Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-06-19
BRIEF MENTION.

country in August.
1t cost nine million dollars TO
support London's poor last year.
Hon A. II. Stephens has resum.
ed the control of the Atlanta Sun.
4 A Chinese theatrical COMPANY ia
performing in Paris to immense au-
dienoes.
The sweetest note of Ole Bulls
violin has died away forever-his in
FAINT child has left him.
In Germany, Holland, and the
United States, and England, tobacco
costs more than bread.
Henry Ward Beecher has been
advised by his physician to spend
the summer at Colorado.
An edict has been issued in Ja-
pan that the natives shall in future
eat bread instead of rice.
The most perfect carpentery to
be seen in the Vienna Exhibition is
IN the Japanese department.
The house in Murfreesboro. Tenn,
IN which President Polk was mar.
RED is now used as a stable.
-Ex.Empress Eugenie is making
presents to the doctors who attended
her husband in his last illness.
The first yellow fever patient
has arrived at New York, and been
sent to the quarantine hospital.
If our trees were on British soil
they would DO removed for having
begun "The Wearing of the Green"
Mark Twain is building a $40
600 house in Hartford. 1t will be
completed when he returns from
abroad"
A young husband calls his wife
"Birdie," because, he says, she ia
always associated in his mind with
bill.
Every jute switch contains 49,.
100000 parasites. Hold this fact
up, ladies, when asking for $25 to
buy some real hair.
The grave of Lieut.. Eoenezer
Munroe-the first soldier who died
in the Revolutionary WARM the
cemetry at Gardner, Mass, was dec
Grated on Friday
The "Man Of Danbury" is pre-
pairing book for publication. Ii
will be melancholy volume filled
with heart-rending and touching
scenes in his native hamlet.
An old woman at Liverpool,
Ohio, didn't want EN- take any
trouble after she was dead, but if it
was just the same she would like to
be buried with her spectacles on"
When one learns that the United
States contains $4,000 drug stores,
each of them dispensing on an aver
age score of prescriptions day,
the only wonder is that 50 many PEG.
pie die natural deaths.
Tho beard of dead man, who
was clean shaved at the time of his
burial, six years ago, in San Francis
co, was found to be eighteen inches
long, says the Chronicle, when his
coffin was opened few weeks ago,
The Polaris investigation is pro,
ceoding, but tho Secretary of the
Navy is convinced that Captain Hall
died natural death, and the Tyson
party became separated from the
vessel through accident instead of de.
sign.
The number of persons killed in
the streets of London during the
past five years by vehicles and
horses has been five hundred and
manned or injured,
seven thousand four hundred and
ninety four.
Daniel Boone rife, shot pouch,
powder horn, hunting knife, and
section of beech log on which he
'ut his name and date, 1774, are in
she public library at Louisville, Ky.
The wooden stopper of the powder
horn still bears the marks of his
teeth.
Senator Sumner will leave
W ashington for Massachusetts in
the early part Of juno. He will
spend portion of the summer a.
the villa of the poet Longfellow, at
and will also spend some
time with the Hon. Samuel Hooper
at his estate.
Stokes is to have another chance.
The rumor, current few days since,
hat the New York Court ofAppeals
had refused his application for now
trial proves to DO untrue. On the
the court by unanimous
opinion has granted him new trial
and his friends are highly elated and
promise testimony that shall, in the
words of his counsel I" established
his innocence by evidence of an over
character"
A few days ago stranger, whilo
drunk IN Memphis, bad his whiskers
shaved off, and was put in the sta
lion house. Next morning the man
lid not know himself, for he had not
shaved for fifteen years. His whis-
zers were very long, and he did not
recollect that tonsorial artist had
applied the razor to his face the day
previous. He is now on the eve of
because he is unable to i.
IDENTIFY his own physiognomy.
1t is in teresting to notice u man
Of tender corns on croquet ground.
He will stand around, always in the
way, until some sunny haired maiden
croquets on his pet toe, and then he
will throw bis mallet wildly among
The players and go to Waiting off on
one leg among the shrubery, choking
himself black in the face with excla-
nations he dare not utter, while the