Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-07-27

restored to bermemE ership With the
white race. Young ladies who are
ambitious Of snowy complexion
should remember this, and be care~
ful what powder and comedies they
use-if they use any at ALL
A French doctor has discovered
that turpentine is q sure antidote to
phosphorus, and he commends this
discovery most especially to parents
whose children have Deen sucking
lucifer matches. 1t appears that in
more than twenty cases of this kind
he has employed turpentine Gone tea
spoonful neat) successfully, and his
report on the subject of this cure has
been favorably receis cd BY the Acad>
envy of Medicine.
"A gentleman sixty years OF, age
residing in New London county,
Conn, is the champion sheep shear,
or. At one time he sheared sixty
three sheep in sixteen hours and at
another, twenty~three in five hours,
and caught the animals himself, the
latter averaging A. pounds Of wool
each. Recently he sheared sheep
in ten minutes.
The st. Croix river is said TO be
SO full of logs that navigation is i'm
peded. The quantity is estimated at
from 250,000,000 to 100000, 600 feet
These are being RATED at Saltwater,
the point whore the river enters
Lake St. Croix, at the rate of about
1000, 900 feet daily.
The Providence Press says the ex-
Queen Of the gypsies, who arrived in
this country recently, is to organize
the twelve thousand gypsics, whc
have arrived here at different times.
They will be located lands they
have purchased. The gypsy popu-
lation, it says, though poor to look
at, is rich in fact.
The present numerical strength
Of the Baptist church in the United
States, according to the Year Book
is 1921, 1888, being an increase over
last year of 1862. These figures
would be materially increased if the
returns from several States were not
so imperfect.
The peach crop Of Michigan
promises we'll this season, and we
may look for an abundant crop from
the Eastern Shore. Those who have
visited the great orchards say that
the prospects are fiattering and the
supply will be large.
The Green Bay and Lake Pep,
pin Railroad Company have changed
their plans as regards the western
terminus OF their main line. The
plan now is to run the road from
Green Bay to st Paul, with branch
downsthe Chippewa to Wabasha
The Smith Paper Company, of
Leo, Mass, have ordered from Spain
fifteen tons of Separate grass for the
purpose Of trying it as paper stock.
Tho English paper manufactures
have been using it for some time with
complete success, both for fine and
printing paper.
-Mr.Alexander, of GAINESVILLE, was
brought up in the Democratic Con-
vention Celina for a Congressional
candidate A German said: 81 no
vote for dat tam Alexander. He be
one tam Brovist Marshal, und comes
on my house nit one bitchfork. He
be one tam coward"
Mr.. George Peabody has made
another gift of $1,384, 900 to the
Southern Educational Fund. Mr..
Peabody established this fund year
or two ago by gift Of $1,000, 000.-
The additional amount increases the
fund to S2,384 900, which produces
an annual revenue of $50, 900.
RoUGH ON THEM.-Col. Utley, of
the Racine Journal, has been to see
the velocipede. He was not favora.
bly, impressed we should Judge, for
he says the performance of riding
one of these machines ''reminded him
of a big baby trying to kick his diaper
off"
Valentine Dunlap, who started
a peanut stand in st. Joseph, fifteen
days ago on seventy five dollars caps
ital, received notice on Monday. of
the death of an uncle at Rock Island
by which he falls heir to fortune of
$75, 600
Canada does not do well in the
immigration business. During the
month of June last, the total nuns
Der arriving at Toronto, Canada was
1901. OF this number only III re.
NAMED in Canada, while 6,314 came
toIthe United States.
The ladies do not furnish all the
vain fools Of the world. A Mr.. Neal
Of Tuftonboro, n. H., died last week
from the effects of ''Fowler's Solu-
ton" which he took for the purpose
of improving his complexion"
-Stuben county, Indiana, on the
10th, voted an appropriation of $50
900 to aid the Fort Wayne, jackson
and Saginaw railroad This sppro-
priation will bridge over the only
weak spot in the proposed road.
The Pope threatens to excom-
municate those Catholics who send
their children to the Turkish College,
and it is expected that in retaliation
the Sultan will exclude all Jesuits
from the Turkish empire.
MIR. D. D. Howard, supposed to
be the last survivor of the company
poisoned at the National Hotel in
Washington in 1857, has just sailed
for Europe. He has been an invalid
ever since the poisoning.
"A very full stomach in horse
always crowds his lungs so that be
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