Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-19

the driving wheel is ten inches. The
weight of the little engine is about
600 pounds. and it will run on rail
three quarters of an inch square. 1t
will draw ten cars each containing
two persons.
Special Commissioner Robert +.
Porter says on returning from Cuba
that the three great industries of the
island will be sugar, tobacco and iron
ore. Cuba'S ore will add to the great
iron boom in the United States.
Little Holland believes in expansion.
In its Sumatra colony it produced last
year tobacco worth s14, 518, 900, raised
at a profit of 81. 100000 The natives
are great deal better off under Dutch
rule than they ever were before.
The Philippines will be far better
off after the wild revolutionary ele-
ment is disciplined. These offenders
will never settle down to honest labor
as long as there is a chance to rob
anybody on the system learned from
Spain.
When the Spanish peace commits
sioners made a request for arbitration
Judge Days reply was: Arbitration
comes before war to avert it's evils:
not after war to escape its results. y
The epigram states the case fully in
fifteen words.
Japan is Wiping out the hostile in
surgentS in Formosa, the island coded
by China at the end of the last war.
No doubt there are copperheads in
Japan to give aid and comfort to the
Formosa savages in their fight against
any civilized form of government.
Admiral Dewey's two brothers and
his nephew at Montpelier confirm the
statement that he is republican.
The admiral himself said so in an in
terview published in former years.
Mr.. Bryan need fear no rivalry from
Dewey in a democratic convention.
Many of US, with all our patriotism,
do not know the dimensions of our
own flag. The width of a flag is ten
nineteenthS, or just little more than
half it's length. The blue part covers
two fifths of the entire length and to
the bottom of the four red stripes in
width. 1t is not necessary to say there
are thirteen stripes, but it is a fact
which everybody does not know with
out looking, that the two outside
stripes are red. FortY-fve of our stars
are required to represent the units of
our union and they are arranged IN
six alternating rows of eight or seven
stars respectively. Many of the little
flags on the market are incorrect both
as to proportion and number Of stars,
but the above is the recognized official
recipe for our national ensign.
Our new state superintendent of
LID u ICUlOll, LIZ ~. Ii oil fCy, lldS
prepared a bill which he will present
to the law makers in session at Madi-
son, providing for the better super
vision Of the country schools. Among
other things his bill will abolish the
election of the county superintendent
of schools by the people, and will pro-
vide for the appointment of those
officials by the state superintendent.
Mr.. Harvey takes deep interest in
the rural schools, and he sees in this
plan better way to get at them for
improvement than is provided by the
present system. Leaving the selec-
ton of the county superintendent to
a political convention may be salts
factory in the larger counties, but
there are counties in the state where
it is necessary to go outside of the
limits to find a suitable man who will
accept the position. The Harvey
measure aims particularly to cover
this point.