Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY

OF all the gold in the possession Of
man 10 per cent is in the shape Of
coin.
A statue Of Liebig is tt be erected
in Darmstadt, where be was born i'll
1903.
British India has s6,912 miles of tel
egraph and cable wires, which are
worked at a very good profit
a company has been formed in Eu-
rope for the purpose of erecting and
operating frst-class hotels in various
cities and towns of Greece.
The Molteno (Cape Colony farmers
have hit upon a novel plan for dealing
with locusts. A farmer has imported
some eagle kites for the purpose Of
soaring locusts from the crops.
Sault Ste. Marie canal traffic for the
season Of 1907 reached a grand total
OF 5s,217,214 tons, which shows a net
increase Of y per cent, or 6,466,134
tons, as compared with that of the sea-
son Of 1905.
Maine and Missouri and North Da-
kota are soon to vote upon constitu-
tional amendments ~embodying the in
itiative and referendum for State mat
tiers, and Maine proposes to extend this
right TO municipal corporations.
An acre is 6,272,640 square inches.
An inch of water on an acre is, there
fore, 6,272,640 cubic inches. That
amount, at 227 cubic inches to the gall
lon, equals $4,000 gallons, or 100000
pounds, or 100 tons. An inch of rain
is, in other words, rain falling at the
rate Of 100 tons to the acre.
The area Of Maryland is 1920
square miles, 1850 square miles Of
which are water. There are seven
States in the Union which have a
smaller area, viz. every New England
State except Maine, and New Jersey
and Delaware. The gross area of none
of these States equals the land area OF
Maryland.
For the first decade of the twentieth
century one of Canada's greatest ac
complishments will be the completion
of the Dominion's second t~ransconti-
mental railway. The Grand Trunk has
finished its prairie section from Winni-
peg to Edmonton. From Edmonton to
the coast. 700 miles, through the noun
tains, three years more will be needed.
The work is exceedingly difficult and
expensive.
The wireless telephone IS being
steadily pushed toward commercial
practicability by the inventors. The
work Of the French naval ~lieutenants,
Colin. Jeance and MERCER, and Mr..
Lee De Forest, Of this city, seems al
ready to have opened the ether to wire
less converse, Of an experimental ma
ture, over distances Of from 300 to 500
miles, and Mr.. Poulsen, Of Copenhagen,
has promised a transatlantic wireless
telephone soon.-New York Globe.
A Florida Judge ruled that mullet
were not fish, but birdS because they
had gizzards. The customs officials in
New York ruled that frogs were fisl
and must pay duty as such. A game
warden in Maine gained popularity by
declaring oysters were game and so ac-
quired Jurisdiction. And now m a
decision from the custom house that
bagpipes are toys and cannot be classed
as musical instruments for purposes Of
Observation-Disclosures Times-Union
In 1899 the production of fermented
liquors in the United States upon
which taxes were paid was 36,697,63 IS
barrels, including 116,520 for export.
In 1906 the production had increased
to "a, 724.553 barrels, and in 1908 to
IS. q $50 barrels. In 1899 the United
States internal revenue tax was paid
for consumption on S3,S19,314 gallons
of distilled spirits other than fruit
brandy. In the nine years to 1908 tie
amount of distilled spirits withdrawn
for consumption had increased to 49,
S0S,402 gallons.
As figured out by London Answers,
the annual cost of running a battle
ship of the Dreadnought class is $780,
coo a year, Of which 100000 goes to
the officers for salaries and wages.
Ammunition in time of peace costs $780,
600 a year, the expense of necessary
target practice being very heavy. Vic
tualing, fuel, etc, make up the balance.
Estimating the original cost Of these
ships at $7,5O0,OOO, and allowing a life
of twenty years, the cost from the first
draft plans to the sale Of the vessel
as Junk reaches q total of ST., 100000.
Twenty-four years Is a long time for
a ship to be away from its home port,
but that is the record Of a whaling
bark that has Just locked in New Bed
ford. The vessel left New Bedford in
1884 for q voyage around Cape Horn
and since has been engaged most Of the
time in whaling in northern ATTITUDES.
The snip brings news that the whaling
ships In the Atlantic are generally max
ing heavy catches this season. The
whaling business seems to have expert
enced d revival, and with this New
Bedford is developing new Importance
which presents some likeness to its old
time activities as a whaling port
Springfield Union.
Baseball is q chronic complaint OF
Senator Crane. When he was Govern
or of Massachusetts he took his entire
staff out for q drive and surprised them
BY having the carriages pull up at an
open field and announcing there was to
be a baseball game. Two mines were
chosen and the game began. Pretty
soon somebody came along the road.
what teams are they?' he asked one
Of the drivers. why. hat man pitch
ing is the Governor of Massachusetts"
the driver replied. The one catching
is the Lieutenant Governor. The first
baseman is a Congressman, the second
baseman is the Judge Advocate Gen
eral." Say" interrupted the passer-
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