The Grange advance., 1873-12-31

special arrangements are made.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We give portion of the address of Mr..
Dennelly before the State Grange, in this
issue, and will give the rest in the next
Let no one fail to read this energetic and
eloquent speech.
DR.. Higbee desires to announce that he
does not run a cigar shop. Since Christ
mas morning there has been a constant de-
mand upon him for that article. 1t was a
boy.
Mr.. John Watson, formerly of Feather
stone, now Of River Falls, had large
Christmas family. Six sons, FIVE daughters,
two daughters-in-law, and four grand
children.
Evansville, Indiana, repudiates the idea
that it has no frst-class poets. Walter
Scott works in sash factory; Oliver
Goldsmith works on a farm; Thomas Moore
is a fnisher, and Robert Burns is in the
city jail.
Where its Byron, and Shelley, and Cow
per, and Tennyson, and Longfellow are
does not appear, but at the rate the others
have been degenerating, we should judge
they were in States Prison or already
hung.
James Brainard, the worthy Secretary of
he Wisconsin State Grange, was in the city,
and attended the meeting Of the Goodhue
County Council at Red Wing on the Goth
inst. He fills our idea offs thorough, earn
est, hard working, and unassuming Patron
He believes in living right up to rules, and
strictly observing the rites and ceremonies
Of the order. 1t is refreshing to meet with
thoroughly earnest man, whatever his
vocation may be. We shall ever be glad to
meet Bro Brainard.
friend Of ours, who is very practical
man, recently read the prospectus Of an
eastern paper, wherein he was informed
that the subscription price was $500, and
that the publishers would give away to
each subscriber chrome we'll worth $40.
Our friend at once wrote: 8: Gentlemen,
you will please send me your excellent pa
per for one year. You may keep the chro-
mo, but send me post Office order for
$500. This with the price Of the paper
will be $500. The balance due me on the
chrome will throw i'm That man has
got an eye for speculation like hawks
for dove.
A late telegram says that Christmas was
celebrated in grand style in South Bend,
Indiana, by introducing water into the
city. How the water affected the South
Benders no relation to the Kansas Bend
ers) does not yet appear, but if this is the
first water they have ever had there, we
should not wonder if they consider it fear
fully diluted, if not absolutely thin, and
if this water is to take the place of the
liquids heretofore in use, then we have the
material for frst-class patent conundrum,
as follows, to wit, viz: Why does the in
PRODUCTION of water into South Bend make
the said Benders feel like fish out of water :?
And again, what will these Benders do
when deprived Of the material for their reg
ular benders? Mr.. Colfax has the floor.
We at length present our readers with
the long looked for new head. If you have
been disappointed in the delay, we have
been much more so, but we trust the beau
ty Of the design and the perfection Of the
execution will make ample amends. Now
friends, this has been an expensive addi-
tion to our paper, and we trust you will
make q little extra effort to increase our
circulation. The Minneapolis Times makes
mention of our new head as follows:
A NEAT DEs1GN.-Mr. w. r. Willard has
just completed wood-cut for the head Of
the new! publication-THE GRANGE AD-
VANCE. The design is both neat, tasty and
appropriate. In the center is female fig
spre, bearing sheaf Of wheat. while at her
feet various farm products, and agricultur-
al implements are strewn in artistic disor-
der. Upon either side, = farm Landscape
stretches out to whore the horizon, 1t by