Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

III &C ' ears dSO IOI IuS occasion. Be
sides being q farmer and practfcfng as
physician he was an Adventist
preacher. In recent years he had SUI
fered persecution from some unknown
foe. who burned his barns and wrote
threatening letters TO his family.
North Carolinians are mourning the
recent death of Major Sidney NJ Fin
ger, whom they regard as having lone
more for the cause Of education in their
state than any of their public men for
many years. He was long state super
intendent of public instruction, and as
chairman Of the senate committee en-
education he framed the states public
school law substantially as it exists to-
day
Carl HolZhauser. farmer of Rush
vile, Kan, carried to Atchison a bald
eagle which he had captured after
battle with it near Lake Contrary.
where he was hunting. He had left
his horse, and when he returned to it
found the eagle On the animals back
fighting 1t. When he beat it off the
and face before he could shoot it.
Americans are fond of guessing, but
that often they are wild guessers has
been shown again in Portland. Ore. A
grocer put demiiohn of cranberries
in his window and promised a big. fat
goose to the person who guessed near
est to the number of them. Nearly
1000 PERSONS guessed, some saving as
high as 100000. Careful count showed
there were 1885,.
A British army surgeon is authority
for the statement that the cause of
death is clearly shown in the EXPIRES
sion of the face of a corpse on the
field Of battle. He states that those
who have been killed by sword thrusts
have look of repose, while those
killed by bullets usually have pain of
an intense nature cearly depicted.
One who has made study of dys-
pepsia claims that in a large number of
cases the disturbance is due to the use
of lard. He suggests the liberal use of
beef tallow to the exclusion of all pork
fat as remedy. He says a person who
is fond of grease" can saturate his
food in this with no resulting digestive
disorder.
a new remedy was recently sug-
gested for cold in the head. The treat
ment consisted of few light taps with
a rubber hammer on the forehead just
above the root of the nose. The dis
coverer of this remedy claims that
slight shocks upon terminal nerves
have the effect Of causing the blood YES
sells to contract.
Paris has found it necessary to put
a check to the haphazard decoration of
her public places. The project of the
Seine has appointed a technical COM
mittee of artists architects and other
competent judges, to which all plans
affecting the outward appearance of
the city must be submitted.
In recent experiments at Antwerp a
swallow, which had it's nest in. the
gable of the railway station in that
CITY was sent to Compiegne, France, a
distance of 1401a miles, and liberated.
The flight home was accomplished by
IIC DIV dItON III Ollc LOuI dllu SlSuI
minutes, a speed of 1881 miles per
hour
"Punche0n" is now the name of a
luncheon with punch. The punch, con-
cocted by the hostess, is served in the
half Of an orange rind, turned inside
out, to give the liquid refreshment a
favor. It's strength depends upon the
judgment of the entertainer as to the
capacity of her guests.
Negro physicians have organized
state medical associations in six states
of the south-the two Carolinas, Geor-
gia, Tennessee, Texas and Florida.
There is represented to be great need
for many more thoroughly equipped
negro physicians in that section to care
for their own race.
Maine paper complains somewhat
bitterly because some good people of
its town got up show that cost $40
to raise Sc for payment of the freight
on barrel of clothes worth $40 to be
sent to the Indians of North Dakota.
when the clothes were greatly needed
by the poor around home.
Representative Van B. Norman of
the Kentucky legislature, elected as a
democrat, has announced that he will
henceforth act with the republicans,
eXcep that, representing as he does a
democratic constituency, he will not
vote for a republican for United States
senator
The members of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Bos-
ton promise that if Faneuil hall is made
fire proof they will add their own
valued souvenirs to the city's collection
of ''relics of four wars and make it
the most interesting in the country.
In Massachusetts the highway com
mission has been putting signs all
along the country roads reading, Don't
drive in the middle Of the road" This
inyeterate habit of the rural population
has cost the state 81, 800 for repairs on
their model roads.
An aerolite fell in Belgium. injuring
a man who was working in the fields.
1t weighed 80 pounds, one side being
smooth and covered with what resem-
bled hieroglyphics cut by means Of an
instrument. Some try to think it may
be a message from Mars.
The supposed grave of Eve is visited
by over 10000 pilgrims in each year. 1t
is to be seen at Jeddah in a ceme-
terry outside the city walls The tomb
is fifty cubits long and twelve wide
The Arabs entertain a belief that Eve