Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
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The new Virginia code that went
into effect May 1, requires every Off
Ger to take an an ironclad anti-dueling
oath.
Isabella, ex-Queen of the Spaniards.
when she appears abroad wears a COS
tune very much the same as that of a
nun.
Queen Louise, of Sweden, is threat
ened with a return of the cancerous
trouble which nearly took her life a
year ago.
James Russell Lowell has been in
undated with country house invita-
tons from members of the English
aristocracy.
A spike-nosed pike. was caught in
Lake Elysian, Wisconsin, that weighed
1872 pounds and measured 6 feet 2
inches in length.
A negro at Acworth, Ga, was given
sixty-two Iashes for circulating dam
aging stories about number Of young
men of that town.
A woman in Perry county, Kentucky,
has a circular hole in one of her eye
lids through which she can see when
her eyes are closed.
New Orleans has a teachers benevo-
lent association with a good bank ac-
count. Its investment is now ques-
ton with the members.
G. I. Ritehe, member of the English
Cabinet, is the father of seven musical
daughters, equally devoted to art, har-
mony and the Primrose League.
Mime. Wilson, the wife of Ex-Presi-
dent GreVy's scapegrace son-in-law,
has decided to leave Paris, and viii
probably come to this country.
One Of the plans by which the In
dams hunted the buffalo was by stam-
peding herd and driving them over
4 steep precipice to sure death below.
The Empress Of Japan is rapidly be-
coming proficient on the piano. She
takes lessons and practices several
hours a day, both her teachers being
German.
Queen Natalie is said to have been
found out in q conspiracy to dethrone
her husband, King Milan of Servia,
and place Prince Karageorgeyics on
the throne.
John Batchelder, the dependent IA
Their of Samuel Batchelder, late of the
Fifty-third Illinois Infantry, is the old
est pensioner on the pay-rolls. He is
103 years of age.
Kaiser Frederick said, in accepting
honorary membership in the academy
Of Legal Sciences, at Madrid: The
first task of the legislator is to procure
equal right for ALL
A scientific journal says that there is
no properly recorded instance of 4
railroad locomotive ever attaining
speed greater than eighty miles an
hour, and that higher speeds are myth
cal.
Senator Palmer Of Michigan is the
owner Of fine homestead farm. and
he plants a tree there for every Senator
who visits him. Edmunds' is beach,
Jones mulberry, and Sherman's
soft Eastwood.
Flower culture is suggested as one
of the most attractive and profitable
occupations which women e fitted to
pursue. Two New Orleans ladies went
into the business n few years ago, and
are rapidly growing rich.
A wcll-known character of George
Eliot's novel Of Daniel Derondo'' de
Iiyered 4 lecture in London the other
day. This was ''Myra, or, more ac-
curately, Mrs. Ayrton, who is supposed
to be the originate the famous Jewess.
Hinton Rowan Helper whose I'm
pending Crisis created such a sensa-
ton about thirty years ago, is living
quietly in New York engaged in prose
cutting a large claim against Brazil and
in writing work on South America.
Mrs j. L. Sherman of Great Falls,
Mont, secured 4 divorce from her hus-
band recently, and Immediately mar
ried her lawyer. At thereception that
followed the wedding her eX-husband
was said to be one of the blithest
dancers.
The Indians on the San Carlos reser-
walton in Arizona are extravagantly
fond of sweets. Sometimes in one
store barrel Of sugar will be sold in a
day in quantities of and 10 cents
worth, Just enough to serve the In
Hans foa candy.
Some ladies in Germantown have
adopted an ingenious plan for raising
money for the building fund of a
church. They get together every Sat-
urday and make a lot of fresh candies,
which they readily sell, and the pro-
ceeds go to the fund.
Queen Victoria at Charlottenburg, ac-
cording to the Paris Figaro, asked her
daughter what had become of the bath
chair which she sent her in 1859. With
q smile the Empress replied: The
Emperor has bren using it constantly
ever since he fell ILL.,
John Jacob Astor owns the most
valuable manuscript in this country,
Judging from the price paid. 1t is the
Sforza Missal, for which S15, 800 was
paid. 1t is dated in the fifteenth cen
fury and comprises 4S4pages Of vellum
bound in red morocco.
1t is said that railroads in this coun-
try are returning to lemon color for the
body of passenger coaches. The Prov
idence & Worcester and the Philadel-
phia & Reading roads are making the
change. Experience shows that vel
low outwears any other color.
President Adams of Cornell Uni
versity and President Hyde of Bowdoin
College are said to be the only two
college Presidents who play tennis.
Maine folks claim that President Hyde
is the better player. A match to de-
eide the question would be interesting.
Queen Natalie of Servia is described
by Mr.. Edmund Yates as decidedly
of the fine woman order; tall, broad.
and massive, with large features and
black eyebrows and eyes and black
hair, which she wears down her back.