Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
How much does fool weigh, general
ly? A simple ton.

The Boston Post says that there are
only $1,000 lawyers in this country.
Good heavens! We thought there were
1000, coo, with Texas to hear from
Detroit Free Press.
BY an act just passed the Virginia hus-
band is henceforth exempted from liabil-
lty to pay the ante-nuptial debts of his
wife; neither is her property, unless it
was acquired from him, subject to his
| debts
DURING the war Gen. Polk ordered
Sergeant to fire a cannon which had
| been loaded while hot and allowed to
cool. The Sergeant said it would burst.
Polk said it wouldn't. It did and killed
thirty men. Polk picked up the Ser
geant's head and apologized
A MAN shot by robbers in Nevada re-
covered consciousness in time to hear
one of the rascals say: Had we better
piled; "No, l guess the cuss is dead"
, Though naturally disputatious man
| the victim didn't rise to argue the pint.
."ARE the young ladies of the present
day fit for wives?" asked Boston lect-
urer of his audience. "They are fit for
husbands" responded female voice;
but the trouble is that you men are
not fit for wives" The applause was
great, and SO was the discontinue of the
| lecturer.
YES, you may come again next Sun
day evening, Horace, dear, but''-and
she hesitated. "What is it, darling?
Have / given you pain?" he asked, as
she still remained silent. "You didn't
mean to, Pm sure" she responded, but
next time please don't wear one of those
collars with the points turning outward;
they scratch so."-Utic0 Herald.
THERE is maple grove in st, Johns
bury, VT, which has been twice thinned
out, and is now held at 5000 an acre ;
and, seventy years ago, the same field
was covered with growing corn. The
fine sugar orchard has come up as a
natural growth, and the opinion is quite
prevalent among those familiar with the
subject that the best way is to grow
| trees from the seed.
The Viceroy of Egypt is about to as
tonish the world again. He has resolved
to build railroad along the valley of
the Nile to the interior of Africa, and as
he has plenty of money and thousands of
serfs at his command he will no doubt
accomplish his purpose In few years
African explorers will be able to travel
in sleeping-cars, and to write magnii-
cent descriptions of places which they
will have passed through in the dark.
A CURIOUS Irish spe ech was delivered
in the House of Commons lately in de-
bate ON the Peace Preservation bill A
motion for adjournment had been mega
tived by 243 to So, when Mr.. O'GormaD
rose and addressed the House as fol-
lows: "When I last spoke here I was in
Ireland. Loud laughter. 1t is not so
now. [ beg to inform the right honora-
bic gentleman at the head of Her Mai
esty's Government that if the liberties of
my country are to be destroyed by a
!
critics shall die hard" [Great laughter
Mr.. O'Gorman moved the adjournment
of the House, and Mr.. Disraeli, remark
ing that after the last speech they would
not be in a proper state of mind to con-
tinue the debate, assented to it's adjourn
ment.
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD, the Cali
fornia poet, now travelling in Italy,
writes of some peculiar customs he has
observed there. He had stopped at
hotel in Sienna, and upon going to his
bed-chamber he found an extraordinary
invention tucked away under the bed
quilt. The bed, he says, looked not I'M
like model of a pyramid done in plas-
ter. Upon turning back the sheets he
discovered wooden cage quite large
enough for a brood Of turkeys; in the
center of it hung an earthen pot of Goals
and these Goals, which were still glow
ing, had heated the bed finely. This is
an Italian warming-pan. Akin to it,
says Stoddard, is the little silver or cop
per globe filled with hot water which
the Italian ladies carry about with them
in winter to keep their hands warm
| They nurse the ball while they talk with
| you in their drawing rooms and send it
out occasionally to be reflled when the
water has grown little cool.
THE woman whose nature is so
nearly fiendish as it is possible to
conceive Of lives at Bastrop, La.
Her name is Luna McRea, and
she is now in prison upon the charge
of numbering a small child. At her pre-
| liminary examination the testimony indi-
Gated that she had taken a diabolical
pleasure in killing the child by inches,
and after the accomplishment Of the deed
| to have felt no computations or any of
the ordinary dislike of a murderer to
| having the body of the victim in any
| place to serve as a reminder. TIE
woman's own son, little boy of twelve,
was the principal witness against her.
| She made this mere child dig up and
move the body of her victim two or
three times within the space of a week