Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-16
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Not so many people are abroad
this year as last, and Europe COM
plains of hard times.
Philadelphia ministers wear lin.
en- suits in the pulpit. 1t suits them,
but not the fastidious.
| The opium crop in Persia has
failed, owing to excessive falls of
snow. It's snow matter.
"A Salem MASS. woman ate q
rose and died. 1t is supposed the
leaves covered poisonous insect.
brigham Young's favorite wife
has an outfit in the way of horses,
harness, and carriage valued at 81
900.
The mail between Sierraville
and Sierra City is carried by horses
on snow shoes, the snow being still
very deep.
Detroit women insist on tanning
themselves while having. their photo
graphs taken, so their faces will not
look flushed.
The prize poetry in the French
Academy will be awarded in 1875 to
the author of the best piece of verse
on Livingstone.
1t was Goethe who said that the
most dreadful wild beast in the world
is a boy Ever since the Fourth we
have believed him.
This year in South Carolina the
death rate among the colored popu-
lation has been little more than
twice as great as among the whites.
at costs less TO take a weekly
paper" argues the Cape Ann Adver-
tiser, than diligent hen can earn
in year at the market price of
eggs"
"A big blast. Three thousand
tons of rock were displaced for min
ing purposes by 100 tons of giant
powder, in New Jersey one day last
week.
The British Parliament is to be
asked to grant the family OF DR.. Liv-
ingstone $4,000, in addition to the
pension of $1,000 now enjoyed by
them.
The American pilgrims at Rome
gave touch of tho home method OF
expressing enthusiasm by giving
three cheers for the Pope at dinner
party.
An Iowa paper predicts that in
five years everv barrel of Western
flour will be sent East in barrels OF
paper. made from the straw the wheat
grew on.
"A New Jersey lawyer was muir
dered in q court room the other day,
and the incident reminded locker
on of "them good old days down ia
Arkansaw."
One hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars q year for the Sc
cret Service Bureau, and yet they
have never captured counterfeiter's
"dandy roll.
Cinnamon are buying nearly all
the mining claims in Timbuctoo, Yu-
ba county, California. They appear
to like gold just as we'll as Christians
or Congressman.
The curse of Government clerk
is said to be the constant fear of dis
charge, either on account of q reduc-
ton of expenses or 90 account OF po-
litical emergencies.
The Plous Pioneers is an organ
ization of small boys recently estab-
lished in Philadelphia. The juve-
niles have no fear of early death and
promise to De good.
"A Louisiana man puts a two
ounce can of nitro glycerine inside of
a chicken, losses the chicken into an
alligator, and that alligator does not
trouble the bayou any moro.
in Boston they have removed
the seats from some of the public
parks because they were infested by
q set of blackguards who insulted
decent people who were passing.
"A Baltimore man thrashed bis
wife for pumping dose of laudanum
out of his stomach. She thought he
had taken enough to kill him, and no
was mad because he Host his good.
sleep.
There is to be Methodist camp
meeting, commencing the 18th of
July, at the Lakeside Camp Ground,
in Ottowa county, Ohio. 1t offers
nice view of Lake Erie and the PEN
insula.
Tho Toledo Board of Education,
having bad under consideration the
question OF excluding tie Bible from
the public schools, has concluded to
postpone action in the matter till
next autumn.
Margaret Peterson, who before
the war owned eighty slaves and
$4,000 worth of property 10 Flori-
da, was arrested 10 Troy, N. Y, re-
Gently, while intoxicated, and in
destitute condition.
"A Japanese young lady who
came over TO our shores three years
ago, bore eff four of the highest pri-
yes at Washington seminary, last
week. In what light does this place
our American girls ?
-Bendigo, formerly noted pugil-
list, is now Methodist preacher. He
is preaching this summer in the mid
land counties of England. and de-
votes much time to religious work
among the poorer classes.
The Straitsville (Ohio) coal OPP
orators are making final attempt to
put white miners into thier mines,
but thus far the leaders of The union
refuse to allow their men TO resume
work at the prices proposed.
The theory won't work. You
can't tell liar by his pulse. a ply
sician has tried it and says that an
innocent mans pulse viii jump IN
der suspicion like an air balloon 10 .
storm. a professional liars will peat