Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The value of the total granite pro-
$1,551, O36, 100000 less than that of
1898.
The whole of the land ON the globe
above water level if shoveled into the
Pacific ocean would only fill one-sev-
enth of it,
More chan 1000 people earn liv-
ing in Paris by fortune telling, and
their total earnings are estimated at
$2,OOO,OOO
In 1882 it took 324 bushels of whea
to pay for a self-binding reaper,
while a better one can be bought this
year for the price Of 1877 bushels.
According to the commander III
chief of India $4,000 out Of 10000
men composing the army have been
sent to the hospital within two years.
An authority on jewelry estimates
that there is at least S2OO,OOO,OOO in
vested i'm this country in various kinds
of gold and silver ornaments
1T is stated on high authority that
all the so-caIled catgut in the markets
for stringing instruments and for
medical purposes comes from sheep.
Mormonism has gained a foothold in
Connecticut. Several people were
converted recently at meetings being
held at Broad river, near NorWalk.
Hunger, says Carroll ID. Wright,
has caused more men to commit petty
crimes than anything else. Of 6,95S
homicides in 1890, 5000 had no trades.
The spiSitualistic societies of this
country number 334. They own
thirty churches, and, in addition, use
3O7 halls for their services. They
claim a membership of 5000.
A Kankakee man tried to drown a
cat by wading out into the river AMI
putting it under water. The cat came
back, but the man took cramps and
was drowned
Statistics prove that nearly two
thirds of all the letters carried by the
postal services of the world are writ
ten. sent to and read by the English
speaking people.
Glencoe. in Scotland. where, accord
ing to local legends, when it is not
raining it is showing, the annual rain
fall is 127 inches, or early as much as
Sitka, Alaska.
The proposed statue to the memory
of ex-President Franklin Pierce at
Concord, n. H., will be completed and
ready for unwilling, it is expected, On
the Fourth of July next.
No fewer than $4,000 men have de-
serted from the English militia during
the last five years, and in the same
period nearly 10000 of the same force
joined the regular army.
The New York fish commission has
gone into the business of raising in
sects for distribution along trout
streams, so that the specllled beauties
may have something to eat.
The famous old blue store in ROx.
bury, Mass, viii soon be torn down. |
During colonial times General War
rem, it is said, occupied one floor of
the old building as a dwelling.
Burglars are said to seldom receive
more than 20 per cent. of the value Of
their booty from the buyers to whom !;
they dispose Of it, if it happens to be
in any other form than coins.
1t is said that, including the jewels
of the late Mrs. Roosevelt, of Mrs
Dragon and Mrs. Orme Wilson, Mrs.
AstOr's daughter, this family has pos
sibly S1,O0O,00O invested in gems.
Quinine, the great febrifuge medi-
cine, is now 10 be bought at all the
postoffices in Bengal. AS many as
?, 100000 packets have already been
sold at the value of half at cent a
packet. 1t is hoped that by selling it
cheap and making it so easy to pro-
cure the native objections to taking it'll
will be Surrnounted.