Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-22
HERE, fieRE AND ELSEWHERE.
has new Ice.

erland are landed proprietors.
Northern proyerb: "God created
the world, but the deyilmads Iceland.
1t is alt ore with the Black Hills.
The last from there yielded 50 to the
ton.
Who ever heard OF grest man
whose mother was q fashionable wo
man?
Pittsburgh is to have O line of
pipe laid through her streets for the
transportation of oil.
Boys under Is years of age are
not allowed upon the street of Vallejo.
Cal, after 9 O'Clock in the evening.
The exports OF salmon from Ore.
gon for this year ara valued at Ell
500, 900, or 100000 more than last.
AN issue in the Georgia State
election is whether the libraries of
professional men shall be exempt from
taxation.
BY recent invention, called the
qusdruple telegraph, tour messages
may be sent simultaneously sent over
q single wire.
The disuse of candy is recon.
meuded by the New York Board of
Health. because it blunts the appetite
for nutritious.
"A letter OF inquiry as to the cost
of Philadelphia bogus medical diplo-
mas has been received in that city
from Malaga, Spain.
1t is said that the daught r of The
late President Juarez OF Mexico is
teaching school in a small interior
town i'll that country.
Berlin ladies wear Paris fashions
just az they used To before the war,
notwithstanding their protestations
that they never would.
The new San Francisco hotel will
have cistern made of 100000
brick and capable If holding $780,
900 gallons. A regular lake.
"A boundary dispute between
Switzerland and Italy has been set.
tied by arbitration in favor of the lat
ter, which thereby gains 1900 acres
of territory.
British prohibition of female in.
fanticide in Northern India has saved
IL, s54 lives, and yet there still is, in .
cert ain section, only 50 7l2 girls to
1922 boys
"A California man got his wife 10
lay up $50 per month in gold pieces.
which he replaced with bogus money.
We have the whole story, but it is too
mean to reprint.
"A rejected lover in Switzerland,
to whom life seemed blank and fur.
Their existence heavy burden, tried
TO commit suicide by fiinging himself
into bears den.
"A magnificent bust of the Em.
press Plotins, wife of Trsjan, in 3 fine
state of preservation, has been recent.
ly dug up in Rome. 1t will be plsced
in the Capitol Museum.
The introduction of sewing ma.
chimes into China is creating riot on
the ground that they cheaper labor
Hong Kong tailors have been mobbed
for attempting to use them.
Since they commenced fining the
soldiers of the English army for drunk.
eness, it is said scarcely o man in tho
whole organization has any of his sal
airy left at the end of the month.
There is no longer any doubt that
both the king Of Greece and his Gov
eminent have determined to alter the
Constitution, with the object of in.
creasing the prerogative of the Crown.
Mine million horses in the United
States; value, 5000, 900, 900. France
has 3,669,6o0; Austria, 100000;
England, 1866, 200; Germany, 1885,
900; Prussia, 100000; Turkey, l.
100000.
Mount Etna continues tn belch
forth, and the inhabitants of the vii.
lagos of Pandazzo and Linguagrossa
have become so Heightened that they
have fled from their homes to the low.
er settlements.
"A Mexican woman named AllDaz,
who poisoned herself and her three
children in San Luis Obisno county,
Cal, on May 10, resulting in the death
of the latter, has been sentenced to
for life.
Sixteen Roman Catholic priests
are now in confinement at Coblentz,
on the Rhine, for offenses against the
Prnssian eocleriastical laws, several of
them being under sentence of ten
months imprisonment.
I'm the county of SUSSEX, in the
South of England there are extensive
fig orchards, and their success has
proved beyond doubt that the az
can be grown with perfect sdccess as
an orchard tree in England.
A New Jersey contractor has
just discovered that q handsome
bridge he has been building over the
Hack nsack is exactly five feet too
short. He says the fault isn't his;
the rivers that much too wide.
"A woman at New London, Conn,
saw her husband carryi & a lady's
satchel, and she tore the lady's dress
offbefore discovering that it was her
mother, who had dropped down on
the evening train to surprise her.
"A Georgia plante, drained bis
rice swamp last year, and planted the
ground with corn last spring. A hys
brid crop is his reward, the stock,
blades and cob being that Of corn,
while the kernels on the cob are rice.
I'm Portsmouth, N. II, boy 10
years old named Berry has been made
so insane by reading of tia crimes of
the boy Jesse Pomeroy, of Boston,
that he has been sent to an asylum
He imagines himself participant in
these criues.