Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-03
soEETHING FOR EVERYBODY


new clothes pressing device.
In a new electric device for drying
the hair with an air blast a resistance
can be switched in for heating the air.
At Sholapur, British India, a factory
/ is successfully making matches with
sticks of a peculiarly stiff form of ma
tive grass.
A French engineer has invented a ro-
tary rudder by which he says yes
sci of any size may be turned in its
own length.
An Italian physician has discovered
that carrots act as an intestinal anti
septic, ard will cure many forms Of
digestive disorders.
A species of ant in Australia builds
It's nests along a north and south line
SO accurately that a traveller may dl-
rect his course by their aid.
In connection with the extermtna-
ton of rats from Honolulu, an official
Of the Marine Hospital Service is pre-
pairing to develop a breed of cats Of
! AlSh ldL-NoLNLllIS IbAiAIs"
| Hamburg is the only one of the three
| leading seapOrts on the northern coast
of Europe which shows an increase in
business during the first eight months
of this year as compared with 1907.
Many workmen are planning to leave
| the island of Samos, in the Mediterra-
mean, forty-three miles southwest from
! Smyrna, because of the introduction Of
! cigarette machines, which permit
daily output of 100000 cigarettes.
A young professor of mathematics.
! immense at mathematics and games,
dangerous at chess, capable of Haydn
on the violin, once said to me, after
listening to some chat on books: Yes
! | must take UP literature" as though
saying: Il was rather forgetting lit
erature. However, I've polished off all
these other things. I'll have a shy at
! literature nOw."-T. P.'s Weekly.
WI Kyuin Wilmington Koo, a Chinese,
has been chosen to edit the Daily Spec
| tatOr at Columbia University. 1t is
said to be the first time that a Chi
nese student has been placed at the
head Of an American college paper.
Editor KoO, who is only twenty-five
years old. is slender chap and is
known throughout the university as
master of pure English. He speaks With
out accent. knows more about Ameri-
can politics than the average American,
is debater of wonderful ability, and
one Of the most popular men in the uni
versity.
Sam Shubert used to tell this: "A
rustic came to Buffalo and bought
ticket for the theater. Through blum
dering about the doors he found him
self in the adjoining billiard saloon.
Seeing a novel performance going on,
with a big crowd witnessing the same,
he settled himself in a chair and pa
tiently watched the play for an hour
or two. Having Satiated his appetite
he left the room, and going out in the
street was asked if the show was over
Over? Oh, no. he replied; it's a-gOin'
on yet. They are knockin' away like all
the world in thar"
A French medical man advises peo-
pie to drink buttermilk for long life
He says that the Tactic acid attacks
and dissolves every sort of earthly de-
post in the blood vessels, keeping the
veins and arteries so supple and free
running that there can be no clogging
UP; and hence there is no deposit or
chalky matter around the joints, or Of
poisonous waste in the muscles. 1t is
the stiffening and hardening of the
blood vessels which bring on old age.
Buttermilk is likely to postpone it ten
or twenty years if freely drunk. A
quart a day should be the minimum,
the maximum according to taste and
opportunity.
Out in Burmah and the far East,
where sandalwood is worth its weight
in silver, the pestiferous ant is a valu-
able assistant to the loggers of the pre-
cious timber. The hard and fragrant
heartwood alone has value, but as the
tree grows this valuable heart is over
laid by a soft and worthless layer,
forming two-thirds of the trunk. When
tree is feIled and cut into lengths the
loggers let the timber lie. At once the
ants begin work upon the soft wood,
which is sappy and sweet enough to
than month in the case of the largest
butts-the ants deliver the heartwood
free of all worthless sap wood
Washington Post.
An English scientist gives some inter
esting figures regarding the occurrence
and distribution of radium in the
earth. The total amount of radium in
the ocean is reckoned to be 10000 tons.
Regarding the sediments accommodating
in the sea, it is found that those most
slowly formed exhibit the greatest Ia
dio-activity. If all the deposits in the
sea were as rich in radium as the gio-
bigerina oooze the total amount of this
element in them would be 100000
tons. With regard to the rate OF
change of uranium, by which radium
is produced, it is calculated that the
amount present in the earth 100000, 600
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than now.
Under the headline, "Coureids Re
tirement," the Berliner Tageblatt says
"Conried's fame as manager reached
its zenith in the winter of 1904, when
despite the curse of Bayreuth and in
the face of the war council, he took
possession of 'Parsifal.' The Presby
terrain bishop CD who wept over the
offense to religion helped to advertise
it. The rich were seized with .Parsi-
fal' fever and had to see the perform.
ance. The receipts ran up TO 2S0,0OG
marks, and the back stair dramatists
wrote that Bayreuth had been outdone
The same business capacity was shown
by Conreid when he produced on the