Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-07-24
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

cites daily.
The Colorado potato bug is on 9
visit to Vermont:
Rochester, N, Y, has had q
shower OF sulphur.
The dog tax in Washington Ter.
ritory is s25 per pup.
Altoona, Pa, prohibits Sunday
hack hiring by special act.
A Connecticut family was recent.
~ poisoned by drinking milk.
Philadelphia has run a woman's
medical school twenty-four years.
There is movement in New
York against fashionable funerals.
The Postmaster OF Henniker, N /.
d. has held the position since 1909.
Two of the zebras travelling with
Western circus are painted mulee.
Now Orleans University has es-
tablished the degree of "Maid of Sci-
ence."
Indiana claims TO make more
wagons than four other States put
together.
The census shows that there are
1854 more men than women in
Wisconsin.
The New York Tribune building
will have billiard table, gymnasium
and restaurant,
There 10 not one Universalist
preacher in the entire province of
New Brunswick.
Every thing will be named after
the "Shah" next winter, from needles
up to goose-y okes.
Among the Arabs the inability
OF the wife TO make bread is a good
ground tor divorce.
Connecticut farmers are cutting
down their fruit orchards 10 plant
the land with tobacco.
Seven trotters have each made
mile in less than 2:20, and seventy
are credited with 229.
New Hampshire has found a
way to feed her State Prison conviets
on eleven cents per day.
Postal cards addressed 10 "the
prettiest girl in town" are quite
numerous in many places.
Louisiana expects this season to
have the largest sugar crop since the
memorable harvest of 1850
1t has been decided in ST. Louis
that the laws of Missouri do not re-
cognize such thing as a soul.
"A Cincinnati paper has already
become liable to a fine of So, 900 for
disregarding the new postal laws.
A man died in Green Bay the
other day who wanted to be buried
in the lake, but his cruel wife refused.
A Rochester boy, 9 years old,
planned and executed burglary
which astonishes veteran policemen.
The Saratogaan says that not
one person in fifteen who comes to
Saratoga drinks of the spring water
Its case of supposed suicide"
when the Brooklyn police find man
in the river with his feet and legs
tied.
Coarse iron wire netting is now
used instead of Hath, on which to Law
the plastering in the interior of
houses.
Some strange disease is said to
be taking off horses in Florida. They
call it thieves in Texas, aud apply
hemp.
Paris is represented to be fairly
overwhelmed with Americans. The
hotels are obliged to turn people
away daily.
"A New Orleans lazy has opened
q swimming school for ladies, and
some of her pupils can SWIM quar-
ter of mile.
Ohio farmers wanted rain, and
now some farms are three feet under
water, and they row boats around to
find their cows.
Persia contains 648,000 square
miles and 10, 600, 900 inhabitants. 1t
is, therefore, nine times as largo as
New England.
1t is the opinion of wicked Bos-
ton papers that little Frankly Wal
worth has been placed where he"will
do the most good"
Calves are dying of some new
disease in Kansas. They commence
bawling and turning round, and drop
dead in few minutes.
On dit that Whitelaw Reid viii
marry Miss Ida Greeley as soon as
seasonable time elapses after tho
death of her father.
Mr.. James Fisk, Sr., father Of
the late James Fisk, Jr., is at Sparta,
Wis, undergoing course of mineral
waters for apoplexy.
Some wretch gave out, upon tho
arrival Of the Illinois editors in Kan
sas City the other day, that the
"Bender family" was in town,
There are 100000 acres of
wild land along the Mississippi river
of great richness of soil, capable of
the subsistence of the
whole population of the country.
joaquin Miller has accepted
challenge to ride to the grounds
against no'ed English sportsman:
He says be will break the English
mans neck if he can find country
rough enough and the girth don't
fail.
The Imperial postage stamps
are still used by the French; but
they are to be changed when the
people have concluded, if they ever
conclude, what form of government
they want.
AN Iowa Justice of the Peace
refused to fine a man for kissing a