Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.
A company Of Spokane citizens is

organized to emigrate to Siberia.
A colony of Berrien county, Michi- !
gan, farmers will emigrate to Texas
in the spring.
Sherif-Elect Chapman of Wayne
county Michigan, proposes to have his
deputies wear uniforms.
Thirteen letters written by George
Washington over 100 years ago were
sold in London recently for $3.50.
Owing to low prices it is estimated
that fully one-eighth OF the potato
crop in southwestern Michigan has
been left in the ground.
The administrative board of Ann
Arbor university have refused per-
mission for the musical clubs to make
their annual tours in the spring.
Reports made to Commissioner Bill
ings show that the railroad passenger
! earnings in Michigan for October were
/ the smallest in fifteen years.
Unless the Michigan State Agricul
/ tural society can effect a settlement
! with Lansing creditors or renew notes
for about $4,000 there may be no
| state fair next fall
Saginaw valley, Michigan, people
who recently went to Alabama to es-
| tabIish a new town for the National
! Cooperative association are pleased
with their venture and have no doubt
! of success.
At a public dinner on the occasion
of the opening of new club in the
English metropolis one Of the news
paper reporters was a woman who
calmly produced and smoked a cigar
cite when the dinner was over.
Atlanta is having a city census
taken with view to securing a new
postoffiee rating. II it Is demon
strated that there are $4,000 inhabi-
tants in the city its postoffice will be
rated as first-class and the facilities
will be enlarged.
Among the attractions at Governor
Tanners inaugural ceremonies will be
the second battalion, naval militia Of
Illinois. This will be the first time in
the history OF the state that the sta.e S
middies have been on dress parade.
A reform against nature is in
progress in Bridgeport, Conn. A
bachelors club is attemp ing to force
unfaithful members to abstain from
Sunday evening counting. Last Sun
day night the club visited houses
where their weaker brethren were
making calls and abducted the tender
hearted youths.
According to the latest estimates OF
population in several states, nine of
them, namely, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Texas,
Indiana, Michigan and Iowa. have an
aggregate population Of 1925, 900, or
more than half the population of the
entire union, which is about II, 1000, 900.
The report of the commissioner OF
internal revenue shows that "moon-
shining" has steadily increased. Las
year / ,905 Illicit distillers were seized
the largest number in any year. In
the last twelve years ten federal Off
GERS have been killed and fifteen
wounded in conflicts with moon
sinners.
One of the most novel of the recon
inventions is a foot lantern, inven.e &c
and patented by Francois Lucas Of
Munson Station, Pa. This device con
sists of lantern which may be Wort
! upon the boot, a support comprising
stirrup being adapted to, encirclt
the foot of the user, with means pro
:. vided for holding the stirrup and Ian
tern il place.
In England, according to official re
ports, tobacco is adulterated will
sugar, alum, lime, -four or meal
I,rhubarb leaves, saltpeter, fullert
: earth, starch, malt commings, chro
mate of lead, peat moss, molasses
burdock leaves, common salt, endiv
leaves, lampblack, gum, red dye
l scraps of newspapers cinnamon Sticks
cabbage and straw brown. paper.
=. A doctor asks why it. is that a MAJ
= in his hours of relaxation crOuche
+ down in chair, puts UP his feet o
assumes some other abnormal atti
I tude. Il am convinced he says
THAT man can sit much longer in a.
L upright position, with his spin
straight, than he can in any othel
That he does not sit correctly I ca.
only consider the force of habit"
= The account Of expenses given t
congress for eX-Speaker Crisp's fun
erel is the smallest rendered in recen
. years, being 5000, as compared with a
y average of about $4,000 for the buria
= of a member of congress. Mr.. Girls
. left little or no property, and tn
house committee on accounts ha
=, voted to report a resolution payin4
j.. the expenses Of his last sickness.
=, The stomachs of about 5000 crow
), have been examined and the percent
age of food found therein reveals n
p satisfactory fact that the crow instea
| of being the bandit we supposed hin
to be, cunningly fattening on tn
graineries and crops of the husband
men, is a, benevolent scayenger, clear
q ing fields, orchards, ETC., Of all man
ner of mischievous worms, mice an
insects.
!, The Wabash river for miles, cas-
, and west Of Wash, Ind, is coveret
4 with crude Oil, which emits a power
full and very offensive odor There
| have been times before when tn
, stream carried considerable oil. bu
never before as now, and the waite
o supply of many cities below here
endangered. The oil enters the Wa
), bash from the Salamonia river, at l.;
Gro, the Salamonia penetrating The