Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The first English regatta took place
upon the Thames, between London
bridge and Millbank, June %, 1775.
A two-mile railroad bridge has been
recently completed across the Columbia
river, in the State of Washington.
A hen attains her best laying capacity
In her third year. She will lay in an
| average lifetime from 300 to 500 eggs
In the Yukon mining regions electric
lines for conveying power up to a dis
tance Of sixty miles have been installed
The clock at St Chad's, Shrewsbury,
has record pendulum, it's length being
twenty-five feet and the weight of the
ball 200 pounds.
The Church Of England bishopric Of
! Mackenzie River. in British North
America, is five times as large as the
United Kingdom.
Russia still buys nearly all her tea in
the form of tablets or bricks, probably
owing to the convenience Of transporta-
ton in early times.
The importation, of cigarettes in Ger
many was lessened for a short time only
| by the increase of the duty from 27O
marks to 100 marks.
Last year the 125 universities Of Eu-
rope were attended by DDS, 732 students.
Berlin was in the lead, with 1884 !;
next came Paris. with 12.9S5; Buda-
Pesth, with 6,551, and Vienna, with
6.2O5.
An old Judge of a New York court o:
lecord says that. if the law requiring
an attorney of the courts to be Of good
moral character was strictly enforced,
about ninety-two members of the bar
out Of each hundred would have to go
into some other business.
Sir Walter Hilyer has been appointed
expert adviser to the Chinese govern
ment Sir Walter was born in China
Of English parents and is a learned lin
guist. Ii Hung Chang once said that
he spoke and wrote Chinese as well as
the most highly educated mandarin.
Waldorf Aston. son of William Wal
dorf AstOr, is a candidate for a seat in
the British House Of Commons, to rep
resent the ancient city Of Plymouth,
from which came the founders Of New
England. The young man is a Con-
sentative or, as members of the party
are known by its opponents, a Tory.
Mrs. w. S. Peabody. of Denver, has
Il of do
National Park" This park contains the
most interesting remains of the cliff
jewellers that have been discovered, and
Mrs. Peabody is largely instrumental
in its being made a national park. Be
fore her marriage to Major W. S. Pea
body. a retired army officer, she lived
in Washington. where she held a place
In the Bureau of Ethnology.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, Of Salt
Lake City who was regularly elected
and served as delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention in Denver, is
the mother of nine children, and said to
have one Of the best managed house
holds in that city. She IS an ardent
advocate of equal suffrage, not because
it "broadens" the views of the modern
woman, but because it gives them the
power to protect and improve their
homes.
The vender of chickweed in Paris is
a well-known figure. The sellers are
numerous and their cry is one of the
most noteworthy of those that resound
in the morning in the streets of the
French capital. According to the Bulle-
tin DIES Halles there are about a hun
dred thousand canaries in the capital
and the daily consumption of chiclIweed
is estimated at $1,000. This sum looks
large, but it only allows cents for each
bird. A Paris contemporary points out
that a goodly portion of land between
Suresnes and COurbevole is set aside
for the cultivation of the weed
The Musical Home Journal of Lon
don tells a story of George Grossmith
and the income tax authorities Long
after his fathers death~the commission
ers, by mistake, sent the younger eros
smith a notice assessing the income of
the deceased at $4,000. Mr.. Grossmith
returned the document to the proper
quarter, with the following note writ
ten across it: 81 am glad to learn my
father Is doing so well in the next
world; $4,000 is great deal more
than he ever made in this. Kindly
forward this notice to his new address.
and remember me affectionately to
him"
George Oakley Trotten. Jr, of Wash.
ington, one of the American delegates
to the International Congress of Archi-
tects, delivered an address at the con-
vention, in the course of which, speak
ing of the development of skyscrapers
as a result of conditions in the United
States. he said: conditions are likely
to arise which will greatly influence
the architecture of the future To sail
through the air is no longer a mere pic.
ture of the Imagination. and the day
may not be far distant when the archi-
tect will have to devote his attention
to identifying not only the fronts of
buildings, but the roofs as well, so that
they may not offend the eyes of the
esthetic traveller through the sky"
An entirely new design in the con-
struction of electric lamps has been re-
Gently brought out, the novel feature
Of which is the entire absence, SO far
as the eye is concerned, of all wires
One-half of the transformer is fastened
to the underside of a table, while the
other half of the transformer Is incor-
porated in the base of the lamp stand
ard. BY proper transformer design. II
is possible to supply the lamps on the
standard with electrical energy when
both parts the transformer are
placed one above the other. The :: d.
vantages Of such an arrangement are
that no holes need be made in the tale
or coverings for the passage Of wires
while the lamp itself can be removed