Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.


Russia, with a population of 127 ,000,-
600, has only 1884 physicians. In the
United States, with a population of
about 100000 there are 100000 ply
sicians.
New Jersey fruit growers as rule be-
lieve there will be an immense crop, as
the buds had not developed enough to
be damaged by the cold weather.
A Sheridan, Mo-, photographer says
he has discovered a process by means
of which a proof of a photograph may
be taken within a few moments after
the sitting.
There was a lively football match
near Glasgow recently in which the
spectators took part, with the result
that nineteen policemen had to be TAX
en- to the hospital.
Though traffic in the Baltic-North
Sea canal has not come up to expecta-
ton the Germans are pleased at the
discovery that the herring Is using The
canal as a spawning ground.
That football is not losing its popu-
larity in England is shown by the fact
that the match for the English football
cup at Sheffield on April Is was wit
messed by upwards Of $4,000 persons.
An English actor who died on the
road was shipped in his coffin to Lon
don recently by his manager as 'the-
atrical properties" This cost 81
whereas if he had gone as corpse the
cost would have been $50.
Monte Baldo, near the Lago di Gar
da, is showing signs of volcanic activ
ity. Steam issues from assures neal
the top there is rumbling inside the
mountain and the shores of the lake
have been rising for month past.
The exports Of canned beef from this
country last month We're 1926, 00(
pounds in excess of the exports il
April, 1898, while the corresponding in
crease in the expectation of fresh
dressed beef was 3,150,000 pounds.
A recent computation shows that
counting only donations of $4,000 anC
upward, partial list of gifts to chart
table and educational institutions Il
the United States during the last si1
years gives an average of more than
S35, 900 900 a year.
Electricity has supplanted steam or
the railroad from Milan to Monza, the
Cldest railroad in Italay, opened for
traffic in 1910. Storage batteries are
used, the electricity being obtained
from the turbines on the AIDA at
PadernO.
1t is said that Hawaiian planters
realize that the contract system is al
an end and are now trying the expert
ment Of proft-sharing with the labor
ers. So far the plan has worked well
and is believed to be the final solution
of the labor question.
Next to the seamen of the United
States British seamen get higher wages
and better fare and more comfortable
conditions of employment than do sea-
men of any other country. 1t natural
ly follows that alien seamen, as a rule,
have a liking for service on British
ships
A correspondent Of a Paris paper,
writing from Manila and describing
our army, says that the volunteer regi-
ments are named "for the provinces in
which they are raised" He enumer-
ates the *Tennessee-Texas' and the
''Vancouver-Wa Washington" regiments as
illustrations.
NJ. F. Hastings writes from Weather
ford, Ok, that he has plowed up, On the
bottoms Of the Cimarron river, an old
army musket with the inscription, al.
B. Howard, company A, Sixty-fourth
Illinois, U. V. l." He would like to
hear from someone who has a claim 10
the old weapon.
The unique collection Of musical in
struments donated by Frederick
Stearns to the University of Michigan
over 1000 specimens and rep
resents, with scarcely break, the evo-
luton of the three classes
wind and string-from prehistoric
times down to the present.
The total mercantile-m marine ship
building output of 1898 for the whole
world is estimated at 1893, 900 tons,
and Lloyd's returns show that OF this
total output 1,367,570 tons gross were
launched in the United Kingdom, the
number of vessels being 761, Of which |
only seventeen were sailing vessels.
E. c. Larrabee of Salem, Mass, has |
ust completed a picture of President |
which is composed Of twenty |
iifferent kinds Of wood skillfully il
aid, the woods used coming from
Tuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, the
hawaiian islands and other places with
which the administration is identified
he portrait is 10 be presented to the
resident by it's maker through Con
FRESHMAN Moody. It is good like
ess, and the work is very cleverly
one. No less than ten pieces Of wood
re fnlaid in the button on the coat
lone
Stone blocks for the Paris exposi-
ion buildings are being cut and
ressed almost as readily as wood by