Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


many meat once week is Inc rule.
Male servants in the Argentine CAPT
tai get &C cents to $3.50 gold a day and
female help 40 cents to S1.10.
In the United States last year 103.-
100000 railway ties were used, which
denuded 100000 acres Of forest TO sup
ply.
The Londoner uses the means Of To-
colnotion within the city on an average
14S times a year, the Partisan 217
times.
London did not have an adequate
water supply till 1906. Two-thirds of
it comes from the Thames, the rest
from artesian wells
Overcrowding in Scotland is not so
bad as it used to be- The proportion
living more than four per room fell
from 1857 per cent in 1861 to $50 III
1901.
This notice has been displayed in
LONDON suburb: why pay rent when
you can hire a horse, man and dark
night for Is Cd an hour? Night re-
movals, without disturbing your neigh
bors a specially"
While taking up the floor Of an emp
ty house at Patrocinia, Brazil, poor
woman found imbedded in the earth
beneath diamond of the first water
and perfect shape, weighing 900 karats.
1t is the second largest diamond ever
found in South America.
Zinc mining in Mexico has become
important only in the last three years.
The most important zinc deposits are
near Monterey. At Calera there Is
large amount of mixed sulphide ore,
while the Trio General, in San Luis
Potosi, Is also producing zinc ore.
Of the 1,125,OOO persons in Berlin
who support themselves or themselves
and families, only 5S,611, or less than
5A per cent, have incomes of STA
or more year. About 1,066,0O have
less than that amount, and more than
half Of these even less than S214 year.
A new occupation for women is that
of the grateful patient" Well-dressed
women are hired by Inscriptions men
In Paris to sit In their waiting rooms,
enter into conversation with genuine
patients, and hold forth in glowing
terms on the benefits derived from the
doctors treatment.
Germany is taking steps to supply it
self with cells. The other day the liner
Kaiser Wilhelm II called at Plymouth
and took on board for Bremen twelve
cases, each containing 10000 live cells,
for stocking German rivers. They Will
first be placed in the laboratory at Cux-
haven and on attaining maturity will
be turned into various streams.
DR.. Day, the medical officer for the
Dorchester rural district, has reported
to the district council that the aver
age age of death in the area of which
he has charge is fifty-eight. The age is
steadily rising, and people now on the
average live fourteen years longer than
they did in 1901, when the average age
at death was only forty-four.-London
Standard.
1t is reported that a student of the
Electro Technical Institute Of st. Pet
ersburg, named Freudinberg has in
vented an apparatus for exploding
mines by wireless telegraphy. Numer-
Gus experiments already made are said
to have proved remarkably successful.
The apparatus IS also said to be suited
for directing Whitehead torpedoes at
long ranges.
First place among the universities Of
the world, in matter Of mere numbers
up to last year held by that of Berlin,
has now been won by the University Of
Paris, which had a student body of
5000 in last summers semester. A re-
port Just presented states that the
teaching staff consists of 2S5 professors
and instructors. The faculty of law, by
far the largest, had then 7,12S students
and found 1t difficult to cope with the
corresponding demands. Medicine had
1880 students, letters 2,640, sciences
2,147 and pharmacy 1000.
Lecturing before the Association of
Surgeons Of Munich on narcotics, Prof
Klein said that the process Of reducing
the sensibilities of patients with a view
of making operations painless was
known and practiced In the Middle
Ages Bishop Theodorus, of Chervira,
wrotea prescription for pain destroyer
in the twelfth century, which con-
tanned opium, morphine and hyascum.
A medical work, printed in 1850, con-
tains the first known treatise on inhala-
ton, and doctors now inject under the
skin the soothing mixture, which, in
1850, was inhaled.
There is preserved in the achives of
Theater Francois, in Paris, a card
which reads: Pass the Citizen Bona
parte to this evenings performance of
NOTWITHSTANDING" This shows that
the Emperor Napoleon, when he was
only an olive-complexioned lieutenant
of artillery, and had very little money
to spend, was very glad Of passes to the
theater. 1t is said that the future
ruler of France used to lie in wait for
Talma, tragedian of that dav. in the
galleries of the Palais Royal, and that
the actor used often to whisper to his
companion: THE other way. if you
don't mind. l see Bonaparte coming,
and I'm afraid he'll ask me for seats"