Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

books which Dickens wrote.
Lillian Russell denies that she is con-
templating any further matrimonial
ventures.
Lady Somerset says that in many
English homes Frances Wizards name
is a watchword and an inspiration.
Apple-seeds are used in the manu-
facture of prussic acid. One Vermont
farmer picks them from his cider press.
Col Hahn, the General Manager of
Jay Gould's elevated railroad, is small
in stature and energetic to a remark
able degree.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the noted
English churchman, now in this cOun-
try, conceals his age under an extreme
ly youthful face.
The place in Newport which Mrs.
Elizabeth Coles has left for the founda-
ton of a college for young men is
worth about $500, 900.
A statistician of small things figures
it out that the posterity of one pair Of
English sparrows amounts in ten years
to something like 276, 900, 900, 900 birds.
Richard Henry Stoddard's handwrit-
ing is so minute that he can compress
the equivalent of half column Of news
paper type into a single page of man
uscript.
The capital of West Virginia is at
Charleston, although nearly all the
maps say it is at Wheeling. 1t was
formerly at Wheeling, but has been
changed.
Mrs. William Vanderbilt is an I'M
usually handsome woman, with creamy
white complexion, dark brown hair,
large dark grey eyes and a remark
ably fine figure.
President Grevy was known for a
thrifty person. 1t is something of a
surprise, however, to learn that his
personal property in England is not
less than f172,000.
Francis M. Dale, colored man, took
oath in Judge Broaddus's court, in
Kansas City, the other day, that he
was 10 years old and had fought I'M
der Washington in the revolutionary
war
Julien Gordon, otherwise known as
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, weeps
profusely and refuses to be cOmforted
when her books are unfayorably criti-
cised by the newspapers. She weeps
frequently.
Mr.. Hudson, the protector and con-
structor of the st. Clair tunnel be-
Hcvcs that in the twentieth century
Boston will be forty miles long and
twenty broad, and that its population
will number 1000, 900.
DR. Selim, the Khedive's physician,
isxsaid to be a Christian, and a gradu-
att Of the medical department of the
University of New York. He entered
the medical branch of the military
service of the Khediye a few years ago.
Considering the dislike the entire
South has for the author Gable, it is
interesting to read in Richmond pa
per that, "despitc his personal unpopu-
larity, we must own that no American
novelist since the war has equaled him
in fiction"
William Morris, the English poet,
who is deemed probable successor to
Lord Tennyson in the laureateship, is
the manager of factory for Wall-pa-
per, has profitable bric-a-brac shop,
and owns several shares in a success
full magazine.
Miss Kate Publish, Il graduate of
Dowdoin College, is the most noted
botanist IN Maine and has already
made collection of 1920 different
species of plants, the greater part of
which She has reproduced in water
colored drawings.
Daniel Doughcrty has declined an
invitation 10 address the United States
Catholic Historical Society on Chris
tophcr Columbus, but expressed the
opinion that the anniversary of the dis
covery of America should be observed
as a Catholic affair.
Mrs Gladstone. is said to be hardly
inferior 10 her husband in energy and
industry. She has always been inter-
ested in charity and church work and
in politics, and has at the same time
maintained close watch upon her house
hold affairs and her children.
The removal to Chicago from Harp
er's Ferry of the old engine house
known as John Browns Fort" leads
the Boston 4dUertiScr to remark
that Virginia needs two statues, one
of John Smith at jamestown and the
other of John Brown at Harper's Fer
ry.
Mrs. Riddell, one of the most popu-
lar of English novelists, has never re-
ceiyed over 81 $50 year from the sale
of her twenty-eight works of fiction,
and it is proposed to put her ON the
civil pension list. Her publishers
have made much money in the mean
time.
The Queen of England is said to
have the largest collection eNtant of
photographs of nobilities of her time,
from the portraits of kings queens,
emperors and expresses downwards.
They date from the beginning of
daguerrotypes down to the present
photographs.
Eli Whitney Blake. nephew of Eli
Whitney, Of cotton-gin fame, invented
the Blake ore crusher now in use all
over the world. Like his uncle, he
was robbed of the profits of his inven-
ton by infringements. Both invent
ors were born in Westboro, Mass,
and both are buried in New Haven, CT.
Lorimer Stoddard, the actor, is a
son of the poet, Richard Henry Stod-
dard. He has made a success of his
stage career, and is remembered as the
funny little lord in Robinson and
Cranes "The Henrietta" Mr.. Stod-
dard has also found time to do some
literary work, and is the author of the
little comedy, shell Be Happy To-