Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-20
IN A NUTSHELL.

~ salary OF SlO,OUU.
Many of the New silks and satins are
in bright gay plaids.
Masquerade costumes are in great
demand for the coming balls.
/ Governor Boutwell, has hung out his
law shingle in Boston
/ Soft, warm mittens are worn by
/ fashionable ladies over their kid gloves.
Gen. Moriones, one of the ablest
officers in the civil wars of Spain, is
dead
Queen Victoria will not open the APP
preaching session of parliament in
! person.
Nine. Adelina Patti, it is author
itatively announced, will visit this
country next season.
Aldell, the funny writer on the New
York Times, has gone to work for the
Harpers.
Dr. Frederick James Jobson. an emf
nent Methodist divine ofLondon, Eng,
is dead.
Marshal Won Moltke, of Germany,
has been decorated with the Portu-
guse order of the Tower and Sword.
Stylish listers for ladies have cuffs,
pockets, and collars of plush, with muffs
to match.
1t is said that the poet Shelley
munched bread while he walked. So did
Ben Franklin once upon time.
The bride of General Trevino, who
is a daughter Of General Ord, has
been seriously i'll at the City of Mexico.
James B. Keene charters steamer
! for $50 every time he goes home to
Newport.
1 Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is con-
templating a lecturing tour through
Australia.
Nine. Outrey, wife of the French
Minister, is very i'll with whoop-
ing-cough in Washington.
The Duke of Westminster, who was
raised to his present title by Gladstone,
is the richest man in England.
H. H. Hayden the alleged murderer
of Mary Stannard, is now working for
a chair company in New Haven,
Conn.
1t is rumored that Bjornstjerne
Bjornson is to be married to the widow
of the late Ole Bull, now resident of
Milwaukee.
The Russian minister and wife are
conceded to be the handsomest couple
among all foreign legations, at Wash
ington.
A German physician of Milwaukee
found a remedy for painful chronic
rheumatism He inhaled chloroform
till he died
A portrait of the late II. Stephen I.
Logan has been presented by his fami-
ly to the supreme court rooms in the
Illinois state house.
Joseph F. Armour, brother Of Philip
d. Armour, of Chicago and member
of the firm of P. D. Armour & Co.
died In Cincinnati on the 10Th inst.
The sale of season tickets to four
nights of the Sara Bernhard engage
ment at Pixies Opera House, Cincin-
natl, Melted s., 7S3.
President Butterfeld has recently Sc
cured donation to the amount of
$4,000 for their further endowment of
Olivet College, at Charlotte, Mich.
New dinner sets are decorated in
Japanese designs, each set, consisting
of plate, cup and saucer, being in differ
ent patterns.
At Cornelius J. Vanderbilt's 50th
birthday dinner he presented the sixty
one couples present with horses and
cows hOOfs filled with flowers.
1t is believed in St. Louis that Rev.
William Walsh, of that city, will be the
next bishop of Nashville, to succeed
Archbishop Feehan, now of Chicago.
President-elect Garfield has, it is
said, offered the position of private
tutor to his sons to DR.. W. I'll. Hawkes.,
a graduate of Brown University.
Sara Bernhardt's performance in
Baltimore last Saturday evening was
her fftieth in this country. The re-
celpts thus far are reported to exceed
$4,000.
General Sir Evelyn Wood, who bore
a creditable part III the campaign
against the ZuIus, will be second in
command in the operations to crush
the Beers.
Queen Emma, the young wife of the
old king of Holland, is mentioned as an
amiable German lady, not pretty. but
possessing honest blue eye and a kindly
expression.
The distinguished French painter,
NJ. Detaille, has just been commission
ed to paint the portrait of the duke of
Connaught. The duke will be repre-
scented In military dress.
/ A friend ofGeorge Eliot, in speaking
OF the deep tinge of melancholy in her
books, says that one Of her most con-
slant thoughts turned on the waste of
force in the world
The horse ridden by Wilkes Booth
in his attempt to escape is yet alive,
aged %. It belongs to John A. Pearle,
of Abingdon, Connecticut.
Secretary Schurz, it IS said, will go
into land speculation when he retires,
and will possibly get married. He as
serts that he has had enough OF pubic
life.
Salviini, the Italian tragedian, IS de-