Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
In 4 NUTSHELL.
General Garfield takes horseback ex.
ercis2 for health and recreation.


ercis2 for health and recreation.
Miss Emma Thursby's great success
in Sweden has induced her to prolong
her stay. There are rumors of her APP
preaching marriage.
A writer in the atlantic MontbIy saws
that "Mr. John Gilbert is the most ac-
cOmplished actor of old mems parts on
the American stage"
General Hawley, of Connecticut, is
one of the least wealthy of the new
United States Senator'S He hasn't
even one million, poor fellow! He
will know better than to become a
journalist next time.
All literary Americans of any prom.
inence in Europe, have received invi-
tations to be present at the birthday
fete of Victor Hugo, on the 9th Of
February.
General Grant opened a fair for the
benefit of the Fourteenth Regiment
Brooklyn, last evening, and later was
given reception by the Kings County
Republican Club.
Mr.. Merritt's Golden RuJe says that
men will live religiously as soon as they
are made to believe that religion is the
best thing. This is a charitable view
to take of them.
Very eligible windows from which to
view the inaugural procession in Wash
ington command as high as 500 each.
1t is now stated that Mr.. J. S. Brown
will be private secretary to President
Garfield, and Mr.. G. V. Rose executive
clerk.
Durango, the name of the new rail
road town in the coal fields of southern
Colorado, signifies in the Spanish Ian
guage, lasting"
Senator-elect Fair, of Nevada, is en-
route to Concord. n. H, to visit his
children at school there, and thence goes
to Washington.
It is said that Senator Ingalls,, Of
Kansas, writes the best poetry and is
the handsomest man of all the United
States senators.
The Bernhardt will appear two even
ings at St. Joseph, Mo-, $4,000 cash
having been deposited with the man
agement to insure them against any
loss.
The Rev Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, is
about to give a course of lectures on
the divine origin of Christianity before
the Lowell Mass institute.
Edwin Booth is meeting with grand
success IN London as King Lear, and
has received very strong financial over
lures to make a tour of the English
| provinces.
The Canadian ladies are striving to
get 100000 signatures to their address
to be presented to Queen Victoria on
her birthday, and attesting their con-
tinued loyalty.
Taglioni, the famous ballet-dancer, is
living in London, giving lessons in
dancing, and has had the children of
the Prince of Wales as her pupils
Fanny Ellsler is living in Austria.
Answer to "Civis :" The pronun-
citation of the name of Salvini, the
great Italian tragedian, now in Chicago,
/ is Sal-ve-nee. In Italian the letter is
almost invariably pronounced like e.
The New York Herald declares that
Wilbur F. Story, of the Chicago Times,
is zone of the handsomest men in the
west" You should have told him so
fifty or hundred years ago before it
was too late.
John I. Raymond, the actor, who is
divorced from his wife, known to the
play-bills as Marie Gordon, will marry
some time in April Miss Courtney
Barnes, a member of his company.
who is daughter of Rose Eytinge.
/ Lord William Pitt Lennox, a Scottish
nobleman, and brother of the Duke of
Richmond is dead. He was in his
SD year.
A cable dispatch from Edinburgh,
Scotland, gives the details of great
meeting of Highlanders to protest
against the abolition of the tartan. :"
The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Ed