Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


the London Times from 1910 to 1871,
the period of the papers greatest i'm
portance and influence.
A discovery of large deposits Of tin
ore is reported as having been made
recently in the Brooks mountains in
Alaska. The details of the strike are
not given.
In the public schools of Strassburg,
Germany, men teachers get S342.12 TO
S9oI.I2 per annum, according TO the
years of service, and women teachers
get from S333-20 to S666.40.
In consequence of a Lahore literary
society announcing lecture, Man, the
Index of Creation" the city authorities
sent twenty-five armed constables down
to the lecture hall, which only held
fifty people.-Labor Tribune.
An incandescent lamp in its green
shade will, when turned upward to-
ward the ceiling, spread a soft and
pleasantly diffused light, plenty strong
enough for a room where no one is
reading. When the lamp is so used no
shadows are cast.
Science so far has failed to furnish
any explanation of the mystery of seed
less fruits. They are not the outcome
Of the work of man. Man perpetuates
them; he does no more. The seedless
orange was found in a state Of seed
lessness.- -Vegetarian
A Boston woman who has just cele-
brated her golden anniversary as a
cook boasts of having made and cooked
$4,000 pies, 100000 doughnuts and
something more than 100000 pud-
dings, besides a multitude of other
da1ntieS and no end of baked beans.
Her receipts are all her own and she
refuses to write a cook book.
The clubwomen of Massachusetts, are
hght1ng against the movement to lower
the milk standard in that State. This
fight is said to be winning more re-
cru1ts to the cause Of woman suffrage
than anything that has come up in the
last ten years. Mothers have come to
agree with Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gil
man In asserting that politics which af-
fects the purity of milk and water is
not outside the home, but inside the
baby"
During the year ending last month
| there were 4S5 new electric plants put
into operation in the United States,
Canada and Mexico, which makes the
total 5,49S. The activity in the electri-
cal industry from the most recent fig
ures shows a decided inclination to re
cover from the financial stress which
has been affecting all business during
the last year. The gain is equally pro-
| nounced when the item of capitaliZa-
| ton is considered.
"Bushranger," once a respectable
term, has now sunk to the lowest
depths. In the early Australian news
papers such advertisements as want
ed, good bushranger," were quite
common. The word then was synony-
nous with "bushman," one skilled N
knowledge and experience of bush life.
But now good bushranger" would be
as ridiculous as an honest burglar, for
bushranger is the superlative bad
man of the antipodes-a bank robber, u
coaches and the terror of the country
side
| Alligator is merely another form of
the Spanish eel lagarto," the lizard.
Shakespeare classed the alligator as
| fish, to Judge from Romeo's description
Of the contents OF the apothecary's
shop: "An alligator stuff'd, and other
skins of ill-shaped fishes" Somewhat
like ALLIGATOR the lizard is the "hy-
ena," which merely means SOW, and
ostrich" which comes from the Latin
word for bird and a Greek word that
| meant either a sparrow or an ostrich,
as the case might be-any bird, in fact.
The ostrich is just the ''bird-bird," ac-
cording to etymology.
So great have been the ravages
caused by the dodder-a leafiess, twin
ing, parasitic plant-that a decree has
been issued by the French president
prohibiting its importation into the
country. 1t is veritable agricultural
scourge, attacking and destroying hops,
vines, clover, peas, tomatoes and many
other kinds of agricultural produce
Once having found it's way into any
district, it is most difficult to get rid
Of, and constitutes a permanent source
| Of anxiety to the farmer. Cutting
down, burning and poison have all been
tried with unsatisfactory results
London Globe.
Massage, as a remedy for insomnia
and other ills, is most ancient. The
very word massage" comes from the
Arabic word mass" 1t was stolen
from the Arabian doctors by the
French doctors. In the Odyssey" the
heroes are massaged after a battle. The
word shampoo" is from the Indian
word "tshampua." Masseurs were en-
ployed in India by Alexander the
Great. Massage is one Of the things
| they discovered in ancient China. Cap
tain Cook was massaged for a quarter
Of an hour by twelve natives Of Tahiti
They cured his rheumatism. Paracel-
sus tells how the Egyptians practiced
massage.
The Roman Catholic Church at Ok
ford has just obtained possession of an
| important legacy of relics left to it IN
der the will of the late Hartwell De La
Garde Grissell, who was one Of the
|
Pope, and who died at the Vatican in
June last. He had exceptional oppor-
tunities for satisfying his taste for the
collection Of relics, which he preserved
In his private oratory at Oxford. 1t is
claimed that nowhere in Great Britain
or America is there a collection so val
liable or so well authenticated. Apart
from primary relics of the Passion and
the Cructfxion and of the apostles, the