Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-01
FOR THE CURIOUS.
Points of Much Interest About Mani.
fold Matters

cigarettes in london has developed the
tea cigarette, which is particularly
patronized by women. Tea cigarette:
are made of a coarse grade of tea
which has out little dust, and is com
posed of unbroken leaf. This is
dampened so that the leaves may be
stuffed into the paper cylinders, but
not sufficient to affect the papers. The
taste is said to be disagreeable at first
the effect on beginners being a sense
of onnression in the head and a desire
to take hold Of something.
A New Zealand writer tells Of a
strange dislike to the medical profess
sion among the working classes there
They never apply to doctor until all
other means have failed, and then as
sumo a hostile attitude, refusing to
give their symptoms, and expecting
thA doctor to find out what is the mat
te with them by simply looking at
| them.
In the year 1900 the approximate
7,t Of the British empire was 2,Ol2,-
i square miles, including all its con-
: entail and insular possessions, and
tue population of the empire was
81. AT 900. Of this area, 100000 square
miles was in India, with a population
of IA 900. 900. In 1889 the approximate
area of the empire had grown to
| 1856. sos square miles, and the popu-
| lation to 414.410,000. The area of the
| IL. nil in Gle &c
1,194,216 square miles; in Africa, 3,74S,-
| 22O square miles; in North America,
| 3.61S,65O square miles, and in Austria
| liza, 3175,320 square miles. The pop
ulation of the United Kingdom itself
| is only 100000.
A london doctor has announced his
| belief that in diagnosing a patients
| case it is essential to observe his walk
as to feel his pulse. From recent in
vestigations in this branch of what
we may venture to call pedestrial Their
| apeutics, it appears that person in
vigorous and robust health walks with
| his toes pointed to the front, and that
as health begins to go the toes turn
gradually out, and a perceptible bend
appears in the knees.
President Mckinley conformed to
official etiquette in declining to assist
in the ceremonies attending the well
come to Admiral Dewey in New York
harbor. An army or naval official calls
upon the president, the latter never
making a call except to board ship
for a cruise or for sightseeing. The
official welcome to the hero of Manila
bay by the president of the United
States properly took place at the white
house. and the admiral had to call
there for that purpose. That is the
course of procedure prescribed by the
red tape department, and it was strict
~ adhered to.
There is plan afoot for combina
ton funeral building in Kansas City,
where the remains of friends may be
cremated and where florists, 'monu-
ment makers and urn makers may all
be found under one roof. AS an adj
junct, there is to be an automobile
combination hearSe and carriage so
that the obsequies may be conducted
in up-to-oate fashion throughout. For
the destruction of the body liquefed
air is to be used, and it is thought the
operation can be carried out inoffen-
sively and with the least possible sor-
row to the survivors.
Allen Risk of Hartford, Conn, well
known as driver of race horses, had
a miraculous escape from fatal acct
dent at the Stafford Springs fair. In
the fourth heat of the 2:40 class, in
which he drove Mocking Bird and had
won two heats, he was run into by
another horse just after the start.
Mocking Bird became tangled in hel
| hoppies and turned a complete SOmer-
sault, sulky, driver and all, throwing
Risk several feet. The sulky was
| broken. but both horse and driver
were uninjured. Distance having been
waived he was allowed to start in the
| next heat, receiving an ovation on ap-
pearance and again on handily winning
! the heat and race.
| There is a popular character in Pen
dleton, Oregon, who has a slight i'm
pediment in his speech. He talks elo-
quently, but he stammers some. He
recently located in Pendleton because
he admires Missourians, and he has
found the right kind here. The other
day he went to a telephone to talk
to friend in Portland. When the talk
was finished the Portland man said:
well, old man, you seem to talk
better since you went to Pendleton.
You do not stutter anything like as
much as you did"
NO" said the Pendleton man, clear
and straight as a bell. ga man cannot
afford to stutter through a telephone
when to talk costs IS cents minute. p"
Professor Tuition, formerly a lieu
tenant in the army, but for the last few
years professional prophet of the end
of the world, is out with a new pre-
diction He says that the infant son of
the duke of York is destined to gather
the Jews from the four quarters of the
earth and to unite them under his ban
ner.
EX-CONFEDERATES IN MEXICO.