Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-16
There are no Irish Mormons

year.
Servant girls in Wyoming get
81 per week and the privilege of
voting.
Laura Ray. of Terre Haute,
thinks James Tryon slandered her
800, 900 worth. fotr
1t is now positively asserted
that Spain is anxious to sell Cuba to
the United States.
Turkeys have paid the best of
anything raised in New England for
the last ten years.
Counterfeit twenty dollar bills,
well executed, have made theis APP
pcarance in the West.
The next Fair of the Iowa State
Agricultural Society will be held at
Cedar Rapids, Sept. 11-15.
The average yield of corn to the
acre throughout the Southern States
last year was 263 bushels.
Buffalo is digging for natural gas
with which to light the city, and has
sunk a well 220 feet deep.
An ''original California big tree,
forty-six feet in circumference" is
on exhibition in Broadway.
After he was millionaire, Girard
used to boast of wearing the same
overcoat for fourteen winters.
The Great Eastern is to make an
excursion trip to this country. She
will be here some time in June.
"A correspondent of the Western
Farmer thinks that Alsike clover is
just the thing TO sow with timothy.
Pennsylvania has the largest as
sessed valuation of real and personal
estate of any state in the Union
$1,634, 1896.
The Massachusetts Legislature
is considering the question of a ten
hour factory law, and halftime
schools for children.
The Kentucky Sweet Pumpkin
is highly commended by several
writers. 1t is smallish, bright
yellow, held pumpkin.
Indigo, bound dry on the wound,
is a sure cure for rattlesnake bites,
scorpion and bee stings, etc, says
Mormon who has tried it.
-Ruskin, says that it would be
better that the people of Europe should
perish than that they should become
tainted with American ideas.
The editors of Ohio have resolv-
ed upon the suicidal policy of discard
ing all personal denunciation and de-
tamation from their columns.
Book publishers in this country
are growing rich at rate more rapid
than ever before. The people are
reading more than they used to.
The heather Chinee is making
whiskey in California by fermenting
old rice and rubber shoes and things,
and the revenue folks are after John
There is not city man connect
ed with any of the New York papers.
All the editors, writers, and reporters,
were born in small towns or rural
districts.
Sixty tons of laurel roots--to be
made into pipes--were recently sent
to Philadelphia from the Rappahan.
mock. They will be sold for briar
root pipes.
England now permits seven per
cent. of the rank and file of her army,
who have served seven years, and
have earned good conduct badge, to
take a,wite.
"A tenth part of the surface of
Scotland, or 100000 acres of land,
has been reserved as deer forests,
and the population exiled to make
room for game.
Benz. f. Wade once said that he
believed within the present century
every acre of land between the Mis-
sissippi river and the California coast
will be worth fifty dollars in gold.
Boston enjoys the advantage of
a very stringent liquor law, and only
1920 persons were arrested there in
the last ninety days for drunkenness
mot much more than thirty day.
The prospects are that the Suez
Canal will pass into the hands of
British subjects. The revenue :, is
barely sufficient to pay for the neces-
sary dredging, to keep the channel
clear.
Frank Leslie has purchased the
sole American right to publish the
English completion of Edwin brood,
the announcement of whose prepare
ton few round the Press month or
two since,
Postage stamps of the denomin-
alton of seven cents have been issued
by the Government. They are de-
signed especially to prepay letters to
Germany, seven cents being the rate
to that country.
An exchange says :--"We are in
receipt of two poems, one on the
'Throbbing Brain and the other on
Bleeding Heart We will wait
until we receive one on the Stomach
Ache, and publish all three together.
The Indianapolis divorce market
is thus quoted: Common separation,
SIS; small alimony, S25 large ali
mony $50 to a 800. There are but
few of the latter in the market.
General business good and incrsas-
ing.
in Vermont, S. B. Hazel!ine has
been Town Clerk of Bakertown for
fifty years Hiram Burton, Clerk of
SALISBURY for forty-six year; 5. FL.
kellogg. of Pittsford for forty five
wears and Roswell Bottum, Of Orwell
for thirty eight years.
Many of the largest and most
successful wholesale establishments
in Chicago have abandoned tho
drummer" system, and resorted to
careful system of advertising, in
which they exhibit a commendable
degree of good sense.
Louis Napoleon is paying at
Chiselhurst all the bills he incurred