Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-15
MISSING LINKS.

farCleS at newport, N.Y., aDuOuuce
that they can make aluminium for 9
cents pound.
The modern razor is said to be of
far liner texture than the celebrated
Damascus blade.
A rattlesnake bit a fine horse at
Mariana, Fla, and in thirty minutes
the poor beast died.
1t is reported in Germany that the
emperor is going TO introduce Ameri-
can cars for the passenger service.
A nickel-in-the-slot soda fountain
has been invented. The customer
helps himself, but can't get more than
cents worth.
An electrical gyroscope has been
devised in Paris and applied to show
the rotation of the earth and to correct
ships compasses.
A curious complaint in regard to
streets, coming from Philadelphia,
states that the baby coach is Chestnut
streets greatest nuisance.
A contract has been made at Salem,
OREGON, to dig a ditch three miles
long for the drainage Of Lake Labish,
by which means 3, 800 acres of valuable
land will be reclaimed.
Judges ought to be more learned
than witty, more reverent than plausi-
BILE, and more advised than confident.
Above all things. integrity is their
portion and proper virtue.
Charles Lamb, in presenting Tab
lets of Interest" to friend, inscribed on
the fly leaf: I'm this book, unlike most
others, the further you progress the
more the interest increases"
The newest cure for sleeplessness is
simply Il pint of hot water slipped slow
ly before retiring to bed. Its effects
are immediate, and those people who
make use of it declare that as a soda
tive it is unriValed.
The productions of the Ferrara weav-
erS are noted for the importance be-
slowed upon the decorative element.
Grace. iightness and imagination SUI
perseded pretensions of style, and thew
are now much sought after by modern
collectors.
OF thirty pedestrians injured on the
streets of Cincinnati in one month
twenty-five owed their injuries to the
carelessness of female drivers. and as
a result there is Il call for an ordinance
to prevent any woman from driving
horses in that city.
A monster grapevine ut Athens. Ca,
which covers more than quarter of
an acre, has been known to produce
enough of grapes in Il single year to
make 100 gallons of wine. 1t was
planted by Professor Rutherford about
thirty-two years ago.
The Savannah NeaOS is authority for
the statement that young lady of
Brunswick, Ga. had six offers of mar
riage in one week from gentlemen of
good reDute, but who occasionally take
IA drink at the bar. BY her brothers
advice she refused them all.
A French doctor has recently been
collecting statistics with regard to
those of his patients who complain of
nervous affections, with the result that
he has come TO the conclusion that the
prime cause of all evil is the practice
of reading i'll the train.
All soldiers who lost limbs during
the war can have artificial ones sup
piled by the government if they will
ask for them. They can get a new one
every five years, or, if they prefer, they
are paid its cash value instead. Legs
cost $40 and arms 500 each.
Fowls have undoubtedly larger vo-
cabulary than any of the other do
nestle animals; yet in half day YOU
will probably hear from them all the
sounds that they use IN ordinary life.
But anything out of the ordinary is in
stantly expressed in unusual sounds.
The opening of a bank in HaTdns-
burg, Ky, brought to light Il $500 bill
that a farmer living near there had
had stored away in his house for TWEEN
BY years. This amount put out nj sim
pie interest for that length of time
would have brought the owner 5000.
A New York lumber dealer lately
bought black walnut tree in Harlan
County, Ky, for $50, on which he eX-
poets to make profit Of $1,000.
1t is curled grain walnut. between
five and six feet in diameter at the
base. Its owner was an ignorant
mountaiucer.
a planter III Alpharetta, Ga, had an
acre of cotton, every stalk of which is
said to have been of deep red color,
leaf boil and bloom. This novel crop
is the product of seed derived three
years ago from two stalks of red cot
ton found in cotton field. If this
variety can be perpetuated it will like
" mean fortune to the successful
planter.
The Danish government pays a
bounty for the destruction OF seals, and
there is an energetic hunting and
slaughter of these creatures. The
reason is that the seals destroy the fish
on which SO many of the population
depend for food and employment. 1t
is found that where seal hunting has
been most active the catch of the fish
has increased.
A woman at Jonesboro, Me-. goes
on record rs the champion "home
body" she has iuSt visited the home OF
her childhood for the first time since
her marriage, thirty years ago. al
though she had lived during this time
only one mile distant, and has always
been in perfect harmony with the fam
lies there. She SAYS she never had
time to go before without neglecting
her duties.
The Eiffel tower is to be utilized in
obtaining very high pressure by
means OF a tube running from top to
bottom and filled with mercury. NJ.
Cailetet, who has already distin guish-
ed himself by liquifying different gases,
such as oxygen and nitrogen. by means