Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
BRIEF ITEMS.

The momentous question of Mrs.
LaDgtry's age appears to be at last set
tied. 1t is 40.
"Jackson's Campaign Against Pope"
is th: subject of lecture to be given
IN Baltimore soon, by General Jubal
Early.
Mrs. NJ. B. Stevens, Of Hoboken,
New jersey, widow of the inventor of
the Stevens battery, heads the subscrip-
ton list for 4 new chapel for St. Paul's
| school in Concord, New Hampshire,
with $4,000.
The United States Senate has confirm
ed the nominations of General Pope
and Colonel Mackenzie to be Major
General and Brigadier General in the
army, respectively. There was no con-
test.
Nine. Albani has been positively en-
gagged by the New York Symphony
Society, conducted by DIR. Damroseh,
and will sing at the public rehearsal
and concert January II and 13, at the
Academy of Music, New York.
Senator-elect Coieuitt, of Georgia, /
smooth-faced man, whose hair is
brushed behind his ears, while his head
Is held back somewhat in the manner
of Sankey's, when the latter is giving
out the number of the hymn.
The Rev, Nicholas Germon, whose
death at Edenbridge, Keut, Eng, is an
nounced, was for sixty years rector of
st. Peters, in Manchester, and the last
survivor of the old-fashioned school of
preachers in that city.
Max Strakosch has returned to New
York, and his company having dis
banded, he intends reorganizing after
the holidays. He has quite different
tale to tell concerning his Montreal ex-
perience with Miss Hauk from that
told by the Chevalier Wartegg.
The "Little Napoleon of The
Street." as Jay Gould is sometimes
denominated by his feilow-Bulls, in
Wall street, is called upon to decide
the honors of gtreet-nomenclaUure with
William H. Vanderbilt. The latter
now aspires to be thought the ' Richie
lieu of the Street"
Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis, of Chica-
go,-or, as she is named in the casts at
the Academy of Music, Miss Jessie
Bartiett-made her third appearance
last week in New York with Nine. Ad-
elina Patti in Meyerbeer's opera, "Din-
orah." She was warmly received, and
was recalled at the close of the second
act.
Queen Victoria has at length consent
ed to admit that 'fshe is. growing DID,"
for the new Egyptian medal that she
recently distributed represents her
with the face of 1882 and not of 1912,
as it has appeared on stamps, coins
and medals. In her own time she hiss
distributed medals for six Indian cam
paigns, three for South African affairs,
and one each for the Crimean, Chinese,
Abyssinian and Ashntee conflicts.
w. 81. Glider, the New York Herald
correspondent who crossed Siberia in
sledges to carry the news of the burn
ing of the Rodgers, has arrived in New
York. He doeen't look as if he had
passed through the severests hardships
that ever befell d man. He says how
ever, that he does not feel very well
that the horse he ate on the journey
had not been well fed, and didn't agree
with him.
The Hon. Albert Palmer, Mayor elect
of Boston, fought his way upward
in the ranks of life by hard and unceas-
ing work. His boyhood was spent on q
farm, but he diligently studied until,
at the age of Is, he was able to teach
school the winter months. Thus he
earned means for obtaining an academ-
ic education, and by continuing the
same system he succeeded in getting
through college, being graduated sec
in his class at Dartmouth, though at
the late aoe of 27