Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-02


the Danes lead the world as butter
makers. Danish Butter iias taken the
first prize Al most ut tIie worlds fairs,
including the Phi!aHclphia centennial.
The walls of he old Chateau DIFF, in
the harbor at Mar>eileS, made famous
by Alexandra Dumas in his Monte
Crisio." are covered with autographs
of NI>Iturs.
The C0UraM has been published in
Hartford since Oct. 80, l764,an is the
oldest newspaper in the United States
of continuous publication in the same
town and under The same name.
Having found himself unable TO
raise money with which to meet note
for 500, George Sellers a young man
in Boston, mOrtgaged his parents
graves in Mount Hope cemetery.
Ia the consular district of Piedras
Negras. Mexico, there is not single
American commercial house. Trade
is entirely in the hands of Mexican,
French, German and English houses.
A man down in Maine has found a
petition TO parliament written in 1913.
1t is written in ink on handmade
paper and the brass pin stuck into
the paper is, doubtless. older than the
petition.
The PFinte1''s Journal says the art of
paper-making has reached the point
where il is possible to cut down a
growing tree and convert it into paper
suitable for printing purposes within
the short space of twenty-four hours
The Sabbath days journey of the
Jews was 1000 yards, the traditional
distance from the end of the Ark Of
the Covenant to the farther side of the
lsraelites' camp, where they had made
stop IN the wilderness, the point
where the Sa bbatical law was given.
The smallest republic in the world is
said to be Franceville, one of the islands
of the New Hebrides. The inhabitants
of this miniature self-gOverning islet
are forty Europeans and about $50
negroes, the latter employed by the
former as quarrymen, miners, farmers,
etc.
A New jersey parson let his watch
run down the other day and set it an
hour too slow. The consequence was
that he appeared at wedding just as
the bride and groom were leaving the
church, having been married by an
other clergyman. who had been sent
for after half an hour had been spent
in waiting for No. /,
The scientific commission. appoint
ed to select site for new capital for
Brazil, consists OF five civil engineers,
two astronomers, Il naturalist and an
expert in hygiene. The com mission
has started for the central plateaus of
the republic, where it hopes to find an
ideal site for the future greatest city
OF South America"
1t has been left to a resident of North
Carolina to discover the most novel
way to endow a college. His ps,oposi-
ton is to insure the lives of fifty men,
between the ages of 40 and 80. for $10,-
300 each, and then, as the policies are
collected, convert them into fund foi
the college in question. That would
mean clear 800, 90.
The oldest horticultural association
in Europe is the Royal Society of A gri-
culture and Botany of Client, estab-
llshed in the year 1898. It's annual
exhibitions are always of great inter-
est, and every five years it holds inter-
national exhibitions, the thirteenth of
which is announced TO open on the 10th
of April next and to close on the 23d
OF the same month.
On recent rainy Sunday two nice
looking, well-mannered men stationed
themselves IN the vestibule of an En-
gllsh church and relieved all who en-
tered of their umbrellas, saving that
the vicar disliked having wet um brellas
carried into the church. When the
services ended the people looked for
the two men, but they had quietly
without waiting for the benediction.
There has been a decided stand
against wearing Grape for some years
past, but the princess of Wales gave il
the coup de grace by dispensing with
it during her mourning for the late
duke of Clarence. Now there is a
further protest against the heavy Grape
worn by widows, and doubtless before
another year has come and gone the
modification in this direction will be
very perceptible.
A young man in Scott county, Ken
lucky, felt severe pain in his left
shoulder and arm some two wears ago,
and for months he suffered intensely.
Then the affected parts began to
change color and become dark brown,
while the pain decreased. At last the
shoulder and arm were covered with
thick growth of soft, brown hair an
inch long, the pain ceased entirely,
aud now the young man is twice as
strong in his left arm as b, is in his
right.
Apples are a splendid nerve tonic.
German analysts says that the apple
contains larger percentage of phos-
phorus than any other fruit or were
table. The phosphorus is admirably
adapted for renewing the essential
nervous matter, lecithin. of the brain
and spinal cord. Also the acids of the
apple are OF signal use for men of
sedentary habits whose livers are slug
2ish in action, those acids serving TO
eliminate from the body u0xious mat
ter. which, if retained. would make the
brain heavy and dull or bring about
jaundice or skin eruptions and other
allied troubles.
The latest solution proposed for the
London fog and smoke nuisances is the
use Of gas for all cooking, heating and
laundry purposes. The author of the
scheme would make its use compul-
sorry. He estimates that it would cost
only $l2J,000,000 to buy up the gas
companies, and the cost of the new
ui"ut tn enable the whnla Of tine nnn =