Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-04

!, | rem odeled PERSIAN Monarch, 1913 ton:
measurement. Her iron masts are Is
feet high from the deck.
The fastest trains on the continent
/. are said to be the expresses Of he
Northern Railway company, of France
Their speed is So miles an hour
i 1t is now proposed in England tc
i drive tram cars by powers derived
IA, from huge springs. which can be
wound while the whole is in motion
or otherwise.
Edward Atkinson saws 10000. 600. OuC
! eggs are laid in this country in a year
They are worth $4,000, OOo-as much
as the pig iron and wool.
! Professor Frank Parsons asserts
that iii New York it costs a man from
$50 to S10O year for the same amount
of transporta ton he gets in Berlin for
S4.5O
! A dozen or more structures have re-
i Gently been planned iii New York that
will cost more than a million each, and
! some of which will be twenty-four
| stories high.
| A street car advertising company, of
| Chicago, refused to take an ADVERTISE
ment from an undertaking establish
| ment, which wanted the cards put up
! in the trolley cars.
The Port Orchard (Wash.) dry dock.
which will cost complete 100000, will
be the cheapest constructed Institution
of the kind, considering its size and
character, in the world
A number of farmers living 10 miles
i west of 1ankton have established a
telephone system, covering eight miles
of wire. The expense for the entire
i system will not exceed $50.
May 10 was the twenty-sixth ami
/ versary of the driving of the first
golden spike ever driven in the history
of railroading in the world, the spike
being the last spike on the Union
Pacific railroad.
The highest salaried employee in tne
United States is supposed to be the
president of the Equitable Life AsSur-
ance society, Henry B. Hyde. He re-
ceives annually 100000. John A.
Mccall gets $4,000 to be president Of
the New Ork Lie.
A rich gold strike is reported in the
Ferris mountain region, in the north
ern part of Carbon county, Wyo. A
rich vein, eight feet wide. is claimed
and has been traced on the surface for
half a mile.
Chicago box factories alone should
use 125,00O,O0O feet of lumber annu-
ally, and through the country at large
the box business consumes more than
any other one industry, unless it be
the building trades.
The cigarette dealers of Montana
are figuring very closely now to deter
mine whether it would be possible for
them to continue in the business after
July 1, when the license of $40 per
month goes into effect
The oil refinery at Casper, Wyo., is
working day and night, and is being
put in shape to produce high-grade oil,
the present output being lubrica ting
AS the undeveloped field is large a
heavy influx of oil prospectors is
looked for.
The strike of the Paris omnibus
drivers has elected the curious fact
that French judges and judicial Off
GERS are forbidden by the etiquette of
their profession to ride in an omnibus.
They must take cab or walk, if they
do not own a carriage.
During the most peaceful years the
world has 100000 soldiers, who are
withdrawn from productive occupa-
lions to pose as soldiers. The pay,
equipments, food and clothing Of these
men cost the worlds taxpayers nearly
$S,O000OO a day.
At Nevada (Mo) the Lanyon smelter
has notified it's men that for the next
80 days chargers would receive $3.50
instead of So, and kiln men IA cents
per 100 pounds. Under the rates be-
fore the cut chargers received $40
and kiln men II cents per 100
pounds.
Experts have estimated that the gold
production of the Black Hills for 1895
will be $10,O00,OG0, distributed as fol-
lows: Bald Mountain district, S3,OOO,-
600; Lead, Terraville and Central, So
100000; Southern Hills, S1,OOO,O0O; ali
the other districts, $1,OO0,O0O.
In the erection of the tall office build
! ings Wherewith lower New York city
is being rebuilt, the steam derrick is
the most important and all-dOminant
agency. As rule these derricks pick
up a wagon load of material at a time
and deposit it just where it is wanted.
| The Electrical Age notes the fact
! that when the cable between Scotland
and the Isle of Null broke recently
/ communica ton was kept up without
a wire by induction. The distance is
| two miles, and the telegraph line along
/ the island coast was paralleled on the
mainland.
! Twenty acres of celery in Orange
county, California, will produce % car
| loads A carload of celery will sell for
$4OO in the Chicago market. At this
rate the total product OF the 20 acres
would be $4,000, or $500 per acre, less
freight charges. The celery is raised
on peat lands.
The subsidy of 100000 to be given
by the people of Seattle to the Seattle
and Lake Washington Waterway conf
pany, which is to fill in the tide flats
! and excavate a ship canal to Lake
Washington, has been completed, and
work will begin according to contract
on Thursday next.