Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-08-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.

| the book-selling business at Leipsic.
1t is said that England's crops of hay
and cereals this year will be good.
Live lightning bugs are used by
Mexican women as ornaments for the
| head.
Lyons has six daiiy papers, with an
aggregate circulation of only ten thou
sand.
A dry goods dealer has sued the
Queen of Denmark for a bill of four
hundred dollars.
Prince Napoleon, travelling under the
name of General Bonaparte,' has gone
to Prussia He will pass the summer
and autumn in Berlin.
The depositors in the Liverpool bank
for small savings now number Al, 500, and
the amount to their credit in the bank is
upwards Of IS, 3,5, 600
The Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland has
been mucted in some Sl25 damages for
alleged misconduct of the Dublin police
during riot in Phoenix Park.
In Liverpool it has been found that
the publication Of the names of persons
who became intoxicated has reduced the
number of drunkards one-half in six
months.
The Prussian Government publicly
calls attention to the presence VI trichinm
in hams imported via Bremen from the
United States warning purchasers to ali
stain from them, and threatening the sell.
crs with criminal proceedings,
Schools for printers are established
/ throughout Germany, designed to instruct
apprentices IN the theory and practice of
printing not only, butt lmpart general
knowledge Of foreign languages, and an
accurate acquaintance with the type Of
all languages,
Out Of the four hundred students at
Zurich University, eighty are women, OF
these, fifty are in the classes OF medicine,
and are chiefly from Russia, though En-.
gland is pretty well represented. Miss
Atkins, Of the latter country, has Just
passed brilliant examination, and re-
Ceivcd the degree of Doctor Of Medicine.
In France an inventor of boots with
which to walk on the water made pub
/ lie experiment, when, says an account,
the boots indeed floated, but the inycn,
tor, with his head under water, seemed 10
he carrying on II conversation with the
fishes, which would have probably ended
with his sufi,UCaton If boat had not
picked him up.
Attention to agriculture in Sout. At
/ rica is following the discovery of the dia.
mond fields, just as it followed the disCOy
cry Of gold in California 1t is now stated
/ that the new district which England has
/ Just annexed is unriyalel in the richness
OF the soil, and Of which only a very
! small portion has hitherto been cultivated
/ by the Dutch settlers
/ Late London papers contain tele
/ gram from Paris, saying that no woman
/ has hitherto been executed at Versailles
/ though the courts marital have sentenced
4 several to death, but now the cantinierC
/ Guyard, convicted of firing upon Bishop
! jurat, is to meet her doom, 1t being,
. however thought too revolving for sol
I dcrs to shoot a woman, she would be
/ guillotined.
"A curious case, involving the validity
I of Grctna Green marriage, came before
An English court recently. 1t was said
! that Il woman was married at Gretna
/ Green to a man named ker, and after
wards married another man named vii
/ son. At her death Ker claimed her es
/ tate, but the jury, without leaving TIT
/ box, decided for Wilson, and ordered let
ters Of administration to uass to him.
There Is cons iderable alarm in The
German Universities regarding the falling
oil in the number OF theological students
The following figures are given in Illus
trauon: Ten years ago, in 1862 the stu
/ dents of theology in the sixteen uniyersi
[ ties of Germany numbered , ,J62 thcr,
are now only ,9s5, and four-titths Of thi