Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-30

ing women who fall on icy sidewalks:
Stand before her, saying, with a
smile and soothing gesture, Re
main perfectly still. please and then
step CALAMITY to the rear, put your
hands under her arms and raise her
with firm grip"
There has just been completed at
the Fulton engine works in Los
Angeles, Cal, huge telescope. minus
the two 36-inch lenses, for the Lick
observatory on Mount Hamilton. The
tube is 40 inches in diamter and 16
feet long. The instrument will go to
Chill and stay on some Andean peak
for three years for observations of the
heavens.
The telegraph operators in Wash
ington who each day and night are
compelled to send the name of Mrs.
Bonine, accused Of the mysterious
hotel murder. an almost endless
number of times, have devised a
way to shorten their work. The
mineral is now used for the last
syllable of Mrs Bonine's name. The
word as sent Geographically appears
"Bo-9."
To pain thousand cats is the
ambition of Mrs. c. NJ. Gardner of
Pitman Grove, n. J. Thus far she
has succeeded in turning out no less
than $50 portraits of her feline
models. Mrs. Gardner devoted the
first proceeds of her work to aid a
struggling church in Philadelphia, and
since then her cat pictures on velvet
cushions have found purchasers from
New England to California
A coin of considerable interest TO
numismatists has just been sold II
Germany. It is one Of the few coins
in the history Of the world which car
be accused of having a humorous side
, to it. In 1879 the Danes descended
tack proved unsuccessful. The in
| habitants Of the lows struck a media
to commemorate the occasion The
legend on the coin was as follows:
The King of Denmark has been tc
| Hamburg. If thou wouldst know
what he achieved look on the Other
side" 1t is needless to add that "the
other side" is a blank.
! The Louisiana purchase exposition
has not yet hit upon a satisfactor!
design for an emblem and the ex
ecutive committee has approved tn,
plan Of offering prizes amounting t.
$4,000 for the wished-for design
Artists and sculptors of national repu
| tation will be invited to submit the1
work, and $4,000 will be paid for tn,
successful emblem.
The enormity Of our salmon outpu
this year has played havoc with tn,
British fisheries, for in Canada tn,
law does not permit the use of traps
In Washington and Oregon trap!
are used, SO that the American
| fisheries are able to furnish salmon
to the Canadian canneries for two am
three cents fish, where the can
neries used to pay the Canadians from
10 to Is cents.
| ~ StA1 iouo lCoIuI " IL cLfSISIS IL
the high roads Of Norway is the grea
! number of gates-upward of 10000 il
the whole country-which have to b,
opened. These gates, which eithe
mark the boundaries of the farms o.
separate the home fields from tn
waste lands, constitute a considerable
! Inconvenience and delay to tn,
traveller, who has to stop his vehicle
and get down to open them.
A New York man is to open a place
for the training of dogs to lead thu
blind. He says the first thing is 4
take young pup and make him learl
how to go in d. straight line 1t take
two, and sometimes three, months t.
do this. Then he goes through
course Of couple of months longer
learning how to dodge wagons ant
things of that sort 1t is wonderful
how much you can teach one of thos,
little fellows, if he's got any brains
to start with.