Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-02
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OF gray squirrel killed by his cat.
Patti was sick, and did not sing as
announced she would, at Cincinnati.
Princess Louise has consented to be-
come Patroness of the Women's Emil
grafton Society.
Robert Bonner is 60, looks well, and
hopes "to be ccntinued"-ia the next
world.
Gen. Banks says the United States
and Russia will eventually be the great
| powers.
Patti is convalescing, and will sing
Saturday and Monday evenings at Gin
clnnati, provided she has no relapse.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the
only surviving editor of the Dial, pub
llsned some forty years ago.
Belle Boyd, the confederate CORE
spondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fire.
quently lectures.
1t is said that Kathi Schratt a new
FGerman actress, possesses in many re-
spects the traits Of both Clara Morris
and Mary Anderson.
Ex-Vice Prest. Wheeler has given up
his proposed visit to the Pacific coast,
and will return to Malone, n. Y, next
month from Florida.
Thomas McElrath, business man.
ager of the New York Tribune during
Greeley's regime, celebrated his golden
wedding Thursday night.
Money is active" Fogg read in his
newspaper. "That's So" he said; otis
active enough to keep out of my
reach"
A benefcent man "Half of those
smiles are mine," said dentist who
looked at an audience from his box
Governor Tabor, of Colorado, had a
daily income from his matches mine,
during January, of about $1,000. He
has devoted a suite of rooms in his
opera house, at Denver, to the use of
the press club, of that city.
Colonel Charles Treischel has been
reinstated as auditor of the custom
house in New York-a position from
which he was removed by ex-Collector
Merritt i'll favor of a brother-in-law of
the then Vice President Wheeler.
Senator Pendleton and Hon. E. B.
Washburne have been selected as the
orators at the La Sale bicentennial Gel
ebration, which will be held in New Or
leans April 9.
The new paymaster general, VIM. B.
Rochester, will be the youngest man
wearing a brigadier generals star in
any of the staff departments of the
army.
Clarence Barton, the Washington
editor who figured in the. Soteldo affair,
is nephew of Barton Key, whom Gen.
Sickles killed many years ago.
President Arthur was one of the
guests at Justice Fields dinner in
Washington. He took out Mrs. Field,
and sat at her right hand, British Min
lister occupying the seat at her left.
Husband and wife," says some sage
person, SHOULD no more struggle to get
the last word than they should struggle
for the possession of lighted bomb
They don't. The wife gets it without a
struggle.
| Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic, lectured at
Fort Wayne. Ind a number of young
would-be aesthetics attended, attired in
knee-breeches and carrying a lily OF
sunfower in their hands.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway Company, left Milwaukee last
week for Jacksonville, Fla. Mr.. Mitch
ell travels in special car, which is sal j
to be the finest ever manufactured in
the United States.
! Peoria is experiencing social sensa-
ton. A rumor has reached that city
of sour mash that Miss Ida Farrell, the
daughter of a well-known Peorian, and
sister of G. P. Farrell, brother-in-law of
Colonel Ingersoll, is being henored with
especial attentions from President Ar
thur.
The Hon. Mark Alexander, of Meek
lenburg county, Virginia, who is the
only survivor of the Virginia Conven-
ton of 1890, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday, on Wednesday, the 9th inst.
He was a representative in congress for
sixteen years. He is reported to be in
excellent health for his advanced age.
Margaret Mather, the young lady J
M. Hill is educating for the stage, gave
a private rehearsal to the critics and
managers of Boston the other evening,
and they agree in pronouncing her the
coming wonder in the theatrical frma-
ment.
Professor Ko Kun Hua, of Harvard
College, has just died of pneumonia at
Cam bridge. He was native of China,
and was the professor OF that language
in Harvard. His place is not likely to
be filled, as there is not much demand
for instruction in that department.
The late professor was Mandarin of
high standing, or high ribbons, in hi,
native land.
Comic tragedians: Two whimsical,
plumbers were once made in the course
of performance of Macbeth" at
poor little country theatre. The Lady
Macbeth, (who had probably been
laundress), instead of saying merely "a
little water clears us of this deed"
added "a little soap and water" etc. A
little later on the Thane observed to his
spouse, mysteriously, eve have
cotched snake and killed it," to the
great admiration of all present.