Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-14
GOSSIP FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

A correspondent writing in the Lon
don Spectator says that the Gersoppa
falls, on the Sharavatti river, in South
Kanara, India, are larger and more
magnificent than Niagara. He says:
THE river is $50 yards wide, the clear
fall is $50 feet. The Gersoppa falls in
the rainy season are incomparably
finer than Niagara in every respect.
The roar of the falling waters is sim
ply terrific; the whole earth shakes
and the thunder is so great that it COM
pletely browns the human voice
When l visited Niagara and told my
American friends about Gersoppa, they
replied with polite incredulity: We
never heard of Gersoppa' l replied:
Make your minds easy; the people at
Gersoppa have never heard Of Niagara
If Niagara could see Gersoppa she
would wrap her head in a mist
During a recent thunderstorm in
Berlin most curious effects were pro-
duced by the lightning on the persons
who were struck. Some of the strange
freaks performed are described as fol-
lows: "None Of the wounded has eX-
tensive burns; the wounds look as if
caused by a charge of grain shot. The
holes reach to the bone, and are sur
rounded by a web of blue and brown
lines. Many of the injured have quite
a number of such wounds in their feet
and ankles, while others got off with
skin covered with blue and brown
marks, as if beaten with a thick stick"
According to the Constanzer Zeitung
the sultan has a great affection for
| Switzerland. 81 love it, says the sui
| tan, beyond all the other states in
| Europe, and for a good reason-be
cause it sends no ambassador to Con-
stantinople to worry me with his
| grievances"
| There is a movement on foot in Paris
to place private automobiles under
more severe restrictions, which will in
clude a lowering of the maximum
speed now allowed, and the forbidding
of persons to run automobiles who do
not possess certificates as to their
| knowledge and ability. In a single
week eight or nine persons were killed
and as many as fifty wounded through
automobile accidents in or near Paris.
In every case these accidents were Ow
| ing to rapid travelling or to the ig
norance of those conducting the ma
chimes. An accident, the details Of
which were unknown at the time the
| latest mail advices were sent from
Paris, has happened to the marquis de
! Proacomfal, who left his Paris resi-
dence about a fortnight prior to the
occurrence in order to spend the heated
| term at his chateau at Chatillon. It
is believed that while the marquis, his
wife and four children were out in
family automobile the vehicle was up
set On the road and all the occupants
were seriously injured, one victim be-
ing fatally hurt The comte de Wall,
also of Paris, IS another motor car
victim. He was driving a span Of
horses near his chateau in Burgundy,
when the animals became frightened
by the noise of speeding automobile.
The count was thrown out and his
right leg broken.
A curious rose was found growing in
garden at Surrey, England. Through
the center Of the flower continuation
OF the stem grew up duly furnished
with many leaves. This shoot meas
ured five inches from the center Of the
flower to the top, and if left on the
plant it would have continued it's
growth. When plucked the bloom was
fully expanded.
Algeria, which was the scene last
winter of the disgracerul anti-Semitic
outbreaks led by the then mayor Of Al
giers, Max Regis, is now on the eve
of revolt owing to another cause
if one may believe a special article re-
Gently published in La Libre Parole