Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-26

upon every page, and it might have
been better, perhaps, for Carlyle, had
some laundering housemaid stolen this
| MSS. also, with which to light the
kitchen fire, as did the damsel in John
Stuart Mills household, who cooked
the philosophers breakfast with the
first MSS. volume of Carlyle's French
Revolution"
Mr.. Joaquin Miller, the ''Poet Of
the Sierras, has settled down in New
York, and has recently published a
novel entitled The shadows of Shas-
ia, in which the cause Of the poor
Indian is warmly espoused, and the
army handled without gloves. Mr..
Miller looks the romantic poet he is.
He has deep blue eyes, a Shakesper-
head with brown, flowing locks, and,
although quite civilized, still cIings to
moccosins and other mementoes Of the
days when he dwelt among his ''good
friends the Modocs" The poets
novel is dedicated to Mr.. Whiteiaw
Reid, the editor of the n. Y. Tribune,
who has recently married a California
heires8 of millions, and gone tc
Europe to pass his honeymoon-where
may all good wishes follow him!
Editors do some times fall into luck,
although the public does not always
give them the credit for having de-
served it. Rumor has it that MIR.
James Gordon Bennett, Of the n. 7.
Herald, in engaged to veritable
Princess-and now journalists are
more aspiring than ever in their ideas!
THE NEW BIBLE.
This is truly the age of progress,
and from the days when the Bible was
known only the learned few, it has
reached that period when bibles are
about to become as cheap and plenti-
full as newspapers. An enterprising
New York firm is publishing the new
translation of the New Testament
complete for ten cents, the four Cos
pels for seven cents, each Gospel for
two cents, and an elegant edition in
Turkish morocco, with both the new
and the old version on pages facing
each other, for one dollar and half.
Shades Of Faust and Guttenburg!
What wonderful strides in the prin-
ters' art since the age of your illus
trious lives!
THEATRICAL CELEBRITIES.
Lolita is once more beguiling our
susceptible youths with her quib5 and
capers, and Mary Anderson, having
completed a most prosperous season,
will summer in her cottage at Long
Branch. Poor little Eauricio Den
gremont, the boy violnist, who has
charmed all the world with his art,
is said to be dangerously i'll. The
musical world will lose one of It's
brightest stars should this young gen
JUS be taken from US, and it is ardent
ly hoped that his life will be spared
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt has sailed gay
ly away for Europe, bearing with her
100000, snug little sum, which
would last a New York belle a life
time for pin money. Who would not
be theatrical star Of the first mag,
nitude?
NEW YORK CREMATORY
New York has already its crema-
ton society, and there are those il
our midst malcios enough to suggest,
that if the Street Commissioners
could only be furnaced at once, other
citizens Of this great metropolis might
have new lease of life. This il
rather sarcastic upon the City Father:
of Gotham. But the grumblers ar,
always abroad, and, in despite o
! them all Now Work ;C stilI ono IF tbt
merriest places on this side of the At
lantic, and may her domains and he,
pleasures never grow less!
SOPHIE SPARKLE.