Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-06-12
BRIEF MENTION.

oust % the late James BROOKS.
Stanley has placed his little if.
rican follower in an English school
"A life insurance company for
women is in process of organization
in st. Louis.
John III. Surratt is writing his.
tory of his life and his connection
with the assassination plot.
An ediet has been issued that
the natives of Japan shall in future
eat bread instead of rice.
A son of Gen. d. Ii. Hi, once
OF the Confederate army, has been
appointed TO West Point.
Postal cards command "a premi.
nm Of one hundred per cent. in
some of the country towns.
-Grasshopper shortcakes and po-
tato bug pies are plenty in the Chr
nese restaurants at San FrSoisco.
"A highly trained nine ola West
ern baseball club are labelled "poi-
son." they arc such strict nine.
The Oranges of Patrons of Hus>
bandry in Green county are talking
of holding a celebration on tho
Fourth Of July
Tho Secretary of War, at the re-
quest OF Professor Hayden, has or.
dered signal station to be built on
Pixies Peak.
The best preventive OF sunstroke
is piece of sponge sewn inside the
hat, and sprinkled occasionally dur.
ing the day.
The Apaches recently stamped
cd party of Methodist preachers on
circuit, and now do their scalping in
clawhammer coats.
Jenny Lind sings in private cir.
Giles in Berlin, and with an excellent
voice. Her daughter gives promise
OF great musical power.
-Elghty-two heads of religious
orders in Germany have signed
protest against the bill suppressing
religious corporations.
Plain white note paper, very
thick and heavy with a crest in
black outline, is now declared to DO
the proper thing.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison said recent
ly that ho had set type enough to
form a topographic railway from
Boston to Liverpool.
Some wealthy men ia Massachu-
setts are attempting to organize a
society having for its object the re-
peal OF the Prohibitory Liquor law
1t is impossible at present to
print and issue the postal cards fast
enough TO meet the demand Of the
public at large. They are very pop.
ular.
There are no signs of fire at the
Drummond coliery, The number of
lives lost by the explosion ia fifty
nine. There are thirty widows and
twenty-five fatherless children.
An honest lover in Massachu>
sets has given TO bis prospective
father-in-law load Of wood to re.
place that consumed during his even
ing sparkling" visits last winter.
1t is stated that Washington
contains 10000 children who do not
attend school; 10000 adults who
cannot read 24,009 who cannot
write, and whiskey saloon for eve-
ry 40 persons.
Professor Nicodemus of the State
University at Madison, has been pre-.
sented with q complete and hand.
somely bound set Of the works of
Addison, by the Engineering Class
of 10.
Tho handwriting Of tho late
Chief Justice Chase was very pecuI-
lar. lie wrote singularly small and
almoct feminine hand, which,
he turned off with great rapidity and
nervous force.
They arc laying rails in Florence
to convey in safety Michael Angeles
statue of David from its unprotected
site in front Of the Pallazzo Yecchio,
where it has stood for $50 years, to
the imperial gallery.
In is stated that in a certain
district in the far West mosquitoes
are so plentiful that they are unable
to get on a stranger all at once, and
and so they stand round in reliefs,
waiting for their turns like unshav.
ed chaps in q barber shop.
1t is proposed by some public
spirited individuals in this city. to
raise by subscription the sum of 500.
600 for the widow of the late Gener.
al Candy, to be invested so as to
give her secure income of twelve
or fifteen hundred dollars per an
mum.
Brick Pomeroy's Democrat is
dead at last the large sign on the
New York Sun building, which
pointed out It's local habitation, hay.
ing been taken down. Pomeroy is
said to have lost about $3.50 600 by
his attempt to transfer his journals.
tic blaekguardism frcm La Crosse.
Edward Jenkins, author Of
"Ginx's Baby" "Lord Bantam" and
other works will visit America this
year. He is one of the greatest of
living satirists, and will lecture in
the United States. He is but thirty
four years of age, and being a fine
speaker, London barrister, an au.
thor and reformer, be will make q
sensation.
"A man who will take a newspa.
per four or five years, and then refuse
to pay for it, should begin bis name
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