Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-30
PEN AND SCISSORS

are grown 10 Georgia.
Ice cream in paper boxes is sent
from New York to Cuba.
Stokes second trial will not
come up before September.
Stirred palace cars have been in
PRODUCED in San Francisco.
There are hundred publications
In Melbourne, Australia. .,,,
-Four sons of Japanese noblomen
are studying at Ann Arbor.
Two thousand barrels of sugar
for the Indians are now atSioux City.
Nebraska is the only State that
had a railroad in running order when
admitted into the Union.
-Ludgate Hill, London's great
thorough-fare is TO be paved with
a merican wood pavement.
San Francisco was this year the
great distributing point for import
tations of Chinese fire-craekers.
Strauss really meant what he
said about American pianos when no
called them the best in the world.
"A writer on progress has truly
said that steam is freeing the hands
that the head may rule and the heart
grow.
The Pope interprets the late erup-
ton of Vesuvius as the sign of Gods
indignation against the Italian
Government,
The Goth Regt., Wis Vol. In
tantry, had reunion at Madison re-
Gently. 1t meets again May II, 1873,
at Watertown.
A regular trade in toads is CARR
ed on in Paris. They are sought by
vineyard owners for their insectivor-
GUS propensities.
Belmont drives four thorough
breds before an English mail coach
at Newport, with footmen and tigers
in gorgeous livery.
The St, Adams (Vt) Messenger
thinks "skye blue Is pretty color
for ceiling, but not so tasty far coun-
try milk at eight cents qrart."
Tho French liberation fund was
benefited Sl,OS999 by the concert
which was given by the Garde Re-
publicaine band in New York.
The City Attorney of st. Louis
has been fined $50 for being half an
hour behind time, and $40 more for
not sitting down when ordered to sit.
1t is stated that forty-dve per
cent. of the gross products OF Calfor.
MIA is from agriculture sources, while
but sixteen per cent. is from gold
and other metals.
"A great deal of excitement has
been caused at the Cape diamond
fields, by the robbery of mail bag
with 800 letters and about six pounds
weight of diamonds.
The daughter of Boston cler-
gyman has been filing her fathers
pulpit. Her preaching is said to have
been listened to with marked atten-
ton by the congregation.
An advertisement in Western
paper informs the public that board
for the Summer can be obtained Sat
large and shady brick gentloman's
residence in the country"
1T is said that Brick Pomeroy,
illustrating the fatal facility of divorce
between fools and their money, lost
$500, 600 in his attempt to run "red
hot" journalism in New York.
--Guizot is preparing his CORES
pondence with eminent cotempora-
ries for publication. The collection
of letters is very extensive, and will
probably fill six large volumes.
The present population of Prussia,
according TO the recent census, is
twenty-four millions, six hundred and
forty.two thousand three hundred and
eighty, an increase of 2 80 per cent
over that of 1867.
Prussia is having frst-class
coal strike just now. Twenty-Five
thousand men have turned oct for an
increase of wages, and the NINE
owners turned the water into the
mines by way of reply.
BY the death of Hon, Samuel
Thacher, of Bangor, the venerable
Hon. Horace Bnney, LII. d., of the
class of 1897, now residing in Phila-
delphia, becomes the Oldest living
graduate of Harvard College.
Among the latest pilgrims to the
shrine of Chappaqua was the notori-
GUS rebel Gwynn, now of California,
whom Macmillan created Duke of
Sonora or condition of his helping to
rob and murder the Mexicans, and
establish hostile empire at our
southern border.
In tho grand march of progress
now moving all tho nations of
Europe, Russia, great in all material
things. evidently docs not intend TO
be left one single step in the rear.
In the estimates of the recent Mus
covite budget sl7, 100000 are set
aside for educational purposes.
The Allegheny observatory, at
Pittsburg, was entered last Wednes-
day night by scientific thieves, and
the great object glass, valued at s4,-
900, carried off 1t was taken from
a large equatorial telescope, and by
skilful hands. The glass, over which
the observatory is sadly sorrowing,
was one Of rare power, having few
superiors in this or any other country.
The rate Of upheaval OF the
Swedish coast, fact long known to
biologists, is shown by large block,
ten feet high and fifteen feet, broad,
on the shore near Morup, which ia
1916, was four feet above
mark, as is proved by an
inscription TO that effect. During the
past summer this block was 100 feet
from the shore, indicating compare
lively recent add rapid upheaval.
The earliest records of this stone state
that it was close to the water, but