Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-01-17
MISSING LINKS.


Single stones in the walls surround
ing Baalbac weigh 100000 pounds
each.
nhe eggs of the Bahama cuckoo are
held at 800 per set by dealers in birds
eggs.
With the present optical instruments
in use 100000 stars are rendered
visible.
A spring of good wafer on a claim
in Oklahoma adds $500 to the value
of the claim.
Vienna is to have an elevated rail-
road with the wheels ON top of the
cars, which viii hang suspended from
the rails.
A negro boy of Cherokee, Ga, who
was attacked by three rattlesnakes
and bitten several times, recovered
within few days.
A flour mill in Minneapolis contains
a belt $50 feet long and weighing over
a ton. 1T required twenty cowhides to
make it.
. 1t is said that the frigate bird can
fly at the rate of 100 miles an hour and
live in the air week at a time with
out touching a roost.
A flower cut in the morning will re-
tain it's freshness twice as long as q
flower cut in the middle of the day,
when the sun is upon il.
To prevent lamp c]limneyS from
cracking put them into a Kettle of cold
water gradually heat it till it boils,
and then let it as gradually cool.
A man in Melbourne has a trained
kangaroo. He makes it jump long
distances by prodding it with a red
hot poker It's longest jump is "a
feet inches.
! The young ladies of Canton, Ill,
have a 'sThirteen Club" At a recent
meeting they had a ''witches' cave"
With boiling caldron, around which
the members danced.
Shavings are coming into demand for
BID and mattress filing. and the Wis
consin planning mills have struck
banana in packing them like nay ana
sending them all over the country.
At the recent Lexington meeting
Jockey Tommy Dunbar drove Vera
Camel with the number IL on his arm.
He had drawn thirteenth position, the
! race was trotted on Oct. II ana he hau
10 beat 2:13 three times TO WIN
/ London preacher whose sermons
are good enough to print is protesting
vigorously that he does not want uhehi
reported in newspapers and PERIOD
/ icaIs. because this deprives him ana
his publisher of the profits OF an an
nual volume.
| When DR.. McCOsh first came to-
Princeton his daughters somewhat as
tonished gallant undergraduates who
took the young ladies out to walk. 1t
was no mere easy iaunt of mile or
so that the presidents daughters
wished. but a tramp of a dozen miles
at a good round pace that tested the
powers of their escorts.
! DR.. Mueller, Of Australia, claims
that strychnine is a certain antidOte'
to SERPENT venom. The Indian govern
ment has recently had a series of eX-,
periments conducted with a view to-
test it's efficacy. The results thus far
have not been entirely satisfactory,
but the experiments are to be contin-
ued for two years more before final
judgment will be passed.
The thermogen is an appliance for
keeping up the temperature of a pa
tient during an operation, doing away
with blankets and hot water bottles.
1t is in the form of a quilted cushion,
with an arrangement Of fire wires in
side, by which any desired degree of
heat may be maintained by electricity.
1t was exhibited at the last meeting
of the Royal Society of England.
The Salvation army began operations
against Hawaii two months ago, es-
tablishing a fort at Honolulu. By
noon of Oct. 10 sixty-one of the enemy
had been captured and a representa-
tive of nearly everyone of the dozen
or so nationalities in the city was
among the converts. There were
twenty four Hawaiians, eight Chinese
and a Caroline Islander among the
number.
| The effect of American associations
upon the oriental mind was illustrated
the other night when a well dressed
company heard an East Indian de-
nounce Christian missions and ridi-
cule the assertion of a bishop that
there were 10000 more applicants for
baptism in Indian than his sect could
| baptize. The reply of the Hindu
sounded like a piece of irreverent
American wit. 1t was in effect, "Send
over fire engines and baptize them by
wholesale"
1T is contrary to law for a private
individual to buy gold from the mines
Of Transvaal. The entire products of
the mines must be sold to the Dutch
government at rates fixed by statute
and any person found with uncoined
gold in his possession is liable to Sc
we're punishment This somewhat sin
gular law is being enforced rigidly,
! and quite number of well-to-do peo-
pie have been sent TO prison for VIC
lating its provisions.