Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-07
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,

been discovered near Clermont.
Fayette County, Iowa.
/ Chris Grab, q Jackson clerk late.
! losI his grandmother and gained
$4,000. His grief is inconsoiable.
"A convention of German
teachers of the United States is to
be held on the 2Sth inst. at st. Lou.
lis.
"A silver trout weighing thirty
pounds-the largest ever taken from
Lake Tahoe--was caught on Sunday
last.
The principal business of the
Ohio Constitutional Convention is
granting leave of absence to it's mem.
bers.
A genuine Cremona violin of great
value has been discovered in the
hands of a little street musician in
New York.
Soup for the poor in Boston
cost about 1900 lasi year, and "re-
freshments" for the City Govern.
ment SAL, 900.
| AT jena. in Germany, the stu
denf of the University dring upon
the average, about one gallon of small
beer per diem.
"A quiet movement is going on
in Democratic circles with view
to bring out General JEFF. G. Davis
for the Presidency.
Marshal Mcmahon has received
az photographic letter from the En-
peror of Austria, containing fatter-
ing congratulations.
The ''off piatoons" of the Brook
Ign police force, as "deadheads" on
the Canarsie steamer, go picnicing
to kcokaway, and fishing for sleeps
head. Mes..
Women hold the two most inn
portant post-offices in Kentucky.
Mrs. Poster has the office at Louis
villc, and Mrs. Farrell that at Gov.
ington.
AT the Baltimore fire the at
mosphere was perfumed and the
smoke rendered pleasant by the
breaking of cologne and other sweet
extracts.
bellevue, Iowa, is enjoying the
sensation of q frstsclass tuSuS ma,
tur@, in the shape of colt with
eight legs, foaled at that place q
short time ago.
There is an effort being made in
Boston to establish the fashion Of re-
ceiving callers 10 the kitchen, so that
pie-making and gossip may go on
simultaneously.
A Maine suspender factory uses
alligator skins. Out West suspen-
ders are frequently made of rope,
especially those used by horse.
thieves and murderers.
-Danbury the Wise says he never
knew q man to be elected to an
office of trust who carried horse
chestnuts in his pockets as o pre-
ventitive of rheumatism.
Fine salt or cedar chips will pre-
serve carpets and clothing from the
house worm now raiding about Pitts.
burgh, and which is causing more
damage than the potato bug.
The one hundred stone steps
down which General Putnam rode
his horse are in good repair, and
tourists wonder how he performed
the feat without breaking his neck.
"A woman in Haverill, Mich,
poured kerosene oil upon a cow that
was trespassing upon her premises,
and then set her on fire. The cow
departed in a hurry and took the
gate along,
-"Bluffing" at Martha's Vineyard
does not consist in "going better"
on a poor hand. but in preambulat-
ing the beach and by loving profess
tations winning rich hand and
girl with it.
"A youth of Houghton, Mich,
named Gross, went pigeon shooting
a few days ago, and shortly ALTERS
ward was found in the woods in a
dying condition, with q gunshot
wound in his groin.
The congregations of two neigh
boring churches in Mississippi late
ly prayed, the one for rain and the
other for drought: The suppIica-
tons were equalized, and neither
prayer was granted.
-Elmwood, ILL.,, merchants are
employing farmers, who haul their
grain to Peoria, TO bring back goods.
They get their merchandise trans~
ported in this way for less than the
charges would be by rail.
"A hard hit from the Cedar
Falls CIowa) Gazette at the editor of
the Dubuque Telegraph:
The last case of temporary insan.
ity'' is that of Dennis A. Mahony,
who supposes himself a Republican.
A Topeka editor counted twenty
dogs in one yard the other night,
and the meeting wasn't organized
either. He wants to know "what's
the use of a bologna sausage factory,
run by steam, if this is to continue?"
Royalty in Russia will not per-
NIT itself to be quoted. A Russian
editor has been fined and imprisi-
oned for publishing four words of
the Gar addressed to the Khirgis-
tan Envoy, Mohammed Sultan. They
were: "Ahl you speak Russian r.
When DIR. Mary Walker, the
aged bloomer Cnot blooming) was
arrested in Baltimore because dress.
ed in male attire, she assured the
judge that it was ell right. She
was fearful of windy weather and
had been invited to climb ladder.
Some one has written on the
door of the railway station at Viii.
sons Station, near Hartford, Conn,
the following; 1.-THE man who MUIR
dered Nathan Fem, of Milford, in
1871, now holds this pencil in his
hand, and | defy all to catch me-"