Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-19
Brief Bits,

Saratoga Springs
Miss Ada Cavendish, the English
actress has arrived in New York.
The handsomest equipages at Long
Branch are owned by Israelites.
The Newport (R. t. steeple-chase
meeting will not take place this year.
''Tis sweet to be remembered" as
the man said when he got cork leg.
One fthe big trees of the Calaveras
Grove has been named for General Gar
field.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has been
suffering from the infantile disease of
measles.
Ritualistic churches III England are
called stepping stones on the road to
Rome"
Rev. ]. L. Duryea, D. D., will deliver
the Yale lectures on preaching" next
winter.
\ cool-headed Cincinnati boy was az
rested the other day. His hat was full
of stolen ice cream.
The man who 'stood aghast" III the
cheap novel says he should stand the
beer next time.
The rolling stone gathers no moss,
but it gathers the fellow that rides Il
bicycle every time.
There is an armless man in London
who plays the violin with his toes He
is probably bow-legged.
Among the arrivals from England
were the Rev MOncure ID.
Conway and family.
General Clarence A. Seward, nephew
of the late VIM. H. Seward, has arrived
in New York from Europe.
A Richmond pape is to be suspend
ed for want of support. 1t could not
have better reason.
Miss Letta Guy, an Ohio lady, has
developed great talent as whistler,
and is about to tlavel on it.
Rival ice dealers love each other to
such an extent that they are willing to
pool their issues for the purpose of ex-
tOrtiOn.
Blind Tom" who now wears the
name of Prof w. f. Raymond" APP
pears as the composer of March
Tmpani."
If Il man does not blister his neck
fishing III an open boat under a hot sun
he will scarcely remember that he has
had Il good time.
Mr.. Webb Hayes, son of the presi-
dent, will join the law FIRM of Swayne &
Swayne, sons of Justice Swayne, ut
Toledo, Q.
IT has been shown that it takes talent
to get into Il hammock without, at the
same time, getting out Oft on the 9th
CT side.
In Arkansas mud baths are recon-
as Il cure for rheumatism.
Mud, however, is not of much service
to lame candidate.
Senator Bruce and wife, of Mississippi,
are at Saratoga, ut a stylish house kept
by colored people for the better class of
their own color
Secretary Sherman will contribute a
paper on Presumption" to the proceed
ings of the bankers convention at Sara
tOga, n. y, this week.
Castigeni, The painter who is to take
up the work on the historical pictures
on the dome of the Capital at Washing
ton, has begun his task.
Mr.. Pentecost, the revival preacher,
has bought an old farmhouse near Mr..
house i'll Mortified, Mass, and
the two are constant companions.
A Troy man wants a medical college
to have his body after he dies. He will
be terribly cut about it when the thing
is done, but his act may prevent the
robbing of at least one grave.
Herr Hasselman the Socialist Ger
man Deputy, writes to the Cologne
Gazette, denying that he has taken
flight to America. He says that he is
a political tour of Germany.
Montreal has champion swimmer,
one Williams of the Island of Malta,
who recently breasted the waters of the
st. Lawrence for two hours, swimming
ten miles. He will visit New York
shortly
A kentucky chicken that lived five
days and was Matched on the farm of
Col J. W. Reynolds, had four legs In
walking the legs were all kept III motion
and it was as lively Il chick as ever
scratched dirt.
The first stone in the work of COM
pleting the shaft of the Washington ma
tiOnal monument was laid Saturday.
President Hayes and others deposited
coins underneath the stone 1t will
take about four years to finish the mon
ument
George Pomeroy, of Madison, n. j.,
who has Just left an estate estimated
at $15,000,000, gave to Mrs. Luther
Clapp, of Gloversville, his sister, $1,000
He must have been hcartless old
curmudgeon.
A well near, Brandon, VT, forty feet
deep, freezes solid in the winter, and
furnishes ice for a family the year
round, while one hundred rods away,
in a gravel-pit, is Il spot which never
freezes, and which sends up cloud of
steam.
The daughter of President Grevy, of
the French republic, may dress i'll ''the
purple, for the Siamese Embassy
have presented her with piece of
beautiful cloth woven for and therefore
worn only by the royal family of Siam.
A Boston spiritualist has published 4
Predicting Almanac, containing pre-
dictions of the winds and the weather
for every day, with the hieroglyphic
magic circle" whatever that may be-
This prophet predicts improved trade
aud fruitful year
A woman in Marshall county, Kan
sas, has had bad luck with husbands
Two of them were hanged by vigilance
committees, a third was sent to the
penitentiary, and fourth committed
suicide. Nothing has yet happened to