Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-25
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Items Of Interest 10 the Genera
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, Clouds are on an average about ) u
yards in thickness
. Every night in London over 6.ss,
, persons sleep in the open air.
About twice as much power is re
Qulred to stop an express train as Il
. start one.
Pompey's pillar at Alexandria Wa:
neither erected by Pompey nor TO hi:
memory.
Even the misnamed trial by jury
which prevails in Russia now was UNI
known there until 1866.
It is estimated that one out of every
$50 inhabitants of the United States
OWLS or rides bicycle
The roofs of Egyptian temples are
column to column.
The note Of highest value issued by
the bank of England in the ordinary
course of business is for $4,000.
The use of torture in legal proceed
ings was permissible in Austria until
well within the present century.
Massachusetts has $40 congregation
al churches and 1O5.943 members. lead
ing all her sister states in this respect
Eleptomonia, on Darwinian theory.
can be called hereditary. Monkeys
often have it in 4 highly developed
state.
The costlinest fur known is that Of
the black fox of Kamchatka. A single
skin of one OF these rare animals is
sometimes valued at 81 100.
| The difference between the tallest
and the shortest races in the world is
! 1 foot 4 IL inches, and the average
height of man is feet ID inches.
! A mans full mental power is not
reached before the age Of %, and the
development Of talent is most marked
between the ages of 80 and As years.
There are now 1850 christian con-
gregatiOnS in Madagascar. The Roman
catholics began work there in 1916.
but not a trace is now left of their
labors.
At the coming commencement of Roam
oks college, Virginia, a full-blooded
Choctaw Indain, said to be one of the
best speakers in his class will be grad
uated
The methodist episcopal church at
Fostoria. Ohio, has done away with the
single communion cup and furnishes
a separate small tumbler for each
cummunicant
1t is computed that if a man were as
strong Of muscle in proportin as flea
he could shoulder a sixty-tOn looOmO-
tive and carry it from New York to
San Francinsco without rest.
Up to the end Of last year the
trustees of the Peabody donation fund
have provide for the labOriny poor Of
London II ,273 rooms, with wash-hOuseS
and laundries, occupied by 2O,114 per-
SONS.
Pet dogs are being dyed so as to
harmonic with the color OF the ladies
boudiOr They are dressed in tailor
made clothes. The fashionable color
ing for a small white poodle is two
shades of violet.
The Jerusalem artichOcke has no
connection whatever with the holy city
of the Jews 1t IS a species of sun
flower and gets it's name from girasole,
one of the scientific names of that
genus of plants.
The city OF Bantam, in Great Buch-
aria, is cut in the side of a mountain.
There are $4,000 artificial caves, some
very large and two statutes, one 80
the other 20 feet high, each hewn from
single stone.
Carthage was torty-five miles Cir
cumference, situated ON a peninsula.
! On the land side there were triple walls
guarded by towers so large that the
! basement of each contained stalls for
| 800 elephants.
The tyranny of landlords in America
has not yet reached the stage develop
ed at POrthcawl, a Welsh watering
place, where house owner only rents
on condition that his tenants shall
draw no water from the pumps on
Sunday
A curious printers error is perpetual
ed in Luther's translation of the bible.
Job being described as a perfect,
bad, man." schlicht, upright, differing
by one letter from ''schlecht,' bad,
which is substited for it, This occurs
up to 1899.
The peach was originally poisonous
almond. Its fruity parts were used to
poison arrows, and for that purpose
were introduced into Persia. Trans
| portation and cultivation have not only
removed its poisonous qualities, but
turned it into delicious fruit.
| As 4 mournful kind Of Set-Off to it's
numerous and brilliant places of pleas
ure Paris is now destined to have
series Of edifices called palaces of
death. These palais de la mort, or, as
they are styled, palais mortuaires, are
intended for the reception IOf dead
bodies until the arrangements for in
! terment have been fully completed.
A commercial travelling man says
that the custom of tipping" walters,
porters, BARRIERS and others costs him
not les than 81 a day while ION the
road" If his tips" were not very
moderate in amount in each instance
the aggregate, he declares, would be
double the sum named. He gets even
by charging them up to incidental
expenses.
Professor Won Stein, well-known
Moscow physician, claims to have dis
covered a new cure for rheumatism by
means of the eletric light The light
used is a small incandescent lamp,
whose rays are applied to the afflicted
part through a funnel. The length of
the treatment depends ON the ability
of the patient TO endure the heat