Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-23
NOTES or THE DAY.

French railroads earned $1O,S50 per
mile last year, of which SIG per cent.
was used for working expenses.
Berlin has no sums" as we I'M
derstand them. Even in the poorest
quarters of the city the streets are
paved with asphalt and are kept fault
lessly clean.
Common salt that is used daily in
our food is needed in the body. 1t aids
digestion and the assimilation of
many of the tissues
Bristol, which for many years was
consolidated with Gloucester, has been
officially declared separate bisnopric,
money enough to pay bishops salary
having been raised.
For making a con mon, ordinary
Mother Hubbard wrapper, the only
dlessmaker in the Klondyke region
charged SIS, and in thirty working
hours she netted 500 from her sewing.
The best way to ascertain whether
coffee has been adulterated is to pour
cold water on it. If pure it will color
the water very slightly; if mixed with
chicory the water will take a brownish
hue.
IN France it is a punishable offense
for anyone to give infants under one
year any form of solid food unless
such be ordered by written prescrip-
ton signed by a legally qualified med
ical man.
Toothache, as an excuse for absence
from duty, is not recognized in the
postOffice of Geneva, Switzerland.
When an employee complaine of an
aching tooth a government doctor
pulls it out.
A unique organization, called the
Autumnal Straw Hat association. has
been formed in Boston. It's object is
to persuade men to wear straw hats
after Sept. Is, provided the tempera-
ture makes it justifable
1t almost exceeds belief that last
year 100000 visitors paid for admis-
sion to the house in which Shakes
peare lived 300 years ago. Among the
vast throng of people forty rationale
lies were represented.
Lion-tamers, as a rule, prefer lions
to Iionesses, and dislike a troupe of
both sexes mixed, In such cases the
danger of entering the den is quad
rupled, and mischief is pretty sure to
result sooner or later
When man loses an ear, by paying
from 800 to s125, he can procure
another made Of specially prepared
rubber that can be crumpled without
injury, and is carefully painted to
resemble the natural organ.
In Queen Anne county, MARYLAND.
the two editors of the Centerville OBJ
server, William J. Price, Jr., and
William W. Busted, contested for a
nomination for the house OF delegates
on the democratic ticket. Mr.. Price
won.
A committee of the Episcopal church
of Georgia is investigating the fnan-
cial condition of the church, with the
intention Of dividing the diocese if the
funds will permit. The church has
grown 50 rapidly in tt at section that
two bishops and two dioceses are now
needed
Some of the private camps in the
Ad1rondacks are as costly as a cottage
at Newport. H. Mex Twombly owns
camp in st. Regis region, which is
said to have cost not less than $50 900.
Coils P. Huntington fitted up a camp
in the same neighborhood a few sea-
sons ago, which cost $4,000.
The mayor to be elected in Greater
New York next November will be a
rotentate. The lord mayor of
London is not circum-
stance to him. He will have a patro-
mage almost as large as that of the
president of the United States, with a
pay roll bigger than IL at of any other
city in the world
An evangelist named F. W San
ford has established an institution in
Durham, Me-, to which he has given
the queer name of THE Holy
Ghost and Us Bible School," His fol-
lowers believe that all other Chris
tians except themselves are on the
wrong road. Sanford casts out devils
every day, and claims to be in personal
communication with God.
Government ownership of railroads