Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-03-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

EH# Prof. Whitney, of Yale College, is
preparing textbook of English gram
mar for use in public schools.
WIN. M. Evarts received retainer of
$4,000 in the Vanderbilt will case, and
TO earn the money had only to make
journey from Washington to New York
and enter his appearance as counsel be-
fore the Surrogate.
L. Senator Dixon Lewis, from Alabama
! during 1877, was so large man in phys
ical construction that chair was espe'
cially made for him and placed in the
Senate Chamber of the National Capitol
3 That chair, which was a giant among its
fellows was removed to the attic with the
departure of Senator Lewis, but has been
restored TO favor again by the incoming
d of Senator David Davis, of Illinois, who
now occupies it.
The Faculty Of Harvard College have
never considered the question of the adj
mission of women for the very sufficient
reason that they have never been asked.
President Eliot rejects all applicants
without consultation. The Springfield
Republican says Gov. Banks used to have
similar method of saving his Executive
Council, and sometimes himself, trouble.
&c What does the Council think about it 90
said he, referring to some question before
the Executive branch "Why, they
haven't been asked for their opinion, and
won't be-
The hard times are peculiarly hard
for the magazine editors. Those now
= write who never wrote before, and those
who always wrote now write the more.
The manuscripts are piling up in an APP
palling way, and the number offered this
year is double what it was two years ago.
PiteOus letters accompany many of the
manuscripts, generally the poorest; not
one in twenty is acceptable. AT the Har-
per establishment manuscripts for the
three
5000 or 5000 yearly Scribn6r's Monthly
received 3 ,209 in 1876.-Chicdgo Tribune.
Matthew Dorm, the monster headed
boy is dead. He was fifteen years of age,
and was certainly a curiosity, if not a
monstrosity, SO far as his Uranium was
eFa concerned. 1t is said that his head was
nearly four feet in circumference, and
$500 weighed quite eighty pounds He was of
Irish parentage When six weeks old his
head began growing much more rapidly
than his body, and continued to grow up
to within a few weeks of his death, which
occurred early this week. He was never
&. able to sit up, but could move his head
from right to left while lying on his pill
low. During the Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia he was taken there by spec
ulative persons, but the undertaking did
not prove successful there or in Albany,
where he was subsequently exhibited for
9 few days. His body, at the time of his
DEATH weighed about one-half as much as
his head.-TrOy IN. ~ Times.
A New York exchange says: C Prob
ably the Oldest lawyer in the world is the
Hon. Gilbert Herring. He was born on
the Sth of July, TIT, at Stratford, Conn.
thus making him ninety-nine years of
age. He was admitted to the bar IN De
ccmber 1899, and made Judge in 1906
He was the first Register ever appointed
in the State of New York. 1t was in his
Office that the present eminent LAWYER
in6 Ho
members New York when it extended up
no further than what is now known as
Ann street. at present considered awful
ly far down. He says that in 1892 the
population of New York was estimated
between % 900 and %, 600; now it is over
100000 He remembers distinctly his
association with Daniel Webster, and
many other men distinguished in their day
and time above their fellows"
In connection with the Moody and
Sankey services in Boston, the following
is related "A business man oe Boston, a
member of the church, is in the habit of
lanching down town. A few days since,
as he seated at the table in a res
taurant where he was no stranger the pro-
prietor accosted him with Do you see
any change here" No why, don't
you notice that my bar is gone y Well ,
said the wondering disciple, after staring
moment, what is that for% Why, you
see, I've been down to the Tabernacle
lately, and I've made up my mind that
can't afford this business any longer; so
I've turned round And, taking card
from his pocket, he showed a list Of men
he was praying for, and told earnestly of
the work he was now doing. Then, with
the eagerness and confidence of newborn
enthusiasm, he said, Now tell me what
you are doing?' No answer The pro-
fessed disciple wasn't doing anything.
But the question sent an astonished man
home To ask God to show him his work
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