The Grange advance., 1874-09-02
DAR1EN, WALwoRTH Co., WIS.,,
August 26th. 1874.

What is wanted in Kansas is more
telegraph poles. or stronger ones The
average pole holds only about four
!. horse thieves comfortably.
4 Plymouth Church has Beecher's life
insured for 100000. Hating the
church as he does, 1t is not strange that
Tilton didn't use the shot gun.
They have a game called kissing
croquet at Oshkosh. \ girl is allowed
to move her ball six inches every time
she kisses her fellow From the mar
ket reports We see that trade iii tape
measures is active.
Some spoony says woman is an an
gel, but we don't believe an angel would
set at second story window on Mason
street and yell j. look out old stovepipe,"
before singing peach stones at the silk
hat of passer-by.
Says the Clark County Republican ::
Senator Carpenter has volunteered to
act as counsel for the State in the rail-
road cases: free Of charge. That is Of
fering good deal; the ablest lawyer
in the State proposing to work for moth
ing.
1t is not particularly cheerful to walk
past an undertaker's establishment with
the proprietor sitting in the door meas
uring you with his eye, and then num-
bling something about five feet eleven:
glass top ard silver-plated handles.
The Racine Journal says there is
not man in that district who is in
favor Of the people but that will vote
for Mr.. Williams, for he has been tried
and has not been found wanting His
acts are those that will commend them
selves to every true man: whether he
be Republican or Reformer.
An Oshkosh gentleman passed
through Milwaukee on his way home
very much disappointed. He sat an
hour and half in front of a Chicago
hotel without seeing murder or fire.
The Waupaca Agricultural and
Mechanical Association will hold their
annual fair in Waupaca, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, September
18th, 18th, 18th. George Pope Lind,
Waupaca County, President, A. j. Per.
kins, Waupaca, Secretary. They intend
to secure good speaker for the occasion
"A brakeman on the Chicago.
Burlington l. Quincy road was drowned
in the river Sunday while bathing.
A Granger wonders if he purchased
ticket before he took the train, if not
his chances are slim for the next sta
ton.
We find few words from the
Milwaukee Sentinel in regard to the ob-
ject and method of conducting fairs
that we think worthy Of reprint, and as
the season for fairs is fast approaching
we think it we'll for committees to con-
slider these few hints. Our own expert
enoe teaches US that there is more truth
in them than careless reading would
at first discover. "The gravest faults
of our agricultural fairs lies not in the
usually suspected quarter. It is not
that they fail to advance everything
connected with agricultural and me.
ohanical pursuits, for they do not so
fail; but they do tall short in teaching
producers a nice discrimination as to
the qualities of products. In other
words, for some reason, size comes to
stand for quaIitpjn: the minds Of. too:
many exhibitors and observers The,
committees have an unpardonable lean
ing towards the biggest pumpkins and
squashes, the largest potatoes, the tall:
est stalks Of corn, the fattest horses and
cattle, the biggest oheeses and loaves of
bread, and that marvellous product, the
guilt with 8719 squares made By some
old lady Of ninety. This fault is un-
wise and harmful. It is not true that
the. overgrown is inferior in quality to
the more moderate sized of complete