Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-06

The French army officers are now all
armed with revolvers. during the war
of 1870 they had none.
! NJ. Meissonier is the first paiter ever
raised to the dignity of Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
King Louis, of Portugal, gave the
copyrights of his literary works to
charitable institutions.
There were over 25O varieties of
chrysanthemums on exhibition at a
flower show at Los Angeles, Cal.
The most interesting exhibition in
Europe next year will be the loan exhi-
bltion OF tapestry at the Austrian Mu-
suem.
Arson Willesey of Avon, H., roll
licking blade of IS years, was married
recently to Susanna Mccoy. blushing
maiden of 81.
Prince Louis Napoleon, who was
lately an officer of the Italian Reserves,
has obtained commission as Major in
the Russian army.
Harriet Beecher Stowe recently said:
81 wish writers of my life would wait
until | am dead before they publish
tuSIl OS1dpI1ieS.
Louis Kossuth declares vehemently
that he will not accept Italian or any
other citizenship, but will die as he has
lived, Hungarian.
John Tyndall, father of the famous
scientist, was carpenter by trade. He
lived in the little town of Carlow,
forty-four miles from Dublin, Ireland.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the Wo-
man Suffragist, claims Boston as her
home, but spends nine months in the
year lecturing in various parts of the
country.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards saws the
work of galley slave is not to be COM
pared with his or her work who under
takes to extract a guinea from the
pocket of a Britisher.
Andrew Jackson Pine, who died re-
Gently at Harrisburg Pa, had been
chief page of the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives for twenty-eight
years. He became page at the age
of IA.
Mr.. Lew Rosen is responsible for the
rather expressive and suggestive re-
mark that "A. M. Palmer has been
connected with the stage in New York
almost as long as some of our popular
soubrettes.
Monaco, to which only consuls are
accredited, has big di plomatic corps
in the rest of Europe, and its diplo-
mats display a profusion of gold lace
and titles purely for the honor of serv-
ing the principally gratis.
A wild hog was shot recently at Oak
Hill, Cal, which weighed 500 pounds.
1t was snow-white and had tusks six
inches long. A pound of lead was
found in his carcas, the result of efforts
of former hunters to kill him.
The English statistics give a notable
decrease in their convict population
during the last twenty years. The to-
tai number of conyicts under sentence
of penal servitude was 6. 405 in July;
twenty years ago it was II, $50.
King Luis of Portugal did not in all
his reign sign single order for capital
punishment. He had conscientious
scruples against inficting the death
penalty. and SO succeeded in making
it practically absolete in his domin-
ions.
L L.
Philadelphia typefounder gave to var
ious charities more than 100000
year during the closing years of his
long and useful life. Everything I
have to give away" he said, Il shall
give away before die.
A sensible suggestion is made that
the movement to restore the monument
to the memory of Mary Washington,
the mother of the first President, shall
include the purchase of the old house
in which she lived and died. 1t is a
small house at Fredericksburg.
Philip McKim, the new steward of
the White House, has given great sat-
isfaction to the Harrisons. He under
stands old-fashioned American cookery
better than did Hugo Ziemann, and
can provide the president with better
pies than could the Chicago chef.
Lew Wallace says the scene that
moved him most in writing ben Hur''
was the one representing the hero
sleeping on the steps when his mother
and sister, after their release from the
dungeon, drew near and recognized
him and yet dare not approach nearer.
An Americal Amateur recently offer
ed $12, 900 to the municipality of Genoa
for the violin of Paganini, which is re-
lgiously preserved in the city museum
as memento of Genoa's gifted son.
The instrument was made at Cremona
by Guarneri in 100. The American
offer was declined.
The old saying that the man who
minds his own business will make
money is not true. Charles Cochrane,
a Canadian, has remained on his farm
for fourteen straight years without
leaving it and has not spoken to a
stranger in all that time, and yet he is
poorer than when he began.
The decline of the English tailor in
: America is announced by some of the
| trade journals. and it would seem that
J there is a reason for the assertion that
: he is no longer as fashionable as an
! American tailor 1t has been discOv-
|. cred at last that the conventional En-
: glish clothes do not fit him.
Swimming baths are becoming pop
ular additions to English schools. The
school board contends that is quiet as
important for boy to learn to swim
; as for girl to learn the art of cookery,
! and claims that the swimming bath
adds to the comfor of the scholars and
assists in the work of education.
From the tabulated returns just COM
piled in the office of the state superin-
tendent of public instruction it has
| been aScerta mod that the total numher