Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-09
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

the Merstham, England, celtenarian,
Mrs. Maynard, married seven brothers
and sisters named King.
The SomaIi soldier keeps himself IN
perfect fighting condition on diet Of
nuts. He eats only twenty day, but
they are Of very nourishi1g kind.
Roumania is the most iIliterate coun-
tr in Europe. The last census shows
that in a population of about 100000
nearly 100000 neither write nor read.
There are 26.7S miles Of railroad line
in the United States for every 10000
Inhabitants, as against 81 miles II
Germany, 5.5 in the United Kingdom
and IA In France
According TO Mitchell's Newspaper
Press Directory, there are now pub
lished in the United Kingdom alone 10
fewer than 1883 newspapers, of which
London contributes 4O4, including
thirty-one dailies.
There were 1862. $50 cords of wood
used in the United States in the manu-
facture Of paper pulp last year, just
twice as much as was used n 1899.
More than 100000 tons of pulp were
produced. The pulp mills used 100000
more cords of wood in 1907 than in the
previous year.
Guanajuato holds the worlds record
as a silver producer, having yielded
S1,OOO,OOO,OOO Mexican in the last three
and a half centuries. The actual re-
suits from the mills in operation in
Guanatuato at the moment show that
they are producing silver at three times
the average rate as shown by the old
records.-WalI Street Journal.
The Berlin Medical Society recently
discussed the sanatorium question. DR..
Frankel insisted that the "Heilstatten"
do a great deal of good. Other speak
ers declared them superfuous, pointing
out that in France and England, where
there are no sanatorIums like those in
Germany, there has been nevertheless
a steady decline in the mortality from
tuberculosis
CCAdLOI WHO AHlIOuutcu at
Albany a bill against the sale and man
ufacture Of cigarets, has many orig
inal views. These he has the talent
to express in terse and striking terms.
Discussing medicine, in which he places
none too great faith, Senator Harte
said at a recent Albany banquet:
Medicine is the art of amusing the
patient while nature cures the disease"
T. P. O'Connor was presented with
his portrait in oils at Leeds, Saturday
night, by the Irish League Of Great
Britain, in cOmmemoration Of his IN
broken presidency of the league for
twenty-five years. John E. Redmond
made the presentation and paid a trib-
ent and courageous guide for the Irish
people in Great Britain. John Dillon
also spoke.
A girl of twenty-five, Miss Gertrude
Wren, is the first of her sex to win the
Pereira medal for excellence in chem
istry, one of the most highly priced
awards Of the Pharmaceutical Society
of London. At the age Of eighteen she
began the study of her specially at a
girls high school In Camden Town.
Botany is another study in which Miss
Wren has taken a great interest, and
some time ago she won a silver medal
for superiority in that field.
A traveller waited at a certain Eng
fish privincial town in vain for the
much overdue train on the branch line.
Again he approached the solitary
sleepy-looking porter and inquired for
the twentieth time, Isn't that train
coming soon?" At that moment a dog
same trotting up the line and a glad
smile Illuminated the officials face
"Ay, yes, Sir" replied the porter, it'll
be getting near now. Here comes the
engine-driver's dog."-Liverpool Post.
Edward Rice relates that when Herr
van Buelow was in Boston Napier
Lowthion, musical director at the Bos-
ton theatre, introduced him, saying
Herr van BulOw, this is Mr.. Rice, a
Boston man, who knows nothing about
music whatever, but who has written
two operas" 1907" said Won Buelow,
interrogatively. I've hat also in Europe
a shentleman vat knows noting about
moosic, und hat written already plenty
operas-Meestor Verdi"
General Lord Grenfell, who was re-
Gently promoted to the rank of field
marshal, received high praise at the
hands Of Miss Eunace Henderson,
speaking to a peace society in England
He has been a soldier for about forty
five years." she said, "and his men
have killed human beings in many parts
of the world. But let US remember to
his credit that he published an order as
general commanding the forces in Ire
land against cigaret smoking by the
troops"
Some kinds of lizards break in two
when suddenly startled. In the bush
in Australia the traveller often comes
across a number Of these little silvery
reptiles basking on log or piece of old
bark. AS soon as they perceive the IL
vader there is a great commotion they
dart hitler and thither so quickly that
the eye can scarcely follow their move
ments. The effects Of the shock are
evident from the quantity of wriggling
tails lying about which have been cast
off in the bury; while the mutilated
owoners may be seen scurrying away to
safety still wagging the stumps that
remain.
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