Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-19
MISCELLANY.

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Kansas SOIL
The latest monstrosity is a calf.
with wings.
-Washburn has high hopes of the
French Republic.
Dubuque has white ghost
twenty-five feet high. -
-fne Chinese and Japanese are
going to have tussle.
The New York Tribune is threat Y,
ened with five libel suits. x.
Brother Jonathan's income is,
larger than John Bulls.
A rifle good for twenty.six shots
a minute has been invented. -
Italian immigration to this coun-4 7
try is largely on the increase. ~
The New York and Erie railro z
is to be cut down to the usual gauge.
-Challis says he will spend $780,.
600 to convict Claflin and Woodhul.
Oshkosh, Wis, has an Enoch Ar
den, only Enoch is very mad about
it.
The co.education Of sexes is ma.
king remarkable Roadway in this
country.
"A Washington father threw
saucer at his little girl and now she
has but one lip.
Ten thousand working girls
were thrown out of employment by
the Boston fire.
Adams nativity has at last been
discovered. He was, according to
Darwin, German.
An Indiana man has married his
sons step-daughter and is puzzled
about bis relatives.
We have billion and quarter
acres of land in the States aud Ter
ritories, yet unsurveyed.
The Irish government has pro.
hib ed the importation of horses
from tie United States.
The Sophs and Freshmen of
Harvard College have signed an
agreement to stop hazing.
Mr.. Schurz is advised to come in
out Of the wet. He can't find the
German vote, even with an umbrel-
In.
A bill is before the Vermont
Legislature to allow female tax pay.
ers to vote in school district meet
ings.
-Swanton, Mass, is TO have a res
union next month of all the ministers
now living who have ever preached
there.
In the long course of his legal
practice, Mr.. Seward was never
known to act for man against
woman.
Sergeant Bates, the pedestrian
lunatic, is now perambulating Great
Britain with an American flag on
his shoulders.
Gov. Washburn has issued
proclamation setting apart Thursday,
November 28th, as day of thanks
giving and praise.
In a communication to the State
Department at Washington the
Prussian Government denies that
it has attempted to discourage emf.
grafton to this country.
The Mississippi is within few
inches of the low water mark Of
1864, when navigation by the side
wheel and large stern>wheel boats
was entirely suspended.
DR.. Samuel Ashmore, living in
Topeka, Kan, in q drunken frenzy
on the 9th inst, shot and killed his
wife, after which be chopped her
breasts OFT with Ratchet, in an in
sane endeavor to get her heart out
1t took ten men to arrest the brute.
"A Terre Haute, Ind, boy Of ten
der years, and heart has drowned
seventeen kittens, tied pans to tho
the tails of nine dogs, brushed his
fathers new silk hat against the
grain, and blown up pet canary
with fire cracker, in the last month,
and still his ford mother intends him
for the pulpit.
An American pillow was recent
~ introduced into the province Of
India, and the natives instructed how
TO use it. The instrument worked
50 marvcously well, compared with
any thing they had ever before seen,
that as soon as the agent departed
they set the pillow on end, painted il
red, and bowed down and worship
ped il.