Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-14
General Intelligence.

1t is proposed to erect a fountain
in Cincinnati to the memory of the
sisters Cary.
Vienna has sixty splendid orches-
tras, each as full and perfect as that Of
Theodore Thomas.
Antoine Ravel, of the famous
"Ravel family" SO popular in America
some twenty years ago, died at lou
louise, recently.
"A married daughter of D. Apple
ton, the head of the great publishin 6
house Of New York city, died at Hong
Kong, China, recently.
In Boston it is considered unusual
when policeman clubs harmless pris-
oner. In Chicago it is considered
strange when he don't.
A Vermont medium is finishing
Edwin Brood under the spiritual
inspiration of Charles Dickens. The
book will be ready in September.
CONGRESSMAN A. S. McDin, has
taken up his residence temporarily at
! Plover, under the roof of Mail Agent
Geo. p Hebard, Of the Green Bay
road --Aduocate.
In Philadelphia the Jews have
eight synagogues, and IL New York
twenty-six. The census Of 1870 num-
Der 1872 synagogues in this coun-
try.
Laura D. Fair has struck a bal
ance sheet and found it cost $l1, 900
to settle Crittenden and the unpleas-
ant complications growing out Of the
affair.
For the coming fall and winter
the register of the National Lecture
Bureau, New York, records over 100
engagement for Miss Kate Stanton in
the West.
IN. f. L." is the last novelty in
college degrees, and it is conferred by
the Ladies' Seminary at Bordentown,
n. j. 1t signifies Mistress of Eng
| fish Literature.
In the Boston burnt district the
new buildings are twenty feet less in
height than the old Now all the
stories can be rented and the roof
reached in case of fire
The Prince of Wales keeps for his
children at Marlborough House what
was never kept for him, q mark book
in which is noted their progress in
study and good behavior.
just as soon as Train and Sergeant
Bates got quiet, Gordon felt compelled
to break out Edward Payson West
ton and Carl Schurz will probably soon
go into state Of eruption.
Sons of widows in France are not
liable to military duty, and woman
named Capanori, lately killed her aged
husband at JEST in order to obtain the
discharge of her son from the service
A Democratic paper, regulating
! Groesbeck S advice, wonders chow
such an old fowl was ever nurtured in
Democratic nest" and wants him
henceforth to keep his beak out of their
affairs
DR.. Sigl, editor OF the Bremse, a
comic journal published in Munich,
has been fined and sentenced to impris-
onment for printing an acrostic refer
ring to personal characteristics of
Prince Bismarck.
AT meeting of the directors of
the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac Road,
held Wednesday morning, Mr.. j. f.
Joy accepted the position of President
in place of NJ. Bently, who retires in
his favor.
Among the new arrivals at the
Historical Society rooms, is fine oil
portrait Of Cyrus Woodman, Esq, of
Cambridge, Mass, one of the early
settlers Of Wisconsin, and for many
years partner of Gov. Wash5urn at
Mineral Point.
The cornerstone of the Waupaca
county Poor House will be laid on the
18th inst, by the Odd Fellows. Hon.
NJ. 7. Lindsey, of this city delivering
the address. A secondary attraction
in connection will be bask et picnic.
| -Advocate.
-Ayoung gentleman of Green was
playing at hay-making with a rural
Maud Muller, and rather liked it until
swarm of yellow jackets crawled up
his nankeen trousers. Maud laughed
heartily at the rattlesnake jig he danced,
until she get ''some of it in her -
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