Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-13
MISSING LINKS.

Up to the present 1,2S0.000 persons
have visited the Edinburgh exhibit
ton.
The phrase Zenith City of the Un-
salted," which made Proctor Knott
and his Duluth speech famous few
years ago, isn't in the speech at all.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, the noted
philanthropist of Boston. is now near
ly 80 years of age. She is very feeble
physically. but her mind is still bright
and active
Mrs. Ballington Booth denies en-
phatically that there is any movement
on foot to effect union between the
Salvation Army and the Woman Chris
tian Temperance Union.
Queen Margaret of Italy likes moth
ing so much as the museum of gloves,
fans, boots and shoes used and worn
at different periods at the various
courts of the States of Italy.
1t is further stated concerning Sir Ed
win Arnolds infatuation for japanese
women that the especial object of his
interest is the young woman whom he
has been teaching English.
John Burns, who led the great Lon
don dock strike has gone back to
work. He thinks the good results of
not compensate for the loss to the
strikers.
Frances Power Corbe is IS years of
age, and still active in her literary pro-
ductiveneSS. She is at the head of the
anti-vivisection movement in England,
and power in its labors both with
tongue and pen.
Christian Conrad, of Delaware coun-
ty. Iowa. claims to be 100 years of age,
and is still man Of active habits. He
is native of Cumberland county, Pa,
has used liquor in moderation all his
life, and tobacco ever since he was
It,
Joe Howard says that Ward Nc
Allister lis much mis- judged man.
He is not a person of individual for
tune. He married little money not
much, and has been known here for
the last forty years as a dancing-mas-
ter"
Mrs. Jacob Benton of Lancaster n.
H. has been hopeless invalid for the
last seven years. but she has not been
idle, for she has spent her time in
study and thus made herself the mis-
tress of five languages, Including Vol
apuk.
Two expeditions to the far north are
planned for next year, the one being
the Swedish attempt to reach the North
Pole under DR.. Nansen and other an
examination of the coast of Greenland
by Lieutenant G. Ryder, of the Danish
navy.
William Field, who enlisted in the
Thirty-ninth Massachusetts al the out
break of the Civil War, being then
over 60 years of age, died recently at
his home in Deerfeld. Mr.. Field is be-
lieved to have been the only man in
his State who became Il soldier when
over three-scOre.
State Senator Coggeshall, of the
Oneida district, n. Y, recently crossed
the Rocky Mountains riding on the COW
catcher of Canadian Pacific Railway
train. He tells Tacoma reporter that,
SO impressed was he with the grand
ness of the scenery at times he felt
like shouting like an untamed red
skin.
Charlotte Mary Yonge. who a gen.
Grafton ago wrote the Heir of Red
clitfe" and other novels, and gave the
proceeds to the cause of church mis-
sions in New Zealand is still alive in
England Although g. years old, she
is still writing, being now engaged on
her 101st book. which is to be a story
of the time Of Vespasian.
NJ Chi-Sing otherwise known as
Howgua. the wealthiest man in China,
is dead. His name is celebrated in the
history of the foreign trade of China.
He was worth about $50, 600. 900. and
accumulated his wealth as head of the
Chinese company called the CoHong,
which for many years had monopoly
of the trade with Canton.
In the matter of covering the news
of the revolution of Buenos Ayres the
London Times, under young Arthur
Walter, its manager, is said to have
distinguished itself among the Eu-
ropean press. With proper foresight
Walter sent down a special man and
stood Geographic charges at the rate,
for a column of 1900 words of f630.
Charles P. Berkshire of Morgan
town, Pa, is making a cane for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1898 which
will contain 1872 pieces of West Vir-
ginia wood, have a gold ferrule and j
acknowledged head. He has made
several valuable sticks. and expects
70 ha 0f bo of
wood-engraving to be seen at the Fair.
John Brown. son of John Brown, of
Harpers Ferry fame. lives quietly at
Put-in-Bay, Ohio, where he cultivates
a small vineyard and fruit farm. He
is an old man now, having been one of
the prominent persons in the stirring
period in which his father figured. He
is much annoyed by tourists. who in
sist upon hunting him up and discuss
ing the exciting events around Har
per's Ferry just prior to the war.
Few princesses in the royal and semi
royal houses of Europe are so sensible
as the Princess Maria Anna of POrtu-
gal, who is about to marry an until
tied doctor of medicine. Ia reply to
an intimate friend who asked her re-
Gently how she could marry man of
such low rank, when so many princely
suitors were at her disposal. she said:
Il prefer to marry a man without a
name, rather than name without a
man."
George W. Keene of South Boston is
man whose life is a record of figure
mines. His father died in 1859 at the
age of 50, and was buried Jan. %. Mr..
Keene himself was married May %,