Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-31
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This is a country of 1900 news
papers.
1t is said that there are eighteen
women physicians in active practice in
Detroit
The first legislature of Washington
le1t the state to foot up bills of $1,000
900 and over.
The Eiffel tower opened again on
March 80, and by night 5000 persons
had gone to the top.
Canon Farrar's new volume is
Truths to Live By" a companion to
his Everyday Christian Life
The effort to introduce the English
cap and gown at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity has thus far been a failure.
Colonel Flagler, the St. Augustine
money king, has just paid the doctor
for attending his daughter $25O,OOO
Three Angora goats owned by Mr..
Hickathier, of Drain, Oregon, were
sheared whose feeces weighed 1875
pounds.
The government telegraph service of
Great Britain transmits, it is said, on
the average 1, 53S, 270 words a day to
newspapers alone.
There has just been organized the
Confederate Veteran Camp of New
York City," Eligibility depends upon
four years of service.
There are five vacancies in the
American Academy of Sciences. The
membership is 100. Professor o. c.
Marsh, Of Yale, is President.
How music spreads among the
masses can be imagined from the esti-
mate that in Sheffield there are about
six hundred artisans who play the
violin.
A wonderful surgical operation was
performed in Portland, Me-, when a
complete set of false teeth was removed
from mans stomach by cutting open
the abdomen.
Captain E. W. Hooper. Treasurer of
Harvard University, says that the fund
of that superbly endowed institution is
now over 81 600, 900, and has increased
81, 100000 the past year.
Ex-Governor Swineford, of Alaska.
has great confidence in that territory.
He will soon start daily paper at West
Superior, city that he predicts will
have 100000 inhabitants in ten years.
John B. Curtis of Portland, Me-, has
made 81, 900, 900 in the manufacture of
chewing gum. He is said to have more
girls working for him than any other
man in the country and we believe it.
han0r1i 70 1
by the commissioners who examined
the workings of the minis ofthe United
States the one at Carson City, New,
does the best work as to fineness and
weight.
Mr.. Wanamaker says Mr.. Randall's
religious conversion was not of the
emotions, but that he thought out the
matter for himself as critically and de-
liberately as if it had been an appro-
priation bill.
An artesian we'll on Charles Smiths
farm near Anaheim, Cal, is constant
" throwing out small fish. Smith has
built number of ponds that he will
stock with the fish supplied from nat
ure's laboratory.
The Photograph is used to flash sig
nails between stations in New Mexico
and Arizona that are seventy-tive miles
apart. Experiments will soon be made
to test the power of the instrument to
a distance of 100 miles.
General Fl. V. Boynton wants the
Society of the Army of the Cumber.
land to erect a monument at Washing.
ton to Mr.. Randall for his services in
recommending General George H.
Thomas for a brigadier generalship in
1861.
Prominent cattlemen of Crook
County, Ore, haye recently expressed
the opinion that hornIess cattle were
better able to endure severe cold than
those having horns. They base this
opinion upon the experience of the past
winter.
While colored woman was walking
along the road in Marlboro, n. c., her
clothes caught fire from a spark from
the pipe which she was smoking, and
before assistance could reach her the
flames had SO badly burned her that
death resulted in a few minutes.
Nothing in this country more aston
ishes an English universty-b bred man
than our college yells. He never takes
the practice as "a bit of American fun,
but seriously set to work to prove how
even educated Americans follow the
customs of savage Indian, his war
whoop being perpetuated in the college
yell.
A curious fact is noticed in connec-
tioD with bn 6 l., al
ships bottoms. In the ma orty of cases
there is a much heavier growth of grass
and barnacles on one side than on the
other and in numerous instances one
side will be almost free from marine
groWths, while the other is as foul as
possible.
A congress of beauty is to be held
In Rome. Only Rome ladies of '.the
strict four grand branches, viz, bru-
nette, blonde, auburn red and haXen,'
will be allowed to compete, and they
must be between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-five. There will be only
two prizes, the first $4,000 and the
second $1,000.
1t is a noteworthy fact that one of
the four states recently admitted to the
union. namely Washington, is second
in the extent of its steamboat mail
routes, being ranked by Maryland
only. Maryland has 1850 miles in
such routes, and mail steamers ply
annually 400, 900 miles in its waters,
while Washington has 907 miles.
The time required for a journey
around the earth by man walking
day and night, without resting, would