Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-09
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.


South Indiana never had as
promising tobacco crop before.
New York city subscribed 1862
to the the Shreveport sufferers.
The reelection of Mr.. Blaine to
the Speakership is generally conced'
ed.
: -Chloroform will remove paint
from garments better than anything
else.
The pardoning power has been
taken away from the Governor of
Iowa.
| Counterfeit nickels are in circu.
lation in the south--among the me-
groes.
Bad boys of Alexandria, Va,
get tree admission to menageries by
taking cats for the animals to feed
upon.
We don't hear as much now.a.
days of monomanlacs as Of money!
maniacs.
"A calf was sold in Oneida coun-
ty, New York, the other day, for
S27 900.
Twenty Connecticut ministers
have voluntarily eschewed chewing
tobacco.
The dedication Of an Indiana
church was postponed on account of
the advent of a circus.
Mrs. Young No. IL is going to
to tell all she knows of Mormonism
on tho lecture platform.
Tho Republican canvass Of
Virginia is favorable. The majority
for the ticket is placed at 5000.
Blonde hair is no longer the
style in the East. Every woman
wants to be dark-haired belle.
The use of tar as preventative
against potato diseases is attended
with the most satisfactory results.
Eight out of ten American ladies
coming back from Europe do little
just the least mite-smuggling.
Joaquin Miller is homeward
bound on the briny deep, and very
soon America will have another at
Fiction.
John b. Cough. Henry Ward
Beeoher, George w. Curtis, Rev. Il.
H. Chaplin and Thomas Mast will ell
lecture in Dubuque.
Tho Inter Ocean has been sued
tor libel in sum for 100000 by ono
Hugo Walter, whom it called some
very hard names.
With the display now required
for irst-class funeral, people are
beginning to understand what are
tho terrors of death.
The Southern peanut crop this
season is pronounced an almost total
failure as to quantity, and not much
better as regards quality.
The yield of The fifty furnaces
now erecting will add 5000 tons
of pig iron to the present annual pro.
duction of the United States.
The New York Times says that
"God alone knows how many infants
in this city meet their deaths from
the carelessness of drug clerks"
There has been terrible storm
on the Black Sea. Seventy vessels
were wrecked and 265 bodies thrown
up by the waves have been recovered.
No actor has yet been able to
counterfeit that expression of Joy
which man shows when discover.
ing a ten-cent stamp in his paper of
tobacco.
Fifty vessels laden with grain
valued at s3,500,00O, have been dis
patched this year from California for
Europe, and dozen moro are tax.
ing cargo.
"A call has been issued for ICON.
gress of women" TO be held in Chic
ago next month. for the purpose of
forming an association for the lad.
vance OF women"
An Illinois farmer refuses to ale
low his children TO learn grammar.
lie says that "such things is darned
nonsense, end won't help EN- to hoo
corn or chop wood"
The clerks in an Eastern iowery
establishment were startled recently
by an individual who wanted TO
know if he could have his "entrails"
engraved on his watch ease.
Since the clergy have held pray.
ers for the benefit of the press, the
Chicago Times suggests that editors
unite in supplication for the diffusion
of intelligence among the clergy.
The price of marriage licenses is
reduced rs cents in Iowa, and now
stands at $l25, which is cheap
enough. Still man can get into
trouble in other ways for less money.
A fisherman of Easton, Pa,
caught black bass in the Delaware
that had in its mouth thirteen hooks
with pieces of lines from a half to
two yards in length attached to
them.
Carl Vogt finds strange sap
port for scripture legend in the
Darwinian theory. A gorilla has
thirteen ribs, but man only twelve
-one having been removed to make
woman.
Wife sales in England having
been suspended because of the dull.
ness Of the market wives are now
given away by dissatisfied husbands
to whom they prove unsatisfactory
property.
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