Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24

w men CipSer dictates what snail be
rendered to God, the latter gets only
that which Cfeser does not want for him
self.
1t is estimated upon good authority
that there is 81 600, 100000 represented
IN untaxed church property in this
country.
The wages of miners in five states
namely, Maryland. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois-have been recently
raised 10 per cent.
The KIDD of legislation which debars
the Louisiana lottery and sanctions
church lotteries, will not benefit the
country in the long run.
There is no reform worth having that
cannot be realized through that individ-
ual change of heartw hich is Scripturally
described as being ''born again.
One of the greatest decisions of this
lay is that of moral reform through
politics. Such reforms always manage
to keep little way ahead of the present
realities.
James G. Blaine, Jr., is now reporter
on the New York Tribune MIR. Blaine
is son of the late James G. Blaine, the
"Plumed knight" He did his first
newspaper work on the Plttsburg Times,
but was not particularly successful as Il
newspaper man. How he will get along
on metropolitan daily remains to be
Sc en-.
The fact should not be forgotten that
no small part of the expenditures which
the Dingley tariff is called upon to meet
i made up of interest on the $260,000,
0O Of bonds which free-trade admin
|i-tration was compelled to issue in order
10 provide for the deficits created by
tariff law constructed upon free trade
lines.
Countess Marie de la Concepcio de
la Canterary Clark de Gobely Fernan-
dez," a Spanish Sonora married at Mad
rid in 1892, secured divorce from her
husband last week in the Dakota courts
Lucky husband! What relief it must
be to him, even though Spaniard, to
be freed from the care Of burdening
his memory with a name like hers.
What's in a name? Certainly lots in
that of the countess.
The terrible nature of the struggle
that has been going on in Cuba can be
appreciated only in the light of the fact
that more people have persisted in the
three years of the war for Cuban indie
pendence than persisted in the five
years of the great war that devastated
the Union. No less than 400, 900 people,
1t is said, have persisted from starvation
alone. And yet the claim has been per-
sistentlv made by Spain, and recognized
officially here, that there has been no
war in Cuba at all!
Bids will shortly be invited by the
Post Office Department at Washington
for furnishing the government with
postage stamps. The Bureau of En-
craving and Printing has printed the
stamps for the past four years. Pre-
viously they were made by the Ameri-
can Bank Note company. 1t costs the
government FIVE cents per thousand TO
print the ordinary two and one cent
stamps; ia cents per thousand for
newspaper and periodical stamps; Cos
ceuts per thousand for postage due
stamps, and 4 cents for the special
4 l.,
were used last year and it is expected
that the number will be increased this
year. 1t is not expected that there
will be bid against the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing for the work.
A test was made in the New York
Herald office, on the night of January
l, of method of transmitting pictures
electrically over a wire. The instru
ment was invented by Ernest A. Hum
mel of st. Paul, Mimi, and it is said that
the test was in every way successful.
A portrait of Mayor Van Wyck was sent
over wire six miles long. The draw
ing to be transmitted is drawn with an
insulating ink, and in the operation of
transmission platinum point passes
to and fro over the drawing and opens
the circuit each time it passes over the
ink marks, the circuit remaining open
a length Of time corresponding to the
length of the mark over which the
point passes. The receiver is practically
duplicate of the transmitter, except
that stylus at the end Of the travelling
arm. operated by an electromagnetic,
marks black line on the paper. Both
the transmitter and receiver work syn
enormously, and the black lines are pro-
duced at the receiving end by the pres
sure Of the stylus on carbon paper It |
is said that the invention has been tried |
over a wire three hundred miles long
with equal success.