Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-04
NOTES OF INTEREST.

since the new excise law went INTO
effect the number of hotels in New
York city has been tripled.
The Munich opera house has a new
rotating stage by which any scene can
be changed in twelve seconds.
Most of the medieval kings wore and
used signet rings because they were
unable to w11te their names.
\ pension BIZ before congress gives
$12 month to a man whose disability
was caused by overheating himself at
the battle of Bull Run"
New York state has a new law, just
any man to wear the badge or regatta
of any society of which he is not
member.
All of the corned beef and picked
pork for European armies and navies
goes by way of Canada and crosses the
border at Vanceboro, Me.
The coal fields of the Unl.ed States
have an area of ,.early 100000 square
miles, or ten times that of all the other
coal-producing countries in the world.
The bills pending before congress for
the erection in Washington of monu-
ments and statues to distinguished men
provide for an expenditure Of over
$780, 900.
A cambria shirt worn by Louis XVI.
on the day before his death realized
$3.50 and the napkin used at mass en-
the morning of his execution $500, at
vacant Opdnn sale
A chameleon flower" has been in
trGduced into Europe from the isthmus
of Tehuantepec. The blossoms of this
newly discovered plant are white IN
the morning, changing to red at noon
and again to blue in the evening.
Last year thirty-seven towns in Con
necticut were engaged in improving
their roads, and now eighty towns are
reported to have joined in the move
ment. The improvement made is thor
ough and scientific. The cost is borne
equally by the state, the county and
the municipality.
Vermont will have one state cera-
moniaI to look after this summer, and
that will be the dedication Of the monu-
ment to the memory of Thomas Chit
tenden, first governor of Vermont. 1t
is said that it will take place during
the annual encampment of the Yer
mont National guard.
The British army officials have had
an electric light plant installed at the
practice and testing grounds at Lydd,
for the purpose OF working a search
light to be used during the heavy gun
practice at various objects during the
night. This will, of course, afford al
ideal practice.
The English government has recently
assumed control of all the trunk line or
long distance telephone business in the
United Kingdom. For this purpose
$4,000, 900 has been appropriated by
the house of commons to purchase ex-
listing lines and an additional sum Cf
81, 5000 has since been appropriated
for the erection of additional lines.
The catch of seals by the schooner
]. Eppinger of San Francisco aptly IL
Illustrates the important point in the
sealing dispute between Great Britain
and the United States. Of the 1,oG0
seals killed only forty-five are males.
Experts assert that the bulls remain
ashore while the females go 100 miles
away in search of food and get killed
by the hunters.
A German inventor has hit upon a
method of putting stone soles on boots
and shoes. He mixes a waterproof
glue with a suitable quantity of clean
quartz sand and spreads it over the
leather sole use1 as a foundation.
These quartz soles are said to be very
flexible and practically indestructibIe
and to give the foot firm hold, even
on the most slippery surfaces.
There is a deaf mute in Concord
Lewis county, KY, the 9-year-old
daughter of Judge w. E. Sparks, who
is far ahead of the average child of
her years in intelligence and accom-
plishments. She goes to school, keeps
at the head of her class, is an iudefa-
tigable reader and fathoms books that
children OF her age are seldom able to
understand
The sultan OF Turkey, who consumes
a larger number of cigarettes than any
other royal parsonage III Europe, is
run very closely by the German en-
peror. The car of Russia has recent
ly taken to cigarettes, but the pipe
used to be his favorite.