Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-06-05
BRIEF MENTION.
The Khedive has so children,

four female figures on it.
Kansas people are shown over
the Bender house at quarter head.
About 100000 bushels of grain
are waiting canal transport at Buffalo.
The price of room in Vieuna,
just now, is sl2 per day, board is ex-
ira.
"A colored boy at Jerseyville has
fallen heir to $3.50, 000 worth ofprop-
erty.
"A woman in Springfield, Mass,
busies herself in making wills at 81
each.
"A suit TO recover $4,000 damages
for dog bits is on trial in San Fran
cisco.
An Englisbman died In New
York recently from swallowing o
crucifix.
1t is proposed to write messages
upon postal cards with invisible ink,
as in France.
--Incipient cholera in the shape of
water-melons has made its appearance
in New York.
Over 1,000hotels in Pennsylvania
have closed since the election on the
license question.
The latest saloon census in New
York shows one crop shop for every
100 inhabitants.
The bust of Fred. Douglass, in
white marble, ornaments the Roch-
ester City Hall.
The Cleaveland Leader offers to
donate its old types to be run into
bullets for the Modoc war.
Some of the Massachusetts fac
tories work their employees from Z in
the morning till 10 at night.
"A Georgia paper announces that
twenty men are to bo hanged in that
State within two months.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson was
warmly received on arriving home
from his late foreign tour.
Horace Greeley once remarked
that the genius of journalism consist.
ed in knowing what not to print.
An Alabama Congressman put
his back pay where it would do the
most good, by giving it to his wife.
1t is thought that Ex-Governor
Jewell, of Connecticut, will accept
his appointment of Minister to Rus
STA.
1t is impossible at present to
print and issue the postal cards fast
enough to meet the demand of the
public.
The California farmers have call.
ed State convention to consider the
propriety of general political move
ment.
Ocean steamers charge two dol
lars per head to bring babies this
way, but let them go to Europe for
nothing.
"A severe clap of thunder brought
a New Orleans dead body to life the
other day, just as it was to be
buried.
The WoodhuIl-C lafin firm has
Dissolved, Yickie having cut loose from
Tennie on account of poor health of
the latter.
--Bergh has been appealed to by
q farmer of this State TO know if
folding doors in hog pens are the
fashion this year.
Two geese that had been car.
ried fifteen miles, from Bloomington,
Iowa, waddled back to their old
home, the other day.
-Taintor, the cool cashier of the
Atlantic Bank, tried to have the in
dictment against him quashed, but
failed and is held for trial.
The narrow-gauge railways of
the United States make o total length
of 325 miles. The length of the lines
projected or building is about 1900
miles.
An exchange thinks that treat
ing the Modocs as though they were
Christians is like treating royal
Bengal tiger as though he were q
spaniel.
Well posted men in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan estimate that
100000 tons of iron ore will be
shipped from that part Of the State
this summer.
"A brilliant youth lately secured
good room in a San Francisco no.
tel and caused much oxcitemnt by
registering his name as Henry Ward
Beecher.
"A GAINESVILLE, Ohio, woman has
a treasure of O husband who has fur
nished her husband with material for
seventeen suits for damages against
bar keepers.
A larger acreage has been nut
under rice in Louisiana this season
than ever before, the estimat ed
yield with an average season being
125, 900 barrels.
The heaviest brain on record
was recently found in the skull OF q
London brick layer, who could nei,
Their read nor write. It's weight was
sixty-seven ounces.
1t is reported that Winnie Ream
has not sculped in vain, but has CHS
eled her way into the marble heart
of a New York clothing merchant,
and will be married in the fall.
They won't take American girls
as schoIarsin German boarding school
on account of the bad example they
set the native scholars by their ex-
travagance and fondness for dress
1t is reported that over l 900 ho-
tells in Pennsylvania have closed sine
the elections on the license oues-
ton. Travlers in the state being few
they could not live without the brofit
from the sale of liquor.