Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-17
Pen and Scissors.

Aho AoB CnOlera mas DrOk0l out
in Alabama.
There are 908 agricultural socie-
ties in Prussia.
The yellow fever ia raging at
New Orleans
Servants in livery are fast ineress
ing in this country.
JEFF. Davis is soon to make Bal
timore his permanent home.
-Vicksburg is firing cannon to
keep the yellow fever away.
-Galena has organized gas com.
pany with capital of $4,000.
There are but two soap factories
throughout the whole of Spain
The Chinese are now studying
navigation with all their might and
main.
The tobacco factories of New
York and Brooklyn employ 10000
children.
Yankee Doodle" is said now to
be very popular tune among Eng
fish bands.
A manifesto from Napoleon on
the French political situation is about
to be issued.
-Vanderpool, the victorious sur
vivor of three murder trials, is going
into business at Kalamazoo.
"A Mrs. Spencer was burned to
death in st. Louis, on Thursday
night, by kerosene explosion.
Two women in Kansas have
gone as partners into the law BUSH
ness. They propose to be sisters.in-
law.
justices of the Peace in Georgia
are said to swear witnesses on the
Patent Office report, instead of the
Bible.
In England new postal rates
have gone into effect, by which let
ter weighing one ounce will go for
penny.
The sentence of Rochefort has
been committed from imprisonment
to Punishment from tho French ter,
ritcry.
Three companies of U. S. troops
have been sent to Salt Lake City TO
assist in enforcing the DEGREES of the
courts.
Spain is to have @ revolution,
with the overthrow of the present
Government, before the month is
ended.
M. W. Moore, a colored clerk in
one of the Washington departments,
has resigned, in order to enter on the
practice of law.
"A Paris telegram says the sup
porters of the Empire are becoming
holder in their intrigues, and agitat.
ing openly for the restoration.
An American circus company is
now perfor ming in Constantinople
the first circus that has ever visit
ed the domains of the Sultan.
Amherst College will hereafter
withhold all aid from college stud.
ents who smoke tobacco or drink
ardent spirits-and get caught at il.
Dubuque boasts of curious ami
NAL, which is combination of the
fish, snake, eel, crocodile and lizard.
1t is about foot long, and has two
crimson cars.
1t is said that Doolittle will storm
the Sunday Schools of the State be-
fore election. but the report nees con-
firmation. He'll probably leave that
job for Randall.
The largest number of mon en-
ployed by one firm in England, is fif-
ty-six thousand. The employers are
] ohm Taylor & Sons, and the mon are
engaged in mining.
The total receipts of the Michi,
gan University for the last fiscal
year, were 100000, expenditures
$50, 600, estimated receipts for next
year 1913 900, expenditures $94, 900.
They are to hold "Cotton State
Fair" in Georgia soon, and one of the
advertised attractions is competitive
piano-playing by ladies, the winner,
best three in five heats to take purse
of $25.
1t is stated that five hundred en-
igrants from Portugal will shortly
arrive in Charles City county to oc-
cupy tract Of 10000 acres of land,
about twenty five miles below Rich
mond, Va.
There is now large pear-shaped
spot on our side of the sun which is
forty thousand miles in diameter
five times larger than the whole plan
ct we inhabit. A keen eye can see it
through smoked glass.
1t is great thing for young
man to find out early that he is the
minimum of Importance in the world;
that while it demands of him every
thing that he can do, it can get on
admirably without him.
Official census statistics show
that the white population of tho Dis
trict Of Columbia ia not quite double
the colored population, which indicates
an increase of 10000 in the colored
since 1860.
Germany is endeavoring to coun-
teract the evil effect of the war upon
her capital and industrial resources,
by tho stimulating effects of finan~
tial imitation. Twenty-Five new
banks have been established in vari-
Gus places.
The biologists are intensely dis
gusted with vein of coal, five feet
thick, lately discovered near Corning,
N. Y. According to all geological
rules and theories, the coal has no
business there. and the sdUdns resent
it's unwarrantable intrusion with be-
coming indignation.
Mayor Hall is trying 10 suppress
Hdrper's Weekiy in retaliation for it's
pointed oaricatures of Tammsny.
After his failure to suppress the
Orangemen's procession, Hall ought
not again to attempt the role Of q lit
,la tvranf That Gun kicks. and he