Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Berlin, by the 1885 census, had 1885,
517 inhabitants. Employed in the army
or civil service were 72,S4S.
Doctors have removed a piece Of glass
seyen-eighths of an inch long from the
eye of a little child in Barbourn county,
Almany. The glass had been there for
about eight months.
A young Englishman from Johannes
burg, now in Washington, says thai
shopkeepers in that town make at least
100 per cent. profit. Everything is
booming and wages are high.
In the safe of a certain undertaken
in Augusta there are five envelopes,
which contain full Instructions from
people now living as to what to do with
their bodies after death.
A bird lover of Louisville writes de-
ploring the extinction Of song birds in
the south, and says that for three years
he has not heard knocking bird in
woods where they used to abound.
Russia will take a general census Of
the empire on Feb. Jan. 20 old style)
next. The enumeration will begin two
Or three weeks earlier in the more re-
mote districts OF Siberia and central
Asia.
A pleasant &c guess is to name how
many dollar bills would be required to
weigh as much as a $40 gold piece.
Answers fluctuate between 300 IS the
lowest and 1000; the correct number
being thirty-four.
Another of the Chilian thirty-knot
torpedo-boat destroyers, the Captain
Munos Camera, built by tee Lands,
Birkenhead England, has been tested,
making an average of 3O42 knots an
hour on the official trial
Though the Cook islands in the south
Pacific have been annexed to the Brit
ish empire for but eight years, their
federal council has passed bill to keep
out persons of bad character, drunken
habits and unsOund mind.
On Victorian railways station mis-
tresses" are rapidly replacing station
masters. Over 200 women are now
holding the post, and they do their
work as well as men. Their average
annual salary is 500, whereas the sta
ton masters received $3.50.
Shipping at Hamburg amounted to
6,256,000 tons in 1895, while Liverpool
has only 5,965,959 tons to its credit for
the same year. In ten years LiverpooFs
shipping has increased about 40 per
cent, while Hamburgs shows an in
crease of about 70 per cent.
Wild dogs, as dangerous as wolves,
have lately been abundant in those
parts of Japan that were devastated by
the tidal wave Of June Is. They
killed several country postmen, until
these officials were supplied with trum-
pets, of which these animals are afraid.
nursing bottle advertisement which
A Canadian paper calls attention to
concludes with the words: "When the
baby is done drinking it must be I'M
screwed and laid in cool pace under
tap. If the baby does not thrive on
fresh milk, it should be boiled"
Under the operation of the Vermont
library law fifty-nine towns have estab-
lished libraries within the last two
years, making a total of 118 public
libraries in Vermont. The COS: of
books given by the STATE, including the
expense of the library commission, is
placed at only about $4,000.
Prince Mestchersky's newspaper, the
Grazhdanin, has been suspended for a
month by the Russian censorship on &C.
count of articles disrespectful to Presi-
dent Faure. As the prince has now
been warned three times, the news
paper can be published after the month
is over only on condition that every
issue submitted to the censorship for
revision.
The rivers of Guiana are so surcharg-
ed with alluViaI that the sea for fifty
miles from the coast is dark and tut bid,
and as this alluVial, settles the mud
banks are extended, while vegetation
moves forward, ever retaining land
from the sea. This soil is loose and
hurricanes often tear great gaps in it,
but it is a perfect protection against
seismic disturbances.
In the West Indies tWo-thirds are
negroes and Of the remaining third by
40 means all are English. In the
straits settlements and Hong Kong on
y a sixth are whites, but these are
mostly of British descent In Hon
iuras and British Guiana the proportion
S even smaller; in fact, in tne latter
colony there are only 5000 Englishmen
,ut of population Of 100000 people
oolies, negroes and Europeans.
Native policemen of India are, IN
ike other "bobbies," very unassuming
peace can claim kinship
II karki, garments, with turbans and
of the town color. In Bonn
ay, they wear yellow turbsns and fac
1gs, but the Indian defender OF the
eace can claim kinship with his En-
lish brother on the score that he near
Y has always important business round
he corner whenever a ROW" Is in
rogress.