Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-06

This season is so far a bad one
for theatrical people. The statement
is made that since October /, 141
companies have collapsed, leaving
actors stranded all over the country.
The secretary of the municipal re-
form league of Cincinnati estimates
that there are S400 penny-in-the-slot
machines in that city, and that at
least ss,0S0,600 is placed in them
every year.
M. Deraison, a French naval ensign,
has been dismissed from the fleet
for writing satirical novel in which
several of the leading officers were
criticised and caricatured in a very
sarcastic fashion.
William F. Glenn of Atlanta, Ga, in
contest, wrote 1907 legible words
on a postal card, consuming 70 hours
in the task. The record before this
feat was $4,000 words. The writing
was in ink and no lines crossed each
other.
At Montalto, in the province of
Genoa, in tearing down an old church
small underground room was found
full of art objects of the Roman time,
chiefly chiseled silver amphorae and
vases filled with gold and silver
coins.
In Los Angeles, Cal, there is an
ordinance imposing a fine of S. for al
lowing chickens to run on the streets
and other peoples property. The
success of the ordinance is such that
the city of Oakland will adopt one
similar to it.
The annual appropriation for the
expenses of the presidents office, in
Guiding the presidents salary, COM
pensauon for his clerks and secrc-
taries, the furnishings of the white
house and the maintenance of the
grounds, is less than 100000 a year
The receipts from stamps, postal
cards and envelopes at the New
York postoffice have more than
quadrupled in less than 80 years.
For 1901 they will aggregate about
100000. In 1873 they aggregated
So 900, 900, in round numbers.
Two of the 400 inscribed clay slabs
found by the German expedition in
| the center of Babylon are said to be
| pearls of Babylonian literature"
| One of them contains a great part Of
| the celebrated compendium which
explains the Babylonian cuneiform
characters
Under favorable conditions Of
peace the mortality among soldiers is
| wi q
ueath rate of only five in every 600
Compared with a soldiers life the
placid days even of clergyman are
full of danger, for his death rate is Il
| in LOO, or more than twice as great
as that of his militant brothe".
The Boston post-office Off ia's and
employees are taking credit 10 them
selves in the fact that there was not
! a single piece of mail remaining in
the office to be delivered after the
carriers had started out on their last
burdensome trip on Christmas morn
ing.
A physician believed to have been
the oldest member of the medical pro-
fession in England, died recently at
| Monkeaton, Northumberland, in the
person of Dr. John Warren Edgar.
He was born in September, 1903. He
took his degree in 1928, and continued
in practice until few years ago.
Scientist Loeb's statement that life
is an electro-dynamic principle has
been variously interpreted for the I'M
derstanding of the non-elect. The
Baltimore American says it means,
when you die, your trolly is off. y
The Chicago Tribune says that now
| We know man is a dynamo and not a
cook stove.
For several years Plummer McFar-
land has been wanted by the Mercer
county (Pa.) authorities on a charge
of illegal liquor selling. His house
was built on the Ohio-Pennsylvania
line, and whenever the Pennsylvania
officials attempted to arrest him he
would elude them by keeping in the
Ohio side of the house.
The city of Milwaukee is to have
a double-ended curfew law, by which
children under IA will not be permit
ted to be on the streets later than
at night or earlier than in the
morning. Between those hours they
must remain indoors, or be accom-
panied by adults. The local humane
society procured the passage of the
ordinance.
| The Dawson News prints a remark
able story about the prospecting tour
just completed, of H w. Bracken, u
miner, who had returned to Dawson
after six months in northern Alaska
According to Bracken's narrative
while in the mountains, about 1000
miles from Dawson, he and his serv.
ants assembled glacier 5000 feet nigh
There they found herd of mountain
sheep frozen in the ice. The theory is
: that some extreme midwinter blizzard
!, had caught them while stampedins
over the dome. Then the sheep mud
died together and persisted, the snow
gradually forming an icy coating.