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

philosophy as filling Several yards Of
shelf in most public libraries" The
author, apparently shocked by the in
accuracy OF the statement, wrote note
declaring that less than two feet was
the actual space covered by his thirty
years of philosophical work.
The year 1888 is the periodic cholera
year. The first appearance of the pes
thence in this country was in 1882; it
has since appeared at intervals of sew
enteen years-in 1S49 and 1868. it is
now raging in the Philippine Islands,
and has manifested itself at other points
in the far Orient. Will it come to US
next year? or will it interrupt It's dread
periodicity?
Mr.. Gladstone has been improving
the recess by taking trip down the
Channel in Lord Wolverton's steam
yacht, the Palatine. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Gladstone and other
members of the family. On Sunday,
August 90, the party landed at Port
land and visited the convict prison that
furnishes such sensational scenes in
the play of The Black Flag. Re-em-
barking, the voyage was continued
around Lands End and up the Welsh
coast as far as Milford Haven.
It has for some time been known
that green is not the national color of
Ireland, and now it appears that she
owes the harp in her arms to Henry
VIII, though it was not Officially mar
shalled in the royal achievement" w
til the time of James I. on which coca
sion the Earl of Northampton, then
Deputy Earl Marshal, observed chat
for the adoption of the harp the best
reason he could assign was that it re-
sembled Ireland, it being an instru-
ment that it cost more to keep in tune
than it was worth"
Sir Bernard Burke, the we'll known
Irish herald, has frequently been asked,
"What is the surname of the children
of Queen Victoria?" and he says: II
feel persuaded that the royal house of
SAKE COburg has no surname. When
the adoption of surnames became gen
eral, the ancestors of that illustrious
race were kings, and needed no other
designation than the Christian name
added to the royal title" The Plan
taganets and the Tudors were quite an
other case, and the sobriquet of the
former originated their surname.
The shortest courtship On record is
here given: A Newton county (Gt.)
widower rode up to the gate of hand
some widow and asked for match to
light his pipe. The lady gave him the
desired article, when he asked: 'Did
you ever think of coming to my house
to lve?" ''No," she said; eff had it
would have done me no good" In ten
days they were man and wife.-NeaO
York Telegram. That is not half as
short as the one reported from Califor-
MIA. A miner fell in love with a girl
at first sight, she was equally smitten
with him, and the entire courtship was:
"My pet?" "You BET" -PhiIadeEphia
Ne1OS
Mrs. Morton's last grand reception
which was given just before her de-
parture for the baths, was most curl
GUS assemblage of American tourists,
and excited not little establishment
amoEg the few Parisians present.
There were ladies in every conceivable
variety of costumes; some in walking
dress, some in ball-dress, some in high
neck gowns and long sleeves, others
extremely decollette and with no sleeves
at all. One woman, in costume re-
sembllng tiger skin, made a great
effect, but was outdone by a friend
whose skirt was covered with en-
broidered animals, with greenland
gold lizard for necklace.-Pdris Core
spOndence San Francisco Argonaah.
Mr.. Papineau owns park on the
Ottawa river, at Montebello, and sew
eral years ago he opened it to the pub
lie. He was glad, he said, to be able
to provide a place for innocent and
beneficial recreation. But his expert
ence has been such that now he threat
ems to shut the gates. He has found
that among the many respectable and
welEbehaved there are always some
who pilfer flowers and fruit, break
down shrubbery, and scatter remnants
of provisions about the grounds. he
will give the visitors one more trial,
ard he expostulates as follows: "Peo-
pie should educate themselves to that
respect of property which is such
beautiful feature in the character Of all
classes in Europe, and which causes
private as well as public parks and
gardens to be freely opened to all COM
ers, and where the most scrupulous re-
gard is shown to the wild as well as to
the cultivated and rare plants and
flowers, none being ever touched.