Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-01-08
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,

An orange tree 40U years old IS
one OF the sights in Paris.
-Brahminism IL protested by 10, .
600, eco of human aouls.
@-~Tbree Japanese noblemen have
started bank in London.
-Virginia drinks $4,000, 900
worth OF liquor every year.
Another 300 mile search has
been made for DR.. Livingston.
/ The voice of the evergreen ped.
lar is hushed for another year.
New York imports 10000 let-
tiers a week from Great Britain.
Half pound of tobacco ia an
excellent marriage fee in Kalams.
zoo.
| The theory now is that a mire
age caused the Vile du Havre dis.
aster.
Iii is stated that the Rothcbilds
are now estimated to be worth $780,.
100000.
Waste paper is being collected
and sold in New York for tbs benefit
of the Pope.
A dispatch from the City of
Mexico, says the first Methodist
Church has been opened there.
There are thirty-four Signor
BIitzes performing in deterrent parts
OF tho country, of whom thirty. three
are bogus
MIR. Theodore Even was married
to Miss Clarissa Thing, in Chicago
last week. "Time at last makes all
things even."
Out of the "a Senators, 10 have
returned the back-psy; and out of
the 252 members of the House, "a
have returned theirs.
The new edition of the Encyclo-
pRdia Britannica, now IN course of
preparation, will, it is said, cost the
publishers 81, 600, 900.
The French Assembly on the
3lst, after voting the raising of &c..
900, 900 francs by additional taxation,
adjourned until Jan. s.
The survivors OF the Polaris Ar
tic expedition will petition Congress
for additional compensation, owing
to their impaired health.
The Secretary of the Interior
will be compelled to ask for an ap-
preparation of S1,000,000 to supply
the deficiency in the Indian service.
An old woman in Durham, Eng
land, claims Brigham Young as her
long-lost husband. He deserted her
and came to America forty years
ago.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad
Company are selling through tickets
over their line, from Chicago to
New York, at the very low price of
$15.
The Patrons of Husbandry, &C
oording to their latest reports, have
1885 oranges, with co., 665 members.
There were 974 of these oranges or.
ganized during November!
Miss Ella NJ, HuIett, for some
time attorney of the Illinois state
courts, was, the other day, at Chica-
go, admitted to practice in the Unit
ed States and district courts.
New England Congressman have
received information that the fnan-
cIal stringency is now so little felt
that many Of the large manufactures
will start this week on full time.
There are 81 female students
enrolled at the Michigan University
for the current year. in the law de-
partment, 36 in the medical, and 4S
in the regular University course.
A gratifying statement comes
from New England that the tinan-
oial stringenoy is now so little felt
that many of the large mannfactur-
les will start this week on full time.
Among curious wills in England,
q devoted wife wills that Der darling
husband shall marry ere long a nice,
pretty girl, who is good housewife,
being careful she has good temper.
The Erie Canal is now complete
Iy closed, locking up about 3. 600. 900
bushels of grain which will have to
remain all winter. In this amount is
included nearly 100000 bushels Of
wheat.
During tho year 1873, Chicago
has sold, at wholesale alone, $780,.
100000 worth OF goods-a gain of 18
per cent: over the business of 1872,
and gain of 81 per cent. over that
of 1872.
Miserable ofnustachioed man is
compelled TO stand back at the Iowa
State.bouse this winter. There are
about ten female applicants for every
place to be filled in the coming Legls-
islature there.
Gen. William o. Butler, of Ken.
lucky, who, in 1848 was candidate
for Vice. resident on the Democratic
ticket with Lewis Cass, has just been
elected President Of the Carroll
County Bible Society.
The Quincy Call says: "The
Chicago Tribune seee so much to adj
mire 10 the Swiss Republic, and so
little in the Republic of the United
States. that we wonder it does not
pull up stakes and go there"
One would think the old trick of
swindIipg farmers by selling goods
or machinery and taking tricky notes
for them had played out entirely;
but lust now the business is having q
highly profitable runin Iowa.
The Virginus difficulty is set
tied, and the Virginius herself is
sunk. 1t appears that she was in
bad condition when delivered, and.
in the midst of hard gale off Cape
Fear, sprung leak and went to the
bottom.
s9- There is a case now pending
in the y. S. District Court sitting at