Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-24
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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Large numbers of Indians were
employed in the Oregon harvest fields.
| San Francisco has chinese thea-
ire capable of seating 1000 persons.
| Prof. Fl. W. Longfellow is not
writing biography of Chas. Sumner
| Paper flour barrels are to be man.
utactured extensively in Winona, MINI.
| The Journal of Health says it Ii
wrong to get up before you feel like
lit.
| "A Belfast, Maine, girl was seized
with spinal meningitis on her wedding
day.
-Burd Grubb is the owner of e
Newport yacht; so they call him Ca~
nary Seed.
1t is curious fact that the color
of the eyes of newly born infants is in.
variably blue.
-"The silent majority" is Junius
Henry Brownies expressive designa-
ton for the dead.
-Note-shavers succeed financially
because they stake so much interest"
in their business.
Tho future seaport and emporium
of the Mississippi valley, is what they
call New Orleans now.
Think of hearing at the foot Of
the pyramids in Egypt; "Shine yer
boots, Johnny? FIVE cents"
A Vermonter advertises "unprec-
edented, unparalleled, unapproachable,
unadulterated confectionery"
Over S9,o00,000 worth of prop
erty has been buried in the American
lakes since the introduction of steam.
1t is estimated that three million
dollars worth OF grain has been de-
stroyed by locusts in Southwestern
| Minnesota.
Weddings often leave the old fa-
miliar hearts and places as haunted
and empty as funerals. They are the
| funerals of old associations.
1T took the hides of 165 cattle to
furnish leather Tor Lnree mugs ueILs
lately sent to Augusta, Ga by man
ufacturer of Chicopee, Mass.
| Black silk walking-dresses with
stripes of beads down the front width
instead of velvet, as was the rage last
winter, will be in favor this fall.
| "A Cuban lady at Saratoga, fs.
nous for her wealth and very elabor-
ate toilets, wears a necklace of Amer
lean twenty-dollar gold pieces valued
at $500.
| "A Saratoga belle was thrown in
to commissions and her health serious
| ly impaired because her beau wanted
to dance with her without wearing
gloves.
"A French scientist claims to have
discovered an insect which makes its
home in the middle of cigars. That
insect is morally certain of being
smoked out.
1he Oldest know ex-Congressman
is said to be Samuel Thatcher, Of Ban
gor, who is in his Goth year. He rep
resented Massachusetts district from
1902 to 1905.
The people of Carthage, N. Y,
unmindful of the fact that counting is
very solemn business, object to tho
young people carrying it on in the vii
lage cemetery.
ALI that was mortal of the late
Marshal Concha, now lies in one of the
crypts of the Atocha Church, not far
from the crypt where lies the body OF
General Prim.
There are forty-two cataoombs in
and around Rome, with galleries 5s7
miles long, and it is estimated that
from four to seven millions have found
sepulture therein.
1t may be interesting to know
that the present bonnet will have a
high box-plaited crown aud rim
turning up directly in front, held in
position by a huge bow.
One of the late greatest pipe.fan-
ciers in the world, Major General Raj
falovich, of the Russian army, is now
in this country. He has a collection
| of more than 600 pipes.
The fruit crop is very abundant
in California this year, while for size,
beauty of color, and delicious flavor,
they bear away the palm from any
thing elsewhere in the country.
AN enterprising reporter in Ar
kansas, who was recently sentenced
to the State prison for horse stealing,
applied to his employers to be contin-
ued on the journal as Penitentiary
correspondent.
Despite the vigilance of the au-
thorlties, the Lanterne is extensively
circulated in France. 1t is very mi
mute in size, being reduced by photo
graphy, and is pronounced by impair
tial persons very dull.
From the report In the Swiss pa
pers of transaction in the Bernese
Jura, it would appear that the priests
Whereabouts supply absolution through
the post office, upon receiving writ
ten account of the sins to be forgiven.
Canadians are shocked by the al.
legations, made in open Parliament,
that Mr.. McKeller, member of the
Cabinet, has the picture of an actress
in his office. Whether the actress is
young, pretty or famous was not
stated.
The lie Vert Hospital of Mobile
has lately been sold for taxes. Half
of this handsome property was the
possession of Nine. o. w. lie Vert,
her husband, DR.. lie Vert, having been
the originator and founder of the in.
stitution.
Seventeen Methodist preachers
belonging to one family-two great
grandchildren, ten grand children and
five children of the late Luther Peck