Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-02-11

| Bret darte was Il clerk IN the san
! Francisco mint in 1865.
The Goulds AS tors and Vanderbilts
are their own insurers.
Miss Ada Rehan has appeared in 200
| roles in the last twelve years.
Forty-four per cent of all railways
in the world are in this country.
There are 1000, 900 acres of avail
able land lying untitled in Virginia.
j. A. Stein. the recently deceased
Boston musician. came to America in
1913.
Bangor will probably erect a monu-
ment to the memory of Hannibal Ham
lin
Hall Game is going to Russia to en-
deavor to alleviate the condition of the
the Jews.
Sir Charles Brooke an Eaglishman
bears the title of White Sullivan on the
island of Borneo.
Colonel W. w. Dudley. the Indiana
politician, has opened law office in
New York city.
A French journal says fat people
but one dish at a meal
Every animal and bird in the Cen
trail Park (New York; menagerie has
learned to eat peanuts.
Lawrence Gronlurd. the Socialist,
holds small clerkship in the Bureau
OF La Dor at Washington.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Kate Field
think bachelors should be taxed for
the support of maiden ladies.
Amelie Riyes Chanler is to have a
studio building erected at her rural
home in Virginia, Castle HILL"
Rubenstein says his love for his
mother was conf ined with a whole
some fear of her critical judgment.
George KEENAN, is said to have clear
ed $4,000 from his writings and
lectures on the Russian exile system.
The people of Hawaii, according to
DR.. Mott Smith. of Honolulu. would
like to be annexed to the United States
Sir Edwin Arnold said in a New
York interview that James Whitcomh
Riley's verse is highly priced in En-
land.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, son Of Lu-
Glen Bonaparte and nephew of the
first Napoleon, died in Rome recently,
aged rs years.
A replica of the famous statue bv
Praxiteles called the Marble Faun, has
been presented to Bowdoin College by
the class of 1881.
The Earl of Dufferin has been ap-
pointed Warden of the Cirque Ports to
succeed w. H. Smith. The position is
lucrative sinecure.
Lord Tennyson is annoyed because
Englishmen pronounce Ralph so that
the word rhymes with safe" He
makes it rhyme with laugh"
Nine. de Barrios is said TO be con-
templating another essay in matri-
mony. The ex-PreSident's widow, how
ever denies the soft impeachment.
An enterprising citizen of Bogota,
United States of Columbia is already
arranging for excursion parties of
his countrymen to the Columbian Ex-
position.
Major Stevens. of the German army.
has been appointed Chief Instructor of
the Turkish artillery. He will design
new Notifications for the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles.
The newest anesthetic is named
'pental," discovered by Professor Won
Mering in Halle. 1t is a preparation of
tertiary amyl-alcohol, and is for small
operations only.
Samuel H. Ingersoll. of Minnesota.
met his Twin brother John B., at Nut
ley, Oak. the other day. They are Is
years Old. and had not seen each other
for thirty-three years.
A reporter for the Springfield (Mass.)
Union had such mania for reporting
fires that he became an incendiary.
He confesses to having started six con-
hagrations. and is now in Jail.
The rumor is current in london that
a daughter of the Prince of Wales is to
marry Viscount Chealsea, son of the
Earl of Cadogan, and that Prince
George is to marry sister of the Wis
count.
A list of the abandoned farms" of
Vermont was published by the State
authorities last spring. and the list is
reported to be already considerably
shortened by the purchases of new
Corners.
An exhibition car of the Canadian Pa
cific Railway, filled with fine display
Of cereals and other products of the
Dominion of Canada, principally from
the Northwest is making a tour
through the rural districts of England,
An ordinance has recently gone into
effect in Berlin which will give the
right of way to carriages of physicians
drivsng through crowded streets. In
order to distinguish doctors carriages
from others the coachmen will wear
white hats.
Mr.. Nathan Harris of Rich Valley,
Va, has a daughter 10 years old who
is only two feet ten inches in height,
and weighs just forty and a half pounds.
Size is well proportional and intelli-
gent. and her hair sweeps the floor
when she stands erect.
Geraldine Ulmar the American
prima donna, has had a sad accide Mt
in London winch will probably dis
figure her for life. She was playing
with her dog and the animal sprang
at her face. bit her mouth and no Sc
and tore the flesh badly.
The Polish Count Graborki is a fire.
man on a Pan Handle locomotive He
is a manly and well educated young
fellow, with an excellent record of
service in the German army. but he is
thoroughly content with his humble
situation, and intends to stick to it.