Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-09-21
BRIEF ITEMS.

Tenn. and assigned to stands through
out the city.
The latest English fashion is tie paint
ing OF blue veins on ladies' temples,
wrists. and arms.
The municipal budget of Berlin, Ger
many, this year was twenty times a.
great as IN 1880.
The Queen of Spain is in an interest
ing state again, and the ex-Queen is
going to spend the winter in Seville.
Revivalist Barnes says thas he is now
divinely commissioned, not only to save
souls and cure the sick, but to cast out
devils. He has returned to Kentucky
TO try his new power.
A prize drill has been arranged be-
tween a military company of Austin,
Texas, and broom battalion of young
women, except that no agreement can
be reached as to what sex the judges
shall belong to.
Messrs. Ransom, B0uverie & Co. of
London, bankers, are receiving sub
scriptions for Jacob Brett, aged "a, one
OF the original projectors of the sub
marine cable. He is ruined through an
unfortunate investment.
The Princess of Wales recently wore
q costume Of cream colOred silk with
old gold lace, the ruff being also OF
the latter material, and red geraniums
being worn ct the center of the low cut
bodice.
1t is proposed that monumental
cross in memory of T. IL. Burke, who
was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin,
be erected by the resident or stipendia-
ry magistrates of Ireland, in Glasnevin
Cemetry.
The tracking of the Joyce murderers
near Cong, Galway, was due to the ex-
cessive barking of dog, which thus
Tousing his master, who awoke his son
and brother, and then the three tracked
the murderers and saw the deed they
had done.
A fire broke out in trunk which
was being knocked about by baggage
men st New Bedford, and it was hasti-
ly thrown into the Sound, under the
impression that it contained an intern
al machine, whereas some matches had
kindled the fame.
The chief justice of one of the West
India Islands, of good name and fami-
~, highly connec ted at home and we'll
known In London circles, has Just mar
ried his black cook. The alliance has
caused much surprise in the colony,
and some admiration among the Judge 8
friends, who vaunt his courage.
Near Fort Valley, Ca, lives man
who has named his children after
animals, having q belief that they will,
IN consequence, live to an old age.
There are four children, and they are
named respectively Rabbit, Coon, Fox,
and Postum.
Mr.. Boucicault says: Egypt was
fatal to Assyria to the Hebrews; to
81. George, who was hung for looting,
and to Napoleon. 1t is the graveyard
of the world, and England has gone
there to steal a lot for a q uiet family
vault"
They were only 10 years old, those
Southern youths, but they had quar-
rel, and Walter Dorr produced re-
yolver, and, taking out his watch, told
Thomas Walker he could have three
minutes TO pray before he died. At
the expiration Of that time Dorr put a
bullet through Walkers head killing
him instantly. This was at Shreve-
port, La.
An English chemist, who has been
called upon to analyze several socks
and stockings of red color, which had
been found to cause great irritation to
the skin of the wearers, discovered the
cause of the trouble in the tin salt used
as mOrdant in fixing the dye. He
succeeded in obtaining over % grains
Of tin in the form of the dioxide
When acted upon by acid PRECIPITATION
the tin oxide forms an exceedingly ir-
rltatlng compound.
a wealthy old English farmer says
that he has always selected his farm
hands after putting them through a
whlstling exercise. He never knew q
whistling laborer to find fault with bed
or board, complain of extra work, or
be unkind to children or cattle. He
Is thoughtful, light-hearted, economi-
cal and good-natured
Prince Arisagawa, of Japan, who is
now in England. is thus pleasantly de-
scribed by one who has seen him {:
His Highness is a little, fat, oily man,
with twinkling, oblique eyes. His
nose is simply a pair of nostrils. There
IS MOI sign of a bridge to it.
Miss Jennie Rawlins, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Secretary of War, Gen
eral John A. Rawlins, of Galena, ILL.,,
was married to Mr.. George Holman,
in the Presbyterian Church at Goshen
y. Y. Among the friends present at the
ceremony were General Grant and
Mrs. Grant.
The Court of Rome has granted the
Countess of Imecourt's request. and an
nulled the marriage of her daughter
with Musursus Bey. In this case the
Cardinals allege that Mile. d'Imecourt
when she bestowed her hand upon the
young Turk (who is of that Greek re-
hgionb was possessed by the evil one.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia,
according to an Atlanta letter, has
greatly changed recently in his physical
condition. His eyesight has nearly
failed him, and his once full face has
grown thin and wrinkled. 1t is predic-
ted that his long career, with all It's
successes and failures, will soon come
to an end.
In 1866 Cromwell, doubtful of the
fidelity of his English soldiers. provided
himself with life guard of 100 Swiss,
concealinS his design by bringing over