Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-13
SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY


could be placed on the Isle of Wight.
There are silver ingots in the Bank
of England which have lain there for
more than 200 years.
tating the problem of restoring the pure
Hebrew Of antiquity to use as the Jew
ish national language.
Large quantities Of machinery are
being ordered by Japan from Great
Britain. Among the latest orders is an
immense heating plant, for group of
manufactures, and complete outfit for
new sugar-making industry.
Every night while the British Parlia-
ment is in session a letter is dispatched
from the House of Commons to King
Edward, giving a summary Of the pro-
ceedings during the sitting At present
the letter is written by Herbert Glad
stone.
OF the 100000 miles of railway IN
the world, only about 10 per cent are
found in strictly tropical territory, and
no more than Is per cent within what
would be termed tropical and subtrop-
zeal areas. Tracks abound in the tenn
perate zone.
''The NJ Spelin Leag Of Amurrika
has" the says the Glasgow Herald
''just added seventy-ive more wurds
| to the language. 'Tisis' and 'tung' are
! two Of the wurst. 1t wood Civ us six
feelln about the diafram to eat an eg
| spelt with wun g We get numness
| thru all our Inns at the site of such
| loren wurds as 'agast' and gard lam
and indicted There are about sixty
more, but these are more than enuf for
wun parragraf."
A driver on the Avontuur railway,
South Africa, while staying at the Gam
toOs, caught a large cobra de capello
alive. The cool way in which he did
the trick (says local paper sent a
cold SILVER through every one who saw
it. He simply caught hold Of the joint
of It's tail, gave 1t sudden jerk toward
him and caught it by the back Of the
| head. He then placed it in a biscuit
| tin. The snake was three inches in
diameter and about four feet long.
We hear that a Partisan metallurgi-
cal engineer claims to have perfected
a process of welding copper to steel
wire so as to make noncorrosive coat
| ing. Many advantages, it is said, will
| result from the use of this new wire,
such as high tensile strength and elias
| ITCHY, combined with smaller surface
exposed to wind and sleet than would
be the case with iron wire of the same
| conductivity. This wire is especially
useful over long spans, as pole intervals
may be much greater when it is used.
Engineer.
The inhabitants of Groden, in the
Tyrol, recently celebrated the advance
ment of their town to the grade Of
market place" The streets were elab-
orately decorated. and in place Of stat
uary, says a correspondent in the Welt
Spiegel, great images were made of
snow, of which there was great guam
tity. A gigantic statue of st. Ulrich
and busts of heroic size, on artistic
pedestals, Of former burgermeisters and
| of the Emperor Francis were produced,
and the unique street decorations show
ed that the little place contained much
artistic talent.
Another hot spring was recently
added to the nineteen which Carlsbad
had for years enjoyed. Workmen who
were engaged in clearing ont the chan
nels of the 'Muhlbrunn" suddenly
broke into a new spring of hot mineral
water twenty-five feet below the sur
face of the ground. The water gushed
up and, overflowing the promenade, ran
into the river Tepl. The appearance of
the new spring was not altogether well
come to the citizens, because they fear
that its flow may diminish that of the
Sprudel fountain, which is Carlsbad's
most valuable asset as a health resort
An Austrian engineer has discovered
that trunks of trees retain the salt of
sea water that has filtered through In
the direction of the fiber. He has con-
structed an apparatus designed to util-
ize this discovery in obtaining drinkablc
water for ships crews as quickly as
the process of filtration is accomplished
This apparatus consists of pump
which sucks up the sea water into a
reservoir and then forces it into the
filter formed by the tree trunk. As
soon as a certain pressure is reached
the water is seen at the end in from one
to three minutes, according to the kind
of wood used. 1t makes its exit from
the other extremity of the trunk al
first in drops and then in fine streams
the water thus filtered being drinkable
freed. in fact. from every particle OF
the salty taste.
AS long ago as the thirteenth century
a Chinese named Ye-jin-yang, discov.
cred method Of inducing the forma.
ton of pearls in the Chinese river mus
sells The mussels were gently opened
and small pellets, usually of clay, in
serted. The mussels were then placed
in about two feet of running water Al
the end Of two or three years, saws 2
writer in the Manchester Guardian
they were again opened, when it was
often found that nacreous matter had
been deposited on the pellets, formins
pearls. millions of which are sold il
China. The most curious pearls repre-
sent the form Of small seated image
of uBddha. The figures are cast il
thin lead or stamped on tin, and In
serted in the mussel. instead of the or
binary pellets. When covered with the
pearl forming matter they become OBJ
jects of great veneration to the people
who pay high price for them.
I'm London last season." says Chi
cago millionaire, II attended perform
ance of The Merry Widow at Daily:
in SALISBURY avenue, and in a stag