Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08

1t costs the Americans about ,QOo,- |
eO3 year to plug their teeth.
A clock owned by a resident CT !
Trappe, Pa, has licked since Loo.
Only one case of sunstroke occurred |
in ST. Paul during the whole summer
The rent of land in England 800 |
years ago was about shilling an acre.
The snare drum was brought into
Europe by the Saracens about 'O5 a.
&.
Twenty million acres of the land OF
she United States are held by English
men.
Theirs finished the History of the
French Revolution" when he was 70
years old.
Half of the 400 street railroads IN
the United States are now operated by
means of electricity.
1t is claimed that the bees go to dis
tances of from two to four miles IN
search of honey in good weather, and
fy at rate of seven miles an hour.
The smallest bible in existence has
recently been issued by the Oxford
university press. 1t is 3 ga inches
long, 2 1-8 inches wide and seven
eighths of an inch thick.
St. Peters church, in Rome, is the
largest church in the world; the sec
ond largest is the cathedral or duomo
Of Florence. Italy; the third largest
the cathedral of Milan, Italy.
Mount Ararat, the resting place Of
the scriptural ark, is, in reality, two
mountains separated by a valley. The
higher peak is 7,2lO feet and the
lesser Is, OOO feet above sea level.
The Russians have become so alive
to the value of women physicisns that
the imperial government has granted
$500, 900 for medical school for
women, to be established at st. Peters
burg. The site has been given by the
city.
Up to 1880 the shad was unknown in
California waters. Young shad were
sent there that year and planted in
the Sacramento river. Shad is now so
plentiful in California that it sells in
San Francisco by wholesale at 2 cents
pound.
The total colored population of the
United States, as returned under the
census of 1890, is 1858, 800 OF this
number 7,47O, 90 are persons of Afri
can descent, 107, 475 are Chinese, 2,U39
are japanese and IS, 500 are civilized
Indians
The largest sum ever asked or of
fered for single diamond was 81
$50, 900, which the prince of Hydera-
bad, in India, agreed to give the jew
-eIer who then owned the imperial,
which is considered the finest stone in
the world.
France has total of $1,000 men In
her active navy and Great Britain has
5S, 200. Her reserve includes 100 900
men and Great Britain's 5000. Rus
STA has the third strongest navy, and
Spain probably has the fourth if we
can Judge the strength of navieS by
the number of sailors and marines in
them.
The introduction of bells into
churches is usually asclibed to Saint
PauIinus bishop of Nola in Campania
(4OO A. D.. Their use in churches
and monasteres soon spread through
christendom. They were introduced
into France about $50. and Benedict,
abbot of Wcarmouth, brought one
from Italy into England about go
One Melchoir Parker, a convict in
the pcnitentarv at SzreZdin, in Hun
gary. has invented patent shaving
machine whereby he can shave man
in twenty-five seconds. With this
machine he shaved all the inmates Of
the prison, ID } in mum Der, to the com
plete satisfaction of the governor.
What the prisoners said Is pct stated.
When the church of Scotland petit
toned Lord Palmerston to appoint a
day of fasting and prayer so that the
cholera might depart from "thcir
midst" he told them instead to oct
down on their knees and scrub their
floors and let in Gods light and air,
and keep everything clean. / hey
voted, however, to resent his advice As
blasphemOus and insulting. That was
thirty years ago, and such advice
takes better now.
A bicyclist has been sentenced to
seven months imprisonment at Glas.
hutte, Germany, because every night
he would cross the railroad track al
some point Just in front of the locomo-
tive, SO that the engineer was in great
straits not To kill him. One evening
he was accompanied by another wheel,
man who fell, and thus the offender
became known, 1t was impossible to
catch him before.
As evidence of the pecularities OF
chance. a western paper narrates a
singular instance. A wagon loaded
with gunpowder this paper says, NOV.
ing on a perfectly level road neal
Wenachee, Washington, exploded last
week, while in the same week another
wagon loaded with dynamite, drawn
by a four-horSe team, went over the
grade not far from the same spot and
rolled 100 feet without doing a bit OF
damage.
The word quarantine. which is now
of significant meaning, comes from
the Italian, quarantine. The monkish
or the late Latin term was applied by
the Anglo-SaXons about Egbert's time
1t was then the custom to compute
periods of time by forties. and a vesse
coming from a suspected or diseased
port was prohibited any intercourse
with shore for forty days. Others say
that the Venetians first introduced the
practice and the name.
"Alphabet suppers" are getting tc
be quite Il craze in some parts of the
country. The young people of church
societies arrange for an evening luncl
the name Of every article of which be
gins with the same letter. Each mem
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