Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-19

broken off, much TO the disgust of tho
queen. 1t is said that after the bethroth-
III OF the crown prince to Princess Marie
was announced Mile. NacareSco amused
herself by mailing every week to the
princess one of the love letters written
to her (AIlle. VacareSco) by Prince Ferdi-
nand. The duke of Edinburg and King
Charles interpoSed and by some means
succeeded in stopping this annoyance
to the princess
Ameie RiveS-Chandler scarcely ever
uses that part of her name which fol
lows the hyphen.
Kew. William Perrin, of st. Luke's
chutch, III Londsn, has been appointed
bishop of British Columbia.
George G. GOer, whose death oc-
CURED at Charleston, S. c., recently was
the engineer Of the Monitor when She
had her famous fight with the Merit
mac, and was one Of the sixteen SIR
vivors who were rescued by the steamer
Rhode Island when the Monitor went
down.
In course Of a conversation relative
to the death of Lord Tennyson, DR.. Oh
liver Wendell Holmes said: There were
four great men in the lives of whom I
felt | had certain relationship. They
were Darwin, Gladstone. Tennyson and
Lincoln-men who made the year 1909
SIIia nd T
to creep into that year, too"
There is great Indignation among the
ultra loyal English in Montreal because
Lieutenant Governor Chaplea, paid an
official visit to Cardinal Taschereau at
the latter's palace. 1t was the first visit
in years. The English residents say the
lieutenant governors action is n recos-
milton that the church holds chief power
in the province of Quebec.
Mrs Gladstone is said to have exposed
! herself in what seems an almost recl-
less manner when cholera was epidemic
! in London in 1866. She went about
among the sick in the hospitals and car
ried off friendleSS children suddenly left
orphans to an Orphanage which she
established. She wrote an appeal 70
the Eondon Times for subscriptions for
this purpose and secured about S25. 900.
Mr.. EdmundS, of Vermont is said to
have been almost the only exception to
thhe rule that the supreme court prac-
tce of a lawyer soon dwindleS after he
becmes United States senator. Sena-
tors Teller, Carpenter, Morgan and 9th
ers found that their clients dropped off
one by one after senate cares began to
press. Senators Mitchell and DOlph, Of
Oregon, however, still have a good many
cases.
The only son of Richard Wagner, Sieg-
fried Wagner, Familiarity known as
Young Siegfried,'' ofticiated as best
man at the wedding of Felix Motif and
Fraulin Staudtharmer, which took place
i'll Berlin recently. Herr Motif is the
musical director at the CarlSruhe opera
| house, and his bride is well known Us
an opera singer III most of the continent
al capitals. She has of late been sing
| ing in Vienna.
Professor Huxley now lives III IL house
! ia Sussex designed for him by the huS-
| band of his eldest daughter He calls
the place ''HodesIea." which the ancient
form Of his surname This story Of the
great naturalist is current: A poStman
| once asked him for an autograph, con-
| Tossing frankly that he did not know
what the professors business was, but
explaining that he had heard folks say
as how he was something s'perior."
The attack by the Vatican upon the
masonic order was sharply repealed by
| a prominent Sicilian, AdTiano Lemmi,
at banquet in Palermo. He asserted
! that free masonry had done much to
improve the moral, intellectual, and ma
terial condition of the people of the
lower classes especially, and closed with
| a fervid appeal to the 100000 Free
masons of the world to enlist under the
| banner Of civilization against the Vati-
can"
| Abner Mckinley, a brother of the
! governor, is said to have invented a
! typewriting electrical machine, which
| is intended to receive and properly reg
| lister telgrams without the necessity OF
a receiving operator.