Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-06
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Forty schooners, with 80, 100 cod
fish, arrived in New York the other
day.
New York editors are trying hard
to Americanize the English word
fad.
At the Salem, Mass, Normal School
the ladies are instructed in carpenter
work.
Matthew Arnold is the guest of
Lord Landsdowne while in the Cana
dian capital
In Wurtemberg girls under sixteen
years OF ags are no longer to be allow
ed to dance round dances.
London swells now carry umbrellas
of green silk with large handles of
alleged solid silver.
Victor Hugo is fast failing IN
health, and his friends are of the
opinion his remaining days are few.
A Boston girl fourteen years old
has been arrested for attempting to
set fire to school building.
A New Haven baby with two noses,
is to be put on exhibition in the dime
museums as soon as it is old enough
to travel.
Holders of the Arkansas rebel war
bonds are presenting them to the State
Treasurer for payment, which is, of
course, refused.
1t is said of Prince Bismarck that
he eats at one meal enough for half
dozen persons in good health.
The New York Aldermen will ask
the Legislature for leave to give $780,
900 to the Bartholdi pedestal fund.
A Bill providing for tax or 10 per
cent on all incomes of 800 and
over is pending in the New York Leg
islature.
The Massachusetts, House has passed
a bill furnishing free school books to
all the pupils of the public schools.
Two veterans who were with Old
Hickory" in the war that ended 70
years ago are still living ia Catawba
County, North Carolina.
George Dunaway, of Cuthbert, Ca,
got up in the night to whip one of his
little children for crying. Mrs. Dun
away rose also and shot Mr.. Dunawav
dead.
Talmage says some of the meanest
poole he ever knew were full of ''God
bless yours" He wants folks to give
money to the needy, not blessings,
A Georgia lady has entered suit
against her husband for divorce on
the ground that he would not let
her know the combination to his
safe.
Alphonse Paquette and wife, of
Westfield, Mass, took their two
month-old baby sleigh riding, and
the child was smothered by excessive
wrapping.
Vandals have much mutiIated the
soldiers monument on Boston Com
mon, and loud demand is made for
a close fence to protect it from further
injury.
The vast stream OF emigration from
Germany is being directed in some
degree by society, which aims to
procure information for its members.
and to forward them cheaply to desir-
able homes. The society has 400
lodges, and about $1,000 active mem
bers.
The italian Government has deter
mined to offer on the occasion of open
ing the Turin Exhibition a prize of
$1,000 francs for the most practical
process for the transmission of cleo
tricity.
Joseph Hay, of Boston, is ninety
four years of age. He was a member
of BOstOn's common council in 1880,
and has missed voting at but two cleo
lions IN seventy years.
Louis n. Tasistro, the veteran ex-
TRANSLATOR of the State Department.,
more than eighty years old, Is pros
trated with paral ysis at mis- lodgings in
Washington, and suffering for the
necessities of life.
Fountain w. George, the condemn
ed Polk county, Iowa, murderer,
wants to be hanged at Des Moines, if
at all, and objects to the Registers
suggestion that he take his departure
from this world direct from the pen
itentiary.
Walking yesterday along the Rue
de Sevres," writes lady from Paris
to the London Truth, Il saw the fol-
lowing delightful announcement
painted on the side of of a porte
cocher: Madame Zenobie c., third
story, lets out teeth for evening par
ties and balls"
The japanese government has re-
quested the Prussian government to
permit three of its higher officials to
take part in remodeling the interior
administration Of that country. The
officials thus appointed are to receive
the rank and title of Government
Councillors and large salaries.
The West Chester pa Local News
says, after making diigent inquiry, it
can find no person named Sophie NJ
Springer in West Chester, nor any
person who knows her. Mrs. Sophie
M. Springer, of West Chester, is nam
ed as legatee in the will of Wendell
Phillips, for the sum of $500.
The emperor of Austro- Hungary
has made Herr Tisza (who after the
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