Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-10
PERSONAL POINTS.

The Conkling name has by no means
disappeared from New York politics. In
the present assembly on the republican
side are the two nephews of the distin-
guished senator, Howard and Alfred r.
ConkIing. The latter represents New
York city district and the former Warren
county. Alfred is the better known of the
two among legal, literary and scientific
people, but Howard Is said to be the better
politician of the practical sort. Last fall
Howard Conkling, who has been living
like recluse in Warren county some dozen
years, told the republicans there that he
did not seek an assembly nomination, yet
if nominated he would make the democracy
of the north woods howl. He travelled by
wagon hundreds of miles making per-
sonal canvass and won by as votes. Both
the Conklinys would he oftener heard from
were the assembly republican.
Sarah Bernhardt is thus severely criti-
cised 10y Tourgenief, the great Russian
novelist: 'She is gifted by nature with
school, but she is without real feeling and
without the artistic temperament. Her
walk is like that of hen. She is a
mimic. The motions she makes with her
hands must confess are piquant, but her
whole acting is redolent of the boule-
ward"
Chester Roach, who was born in the
Allegheny county almshouse seventy-fve
years ago, and who tramped with his
parents through western New York for
years, .died in Minnesota last week, and
left an estate of 100000. He made his
first money as tramp tinker, and invest
ed his earnings in Minneapolis real
estate.
Mrs. John A. Logan is suffering from a
fall caused by the collapse of camp stool
She has slightly injured her spine, and is
now confined to her room, not seriously
hurt but sufficiently so to make her friends
very anxious.
Bernard Domecq, who died rec emily in
Bayonne, treasured coin that was given
him at the time of the siege of that city
in 1914. He was then thirteen years old
and the money was given him by the duke
of Wellington for holding the latter's
horse a few minutes.
The hopes of many Bavarians that death
was about to relieve them of mad king,
have proved vain. The latest reports say
that King Otto is physically comparatively
well, although his mental condition is as
gloomy as ever.
The eldest daughter of Boulanger is en-
gagged to be married soon. She lives with
her mother in Versailles. The youngest
daughter has been the wife of Captain
Oriant for several years, and is with her
husband in Tunis.
Thomas Smith, millionaire land owner
of Detroit, kept a dairy most Of his life
and laid up wealth. Hewa already three
score and ten when he decided to marry
again. His bride, who is a little over
fourth Of his age, now lives in a luxurious
separate establishment, while the non
agenarian is paralytic and lives at the
old dairy.
General Budd Grubb in his City Troop
uniform and his bride, late ''the Rose of
Iisburn," in her fresh Irish beauty and
new French dresses, are said to be shak-
ing the social foundations of the aristoc-
raey of Madrid. The four hundred have
even dared, it is whispered, to speak of
the American minister as ''old canary
seed"
The daughter of John Brown, of Ossa-
gatomie, Mrs. Ruth Thompson, who re,
sides in California, is in quite straight
eLed circumstances, and one of her friends
is trying to help her and her family by
Selilng lor ner some OF ner 1ather auto
graphs.
Tue composer Rossini was one of the
LATEST of mortals. After he had produced
his crowning triumph, Guillaume Tell,
composed at tue age of thirty-seven, he
passed thirty years in inactivity Janus.
ing him self at Bologna by fishing and pig
farming He had so great an antipathy
to exertion and was so enamored of "self-
sufioing solitude" as Wordsworth calls
il. that il is doubtful if he would go out
of his way now, if he were alive, to hear
the anthems of praise that are sung for
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