Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-13
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Emperor William has been made
President of the Union of German Car
rier-Pigeon Societies and is doubtless
much elated over his promotion.
James Mcmillan, of Detroit, who
will probably be the next Senator
from Michigan, is worth $15, 100000.
He is so years old and began life poor.
James Evelyth, the veteran clerk of
the War Department at Washington,
has been in Government service since
1929. He is now about 80 years OF
age.
Whenever twins are born in Hart
ford, it is chronicled by a New Eng
land exchange, a certain lady of that
city visits the mother and gives each
baby handsome present.
Peter Coos is proprietor of German
theater in Omaha. No matter how
bad the performance may be Mr.. Coos
permits no Kissing in his theater. He
would consider it personal affront.
Word comes from Wheeling, W. Va,
that live bat has been found there
imbedded in solid rock in a crevice
just big enough to contain it, and ut
terly shut away from the outside
world.
The public debt of France is now
over $4,000, 100000, and the taxation
is so high that everybody is growing
and finding fault. The government
must have another billion for the
army, however.
A man in New Brunswick has dis
played a strange taste about dying. He
dug his grave, lowered his coffin, got
in and took dose of poison, and then
pulled the string to landslide, which
descended upon him.
The cause of women's rights in
France has progressed to the point of
the introduction of bill to grant to
tradeswomen paying licences the right
to vote at elections of Judges of the
Tribunal of Commerce.
Capt. Nicholas Costello of Haver-
hill, Mass, is LOG years old and is still
quite active. He was born in Ireland
in 1882 and well remembers the Kill
kenny riots of 1898. He has lived in
Haverhill over fifty years.
A syndicate has offered f4,400,000
for the fertilization wall surrounding
Paris and the ground attached to it.
The wall cost G3, 100000. The French
War Office has recommended the de-
molltion of the circular wall.
The Empress Josephine used to hold
her handkerchief so as not to display
her colored teeth. She made hand
kerchiefs fashionable. Before that
time they were seldom exhibited and
never made use of in public.
The inventor of the railway ticket,
Robert Savill, has just died. Former
ly receipts were given for travelling
fares, as in the case of mail coaches.
Savill, clerk in the Birmingham Rail-
way Company, hit upon the ticket.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister
of the late Plymouth preacher, says
she hopes to see woman President of
the United States, and she regards
Susan B. Anthony "the equal of any
man living as statesman and politi-
cian."
The constitution of Costa RIGA pre-
scribes hospitality to strangers as a
sacred duty and declares citizenship to
be forfeited by ingratitude to parents,
abandonment of wife or children and
neglect of the, obligations due to the
family.
A California widow had plans made
for a $4,000 monument for her late
departed, but when the lawyers got
through fighting over the estate the
widow was doing homework at 50 a
| week for the man who designed the
monument.
Queen Isabella of Spain, who has
many fine characteristics as we'll as a
lot of bad ones, has now earned the
sympathy of Americans by displaying
deep devotion to the game of poker,
to which she invites select parties at
her house in Paris.
The Paris project of police has
| bought wooden horse, harnessed,
and all candidates for eabmen must
show that they know how to harness
and unharness him and pass an exam
ination on whatever other tests the
project may propose.
Henry ". of France INDUCED in HIS
and KS sent by letter. A bundle of
his love-epistles was sold in Paris re-
Gently, and great many thousands
of osculatory salutations were evident
~ cast around promiscuously by the
merry monarch in his time.
Emperor William has had the i'm
perial crown of Germany so altered as
to make it an exact counterpart of the
one worn by Charlemagne. Still there
is feeling that the crown of his IA
Their and his grandfather should be
good enough for the present Emperor.
Three German Emperors have re-
ceived from the Berlinese the following
sobriquets: The Kaiser Wilhelm l.
that of the .'der Greise" (the Aged.
Kaiser Frederick that of "der Weise''
! (the Wise). while the present Emperor
has been nicknamed ''der Reise" (the
Gadabout).
Count Herbert Bismarck, the most
rising man of the day in European d.
plomacy, is the only new representa-
tive of statecraft who bears scar re-
ceived in battle. He was shot through
the thigh in the cavalry charge at
private dragon.
The Duchess of Montrose's example
has been copied. Sir William O'Mal-
ley, rich Baronet aged rs, has mar
ried at Dublin Miss Caroline Favey, a
damsel of 16. The Baronet advertised
for housekeeper and was SO taken
with Miss Caroline that he at once pro-
posed and was accepted.
The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, the So
cialist, married the daughter of DIR.
Calling, the inventor of the gun which
| -. al,
opposed to his son-in-law's revolution
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