Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-14

NooueH car Is out OF SeTFiSe ny iceaooiI
of repairs six to one as compared with
the metal ones
Cape Colony. South Africa, has
deficit Of S950OOO0, accumulated dur
ing the last four years, and which, says
Mr. Merriman the premier, will likely
be 100000 by the end Of 1908. The
unpaid Government railway debt brings
the present true deficit up to about
S15,OOO,OOO.
The Chinese have undertaken to
nurse their forests. and the officials of
the Celestial government have engaged
q Japanese expert from Toxic to act
as head master for the proposed school
Of forests at Mukden for a term of four
years. with two Chinese as his assist
ants.
Prof. d. G. Jackson of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, has been
retained by the Massachusetts, highway
commission to make a report regarding
the telephone situation with special
reference to the practicability of a re-
duction in rates and a higher efficiency
Of service.
'Neatness is essential on the links"
said Ell. J. Whigham, the golfer, at
dinner in Chicago. "At Shinnecock
Hills one day l played behind two
voung and pretty girls. Overtaking
them, I heard the younger say: How
many holes on this course, Afleen|
Nineteen, dear said Aileen, including
the one in your stocking"
simultaneously with the organization
Of a pigeon postal service in the French
Kongo, where the climate makes both
ordinary and wireless telegraphy i'm
possible, it is announced that the Brit
ish government has replaced the pigeon
post by wireless telegraphy in both the
naval and the colonial service, and that
this years budget contains no appro-
priation for pigeons.
O'Oonnell had got man off at one
time for highway robbery and at an
other for burglary; but on the third
occasion, for stealing eoasting brig.
ed too great for even his powers of
cajolery. However, he made out that
the crime was committed on the high
seas and obtained an acquittal. The
prisoner lifted up his hand and eyes to
heaven and exclaimed: May the
Lord long spare you, Mr.. O'Connell-
to met"
The reason why the stomach and in
testines do not digest themselves was
once thought by Weinland a German
experimenter, to be that they defend
themselves by anti-enzymes, or anti
ferments. DR.. Nandor Klug of Buda-
Pesth now reports these anti-ferments
not to be found, but that the muln
mucous membrane resists the digestive
action of the trysin and the gastric
juice. The digestive organs, therefore,
protect themselves by the mucin they
secrete.
The population Of Japan to-day is
just about 100000. The exact fig
ures for 1907 are not yet available. but
the estimates just published are based
on the average growth of the last thirty
years and may be taken as fairly &C.
curate. In each of the five-year periods
for which figures are shown, over the
past twenty-five years, the population
has increased, roughly speaking, by
100000 To-day the estimate is
that there are 49,267,744 native-born
japanese IN the territory ruled over by
the Mikado.-PalF Mall Gazett
When the members of the British In
stitution of Electrical Engineers paid
visit of inspection to northern Italy
lately. they We're interested in a device
used to protect the overhead transmits
sion lines of an electric traction sys-
tenn from lightning discharges. The
device consists of jets of water, which
form a permanent earth at the Mon
begno generating station on the valtel-
lima line. The electric resistance of the
jets was said to be sufficient to pre-
vent serious loss of current, while not
too great to enable them to serve for
protection against lightning.
1t is said that moon blindness in
horse is caused by wolf teeth'-tyyo
small surplus teeth just in front of the
first upper pre-molars, one on each side
of the upper Jaw. An authority says:
THE wolf teeth do not cause eye dis
ease or any other harm, and usually
are not discovered until he eye disease
appears. The eye trouble is periodic
ophthalmia' (moon blindness), which is
hereditary and incurable. Thousands
upon thousands of horses suffer from
this eye disease, yet have not a wolf
tooth in their heads. The important
matter to remember in connection with
periodic ophthalmia is not the signif-
canoe of the wolf TOOTH but the ne
cessity and Importance of rejecting
from breeding operations all afflicted
with periodic ophthalmic, or cataract.
which results from repeated attacks"