Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

A.
pretty story about an ex>privatc
soldier who struck rich vein and
suddenly found himself a wealthy
man. He Immediately sent East for
his former captain, who was poor,
decided him o third interest, with
merely 3 nominal consideration
The new firm became still more pros
peroas, when the original owner sent
for another comrade, decided him one
third of the original interest, and
when, after the end of few months.
bis new partners wished to go East.
he purchased their interests, Of 500
900 each, and sent them off wealthy
and happy.
s@-A fact that hints explanation
of probably many mysterious fires
was discovered recently in repairing
room in business block in Greeno
field, Mass. In tearing off the plast
ering it was found that the heat from
gas burner, twenty>three inches
below the plastering, had burned a
hole through the lathing and nearly
through an inch board above the
lathing, and that the fire had then
gone out for want of air.
Eg-A writer in the Ohio Farmer
says that after the horse is nine
years old wrinkle comes on the
eyelid, and every year thereafter be
has an additional we'll defined wrin.
xlc on the same spot. If, for ins>
lance, horse has three wrinkles he
is twelve, if four he is thirteen. Add
the number of wrinkles to nine and
you will always get the age. AS a
good many people have horses over
nine, it is easily tried.
pas-l believe animals live beyond
this life, Heaven would be a barren
place to me without any animals.
believe the horse, half-fed and poun>
ded all his days, has, in the justice of
God, just as fair chance in the here
after as the man who pounded and
oppressed him. | believe that what
ever is, can never, in some form,
cease to be. Shakespeare was not
right. ''To be or not to be-" is not
the question. l doubt if anything
withsconsciousness will ever lose that
consciousness.-P Professor Cunning.
sA-The following is one of the
many good things from Dickens
pen: "The first external revelation
of the dry rot in men is a tendency
to Turk and lounge; to be at street
corners without Ineligible reason !;
to be strolling anywhere when met
to be about many places rather than
any to do nothing tangible, but to
have an intention of performing a
number of tangible duties to-morsow
or the day after
Nor TO BE BEAT.-An editor who
has been keeping record of big beets
announces at last that 1.-The beet that
beat that beet that beat the other
beet is now beaten by beet that
beats all the beets, whether the orig
iual beet, the beet that beat the beet,
or the beet that beat the beet that
beat the beet that beat the other
beet.
sg- 1t is fact not generally known
perhaps, that Washington drew his
last breath in the last hour of the
last day of last week, in the last
month of the year, and the last year
of the century. He died on Satur-
day night, at II o'clock, December
81, 1899.
Spain is preparing q large feet
of gunboats for the protection Of
Cuba. Ten are expected soon, and
contracts for building thirty more
are reported to have been made in
the United States.
Young women now say theiI
prayers before going to a ball. 1t
saves time and, beside, they haven't
70 much to repent of.