Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY



pass through the post office it is cal
culated that only one goes astray.
The cow tree of Venezuela is a nat
ural dairy. It's sap is very similar to
milk and is used as such by the ma
tiyes
The transient hotel population Of
New York is figured at 100000 people
a day. The hotel properties are valued
at over sS0,OOO,OOO.
There is great demand in China for
lead. 1t is used in several Chinese
manufactures, bul chiefly for lining tea
chests for export.
Caleb Watts, Of Lily Pad, Pa, who
raises frogs for the market, gets the
best results by feeding them On liver,
corn meal and flies.
Great Britain imports over So, 0OO,-
UOO worth of eggs year from Russia,
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada
and the United States
Mrs. A. B. Enright, of East Concord.
VT, is county supervisor of schools and
said to be one of the busiest women in
the State. Besides her school work she
performs all the duties that fall to the
lot Of the wife of Methodist pastor
Of two large parishes.
Professor Jowett's comments on the
young men of Balliol, Oxford, often
took the form Of crushing sarcasms.
The college, Mr.. x, thinks highly Of
you" he once said: perhaps too high
ly; but not half so highly. 1 am sure,
as you think Of yourself"
China is buying lumber from British
Columbia. 1t is largely needed for
railway construction. American lumber
is shipped to Shanghai. On one day Of
his recent visit four full cargoes Of
Oregon pine arrived there, says the
Canadian trade commissioner at Yoko-
hama.
Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides being
the most popular writer in Sweden, has
just received an honorary degree from
the University Of Upsala. She Is the
distinction, and it is said to be only a
matter of time when she will get the
Nobel prize.
Mrs Emma Barry, Of San Francisco,
has just returned from a trip to the
Arctic Circle during which, it is assert
ed, she went farther north than any
other white woman. She accompanied
her husband prospecting for gold, and
after she lays in certain supplies she
will rejoin him in Alaska.
Mrs. G. Meyer Is responsible for the
monument that has just been erected
at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the
memory Of the horses that died during
the Boer war. 1t cost upward Of $4,000,
and is In the shape Of a stone water
ing trough, on the top Of which Is the
figure of a bronze cavalryman giving a
drink to his horse.
When Sir Robert Walpole retired to
private life time hung heavily on his
hands and Horace exerted himself to
amuse his father. One day he offered
to read to him. What will you read,
child? asked Sir Robert, YEARLY. Hor-
ace suggested history. mo, no." replied
the veteran statesman; mot history,
Horace; that can't be true"
British South Africa imports over
100000 worth of lumber, mainly
from Sweden and the United States,
says the trade commissioner of Canada
at Cape Town. The chief demand is for
pine, spruce, ash and poplar. The duty
is 8 per cent ad valorem on manufac-
tured woods American shipments con-
sist chiefly of Oregon and Southern
hard pine.
The State Of North Carolina is one
of the most notable in the Union for
the production of gems, particularly
diamonds, emeralds, rubies, aquamar-
ines, beryls, hiddenite, rhodolite, ameth-
ysts and remarkable rock crystals.
These gems have been found mainly
in the course Of mining operations, al
though a few systematic searches for
them have been made and two COM
panies are now engaged exclusively In
such work.
A British lieutenant in the Second
Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who
was lately called Leo Quintus Tolle-
mache-Tollemache de Orellana Planta-
genet Tollemache-T ollemache," gave no.
tice a short time ago by means of ad-
vertisement that he has renowned the
names Of Quintus -Tolle-
mache Plantagenet Tollemache. and in
tends henceforth upon all occasions and
at all times to sign and use and be
called and known by the name Of Leo
de Orellana Tollemache only.
Count Won Zeppelin. the aeronaut
was born IN 1888, and devoted what
are for most men the best years of life
to military service. Retiring in 1880
with the rank of general, he turned
with a boyish enthusiasm to the DUR
suit of his hobby, aerial navigation.
To the solution of the problem which
had bafffed the investigators Of two GEN.
turtles he sacrificed his fortune, with
little apparent progress toward the
goal. Poverty spurred him to greater
exertion. In 1892 he made a success
full balloon journey from Berne to Luz
cerne, but his work was lightly esteem
ed until 1900 when the surprising suc-
cess of the first dirigible caused a gen.
uine sensation. Since that time his
progress has been easier.
AS long ago as 1895 a Leipsic house
published a German novel illustrated
by something closely resembling a
Roentgen picture. The story tells of
the Countess Abillinia, who gave her
heart to the knight Gibello. The knight
ly lover was thoughtless enough to kill
his lady loves father, her affection
turned to hatred, she vowed to kill him.
In a dream she saw the man who had
fascinated her, and she stood, ready to
Stay him, when suddenly the form
changed. and before her stood a grin
ming skeleton saying 81 have already
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