Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-22
Pen and Scissors.


$500 feet at Cohoes, N. Y.
Green Bay is to have an eight
column French newspaper.
900 persons became insane in
Paris during the late seige.
Cornell University is advertis.
ing for European professors
"A ton of good hay will buy a
good COW Ia New Hampshire.
There are seventy-eight female
preachers in the United States.
The Millerites have set Septem.
Der Sd for their newest departure.
kentucky alone, ofalI the states,
furnished her quota to both armies.
Great Britain consumes four
times as much tea as the United
States.
Mr. Andrew Johnson is not 60
ing to Paris, France, but to Paris,
Kentucky.
-Hdrper'S Weekly containing
Nast's riot pictures circulated 1885,
600 copies.
A mail bag was cut open and RI
fed at Trempleau last week, and
little booty was secured.
--Pbeby Cary was the last surviv-
ing sister of seven, all of whom have
died during the past three years.
Charlotte Guillard was the FIRST
notable female printer. She was in
business for 58 years in Paris from
1906 to 1856.
Worcester, Mass, has a boy
preacher, eighteen years of age. The
Worcester Spy says she developes
rare powers.
Mrs Greumann, of Washington
Territory, has just returned from
trip TO China, whittier she took out
cargo of lumber.
An attempt is being made in
some of the Southern States to re-
vive knee brooches, shoeobucklos and
the 'lost cause"
A family in Fishkill, N. Y, on
Sunday were poisoned by eating GUS
tard favored with"extract of van
illa," as sold in groceries.
We read in the fashion newspa-
pers that for next seasons styles
neutral tints and dark cloth, colors
mostly black, will prevail.
"A foreign dispatch says that
Russia is arming extensively, and has
formed an alliance with France
against Germany and Austria.
Montana elects Republican
Delegate to Congress by over 1000
majority. His Democratic predeces-
sor was chosen by 1860 majority.
Chief Justice Chase reports him.
self improving, and expects to take
his seat on the Bench of the APP
preaching term Of the Supreme Court.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams has
accepted the position rendered him
by the President, Of one Of the arbi-
traitors under the treaty of Washing
ton.
The widow of Colonel Mcleod
Murphy is to be appointed to tho
Custom House Inspectorship lately
held by her husband, in New York
city.
The British House Of Commons
has passed The bill to vote by ballot.
Thus one by one are the props which
snstain the aristocracy being taken
away.
Boiled cabbage eaten by fami-
ly in Illinois, siekened every men,
Der to an alarming extent. Potato
bugs bad been roosting among the
leaves.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cleveland, of
Maquoketa, has sued ten saloon-keep.
ers Of this city tor $4,000 damages
done her by furnishing liquor to her
husband
France has armories capable of
manufacturing 100000 rifles a year.
Most of them are now working at
their full capacity, to supply the los
ses Of the late war.
Philadelphia urchins intoxicate
the organ-grinders' monkios by feed
ing them oranges soaked in whisky.
Their antics-the monkeys'-are in
describably ludicrous.
The negro vote of California is
estimated at two thousand, and will
be cast solid for tho republicans, CIV
ing that party very strong proba-
billty of carrying the State.
"A man named Hunt, butcher in
Sacramento, was bitten on the neck
by n common fly on Friday, from
the effects of which he died on Mon.
day night after great suffering.
"A physician in Boston writes to
the Herald, of that city, that he has
tried the new remedy, "cundurango,"
in several cases OF cancer, and that it
has entirely failed to effect cure.
Two men were killed in the east
end Of the Hoosac tunnel, at Troy,
n. Y, during shower on Tuesday
afternoon by premature discharge
of glycerine by an electrical cloud.
Somebody has been pen-photo..
graphing Will Carleton, the new poet,
and reports that his "face and head
bear strong resemblance to what
Washington might have been in his
younger days"
The latest thing in corsets is said
to be the Fortuna" We don't be,
lieve it. We have good reason to
suppose that the earliest and latest
thing in coTsets is woman. Ofcorset
is.
About 1923, hasbecn assigns
cd TO the Soldiers Orphans, at the
Wisconsin Home, at Madison, from
the estate Of Horatio Ward, who left
bis fortune Of about half million
dollars, to Soldiers and Sailors Or,
phans.
A Paris letter declares that
Father Hyacinthe. by way Of pro-
testing against what he conceives to
be the monastic superstitions OF the
D. ToaL1l.o Chuwnb ipfanHa