Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-15
MEN AND WOMEN.

Wales IS reported to have been be.
throthed TO an English nobleman.
DIR. Gladstone's speech on the royal
giants was caught on the phonograph
] As he delivered it, and will be listened
to before long by an American audi
ence.
| 1t is not generally known that Mr..
Gladstone has only three fingers on his
left hand. The index-finger was shot
| off forty-seven years ago by an acct
dent in the hunting field.
Mary Anderson has been ordered out
| of London by her doctor and will go
into the Scottish hills She is reported
to be wan and thin, and must give Up
society entirely for time.
The fortune left by Prof. Richard A.
| Proctor was insufficient to support his
| family and his widow has determined
to sell his Florida home, together with
his library and scientific apparatus.
The queen-regent of Spain is an ex-
| pert embroiderer and has done some re-
markably beautiful work with her
needle. Many of the dresses of the in
FAINT king are the product of her hands.
Smith B. Freeman, who died last
week on Staten Island, had been con
tinuously in the employ Of one firm fo1
more than seventy years. an almost
! phenomenal record in these mutable
| times.
| L. Needy Shields BIish, president of
the Blish Milling Company of this city,
has been elected by the Indiana NIillers'
Association to represent this state on
| the executive committee of the Nation
al Association Of Nillers.
Edgar F. Lincoln. of Topeka. Kas.,
has taken out more patents during the
last two years than any man in the
country. His inventions cover all
| fields and he has patented almost every
thing from an improved electric light
to celluloid toothpick.
Mr.. Gladstone defines his domestic
policy as follows: whenever my wife
insists l submit; whenever l insist she
submits. We never discuss family
affairs at the table, and if anything I'M
! pleasant occurs during the evening we
never refer to it till next day"
Gov. Eagles, of Arkansas, will raise
| 10000 bushels of corn on his Lonoke
county plantation this year, besides a
big crop of cotton. If more of the
southern governors followed his ex-
ample and raised more corn and less of
the other thing the south would be bet
ter off.
Father Stephen Zimmerman, Hun
| garian Jesuit who spent some years i'll
in Central Africa, where he was re-
ported dead, is now in Chicago solicit
ing subscriptions in aid of another mis-
sion to the dark continent. He APP
pealed in vain to the Portuguese gov
eminent for support.
One Of the heaviest losers by the
Wllliamsport flood is Henry James, the
| lumber dealer of Baltimore. 1t is esti-
mated that Is, 900, 900 feet of his lumber
foated away, part of which will be
recovered with other timber in the bay,
and will probably greatly reduce his
loss, which is now approximated at
$3.50, 900.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain nee Endi-
cott) sat in the gallery of parliament
the other night when Labouchere made
fun of her husband by suggesting that
he would be willing to perform the
duties Of the turnkey to the queen, and
looked very uncomfortable. As for her
husband, he turned red, then white,
and looked very foolish.
Mrs. Carrie Johnson, one of the alder
men of the town of Oskaloosa, Kan, is
municipal lawnlaker no longer.
When the proposition came before the
board to make Aid. Johnson's rich
father lay sidewalk around a vacant
corner lot she not only opposed it but
when defeated she left the board and
never came back again.
The western Indiana musical jubilee
was held at Bloomingdale Glens, Aug.
18th. Over five thousand people listened
to the music rendered by over eight
hundred voices, comprising the best
talent of the state. The festival was
under the direction of Professor NJ. G.
Ware. assisted by the well known
Woody Brothers Male Quartet, of Chi
cago.
The statue of Horace Greeley to be
erected in the City Hall Park, New
York, will be eighteen feet high in
standard bronze upon granite pedes-
tai. The figure will be represented
seated in a large armchair, one foot
resting on hassock, the left arm
placed negligently upon the left leg,
while the right arm holds an open
newspaper. The statue will be ready
for unwilling in 1892.
The venerable ex-Vice President, Han
nibal Hamlin, is enjoying life in his
quiet way at his cosy home in Bangor.
He has a big garden in which he de-
lights to work, and his orchard and
fower-pots are the pride and JOY of
Fifth street. Although Mr. Hamlin is
| 81 years of age, he is still able to walk
ten or fifteen miles a day without
much fatigue, and he makes frequent
trips to his old home to Paris Hill, Ok
ford county.
The shah will probably not visit Con-
stantinople on his return to Persia, be-
cause he is unable to settle about his
reception by the sultan. The latter is
accustomed to receive all foreign visit
ors of distinction within the walls of
Yildiz kiosk, but it was claimed on be-
| half of the shah that he should be re-
ceived in state by the sultan at the
railway station or at a landing stage on
the Bosphorus. The sultan's party
don't think SO.
John Grouse, a Syracuse millionaire
grocer, who died recently, was laid in
what is probably the most costly tomb
in the country The structure is of
| solid granite, every stone being perfect
The stones run through and through
| the walls, and each has been fitted to
| its place with mathematical precision.
The masonry outside as well as in IS as
delicate as Joiner work in the strictest
sense. Nowhere in the roof is there a
vertical joint exposed to the sky, thus
preventing any possibility Of a leak, so
often found in such work.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, just ap-