Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



Der SO per cent is estimated to be fur
nished by South America.
Successful experiments have been
made at Poitiers, France, with a wheel
ed stretcher drawn by a dog, for ambu-
lance work.
The number Of books exported from
Germany by German publishers last
year exceeded 100000, weighed A.
100000 pounds and were valued at S15,-
100000.
Japan has thirty-two timepiece fac
tories, which turn out annually goods
valued al nearly 100000; the latest fig-
ures being 2O9,792 standing clocks, AL
155 hanging clocks and 25.36o watches.
Belgium has Sunday postage stamp
issued for those who do not wish to
have their mail delivered on Sunday.
All mail bearing the Sunday stamp is
held over by the carriers for delivery
Monday.
The Yellowstone National Park, COM
prising 1892 square miles, was set
apart by act of Congress in 1872 as
rational park to preserve from destruc-
tive molestation the most wonderful
group Of natural features and phenonl-
ena known within the boundaries of the
United States
After fifteen years of labor, Professor
Brown, of Yale University, has COM
pleted a series of many thousands of
minute observations by means of which
he hopes to determine the exact posi-
ton of the moon. He is about to re-
tire to his house in Maine to begin the
work of calculation, which he estimates
will occupy at least ten years.
The tantalum lamp is very desirable
from the fact that it is of high efficien-
cy, but it is not adapted for many of
the fixtures at present in use, for the
reason that it must hang vertically,
whereas more often than not, the lamps
in the existing fixtures hang at an an
GLE An adapter has been recently
invented by which this discrepancy is
overcome.
Kipling is a town which has just
blossomed out in Canada, where there
is only one town of Shakespeare. There
is Shakespeare in Kosciusko County,
Indiana. However, the great English
dramatist was never popular among the
new-town manners in North America, AL
though there are in the United States
thirty Millions, three Goldsmiths, four
Dickenses, thirty-odd SCOTS, twenty
ByrOns, two Tennysons and one Thack-
cray. But there is no Browning on the
American map
Every precocious boy does not be-
come brilliant man, but some brilliant
men have been precocious in childhood.
John Ruskin, the great English essayist
and critic on art, was such child. At
the age of he wrote verses in rhyme
and kept journal or diary. This jour-
nal was really record of trips through
England that he took with his father.
His interest in the old cathedrals and
in the bits Of scenery that he saw dur
ing these Journeys betrayed the tastes
that in later years decided his career.
I'VE Two" send the following to the
London Express 1--WE are young cou-
pie and at the present rate of salaries
for bank clerks it will be eight, or even
ten years before we can marry. AS this
is too far ahead to think of, and we
have 200 10000 between us, we are
determined to strike out for ourselves.
and at the thousands of breakfast ia
bles all over England where the Elk
press is daily read we would, with your
kind permission, appeal for ideas as to
the best way Of making a good start"
With the recent return of the yacht
| Galilee, at San Francisco, the ocean
magnetic survey work is closed for the
present until the construction of a YES
sci specially adapted for the work has
been completed. Plans for the new yes
sci are now being prepared by Henry ].
Gielow, naval architect and engineer.
The Galilee was chartered by the Car
negie Institution, of Washington, and
under the command of W. J. Peters, she
was away nearly three years. The to-
tai length of the cruises traversed in
about $1,000 miles.
The passing of the windmill in En-
gland, Anticipated by such recent power
| producers as the gas engine and cleo
trio motor, has given life to new in
dustry-windmill wrecking. The old
windmill builders understood their bus
mess and meant their handiwork to
last, and so the demolishing of such
| structures is no simple task. Many of
| the old mills stood 100 feet high and
runs of stones, and contained tons upon
tons of brick. Often these huge mills
| stand close to other buildings, and, says
| Popular Mechanics, accidents would be
| inevitable If the wreckers did not have
experience.
In the northern part of India sheep
are put to a use unthought of in Euro
| pean or American countries. They are
made to serve as beasts of burden, be-
| cause they are more sure-footed than
larger beasts, and the mountain paths
among the foothills of the Himalayas
are steep and difficult. The load for
each sheep is from sixteen to twenty
pounds. The sheep are driven from viii
lage to village, with the wool still grow
ing, and in each town the farmer shears
as much wool as he can sell there and
loads the sheep with the grain which he
receives in exchange. After his flock
has been sheared he turns it homeward
each sheep having on its back small
bag containing the purchased grain.
Several anchors have recently been
made at the navy-yard at Charlestown,
Mass, which are the largest ever made
for any purpose. Four anchors are used
on battleships generally, and the new
anchors are being shipped in sets to the
Pacific coast One pair of this set of