Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A railway is to be made across the
field of Waterloo. Change here for
Hougoumont' will sound rather
strange.
The grand hammer of the Woolwich
Gun works, Woolwich, England, weighs
forty tons, and it's drop is a sheer fall
of Al feet inches.
Norwich cathedral, England, will
celebrate the eight hundredth anniver-
sary of its foundation by a thanksgiv-
ing service on July 1.
The English royal naval architect
says that a perfect" modern man-of-
war should weigh not less than $4,000
tons and cost at least $4,000 900
The 5000 horse power pumping en-
CINE in the mines at Friedensville, Pa.
raises 1880 gallons of water at each
revolution of the gigantic fly wheel.
A Vermonter who had a large area Of
what was called waste land planted it
with 10000 trees, and finds himself the
owner of some very promising forests.
The "city'' of Cameron, Kan, out in
the edge of sage brush country, has a
municipal debt that is almost $4,000
greater than the assessed valuation of
the town.
A typographical error in a Connecti-
cut paper the other day referred to the
boiling delegates of the prohibition con-
vention in Pittsburg as 'bottling dele
gates"
1t has been discovered that all the
shell-fsh of the Hawaiian islands are
peculiar to the locality, and most of
their birds and insects are found no.
where else on the globe.
1t has been found impossible to build
lighthouse on Diamond shoal, off
Hatteras, but the government will put
in lightship at once, and she Will be
the strongest ever made.
Two young women VINO rode tan
dem Sunday on the COney Island bicy-
Gle track wore bloomaTs of white, scar
let jersey waists, scarlet caps, scarlet
stockings and tan shoes.
A white object of any size may be
seer in sunlight at a distance of 1920
times its diameter; rhat is to say, if it
is a white ball d foot IN diameter it can
be perceived at q distance of 1880
feet.
III HarbOr Springs, Mich, there is a
large and flourishing wood toothDicE
industry. White birch Is exclusively
used in the manufacture Of the tooth
picks, and about 100000 are turned
out daily
Last winter is said to have been the
coolest on record in Egypt
In speaking of foreign sundries" as
imports, the English consul at Chung.
king observes that pins seem to be I'M
known" and the remark applies to the
whole of China. Neither pins nor
walking sticks are desired by the Chin
csc.
In 1890 were made the first brooms in
the country from broom corn grown on
American soil. The brComs were made
in Philadelphia, and the event was
spoken of at the time as IN illustration
of the development Of the country.
Susan, the sister of Ouray,
head chief of the Utes at the time of
the Meeker massacre, was rescued by
a cetachment of United States soldiers
from Fort Collins.
Lizards, it is we'll known, are at
! tracted by the notes of music, and the
negroes in the island Of Madeira, when
catching them for food, accompany the
chase by whistling some tune, which in
variaEly has the effect of drawing great
numbers toward them.
When European doctor is admitted
and the case is rare, to see a sick
woman in the harem, he finds her Gov
cred with a black sheet, so that only
her eyes and mouth are visible. Many
Of the beauties die because the doctor is
not allowed to diagnose their symp-
toms.
The largest churches in Eurore will
contain the following numbers: St.
Peters, Rome, $4,000; Milan cathedral,
$1,000; st. Paul's, London, 25,000 St.
Sophia, Constantinople, $4,000; Notre
Dame, Paris, 21,O00; Pisa cathedral,
$4,000; st. Mark s, Venice, 1000.
The people Of Knox county, Tennns-
Sc, have quarried phenomenal block
Of their best marble and presented it
to the state, that it may be given to
the state of Nebraska to be carved into
a monument of Abraham Lincoln.
vegetable meat of Japan called
''torfu'' is said to consist mainly Of
protein of the soya bean, and to be as
nutritious and digestible as meat. It
is sold in tablets, is white as snow and
tastes like fresh malt.