Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-19

erly if the stomach is busy digesting
food. Therefore, if you would enjoy
dining or any of the other good things
in life, keep off the operate stage"
The Tennessee centennial exposition
to be held in Nashville next fall. while
celebrating the Tooth anniversary of the
admission of the state into the union,
will be national and international in
it's character. Every state and for
eign country is invited to take part,
and every inducement is offered them
for the making Of exhibits and the
erection of special buildings.
One-half of the corn exports of the
country not many years ago passed
through the port of New York. Now
that port enjoys one-sevanth OF this
export movement and its share is still
shrinking. The drift of corn ship
ments is southwark. Baltimore is
gaining, but Newport News and Nor
folk are gaining faster and New Or
leans is an important port OF ship
ment. With the complexion CT the
new line from Kansas City direct to
Sabine Pass another important port Of
exit for grain will have been opened
The annual report of the New York
Free Circulating library tells strik-
ing story of continued growth and
usefulness. 1t has six branches now
at 40 Bond street, 1876 Second avenue,
251 West Forty-second street and IS
East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street. In the year ending Nov. l.,
1895, it circulated 654 ,45l volumes, an
increase of 1898 over the previous
year. and all with only S1,7S5 volumes
on it's shelves. Only two libraries in
America-the public libraries Of Bos-
ton and Chicago-can beat this total
circulation.
Mr.. Austin, an assistant librarian, in
cataloguing the fine Dante collection
presented to Cornell university by
Professor Willard Fiske, found some
live bookWorms in an edition of the
Divine Comedy" bearing the date
MDXXXVI. This is the third time
only that these rare insects have been
found in an American library. Care
fully removing the worms, which were
eating from front to back and had
only reached the frontpages of the
Inferno" Mr. Austin took them to
cal department. There, after making
sure that they were genuine book
worms, they were developed.
in 1891 the Legislature of Nebraska
passed a law forbidding the owner
ship of real property in that state by
any corporation not incorporated I'M
der state laws, and ordering all prop
erty so held forfeited to the state. The
first suit under that law has been
brought against the North Platte Land
and Water company, a corporation
whose stockholders are principally
Englishmen, and which has not a Ne
braska charter. This company holds
about 10000 acres of valuable land,
and before they give it up the supreme
court Of the United States will prob
ably be asked to rule on the validity
Of this Nebraska law
A floating mining camp is now being
fitted up at Ellensburg, Wash, and
next spring will ply up and down the
Snake river. The camp will be per-
fectly appointed in every way with a
full battery of mining appliances and
quarters for the miners 1t is being
constructed on an immense flatbot-
toned boat especially built for the
purpose. On the boat is a big station
airy engine and boilers, dredgers, and
pumps Of various sizes, and all the
appliances for extracting gold, and a
boarding and lodging house that will
accommodate at least $50 miners. The
camp is an experiment by a Chicago
syndicate, and it will be moved up and
down the river, working the banks and
bed of the stream for gold.