Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-17
Personal AND LITERARY.

1t is said that Banker Ralston's widow
is to marry Inman, the artist. She is in
Paris.
When the subject of corporal punish
ment was under discussion at a meeting
Rev. DR.. Morse favored it and young
clergyman present opposed it, saying
"What good does whipping do? Punish
ments are often unjust. Why, take my
own case: My father never whipped me
but once, and that was for telling the
truth" "Well," said DR.. Morse, grim
", Z" it cured you, didn't it,"
Mrs. Gaines is reported to say that
no poor person in New Orleans shall be
disturbed in the possession of the prop
erty awarded to her by Judge Billings
decision, who has not been party to the
fraud Of which she complains, but that
liberai and just compromises will be of
fered to all. She chiefly looks to the city
for the reimbursement Of the money paid
by these persons for the largest part of
the valuable property for which she has
received judgment.
Mr. Sutro, of miring tunnel fame,
talks very freely about what he shall do if
the Colorado mining companies refuse to
pay the royalty of two dollars ton on
every ton of ore taken from the COmstock
lode, as granted by the law of Congress.
He says that he shall not begin lawsuit,
but simply place a bulkhead in the tun-
neI III SuCn IIlanHeI IIidG nVU drop 0f
water can escape through it, and that the
inevitable result will be that the mines
will be completely drowned out.-N. 7.
E0enSng Post.
Mrs. William Vanderbilt was in Mo
bile. She wanted to get back to Buffalo.
Did she 60 to the railway station and pur-
chase ticket, and take the train? Not
at all. She telegraphed to her husband in
Albany her desire, and he sent for her
sent gorgeous drawing room cars all the
way from Buffalo to Mobile just to bring
her back to the North. He is an indul-
gent husband Few are like him, and few
wives are like her. But, then, they own
cars and tracks, which is also different
with most husbands and wives.-Ch5cdgo
Journal.
Florence Shannon, a belle in San
Francisco, and daughter of the Collector
of that port, was recently married to
Samuel l.. Sachs, Jew. The wedding,
beside being elaborate in ordinary re-
spects, was made remarkable by a strange
incident Just as the couple stood up for
the ceremony, a Jewish rabbi entered, and
presented formal protest by Sachs par
ents, who were opposed to their sons wed
lock with Gentle. The delay was not
long, for the bridegroom declared that he
had made his choice, and had no idea of
changing.
Richard Grant White has turned his
attention from English nouns, verbs, SEN
tences and errors to English women,
whose taste in dress he considers simply
abominable. "I feel, ;" he says, that |
am saying very little against English
women when I say that in general they
are the worst-dressed human creatures
that | ever saw, except, perhaps, the fe-
male half of certain class of Germans.
Good taste is simply absent In form, the
Englishwoman's dress is doway; IN color,
frightful. If not color blind, she seems
generally to be blind to the effect of color,
either singly or in combination. We do
not believe the Englishwomen will con-
slider this "saying very little" On the
contrary, they will undoubtedly regard it
as saying altogether too much. The worst
of their case is, however, that if they cor
ner Richard G. he will be sure TO escape
under the plea that he was afflicted with
heteropsis, which prevented his seeing
straight, or heterophemy, which prever t
ed his speaking straight.-Detroit rec
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