Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-03

| traffic is being Kindred owing to the
state Of the rails.
China is a bad place for furniture
! In the summer months 1t is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
| falls apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to the
other extreme and often exhibits cracks
half an inch or more in width.
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently in the Congo district, At
| RIGA. There have been no casualties,
| but the natives were panic-stricken.
Many of them ran for miles and re-
fused to return to their villages unless
they received guns and ammunition.
Canada's government has sent out a
survey party to lay out the town site of
Fort Churchill, the future metropolis
of Hudson Bay. The only settler who
is now on the proposed site, which is
on the east side of Churchill river, OPP
| posite the Hudson Bay post, will be en-
| titled to a free grant of 160 acres.
The following advertisement recently
appeared: Being aware that it is in
delicate to advertise for a husband, |
refrain from so doing; but If any gen
tleman should be inclined to advertise
| for a wife, l will answer the advertise
ment without delay. I am young, am
domesticated, and considered ladylike.
Apply" etc.-Philadelphia Gossip.
Some navvies in a railway carriage
were once in loud conversation, swear
them was especially fluent, my
| friend" said another passenger in
shocking tones, where did you learn
! to use such languageT Learnt"
cried the navy. You can't learn it.
guv'nor. It's a gift, that's wot it is"
Dundee Advertiser.
| OF the late Langdon Smith, the jour
nalist and author, a Denver reporter
said the other day: Il remember my
| first visit to Washington. Smith, big
and handsome and viyacious. showed
me about. From an eminence a great
pale dome rose up against the blue sky,
the dome of the Capitol. What is
thatT said 1. That? said Smith, oh,
that's the national gas works"
A process for protecting iron and
| steel from rust has been invented and
patented by T. w. Coslett, of Temple
row, BirminghamS England. This con-
sists in immersing the article in a hot
phosphorized solution containing an
iron is converted into q mixture of
ferrous and ferric phosphates, and pre-
Sents a pleasing dull-black appearance
This process makes the iron highly re-
sistant to corrOsion, and is being ap-
piled to all kinds of light engineering
work, such as cycle frames, gun bar
| rels, etc.
Otto E. Schaar, president of a club
Of New York walters, said the other
day of a parsimonious young man:
He resembles a chap they tell about
in Bucks county. This chap lived
alone with his father On the old
mans death he would inherit the farm
Well, finally the old man took sick.
His end drew near. The son sat up
with him night or two, expecting him
to pass away, but he fingered on. On
the fifth or sixth night the son, in
stead Of sitting up, put a lamp, turned
very very low, on table by the bed
and went to his own room with the
caution: When you feel that it is all
over with you, father, don't forget to
blow out the lamp"
A beautiful story is told somewhere
of Sir Hubert Herkomer, the great
painter His father was a poor man,
and the professor brought him from
his native land of Germany to live
with him in his beautiful house near
London. The old man used to model
in clay in his early life, and now that
he had leisure he took to it again in
his old age. But his hands trembled
and. the work showed signs of imper-
lection. 1t was his one sorrow. At
night he went to bed early, and when
he had gone his son would go into the
studio, take his fathers poor work and
make 1t as beautiful as possible When
the old man came down in the morn
| ing he would look at the work and rub
his hands and say, "Ha! l can do as
well as ever l did."-Scholars' Own.
| To the outside world the greatest
ornithological oddly in this country
Is the kookaburra, says the Sidney
| (Australia) Times. In earlier times 1t
was known as the settlers clock"
| from belief that its joyous paeans
We're vented regularly at morn, noon
and dusk, being quiescent through the
heat of the forenoon and the wane of
the afternoon. That belief has long
been shattered. The kookaburra
laughs just when the fit takes it. par
| ticularly when excited; and it laughs
as readily at the violent death of its
mother-in-law as it does at the enraged
settler, when he falls off his haystack.
A wounded bird makes a Economical
row, which will bring all others with
| in hearing into the neighboring tree.
and these at once set up an echoina
cackle that is repeated again and
again.
| A Logical Conclusion.
"Mr. Pursington says he believes
| man should nav as he goes