Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

backberries on six acres. The strawber-
ries sold for 1886 80 and the blackberries
or g. $40. 26, making an income Of a.
378.76 from seven and one-half acres,
which goes to prove the truth of the say
ing, ga little farm we'll TILED
A LARGE electric locomotive is now
being built at Baden, Switzerland. It
will be fitted with dynomos of totai of
1,5O0 horse. power, which power will be
transmitted to eight electric motors ar
ranged on the same number Of axles. 1t
is said this locomotive will attain a
higher speed than steam locomotives.
Trial of its capabilities will be made this
summer.
The recent successful experiments IN
photographing flying bullets by means Of
light from condenser sparks has attracted
considerable attention In the best pho
tographs the outline of the bullet is clear
and sharp, although fired from a maya
zine rife giving it velocity something
like 1900 feet per second. Every picture
shows an air rife in front of the bullet and
trail of worthless behind it,
A CHICAGO girl, daughter of Director
General Davis, of the worlds Columbian
exposition, has taken the first prize IN
bread making in the cooking department
of LaseIIe Seminary, AuburndaIe, Mass.
1t is solid gold medal Of a loaf of bread
to be worn as charm. Such an ornament
az this should be ''prized before rubies. "
It stands for good sense as well as good
living There is more honor In being a
frst-class cook than third-rate musician
or artist.
A MAN living in suburban Boston
town has restored to electricity to pro-
tect his fruit from the raids of street boys
and the cats that climb his garden walls.
Whenever he sees a cat or a boy climbing
the high wall, he presses a button and
gives them shock The astonished
feline sometimes rises from l to feet
In the air, turns complete somersault,
and then descends with all four feet out
stretched as if to fly, and as for the luck
less boy who gets one Of the shocks, he
never troubles that tree again. The
electrified fence has proved to be a great
success.
Why should any one say that train
apeed of 100 miles an hour across our level
prairies is impossible? All progress con :
sists in doing things which had never
been done before, and the experience of
the past should warn Us against setting
limits to the achievements of the future.
Steam railroad trains pulled by a iocomo-
tive frequently make sixty miles an hour
with perfect safety on railroads with
curves and grade crossings, and this is IN
itself greater feat than speeding an elec
trio car along a specially prepared straight
roadway at the rate of 100 miles an hour.
PARIS is to nave next autumn an exhi-
pition called Ancient America" erected
on the principle Of "Old London" 1t will
comprise series of Spanish buildings
such as ance existed in Florida, together
with a copy of the cathedral at St. Angus
tine. Cd Boston will be represented by
Faneuil Hail. and New Amsterdam by a
bit of the lower city showing ancient
tavern and Dutch dwellings,, together
with the old city gate. Shops with at
PENDANTS In costumes of the epoch and a
grand realistic professional play showing
the landing of Columbus are among the
attractions. Tie cathedral will be a
museum for cu1iosities Of Old America and
Columbus. The caravans of Columbus
feet are to be Reproduced at this little
and early rival of the worlds fair.
COLLEGE SOCIETY HAZING.
Once more a lamentable accident has &C
CURED in one of cur great institutions of
learning by means of which bright
young life has been utterly obscured
Again the joke upon colIegian by his
fellows has led to death. Initiation into
secret society is anew made the medium
of fatal injuries to the novice. Is it not
time, gentlemen Of the alumni and of the
faculties, that this sort of thing should
stop? Tho death of young Rustin at Yale
a short time since, was but one Of the
hundreds of similar bofs OIL the fair
recorda of universities and colleges in this
country and Europe. 1t is a subject of
generalization that the custom of haz;ng
is dying out, because it has been sternly
repressed by college presidents throughout
the United States. Bat what avails it if
a weakly lad is relieved of the rigors Of
the savage practical jokes of the "sophs, "
only to fall into the hands of some secret
society whose members are chiefly anxious
in an initiation to secure a new victim to
to have fun" with? Let such limitations
as these go the way of condemned hazing.
PERSONAL ALLUSIONS.
James Z. B Meakin, whe make a great
success in London last year as lecturer
on Mohammedanism and Moorish art, will
visit this country in September. He was
for three years editor of the Times at
Tangier, and knows the country we'll.
The engagement is announced of Will
lam E. Bailey. of Harrisburg, Pa, and