Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
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has made nearly 81. 0O0, OOO IN the man.
ufacture OF chewing gum.
A medal has been struck in COM
memoration of the fiftieth anniversary
in England of penny postage.
Fifty shillings an ounce was the price
paid in England for an Irish toilet SER
vice of the time of William and Mary.
1t was not very highly ornamental, but
it sold for So, 500
While sinking a well in the Santa
Lucia range, San Luis Obispo county,
Mr.. Anderson eXhumed the fossil
vertebrae of a whale. His we'll is g.
600 feet above sea level.
Since the inauguration of new sys-
tenn OF postal wagons for emptying the
mail boxes in Berlin an ordinary city
letter reaches its destination in an hour
after leaving the hands of the sender.
The great contest between tea and
coffee, as to which is to be the univer-
sal beverage, is gradually leaning to
tea. AS long back as the memory of
man goes ''cold tea'' has always had
the call.
Miss Olaf Krarer, an Esquimaux, is
the first woman of her race to come
forward as a public lecturer. She
speaks English with remarkable ac-
curacy. Her height is only three feet
four inches.
An enormous growth of ivy has par
TALLY destroyed the wall of Christ
Church, Waterloo, and few days ago
brought a section of it tumbling to the
ohr hJ1ilt
fifty years.
In Kent, England, a farm of 500
acres that has been let for Sc, 900 per
year has just been re-let to the same
tenant for 50, 500. This is said to be
fair illustration of the decline of farm
values in England of late years.
At Buda Pesth recently two men met
to fight duel to the death. The dis
lance was twenty-five PAGES, and each
man was to have six shots. Neither
party managed to hit the other in that
time, and the affair was abandoned in
disgust.
ThunderstOrms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part of the
globe. On an average they occur in
the island on ninety-seven days of the
year. In England the average marks
thunderstorms on about seven days in
the We ar-only half the number record
ed in France.
A French family in the department
of the Sarthe is excited over the story
that fortune of $40, 900, 900 awaits it
in this country, having been left by a
relative who died here twenty years
ago, and whose estate has since, they
are told been unclaimed. Sixty heirs
have turned up already.
Paris public schools are overcrowd-
ed. and the authorities propose to help
to remedy the difficulty by forbidding
the attendance at them of children of
foreigners. There are $4,000 foreign
children in the city, and at least 5000
of them are getting a French education
free at the public schools.
Two foreign women noted for their
proves as huntresses are travelling in
this country-namely Lady Marie EIDE
Won Ameline, famous as a tiger killer,
and Lady Eva Wyndham Linn, who slew
six man-eaters during a visit to her
uncle, the governor of Nepaul. Lady
Ameline killed four tigers in India and
has their claws and skins.
During storm which recently ragged
in the canton of Neufchatel, Switzer-
land, shower of living caterpillars
Tell on the hill of Cretes. They were
in mvriads, and OF three speces-some
yellow. the others black, and varying
in ien1th. Among the caterpilars
were mauy other insects. The source
from which the gale conveyed them is
unknown.
The Number of gondoliers ut Venice
has been much diminished since the in
PRODUCTION Of steam launches in the
canals which form its thoroughfarcs.
The few goneoliers left in service,
however, are not complaining, as they
receive better wages through lack of
competition in their own special line,
and their sculling is much in demand
by visitors.
Education does not seem to make
people any the less superstitious.
About fifteen hundred different kinds
of dream books are in the market, and
all of them find buyers, while sales
steadily increase about in proportion
to the increase of people. Nor is the
demand for dream books confined to
the poor. Women with sealskins and
diamonds buy them.
The London Institute of Actuaries
proposes to dispense with the services
OF medical men in examining for in
surance in cases where the applicant
prefers to make a statement before
~ oho .,
based upon the idea that thousands of
people in good health will not insure
because they lave to pass through the
doctors surveillance.
Recent observations of the waters of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the
lake are erroneous. No fish or other
large form of animal life has been dis
covered, but the presence of vegetable
organisms in the lake may be consid-
cred fact from The abundance of min
ute animal eNistences.
A Hartford hardware merchant
named Hill is responsible for the in
vention of the American lawn mower.
He sent Il numb Der of the clumsy En-
gish mowers to Philadelphia man
and over-charged him IS cents for box
ing. The Philadelphia refused to
pay for them. and sat down and in
vented a lawn mower of his own,
which has driven out the English con-
trivance.
The Piccadilly swells appear to have
agreed upon new way of carrying
their canes. Heretofore it has been
the fashion to wear the stick directly
in front of q nd nara llel with the body