Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-09
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

The first paper mill in this country was
started in 1890 near Philadelphia.
The purest kaolin in America has just
been found in great quantity in Ebert
county, Georgia.
BIZ breathing hot air about PIP degrees
for two hours daily it is said that con-
sumption can be radically cured.
A GARDENER in Marion county, Florida,
has raised cabbage s feet and inches
| in diameter.
THERE are altogether 1866 foreign Of
fees at the disposal of the state depart
ment.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL has been offered
$4,000 to deliver fifty lectures in the
| United States next season.
TIE bones of five mound builders have
been found near Floyd, town near Water
loo, Iowa.
! The death of Justice Stanley Mathews
| leaves Ohio without representative in
the UniEed States supreme court for the
| first time in sixty years
New HAVEN, Conn.-William Fl. Bar
mum, chairman of the National Demo-
cratic committee, died at Lime Rock at
9:45 Tuesday morning.
IT is said that japanese line of steam
ers will soon be run on The Pacific ocean,
in opposition to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company.
| EVANSVILLE, Wis.-Rich deposits of iron
ore discovered eboEt two miles from the
city in Thomas Pratt's stone quarry.
Several tons OF ore have already been
blasted out and the supply seems to be
inexhaustible.
| The total production of steel rails in
this country last year was 1,200,184 tons,
and the largest production of any one
mill was that of the North Chicago Roll
ing Mill, which turned out 161, 945 tons.
The amount of -four turned out by the
Minneapolis mills during the week ending
April 81 was $3.50 barrels, against 100,
$50 barrels for the previous week and
191, 900 barrels during the corresponding
week last year.
TWENTY Baltimore girls who have plenty
of money and are good German and
French scholars propose to traVe
through Europe this summer, and write {
book of their adventures. There will be
twenty chapters, one by each girl.
EVANSVILLE, Wis.-Iron has been dis
CDNcISo III bWO 1IOu
this city. The deposit has been tried BY
blasting, several tons of rich ore being
removed. The supply seems TO have NJ
limit. 1t is in the quarry of Thoma
Pratt.
THE steamship Gaelic has arrived in Sal
Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokoha-
ma, having made the trip from the -orm
er city in 81 q days and the later in 1;
days Is hours and 25 minutes. This il
the fastest time on record between thest
points.
The Sitka district of Alaska has
warm and moist climate, owing to the in
fuence of the warm Japanese curren
across the North Pacific Ocean. The
mean temperature is 44.70, the tempera
ture in winter seldom going below tn,
freezing point.
The crowd of Immigrants that may b,
seen in Castle Garden any day at thi
time are subject to more vigorous ex-
animation than the immigrants OF form
er years were. A good many are sen
back to the countries from which the,
came, on the ground that they belong tt
the excluded classes.
WoRKMEN engaged in removing tn,
foundation of the old Mansion Quebec
made a strange and valuable discovery
! Between two stores they found a parch
ment yellow with age, which turned GU
to be well-written Latin, bearing. all TIL,
marks of great antiquity. 1t was sealeC
up in heavy tin box which was badl,
eaten by rust. 1t was deciphered by al
old French priest, and stated that a cop
per box containing 200 pounds of gold
and 300 pounds of silver would be foup(
at a spot indicated. A search was mad,
by the owner of the house, and he is nov
a richer man by about $4,000.