Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-23
PERSONS AND THINGS.

w lIham BLACK, the nOVeISt, Is
vegetarian.
Moody, the evangelist, is seriously in
in Lincoln.
Jay Gould is 46 years old, and weighs
III pounds.
Marian Harland, the novelist, is
writing history of Virginia.
DR.. Lyman Abbott is writing biog-
raphy of Henry Ward Beecher.
The English Duke Of Newcastle has
arrived at Boston, from Liverpool.
Her name is Lillian Langtry. The
ALTERATION is 'just too sweet for any
thing"
Herbert Spencer, the English philos-
opher. sailed from New York, Satur-
day, for Liverpool.
President Arthur has been elected
an honorary member of Boston's An
clent aud Honorable Artillery.
Ben Buffers plurality is 1895.
General B. F. Butler is 81, and is
still IN training for the Presidency
Herbert Spencer knows now prob
ably that the American people do have
their way sometimes.
An admirer Of General Butler pre-
diets that he will declare for President
Arthur before the expiration of q year.
The Massachusetts, Democratic State
Committee has issued q congratulatory
address to the party.
General Thomas 0. Osborn, of Chi
cago, United States Minister to Buenes
Ayres, will soon return for his post. He
gave a dinner Tuesday at Washington
to the British Minister.
Mr.. Glastones political jubilee viii
occur on the 9Th of next month, the
Parliament, as q member of Newark
on the 18th of December, 1882.
When Mrs. Langtry laid down the
papers on the morning after her debut
she paid this tribute to the New York
critics: "Won't somebody please tel
me what sort of an actress [ amp"
The Ottawa (OEt. Free Press prints 8
report that the Prince of Wales viii
come to Canada to preside over the
meeting Of the British Association fol
the Advancement Of Science, in Mon
treal.
Johann Strauss, the waltz composer
who has been divorced from his second
wife, recently made his last will, one
of the items in which was an appro-
priation of 100000 for the foundation
of q musical institute. He has nc
children
Rev. DIR. i'll. M. Scudder, of Brook
lyn, has preached is farewell sermon
in that city, last Sunday, and fully one
thousand persons were unable to gair
admission to the church. He vii
next Sunday occupy the pulpit of Ply
mouth Church, Chicago.
The regular monthly lunch of The
New York Sisters of SOrosis was great
~ disturbed by the discovery that {
clOck-repairer at work upon step
ladder was well known to Mrs. Croly
the president, and the walters were
called on to expel the spy.
Margaret Scott, of Martintown, P. O..
who for three weurs had been almos
helpless from congestion of the spina
cord, claims to have been restored tC
health by the prayers of a party o.
ladies at her bedside. Rev. James
McCaul, of Montreal, vouches for the
truth of the story.
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
and daughter of the Grand Duke o
Baden, has been safely delivered of {
son.
The late Mrs. Seguin, of New York
who killed herself and her three chill
dren, was in early life teacher in al
infant school.
The Crown Princess OF Germany
Queen Victoria's daughter, has arrived
in London.
The Rev. DR.. Charles Clinton Beatty
who died at his residence in Steuben
vile, o., last Monday, was probably the
oldest Presbyterian minister in the
country, having been licensed tt
preach in January, 1892. In 1929 h,
established the Steubenville Femal
Seminary. He contributed to public
institutions during his life over $400,
600, and leaves an estate valued a
$4,000.