Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-16
PEN AND SCISSORS.

on sunday.
Three German monks have been
conscripted. - =
Minnesota farmers favor mules
above horses. = 4 = q VI
Cincinnati is the healthiest of all
the large cities. h Il n = I'd A
American corn makes the best
Scotch whiskey.
| -Gustave Dore promises to visit
America in 1873.
An artesian well in California
spouts speokled trout. Tw
Five dollars per day is charged
at the leading resorts.
The reduced tariff on vitrol
should cheaper whisky,
An international exhibition of
oil paintings is talked of.
Missouri is estimated 10000 for
Grant, and Ohio at 10000.
Detroit women are engaging in
the house-painting business.
Mississippi is sure for Grant and
Wilson by 90, 900 majority.
Five circusses and an earth
quake are travelling in Georgia.
Henry Ward Beecher went up in
balloon near Bosten the other day.
Montreal expects to become the
great grain metropolis OF Ameri-
ca.
Campaign cards bear an excel
lent photograph OF Gen. Grant are
out.
Crop reports from nearly all
parts of Wisconsin are very favor
able.
A dying Bridgewater man said
a good thing to have round was
ladder.
"A Chicago sibyl prophesies the
destruction of that fated city by q
tornado.
---Jem Mace, the bruiser, is in Utah,
whore it is devoutly to be hoped he
will stay.
The toilet of yaung Cairo buck
is incomplete without pair of brass
knuckles.
Industrious Oshkosh ladies aver
age four quarts of potato bugs before
break fast.
The mortality from smallpox
reaches its height in the month of
December.
The reduction of the public debt
for the month ending June Both is
So OBJ ,O25.
Cholera is to be treated this
summer with hypodemic injections
Of morphine.
"A married woman's note, &C.
cording to the ruling of the courts,
has no legal force.
The Queen, the ladies newspaper
in London, declares the Dolly VAR
den dress to be vulgar.
"A Maryland paper thinks the
Democrats will probably nominate
Fred Douglas in 1876.
But one German daily in the
United States supports Horace Gree
ley for the Presidency.
Miss Carrie Moore won veIoci-
pede race in San Francisco, half q
mile, sweepstakes, 2:O8.
Assault with intent to become
insane, as the correct way to speak
of a murderous assault.
An exchange, noticing the mar
riage of a contemporary, wishes him
posterity and happiness.
Tho wire worm is doing much
damage to the corn, potatoes and
wheat throughout Maine.
Tennessee is the home of me-
gro one hundred and thirty years
old, "a body servant" etc.
Agreements signed or written in
lead pencil are good in law, that IL,
when legible and unaltered.
Many of the coast cities are
spri1kling their streets with salt
water as a sanitary measure.
"A Hartford baby, tied in chair,
toppled out of q four-story window
the other day, and was hurt.
Last week twin brothers and
twin sisters were united in matrimo-
ny at Fond du Lac at one ceremony.
King Solomon beat Gilmore by
more than one hundred and fifty
Thousand musicians at his grand ju-
piee.
There is girl in Green County
II years old whose head measures
48 inches circumference and weighs
20 pounds.
james Stokes is on trial for the
murder of Fisk, but the testimony
elected is of little interest to the
reading public.
Female education seems to be
receiving moro attention aud max
ing more rapid Roadway in Europe
than in this country,
"A sea bass was caught at Mar
ragansett Pier, II. l., last week, over
four feet long and weighing fifty
throe and quarter pounds.
DIR. Mary Walker is said to be
creating sensation on the streets of
Washington appearing in a Dolly
Warden coat and pantaloons.
The Press associations in Lon
don are disputing as TO which first
sent to America the news of the
result of the late boating contest.
The Swiss papers describe look
ing glasses laid over with gold, which
reflect sixteen times as powerfully
as the common quicksilver mirrors.
Mr.. Clay says Greeley has done
wonders for the Republican cause
But of what value is q cow that gives
pail Of milk and then kicks it overp
"A German poet has lately writ
ten touching poem, 10 which the