Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
Miscellaneous Items.


width of a narrow escape?
"A board of trade has been or
canned at Bowling Green, KY.
.h.a Inc literature of the period
Tho cars now run continno,sI~
: from New York to San Francisco
! "A smile that foretells sorrow
The one that you take in the bar,
. room.
Thirty houses 3 day is tn,
growth of Omaha-two-thirds being
saloons.
Promises made in the time o
atfilction require a better memory
than people commonly possess.
-Komissarow, who saved tn,
| Cars life, is not dead, as has beer
reported.
When you hear a man say
"Life is but dream" tread on his
corns and wake him up. Life is
| The woodman who spared that
tree, came very near freezing to
death the past winter, on account of
the scarcity of wood.
The Nevada silver mines have
nearly reached "the place where
earthquakes are made" At the bot
tom of some of the mines the tenn
perature is one hundred degrees.
| "A little boy, disputing with his
sister on certain subject, exclaim-
ed: otis true, for ma says so, and
if ma says SO, it's so if it amt So"
-Salszar, member Of Maximil-
ian's Cabinet, whose estates were
confscated by Juarez, is insane at
Washington, and his wife is destitute
at Georgetown.
w. Ell. Hash and Maggie Hash
were lately licensed to teach school
in Indiana. They should go into
the clearinghouse business.
Among the miners in Nevada,
the gentle influence of one babe is
reckoned "forty-parson power" in
refining and Outstanding a COM
munity.
Horace Greedy says that the
darkest day in any mans career is
that wherein he fancies there is an
easier way of getting dollar than
by squarely earning it.
The principal occupation of the
"girl of the period" is said to be to
sit at her window and watch for the
"the coming man."
A Chicago girl broke her en- gage
ment with a young man for the reason
that he sneezed in his sleep. If it
wouldn't be inpertinent, we would
like to know how she found it out.
Silver and copper ore has been
discovered on lands in Lake county,
Minnesota, owned by General Caleb
Gushing. The territory is on the
shore of Lake Superior, about ninety
miles from Duluth.
The political tempest rageth
holly all over the Territory of Chey.
enne. Half the people are candid
ates for Congress the other half for
anything else but the progressive
development of their country.
The New Bedford Standard
says lady in that city recently ap-
peared in church neatly dressed in
calico, and concludes that it would
not be dangerous to lend the hus.
band of such woman money.
Many a people think themselves
perfectly virtuous, because, being
well,fed, they have no temptation to
vice. They don't distinguish be-
tween virtue and victuals.
Tho fluid extract of lobelia.
when applied to mosquito bites, en-
tirely and almost constantly puts an
end to their itching. 1t can be OBJ
tanned of any druggist.
"A new mode of dispensing a
mob has been discovered, said to
supersede the passing around a cons
tribution box.
An Italian journal asserts that
one hundred and fifty bish.
ops have accepted the Holy Fathers
hospitality, and the number will
soon reach two hundred.
There are in France at least if
ty actors and actresses who pretend
to be illegitimate children of the
great Rachel.
"A subordinate clerk 10 q bank
ing establishment drew the grand
prize in the Russian lottery a month
ago. 1t amounted to $4,000.
The amount of whisky now
held in bond Throughout the Uni
ted States amounts to Is 247, 900 gall
Ions.
The Pail Mall Gazette reports
that in one large village in Russia,
LOO members of fanatical relig>
ious sect have burned themselves to
death.
The strike of the printers en-
gagged in printing Government curs
rency, has ceased, the employers Civ.
ing the wages demanded.
"A person being asked why he
had given his daughter in marriage
to man with whom he was at en-
nifty, answered, 81 did it out of
pure revenge"
"A Connecticut editor says that
in the whole course of his political
life, CHS mouth never uttered a. lie.p
Probably the gentleman speaks thro'
his nose.
- Horace Greeley's advice to 8
young man was, BE careful of debt;
who heowes nothing and has chance
to earn his daily bread is happier than
he is aware Of. Make friends and
gain knowledge; few years will
render them useful"
-"Charlie, my DEAR" said low
ing mother to hopeful son, just
budded into breeches, "Charlie, my
dear, come and get some candy.