Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-05
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


5000.
The machine exports to Japan have
increased in quantity five times in one
year
Some of the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers In
thirty hours.
A man can hire a horse In Japan.
keep two servants and live on the fat
of the land, all for a little over $50 a
month.
CALIFORNIA; output Of gold in 1907
fell off S2,0o4,52 as compared with
1906, while she produced See, 1872 worth
Of silver less.
The business of a well-known firm Of
New York opticians consists largely Of
the manufacture of spectacles for
horses to make them step higher.
There is an evident lack of harmony
In the interests of landlord and tenant
In New York City, for there is daily
average OF 1877 cases IN the courts grow
ing out Of the relation.
Consignments Of a new grape, "Dita
della Donna" or lady's fingers, have
reached Covent Garden, London. The
grapes are long and tapering and rath-
er sweeter than the ordinary variety.
Next to mining the greatest industry
Of South Africa Is sugar growing. The
amount Of money invested In this Is
ha >f hn
ent year is estimated at 10000 tons,
with a valuation Of about 500 ton.
Miss Mabel Sturtevant has Just been
admitted to pra ctice at the bar at JEFF
ferson City, Mo. Her record as stu
dent Is remarkable. She was gradu-
ated as valedictorian from the high
school. Later she won scholarships In
Baker university and in Kansas City
university and the curator's scholarship
In the University of Missouri. Since
enrolling In 1905 she has taken both
the law and the academic course and
will receive her degree next June.
A buccaneer was originally one Of
the French settlers in Hispaniola or
Haiti and Tortugas, whose occupation
was to hunt wild cattle and hogs, and
cure their flesh also q pirate, freeboot-
err; especially one Of the piratical adj
venturers, chiefly French and British,
who combined to make depredations on
the Spaniards in America In the sec
ond half of the seventeenth century !;
so-called because the first of the class
were Frenchmen driven from their bust
ness Of buccaneering by the Spanish
authorities of Hispaniola.
The promoters of the Institution for
the Blind In Vienna seem much pleas
ed with the result Of the first eight
months Of its existence. All the work
ers are blind, and they are engaged In
the manufacture of brushes and bas-
kets. Up to the present about $4,000
kronen worth Of orders have been ex-
ecuted, say something like $1,000, and
q fair profit has been realized. The so
ciety has now under consideration the
proposal to enlarge the workshops. The
wares are put upon the market In fair
competition with the product Of other
kindred factories.-London Globe.
Domestic servants are hard to get In
Buenos Ayres. A correspondent in that
city writes that the question Is ''the one
grave preoccupation of the women Of
the federal capital, and the staple of
conversation at the midday reunions"
In describing the servant Of Buenos
Ayres, the writer says: Cook, house
maid, waitress, chambermaid or nurse,
| individually and collectively, they are
the speck on the ripe fruit of domestic
| felicity, tie fly in the ointment, any
thing and everything you please that is
bad and slovenly and Enthusiastically,
everything save good servants"
Down in West Virginia it appears to
be expensive to sell a man more whisky
than he can carry internally and then
turn him adrift. The case Of Dinah J.
Pennington, suing for her children,
against c. D. Gillespie, saloonkeeper
near Hendricks, W. Va, was decided
recently by the jury awarding the plain
tiff $780, At previous term of court
Mrs. Pennington sued and obtained a
verdict for $500 for the loss of her hus-
band. Pennington was killed near the
saloon. and Gillespie was sued as the
man who sold the whisky on which
Pennington became intoxicated.
There are five types Of native Amer
lean apples; all Of them crabs. John
Smith wrote from Virginia that he had
found "some new crabapples, but they
were small and bitter" New England
ers made the same report. The Soulard
has the reputation Of being the largest
and best Of these natives. Sports OF
this variety, like the Matthews, are
| improved In size and quality. Selec-
tons might probably be made from
western thickets. Of even better sorts
than are now known. l believe the
blood of the wild crab is in some of
our best orchard apples.-Outing Mag
aZine
There are two varieties of apples
found wild In Europe. but the region
adjacent to the Caspian sea seems to
have been the origin of the apple as
known in the East. Charred pieces of
apples are found in the heaps Of refuse
left by the lake jewellers, who occupied
portions of Europe before any of the
present races. These people lived on
| platforms. laid over piles driven into
the water-probably to protect them
selves from animals in an era before
metal weapons were known. These spe-
cimens of apples are generally carbon
lied by heat, but they show perfectly
the internal structure Of the fruit
| Outing.
On their recent visit to Melbourne
Australia, the sailors of the American
round-the-world fleet saw the style and
title of a famous countryman, Capt
Freeman Cobb. 1t was he who in the
early fifties established the coaching
| firm of Cobb & Co, which became a
household word all over Australia,
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