Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-21
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coal dust compressed into bricks and
soaked with chemicals, which make it
grow a long time when once aight.
The diatoms, single-celled plants of
the sea-weed family, are so small that
5000 Of them laid end to end scarcely
suffice to cover an inch of space on the
rule.
Placing the actual daily consumption
of coal for the entire world as low as
l 200, 900 tons, a solid cube of coal more
than 100 yards on a side is burned
every day.
Some idea of the vast extent of the
surface of the earth may be obtained
when it is noted that if a lofty church
steeple is assembled, and the landscape
visible from it looked at, 100000 such
landscapes must be viewed in order
that the whole earth may be seen.
The peach is said to have been origi-
nally poisonous almond. It's fruity
parts were used to poison arrows. and
for that purpose were introduced into
Persia. Transportation has not only
removed its poisonous qualities, but
turned it into the delicious fruit we
enjoy.
A Swiss statistician has taken the
trC uble to count the number of steps
he took in walking during the whole
year The number he finds to have
been 9,760,900 or an average of &c, 74O
steps a day. Going still further into
details, he declares that over 600 900
of these steps were taken in going up
and down stairs.
Many people seem aware of the val
liable materials they possess in bones,
but do not know how to utilize it. If
fowls are kept they will help to solve
the question. Procure a good heavy
wooden mallet and a large fiat stone;
break up the bones as fast as they
leave the kitchen ON this stone, and
the fowls will devour all the smaller
fragments and pay for them, too, in
improved appearance and extra eggs
Queen Victoria is the heroine of an
exciting drama now being acted in the
leading Siamese theaters. In this she
capital to the king of Siam, when that
outspoken monarch breaks off the
match, and in revenge the queen in
vades his country. She is repulsed
with great loss, in spite of a hand-to-
hand combat between the duke of Cam
bridge armed with battleax and three
Siamese fairies, and after an explana-
ton of the misunderstanding marries
clares that Americans are no more
the king of Siam.
mathematical wonder is Mary Ell
len Rogers, the blind daughter of Henry
Rogers of Lexington, KY. This woman
has been blind for twenty-four years
and never made figure in her life. vet
she can tell accurately the number of
days, hours, minutes and seconds in a
year and give the day of the week on
which any person is born if she is SUD-
piled with the date. She does this with
Hghtning-like rapidity. She has been
visited by a number of professors. who
have piled her with intricate mathe-
NAUTICAL problems, only to be answered
quickly and correctly.
Two Baraboo papers, one democratic
and one republican, made a proposition
to the city council to have the proceed
lngs published in all thret city papers.
paying each one-third of the official
rate. The proposition was antagonized
by one of the republican members on
the sole ground that sit would not be
passed if the council were democratic"
The majority agreed with him and the
proposition was rejected Then the
proceedings were given to a republican
paper to publish at full statutory rates,
the city paying the same amount as
was asked for publication in all the
papers.
A sick Jew, 81 years of age, and poor.
went to rabbi at Barmen in Germany
recently asking for assistance. which
he received. His papers showed that
he was Russian by birth and had
lived thirty years in Germany. A few
Gays later he was ordered to leave
Prussian territory within four weeks.
as by the treaty of 1894 with Russia
he had forfeited his rights as a Rus
sian subject in consequence of his
tt irty years absence and had not be-
come German.
Jacob Buch, who was once a Saliva
zionist and beat the bass drum Through
the streets of San Francisco, shouting
as loud as any of his fellows, has an
army Of his own now, and declares he
is the Darlington Booth of the Pacific
coast. His army now numbers 500
members and is called the gospel
army The uniform is after the style
of the Salvation Army, and he has a
number of men and women in the field
TO raise money. Buch and his follow
ers report good success.
The city of Padua is suing the heir
apparent to the Austrian crown, Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand. The latter
recently inherited from the duke of
Modena a splendid mansion in Padua,
including a collection of priceless works
of art The archduke had already
moved part of the collection to Vienna,
when an old will of the original owner
of the collection was discovered, where
by the collection, if any attempt was
made to disperse, should become the
property of the city Of Padua. Hence
the suit
The diplomacy of a Texas belle is
the astonishing elimination of the