Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-20

-Quincy has a haunted house.
Gen. Hancock ia on tho fanoo

&c Nsoc ,tis engaged upon life
toronto is to have a prison tex.
ciuslvely for ladies'"
Washington has devel.nsd
nltric-acid thrower.
Michigan is to have new cant.
tol worth 100000.
Daniel Webster was opposed ~
cost, last year, STOP ,374.
Chicago hotel cooks get higher
wages than bank cashiers.
The Seine has not been so low
as at the present for hundred years.
A barrel of buckwheat -four ex-
ploded at Keokus, Iowa, tho other
Jay.
Salmon are now exported to Eng
land from this country in great guam
titles.
"A variety-store keeper in Utica
throws in vaccination if you buy
goods to the amount of dollar or
more.
The Duluth editors denounce
each other as "squaw doctors" and
"cobras."
No fellow can ever propose nice.
ly till he has done it twenty or thir-
ty times.
Sal Hamilton is to be editor Of
Woods Hou, ohold Magazine of sal.
AIRY of 5000.
In Manila %, 900 women and
girls make cigars at average wages
Of seven cents FER day.
New Albany, Indiana, boasts of
q lady 6 feet tall with black hair
touching the ground.
Mace has challenged Baldwin TO
fight for So 500 a side, and the cham
pionship of the world.
The plains of Texas cover an
area of l52,000,000 acres, on which
feed $500, 600 head of cattle.
The work of putting the forts of
Charleston harbor in lighting trim
was commenced on Tuesday.
A young female vaccinator of
Boston has taken away much of the
custom Of the male medicals.
Spinal meningitis is raging among
the horses in New York, aud large
numbers are dying each day.
Next to the French, the Ameri-
can women are conceded By all to be
the best dressed women in the world.
Mrs. Matt. H. Carpenter is set
down as the most Intellectual Of all
the Senatorial wives in Washington.
There is female omnibus.driver
10 San Francisco, whoee receipts are
greater than any Of the male drivers.
Note for Darwin: In time the
mulberry tree becomes q silk gown
and silk gown becomes q wo-
man.
Illinois is now the banner rail-
road state, presenting tho largest
number Of miles of complete road in
the Union.
On the 22d of this month g con-
vention Of Irish Roman Catholics in
favor of total abstinence will bo held
in Baltimore.
Gen. Wilson's friends are grow
ing more confident about his chances
for the Philadelphia nomination as
| Vice President.
Idaho City has so much bogus
gold dust in circulation that it's b1fi.
ness men have gone to an exclusive
greenback currency.
Bret harte says he bitterly re-
grets not having remained ia Califor,
MA. His genius forsook the Pacific
only to be drowned in the atlantic.
-Four women have been appoint
ed, during Grants administration. to
81 600 post-offices, while lesser ones
have been awarded to several humid
red women.
"A Michigan paper thus delicately
announces death from "non-explo.
sive": "Mrs. Maria FramIey gave up
the bad habit of using kerosene for
kindling fires on Thursday last"
Henry w. Beecber disapproves
of his pew-holders renting their pews
for tho evening service. He says
one sermon carefully listened to is
enough for anyone 10 digest in one
day.
The widow Of the man lately
murdered in Manstee prosecuted the
saloon-keeper who sold the LIQUOR
which occasioned the row. lie Offer
ed her 5000 to withdraw the suit,
which was accepted
"A Pennsylvania paper in speak
ing OF songstress, says "She beats
cats on high notes. There was no
music Of chest tone in her voice, but
1T was about six octaves above the
screech OF a lost Indian"
"A cautious physician says that
people who count bankbils should
not touch the finger on the tongue,
as IS the common practice, as bills
coming from places whore smallspox
prevails, arc liable TO be infected.
The place in the Central Park
where the statue of Shakespeare is to
stand, has been selected, and the cere-
monies at the erection, next April,
are already talked of 1t is said that
they are TO be particularly brilliant.
The protector of new paper at
Atlanta, Ga, having declared that he
will condemn the wrong and APP
plaud the right" the Era says the
task will keep him about as busy as
q school boy with q hornet in bis
| trous,t5.
1t has been determined to drop
the name ''Tammany" from the title
Of the society, the names Of the gen.
eral and ward committees, and from
the building now known as Tammany
Hall. The name TO DO substituted
is Columbian.
"A spiritualist statistician figures