Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-20
SOMETHING FoR EVERYBODY

day at St Leonards, England. with
the exception Of Sir Henry Piunan-
Mr.. Hinton is the oldest member Of the
Royal College of Surgeons. He served
In India from 1929 to 1916
Box 80 of the Haverhill (Mass.) fire
alarm system had q fire all by itself
one morning recently and sent IN its
own alarm, followed a few minutes
later by another alarm. There was
great excitement for time, as gas
blew up through the box from conduits
and bursting into fame shot high into
the air, melting the contact points in
the box and doing other damage. The
cause of the fire was a break in troll
ley wire
Some one has said that King Edward
Lever wears the same suit twice. This
is an exaggeratton. The King ex-
changes his attire about three times
day and consequently would need more
than 1000 new suits a year, costing
something like $4,000, If such a story
were true. As matter Of fact, he or
ders about thirty new suits every year,
and at Buckingham palace, Windsor
castle and Sandringham he keeps
stock of about 200.
Rome, the only Rome, the Eternal
City, has fallen, writes correspondent
from that city to the Berliner Tage-
blatt Something new, unthinkable and
unheard of has happened. 1t over
reaches all romance and threatens TO
rob this politico7historical city Of one
Of its charms and to reduce it to the
grade of a little German town The
traditional feast of st. Giovanni was
celebrated and not a knife was drawn,
not drop Of blood was spilled.
Manager Knight of the Scottish ma
tional exhibition at Edinburgh, has re-
ceived the following from a little girl:
Il have heard you hatch babies in i'll
cubators. Do you give any away? II
you don't, I'd like one about IS Us
cents) one that has been Matched for
a week or two, l would like fair
haired and blue-eyed little girl; one
that is nice and healthy and does not
SquSdI IL sod 4loNC IN AHAAA
haired at IS, a browhrhaired and
brown-eyed will do. 1t must be healthy,
and a girl. l will not have boy"
On attaining full growth, the silk
worm stops feeding and throws out
silken threads. The silk is formed in
fluid condition and issues from the
body of the worm III a glutinous state
apparently in single thread. From
this silk the worm constructs its CO.
cool, an interval of from three to five
days being required to complete its i'm
prisonment in the envelope In order
that the silken strands may not be sub
jected to the danger of breakage by
the moth emerging from the cocoon, the
cocoons are steamed till the inclosed
insects are dead. After this the silk
may be wound off.
King Frederick and Queen Louise
are both very much loved in Denmark,
although at times the King, it is
thought, goes too much out of his way
to win popularity. At the beginning
of his reign he used to send for people
whom he saw from the castle windows
passing through the castle yard to
come and have chat with him. Then,
in the evening, says the Bystander, he
would take a stroll with the princesses
TO a crowded place near his summer
residence, called the Danish Trou-
ville," which is frequented mostly by
shop people, and speak to everybody
at random. At the castle all sorts and
conditions of men are received.-Lon-
don Globe
When they bore Linevitch to his
grave, says the ST. Petersburg CORE
spondent Of Paris paper, there was a
tremendous thrOng in the streets, uni
forms everywhere, and where the out
ward appearances indicated civil life
the demeanor contradicted and one saw
the spy or police deputy. To the for
eigner the central feature of the cor
tege-the funeral canvas the most in
teresting. 1t was a platform on four
wheels. On this rested the coffin. 1t
was profusely decorated with white silk
ribbons, as was also the car which fol.
lowed, bearing hundreds of wreaths
The harness of the horses was black,
but the men who walked at the horses
heads and flanked the funeral car wore
white trousers, long white coats and
white high hats
There was sorrow In the home of
Bruno Kronich, says tourist in a let
ter from Switzerland to a Glasgow pa
per when it was learned that the three
beautiful st. Bernard dogs, Dina, Me-
dea and Selma, which had aided in
many rescues, had been lost over
snow covered precipice near Hoch-
schneeberg. They were with the party
in search of the three <mountaineers
who were lost a few days before. They
slipped off the ice-covered Herminnen-
steig and landed on a rock which over
hung a deep chasm. From this they
| could not go down or up, and the help
less animals howled pitifully. The ami
mails were given up for lost, and for
that reason the rejoicing was great
when at dawn the next day the dogs
had worked their way up against the
almost perpendicular snow and ice
wall.
In the corner of the National Mu-
scum attached TO Independence Hall.
and under neat glass case, there is
little suit Of silk baby clothing, that
seems to attract much attention, epe-
cially from the women visitors. 1t in
cludes a tiny cap, dress, waistband and
handkerchief, made, according to the
| card attached, "for the sixth President
of the United States by the wife OF the
second" Mrs. John Adams. As her ell
dest son, John Quincy Adams, was born
In 1867, and the tiny suit was evidently
worn only a few times in his earliest
infancy. it is now more than 40 years
old AS evidences of maternal love
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