Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07
Personal and ImpersOnal.

Where to go when short of money
Go to work.
Doing their duty at the poles-the
hop-pickers.
Delightful autumn days-superb au-
tumn nights.
The property left by Marshall O.
Roberts is estimated at 100000.
By becoming a play-writer Anna
Dickinson spoiled good lecturer.
The man who died in harness prob
ably forgot to shuttle off his mortal coil.
Mrs. Louisa Fellows, sister of Angus
tus Schell, died in New York on the
10Th inst.
Nashville is to became the head
quarters of the Louisville and Nashville
railway.
As a physiological fact, it NAV be
mentioned that negroes are not light
fingered.
The November North A1aeyica,1 will
contain an article on Longfellow. by
Anthony Trollope.
They had $4,000 fire in Nashville
recently. Noers grain warehouse was
COIN pIeIeIy destroyed.
The bakers business should be profit
| able; a good part of his stock is rising
while he sleeps
"He sleeps where he fell" says the
late ballad, which suggests that he
must have been drunk.
Anna Dickinson writes on thin Eng
lish paper with a very artistic mono
gram at the corner.
In digging ditch OH Main Street, IL
Memphis, five graves were found two
feet below the surface
A large staff of military officers is to
be attached to the French legation at
Washington this winter.
A Berlin dispatch says Prince Bis
marck has abandoned the project of a
bi-metallic system.
The workingmen of San Francisco
have renominated the present mayor,
Kalloch, for reelection.
The French minister of justice reports
an increase of thirtv-eight per cent. in
crimes of violence since 1873.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is visiting
Hon. and Mrs. Richard Crowley, at
LOckport, n. Y.
w. w. Corcoran the aged banker of
Washington, has, it is stated, given
away more than $3,0OO,OOO,
Clara Louise Kellogg won't eat Il
peach until she has it rinsed through
three waters and wiped dry.
Albany claims to be Z years older
than Boston, having been founded in
1923, as the Oldest inhabitants affirm.
Mrs Clarrissa Hunting, a trapezc per-
former, with Sells circus fell from her
trapezc, at Nashville, and broke her
back.
The Rev. DIR. S. i. Baldwin, former
ly Of Geneva, n Y, and now mission
airy to China has returned home for a
brief vacation.
NJ Gambetta has just been decor
ated'' by King George of Greece in APP
probation of his work in behalf of that
ancient land.
The Queen of Sweden, who is very
i'll, has gone to Antwerp to place her
self i'll the hands of a celebrated ply
stefan.
One hundred and forty-seven women
voted at Binghamton, n. Y, last Mon
day, at the election for school commits
slOnerS.
The widow of Commodore Wander
bilt, still Il comparatively young wo-
man, has an income of thousand
dollars q week.
Chow-Phya-Bhamm-Wongesi.t the ST.
amese ambassador in Paris, is to re-
ceive a civilized decoration as COM
mander of the Legion of Honor.
Herr Gerhard Rohlfs, the explorer, is
going to Abyssinia as 81 diplomat. He
is charged by the Emperor William
with a mission to King John.
Among the successful candidates in
this years class Of the Cambridge Uni
versity higher examinations is Miss
Helen Gladstone, daughter of the pre-
mier.
The failure of Moore, jenkins & Co.
wholesale grocers, of New York, is an,
nounced with liabilities estimated at
from $250,0O0 to 100000.
NJ Henri Say. of Paris, has just had
built and launched at Baltimore, Md,
magnificent steam yacht, of 1,O38
tons burthen, at q cost Of over $780,
600.
The number of different languages
dialects spoken III the known world Is
1923, of which 5S7 belong to Europe,
396 to Asia 376 to Africa, and l 1854 to
America.
Turkish officers, long unable to get q
cent of pay from the Sultan, are offer
ing their services to Greece. Whole
regiments are ready to desert on the
smallest encouragement.
The French minister of public in
struction has appropriated 100000
francs to the establishment of normal
school for young women.
The German authorities are purchas-
ing largely in England for cavalry
mounts. At the great horse fair Horn
castle over 1,20O were bought.
Japan has trades unions. Owing to
the recent rise in the price of rice, all
the laborers in Gifu successfully COM
bined to force up wages twenty-five
per cent.
Mrs. Miller, wife of Rev. Dr. Miller,
OF Shelburne Falls, Mass, supplies his
pulpit during his vacation. She
breaches original sermons.
A New Orleans actress put what she
supposed was arnica on her face III the
dark; but it was iodine, and she will
not go on the stage for while.
The parliament of Jersey, where