Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-17
Miscellaneous Items.

puppy Cellular Tissue.
The State Fair offers 500 pre-
MUM to the county in Iowa furnish
lug the largest and best variety of
farm produce.
In Great Britain, to a popula-
ton of "a, 1868, 900 persons, thore are
36, 200 ministers of all denominations
and "a 700 churches and chapels.
The Bank of England has a syso
tenn OF mysterious and almost imper-
ceptible dots, varyingupon each note
and known only to the afficers of the
bank.
The Utica Observer says: "There
are Observation-Disclosures
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moro flies this year than last by ac-
tual count.
The efforts for the abolition of
trowsers as an article of male attire
and the substitution therefor of men 8
breeches and knickerbockers, are
gaining strength in England.
"A gentleman advertises for a
horse "for a lady of dark color, a
good trotter, and of stylish action
the horse must be young and have a
long tale about fifteen hands high p
Tho latest smartness of a New
York pictorial is cut representing
railroad conductor sticking his
head in the car, and shouting: ain
dianapolis-Fifteen minutes for di-
vorces.
There are 1862 students at the
University of Berlin, and of these
400 are foreigners, chiefly Americans
English and Scotch. Nearly all the
American Students are sons of rich
Southern planters.
A reunion of the old settlers Of
Lake and McHenry counties, LII.
will be held at McHenry Sept. g. Ar
attractive feature of the occasion will
be a barbecue, at which an OK is 10 be
roasted whole
Father Hyacinthe, the famou,
pulpit orator of Paris, lately declar
ed at meeting of the Peace Society
in Paris, that "there are three relig
ions in the world-the Jewish, Cath
Ole and the Protestant-all equal il
the sight of God"
The GAINESVILLE Gazette give
some statistics of the growth of Roct
county. The population of the coun,
ty in 1888, 1701 1843, 1857 1916
12,405; 1847, 14,72C; 1850, 20,750
1855, 21,364 /; 1860, 26,628; 1865, &C..
066.
-Hurrah is q word said to hav,
originated among the Eastern nationl
where it was used as a war cry
They believed that every man killed
in battle fighting for his country wen
to Heaven. 1t is derived from the
Sclavonic word "Hurrah," which
means ITO Paradise"
The peach and apple crop il
Michigan, it is thought by fruit
growers, will be double if not trebl,
what it was last year. The tree
are loaded with fruit. and in som,
instances will have to be thinned tt
prevent breaking down. Besides
this, many fruit trees are bearing fol-
the first time.
"A New York journal claims thai
the counterfeiter of the ten dollar
greenback note has conferred bless
ing on the country. By reason of his
crime, new issue of all denomina-
tions is to be made, with entirely
new designs. mo likeness of any
living man will be placed on the
note" the dispatch says. Every
good citizen will say amen.
Ida Lewis, the Lime Rock he,
roine, don't like her pictures. She
says "that picture in Harpers' is aw
full; | cannot bear to look at it,
She and her sister, who is very hand
some and bashful, and afraid of wa
ter, are to be married to brothers
and Ida's wedding which was to have
been this month, has been postponed
for 3 year. A humane society ir
London has voted Ida gold medal
Fields, Osgood and Co. will pub
lish in the fall Mr.. Greenwood
"Seven Curses of London" The
book has five chapters upon neglect
ed children, six upon professional
thieves, four upon professional beg
CARS, and number upon fallen wo-
men. The work if the result of care
full personal investigation is writer
with simplicity, and gives a new anc
graphic picture of the life of London
poor.
Philadelphia has 385 Christian
churches, or one to every 1000 of its
population. OF these 81 are Roman
Catholic, and of the Protestant
churches about 335 are evangelical,
and Is non>evangelical, and about a
dozen or Is unevangelical. The va
rious Presbyterians number SO, the
Episcopalians II, Methodists Sc,
Baptists 40, LutAerans %, Quakers
10, Congregationalists 4, Unitarians
and Universalists 3 each.
The st. Paul Press publishes a
private letter from a lady in the
country, which shows that ''she does
her own cooking and baking on q
farm that grows 1000 bushels grain,
for a large family, Including the vor.
acious harvest hands, and who, in
addition to all these severe domestic
tolls. raises with her own hands over
three hundred varieties of choice
flowers, doing all the laying out, dig
ing, raking, hoeing and manuring all
herself.
There were 165 exhibitors per.
sonally present at the Exposition of
Textile Fabrics at Cincinnati, dis
tributed as follows Ohio, 81; Hin
OILS, 16; South Carolina, 3 Alabama
6 Georgia, ID /; Missouri, l +; Tenn
essee, /; Indiana, II Kentucky, ID;
Iowa, 2 Mississippi, 2 Michigan, l !;
Wisconsin, 2; Few Jersey, Rhode
Island, L; Massachusetts, 2; Penn
sylyania, II New York, 5.
The following gives the number of