Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-01
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

HEtiEI tnEUE HWu ELoE w nEHEs
England is threatened with q gen.
eral water famine.
Stockton, Cal, is suffering from
visitation OF poisonous spiders.
Delaware has sold 100000
quarts OF strawberrys in three weeks.
-Marseilles proposes monument
TO Berger, and the cremationists teel
badly.
About one half of the genuine"
Neufehatel cheeses are made in this
country.
Cheyenne is smitten with dry
ness and the trees are dying for want
of water.
--Twenty-one new operas, by Ital-
ian composers, were given in Italy
| last season.
The number of Professionals is in
creasing at remarkable rate in Rome
and Mexico.
Sir Isaac Newton's residence in
London is now used as a Sunday
school room.
"A Belvidere, VT, girl, Is years
old, carried on a sugar orchard, all
alone, last Spring.
Five bushels of grapes upon a
single vine make glad the heart of its
owner in Indiana.
M. ThiersI is quite restored to
ho"i'n "a" hAeiy 70 ousIivo uuzvn
Sacramento thinks notnIng vi a
radlsn Ghirty innhns in length and
twelve inches in circumference.
There is not in all the State of
Texas a single Universalist Church
edifice or church organization.
The buff postal cards have met
with rebuff in Washington, and are
to be replaced by lighter colored ones.
MIR. and Mrs. Sartoris propose to
return to this country in October
and spend the winter with their par
ents.
-Schneider's jewels, including
those given by the irrepressible Albers
Edward, are to be brought under the
hammer.
During the first six months of
this year 100000 tons of coal were
raised at the Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton mines.
The minister who preached SER
mon from the text, Goodness is prof
table," also believes that "Honesty is
the best policy"
1t is proposed to erect two extern
sive asylums for priests banished from
Germany-one in England and one in
the United States.
Nevada boasts of matrimonial
deadhead, who has been married five
times and has never paid cent to the
officiating minister.
The Vendome column without
the statute of the Little Corporal is
ikened to the play of Hamlet with the
melancholy Dane omitted.
The health of Edward s. Stokes,
Col. James Fisk, Jr.'s murderer is
said to be seriously impaired by his
confinement in Sing Sing.
"A New York court recently de-
cided that sister of charity cannot
be excused attending as witness bes
cause of her religious vows.
Work has been inaugurated on
the first brick building in Tacoma.
Tacoma is the terminus Of the NORTH
ern Pacific railroads, and -need it be
added-the Chicago of the Pacific"
-Ristori, during her present visit
to the Brazils, is accompanied by o
dramatic company of thirty perform
ers. She will visit Buenos Ayers,
Chill and Peru before coming to New
York.
The matter of clean, and whole-
some, and economical cooking cannot
be overestimated. Upon what they
eat depends, in large measure, the
health and happiness of the human
race.
-Bayard Taylor says that he offer
ed an Icelander piece of money for
some small service rendered and
the man ran away laughing at him.
Strange people in that frozen-to-death
country
1t has recently been ascertained
that the temperature of the upper
strata of the eartas atmosphere is
warmer than the lower strata, which
is quite the reverse of the previous
hypothesis.
1t is sal, that there is no SUPER
vision of educational matters 10 Del
aware, and no authorized reports IN
regard to it. In 1870 there were 20,
100 persons over ten years ofage who
could not not write.
Experiments rscsatly nsds in
England indicate thea 9ARa 40
more easily draws, en-. oil Ends OF
roads, whom the hI-s ND hind wheels
are of the same siEs, and when the
pole lies lower than the axle.