Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-03-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The New York people have given up
the idea of arresting young May for duel
| ing, since he now roams the streets ap-
| parently peaceful and harmless
Somebody with nothing to do counted
! the words in one of the sentences in
| Evarts' speech before the commission. Ii
had 361 words, mostly polly yllables.
| Mrs. Livermore's face is indisputably
Bostonique She has the towering fore
head that timid men dread; the pushing,
resolute nose that belongs to a career -
| l-Ind5aiaapOZss Herald.
Lands, the man who shot Editor Car
ruth, in Vineland, n. j., and escaped
hanging, is again in trouble. His wife
has permanently left him, and tie two are
| fighting over which shall have the two
| children.
Mime. Janauschek has declared that
| she will never appear in a classical char
acJer in the West again. When she played
Medea, at st. Louis, the audience seemed
to consider the play in the light of COM
| edy, and laughed during the most tragic
| passages.
The grave of Prentice rests alone,
Without mark, nor wood nor stone,
No: ry hmic epitaph.
This should not be- ye writers just
The life and form that now is dust,
Gave to your world the very first,
-Elnaird az Y.) Advertaser.
1T was the New York Nation which
| had the frankness 10 speak of Conn.,
| Vanderbilt as '' a kind of man whose like
we should be sorry to seemany Of" The
grammatical construction OF the sentence
is even more remarkable and uncalled for
than the thought which it attempts to ex-
press.
james Russell Lowell is an angler and
! a pedestrian, never riding when he can
walk He is in excellent health, and looks
manly, robust and erect. He may some
times be seen in bleak, wintry weather,
walking leisurely through Cambridge
thoroughfares with not even the ghost of
an overcoat enveloping him.
The proprietor of the Brooklyn
Argus sold his paper to the Brooklyn
Union Company few days since, but
gave no notice to his editors, reporters,
and printers, some seventy in number.
Some one remarked to the Argus proprie-
tor that he had done rather shabby
thing to precipitate things in that fashion,
but he said, ''No matter, I'll send around
Invitations to the boys and We'll have a
grand supper tonight" He did send
around invitations, and arranged for
OlS oupDCl, Dut WhCu C1llIS Odlut< IilC
proprietor was compelled to seat himself
at the head of groaning table, and eat
without one guest present.
Mark Twain says that the charge of
Capt. Duncan that he could not tell the
di ference between the tea AID coffee on
board the Quaker City causes him little
remorse; and then, on the ground, we
suppose, that open confession is good for
the soul, proceeds to ask why the Captain
does not allude to his (Mr. Twain's) more
notorious crimes, the highway robbery
for instance committed by him between
Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, his murder
of a cripple, whose gait displeased him,
in Cairo, his skinning leper in Smyrna
to obtain a curiosity for his museum, or
his habitual and fragrant intoxication
He ends his confession with a profession
of his belief in the truth of the charges
against MIR. Duncan contained in the re-
port of Mr.. Ward of the House Commit
tee of Commerce in 1876.-N. 7. Ecen-
ing Post.