Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-10
SoMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


There is an average Of seven car col
lisfons a day ON the steam, subway, ele-
waited and surface railways Of New
| York.
During the summer season the Dor
ough Of Richmond, New York City, dou-
bles its population on every pleasant
Sunday, but only for that one day.
The newspaper was invented by a
Paris physician, who, finding his visits
welcome whenever he brought any news
or gossip, applied to Cardinal Richeliau
for a patent to publish the Paris Ga
zette in 1922.
For the last fourteen years a brood
| OF tomtits has been reared each spring
in the letter box at Uttoxeter work
| mouse. Since The parent birds first took
| possession Of the box they have Matched
200 eggs.--London Standard.
| Several German firms lin Eibenstock
and Zwickau) have purchased large
! forest sections in the vicinity of Chiojd-
nj, Roumania, where they propose to
erect sawmllls and ship from there an-
nually about 10000 cubic meters Of
lumber to Italy, France and Germany.
Negotiations among the German man.
ufacturers Of wall paper have finally
led to the organization of a trust. The
seven leading manufacturers who have
already Joined have combined annual
production Of about S2,620,OOO. The
| total output of wall paper in Germany
is estimated at 100000 per annum.
Miss Jean Gordon, who has won a
national reputation by her work IN be-
half of women and children, done as
factory inspector in Louisiana, is not
| to be reelected to her office. 1t is as
! serted that she has incurred the enmity
OF the manufacturers and the politi-
clans and in spite of the protests Of the
women Of the State she will be turned
out Of office
The blood of the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nese as medicine for all kinds of all
ments. Whenever a party Of hunters
are successful in shooting a rhinoceros
they are less numerous than they
used to be-the native beaters carefully
draw off the blood and bring it to Ran
| COON stored in hollow bamboos. The
precious liquid is worth it's weight in
silver.-London Standard.
The sheath skirt is not new in Bur-
nah, where the women wear a garment
split to the waist, now concealing. now
revealing" The men wear the same
sarong, unsplft. In Cochin and Travan-
core, India, the reputable native wom-
en- wear nothing above the waist except
noserings and earrings; the Syrian
| Christians wear jacket and a comical
little Cochin tall" something like the
obi Of Nippon, on their skirts.-New
York Press.
Pear-shaped balloons are the fashion
In Belgium. The point is upward, the
base of the balloon Is spherical. 1t is
claimed that balloons of this shape
pierce the air vertically with far great
er speed than the ordinary spherical
balloon. Consequently they are stead
|
vents the accumulation of moisture or
snow on the surface, which frequently
weighs a balloon down and destroys it's
power to rise.
Though Russia has much coal and
iron, her industries are quite undevel-
oped. Her industrial backwardness may
be gagged from the fact that with a
territory and a population twice as
| large as those of the United States,
Russia produces only one-tenth Of the
| quantity of iron produced in the Uni
ted States, and that she raises only
one-twentieth of the quantity of coal.
Agriculturally and industrially, Russ I
is a medieval country.-New York
Evening Post.
DR.. H. c. Stevens, of Seattle reports
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by indirect vision ordi-
narily appear larger in the right half
| of the field of vision than in the left.
| With a smaller number of persons this
is reversed. From these facts he de-
duces a possible origin of right and
left-handedness observation-disclosures, or
It's reverse, develops at about the age
Of seven months. DR.. Stevens suggests
that they may be due to the phenomena
Of vision just described. By a reflex
effect the infant reaches after the OBJ
ject best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, super
visor Of the reading course for farmers
wives conducted by the Agricultural
College Of Cornell University. believes
that there should be a woman Judge in
Juvenile courts where girls are tried.
She bases her opinion on personal OBJ
seryation of various juvenile courts,
notably those in New York city. She
believes that there are many questions
which girls would answer truthfully If
there was a woman on the bench, but
which they now invariably lie about
when questioned by a man. This is
one Of the very few instances In which
Miss Van Rensselaer, believes segrega-
ton Of the two sexes would be benei-
cial
In the total number Of mammals,
birds, reptiles and amphibians (4,O34)
on exhibition, the New York Zoologi-
cal Park stands to-day at the head of
all the geological parks and gardens
Of the world. Berlin comes next with
total Of 3,149. The area Of the New
York Geological Park In land and
water embraces 246 acres. OF walks
and roads there are about eight miles,
and Of fences ten and one-half miles
The maintenance force of the park,
constantly on duty, embraces al per.
sons. The number of visitors In 1907
was 273,046--nearly one-third of the
entire population of the metropolis OF
the American continent OF this mum
Der it is estimated that quarter of a
million were from outside of New York