Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-12
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

New Zealand has u, 600. 900 acres
fit for agriculture and 10000, 600 for
pasturage.
The ship Mogul from Liverpool
t. San francisco, burned at sea. The
crew were saved.
In the island of Ceylon the mail.
service travel is performed by small,
out very fleet oxen.
| There are twenty-five Indian
tribes in the Indian Territory with a
Reputation OF 10000.
During the past year the 2,767
school teachers OF New York gave in
structlon to 236,453 pupils.
| ALI the glass eyes used in the
OnIted states are made by one firm
IN Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The women OF Springfield have
dedicated Friendly Inn, where
young men may spend their evenings.
-Seyenty-fve thousand dollars
have already been subscribed for the
new medical building at Harvard Col
Iege.
Country Postmasters peddle post
age stamps at a discount in New
Iork, and there is no law to punish
them.
There are no fewer than I53
States, great and small, reckoned as
teudatories of the Government of
India.
The Mormon Temple, commenc.
ed twenty years ago, and partially
constructed, promises never to be
completed.
The New York requiring that
every child shall be sent to school or
taught at home, goes into force with.
In few weeks.
An Abbess is on trial in Moscow.
Russia, tor forgeries to the amount of
100000. The ease causes a pro.
found sensation in Russia.
The Liverpool, Eng, School
Board has resolved that there shall
be an examinatio" in the Holy Scrip
tares IN the board schools.
The United States raise annual
Iy nearly 100, 00o,0 900 bushels of pola-
toes, representing money value of
sl00,o00,000 to the consumer.
Silk manufacturing is being pros-
ecnted successfully at scranton, Ia,
while at Patterson and elsewhere the
industry succumbed to the panic of
1878.
Mr. James d. Keene, San Fran
cisco broker, has purchased for ST.
900 a fine collection of minerals, and
presented it to the University of Cali
tornIa.
Maria s. Roster, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has recovered $1,000 from
George Miller, in breach of promise
case She is mlllrner, and Miller is
farmer
There were only twenty three
commercial travellers at one hotel in
Willmantic, one night last week.
The merchants were thankful when
Sunday came.
-Four thousand persons waited in
the streets all night, at Paris, to see
the execution Of Moreau, who poison
ed his two wives and the execution
was postponed.
1t IS said that Alpine guides can
uages, anu' 'i6aU" cage indifferent lanG-
deavor to control can kick in seven
different styles.
The water Of Merrimac river has
suddenly became clear without any
apparent cause; and the pilots are
busy locating dangerous rocks that
they have never before seen.
"A penny loaf of bread baked in
1901, when wheat was guinea
bushel was recently exhibited in
England, the owner believing it to be
the oldest bread in the world.
A converted liquor compounder
has been divulging the secrets OF his
profession. Now, if a corner-groce-
ryman could be got to the mourner-
bench what a world Of good he might
do.
AT the Paris Morgue there wasn
exposed this month the body of
young woman, aged about 20, SO
wonderously beautiful that the au-
thorities caused mold to be taken of
her.
-Michigan's thirty-two charcoal
blast furnaces are nearly all blowing.
These furnaces, with three coal and
coke, and one anthracite furnace,
have a daily capacity of about 1000
tons.
"A company, with a capital of
S35 600, TO manufacture shoes, is soon
TO commence business at GAINESVILLE,
under the supervision of the Parker
Bros, formerly of North Adams,
Mass
The bark Sadie, from Buenos
Ayers, brought into Boston the other
day live eagle, which was captured
800 miles out at sea. 1t alighted upon
the royal yard, and was taken from
there by two sailors.
A carriage factory, to be manag-
ed on the cooperative principle, has
Just been established at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. Each workman shares equal,
ly in ali gains or losses. 1t is called
the Excelsior Carnage Manufacturing
Company.
"A man recently from New Or
leans informs the Providence Press
that just before he left to come North
he was shown a fine estate in most
desirable part of the city, and told
that he could have the use of it if he
would pay the taxes.
Large numbers of young Swiss
women are to be found all over Eu.
rope, employed as nurses and govern
esses. A meeting was recently held
in Geneva protesting against the Gus
tom of young women leaving the
country for this purpose.
r,r 1870, ,4oox,o.a an Tho