Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
BRIEF ITEMS.

Gov. Rusk has yellow tom cat
which is old enough 10 vote.
King Cetewayo now wears nothing
but plug hat and buster.
Pugilist Sullivan is very fond of ice
water early in the morning.
The car always looks under the bed
at night before he retires.
Theodore Tilton's hair looks as if it
had been Tempest Tossed"
President Arthur never wears the
same necktie two days in succession.
The empress of Austria takes box
ing lesson every morning before break
fast.
Alfred Tennyson denies that he wrote
the poem beginning ''I'm Capt. links
of the horse marines"
Prince Bismarck hates the sight of a
Chinaman's queue because it reminds
him of an American pigs tail.
The Hon. John KelIy's coat.ofarms
consists of a tomahaWk, pipe and q
wigwam, stuffed with wind and slashed
with brass.
The Hon. S. J. Tilden has grown so
vigorous that when he whistles for a
horse car he can be heard distinctly
with the naked eye several blocks
away.
Time has dealt kindly with ex-Vice
President Colfax. His hair is entirely
gray, but his figure is as erect as ever,
and his brow remains unfurrowed.
Baron Rothschild, of Vienna, has q
carriage Illuminated by electricity, the
apparatus being under the coachman's
seat. The light will burn 100 hours.
Mr.. Edwin Booth has made the re-
solve to play no more at one-night
towns. We fear these places will
think him "huhy' after ais German sue
Cesses.
Walter Evans. who died oD his farm,
near Reading, Pa, recently, at the age
of 90, lived on that farm all his life,
never left it, ana never saw railroad
train.
John B. McMaster, author of the
s'History Of the American People"
has been elected to the Professorship
of History in the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Lincoln McVeagh, son of the ex-
United States attorney general, has
been admitted to the bar in Philadel-
phia.
Charlie Sing, who came as overs er
of the first Celestials in Mr.. Simpsons
North Adams Mass shoe factory, is
in Berkshire jail for debt.
Hon. Mr.. Sargent. the American
Minister to Germany, is expected home
during the coming Summer, but Wheth-
er to remain permanently or not is
unknown. He is said to feel very keen
~ the unjust attacks made on him by
the Berlin press, and does not regard
the apologies made as sufficient.
Queen Victoria has arrived at Wind
sor Castle from Balmoral. On her
journey the precautions to secure pri-
vacy were relaxed all along the route.
Her health Is now reported much bet
ter, and she appears physically strong
er. Her mental depression is also said
to be greatly relieved.
The small, but strongly-built, boat in
which some fOrty-fOur years ago Grace
Darling and her father saved the surviv-
Ors OF the wrecked Forfarshire is one Of
the most interesting objects to be seen
at the Fisheries Exhibition In London
at least it Is SO regarded by the thou
sands who daily throng about it.
Queen Victoria has expressed her
desire to pension Prince Lucien Bona
parte, nephew of me first Napoleon,
giving him G25G yearly from the civil
list. Mr.. Gladstone has assented to the
pension on the ground that the prince
Is poor, and that he has contributed to
English literature by his valuable re-
searches IN dialects. He IS 20 years
old
A rumor from across the sea is to
the effect that Mr.. Ernest Brulatour.
the secretary of the United States Ie-
cation at Paris, is about to marry Miss
Mackey, daughter of the California
millionaire, Mackey. Mr.. Brulatour,
who is the son Of a rich old New Or
leans wine merchant, had ably second
ed Minister Morton's efforts to make
our legation In Paris famous for ele-
CANT hospitality.
Jay Gould and a few friends went to
Philadelphia on Saturday and took
possession Of his magnificent new
yacht Atalanta, which has cost nearly
$25O, 600. In the afternoon they start
ed down the Delaware, under the guild
ance Of Captain Shackford. The yacht
has a 1,600-horse-power engine, and
can make seventeen knots per hour.
It is rumored that Postmaster Pear
son, of New York, is to be superseded
for being 9 stockholder in one of the
private postal companies.
The suit to restrain the removal of
the big organ from the Boston Acad-
envy of Music has been compromised,
and It will be taken out in May, 1884
The body of Charles T. Goodwin,
cashier of the Lake Shore freight house
at Cleveland, missing for some time,
has been found in the lake. He was
short s. 900.
Covert D. Bennett, tried four years
ago for the murder of New York po-
llcenan, has adopted the Stage as q