Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Island were divided equally between
its inhabitants each Individual would
own 5000 worth, according to the as
sessed value.
Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing a
number of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the subject of Food and
Nourishment," declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi-
ately after they have married is be-
cause their wives give them their favor
lite dishes on every possible OCCASION
London Standard.
Vegetable milk is used in Japan.
It is made from the sofa bean The
liquid is exactly like cows milk in ap-
pearance, and in taste cal hardly be
distinguished from it To make it the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
in water. Some sugar and phosphate
of potassium are added, and it is boiled
down till it has the consistency of con-
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison Parkma1, of EN-
poria. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing in Chile He brought the seed
to America, and in the late seventies
he went to Emporia to live. He sowed
alfalfa in a farm which he bought and
the plant prOspered. 1t was slow in
gaining popularity in Kansas, but is
now one Of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
by law to take a weekly half-hOliday,
and there must be no Sinking the obi
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
half-hOliday, remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear of it and the proprie-
tor Of the hotel had to appear in court
where he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals of the Confederate army. They
| are Gen. A. 2. Stewart, ranking lieu
te1ant-general Of the COnfederacy, of
| Biloxi, Miss, and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty sixth birthday
anniversary on October 7 last. Gen
eral Buckner was candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
| ticket with Palmer in 1896. He was
eighty-five on April last.
The German Emperor has a welN
equipped pottery which brings him in
$4,000 a year. The King of Wurtem-
| berg owns two large hotels which yield
him a yearly income of some $4,000.
The King Of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Nielsen, and the
Regent of Lippe Detmoid runs a large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs. The King of Servia
| is said 10 own a barber shop and an
apothecary shop, in addition to which
heholds an agency for motor cars.
once had q cat that did rat n
| remarkable rafting feat He stalked
| two young rats on the caves of a low
| fat stable roof, and caught one in the
y
elderberry tree just below. Bob, how
ever, not satisfied with the one, grasped
| it firmly in his mouth. and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
in his mouth and the other in his paws,
and promptly killed them both.-The
Scotsman.
Instances of desertion from the army
in Mexico are very rare and for the
best of reasons" said Senior Jose de
Minaldez, of Nueva Leon. The reason
lies in the almost sure capture of the
fugitive and the certainty that he Will
get not one but numerous foggings on
his bare back. These lashings are done
| in the presence of the comraSas of the
deserter, and when the men see how
great is the suffering Of the miserable
wretch who tried in vain to quit his
military obligations, they are forced
to conclude that it is better to stick to
the army than undergo such a terrible
ordeal i"-Baltimore American.
The earliest mention of corn in Kan.
sas is found in the account of Coron-
ADDS expedition in 1541-'42. Prof. Will
liston found charred corn in the ruins
of prehistoric Indian pueblos in Scott
County, estimated by him to be at least
two and a half centuries old. In some
of the rooms there was found charred
corn to a depth of five or six inches.
The first mention of growing corn in
Kansas of which there is any record is
in the narrative of the expedition of
| Bourgmont, commander of the French
colony of Louisiana. Bourgmont found
the Kaw Indians cutivating corn on the
present town site of Donipha1 in 1924
A strange story comes from one OF
the Balkan states, where commercial
morality is still in its infancy. At a
recent banquet given at the house OF
the prime minister a distinguished dip.
lomat complained 10 his host that the
Minister of Justice, next to whom he
was sitting, had taken his watch. The
prime minister said: "Ah. he shouldn't
have done that. l will get it back for
you" Sure enough, toward the end OF
the evening the watch was returned to
its owner. And what did he say?'
asked the guest "Sh-h! He does not
know l have got it back" said the
prime minister.-Philadelp Record
The passenger traffic through the
Simplon tunnel has iuctuated greatly
and was largest in August, 1906, the
third month of its operation. In that
month 42,622 passengers were carried
through the tunnel. The number fell
to 1855 II November of that year, and
to TO- 106 in the following January. The
largest number in any month since has
been $4,000. The freight traffic has
grown rapidly, but is still small. The
largest, in 1906, was $3.50 tons in DC
| toher For the first FIVE months of 1907