied. It related to land claim, and
the sum in dispute was originally
about $4,000.
The people of Bonn have purchased
the house in which Beethoven was
born, with the intention of converting
it into a museum of objects illustrating
his life and works.
There is said to be a schoolboy at
Kingston, n. Y, who studies hard
and commits his lessons to memory
well, but if he goes to sleep forgets
all that he has learned.
The watchmakers of Prescott, En-
gland, who have long been famous,
finding that their trade is declining,
have decided to build a factory and
n
The English Nitrate King" Colonel
North, saws the New York reporters
have greatly exaggerated his private
fortune in placing it at f10, 900.
sit is vastly smaller than that" he
says.
A French coin of the time of Louis
XVI. was found in cornfield at Mar
engo, Ind, few days ago. 1t is sup
posed to have been there since the
days when the French traded with the
Indians.
A tower similar in design to the
Eiffel tower at Paris is to be built at
Eagle Rock, n j. 1t will be but 400
feet high, but will be on lofty sum-
NIT. The electric light on its top will
be visible far out at sea.
A farmer near Parkersburg, w. Va,
claims that one of mis- mules was scar
ed to death by lightning. The light
ming knocked down shed under
which the mule was standing, and the
animal started to rush and kept it up
until it dropped down dead.
Mrs. Ole Olsen, of Detroit, Swed-
ish woman, is the proud mother of a
bouncing boy only one year old, who
weighs $50 pounds. A dime museum
manager offered 500 per week for the
privilege of exhibiting the child, but
the mother refused to listen to him.
Bolivia has one of the most interest
ing exhibits at Paris. 1t is a practi-
cal and natural size model of a lead
mine-a famous one-one of which
many large fortunes have been made.
The entrance to it is through special
pavilion erected by the Bolivian gov
eminent.
1t came out that most of the exhibits
of Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco in the
Paris Exhibition were not African pro-
ducts at all, but manufactured in
Paris. They were at once thrust out,
and with them vanished the major
part of the department of the Barbary
states.
The salmon fishery of Alaska is ex-
tending rapidly. In 1888 the number
of cases packed was 10000: last year,
439, 293. and this year it will be over
100000. The fish is mucn smaller
than the Columbia River salmon, rang
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excel t flavor and color.
Colonel North's railway from Iqui-
que to Pisanqua, in the Chill nitre dis
trict, is one of the most wonderful in
the world. 1t zigzags up and down
the Cordilleras in the solid rock for
forty-elght miles. The engines draw
ing cars on the road are double-end-
ers, exactly alike at both ends, with
two smOke-stacks and one cab.
A young couple in Jefferson county,
Ohio, had been engaged for year and
all went happily. The young man
went away TO work last month and
wrote a letter to his sweetheart, the
first she had ever received from him.
When she discovered that his gram
mar was poor and his spelling worse,
she decided not to marry him, and now
another fellow is counting her.
Of the 1920 kinds of flowers which
grow in Europe only APO, or 10 per
cent are odoriferous. The commonest
flowers are the white ones, of which
there are 1,194 kinds. Less than one
fifth of these are fragrant. Of the 951
kinds of yellow flowers " are odori-
ferrous; of the S23 red kinds, 81; of the
594 blue kinds. 81; of the sos violet
kinds, IS. OF the 24O kinds with COM
bined colors % are fragrant.
The most valuable book in the world
is said to be a Hebrew bible at the
Vatican in Rome. In 1912 Pope Julius.
then in great financial straits, refused
to sell it to u syndicate of rich Vene-
tian Jews for its weight in gold. The
bible weighs more than 325 pounds,
and is never carried by less tI.an three
men. The price refused by Pope Julius
was therefore about 1925, 900, and that,
too, when gold was worth at least
thrice what it is now.
The existence oflibraries and schools
before the exodus was shown by re-
port at a recent meeting of the Vic
toria Institute in London. Professor
Sayer, by personal investigation of
ancient tablets and inscriptions, found
that in the fifteenth century before
our era literary intercourse was going
on throughout the civilized world of
western Asia, between Babylon and
Egypt and the smaller states of Pales-
tine, of Syria, of Mesopotamia, and
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tercourse was carried on by means of
the Babylonian language and the COM
plicated Babylonian script.
Rev. W. B. Bachman, a leading
Presbyterian minister at Chattanooga,
states that on the top of White Noun
tain, in Western North Carolina, are
three trees of the cachoin species
growing close together and each be-
ing about a foot in diameter and
about tiftaen feet in hairht The