Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-10-26
Miscellaneous Items.

-hOUnscnlld and the Archbishop
OF Paris met at a public dinner, some
time since, and arrived at the same
moment at the door. Neither wish
ed to enter first. Finally the Arch
bishop cried out: an. Rothschild,
you are the son Of Moses l am the
servant OF Jesus; you have the pre-
| cedence of age. The old Testament
is more venerable than the New
And the banker went in first
| A colored woman confined in
jail at Savannah, Ga, the other day
gave birth to twins--a son and
daughter The daughter is as black
as the ace of spades, and the son is
as white as any of the descendants of
the Puritans who landed at Ply
mouth Rock long time ago.
The ssJames Lynch. Colored,"
as he is described by telegraph, who
is now running for Secretary ofState
in Mississippi, was for long time,
the Rev. James Lynch, Methodist
clergyman in Phiiadelp hia, and is
spoken of by the Press of that city
as man of no ordinary ability"
"A subscriber writes the La
Crosse Leader: "Mr. editor sir i
hav received two papers and want
no more abolition reading please
don't poster me with emmy more."-
The Leader advises him to sell a
shirt and buy spelling book.
"A collection of twenty-five pins,
very well made has just been placed
in the Louvre. They were found in
the subterranean vats of Thebes and
were made more than 5000 years
ago, showing that the modern inven-
ton is only re-invention.
A torpedo of large size was
found in some coal delivered at the
Harvard University on the 9th. 1t
is not known whether it was intend
ed to blow up the University or the
schooner which brought the coal
from Philadelphia.
The raw fur trade of Michigan
amounts to 100000 yearly. The
principal skins taken are the mink,
marten, fisher, lynx, boar, beaver,
otter, muskrat, wildcat, raccoon,
wolf, and the red, gray, silver and
cross fox.
Dickens says: 81 have known
vast quantities Of nonsense talked
about bad men not looking you in
the face. Don't trust that conve-
tional idea. Dishonesty out of
countenance any day in the week if
there is anything to be got by it"
An exchange, to show the de-
probation in the value of velocipedes,
says that "a first-class wheelbarrow
would bring better price in a Junk
shop than a bicycle once bestrldden
by Napoleon"
-Oshkosb, Wisconsin, has thirty
two saw and shingle-milI establish
ments, which consume on an aver
age five million feet Of logs each dur
ing the season, making an aggregate
of one hundred million feet.
captain Feger, of New Orleans,
has succeeded in capturing and
bringing out to light one of the eye
less fish of the Mammoth Cave. 1t
is five or six inches long and is quite
transparent as we'll as eyeless,
Gen. Rosecrans on one occasion
asked his staff-officers for a pencil
Not one had any. The General re-
marked Had l asked for cork
screw, every one Of you would have
had one"
The public debt has been de-
creased during the last month, seven
millions four hundred and sixty-seven
thousand two hundred and forty-nine
dollars, and since March last, $685.
968, 1875
The Government in Madrid has
resolved to disarm the Republican
volunteers and dismiss all Rhpubli-
can officials and municipal council.
ors from Office.
To Josh Billings we are indeb.
ted for one sentence of wisdom, at
least, to this effect off you are right
you can't be too radical, and if wrong,
too conservative"
Many of the farmers of Rock
ingham, Va, will be compelled to
fatten their hogs upon oats and
wheat in consequence of the almost
total failure of corn crop.
The negro stevedores of Char.
lesion all struck for higher pay last
week, and their places were prompt.
ly filled by white men. Fancy this
outrage on the white men
-BIackwood says the SALVATION
GLOW do you do ?" really means
GLOW do you thrive?" the second
"do" being really the obsolete Saxon
word "dow," meaning to thrive.
The Paris and Constan tinople
Railroad will place the two cities
within sixty hours of one another
The road will about 1000 miles long
The ST. Paul and Pacific Rail.
AOou 10 noH CoihPlolou 10 WlCnln
three miles of Foot Lake, distance
of 103 miles.
1t is told for fact that Theo.
dore Tilton is SO egotistical that he
has forty-eight portraits of himself
hanging to the walls of his parlor.
Brigham Young says there are
three preachers ia America he wants
to hear preach in his tabernacle
Chaplin, Collier and Boecher.
"A negro boy was sold for $3.50
in Cynthiana, Ky, the other day
In this article it looks as if prices
had come down since the war.
Tho ornss raoo;n+o 80 - q.