Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-16
Midgets.
for love

| hearts, while others 1t purlt1eS.
1t is perfectly natural that man
should see his mistake after he has
made it.
There is a right way and wrong way
| of rubbing mans mind, as we'll as a
cats back.
Sir Robert Laffan, governor general
of Bermuda, with his family, are at the
Niagara Falls.
Trout fishing was never a popular
sport with the better classes of the
south until within the last few years.
General n. Banks announces that
he is not, and will not be, candidate
for congress this fall.
Princess Dora d'Istria arrived at the
Windsor Hotel the other day from Sar-
atOga.
Edwin Booth paid a visit to the home
of Shakespeare, Standardization, on
the 18th of August, and remained sew
eral days.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes will shortly
visit Mr. G.. w. Childs in Philadelphia,
and will give Il lecture at the Academy
in that city.
Mr.. Charles Carleton Coffin, the jour
nalist, has invented a grain car which
is to be tested soon on the Northern
Pacific railway.
In the making and distributing of
the clothing in this country New York
ranks first, Chicago second and Boston
third.
The Roman nobility of to-day hunt
and dress like Englishman and talk
English. They are greatly affected by
Anglomania.
An exchange says that the stories told
by negroes of their discomfort in the
south are half lies. But can negro
| tell white lie?
James 2. Voorhees,, a son Of Senator
Dan VOORHEES,, of Indiana, has been re-
ceived into the Roman Catholic Church
at Terre Haute, Ind.
No Boston hotel dining-ball can seat
| the 800 guests at the Grant reception
October 6, and the managers are puz-
zled to know where to set the table.
Princess Louise, it is finally stated
does not dislike Canada, and after her
stay at Marienbad, and her visit to
Scotland, she will return to America.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter
of the premier, is one of the successful
candidates in this years class list of
Cambridge university examinations.
DR.. Edward Eggleston, author of the
"Hoosier Schoolmaster, who is now in
Europe, is collecting material for q
History of Life in America"
Senator Don Cameron and wife have
arrived at Bristol, r. l. They will be
the guests for a few days of Senator
Burnside on his farm at Mount Hope
Bay.
Old Joe Winrow, the trainer of Hyer
and Morrissey, says that the best box
ers he ever saw were the easiest men
to whip in a twenty-four foot ring.
ok Marvel" donald G. MitchelD
sustains his farm, near New Haven,
Conn, at consid cradle expense, and re-
lies on other sources for his income.
Lieutenant Roger, of the United
States navy, is soon to be married to
Miss Croly, daughter of 'Jennie June"
and d. G. Croly, of the New York
press.
The illness of Cardinal Nina, Papal
secretary of state, has appeared again
in an aggravated form and turned to
typhoid fever It is hoped, however,
the progress Of the fever will be arrest
ed
You can't always Judge by outside
appearances. Who, for instance, would
believe the plump and sleek exterior of
the shad covered such wilderness of
bones?
Tramps monopolize the seats in Cen
trail Park, New York city, and in order
to do away with theses loafers it is
proposed to charge 1 cent sitting for
visitors in that resort;
Dick Little, the negro minstrel, has
one of the deepest bass voices in the
world He was formerely a boatman,
and now there is nothing that he likes
better than to strike the deep sounding
C.
The stuffed skin of a two-year-old
Spitz dog, on exhibition at the Imper-
ial Hotel, Windsor, measured six and
one-half inches from nose to tip of tail,
and stands three and one-fourth inches
high.
The Rev. Samuel Wilson of Onarga,
ILL.,, intending to visit a Methodist con-
ference, got down his revolver and be-
gan to polish it for the occasion. 1t
was accidentally discharged, and he
was killed.
Mr.. D. Lowe writes to the London
Times that "since the resignation of
Gordon Pasha the slave trade has re-
covered something Of its vigOr." Mr..
Lowe has been for years in the Egypt
ian service.
Next session the reporters in the
House of Lords will occupy the centre
of the gallery on either side of the
house, instead of their present gallery
over the bar, and will thus have bet
ter chance ofhearing.
The superintendent has forbidden re-
| ligious services in the poorhouse of La
Sale county, Ill. He says that two
| thirds of the inmates are insane, and
the rest have "as much religion al
ready as is good for them"
Twenty-three English bicyclists have
been visiting Calais. They wagered
that they would reach Boulogne twenty
minutes sooner than steamer starting
at the same time. The steamer won
by a quarter of an hour.
A new beauty has appeared in Lon
don to dispute the palm with Mrs.
Langtry and Mrs. CORVALLIS West, in
the person of Mrs Deacon, who ''hails
| from the United States" and who had