Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-14

isn't he p said a friend Of ours the other
day.
Yes" replied another; Il was taken
for him one time"
You. why you are as ugly as sin"
II don't care for that; ] endorsed his
note, and was taken for him BY the sher-
if"
Eg The Philadelphia Gazette, speaking
of q new Prima Donna, says;
"Her voice is AS soft as a roll of velvet,
and as tender as a pair OF slop-shop panta-
%loons.o
H Mercy on us! There is positive
news from Paris that contraction is to be
the next move in the world of fashion, and
the ladies are coming out without hoops,
hustle, wadding, or anything else!
REFORMATION WANTED.-The Musca-
tine Jougnalof the 26 ult., asks for infor-
nation of the whereabouts of Benjamin
Baker aged Is years, who left home about
two months ago. Any information will
gratefully be received by his brother
Anthony Baker, Blue Grass, Scott county,
Iowa.
WHITE LEAD.-While other manufac-
turing establishments elsewhere are hold
ing up, the Dubuque White Lead Works
keep moving, and il is reported that an ex-
%ceilent article is manufactured there
Dubuque Times.
The Caloric Engine is again bro't
to the notice Of the public. An agent adj
~vertises it as by far the most economical
power that can b. employed for driving
printing presses, pumping water, h%oistine
goods in warehouses, DC.
An Irishman was challenged to
fight aduel, but declined on the plea that
he did not wish to leave his ould mother
al orphan.
Some musical publisher or teacher
once wrote or said, that the art Of PLAYING
on the violin required the incest perception
and The most delicate scnsibility Of any oi
the known world. Some country editor
commanti 3 on it says: SThe art of pub.
fishing q country newspaper and making
it pay, beats the art Of iddling higher
than a kite"
Hg-[ It is by study that we became con-
tamporaries Of ages past, aud citizens Of
every country.
~Mr. Lover tells a good anecdote of
an Ifisiinan giving the pass word at the
battle Of Fonteny, at the time the great
SAKE was Marshal.
sThe pass word is Saxe-now don't for.
get it, Pat said the colonel.
Sacks! Faith, and | will not. Wasn't
mY father a miiler!'
Who goes there?' cried the sentinel, at
ter he arrived at the post.
Pat was as wise as an owl, and in q sor'
eff whispered howl. replied.
Bags. yer honor!!'
An Exchange paper says: "a cor
respondent very confidently states tina. a
certain remedy for warts is to rub them
occasionally for a few weeks on a sweaty
horse. He has tried the remedy on q
seed wart with great success. We shall
not try il; for first, We have NJ horse; sec
ond, he never sweats; third, we have nc
warts; fourth, we have no seed; fifth, we
don't believe in the remedy; sixth, it vii
be very likely to injure the horse; ant
seventh, its kind o'nasty.'
-"Pray, Miss c." said a gentleman
the other evening. "wIy are ladies so fonC
Of officers?"
elbow stupid" replied Miss c.; sis j
not perfectly proper and natural that
young lady should like a good offer sir?"
Yesterday Mrs. Cunningham gave
her recognizances to be present at the mex
General Term. Her ~surities are Geo. A
Wilt and Fl. T. Potter, each being boand
in the sum Of FIVE thousand dollars.-[N
Y. Times.
@ At the election last Tuesday, the
Republicans swept the field in Chicago
e~lecting their whole ticket with 1900 ma
jority. Their majority last spring onMay
or was 1901.
gTThe New York Bay Book says the
bottom is out of the market, and fame,
stocks are going straight down through
out Of sight" and the quicker the bet
ter.
A WIFE INSTRUMENTATION tht
weaving room of the Ward Mills, at In
dian Orchard, Mass, in which IN ave rag
of so persons are employed, 137 girl
have been married within two years.
aImpossibIe is a word only to b
f found in the dictionary of FOOLS" said Ma
poleon. It is not intellect that makes {
man great, so much as earnest purpose
The men in all times who have deepl,
impressed their character upon their ag'
have not been so much men Of high intel
~lectual power, as men of indomitable viii
and unceasing industry.
PErIF DEFEATED.-The La Fayettt
!, Courier informs us that the notorious JOIN
Petit, the Congressional BLACKBOARD, ans
n of the lights Of Indiana old lineism.
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