Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-09

Bells Life says that Mrs. Langtry will
60 on the stage shortly.
Miss Grundy says that some Sara
toga ladies wear stockings worth S125
per dozen.
The Prince of Wales life is insured
for 100000. His annual premium on
this sum is $1,000.
A physician at Tiffin, Ohio, accident
ly gave himself fatal overdose of
opium.
London society women propose to
organize a raid against the professional
beauties. Sensible for once.
1t is said that the ordinary life of a
bee is only ninety days. The end of a
bee, however, is very lively.
When you take no interest and lose
your principal it is not good to be a
loan.
Thomas Sherman, the priest-son of
General Sherman, is visiting his father
at Washington.
Mrs. Bull, the widow of the dead VIC
linist, is to return at once to her pa
rents at Eau Claire, Wis.
The worst thing a man dressed in
lght-colored clothes can do is to get
into a fight with coal-heaver.
Lady Duferin does not find the eli
mate of Russia as healthy as that of
Canada. She has just been i'll of fever.
The daughter of Senator Blaine
caught at Moosehead Lake the other
day the largest trout that has been
taken this season.
Miss C. NJ. Olney, once well-known
fashionable New York milliner, has
committed suicide in a hotel at Pau,
France.
Mrs Sartoris, daughter of General
Grant, is coming over in the fall to see
the cold folks" and will spend the win
ter in New York.
Alexander III. Stephens is reported to
be in better health than for years past.
He can now sit on a hotel piazza at the
seaside without paper weights on his
coat-tails.
There has been an unprecedentedly
large gathering of yachts at Cowes this
The Formosa prince of
Wales) won the Queens Cap.
The Queen of Italy has made q gift
to a Catholic church in Boston of a
bronze statue of Augustus Caesar, an an
tique of exquisite workmanship.
An exchange says, Good wives are
wanted in the Northwest" Surely this
is not strange. Is there any place
where they are not wanted?
In addition to the first prize of the
Paris conservatory having been award
ed to Miss Griswold, of Cincinnati, for
singing, another American, Miss Hank
ness, has been singled out for her violin
playing.
Two thousand one hundred super
fetal feet, belonging to the ecclesiastical
commission, in Park Lane, fash
ionable district of London, sold lately
at the rate of 81 ,250,0G0 an acre.
1t was terribly confusing to the small
Chicago boy, during the Knights
Templars conclave, to see sixty brass
bands going in different directions and
have to decide instantly which one to
follow.
The centre pole of circus was seized
In Kingston, n. Y, the other day, on
an attachment for the salary of a bare
back rider.
Judge Spofford, of Louisiana, who
died the other day, was a
brother Of Ainsworth r. Spofford,
Librarian of Congress.
Queen Sophia of Sweden is suffering
more than ever from heart disease, and
is going to Amsterdam to be treated by
a distinguished physician.
The English insist upon honest judi
cial administration in Cyprus. The
Cadi of Papho hasjust been condemned
to five years imprisonment for bribery.
Come, bub, tune up your fiddle and
give us God save your grandma ther, ,"
says an irreverent youngster of the
Prince of Wales family to his brother.
The Empress Augusta of Germany
has a mania for wearing rich black
silk. She maintains that it is the only
suitable dress for ladies past middle
age.
Ex-Governor Paul @. Hubert died at
ANCN OIISdIIo, OIGltIldy tNculltS. LIZ
was d classmate of Gen. Hancock, at
West Point, in 1910, and governor of
Louisiana in 1852.
J. H. Noyes, famed as the founder
and head of the Oneida community,
has been in Canada since last March,
and it is not probable that he will re-
turn at present, it ever. He is practi-
cally fugitive.
The wife of Governor George B. Nc
Clellan, OF New Jersey, had with her at
Saratoga a small Skye terrier, whose
full name is declared to be Samuel
Jones Tilden Mcclellan.
At Castellamare, near Naples, there
is in course of construction the heaviest
ironclad war vessel ever put on the
stocks. 1t will have iron plates of tire
mendous strength, and carry the
heaviest guns made.
Two French noblemen, the Comte
des Isnard and the Marquis de Grille
were recently sentenced to ten days
at Avignon for threaten
ing a government official in the execu-
ton Of his duty during the expulsion
Of the Jesuits.
A singular accident occurred at Lee
hoir, n. c., last Friday. Mrs. Sarah
Marble was taking leave of her friends,
when her sister-in-law, very portly
lady, embracing her with such force
that she broke one of her ribs.
Tanner says he has received some
very fattering and princely offers and
inducements from managers all over
the country, but shall not accept any
Of them. ! shall lecture on my own
responsibility, select my own routes,
and put out my own advance agents"
He won't get very much by the opera