Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07

for damages. The curiosities of law
are never to be exhausted.
Abiding to Beecher's estimate that
one female housefiy will lay twenty
thousand eggs in season, the Church
Union thinks sit a pity a fly couldn't
be grated on hen
How time changes! In the good Old
Testament days it was considered a
miracle for an ass to speak, and now
nothing short of a miracle will keep
one quiet.
There is Il seven-legged calf at a
Pennsylvania county fair, but for fear
of hurting the feelings of its quadruped
brother on the Detroit Faee Press all
the eastern papers have withheld COM
ment.
The last religious census in France
shows that there are 81, 3S7, 8O3 Roman
Catholics, 467 ,531 Calvinists. SO.117
Lutherans, and SO, 113 of other Protes
taut denominations. The Jews num-
Der obout $4,000, and 10000 are attach
ed to no church
Another relic of the Spanish Armada
has been secured at Slams, in Scotland
1t Is a large gun raised out of the place
where one of the ships belonging to
the Armada was wrecked, and, though
it has been in that place 200 years. it is
as good as ever.
Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut
has never been sick day in his life,
has never called a physician, and mas
never taken any medicine, although
he is sixty-eight years old last March.
Lady Stratford de Radcliffe and her
unmarried daughters have received a
pension Of $500 from the crown in
consideration of the late Lord de Red
cliffe's long and distinguished public
service
Cal. Wagner, the minstrel, was Missed
off the stage last week at one of the
Cincinnati Sunday night theaters on &C
count Of something derogatory to the
house, printed in morning paper, pur-
porting to come from him.
NJ. Cazot, the French minister of JUS
tice, has abolished the barbarous de-
cree which for more than a half CEN
fury has forbidden presidents, judges,
attorneys and substitutes to wear mus
taches
The Roman Forum has now been
completely excavated, with the excep~
ton of a small portion at the entrance
near the capitol. The shape proves IT.
regular, being broad on the capitol side
and narrow towards the palace of the
Caesars.
Rev. DR.. William Adams, of New
York, was the third minister to die
hn h.,
chosen to preach the sermon before the
second Pan-Presbyterian council, at
Philadelphia.
DR.. Lewis Swift, the astronomer, is
now the owner of three handsome gold
medals bestowed upon him III recogni-
ton CT his planetary discoveries The
third he has just received from the i'm
perial academy at Vienna.
'Hole on dar," said colored man,
mailing an acquaintance. "Does yer
cross the street cherry time yer sees me
ter keep frum payin' dat bill?" "No, [
dOsen't." "What fur, DEM" ''Ter keep
from bein axed fur it."
go, Mr.. Lingerie, you've got on your
freckled stockings!" exclaimed a sweet
child, on the Ocean house piazza,
where that gentleman was the centre
of an admiring feminine group; ''and
Cousin Julia says theyjust match your
complexionr'
Toddlekins is a very small man in
deed, but he said he never minded it
at all until his three boys grew up to
be tall, strapping young fellows, and
his wife began to cut down their old
clothes and cut them over to fit him.
and then he said he did get mad.
The commission that was appointed
to choose nurses for the royal infant at
Madrid selected five young women of
the Province of Santander, all of very
dark complexion. The one who at
tracted the most attention, Leocadia
Fernandez, is said to be of the highest
type of Arab beauty, with large soft
eyes and glossy hair.
The King and Queen of Spain on
Saturday gave audience to the Papal
Nuncio, who presented, in a splendid
marble and ebony casket, the gift of
the Pope to the Infanta Mercedes. 1t
is a very rich satin robe, covered with
lace, and displaying the escutcheons Of
Spain and the Pope on the skirt. The
robe was made and embroidered by
ladies of the Roman nobility at the re-
quest of the Pope.
"'DO you want to kill the child?' ex-
claimed gentleman as he saw boy
tip the baby out of its carriage on the
walk. mo, not quite" replied the
boy; "but if / can get him to bawl loud
enough, mother will take care of him
while | so and wade i'll the ditch with
Johnnie BracerW
The daughter of the brilliant and I'M
fortunate Russian poet, Pushkin, is
married to Prince Nicolaus of Nassau,
who belongs to what was before Ger
man unity reigning family. She has
been in Russia attending the festival in
honor of her father, and there received
from the emperor the promise of a
pension.
A similar anecdote has often been
told of the late Thomas Binney. Dr.
Harris, the author Of the "Mammon,"
had begged his services for some ami
versary, and Binney declared his utter
inability to prepare a sermon-ln those
days he was a strictly extempOre speak
er. 1t was urged, ooh come and preach
such and such a sermon; that is ready
to your mindl' And so Mr.. Binney
promised that he would take the SER