Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Est ueatn rate are Stockholm, Christian
ia, Berlin and London.
Although the house fly lays eggs the
flesh fly. better known as the blue bot
tie" produces living larvae about fifty
at time.
parchment paper is made by dipping
ordinary unsized paper for FIVE or six
seconds in dilute sulphuric acid, and
then washing.
The three-year-old son and heir o!
the Gar Nicholas is insured for $780,.
600, and is said TO pay the highest pre-
MUM in the world.
The electrical equipment of the Cum
ard liner Mauretania includes over go
miles Of cables and more than 5000 15-
candlepower lamps.
The Igorrote provinces of the Philip
pines have been combined and will be
managed by one governor and sub-gov-
| ernor. Bontoc will be the capital.
Formosa, with its population Of
100000, is running the Philippines
neck and neck in the export of sugar.
Each exported a value Of 100000 in
| 1907.
Coal has been found in nearly every
island of the Philippine archipelago,
but only 4,545 tons were produced last
year. In many places 1t is associated
with petroleum.
A railroad section laborer in North
Carolina has patented a tie-tamping
machine, practical tests of which have
shown that on both old and new road
beds it will do the work of fifty men.
The Kansas-O Oklahoma oil field took
the lead for production in 1907, push
ing California back to second place. II
linois, formerly ninth In the list of
states, attained third place for the first
time.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, neurologist,
poet, essayist and novelist, has been
elected to a foreign fellowship in the
Royal Society of England. The cleo
ton is one of the choicest distinctions
to which scientist can aspire, and II
has come to only three other Americans
now living, Alexander Agassiz, natural
st, and George W. Hill and Simon
Sewcomb, astronomers.
When the American feet was at
Fagga Wagga in Australia, there was
given a banquet at which a labor mem
Der of Parliament alluded to the Amer
lean navy as the greatest in the
world" Then a senator jumped up and
vehemently protested against anybody
cracking up the American fleet at the
expense of the British" adding that
the British could click any three other
fleets on the face of the earth" After
that patriotic declaration the senator
started singing Rule, Britannia" in
which the whole company joined.
The club women of Chicago are puz-
zled over the question Of lawful cos
tune for working women. They point
out that only little while ago We
nan in Chicago was arrested and fined
for wearing trousers while earning an
honest living as a hod carrier Now
they are informed that there has been a
ruling in the post Office department
holding that women employed as mail
carriers must wear trousers. There is
a movement on foot to send q delega-
ton to Washington for the purpose of
consulting President Roosevelt ON the
subject.
It Is told of the youth of a young
German prince, many years ago, that
| upon one occasion, his tutor having
been changed, the newcomer in exam
ming the young prince asked: Can
your highness tell me how much is nine
times twelve?" "Seventy-two," replied
the prince, with royal promptness. The
tutor paled, but soon recovered his
equanimity. Permit me to state to
your highness that your highness's for
mer tutor, whom | had the honor to
succeed as an instructor to your royal
highness, appears to have been a per-
son Of rather limited capabilities" he
said.
Landor, the poet, was at the same
time the most violent and brutal and
most delicate and sensitive Of men. He
adored flowers. The gardens of his
beautiful villa at Florence were full
of flowers and the poet walked among
them daily, never plucking them, only
bending over them reverently to adore
their loneliness and their perfume. His
cook one day served him a wretched din
Ner, and in his rage the poet threw the
man out of the window into a bed of
splendid roses. AS the cook writhed
with a broken leg below, Lander, from
his window, exclaimed in a horror
stricken voice: "Good gracious, I for
got the roses"
At Yorkshire inn there is a pianist
my song that any singer wishes to
sing He can not read note of music,
yet, in the local phrase, he can play
owt." Recently, however, he met with
an unexpected check. A new volunteer
hummed over the air, but the pianist
failed to get the key. It's try it
again." he said; and they tried it again.
Still it was Of no use. A third trial
brought no better results. Then the
pianist turned on the singer In anger
and said: "Sitha, Awe tried tina on
t white 'uns Awe tried tina on t.
black 'uns an Awe tried tina on t.
black and white 'uns mixed. It's no
use this singing between t. cracks"
Prof. Simon Newcomb, astronomer
has interesting views with respect to
the problems Of aviation. He rules out
the possible use Of a dirigible balloon
for any more serious military purpose
than accommodating. With respect to
the aeroplane, such as is employed by
the Wright brothers, he has little faith
IN its solving the problem of air fight
He shows that the heavier-than-air ma
chimes can not be stopped in midair for
repairs and mo engine yet built by hui
man skill, much less the delicate motors