Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-11-04

| uOnlAS, anu Is greatly improved II
health. Owing to his sudden illness il
San Francisco, he relinquished hi
cherished plan of visiting China anC
Japan.
Mrs. ". c. Ralston, of San francisco
has been awarded the guardianship o.
her child rem by consent of ]. 4
Ralston, who is given five days to file
an account of his guardianship.
The death is announced from Lon
don of Harry Beckett, formerly the
leading comedian at Wallacks theatre
New York. Beckett first came to this
country in 1868, with Lydia Thomp-
son, and her troupe. He died Satur-
day, the 23d inst.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has presented Can
tain Stone with a silver vase holding a
relief portrait in gold of the peerless
mare, Maud s. Blair, the trainer, is
remembered by watch, and even the
groom had $500 thrust upon him.
Captain Stone Will exhibit the mare at
the Chester Park meeting at Cincinnati
this week.
4 Pennsylvania politician who had
suddenly become very wealthy, recent
ly attended dinner party at which
there was the usual fillet of beef with
mushrooms. While engaged upon
the beef he whispered to his neighbor:
''Do you eat the clothes-pin heads,
tOo?"
One of the prettiest compliments
ever reported was recently paid to the
owner of a pair of bright eyes who
lives on Prairie Avenue. She took a
child upon her lap, and, after gazing
intently into her face for few mo-
ments, the little one asked naively:
care your eyes new"
Hon. Peleg Sprague died in Boston,
October 18th, aged eighty-seven. In
1921 and 1922 he was in the nineteenth
congress, and went to the senate in
1929, serving until 1885. He was after
wards judge of the United States dis
drict court for Massachusetts, from 1910
to 1865.
Senor Romero, formerly minister at
Washington, has started from Mexico
for the United States, partly on account
of his health and partly for railway
business. 1t is reported that he intends
to organize a railway company for
Mexico in conjunction with General
Grant.
On his late visit to Portsmouth, the
prince of Wales wore the uniform of
the royal naval reserve, and it is always
observed with satisfaction that when
ever his royal highness goes down to a
naval port he never forgets to pay this
compliment to the service.
Among the twenty-six ladies who
officiated as bridesmaids at the English
wedding reported In the last number of
the Court Circular" only one spelled
her first name with a terminal "ie," ,"
and she was an Annie" All the An
MES We have ever known were pretty
and lovely.
Among the passengers in the steam
er Baltic, at New York, was the Baron
of Arinos, Brazilian envoy extraordi-
nary, who comes on a special mission
as a member of the court of arbitration
which is to decide the Franco-American
claims.
The Marquis of Lorne and a party of
thirteen other gentlemen have been
duck-shooting in Ontario, and in two
days they murderously slew more than
LOO ducks. The encouragement
showed himself to be a crack shot, for
his score was 115 duck, the largest but
one.
Senator! Blaine has reached his
home IN Augusta, Me-, after an ardu-
Gus open-air campaign in the west.
His enforced idleness at this exciting
oIod ,ahnnTIr,rr cto Of Tho
owing to severe hOarseness, but it is not
true, as has been stated, that he is 9TH
erwise in poor health.
A little Galveston boy visited his
uncle on his birthday, and congratu-
lated him. He then asked his uncle
if he had washed himself "Why SOP"
asked the uncle, patting the innocent
little prattler on the head Because
papa said if you did the clean thing
you would give me dollar, at least"
The beginning of the woman's suf-
frage agitation was traced by one of the
speakers at the recent anniversary
meeting IN Worcester to Mrs. Adams.
the wife Of the first President Adams,
In a letter to her father she urged
81 laws for ladies in the new constitu-
ion.
4 gentleman dropped into saloon,
and in an off-hand way remarked:
"Murphy, you wouldn't take mans
last cent for cigar, would your" Ger
tainly would" remarked the proprie-
tor. "Well, here it is, then" passing
over a cent, give me the cigar"
Murphy handed over the cigar, but he
says it will be cold day for the next
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