Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

More than $1,000 girls are engaged in
the telephone service in The United
states
A Burlington, VT, man gives his baby
an airing by towing the childs car
rage Dennd mis- bicycle.
| Inc oldest national flag i'll the world
IS thai o. Denmark, WnIcn has been IN
use since lne year 1919.
The Iyrol has 1879 taverns, with
10000 BEDS. The number OF tourists
last year was 81, $50, who spent IL, z5U,-
900 horins.
10 display a crest on stationery and
plate in England costs each family a
tax OF guinea year. About 10000
people pay it.
Inc secret marks on Bank of Eng
land notes, by which forgeries are so
rapidly detected, are constantly being
| changed. Inc microscope Will reveal
many such peculIarItlGs.
| there was a Californian in Los Gatos
twenty-five years ago who uied and left
the income OF $500 TO buy candy tor the
school children. The tund is faithfully
administered.
Miss Lillian NJ. Powell of London
| had her little finger seriously crushed
| by the slammlng OF a railway carriage
door, and recovered $50 damage from
the I'll eat Eastern Railway company.
Ii oLe-haIf the fruit OF heavily laden
tree is removed by picking the re-
maInder will BE- OF Detter quality and
also produce as many bushels as
though all of the fruit hau remained on
The Tree.
The memorial OF the late Lord Te1ny-
son, promoted Oy private committee,
Is now approaching completion. 1t
will take the form OIL granite beacon,
TO be set OH the sOuCu coao, Oh the isle
of Wight.
England's oak is now made in Ger
many. The great roof beams OF VIM
chester cathedral are being renewed
and the wood used is Stettln oak, cut IN
AZ 1-2-foOt lengths, the other dimen-
slons being AXIS inches.
Probably the oldest timber in The
world is found in the ancient temples
of Egypt, in connection with stoneWOrk
which is known 10 be at least 4,OG4
years old. This, the only wood used N
The construction Of the temples, IS IN
the form of ties, holding the end OF one
stem to another.
The order for 1000, 600 feet of bicycle
tubing placed with an American manu-
IacCurer by bicycle maker OL DIIAIIl.e5-
ham, England, is Interesting as sho"-
ing another revolution wrought by Lne
wheel. AS recently as last year the
United States imported tubing 10 Tie
value OF $5O1,O41 from Birmingham.
A most interesting TACT mas been lis
covered by a Swedish scientist. It is
that water can be found by boring INTO
granite and other crystalline rocks 10
a depth of 100 or 700 feet. A well was
sunk in the island OF AkrO, of the
Swedish coast, not long ago, and at the
depth Of 10 feet fresh water WAS
tapped, providing an apparently lex
haustible supply.
The artesian we'll at Great island, in
Long Island sound, near Darien, Conn,
has reached the enormous depth IF al
most 1,500 fit. through solid rock, and at
preseE: furnishes a supply of pure and
soft water at the rate of six gallons a
minute. The we'll was begun over
three years ago, but work was delayed
by numerous accidents 20 The maclin-
cry.
In Paris the autocar Is rapidly taking
a place for business purposes. The
Magasin du Louvre-Which is in Paris
practically equivalent to Whiteley's es-
tablishment in London-after expert
ment with motor-driVen parcel van,
have decided to adopt special form Of
parcels delivery van propelled by Pc
troleum motive power, and have CT
dered eighteen of these autocars to be
built for them.
When the sponge is in the sea alive
the inside of the pores is said to be COW
cred with a soft substance like the
white OF All egg. This appears 10 be
,he tlcsE of the animal, and currents Of
water may be seen running into the
sponge through the small pores and out
If it through the large ones, ard it IS
that, while the water is pass
ng through the sponge, the nourish-
nent requisite for the support Of the
animal is extracted from it.