Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-22
FOREIGN.

Inc British forces in GamO.a have
captured Gonjur, one of Chief Fodi
Silah's strongholds
NJ. Carnot completes his term of
office as president of the French re-
public, December next.
The English commons adopted the
amendment to the queens speech de-
handing abolition of the house of
lords, but afterwards took it back.
President Hippolyte, of Hayti, it is
reported, captured the mysterious
yacht Natalie and had all her crew
shot
President PeiXota of Brazil refused
DGama's term of capitulation and
opened fire upon the insurgents, who
afterwards surrendered uncondition-
ally.
Lord Rosebery in a speech announced
that the policy of the liberal party un-
der him as premier will be precisely
the same as under Gladstone.
Queen LiliuOkalani told a CORE
spondent she grieyed for the distress
OF her people and expressed confidence
that she would be restored
An exhibition of gold ores and of
precious metals and stones is being
organized at st. Petersburg by the Rus.
sian Technical society. The date of
opening has not yet been arranged.
Siegfried Apt, the naturalized Ameri-
can citizen who had been forced into
the German army, has been released
through the exertions of the United
States embassy in Berlin.
Johann Strauss, the celebrated com.
poser of waltz music, is shortly to
celebrate his artistic jubilee in Vienna.
He made his debut in 1914 at the head
OF dance band in the gardens at
tached to Viennese restaurant.
Exhaustive experiments in tie cult
walton of tea are soon to be made in
Russia. The ear is personally inter
ested in the plan, and experts are ar
ranging for the cultivation of the plant
IN the western limits of the Caucasus,
where the temperature is much the
in China.
Some high prices were realized for
postage stamps at a four days sale in
London two weeks ago. A Madrid two
reals brought 500; a Geneva double
stamp, $40; Cape Of Good Hope
error penny stamp, blue, 1910, and a
Canada 12-penny, black. $3.50. The
proceeds of the entire sale amounted to
about $4,000.
Three thousand three hundred and
forty-one vessels passed through the
Suez canal last year, a less number
than in three years previous. The mum.
Der in 1892 was 1863; in 1891, 4,2O7,
and in 1890, $3.50. Of the 3,341 YES
sells using the canal last year 2,262
were English, 26O German, ia Dutch.
and but 100 French.
About 5000 square kilometers of ter
rito1y have just been added to France.
not by annexation, but by an elaborate
system of remeasurement of the area
of the republic. Some years ago a Rus
sian, Gen. StebnitZki, created a SEN
sation by asserting that the actual size
Of most European countries differed
widely from their published areas,
France and Italy the most of any. The
geographical department of the French
government inquired into the matter,
and a recalculation has yielded the
gratifying result mentioned above The
method adopted was to cut the country
up into curvi-linear quadrangIes by the
meridians and parallels of ten min
utes. The coast lines and frontier
boundaries required evaluation by a
planimeter. The area has been in
creased from $4,000 square kilos to
536,464 or 5366OS kilos, the experts
can't quite decide which.