Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-05-19

How Chinese women were expected |
TO behave themselves 1000 years ago
is set forth in an ancient Chinese work |
in 313 chapters.
The steel used by the United States
navy is recommended by the Austrian
society OF engineers as the best known
10 practical science.
4 writer in the Boston Transcript
has figured up that heaven contains l.
S00,0J0,000 souls, against a population
in hell of 115, 900, 900, 900.
4 Florida fish story tells of a shad.
some twenty inches long, which leaped
from one stream TO another, over a
considerable space of ground, in search
of food.
Mrs. Hattie Day, of East Bucksport,
Me-, has sold $50 worth of braids made
from her own hair. and yet she has
abundant black tresses, three feet in
length.
An experiment in weaving silk by
electric looms has been made in Ger
many and the results encourage re-
turn to manufacturing in the houses
of the weavers.
Surgical operations are very success
fui in Japan, and the healing process
is rapid, owing probably TO the abstin-
eDce of the people from alcohol and
their not being fish eaters.
Il is said that Canada is the only
country in the world in which the mil
itary force is armed with the old
Snider rides. Military men of the do
miniOn are urging the adoption of q
mere modern arm,
\ Denver man wanted to get rid of
his wife and accomplished his end. He
indnlged in perjury to such a degree
in divorce proceedings he instituted
that the Judge gave him fourteen years
IN the penitentiary.
In addition to coolies of cash ex-Goy.
Bob Taylor. of Tennessee.is winning
great fame as an orator by means of
hi5 lecture on The Fiddle and the
Bow" The governor is a man of fine
personal appearance, magnetic and
eloquent.
The Scientific american thinks that
the devices for sending torpedoes TO
destroy any vessel three miles from
shore in safety, through any kind of
sea, may also be used in sending life
boats an equal distance to rescue pas
sengers from wreck.
A travellers pipe is an English inven-
tion, The bowl has hook attached
to il which can be inserted in the but
ton hole Of the coat, while tube com
municates with the mouthpiece. The
smoker thus has both hands free to oc-
a,tY,.- ha finds
A Boston young lady at the union
station in Portland, Me-, wanted to
huy ticket for way station, but had
forgotten the name of the town. Be-
ing urged to guess at it, she replied in
blushing confusion that it sounded
lire cats whiskers." She got tick
ct for Wiscasset.
Ross Winans, whose deer forests in
Scotland already extend from sea to
Sea, has still further enlarged his prop
erty By recent purchases in KintaiES
and the British press is moved thereby
to indulge in little pleasantries about
the "iand-grabhing" prepensities of
Americans.
Hicks pond, in Palmyra, Me, is a
strange body of water. 1t is only
twelve acres in area, bat is more than
100 feet in depth. 1t has no visible in-
let, although a fair-SiZed stream flows
| from it into Lake Sebasticc0k. The
volume OF its waters is not materially
| affected ley either drought 81 freshet,
| atld the water is always cold.
y hea Grant Alien in hiss story OF
The Devils Die described his heroes
ing with rats. the critics said it could
not be. The wreckers who went
aboard the Goftenburg Castle, off St.
Mary's isle, recently, had just that ex-
perieRce. But the critics have no
doubt forgotten all about the matter
by this time.
Amos B. Carter, of Elan. Pa, the
father Of twenty-one children, cele-
DRAFTED his sofia birthday recently. He
| was married but once, and his wife
died about two years ago. Upon her
tombstone is this poetic inscription,
placed there by Mr.. Carriers direction:
Some have children and some have
none; here lies the mother Of twenty
| one" Mr.. Carter is a very fatherly
old man.
4 recent issue of the English edition
Of the Var Cry, the orgaa of the saliva
ton army, urges the lutg of confess
sion III general terms, and then asks:
Is confession necessary in every
lease" The reply is: Tel your sin
TO y@ur captain, or find out some Of
iicer or friend in whose heart or iudg-
ment you can contide, and tell it in the
ear Of that brother or sister; but it may
be necessary for you to confess in
some form"
ihece is a scheme af99t to create a
greater Bostel by including sixty
eight towns and cities in one vast met
rOpoiitan district, with Boston as the
hub. The author of the scheme, which
his name is Smith, hopes to overcome
local jealousies by letting each town in
the proposed metropolis manage its
own local affairs But Boston appears
to be somewhat lukewarm in the mat
ter, asking. with some scorn. how
there can be any greater Boston than
the Boston that now is.
The Jewish scholar, NJ. Halevy, has
compiled from the cuneiform tablets
discovered at Ell Amura an account of
All Egyptian governor of Jerusalem I'M
der AmenOphis w., 1880 years before
the christian era. At that time Pales-
tine was in q very disturbed state,
overrun by the Babylonian hordes and
misgoyerned by the local satraps At
this early period Jerusalem was pop
ulous city. and contained a temple
coGsecrated to the god, Adar. The |
bureau of the royal archives was ua-
x ic afo