Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Colorado has, peat-bed 100
miles square.
California is in the midst of it's
wool gathering.
Missouri will cultivate peanuts
extensively hereafter.
"A good base ball player can
make $4,000 per year,
San Francisco, like Paris, takes
its meals at restaurants.
| Five dollars day will board you
at Saratoga this summer.
| The farmers of Los Nietos, Cal,
have commenced haying.
Prince Napoleon is unpopular
among the Corsican Bonapartists.
Crime has greatly increased in
Germany, as q result of the war with
France.
New York girls are said to have
Mysteries in the most able-bodied
manner.
Large deposits of borax ere in
process of development in Southern
California.
Mobile is to have an industrial
fair somewhat after the plan of the
Cincinnati fair.
New York has many unemployed
ministers. There is room for them
on the frontier.
AN Albany paper alway sends
marked copies of hanging matinees to
the widow. Kind.
Eight hundred Italians were vac
cinated in one day last week, at Five
Points, New York.
Chinese house servants have
proven failure in Baltimore. They
eat too much sugar.
During the year ending April 80;
about I 100000 foot passengers cross
ed the East Boston ferries.
The estimated cost of Yale'sn new
boathouse is $4,000. OF this sum
81, 900 remains to be raised.
However much we may object to
horse racing, there are few of us who
like to be passed on the road.
Boston has a female bill-poster,
who is said to exhibit the usual ability
of the sex in running up bills.
The Long Branch hotels open on
the 10Th Of June, but the season prop
err does not commence until July.
"A Gotham correspondent says
that Barnum's hippodrome is in every
body's mouth. What mouthful.
The Industrial Age thinks that
what the country needs most is o
reduction Of the rates of interest.
The opera season in London, in
the absence of Patti, Nilsson and
Lucca, is not as brilliant as it is won't
to be.
The Argentine Republic is ship
ping maize to great Britain, and is
realizing well on the new article of
commerce.
BY the inundation of the Missis-
sippi the cotton product of the year
will be reduced three or four hundred
thousand bales.
The strike of the boatmen ct st.
Catharines, Ont, has ended, the men
having gone to work at the terms
offered them.
Mr.. Oliver Mckay found fifty
one Spanish silver dollars IN the crew
ice of rock on his farm, in Trimble
county, Kentucky
The Grand Hotel, White Sulphur
Springs, Va. has been leased by New
Yorker, who says he is determined to
make ''the thing pay"
One hundred and thirty fine-wool-
ed sheep were lately shipped from
Pittsford, VT, to Washington Terri
tory, distance of 1000 miles.
Cape May hotels are in the hands
of the maids of the brush and pail,
assisted by colored gentlemen who
whitewash anything for considera-
ton.
Special prayers and Thanksgiving
in connection with the Ashantee war,
have been offered up in all the gar
rison churches throughout Great Bril-
tain.
An attempt is being made by the
Scotch Presbyterians in Italy to have
the Scotch Church recognized by the
Government as a properly-constitated
body.
"A Mississippi jury valued Mrp.
Montgomery at $4,000 She was
killed on the Southern Railroad, at
Abbeville, and Mr.. Montgomery is
rich man.
Warm, copious and widely dis
tributed rains have occurred in Cali
fornia, which will prove of vast BEN
eft 10 the farmers. The wheat crop
will be enormous.
"A Nebraska Indian got drank
and went to sleep on the railroad
track. When the locomotive struck
him, Death sat grinning on the cow.
catcher, with his feet dangling over
the edge.
The Fijians take to Christianity
with amazing docility, and to-day
the converts number 100000; while
ehere are $4,000 native children
.earning to read and write in the
mission schools.
-Four or Eve hundred of the st.
Louis school teachers desire to absent
themselves from the city during the
summer, and arc now effecting ar
engagements with the various railroads
for reduced fares. )f.
In about month more the boy
Of the period, who runs away from
the school and goes in swimming, will
be seen on the sunny side Of the barn
waiting for his hair to dry, 50 that BE
can fool his mother.
in sunny Smyrna, the Syrian
land of the fig and date tree, snow