Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-10
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weighs 236 pounds.
The population of New Mexico
amounts to 10000.
Mrs. Woodruff says her free-love
doctrine is her religion"
| The Mammoth Cave of Ken>
lucky is for sale at 100000.
-Fashion-writers say the .'French
twist" is to be one of the styles.
The Young Mems Library in Du
buque contains $500 volumes.
The castor bean is getting to be
quite an important crop in Kansas.
Lake Superior has mined ones
third more iron ore this year than
last.
California has brandy factory
which turns out six hundred gallons
per day.
1t costs the ely of New York
50 600 every time the fire department
is called out
Cleveland is to have school for
deaf mutes, conducted according to
the lip method.
The Medical Record states that
already four persons have died from
using eundurango.
The apprehensions regarding the
health of Queen Victoria are becom-
ing more serious.
"A Massachusetts psychologist
has mesmerized an inebriate out of
bis appetite for liquor.
"A good quality of soap is made
from well at Buffalo, N. Y, by
merely boiling down the water.
An effort is being made to har-
monize the conflicting elements of
the Republican party in Missouri.
The Albany Eoening Journal says
Wendell Phillips is q conspicuous il
lustration of the danger of living too
long.
The total receipts of the Wiscon.
sin State Fair week before last
amounted to ST., 900, against s23, 900
last year.
"A disease, the symptoms Of which
are similar TO those of fever and ague
in humans, has attacked horses in
Sioux City.
The success of our Pacific Rail
road line has set French engineers
talking about through limo from
Paris TO Pekin.
The London papers bewail the
shortness of the grain, crops and tho
alarming progress of the cattle dis
ease in England.
The hay panic of the Eastern
States is ended. 1t is down to $50
per ton, and there is much moro of it
than was expected.
M Theirs has decided that
Napoleon l., in his little cooked hat
and gray coat, shall again do duty on
the Vendome colum.
The Chicago Tribune don't like
Boutwell's financial policy, That is
evidence that tho financial policy of
Boutwell, is about right.
The largest cotton mill in the
world will commence operations in
Norwich, Conn, in few weeks. It's
capacity is 10000 spindles.
-LAwerenoe university aud me
State University both admit women
TO full collegiate course, and to the
same classes with young men.
We hear of serious effects from
the protracted drouth in this region.
Wells and streams are drying up, and
fevers are unusually prevalent.
"A movement has recently been
made to enlist the whole Masonic
fraternity of the country in finishing
the Washington national monument.
--Thirty-iour years ago, a farmer
in Wayne county, Illinois, stacked
some flax TO wait for higher prices,
and his heirs gave it away the other
day.
-Croquet was introduced into Eng
land and France in 1880 under the
name of pele mele. 1t was favorite
pas me of Charles III. and the Duke
of York,
1t is said that Andrew Johnson,
with his Postmaster General Randall,
is coming to Wisconsin, to "swing
around the circle" with Doolittle.
What a lovely trio
Kangaroo tail, a new article of
food, it is stated, is now being import
ed to English markets in tin cans,
like Australian mutton, and is called
Kangaroo venison.
The last report of the Agriculc
tursl Department claims seriously
that one single California sheep
sheared seventy eight and O half
pounds of wool this year.
-English papers blame the United
States for the bloodshed in the Co
rean expedition, and declare that
Great Britain will not join this coun.
try in a war with Corea.
The smoke of fifteen hundred
manufacturing establishments in
Pittsburg han gs over the city like
huge umbrella, and lets the in
habitants see tie sun about once
week.
"A prominent democrat says that
he knows Tweed, in the last seven
years, has stolen from the public
Treasury at least $40, 5000 to SILL
100000, and Sweeney two-thirds as
much.
The rain and snow storms, and
even the moderate rains and SHOWS.
travel from the west toward the east
in the United States, during the
months of November. December
January, February and March.
Sunset Cox has found out why
the democratic ticket was beaten in
California. 1t was all the fault of
the Pacific Railroad. "The Plains as
they were" should be the slogan
hereafter Of the far western demo-