Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-06-18

No first-class residence has been
burnt in Boston for forty eight years.
England is ahead of the. United
States in the consumption of tobac
co.
jefferson county has twelve
cheese factories and one cheese pa
per.
-Agassiz requires us TO believe
that the primitive oyster was foot
lorg.
The Western wool clip is pro-
nonnced finer than for fifteen years
past.
More women are arrested in
Brooklyn for petty offences than
men.
-Millonaires have died lately in
New York at the rate of four
week.
1t is said that the circulation of
the New York Tribune has fallen off
10 per cent.
"A Connecticut young lady's bad
spelling led to Sc, 500 breach of
promise suit.
The American Bible Society
prints the Scriptures in sixty differ
ent languages.
-England has borrowed the idea
of the American palace cars, and is
elated thereat.
--Schurz has announced that he
will make no Greeley speeches du-
ring the campaign.
Those who know Disraeli say
that at heart be is q radical, and in
love with America.
Among the pests, this summer,
will be the individual who collects
votes on railroad trains.
Germ any is visited annually by
10000 Americans. who spend there
no less than $1,000, 900.
A Fon du Lac man has sued the
Great Eastern Circus for $500 dam
ages for soaring his horse.
AT Yarmouth mills in Maine
brown paper is made from spruce
logs in twenty-four hours.
The word "miIliner" is an elon-
cation of Milan, which was once the
theatre of the universal modes.
The Swiss Times, the only En-
glish journal printed in Switzerland,
just celebrated it's fifth anniversary.
There are about 1000 clerks be-
sides twenty four directors in the es-
tablishmet of the Bank of England.
From thirty to forty thous-
and of the population of the country
are confined within the walls of pris-
ons.
Poetry and poverty are no long
err lnseparable companions; Bryant,
LoDgfellow, Holmes, SAKE and Low
ell are oil rich
"A st. Louis man in Dakota pre-.
diets that Everybody will be on the
war path in this country inside of
eight mouths"
A Davenport Iowa. girl repeat
cd the oft-tried experiment of build>
ing q fire with kerosene. She sue
ceeded. Aged 20.
One of James Gordon Benefits
queer fancIes was an immense bird
cage filled with rare birds from ev-
cry section of the globe.
Tho Savings banks of the Uni
tee States contain deposits of 81 ,O00,-
00O,0 mainly the surplus earnings
of mechanics and laboring men.
"A dispatch from London, dated
June 4th, says: "The weather
throughout England is wet and un-
favorable for the growing crops.
A large gang of the most expert
professional pick-pockets of England
are making preparations TO visit
Boston at the time of the jubilee. =
The Mariposa man who lost his
ear in a fight, and afterwsrd bad it
replaced wrong end up, is obliged to
stand on his head to hear straight.
The Pal Mall Gazette thinks
that John Hays "Hans Breitmann"
is rather a good work, but not half
so good as Wendell Phillips Nasty
letters.
1t is now said by astronomers
that the planet Jupiter is in a red hot
state, aud that il is itself the sun and
center of system of dependent
worlds.
Tally one for little Switzerland,
as being the only country on the
face of the earth where there is more
money spent on education than on
the army.
Edmund G. Stedmsn, the bank
er-poet has given up business in Wall
street, and will now resume writing,
TO the delight Of his Boston publish.
ers and the admirers of his poetical
genius.
John Hay minor items of the
Tribune) has three distinguished fea.
tures--a fierce moustache, the au-
thorship of "Little Breaches" and
of having made hundred thousand
dollars 10 Erie within year
There is still preserved at Edin-
burph a monster wrought-iron gun
of the olden times, which was built
upon the spot where it was used and
was q sort Of iron cooperage, made
with slaves and hoops. Nevertheless
it would "shoot."
In describing some of the litera.
rv men of the day, the New York
Star says that Mr.. Hurlbut, of the
World, speaks with drawl, one leg
over the other, and great huency.--
He has lively imagination and uses
it. DR.. Bellows wears his hair long
in the neck, but very short on top.
Two Bostonians, evidently on
visit to New York for the first time,
were observe ed to stand for half an
hour in Printing House Square, dis
cussing the question as to whether
the new bronze statue of Franklin