Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-08-21
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back of his business card portrait of
himself with the words My Advocate
beneath it.
Another ''old California miner re.
ports favorably Oh the gold region in
Maine. extending from Sandy river to
Androscoggin.
Italy has constructed several strong
| military fortresses in Abyssinia with a
view of occupying her annexed terri
tory permanently.
Australia has sent to England a new
| cOntralto. whose voice is said to be OF
exceptional richness. Her name is
Helen Rowe and she is great favorite
in Melbourne.
The New South Wales minister for
mines declares that, excluding the
quantity obtaiEable from the Clarence
River District, the colony had S0,000,-
900, 900 tons Of coal available.
Oakley Hal, who was Sheriffs counsel
in New York for fifteen years, says he
believes that the term tipstaves as APP
piled to Sheriff's officers originated
from the word tip" to bride.
Iceland fisherman now carry oil
regularly as a means of smoothing the
waves and enabling them to continue
at work in weather in which heretofore
their boats could not have lived.
The French government has decided
to again undertake the manufacture OF
lucifer matches, and to avoid the ex-
pense of creating special department
will place it under the tobacco reggie.
John Wesley Haslett, of Kansas CITY,
claims the championship belt in a
novel branch of industry. He is the
''sticker' for a packing company, and
claims that in fourteen years service
he has slain 8, 400 900 hogs.
The rich magnetic iron near Dab
lonega, Ga, continues to excite much
interest. Thousands of acres are be-
ing conveyed by option to outside
capitalists, who propose developing it
when the railroad is completed.
1t is stated that in one of the London
institutions which still maintains its
quantity of alcohol "a per cent of the
| typhoid fever patients die, whereas in
Glasgow Fever Hospital, where milk is
used the mortality is only II per cent.
| CdlllOluld viii SOOu NC well STOCKED
with Chinese quail. Many quail of the
| Chinese breed have already been turned
loose in the vicinity of Sacramento A
contract has been made for the delivery
| of 100 dozen more, which will be wide.
ly distributed.
According to figures given by San
| Francisco newspaper California is the
bloodiest state in the union. In 1889 it
had one homicide to 3, 40 of the popula-
ton. In the other states it runs up from
! one in 1912 in Kentucky to one in So
| 600 in other states.
| The conclusions reached by modern
| meteorologists are that cyclones OF
great intensity are ascending spiral
| whirls of wind having rotary motion
in direction in the northern hemi.
| sphere opposite to the movement of the
| hands of a watch.
Negotiations are in progress for trans.
ferring the two great pictures by
Rubens from the Antwerp Cathedral to
the new Antwerp Museum. The
| pictures, which are the property of the
state, are said to be gradually perishine
or rather fading out.
All the tirst-class race tracks employ
doctor by the year, or rather the
season. They pay liberal price, from
$40 day upward, and expect him tc
report for duty a half hour before the
races begin, and to remain on hand til
all the visitors have left.
A French company is pushing 8
scheme for piercing the Faucilles by a
tunnel, which would shorten the dis
lance between Paris and Geneva by si1
hours. The Swiss government is
| against it because both outlets of the
tunnel would be in French territory.
One hundred and ninety-sevel
thousand eight hundred and twenty
three carats of diamonds have been eN
ported from Kimberley during Jan
uary, valued at f383, 367. The tota
output of gold from tie WitwatersanC
mines for January was 81, 03S ounces.
Orlando, Fla, phosphate hunters
found piece of petrifed red cedar il
a creek. The grain of the wood is 81
naturally preserved that it looks as if i
could be cut with knife. but it is sole
stone and the red color of wood ha
been precipitated in bright carmin
spots.
A meteorite fell recently at Migheni
| in Russia, which contained about 5 pc
cent of an organic matter in the shap
of a yellow substance readily combusti
BILE, soluble in alcohol and resembling
resin. 1t also contained per cent o
a metallic salt of new element alice
to tellunium.
Oscar Hill farmer, had fight wit
a negro in Clay County, Ala, and wa
badly bitten. Hill had to have hi
hand amputated, and he developed
symptoms of hydrophobia and died
The negro has blue gums, and it is be
lieved that the bite of such negroes al
ways proves fatal.
The festive jack rabbit is a stric
vegetarian, and will not touch greas
of any kind, nor will he tackle vegeta
bles that are seasoned with grease
| Orchardists in Colorado take advan
tage of his fastidiousness and protec
their trees from his incisors by rubbing
the body of the tree with a bacon rind
The rat plague in Lincolnshire, Eng.
continues, in spite of the enormous de
struction of the animals by the farmer
during the past few months. On,
farmer who scattered poisoned barley
about his yards every night gathered
crop of 1,300 rats in one day. Where
they came from seems to be a mystery
John Markham, an Irish land bailiff
who had been boycotted for ten years