Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-11
MISSING LINKS.
Spokane Falls is to have q high
school building costing S12.577.

school building costing s72,57.
Twenty million acres of the land of
the United States are held by foreign
ers.
Provo, Utah, has red-hot anarchist.
His wife supports him by taking in
washing.
An Englishman proposes laying deep
sea electric cables by means of sub
marine boats.
There are 10, S62 school districts g.
372 teachers and $500, 900 school chill
dren in Japan.
Liverpool has a population of 72O,-
900. Methodism has mem bership of
10000 in the city.
An English firm has purchased the
right to slaughter and pack 5000
hogs year in Seryia.
There were &c. paupers in Lon
don in the third week in JULY 215
indoor and So 766 outdoor.
The American congregational church
es have resolved to give e. 900 annual
There are over 100000 pores in
the human body. and yet we are sur
| prlsed because some men are sponges.
AS soon as the town of Santa Bar
bara, Cal. gets pipes laid to the gas
we'll it will cost only SO year for
| fuel to each householder.
Over 100000 be exact, Ill, $50
emigrants embarked during the last
| quarter from the various ports of the
British Isles. These include So, 46S
| foreigners.
BY the late cyclone in Finland, al
most unprecedented in so northerly a
region, some 100, 900 trees have been
blown down between Vioorg and Viii
| mannstrand.
1t may interest some Of our readers
to know that more than one supposed
authority declares that the leaves of
the tomato plant are more medical
than the fruit.
A New York money prince has re-
Gently ordered set of brass floor reg
listers plated with gold in an exceed
ingly ornate design. The registers
will be placed in the owners palace.
The pumps in the Gold Hill mine at
"
Gently after lying pine years under wa
| ter. They were put to work and lifted
water as we'll as the first day they
were put down.
| IL is said Ed Osborn, of the Wau-
| paca, Wis, starch factory. will clear
| cool SO, 900 on his potato deal this
season. He contracted for all the po-
tatoes in his vicinity at Is to 20 cents,
and the chances are they will be worth
81 this fall.
A large vein of pure white sand,
suitable for making glass, has been
found near Pittsburg, Pa. The dis
! covery will save the glass manufact-
urers Of that city thousands of dollars
annually, as they have hitherto been
obliged to send across the Allegheny
| Mountains for their sand.
r. Lyman, of St. John, n. B., is the
possessor of a dog that he claims
| has quite keen instinct for business
A few days ago. when the dogs license
needed renewing, he turned up with Il
| 81 bill and placed it at the feet of the
owner. Mr.. l.. Immediately went and
took out the license.
According to reports from the prin-
cipaI appIejack producing region of
the country Ga belt extending across
southern New York and northern New
Jersey, between the Hudson and Del
aware rivers), owing to the failure OF
the apple crop, there will be little Of
the intoXicant made this year.
Hearing tremendous noise in the
| engine-roOm an Auburn, Me, engi-
| neer rushed below to find the governor
| belt off, the engine running wild. and
| the room filled with steam He i'm
| mediately appreciated the situation and
| did what few men would-groped
about till he found the stop-valve and
slowed the engine.
The worlds stock of diamonds has
| increased enormously in the last tif-
| teen years. In 1876 the output of the
| African mines was about 1900 900
carats, last year it was over f. 000 900,
! and the trust" which controls I'LL the
| principal mines assert that they have
| 100000 carats lin sight at the pres
ent time.
1t is a risky thing to receive into the
bosom of the family long lost son
fly him. A Pennsylvania farmer has
been victimized by clever sharper.
| who personated the returned prodigal
long enough to eat the fatted calf and
secure $1,000 in cash. Then he lost
himself again.
1t is wellknown fact that persons
grow somewhat shorter as they reach
advanced years, owing to "settlng''
of the bOny structure. A noted case is
reported from Harrington, Del, where
man died recently who, owing to
contraction of the spine. had become
foot shorter then he was when he
stopped growing.
A French scientist, Victor Mennier,
has calculated after careful inquiries
that American dentists insert about
$3.50, 600 worth of gold annually into
the teeth of their customers. The
Scientific american says. that making
allowances for the increase of popula-
ton, in less than 100 years American
cemeteries will contain larger amount
of gold than now exists in France.
The average life of a rabbit is put at
about nine years. The doe may have
young eight times year. averaging
eight each time. The first litter is
produced when but four months old.
The progressions based on these fig
ures lead to astounding results. For
three years the possible progeny of
two rabbits has been calculated at over
Ii, 900, 600, and for seven wears at l.