Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

jenny Lind is fifty zone, and her beau
| tiful little baby is three months cid.
jefferson Davis, by a recent decision,
| has secured the title to a Mississippi plan
tation formerly owned by his brother.
The chief aff1iction of George Francis
Train is too many ideas and too much
| English anguage.-R0cheSt6r Democrat.
Jenny Lind says few other people like
her husband, but eho does, nofwlthstand-
| ing. He is so true and self-sacrifcing
Prof Winchell, of Syracuse Univer-
| sity, in the Methodist Quarterly, declares
| himself a convert to the theory of evolu-
| ton.
The Sheriff has put his relentless grip
upon the Philadelphia Saturday Egenang
| Post, one of the oldest literary papers in
| America. -.
Representative Alexander H Stephens
recently arrived at his home in Crawfords-
vile, Ca, somewhat tired from his long
| journey, but not otherwise the worse for
it. He was apparently in better condi-
! ton than when he left home last winter,
and said that he felt quite as well as he did
| then
1t is related of Thomas II. Benton,
that gentleman, whose guest he was, went
| up to his room on the morning after he
had made speech, taking newspaper
containing very laudatory notice of his
remarks. Have you read it, sir? Does
| it do justice to the subiect?'' asked the
host. " [ know all about it, SIR" replied
Benton, with great dignity, & ! wrote it all
myself. IN. 7. EUenSng Post
Frederick Lauer, ESQ, has at present
in his possession an original manuscript
| letter of the great reformer, Martin
| Luther, dated in the year 1542 The letter
is written on a half sheet of paper, note
size, and is in we'll preserved condition
The manuscript is legible, and the sigma
ture &C Mart. Luther, D." is written in a
good bold hand. There is no doubt as to
the authenticity of this letter, written in
the dialect of the German language cur
rent during the sixteenth century. The
signature and chirography have been COM
pared with other manuscripts of DR.. Mar
| tin Luther still in existence, and found. to
be an exact semblance-ReddSng Pa J
| Times.
About the time when James andd John
Harper set up for themselves, their
younger brother, Wesley also wished to
become printer. The father removed
| from NewtOwn to New York, so that his
| sons might all have home with him. and
| Wesley was set at work in the Office of his
brothers, at first as compositor, then as
proofreader. All the time his father
charged him for his board, somewhat to
the boys surprise, for his father had no
| special need of the money. Soon after
he came of age, the reason of this appa-
rent harshness appeared. '' | think you
should 60 into business sOon,'' said his
father: . the money you have been paying
me for your board for six years has been
saved for you. 1t shall be your capital to
start with" With this money Wesley
Harper bought into the firm, becoming
| an equal partner.
"A man was lately killed out near
DeadwoCd, in the Black Hills, by stroke
of lightning. The mans name was Coates
| Kinney "a party who was once journal
! ist of rare ability, but who became a
stroller and an outcast by some misfor-
tune. 1t will be surprise to all who
read or sing when we inform such that
this man-Coates Kinney-the victim of
| a thunderbolt in faraway, wild and des-
| olate spot, was none other than the author
| of the sweet and tender little poem, COM
mencing with the verses:
When the humid shadows hover
| Over all the starry spheres,
| And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in raining tears.
s. Whataa JOY TO press the pillow
OF cottage chamberbed
| And to listen to the pater
| Of the soft rain overhead.
| Every patter on the shingles
| Has "a echo in the helrt.
| And thousand recolleotions
| Into busy being staTt;
| And thousand busy ftGcies
| Weave their bril- ht hues into woof
| As we listen to the pattgr
| OF the soft rain on the roof
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