Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-16
Historical loon.
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
The latest reported invention ia
q cast.iron balloon.


--Sixty-sx cats supply society to
q woman IN Grand Rapids, Mich.
-Lovett, the bingham Bank do.
faulter, has been released at $50, O0C
. bail.
The famous Paris physician, Mr..
Nelaton, left fortune of 1000, O0C
francs.
: Charles Bradlaugh, the great
! Eoglish demagogue, is in the uuiled
States.
-McHenry County, H., is the
attest claimant OF the last rev olution.
ary hero.
Fillmore and Johnson arethe only
ex-Presidents of the United States
that survive.
Mr.. John G Breckenridge is re.
ported TO be coming to practice law
IN New York.
"A eucalyptus tree, in Delmar sv.
enue, San Jose CAL. is one hundred
feet IN height.
1t is proposed to build a new
Mormon tabernacle at Logan. Utah,
to cost $4,000.
The Cincinnati Industrial Ex-
position was attended this year hy
5O7 ,658, persons.
Capt Hall was the only imam
| who died on board the Polaris or in
the journey home.
A nondescrip animal. halt cat
and half rabbit, is owned by young
man of Wells, Penn.
A gloomy view of the English
harvest of this year is endulged in
by the London Echo.
T-To milk kicking oow--stand
OFT about eight feet and yell, SOL YOU
darned old skintlint."
There are OS6 newspapers in
this country. having an aggregate
circulation of Is. SIS, 1872.
A Savannah man steals his wife's
false teeth when be wants TO keep
his wife from ''gaddlDg."
Benjamin Griswold. who recent.
ly died at GU mbridge, VI, had read
his Bible through los times.
Mr.. Davis, the colored candidate
TOR Lieutenant Governor of Missis-
sIppi, was formerly barber
The gale OF postage stamps have
been $4,000 day less than usual
since the money panic began;
The remains of Commodore
Maury have been inferred at Holly
wood Cemetry, Richmond, Va.
Mast il back TO his old post on
Hdrper'S Weekly,and the Illustrations
OF that paper plainly show the fact.
Canoes have gone out of fash.
ions for jowelry, having been sue
ceeded by intagiios, antique, if posi-.
pie.
Somebody Gays that Americans
have national dread OF water. Ho
refers to the perils of navigation
only.
The Milwaukee NewS does not
believe that there is ono woman in
hat city who can cook healthy
10 cal.
The same mule that killed
man at Lexington, Indiana, was
permitted TO haul the widow to tho
funeral.
Three hundred orange trees in
MarysVille. Cal, are loaded with
lruit, which have reached nearly the
full size.
MIR, George William Curtis will
resume his seat in the 'easy chair"
Of Harper's Magazine n the Novem-
Der number.
The Pennsylvania State Treas.
ury loses 100000 by the failure of
the Union Banking Company of
Philadelphia.
The Western paper speaks ola
new paper mill which "will be made
OF brick one hundred and seventy
FIVE feet long"
-Fringes are to be very fashion
able as trimmings this winter. Some
of the handsomer sorts are as expen-
sive as fine lace.
The Duke of Edinburgh il con-
tinuiug his counting Of the Princess
Alexanderowna at the Cars country
seat at Mivadia.
During the past week the head.
er of the Sutro funnel has been adj
vanced 81 feet, making it's total
length 4, 4l2 feet.
"A new and similar pneumatic
tube is to be laid between the Capi.
lol and the government printing of
fee in Washington,
The real old epizootio has Just
got to British Columbia, and all the
horses and mules on Victoria Island
are laid up with it.
There ia in store and piled up
at South Vallejo, Cal, awaiting
shipment, $4,000 tons of wheat, near.
ly twenty ship loads.
Fans, says report, will be lar.
ger than ever this winter. They are
assuming size and weight danger
Gus to the community.
The Dubuque Herald, the lead.
ing Democratic paper in Iowa, re-
fused to di5fgure is columns with
the nondescript ticket,
"A New York physician recently
paid $1,000 for the bones of the horse
which carried Napoleon Bonaparte
on the day of Waterloo.
The use and adaptibility OF ban
ana fibre in the manufacture of paper
is about to be tested by competent
parties in Savannah, Ga.
Choice Utah wheat is bringing
80 cents bushel, and -four is worth
from 81 to $3.50 per sack of 100
pounds at Salt Lake City.