Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-14
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Russia.
NJ. Paris, a young scientist Of the
Pasteur Institute, claims to have dis
covered the secret how TO make sap
phires.
III an English village an official no.
tice reads as follows: The public are
warned against using the we'll for do
nestle purposes unless previously
boiled"
]. Pierpont Morgan belongs to thirty
five clubs, and his membership dues fig
ure over $1,000 annually. August Bel
mont is member of thirty-four and
Chauncey ". Depew belongs to thirty
two.
A company has been organized in
Georgia with a capital of 100000,
for the purpose Of developing Suwan-
nee Falls to furnish electricity for the
operation of electric railroads to be
| constructed in Southern Georgia and
Florida.
The ideal meal consists of bread, but
ter and cheese, according to DR.. J. E.
Squire, who delivered a lecture TO the
British National Health Society. These
foods" he said, contain all the ele-
ments necessary for the proper work
| Ing Of the body, and thus form a COM
plete meal"
l. While there is an abundance Of suit
able timber in Brazil, it is difficult TO
| find many districts where the trees
! suitable for lumber are close enough
together for profitable work. Trans
| portation causes much difficulty, often
making it impossible to transport logs
| to a mill or lumber to q market.
Lincoln's ancestry has been traced to
| Samuel Lincoln. who lived at Norwich,
| England. Emigrating to America. he
settled at bingham, Mass, in 1888.
| Some Of his descendants, who were
| Quakers, settled in Rockingham coun-
| ty, Va. The presidents grandfather
removed to Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln,
| the presidents father, was Il carpen-
| ter.
A Zurich newspaper published the
| following advertisement in English
Residing board house among a charm
| ing set Of mountains. Very beseem,
ing for families or singular individuals.
| Swallowed glades and amiable places
| for resting for guests of the cure. All
| facilities for mountainous expeditions
Excellent kitchen, with lager beer run
ming from the tap"
The Rev. DR.. John II. DeForest, a
veteran Congregational missionary, at
| Senday, Japan, has been decorated by
the imperial government with the Or
| der of the Rising Sun, the distinction
having been conferred in recognition OF
/ his services in dispelling anti-Japanese
misconceptions among Americans. Dr.
DeForest has been doing mission work
in Japan for thirty-five years.
Ptof. Frances Spire Porter, whose
paper read before the Buffalo conven-
ton for equal suffrage attracted much
attention, Is the mother Of four child
rem. Besides her work as professor OF
| English at the University of Minneso
ia, she finds time to do considerable
writing. She has just completed her
second novel, has written a successful
play, and is frequently called upon tc
lecture on economic subjects.
Venison was selling not long ago in
Vermont for cents cheaper than good
beef, for the slaughter of deer was I'M
precedented this year The usual bag
for the state is about seven hundred
and fifty, but careful estimates indi
cate that upward Of two thousand deer
have been killed. AS the meat cannot
be taken out of the state except by 6
| hunter from out of the state who has
paid a IS license fee, most of 1t re
manned to afford cheap living while il
lasted.
Paris is at present interested in the
maharajah of Kapurthala, who i:
there with his wife, whom he first me-
in Madrid as a dancing girl. Anita
Delgado was graceful and beautiful
and the maharajah lost no time in win
ming her regard. He took her to Pari:
to be trained for the position she wa:
to occupy and she developed into {
handsome woman of dignity and pres
ence Later he carried her to his home
in India and last winter married he
with Oriental ceremony.
In a letter to the Boston transcript
favoring humane education in the pub
lie schools, a correspondent says: I'll
one public school in London, England
where in the course Of twenty years
1000 children were given a thorough
humane education during this period
which would make many of these boy
men of twenty-five and thirty-fve), no
one Of them was ever arrested for
criminal offense, demonstrating tn
value Of humane education to proven
crime, as well as cruelty"
Nine. Johanna Gadski has brough
to this country fad that has becom
quite the rage IN Germany, where i
was introduced by no less personag
than the crown princess herself. 1t 4
new form of visiting card, containin,
not only an deliberately engraved Dor
der, but silhouette of the person /
represents The custom calls for de
sign appropriate to the holders station
Thus, in Nine. Gadski's case the prim;
donna's head is framed in a border o
laurel, while a Tyre forms the base o
the design. The card is not onl,
unique, but exceedingly pretty and eff
fective.
Lincoln had four sons. They were
Robert Todd lincoln born on Angus
/, 1913; Edward Baker Lincoln, borl
on March 10, 1916; William Wallac
Lincoln, born on December p, 1850
Thomas Lincoln, born on April 4, 1855
Robert Todd Lincoln is the only Twin
son of the martyred president. He
the head of the Pullman Car Compan
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