Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-02-26
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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-Hawkinsville, Ca, has a porker
with eight legs.
-Garard county, KY, has sixteen
candidates for jailer.
- Dr. Thomas, Staten Island
| physician, is missing.
- Lazy husbands are kaown ont
West as stove-watchers.
One thousand Mcnnonites are 10
settle in East Tennessee.
The removal of The State capital
Of Georgia is on the tapis.
Charlotte, n. c., is taking up a
subscription for a cotton mill.
The Ohio Constitutional Conven.
ton only cost about $500 per day.
New York claims one drinking
saloon TO every 40 Of its population.
Rochester rcioices because of a
general exodus OF gamblers from that
crp.
The people of Gilroy, Cal, are
enjoying the luxury OF fresh straw
berries
San Francisco has advanced in
population the past year from ls0, 900
10 100000
-Poughkeepsie, n Y, is to be
blessed with the Ohio temperance
movement
"A man in Richmond offers $780,
900 in Confederate money for $50 in
greenbackS.
A Kerosene lamp made Of paper
is the latest invention of a Port By
ronite, \. Y,
AT the minimum eStim1te there
are 10000 unemployed women in the
city OF New York
= Butternhk is attracting great at
tention as an article Of diet that will
produce longevity.
A negro woman was SAFELY de-
Iivcred OF three boys At one birth last
week in IIarrodsburg, Ky.
A Bangor gentleman fond
pearl in an oyster, aud was enabled 10
pay his last year board bill.
There were $40 900, 900 expended
last year in passage money between
this country and Great Britain.
Memphis has c'r;hned one alley
since the cholera. and now regards
qerset as safe from the epidemic.
In Paris they take their cod-rve
oil in bread, 800 loaves beng used
daily in the chiIdren's hospital alone.
The oyster beds Of Virginia COW
er an area of $1,000 acres, and yield
an annual money value OF $40. 900.
Two small Vrginians, aged re-
spectvely 5 and years, killed them
selves the other day, drinking brandy.
In proportion to the population
Holland owns more American railroad
stock than any other European coun-
try.
More than half a million lives arc
now insured by the two hundred and
odd companies engaged in that busis
ness.
When DR. Lewis says four spoon
fuls OF water is sufficient for bath,
we presume he speaks for himself
only.
The present Congress has an even
100 members who fought in the re-
belior, and twcnty-Six OF the number
wore the gray.
Rochester has a Borgh associa-
lion, which tax : cogmiz incc OF every
cruelty t. human beings as well as
to dumo animals.
There are only two establish
merits in the state of New York where
BARRIERS chairs are made, and those
are in Rochester
John Dog pe,itioned the Massa-
chnsctts Legislature To change his
name, aud they made it john Kerr,
and he was happy
"A Detroit female of just 25 was
married To her fifth husband lately. =
All the gentlemen are alive, and the
first tour are dong well.
-MasSachu~ett people have $l00-
O00,0 900 Of Western and Southern ral-
WA, investments on which no divl.-
dends or interest are paid.
There is much excitement Mt
Kingston, y. Y, over the disc, very,
by wurkner, at the skeleton OF u wU-
man wed Led IN "A chimney
-O One hundrcd and five municipal
officials of San Francisco receive
total Of S2O8, 5000 per anuum, or an
average OF nearly 81 900 each.
The chap an OF the New Hamp-
SHIRE state Prison says that Tor twelve
years and a half no proicss,ona man
has been confined in that institution.
-TLey have genuine case Of
lrprosy III Detroit, aud it j. asserted
that the disease is more or less pre-
valcrt in number of the cities OF the
country.
The new fremont House, Chica-
90, built upon the old site and one Of
the very finest hotel structures in the
world, was opened February 10. It
is marvel OF elegance.
Nov that a sick man has been
cured by drinking blood twice day
at a Boston abattoir, it IL to be feared
that the number OF blood thirsty peo-
pie viii increase with frishtfulrapidi'y.
- The postal telegraph scheme
seems to have died prematurely IN
the pocket of some Congressional
committeeman. The bin was 'refer-
ed" and that appears to be the end
of it.
- An English railway has been
compelled 10 pay passenger $4,000
damages whose thumb was damaged
by the door Of a crowded car! The
Judge thought the overcrowding was
The cause Of the accident.
The Order Of the knights Of Py~
thias was instituted in Iowa in May,