Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-28
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

-DAhe palL las invaded Japan.
The potato disease has appeared
in England.
The vine disease is spreading
rapidly in Portugal.
Tho Tichborn litigation has cost
to date over 100000.
The Shah has been blackballod
in Whites Club, London.
Five women have applied for
seats in the Graphic balloon.
Portland liquor dealers have
paid $4,000 in fines since April.
The London Times Melted its
proprietors 100000 last year.
They have had q shower of
winged ants in Chesterfield, Va.
Oshkosh pays $356,OOO q year
for drinks, an 1886, 600 for flour.
The voting power of the gran
gers in Iowa is estimated at 81, $50.
The Republican candidate for
Governor of Main and Virginia are
successful editors.
A man in Galesburg, ILL.,, has
been fined three dollors tor publicly
sparkling his daughter
1t is said that the connecting
link between the animal and the
Vegetable Kingdoms is hash.
1t is said that more women are
arrested in San Francisco than in
any other city in the Union.
-"Brick" Pomeroy is in Texas
travelling for pleasure and address,
ing agricultural fairs for profit,
There are 912 paper.mills in the
q United States, and the total capital
invested in the business is $49,500,-
600.
Three years ago one could see
all there is to be seen at Niagara
Falls for fifty cents, Now it costs
$11.50.
The movement toward establish
ing q permanent Industrial Exposi-
ton at Pittsburg is meeting with
succ ess.
North Carolina furnishes
larger part than any other State of
the 100000 adults in the country
who can neither read nor write.
Skeletons of victims OF the great
forest fires of October, 1871, are still
frequently discovered in the neigh,
borhood of Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
A Louisiana paper states that
the inscription "for sale" or "for
rent" is posted on more that 6000
houses and stores in New Orlerns.
The discovery in season that
convict in the Georgia State prison
had seasoned the dinner with arsen>
ic saved the State the expense Of
three hundred pine collins.
There are 20,000,000 acres of
wild land along the Mississippi river,
of great richness of soil, capable of
producing the subsistence of the
whole population of the country.
-"1ife in Danbury," by J. M.
Bailey, the Danbury Ne,US Man, has
made profitable bit. The publish
ers, Shepard & Gill, announce the
twenty-second thousand of the book
-"Indigestionable cholera" &C.
cording to the announcement of the
Southwestern Sanitary Association,
owes its origin solely to eating green
fruit containing the germs of cater
pillars"
The plans oftbe new courthouse
in Chicago are severely criticised.
One writer says: "The general eff
feet it that of segar-box with a
pickle bottle at one end lot of pep>
per casters on top"
"A boy who was struck by light
ming in England describes the sem
sation as if he had been struck on
the back of the head with a number
of pettets, and said he had ting
ling all over the body.
"A man in Lansingburg. N. Y,
wagered that he could jump fifty
feet, and be won the money by
jumping off building. The satis-
faction of knowing that the idiot
broke his neck is withheld:
AT the late election in Kentucky
several cities and towns voted upon
the question of liquor selling, and
again TIE Democracy indicated
their right to "morning toddies" by
voting whisky up and temperance
down.
Cholera continues to linger
among the cities and towns along
the valley of the Ohio and the Mis-
sissippi and their tributaries, occa-
sionally breaking out in fresh places
with considerable virulence in pro-
portion to their population.
There is no necessary connec-
ton between severe mental toll and
early prostration. There is no more
vigorous mind in France to-day
than that of Theirs, yet he has been
q tremendous worker. England is
ruled to-day by men of more than
three.score.
An English exchange predicts
that steal bars will shortly be sub
stituted in that country, and the
United States for bells. They are
light. and give more scope to archl-
tectural design in the steeple. Iney
are more easily rung, and are not II"
able to crack.