Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-11-30

In Sidney Smiths advice 10 hi
parlshioners, he addresses a few
words to young women, to this ef
feet jsDon't believe in ANYTHING hut
the parson and the ringl If YOU,
lover says you can do as well with
out the form as with it tell him he i
a scoundrel."
Dyspepsia should be rare dis
disease in Paris for we are assured
that over 100000 bu of apples ar'
on an average sold in that city ev
cry season. There is nothing thai
will keep the stomach so healthy and
its dependent organs so well toned
as the free use of apples for food.
Mime. Parepa-R Rosa denies that, in
selecting her clever and handsome
little husband, she was aetuated by
theAteminine fondness for remnants
which induces ladies to buy the
small pieces of silk and satins left on
the hands of shopmen.
The pyramids of Egypt are
suilt Of a quality OF stone not to be
found in their vicinity aud it is sug-
gested thst the ancient Egyptians
had the art Of making artificial stone
from sand as the French are now dc.
ne IL building the Suez Canal.
Death has lately been busy
among old and distinguished Amer
leans. Within month. ex-President
Franklin Pierce, George Peabody ,Ad-
miral Stewart, Robert J. Walker,
General John II. Wool and Amos
Kendall have died, all at advanced
ages.
"A new Sunday law closing the
barber shops and cleaning out boot
blacks from the streets has gone into
effect in Washington city. The law,
it is said. was originally introduced
into the Council, by leading color
ed barber.
The Norfolk Virginian reports
that tho Methodist Church North
offered, on condition that the Virgin
ia Conference would reunite them
selves with the Church North, to
give to Randolph Macon College an
endowment of 100000.
The Erie Railroad Company
have agreed to pay SIC, 200, 900, in
elusive of lease, Tor the use and con-
troll of the Atlantic and Great Yves
tern Railroad, and proceedings at
law on both sides have abandoned.
President Cespedes, of Cuba,
states that 1000 men have been en-
listed in the Cuban army since the
18th of July. Recently the Span
iards took 122 native Cubans in a
swamp and killed them all.
Charles Sumner, having missed
the train which should have taken
him to lecture at Greenfield last week,
chartered a special engine and made
himself tender by riding thereon to
his destination.
"A Presbyterian clergyman in
Pontiac, Mich, in his sermon Sun
day or two ago, warned his hearers
to beware of modern infdelity in the
person of Henry Ward Beecher and
in the new York Independent.
The Turks are progressing. A
law has just been promulgated which
makes education compulsory. The
period Of instruction is fixed for girls
at from six to ten wears of age. and
for boys at from six to eleven.
"A Washington dispatch reports
that Hon. Amos Kendall left s25, 900
to each of his grandchildren, with
the exception of one to whom he
gave but $4,000 because he was in
the Confederate army.
The number of lunatics in France
has increased from 10000 in 1851,
to 100 900 at the present time. This
rightful increase is ascribed to alb
snthe, tobacco, politics. and last. but
not least, to stock gambling.
A member Of the Tennessee
House OF Representatives offered
resolution on Wednesday for the sale
of the portraits Of General Thomas
and Senator Brewnlow, owned by
the State.
Robert Clark. formerly of the
Both Brooklyn regiment, arrested in
New York recently for completely
in the late stupen 3oas counterfeiting
of revenue stan -, found bail in $685.
900.
The GraLd Master of Free Mas
ons in France has summoned . gen.
eral Convention of the Masons of
Europe at Paris on the 9Th of De-
cember in opposition to the Ecumen-
ical.
-Showmen are troubled in the
training of monkeys on account of
their provoking loss of memory, for
they will go through their perform
ance one day and forget all about it
the next.
George w. Bungay has gone to
Pennsylvania to fill lecture engage
ments. His new lecture is entitled,
"The Man and the Woman Of the
Period"
The number of Mormon emf
grants that have gone over the Paci-
&c Railroad to Utah in the last ten
months is 1, 623, mostly proselytes
from England and Wales.
The success Of the proposed
Worlds Fair at Washington is de-
clared to be assured; $4,000 has al
ready been subcribed, and large adj
ditions are promised.
The fashion for full-dress suits,
this season, is coat of blue cloth,
with gilt buttons; pantaloons and
vest OF black cashmere, with inside
vest o. white silk.
The first returns Of the election
held in West Florida on the questlon
of annexing that section to Alaoama
look unfavorable to the annexation
schme.