Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-07
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The Federated Malay States produce
90 per cent of the worlds production
Of tin.
There is a hacienda, or ranch, in
the Mexican State Of Durango. COM
prising 100000 acres.
Kite day is Chinese national holi-
day. An expert Chinese kite flyer will
easily keep six or even eight kites go
Ing on one string
In 1904 Japan exported a little over
$1,000 worth of human hair; the total
export was valued at 100000 in 1906
Large quantities are made into wigs
in Paris.
A very creditable exhibition Of ORR
entail paintings, both modern and an
cient examples. was held at the India
government school of art in Calcutta
recently.
Five generations of the family Of
Mr.. Petit, boot dealer of Marlborough,
England are living, his own child be-
Ing the youngest member. The great
great-grandmother is ninety and the
child Is eleven months old.
Consul Gracy at Tsingtau warns
young men against going to China in
the hope of finding profitable jobs.
Any young man who Is willing to work
will, he says, find better opportunities
every day in the large American cities.
in China by which ramie fiber becomes
a soft filasse in a few minutes. A
company has been formed to prepare
the flasse for general use, and the
first shipment will soon be made to
Europe.
The Municipal Chamber of Para,
Brazil, has recently authorized a re-
ductiop in the tax levied on travelling
statesmen. The reduction will be eff
fective until Jan. /, 1909. The new
tax amounts to about 500, with addi
tional fees of about SIS. The penalty
for evasion is confiscation of sampes
and a heavy fine.
The Orleans Railway Company Of
France recently inaugurated a new
train de luxe, consisting of six new
cars each seventy feet long, or six
feet longer than any cars now in use
OF the French lines, and mounted on
trucks with triple axletrees, giving
great smoothness in running. There
are two smoking cars furnished with
writing tables and newspapers and pc
riodicals.
The highest authorities place the to-
tai number of years elapsed since, in
the light of the best geological evil
at 2SS,000. OF this, $4,000 belong to
the preglacal epoch, 100000 years to
the glacial epoch and the protohistoric
and neolithic, 10000 years to the last
named epochs, and 5000 years to the
time elapsed since the beginning of the
historic period in Egypt.
A recently published statistical re-
port gives the number of diploma
physicians" in the world as 22S,234
OF these Europe has 162,334l The ia
BILE credits Germany with 25,51S,
which" says. the Frankfurter lei
tung, shows the table to be incorrect,
for the Medecinischer Yahrbuch gives
Germany 31,415 physicians, of whom
one-fifth are specialists. In all the
large cities of Germany there are two
to three physicians to every thousand
inhabitants, while In Berlin there are
about five for every four thousand"
An extraordinary addition has been
made to the exhibition Of inventions
in Berlin. A shoemaker named Veg
ner, living in Strasburg, has sent in
a clock Of the grandfather shape, near.
ly six feet high, made entirely of straw.
The wheels, pointers, case and every
detail are exclusively of straw. Veg
ner has taken fifteen years to construct
this strange piece of mechanism. 1t
keeps perfect time, but under the most
favorable circumstances cannot last
longer than two years.-London Globe.
In New England, some years ago,
one often heard people speak of a
place, an entertainment or of business
as dead as Chelsea" making the com
parison because of the extreme quiet
ness of the city which has just been
swept by fire. This proverbial refiec-
ton on TIE city, some of its inhabitants
said, had Il bad effect or real estate
values, and a change of name on that
account was for a long time under Sc
rious consideration. The place, how
ever. outgrew the dead era before
steps in that direction were taken.
The most curious railway in the
world is built on ice 1t is laid between
Cronstadt and Oranienbaum, and is in
use only during the winter. It's sue
cess has suggested the construction of
a similar winter railway between the
two important commercial centers,
Krem en- tchug and Ekatarinosav,
which are united in summer by the
steamboat traffic along the Dneiper
river. This means of communication
is closed In winter by the ice A cost
~, roundabout journey has to be made
between the two towns, though they
do not lie far apart.
Under the new Korean forest laws
the forests will be classified in four
kinds, according to the status of their
owners. These four classes are impe-
rial, state, public and private forests.
The minister Of agriculture, commerce
and industry may work out and order
the preservation of such forests as may
be necessary for the prevention of land
slides, floods and droughts. The min
lister can also prohibit the cutting of
forests, the destruction of which would
impair the scenic features of places of
public resort or localities noted for
scenic attractiyeness.
The Only DfEestible Kind.
A young man who is striving for DO.
litical honors and who therefore feels
called lITpon fo do copSfderahIo p,,h1;o