Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tice of wearing carriers is killing hundreds
of women.
EXCESSIVE airs, like excessive dress,
show person to be not only fop without
but one within.
He that does a base thing in zeal tor his
friend burns the golden thread that ties
their hearts together
THE importation of breech-loading rifles
and fixed ammunition into the Territory
of Alaska is forbidden.
WHITE barege toilets are very popular
this season. They are trimmed with
plaitings of the same or with fringe.
GIIRoY, California, has brass band
with four women in it, and they say there
never was SO much soul thrown into a
bugle-horn before
To THE man in debt the race of life is a
sack-race; any attempt at striding as an
untrammeled man can will cast him into
the dust of ba nkruptcy.
SAYS the Herald Of Health: ''The peo-
pie need more sun" There seems to be
wisdom i'll the remark, but who's going to
hang another sun in the heavens?
NOTHING cheers a man SO much as to
sit on crackerbox in the shade of a
grocery awning and read an item about
the terrible scarcity of harvest hands.
THE Kentucky paper which crowded out
a sermon and three funeral notices tomake
room for report of a horse-race proposes
to stand by the interests of its subscribers.
A CONTEMPORARY wonders whether
Cain and Abel ever had the mumps or the
whooping-cough. Very probably It's
certain, at all events, that their mother had
Adam.-New York Commercial Ad0ortiser.
DOES giant farming pay?" asks the
Chicago Tribune If the Tribune really
wants information, it ought to 90 and talk
to the giants themselves. The agricultural
papers can't know everything. -Neao York
Mail.
How bravely man can walk the earth,
bear the heaviest burdens, perform the
severest duties and lock all men boldly IN
the face, if he only bears in his breast
clear conscience, void of offense toward
God and man!
He wrote and told her he would be
around at eight O'Clock in the evening,
concluding his note with the following
couplet:
With breath as sweet as roses
Thoult breathe upon me, love.
And she coidly answered: You'd better
not come. We had onions il the soup to-
day"
SAID Brooklyn girl to her lover: "
wish it understood that when we are mar
ried you will make it a rule to give me all
the money | ask for, and never inquire
what | do with it, g But does that show
proper confidence in meP How can YOU
so wound the feelings of the man VINO
loves your" "Ah! my DEAR" was the
quiet reply, "my mottois: Principles not
menu
A WRITER describing the bravery of
the women of China says: " During a
fierce conflict with pirates in the Chinese
Sea there was pirates wife in one of the
boats, holding so fast by the helm that she
could scarcely be taken away Having
two cutlasses, she defended herself and
wounded some soldiers, but on being
wounded by matchbox ball she fell
back into the vessel and was taken pris-
oner.''
SONORA MANUELA HIGUERA, wife of
Don Higuera, of Alameda County, Cal.
has just lost suit at law which
presented some peculiar features While
yet senOrita she had been engaged to
Don Jose Reyes Bernol, wealthy ranch
ero living near. Having been deserted by,
Don Jose the senOrita brought suit for
breach of promise, but, being unwilling to
bide the laws delay, she married Don
Higuera before the suit was tried The
defense argued that her marriage vas suf-
fcient evidence Of the Il 7ial damage done
to her affections, and, as the Court held the
same views, the fair Manuela lost her
case and her revenge together.
THE following authentic incident is
given as illustrating the hardships of the
English law of marriage: An officer in
1Iulo was lldII1cu dDOuJ ttl Years ago
under peculiar circumstances. The
woman, being disappointed in her desire
to obtain another man, took this officer out
of pique, but as soon as the marriage
service was over told him why she had
married him and refused to go home with
him. From that day to the present she
has not given her husband one hours
companionship and yet he has found him
self unable. to extricate himself legally
from bond which makes him the vic
tim of a woman's pique against another
man.
THE New York Herald of a recent date
says: Postmaster James received in yes
terday mornings mail from Mount Yer
non, Ohio, letter addressed to National
Bank, New York City" the word Third"
stricken out before " National" 1t con-
tanned valuable drafts, sent by the Knox
County National Bank, of Mount Vernon,
Ohio Mr.. Anthony Yeomans, the Gen