Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28

The railroad suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls, which is one of the
Oldest railroad bridges in the country,
and probably the first large suspen-
sion bridge eve built, will soon be
taken down and replaced by an arched
cantileyer bridge.
Rev. DR.. Potter, of the Baptist Taber-
nacle, New York, caused the arrest of
George Brummel, or Bender, whom he
charged with attempted burglary and
conspiracy, and the prisoner was held
in $1,000 bail. DR.. Potter tells of a
sensational plot, which was foiled by
the arrest.
The Iron Trade Review says that
those who have had a chance to test
trade conditions among machine shops
and boundaries find that recovery has
been more rapid in the west, particu-
larry in the central west, than in the
east"
Although American steel rails are
lower than ever before in the history
| Of the trade, and terms are easier than
in all probability they ever will be
again, there is still a profit of more
than % per cent to the manufacturer
at the lowest prices recently quoted.
U~ndertakers are using cheap collins
pressed out of paper pulp. When po-
liShed and stained, such collins are al
most as handsome as wood. They last
longer in the ground than collins Of
wood or metal, and they can be her
m~etically sealed better than heavy
metal.
"Broiled live Holsters is a familiar
phrase thai has been explained to the
satisfaction of the Society for the Pre-
~vention of Cruelty to Animals, but
live broiled lobsters," which appears
on the enameled sign of a Broadway
restaurant in New York remains yet
unexplained.
The estimated losses from hog chol-
era and swine plague of between $10,-
100000 and $50, 900, 600 per annum in
the United States. of the treatment
and NEAR of prevention of these di-
seases in a bulletin issued by the ag-
r%icultural department, is of great value
to the farmers of this country.
Until the dissolution of the old Ger
man empire, the arms of Austria We're
the most complicated of any in Europe,
for they contained those of Hungary,
Bohemia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, AvagOn,
Sicily, Brabant, Swabia, Antwerp,
Flanders, Burgundy, Naples, Jerusa-
lem, Lombardy and Milan.
Tbo pvnn,;n, ont Of ano1yin~ 1innn,. for
1900 men belonging to the guards in
a single field kitchen at the Munche-
berg station, near Berlin, took place
the other day, before the troops left
for headquarters. The affair was com
pletely successful. Thirty-five hundred
pounds of beef and 1000 pounds of
hams were cooked.
The railways in Iowa represent, or
their mileage in that state alone, al
investment of $317, GIG, 900. Of this
amount 49,494,OO0 is in capital
stock, which is held by 31,521 stock
holders, of whom only 613 reside in
Iowa and whose holdings aggregate
only $7,S36.OOO or about 5 per cent of
this stock and less than - per cent
OF the total capitalization.
Gold, because it was found pure and
fairly tractable, was probably the first
metal used by man. Copper, it is true.
is found as a metal, but only N one
comparatively restricted locality. Oc-
~casionally gold fish hooks nave been
discovered in graves in New Granada.
In mining a tunnel in Cauca a gold
hook was found in 1882 fifty feet
under the surface of the ground and
! beneath what must have once been
the bed Of a river. Copper fish hooks
have been found in many of the an
cient burial mounds of Peru.