Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
: in the nostal savings banks


of Japan now exceed S45,OOO,OOO.
Manchuria already receives 1000 ca
BILE messages a day from Japan. The
doubling Of the cables is probable.
John Burns is said to have the best
working library of any member of the
English House Of Parliament.
Ink for rubber stamps is made Of
analine dye mixed with glycerin. The
dyes can be obtained at druggists
shops.
Belgium is now importing yearly
about $1,50O,O0O worth of automobiles,
motorcycles and bicycles. The i'm
ports have quadrupled in four years.
In the last eight years the three
great iron countries have produced
100000 tons of pig iron, of which
over half has come out of the United
States.
In the Slavonic section Of the New
York public library there are 1927
volumes and very large proportion of
the Russian readers select books Of
ecIlG1 anu SONeEHultlJdl suDJS1lo'
There are now not far from 60,OO0
miles of railroad under block signal OPP
Grafton, nearly 10000 miles of which
have been added within a year and
half All of this mileage is distributed
among eighty-four different systems.
Emigration to Canada from the Uni
ted States in January and February in
creased 81 per cent, while foreign emf
grants arriving at Canadian ports de-
crea sed SO per cent. Over 1000 Ameri-
can settlers reached Saskatchewan ON
March 10.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has been
nominated as an honorary steward of
the anniversary dinner of the Royal
Literary Fund in London. Lord Tenny
son is the president of the society. Rud-
yard Kipling, who will preside at the
dinner, has asked Mrs. Wiggin to re-
spOnd to a toast.
An Eskimo will devour greedily
twenty pounds of meat day. A Rus
sian Tartar will eat in twenty-four
hours forty pounds Captain Cochrane
mentions a Tartar who consumed in
that time the hind quarters of large
OK, twenty pounds of fat and pro-
portionate quantity of melted butter
for drink. Three of his tribe-the va
kuti-think nothing of polishing off
reindeer at a meal.-New York Press.
President Fouse, of the Fidelity Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, calls at
| tentiOn in his annual address to the
vast extent of the life insurance bust
ness in this country, by comparing it
with the banking business. The G,544
national and 1852 State, private and
savings banks and trust companies
have an aggregate capital and surplus
of S3,O0O,0OO,0OO. and deposits of $13,-
100000. Ninety-three insurance
companies have admitted assets of over
$3,000,OO0,OOO and insurance in force
amounting to $14OOO,0OO,oOO.
There is possibility that the Episco-
pal church will soon have three broth
ers as members of the bishopric.
The Right Reverend Dr. William
Paret, bishop of Maryland, be-
cause of advancing years and failing
strength has asked his diocese to elect
q coadjutor and has called a special
convention to choose the priest to be
elevated TO the episcopate. Several
slergymen have been mentioned for the
honor, among them being the Rev. Dr.
Arthur B. Kinsolving, rector of ST.
Paul's church, Baltimore, who is said
TO stand a good chance of election One
Of Dr. Kinsolvings brothers is bishop
of Texas and another is the head of
the diocese of Southern Brazil
In recent trial a San Francisco
Judge made arithmetic a test OF mental
soundness. But if this test had been
applied to certain great men they
would been declared imbeciles. Dean
Stanley, for one, would have been set
down as hopeless had he been judged
by his incapacity to do a sum in simple
addition or multiplication. Had Keble,
writer of famous hymns, depended up
IN his arithmetic Oxford would not
ong have known him. When bursar he
found, to his horror, that certain &C
counts came out nearly $4,000 to the
bad In vain did the learned and pious
men of the college go over the figures
With him. Not until an expert was
summoned was it discovered that Ke-
ole, in casting up column, had add
ed the date of the year to the colleges
debts.
81 know where 100000 in cash lies
concealed" said New York lawyer.
This vast sum lies concealed in the in
side vest pocket of the 10000 automo-
carries 500 of it in one crisp note,
ready to be paid out in fine. if he
should be arrested for speeding. Fines,
though. don't appear to stop speeding
he continued. perhaps the rich auto
mobiliSt regards them much as the Sua-
zian wood thief did The thief was ar,
rested. The magistrate said to him
You are brought up on the charge of
stealing wood. This charge has been
proved against You. But you are Old
and poor and you shall be let off this
time. Only don't do it again Non
sense.' retorted the thief. Let US NOT
have any false sentimentality here. |
steal my wood, l pay my fine, and
there's an end of it,
South American Inns.
A traveller who recently returned tc