Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-22
WISCONSIN
PERSONAL POINTS.

money orders and reads postal cards IN the
post Office at Chase Mills, Maine, and is
the biggest plum in the village pie.
Terrence V. Powderly is convinced that
The Columbian exposition is a stupendous
advertising scheme, and is sure that it.can' t
benefit the laboring man anyhow.
The kissing habit as a factor in political
campaigns seems to be growing In i'm
portance. Mrs. Campbell was the last to
embrace her husband in the presence of a
vast concoursa in Ohio the other day. Mr..
Eassett has been kissed. 1t would appear
to be Mr.. Flower turn.
Victoria Woodruff and Tennie Clafiln
are said to be making arrangements for
permanent return to New York.
Eugene Field is prepared to bet, with
entire recklessness, that the title The
Board of Lady Managers originated
either with some woman with d smelling
bottle, or with a rural congressman who IS
addicted to let his wife cut his hair.
Osman Pasha, the hero OF Plevna, has
been located as sealer in the kitchen Of
tie sultan of Turkey. His peculiar bus,
ness is to seal all the dishes for the sul-
tan's table as soon as they are prepared;
and thus secure against poison, they are
carried into the royal dining room and
the seals broken only in the sultan's pres
ence,
The engagement is announced at Boston
of Bert" Hale, son Of Edward Everett
Hale, and Miss Margaret Marquand,
daughter of the prominent New York
broker.
Ex-President Andrew D. White, Of
Cornell university, presented PROPOSE
ion at the closing session of the National
Civil Service Reform league in Buffalo,
for the league to offer 81 600 annually in
prizes for the bsst essay on civil service
reform by college students. Offering him
self to give $3.50. The proposal was re-
ferred to the executive committee.
The largest salary drawn at present by
any diplomatist is that of $50, COO per year
irawn by M. Waddington, French ambas-
sador in London. The English minister
in Paris spends more, but has only 600
salary. Our minister ge5s $l7,5OO.
Among the new professors in the Chica-
go university are Rev. William Fiddian
Moulton, D. D., ex-president of the Wes-
'eyan conference, the famous Greek scholar
nd translator of the Apocrypha, and the
celebrated orientalist, professor of Arabic
and Hebrew at Cambridge, DIR. Robert
Lubbock Bensley, who WIS among the first
appointed on the committee for revision of
the New Testament.
John .. Rockefeller, who has the larg-
est annual income of any man in America,
has spent the summer working on his Ohio
farm, Just as if he was a common laborer
and doing quite as much labor as any OF
his hired men. He has done it in the pur-
,uit of health,
Miss Emma Thursby is thoroughly dis
eusted with her experience Of Tacoma
Wash, where, though announced for a
concert, she was not allowed to sing, be-
cause she had offended the dignity of Di-
rector mnes, of tue Thirteenth Regimen
band, by having her name made more
prominent than his own.
f. D. Holton's gift for Ripon college
has borne fruit already. E. D. Smith, OF
Menasha, has added SIS 900 to Mr.. Hol.
tons gift. 1t all illustrates the power 81
example.
Wednesday Thomas L. Parker, of Chlca'
go. and Miss Cornelia Dyer, only daughter
of Judge and Mrs. Charles T. Dyer, were
married by Rev. Charles Stanley Lester, OF
St. Paul's church. The ceremony took
place in the large reception parlor OF the
Plankinton house, Milwaukee, which wa:
deliberately decorated with flowers ano
tropical plants.
The habitual criminal ought to CO. and
Massachusetts is setting an interesting
example as to the mode of procedure to Sc
cure that end. 1t was only a few days
ago in Boston that David Reagan was
sentenced to % years confinement in the
state prison as habitual crimjnalundel
recent statute. He is "a years and the
sentence is therefore practically for life
Two terms of five years each he has served
for breaking and entering, and he was q
well behaved prisoner, so that his last
term was shortened by the good conduct
allowance Reagan was released in Feb
-uary, 1890. The past summer for third
time he essayed burglary, and this sen,
tcnce is the end. He made no protest
agairSt the disposition of the court, but
he ia his apology for his life to make,
ara 1t went back SIS years. When he was
he said his young wife died. "and
since that time have been a thief.