Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-12
MISCELLANY.

in Louisiana.
| Does your horse sneeze2 ia now
the absorbing topic.
| The horse disease is RAPIDLY
abating in New York.
Dubuque levys tax of two per
cent. on valuation OF "a, 500, 900.
Ten years ago the present horse
disease was around in mild form:
None but ladies contributed 20
the November number of Scribners
Parties taking up strays are liza.
to penalty if they do not advertise
them.
1t is estimated that three mill
lions of inhabitants died from famine
in Persia.
Six waterspouts appeared on
Lake Erie a few days ago, and lasted
half an hour.
The debt of the United States
has been reduced S5,00O,00O during
the past month.
The misunderstanding between
the faculty and students of Beloit
College continues.
The President denies that he
congratulated Theirs on the progress
of French Republicans.
"A nephew of General Grant is a
student at Lehigh University.
Here's nepotism again
The President of the Columbia
College receives $4,000 a year and
the professors $4,000 each.
An Omaha school by lately defin-
ed lady to be 80 grown up girl,
who doesn't cuss nor swear"
1t is evident that the Democrat
ic majority in Dubuque county will
be reduced TO less than twelve hun.
dred.
The consumption Of opium in
the United States increases alarms
ingy, and has already become sur
prising.
Mast is engaged in illustrating
'Pickwick" for Harper's Household
Dickens, a work for which he is
peculiarly we'll fitted.
Fred. Grant is going to be mar
ried early next year to Miss Wright,
daughter Of tho late Gen. Wright OF
the United States army.
The first exclamation of an
American belle on entering the Gu
thedral at Milan was, ooh, what a
church to get married inl"
"A st. Paul cow, in attempting
to open gate, lifted off the hinges
and carried it seven miles on a fran
tic run, when she fell exhausted.
A new religious sect, calling
themselves the Christadelphians, has
been organized al Oshkosh. They
expect to see our old planet collapse
in 1875.
-Washburn has high hope of tho
French Republic. lie says that the
people are intelligent and industri-
Gus, and it will get on we'll enough If
let alone.
1t took exac tly three days and
six hours to weigh the 100000 600
francs recently sent by the French
government to Emperor William Of
Germany.
"A thief stole half barrel OF salt
beef from Pella, Iowa, man, and he
tracked it to the thiefs door by fol-
lowing a COW which licked the trail
of brine which dripped from the beef.
The Emper of China was mar
ried on the 10th of October. There
was no outside ceremony other than
a procession which escorted the bride
from her residence to the imperial
palace.
Henri Rochefort has been per-
mitted to como to Versailles to mar
ry the dying mother of bis children,
in order to legitimatize his offspring
When the ceremony is concluded, he
will return to prison.
The tooth of a mastodon is re-
ported to have been found in Clay
county, Ind, which weighs ninety>
two pounds. With an ordinary row
of teeth, the lower jaw Of the animal
must have weighed at least fifteen
hundred pounds,
Herr Driesbach, the lion tanner,
was tanned by rural landlords
daughter, near Wooster, Ohio, and
and having quit the show business
about seven years ago, now lives
there, content with her and two chill.
dren, as peaceful farmer.
Thomas Donahoe, who is supposed
to have shot Florence Scanned,
in New York city, two years ago,
was shot dead on Saturday night by
John Scemmel, brother of Florence,
in saloon on the corner Of 28th
street and Broadway.
A bust of Frederick Douglas is
to be wrought in Marble by John
son M. Mundy, a sculptor of Roches-
ter, New York, number of leading
citizens there having combined to sc.
cure funds therefore. Mr. Mundy "a
now in Washington, preparing the
cast.
William II. Seward was of Irish
lineage. The first Stewards who
came to this country settled in Con.
necticut, multiplied there, and dis
persed throughout the Union, many
of them going to Virginia, where
there are now many of the family
name.
The bronze statue of Abraham
Lincoln, by Meade, recently complet-
ed by the Ames Manufacturing Com
pany of Chicopee, is now awaiting
the order of the monument commit
tee. Exclusive of the base, the fg-
ure is 10 feet and 8 inches high, and
weighs 1850 pounds. 1t is said to
be fine production.
DR. Hulse, prospective candi-