Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


1t has been estimated that the eye
lids of the average man open and close
no fewer than 100000 times each
year.
Electric railways Of the United States
have attained trackage of over 40.O0p
miles, nearly one-fifth that of the steam
lines.
A company is being formed at Belle
fonte, Pa, to manufacture brick, the
chief Ingredient of which will be fur
mace Stag.
Great Tom is the name of the bell,
weighing about 1900 pounds, in the
tower of the Tom gate of Christ
Church, Oxford. 1t is tolled every
night at ten minutes past 9, closing
time.
A Turkish women's paper, with a
woman as editor and with women as
contributors, has been in existence for
several years. 1t informs its readers
that "any contribution that is in ac-
cordance with Mussulman faith and
with Ottoman morals will be grateful
~ received"
Mrs. ". W. Crannell is the editor Of
new quarterly, the organ of the New
York Association Opposed to the
Further Extension of Suffrage to Won-
en-. The new publication contains only
four small pages. Miss Harriet May
Mills edits the News Letter, the official
organ of the New York Woman's
Suffrage Association, a magazine with
twenty-odd pages and a subscription
list said to be larger than that of many
daily papers.
1t was telegraphed from Sydney that
the American sailors we're much at
tracted by the novelty Of pretty bar
maids" The barmaids of Sydney and
Melbourne are the prettiest in the
world They are mostly recruited from
Tasmania, the insular state of the COM
monwealth, which has been nicknamed
the ''Circassia Of the Colonies" on ac-
count of the surprising loneliness of its
daughters, several of whom have mar
ried titled Englishmen.
Miss Annie S. Peck, of Providence
R. l., who has just succeeded in climb
ing Mount Huascan in the Andes, is a
graduate of Michigan University, class
Of 1873; studied in Germany and
Athens, and was for a time professor
of Latin in Smith College She is a
believer in woman suffrage and declares
that if one woman has perseverance to
climb to the top of a 26,O00-foot noun
tain, the sex in general ought to be
able to get the right to vote.
1t has long been known, theoretically,
that the tides act as a brake on the
rotating earth and tend to lengthen the
day. The effect, however, is so slight
that it can not be measured in any
length Of time at mans disposal. 1t
may be estimated with the aid of GER
tain assumptions, and, using the data
available, W. D. Macmillan has recent
~ made the necessary computation by
the formulas used by engineers. He
finds for the increase Of the length of
the day one second in 100000 years
A little book, called 1.-THE Care for
the Goat" has recently attracted some
attention in England. The writer urges
that great advantage would be found
by small proprietors, laborers and rural
residents in keeping goats, "the poor
mans cow Goats milk, he says, often
possesses twice the richness Of cows
milk, is very valuable for children, and
may be practically guaranteed as free
from the bacillus Of tuberculosis. Goats
are cheap and cheaply kept, since they
readily ind food, and they demand lit
tie room.
The expedition organized by the
American Museum Of Natural History,
which has been exploring the Fayum
desert, in northern Egypt, seems to
have located the place Of origin of the
elephant in the Tertiary age. Remains
of the ancestral form Of elephants,
called the Moeritherium, were obtained
and reservations have been made by
Charles r. Knight under the direction
of Prof. Osborn. From Northern Afri-
ca, it is affirmed, the elephant stock
migrated south through Africa, north
into Europe and east and northeast
through Asia to America.
Mrs. Emily Treat, of Hannibal, Mo-,
is said to be the first woman to be en-
ployed as an official court reporter in
this country. Some thirty-five years
ago she accomplished one Of the great
est feats a shorthand reporter had ever
performed up to that time She report
ed and made the transcript of the tes-
timony in railway lawsuit involving
large sum. 1t required something over
six months for her to complete the tran
script, but when 1t was done she re-
ceived high commentator for the ex-
cellence Of her work and the sum Of
$1,000 Mrs Treat Is still in active
service
The William Smith College for Wom-
en- in connection with Hobart College
has just been formally opened. The
funds for the new college were given
by William Smith, of Geneva, N. z.
One of the speakers on the occasion Of
the opening said that If the new insti-
tuition had been made co-educational be
was sure there would have been much
opposition to it, but as it was co-or-
dinate he had not heard a single word
in objection. There were several
women among the speakers. One Of
the dormitories is named for DIR. Eliza
beth Blackwell, the first woman to
graduate from medical college in this
country, an alumna of Hobart.
There were nineteen women In the
last Finnish Parliament; In the new
Parliament there are twenty-five. Nine
Of them are married and sixteen are
widows or single. Six were sent by the
old Finnish party, the young Firms sent
two, the Swedish party sent three, the
Social Democrats thirteen, and the
Agrarian party one. One Is the wife