Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-03
IN A PERSONAL WAY.

IN A PERSONAL WAY.
NJ Jules Lefebyre has been elected mem
Der of the Academy Des Beaux Arts by
seventy-four votes to thirty-fve.
The death of w. J. Florence will not
interfere with the engagements of the
Jefferson Florence combination. Mr..
Florence was a salaried man, and Louis
James has been engaged to play his
roles.
Mrs. ParneI will receive 5000, 900 under
the will of her aunt, the late Lady Wood
and will have an ample fortune with which
to alleviate the sorrows of her widow
hood
William D. Window, son of the late
Secretary Window, has been appointed
tect's office at Washington by Secretary
Foster.
The friends of Governor Boies are fon d
of telling the story of how Miss Jessie
Boies. the governors daughter, had a
number Of trunks packed on election day
of 1889, preparatory to starting with her
father ON tour of Europe, which they
were about to begin at the time the demo-
cratic convention nominated Mr.. Boies,
and how, when the governor, rather to
his surprise, found he was elected, the
European TRIP was abandoned and has not
been thought of since,
Gerster, the ex-opera singer, has bought
the Palazza Mezzona in Italy, which has
been in the Rossi family for two hundred
years. The castle crowns hill and is
surrounded by cypress trees.
Miss Adele Griswold Gardiner, who was
presented to New York society last week
at a tea given by her mother, Mrs. J. Lyon
Gardiner, of GA Madison avenue, New
York, counts four colonial governors
among her ancestors. One of them, Lyon
Gardiner, in 1886 owned the whole of
GARDENERS island
Jane Hading wears some wonderful
dresses in Sardou's revived comedy, Nos
Intimes, at the Vaudeville, in Paris Two
of these dresses are harmonies in white of
different textures. In the night scene she
is in a rich white failIe dressing gown, all
softness of texture and of luster, and
trimmed in front with silk embroidery OF
autumn foliage gold, russell, red brown
fluff to match. The Innings of tnis gar.
ment, the front being open and loose, often
show. and are in surah, no less soft and
lustrous, but in different way. A soft
sash holds the back part of the dressing
gown at the waist close to the figure, an6
then passing through openings in the side
seams, clasps the waist, and is fastened IL
front by large careless bow. The dress
is of Indian muslin and the softest Mechlir
lace. 1t is rich in small tucks and inser
ton, which the blue underskirt throws
into relief.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, does no
cease to mourn the tragic death of thu
Crown Prince Rudolph. She ordered ;
wreath of white roses to be placed, on Al
Saints Day, upon the princes coffin
without streamers and without Il sign
from herself She also sent large buncl
of beautifully scented acatia flowers from
her garden in Corfu, and the delicate
musk-Eke perfume of the feathers
sprays, with their hundreds of yellow pei
lets, which powder the silver coffin, per
vades the vault, where a hundred wa
tapers make the air close. There are ais
wreaths from the widowed crown princes
and her little daughter, with streamers, O.
which is read the name ''Stephanie.
Early in the day she went by rail to Ba
den and drove thence to Mayerling
attend funeral mass at the chapel there
This is the first time since her husband
death that the crown princess las crosse
the threshold of the former hunting DO,
where years ago she spent happy summer
with him and her baby, without fore
shadowing OF the tragedy which woul
some day take place beneath that roof.
Matthew Arnold used the expressio
sweetness and light so often and S
felicitously that people thought him bot
the author and apostle Of sweetness an
light" But Dean Swift first used it.
When General Forest captured Fo
Pillow, he is said to have sent the follow
ing dispatch: "We busted the fort a
ninercock and scattered the niggers. TIL
men Is still Gil anon in the woods.
'.Ninerclock' explains itself, and ''cill'
nom'' is interpreted to read "killin
them"