Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

senator Cameron has settled that case
with the Widow Oliver.
An allusion by Gen. Butler to Mr..
| Wayne MacVeagh as an unwelcome mem.
| Der of the Cameron family had reference
to the fact that Mr. MacVeagh secured
his wife by an elopement.
=" Mark Twain" was the nom de pZat1,ae
of one Capt. Isaiah Sellers, who used to
| write river news over it for the New
Orleans P5cdyune. He died in 1868, and
| as he could no longer need that signature,
Mr.. Clemens laid violent hands uponit
without asking permission of the proprie-
tors remains. That is the history of the
nom de plume, as Mr.. Clemens himself
gives it.
When Prof. Wormley, of the Startling
Medical College of Columbus, Ohio-whO
has just been chosen to the Chair of
Chemistry in the University of Pennsyl-
vania-had completed his work on mi
cro-Chemistry," he found that the cost of
engraving his minute drawings would be
so great that no publisher would take the
risk Of publication, and there was danger
that the result of his arduous labors would
be lost. The difficulty was overcome,
however, by his wife, who studied the art
of steel engraving with such success that
IilS PlceUCo hS1 nuSDdEo
drawings rival the finest bank-note work
The following story is told of ex-
Mayor Blood, of Fitchburg, Mass, who
has just failed: A poor woman who had
lent him about four hundred dollars, all
the money she possessed, heard of his
financial troubles and called to see if she
could not save her money. "What if
don't pay you?' asked the debtor ooh,
then | shall pray for you," answered the
poor woman "What if [ do pay you ?''
he asked. "Then [ shall pray for you, !"
was the reply. "Then will pay you to-
morrow" said the debtor; ''for you are
bound to pray for me, and I want your
prayers on the right side.'' The sale of
his horse and carriage is said to have pro-
vided the means for liquidating the poor
wOman's claim.
In Chesterfield County, Va, there
lives a pair. of eccentric twins whom a
IDEAL newspaper describes as follows:
6 Messrs. James and John Martin are
twins, and have lived in the SkinQuarter
neighbOrhood for these threescore years
and ten. They are bachelors. One can
not be distin guished from the other in ap-
pearance, and it is said by those who
know them that they are very eccentric.
When brother James asks man a ques-
ton brother John repeats it, and when
brother John takes a swallow of old rye
brother James takes one too. They are
honest and well-meaning, but plain and
frugal in their habits. They came re-
Gently to Manchester in a wagon of old
fashioned build. 1t is the first time they
have been seen two miles away from their
home for ten years.
A very remarkable escape occurred
yesterday to little nephew of Edward E.
Powers, boot and shoe dealer. The child.
who is five years old, was missing at
twelve o'clock, when looked for at dinner
time, but, after calling him, the family
ate dinner, and, the child not appearing,
they became alarmed and instituted
search through the neighborhood. His
hat was found in the yard under some
large maple trees. Nothing could be
heard of him till about three O'Clock,
when a girl discovered him up in one of
the limbs OF the maple trees, forty feet
from the ground, asleep. The girl called
him, but he did not awake, and, the stu
alton being discovered, his aunt pre-
vented any noise being made until two
boys climbed the tree and awoke him, and
he was got down safely. 1t cannot be as
certained how long the child had been
there, but a continuous search was made
from one O'Clock to three p. m.-Detr0tt
Post
The London correspondent of the
Tribune writes as follows of Mr.. Motley's
illness: "Until his illness two wears ago
he had never ceased his literary toll 1t
was his hope to have continued his history
down to the end of the Thirty Years War
Labor or this sort was his greatest delight
in life. For more than twenty years he
rose every morning at six, and sat down
to his manuscripts and books. All that
came to sudden end with his first stroke
of paralysis. He would never admit it to
be paralysis; he would not admit that all
hope of resuming his work was over His
physician, Sir William Gull, called it
super -exCitatiOn of the nervous system;
which may be medically correct. 1t was
long before he could walk or use his right
side or arm. Regaining some control
over them after while, he was still for
biddeu to use his brain. When at last
light reading was permitted he lost the
sight of one eye mpletely-the late pen
altv, no doubt, which Nature, vindictive
and unforgetting, eXacted for his excuses
in earlier days, when he spent so many
hours over grabbed Dutch and Spanish
manuscripts. After he had ceased to he
able to work. writes one of his friends,
life became a burden to him. | may
perhaps add that after his wife's death he
seemed to have no wish but to reioin her."
THERE have been PSI iron vessels of all
sizes built in the United States since 1868,
having total tonnage of 1877, $50.