Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

The French officials want Marshal
Bazaine to "come home to them now. /"
--Miscreants throw poisoned bread
to the sparrows in the New York
parks.
One third of the visitors in the
Yosemite valley this season are Euro
Ipeans.
For forty days little Charlie Ross
has been lost in the wilderness of the
worlds people.
Five hundred families of Russian
Mennonites are now on their way to
the United States.
-Coggia's comet is new visible at
: Melbourne, Australia, and presents q
brilliant appearance.
And yet, It's said, this wonderful,
innocent Goldsmith Maid, doesn't
know she's so much ahead.
| The prevailing church in Iceland
is the Lutheran. They have 321
churches and ls9 ministers.
The French feet now st Que
bee is the first that has visited that
place since its surrender to the arms
of Britain.
A Kentucky paper remarks that
there were eight suicides in Bourbon
county last month, three of which
were fatal"
The town of Waltham, in Add.
son county, VT, has nos assessed a
tax for several years, and has no pau.
pers to support.
dummies, and not horses, will
henceforth draw st. Louis street-cars.
This will be moro in keeping with
the dummies inside.
The snuff.box which General
Jackson left in his will to the bravest
man in America, has as yet no takers.
Where are our heroes?
Even the fishes have their quar-
rels. In Silver Lake, Vermont, the
pickerel ard bullheads are now in the
midst of furious war.
The Pennsylvania Railroad claims
the largest locomotive in The country.
1t has twelve driving wheels, and
weighs seventy.five tons.
The Danville, Pa, man who was
sufficiently superstitious TO SINCE his
cat to drive the witches away, was
taken before Justice and fined $14.
Virginia is shipping wheat to
Brazil in immense quantities, the grain
from that state being free from all dan.
ger of souring in crossing the ocean.
The stage drivers on the Pcnnsyl.
vania mountain roads carry corn to
feed cartridges, that are so tame as to
fly out into the road when they hear a
stage coming.
"A Richmond, Va, fra is filing
contract with France for 100000
worth of tobacco, aud another has a
similar contract with Austria, amount
ing to 100000.
In 1851 Russia had 500 miles OF
railroad; now she has more than TO-.
600 miles, showing growth almost
equal to that which has characterized
American railroads.
AT recent marriage ceremony
at lexington, East Sussex. England,
the wedding ring was placed on the
third toe of the brides left foot-be-
cause she had no hands.
Houston, Texas, Is gong TO UunQ
o ship canal to the Gulf Of Mexico,
which will render her independent of
Galveston and the railway monopoly
between the two places.
The white Muscatel grapes OF
California promise soon to make that
State successful competitor of the
Spanish and Italian peninsu.as in tho
American raisin market.
Laird, the British pirate who de.
clared war against the United States,
and made an ally of the secession.
lists, is seriously sick-and we are
not seriously affected thereby.
The rapid extension aud growth
OF rice culture in Louisiana is fast
making it one of the important agri-
cultural Interests of that State. 1t is
represented by about $780, 900 cap
ital.
1t is stated that the yellow fever
has never appeared in any climate at
an elevation of $500 feet above the
sea level The highest elevation it
has visited in the United States Is 400
feet.
The lumbermen of the Lake and
st. Lawrence region have determined
to curtail tho manufacture and ship
ment of lumber one-half, the reduction
to continue during the approaching
winter.
If you want to see the other
side of Clusters Paradise, go there
next December. The winds of the
winters there are as adept at taking
the scalp off q man as the Sioux
Indians.
1t has recently been ascertained
that the temperature of the upper
strata of the earth's atmosphere is
warmer than the lower strata, which
is quite the reverse of the previous by.
pothesis.
One of the performers connected
with Barnum's show is regularly
licensed clergyman, and varies the
monotony of city performances by
preaching to country congregations
on the Sabbath.
Several base ball clubs have been
formed in the north of England, and
manuals for instruction of players are
published there. Bats, balls and 9TH
er articles used 10 playing hsve been
imported fer sale.
"A North Franklin, Conn.,, man,
J. g. Cooley, proposes to convert his
house and farm of $50 acres into a
home for INDECENT and disabled print
era. The house will accommodate
about fifty persons.
The ruby mines of Upper Bur
nah are worked solely by the King,
who picks out the best stones and sells