Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-31


away $1,000,900 a year. Jay Gould
doesn't get near as much credit.
Senior Don Antonio del Castillo says
5000 tons of meteoric stone fell from
the moon in his part of Mexico re-
Gently.
Joseph Francis; the venerable found
9r of the United States Life-saving Ser
vice, is, at the age of 80, writing his
autobiography.
Baron Arthur Rothschild, a nephew
of the head of the great financial house,
is serving his twelve months in the
French army as private soldier.
DR.. Fermand, a well-known pathol-
ogist, says that the danger IN using
milk from tuberculous cattle has been
very much exaggerated.
President David Storr Jordon, of the
Stanford University in California, says
that he is the heaviest man that ever
assembled the Matterhorn.
Bayard Taylor's old home, Cedar
croft;" near Kenneth Square, Pa, is
advertised for sale. 1t is now owned
by the son and widow of Dr. Lewis,
executors of the estate.
Sir Morren Mackenzie's daughter,
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, has made
an interesting name for herself in
newspaper work as a writer Of CORE
spondence from London.
Annie Louise Cary Raymond has
given to the Maine General Hospital,
in which she has always felt profound
interest, enough money to fit up three
rooms for the use of patients.
Sir John Lubbock shows that bees
wings vibrate at the rate of 1870 beats
to the second. This calculation can
hardly have taken into account a Presi-
dental bee in a politicians hat.
Ex-Governor Curtin, Pennsylvania
great executive in the war days, says
that he proposes to pass the remain
der of his life writing a "history of the
events in which | took some small
part"
The Philadelphia friends of the late
Samuel j. Randall are contemplating
the erection of monument to his
memory. Mr.. George w. Childs and
Mr. DreXel have promised assistance to
the project.
Though Victor Hugo's Hermann" has
been ruled out of public school as I'M
fit for children to read scene from
that historic drama figures very extern
sively in Mrs. Wards "The History of
David Grieve."
Miss Marsden, who has been striv-
ING to better the condition of the
lepers in Siberia, and is to present
their cause to the Czarina, has travel
ed over 1900 miles on horseback in
prosecuting the work.
The remains of the late Henry w.
Grady were recently removed from
Oakland Cemetery, in Atlanta, their
temporary resting place, to the fine
white marble vault erected by Mrs.
Grady in Westyiew Cemetery.
Russell Sage's income is SO minute
and the additional day of leap year en-
ables him to rake down $21, 900. Russell
may take day off, but that income
keeps right on doing business without
slipping a cog or dropping stitch.
j. II. Manchester, administration of
the estate Of General Burnside, has sold
tie sword of the General to the trustees
of Bristol Memorial Hall, and his
library to Colonel S. p. Colt, who will
present it to the Rhode Island Soldiers
Home.
The Oldest diary in the world &C
cording 10 a Japanese paper, is that of
the Hozaka family, landed propri-
etors in the Province OF koschn. The
diary has been consciemtiousiv kept by
the various heads ot Cne family foI
more tman three centuries.
Gen Francis A. Walker would have
the government levy tax of SOD b
head upon every immigrant coming t,
US. Then he would notify the world
that having received il ten years s.
251.0)0 foreigners we had concluded
TO take rest for the next ten.
The brilliant success which had at
tended Little Lord Fauntleroy" on
the stage has not followed Mrs HoGg-
son Burnett'S latest dramatic venture
Her new play The Showman's Daugh
ter" which came to an end at the
Novelty Theater, in London. after 4
four-Weeks' run, cost her %l3, 900 clear
cash.
Gen, George w. Jones' aged 81, has
just been admitted to practice in the
waS Iowa's first United States Senator.
Previously he was delegate to Con-
gress from Michigan and Wisconsin
anu a soldier in the BlackhaWk War.
He acted rs one OF the seconds in the
GrLtes-Cilley duel
rrof Swift saws: Our winters. in
stead of growing milder, for 1900
yeats past have been more severe since
A. ID. 1900, at which time the earth
was III perihelion at the winter sol
st.IG. Dee. u, instead OF Jan. l, as at
the present time Still we appear to
be getting a little Of that perihelion, or
something, this winter.
Captain W. S. Schlev, the redoubta-
bic commander of the cruiser Balti-
more, is man of about Is wears
There are streaks of gray in his close
ly-cropped imperial" beard, but his
hair i brown and he wears it combed
down low over broad forehead His
shoulders are broad, and he has the
commanding presence of typical
naval officer.
Ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor OF Tenn
essee, in his lecture The Fiddle and
the Bow" gives limitations of the
mountain dialect conversation of a
number of old ladies, and of the
speeches at an old-time backwoods,
political meeting. He also imperson-
ates would be prima donna and an
Italian tenor singer. There is more
money than dignity in his business.
Margaret Fuller used to be account
ed a very wise woman, and doubtless