Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



Korean bachelors wear skirts and
are not promoted TO trousers until they
marry.
The electrical house Of Siemens &
Holske, in Prussia, employs more than
$4,000 men.
Mail orders for merchandise are
practically unknown in China and the
East in general.
Plans are making for supplying
Cairo, Egypt, with a modern sewerage
and drainage system in the near fu-
ture.
Until few years ago. Moham-
medans were greatly opposed to pho
Biography, but now they have taken it
up seriously, and some photographers
of real merit are found among them.
A mill at Great harrington, Mass,
was shut down in a most unusual man
ner few weeks ago, when water bugs,
crowding into the space around the en-
gine-stop push button, produced short
circuit and the consequent stoppage.
Consul General Robert ]. Wynne, of
London, reports that before a commit
tee of the British House of Commons
interesting details were given Of the
scheme for establishing in Ireland a
new electric supply generated by peat
gas, the first of the kind in Great
Britain.
In Spain about the only kind of plow
in use is a primitive wooden affair
with one handle and a tongue. To this
is hitched a pair Of small oxen or Of
mules yoked up like oxen. The driver
rests his right foot on a rear extension
to keep the plow from jumping out Of
the ground, steadying himself by touch
to lose his balance.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward at a women's
luncheon in New York said Of the lit
erary style of popular novelist: 1T
is an insane style. 1t makes me think
Of the schoolgirl novelist who wrote !:
He sprang ardently forward, but a
look of soft entreaty from one OF
Pearls eyes and a glance Of warning
darted from the other in the direction
of her aunt forced him regretfully
back into his chair
Senator La Toilette says Of tie mil
lionaires who complain about the harm
that they and their affairs have suf-
fered from governmental attacks:
"These winners, with only themselves
to blame, remind me of bad little
boy. He ran bowling to his mother
oh, ma, Johnny has hurt me" And
how did bad Johnny hurt mothers little
darlingY Why, l was a-goin' to punch
him in the face and he ducked his head
and | hit my knuckles against the
WALL"
1.-THE late Bishop Fowler" said
Buffalo Methodist, had the happiest
knack of illustrating, with one lumi-
nous sentence, traits of character,
faults, villainies. Once, l remember,
talking of gambling houses and the lit
tie mercy shown to ruined players.
Bishop Fowler, with a grim smile,
said: The men who took Jonah's
money were the same, remember, who
threw him overheard. Things like that
still happen
Tampa, Fla, was the background of
Golding's narrative of THE Young Ma
rooners." 1t and its surroundings were
wilderness. Tampa is to-day the bust
ness metropolis of Southern Florida.
Last year it made apd sold 2S9,OOO,OOO
cigars, the largest number of clear Ha-
city in the world. 1t has 165 cigar fac
tories, employing 1000 people, with a
pay roll of nearly $10,OOOOO0 year.
and an output of $20,OOOOO0. The pop
ulation is about $4,000.
"Servility will disappear" said Fred
erick Van Eeden, the Dutch poet and
economist, with the disappearance of
our present unjust social system. Ser
vility-what a despicable thing it is!
A young Dutch bookkeeper lunched one
day in Amsterdam with his employer,
a millionaire tulip dealer Suddenly
the millionaire shifted. But, my dear
Hans he said to the bookkeeper, I'm
afraid your egg is bad oh, SIR
murmured the servile clerk, flushing
deeply, 'really-er-some parts of it
are very good, indeed"
In humorous defense. of outspoken
and frank methods Senator Tillman
says: These people who always keep
calm fill me with mistrust. Those that
never lose their temper l suspect. He
who wears, under abuse, an angelic
smile is apt to be a hypocrite. An
old South Carolina deacon once said
to me with a chuckle: Keep yo' tenn
pah, son. Don't yo' quarrel with no
angry pusson. A soft answah am allus
best Hits commanded, an fuhther-
mo-, sonny, hit makes 'em maddahn'h
anything else yo' could say"
Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, the ac-
tress, tells this of a sailor she once
met: There was ship in the offing
and the salt took from his pocket
collapsible telescope. He extended it,
and then babe me have a look at the
ship. What fine telescope 1 said.
after l had looked duly. BY Tar, yer
right there said the old salt, heartily.
There amt no finer spyglass in the
world That glass, lady, was give me