Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-30
In A NUTSHELL.


There were 16S cases of diphtheria
reported in Brooklyn last week.
Jay Gould's money is now estimated
at ninety millions Of dollars.
Sir Edward Thornton has served l.
years as British minister at Washing
ton.
Yut, Wah & Co. have failed in busi-
ness. They were slipper manufacture
ers in San Francisco.
At recent heathen festival in India
the offering to the idol was valued at
81, 100000.
A fire in Springfield, Mass, early on
the morning of Dec. 8, destroyed $780,
600 worth of property.
This years wine crop in California is
estimated at Is, 100000 gallons or about
double that of last season.
The new style bonnet may be
photographed by slamming a ripe to-
mato against board fence.
Mr.. Thomas Hughs is already lectur-
ing in London on his recent visit to
America.
AT the Dead Letter Office in Wash
ington is a registered letter containing
$3.50, but with no address at all upon it.
Ex-Vice-President Colfax has no in
cination to return to public life. He
has Sc written and is evidently in
earnest.
Cardinal Jacobini, new Papal Secre-
tary of State, recommends "camness
and Cancellation to the Nuncios
abroad
Sara Bernhardt does not consider
Preacher Talmage bon con,rade, not
wlthstanding she admits the similarity
of their professions.
Edmund Yates says that Englishmen
do not really dislike foreigners, but
that they dislike the manners and hab-
its of foreigners.
General Daniel McCauley, of Indian
apolis, has been appointed governor of
the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, vice
Major Fleming, resigned.
The Duchess of Westminister, sister
in-law of the Duke of Argyll, died re-
Gently at her residence at Bourne
mouth, Eng. She was reigning
bSe1IiOJ III I1CI dcbJ
AT the recent silver wedding of Mr..
and Mrs. Willard, in Washington, a
cake baked for the original bridal,
twenty-five years ago, was served in an
excellent state of preservation.
The Baron Charles de Rothschild, of
Frankfort, is reported to have just pur-
chased for his collection one of the
most superb and expensive silver gilt
cups in the world.
DR.. Charles d. House, vetinary
surgeon of New York, has just got a
verdict of $1,000 against sporting
paper which called him a quack. He
could afford to be called a quack often
at that rate.
The venerable Robert c. Winthrop,
of Boston, has been invited to deliver
the Grafton and James Baron Hope the
poem, on the occasion of the York
town IVA centennial celebration next
year.
Capt. Peter Dunn of Gloucester,
Mass, has arrived at home in safety
after a 1,300-m trip from Gaspe,
made i'll an open boat and taking two
months.
DR.. ]. A. II. Murray, a Scotchman,
is preparing the materials for new
English dictionary, which is to be five
times as large as Webster's and will
not be completed for ten years.
A witness under cross-examination
who had been tortured by lawyer for
several hours, at last asked for a glass
of water. There" said the Judge, ~
think you'd better let the witnesss go
now as you have pumped him dry"
Mr.. Moody's meetings in San Fran
cisco are having a decidedly serious
effect. The daily papers give them
much attention and converts now are
numerous.
The venerable widow of ex-President
James K. Polk has been quite i'll at her
home at Nashville, Tenn, for several
weeks, and her recovery is deemed
doubtful
The will of Mrs. Maggie Embry, of
Elkton. KY, probated recently, gives
100000 in Louisville and Nashville
railroad stock to the Vanderbilt Univer-
sity of Nashville.
Lady Eleanor Nicolls, widow of the
late Gen. Sir George Nicolls, of the
British army, was recently scalded to
death by the upsetting of q kettle of
boiling water in her bath.
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria is
so gallant and devoted to his betrothed
Stephanie of Belgium that he sends her
magnificent bouquet every day, no
matter where he may be-
The marriage of Victoria Woodruff
to London Banker has been postpon-
ed because of reports assailing her
character, and she will commense libel
suits against her slanderers.
During the past year the city Of
Memphis has has expended 100000 in
sanitary reforms. Since January 1880,
over five miles of stone pavements and
twenty-five miles Of sewers have been
laid.
Forest birds are rapidly increasing in
Colorado because of state bounty for
killing hawks. 1t is estimated that
over 10000 hawks are annually des-
troyed in that state.
Mrs Glasson, a German woman Of
Marquette, Green Lake county, Wis,
while in a fit of temporary insanity
killed her babe by cutting its head
nearly off, and then cut her own throat,
dying almost Immediately.
Cambridge (England) has this term
nearly 5000 members of the university
in residence.
Mrs. Valentine, a white woman, of
Columbus, Ohio, not only married a
DaorO brlt deserted a white husband to