Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-14

1 cAonerleS IN the United States
Mast is said to have decided "a
enter the lecture field next winter,
Iowa grasshoppers eat MP the
tobacco plants when they can find
any.
Connecticut is the heaviest bar d.
ware manufacturing State in the
Union.
A handsome young woman lie
the captain of Texas lumber
schooner.
The courts of Missouri have de-
oided that debts contracted on Sun.
day are legal.
st. Paul cannot complete her
quarter of a million Court Housa
this summer.
The United States Fish commits.
sion is filling up the Fox river with
trout and cells.
Egypt contains 113 navigable
canals and 756 smaller ones for pur@
poses of irrigation.
"A woman in San Francisco pro.
poses to walk one thousand miles in
one thousand hours.
milwaukee, has $3.50, 900 invest
ed in 500 saloons, and calculates the
profits at $4,000 day.
An illinois farmer raises a new
kind of cabbage, which is very val
liable to sugar makers.
Cincinnati can count up two
hundred and eighty men who part
their hair in the middle.
A Georgia gentleman has reoov-
cred $40, 900 for staying in Jail ten
weeks. He can afford to go again.
Tho Shah offered 100000 for
three English ladies whom he saw
and admired, but he did not get them.
A number of women mdeioal
students driven from Russia have
arrived in this country nearly penni-
less.
A go-ahead Yankee is securing
the capital to start daily paper in
Pekin, half the matter to be set in
English.
A Virginia man bitten by a rat
tlesnake drank kerosene instead of
whisky, and it answered the same
purpose--cured him.
--Oakes Ames's will, now in pro-
bate, and the Inventories which ac-
company it show that his estate
amount to $5,754, 254.
-Co-operative stores have been
tried in some locations by the Iowa
Changers, but they were not suc-
cess, and have been abandoned.
--An. International diplomatic con.
ference is to be held at Rome on the
LIST of September, to agree, if posi-.
BILE, on q general postal treaty.
Sarah j. Shove is the woman
whom the Republicans will probably
shove into the position of Superin.
tendent of schools in Calhoun coun.
ty, Iowa.
"A Pennsylvania paper congrato
ulates itself on the fact that Tom
Scott can't control tho through route
to heaven. Thomas has very little
interest in that line.
True bills have been found by
the Grand Jury against the four per.
sons arrested, on charge of being
concerned in the bank of England
forgeries. The trial is set for Aug
ust.
"A Colorado spring has such ex-
traordinary virtues that the thln~
nest woman, after drinking its wa
ters for few months, have no fur
Their occasion for padding of any
sort.
"A rumor comes from Paris
Naval and Military Gazette that a
motive power which will entirely
supersede steam for locomotion, Doth
by sea and land, has just been dis
covered.
Miss Greedy wants to get copies
of all the letters .her father ever
wrote. Whoever has any is reques-
ted to forward them to her. and she
will take copies and faithfully return
the original.
Two GAINESVILLE saloon. keepers
have yielded to the moral effect of
the female temperance demonstra-
ton. They express their intention
to leave the city or get into some
other business.
By new method lately devised
by German scientists, it has been
computed that the age of the earth,
that is, the time since a firm crust
was formed, is more than two thou
sand million years,
Scientists are claiming that in
stead of being cold, the moon is in
reality red-hot so much 80 that no
living being known TO our world
could exist there. This spoils the
"green cheese" theory.
When a New Hampshire juror
finds himself unable to decide as to
the guilt or innocence of the prison.
or, be reflects that every convict in
the State prison yields revenue to
the State Of two or three hundred
dollars per year. And then he he's
itates no longer.
The Graphic Company want
proposals from chemists for light,
safe bomb, for use on the balloon ex-
petition, which will explode on be-
ing thrown out upon the water, and
will illuminate things sufficiently to
enable the aeronauts to discover
their bearings or communicate with
passing vessels.
Henry t. Bray got the prize
as the handsomest baby in the San
Francisco baby show. The other
prizes for babies were awarded to
the handsomest twins, the one hav-
ing the heaviest head of hair, the