Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Mukden, Manchuria, has forty tan
neries and a large fur trade, both local
and export. Prices are 10 to 20 per
cent lower than a year ago.
A color resembling pewter may be
| given TO brass by boiling the casting in
a cream of tartar solution containing
| a small amount Of chloride Of tin.
The average cost Of supplying 1000
600 gallons Of water, based on the re-
port Of twenty-five cities, is 500. This
sum includes operating expenses and
! interest on bonds.
Orders have been posted in the shops
Of the Pennsylvania railroad system
prohibiting swearing among the men
while at work. The penalty will be an
| enforced vacation.
| 1t Is said that the method Of produc-
ing anesthesia by means of electricity,
discovered by Professor LIE Due Of
Nantes, France, is applicable to the
| painless execution Of criminals.
The aluminium books for the blind
| AAON DI4lAS p1IAlCd Al 1rAAL4boA 49, -
thin sheets embossed in the usual way.
They are easier to read than paper
books, do not soil and are practically
indestructible. Their expensiveness is
their drawback.
Representative Burleigh of Maine is
one of the few members of the House
whose biography omits the familiar SEN
| tence Studied law at the - Uni
versity." He is a real newspaper man,
the publisher of the Kennebec Journal,
and has been governor and state treas
urer of his state.
Mrs. Boorman Wells, the "suf-
fragette," said at a women's luncheon
in New York: you may ridicule US
as you please, but when we get the suf-
| frage in London we shan't abuse it as
some Of your Colorado women do. l
heard two Denver men talking at din
ner the other night. Hello said the
first, here's a Philadelphia genius who
has invented buttonless underwear
oh, that's nothing said the second,
I've worn 1t ever since my wife got
vote"
Father Ehrle, the director Of the
Vatican library, has been appointed 2
member of the Academic des Inscrip-
lions, which Is one Of the five academies
that make up the famous Institut de
France, and the one that presides over
history, archaeology and ancient Orien-
man and Jesuit. He is said to be
the living authority on the care of
books and on the preservation and re-
storation Of old manuscripts.
The "Priory" at Bicester, near Ok
ford, England, which, as its name in
dicates occupies the site Of a former
religious house, has quite lately been
purchased by the Community of Olive
tan Benedictine nuns, who, having been
expelled from their house in Normandy,
sought refuge in Bicester some five
years ago. They had the happiness re-
Gently of celebrating a religious pro-
fession therein-the first that has taken
| place there since the Reformation.
For centuries Europe has enjoyed a
monopoly on cathedrals, the highest ex-
ponents of Christian architecture. Dur
ing the last few years, however, nearly
q dozen beautiful structures have been
in course Of erection or have been COM
pleted in the United States, and the
time may come when the whole land
will be dotted with these masterpieces
of art. One of these, now building at
ST. Paul, under the direction Of Arch
bishop Ireland, will be one of the finest
in this country.
Aerial letter boxes have been placed
in all large tenement houses and apart
ment buildings in Budapest, Hungary.
When the postman enters the hall on
the first floor Of building he places
the letters in the boxes allotted to the
different families. A spring is then
pressed and electricity does the resA
The boxes are shot up to the floor re-
quired, where they remain until
emptied, or until the postman comes
again and brings them down by touch
ing another spring.
Before leaving Christchurch for the
Antarctic regions, says the Westmin-
ster Gazette, Captain Schackleton, the
commander of the latst British south
polar expedition, was duly sworn in as
postmaster of King Edward the Sew
enth Land. He has been authorized by
the postmaster general of New Zealand
to open an office in that most southerly
of the Kings dominions, to issue
stamps and transmit mails as oppor-
tunity offers These south polar stamps
will doubtless be priced by philatelists
and other lovers of 'curios.
Investigating the effect of compressed
air on health, two British engineers
have shown that pressure of ninety
two pounds square inch-more than
six atmospheres be endured with.
out unpleasant results. The pressure
must be taken off at a uniform rate
however, at least twenty minutes being
allowed for each fifteen pounds of re
duction. and capillary circulation in
the body must be kept up by muscular
exercise during compression. Slight
temporary neuralgia pain in the arms
was the only Ill effect Of the great
pressure.
The Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur OF
Calvary Baptist Church, New York
said at a dinner, apropos of interna
tional marriages: Some Of these mar
riages are, from every point of view
| lnSSrohln in ht1+ 10
logue will illustrate my meaning oh
Helen cried girl worth S1SOOO,O00
do you think the duke is sincere ?
'Sincere?' was the reply. Why, q
course he's sincere. He hasn't got
dollar to his name" DR. Macarthur
paused. cor this" he added: "a
young marquis rushed upon his Ameri
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