Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-03
ITEMS AND THINGS

Henry Brown, 10, and colored, is
dead at Niagara
California made $4,000 pounds of
salt from sea water IN 1888.
Ingersou in great smoker when
travelling.
Denis Kearney occasionally finds
time enough to cnin.
Theodore Tilton finds Florence,
Italy, horribly unhealthy"
Ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado, APP
pears to be the modern Midas.
Henry Watterson is a skillful poker
player.
Jay Gould's yacht is headed north
ward. Look out for breakers.
Osman Digma's official robes lack
dignity. They consist chiefly of a
straw hat and a grin.
Senator Wade Hampton is good
looking and wears Burnside whiskers
of tinted gray.
The Philadelphia Fifth Baptist
Church tower, seventy-fve feet high,
toppled over Tuesday, and fell with a
loud crash, filing the air with flying
debris an ddust.
Mr. Magnin, governor of the bank
Of France, gave a grand reception
lately at his residence on the anniver-
sary of the banks foundation "a years
ago.
The property pawned last year at
the fOrty-two French monts de piete
was valued atnearly $40, 600, of which
that pawned at Paris amounted to over
$4,000, 900.
A number of little girls have been
holding fairs in Hartford, Conn, to
raise money to buy an orphan news
boy wooden leg. They have 500 of
the $500 necessary.
The late Bishop Clarkson, was in
strumental in building over fifty
churches in Nebraska and Dakota
Trinity cathedral, In Omaha, was
built mainly through his exertions
and influence
tTiller and McFadden remained for
three days few doors from the scene
of their express robbery at st. Louis,
and mingled freely with the crowd
1t never occurred to the shrewd detec-
tives to look right under their noses for
the thieves.
Rather an odd advertisement recent
ly appeared in a New York morning
journal: Wanted, by loving moth
er, to take care of three children, a
nursery governess who will be like
minded with Christ and take her meals
10 the kitchen"
It is being said in official circles
that the cOnstitutionality of the civil
service law is seriously doubted. 1t
is alleged that the Cabinet officers
have boon discussing the question of
late among themselves, and the best
lawyers in the Cabinet believe the
law unconstitutional
Wendell Bollman, who died in
Baltimore on Tuesday, was an in
ventor and bridge builder known in
both hemispheres. He was the first
successful iron bridge builder in this
country, and he also built costly
structures of the kind in Mexico
Brazil, and Chill. He leaves a large
estate.
David Fl. Strother, who was once on
Banks staff, and is by courtesy a
Colonel, has been u. S. consul at the
City of Mexico long enough to have
been forgotten as the delightful Ports
CrayOn" on twenty years ago. But he
is coming home in May, and will
again take up his pen and pencil
Mr. Wallings, a Philadelphia poll
tican, does the bulk of the weeping
for this country. Mr.. W. says: q
was up theShenandoah Valley on stag
duty when the news came that Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated. [
shed tears. | was at Atlanta CITY
when the news came Of President
Garfeld's assassination. I again shed
tears. When the 300 assassinated
James G. Blaine at Chicago, [ cried y
James Russell Lowell writes to a
friend in Boston that he likes living
IN London ''all but the living" He
is becoming dyspeptic, and attributes
it to his entire and enforced abstinence
from fresh and salt cod, CLANS, buck
wheat cakes and baked beans, which
are luxUries and actual necessities
almost wholly unknown in Great
Britain
At a revival in Louisville last Sun
day the class leader urged those who
We're present to get up and tell what
the Lord had done for them. A tall,
matter-of-fact specimen of the granger
arose, and in a loud, earnest voice
said: He amt done nothin' for me.
and I'm about tuckered out. TIE
fact is I'm a stranger and need help
right Off
A Paris correspondent describes the
scene during the night prior to the
issue of shares in the new French
loan, when well to do investors and
agents hire persons, who In turn hire
others yet poorer, to keep places for
them until the hour when the office
opens. 1t was molly and distressing.
A poor widow, with seven children of
tender ages, the youngest about eight,
had been standing there since 10
o'clock. The eight places would fetch
something like or francs-a for
tune for one day. A charitable soul
sent them some hot coffee, some bread
and cold meat and the look of delight
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