Jack Warburton (who does not know
of himV) is now in Freeport trying to
brace in that city and teach If e people to
Ire temperate in all things.
Speaker Hogan is credited with an am
bition to be governor.
It has lieen estimated that Sarah Bern
hardt has saved more than $1,000,000 in
the course of her successful career on the
stage.
Dr. U K. Booth, who is superintendent
of the Oshkosh insane usjluin, is very
likely to be called to Ashland to i-.e
charge of a sanitarium that a (dis k com
pany is about to erect there. He intends
to resign his present office soon.
John Everett , a merchant tailor of Viro
qua, who made Secretary Rusk’s wedding
suit many years ago, is dead, aged 82
years. Everett resided .it Viroqua for
thirty-five years, and was a neighbor of
the Rusk family in Ohio.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is summering at
Short, Beach, on Long Ishmd sound,
where she has just completed the erection
of a cottage that is as novel in arrange
ment ;is it, is attractive in external appear
ance. It is is a square structure sur
rounded by a broad veranda. The roof is
supported by f air large, tipiare mists, into
which the sides of (he bouse disappear at
the will of the oceupaid. The walls of the
house are made after the fashion of
Venetian blinds. Snd when released they
wind about rollers set. in motion by
springs on the inside of the four posts,
which are hollow. Upon the inside
heavy curtains are bun* upon bamboo
poles, so that when the walls of the house
are rolled aside the interior of the cottage
is hidden from view, while the occupants
get the full benefit ( f the sen bneze. Mrs.
