Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-02
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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California believes in compul-
sorry education after July /
A cremation society at Zurich,
Switzerland, has 600 members.
England mourns the possession
of 3, 453, 684 unmarried women.
j. c. Bancroft Davis has been
nominated and confemed as minister
to Germany.
"A New York woman found her
dog in the pound, kissed it frantically
and tainted.
One of the most fourishing Dress
makers in Paris is said to be Con-
necticut man.
Abby Sage Richardson is finish.
ing her fourth popular history of the
United States.
They say that President Grant
will be at the bridge-opening in ST;
Louis on July 4.
The ratio of suicide in the Brit
ish army is three times as great as in
the civil population.
There liz one rule to which no
excepshun kan be named, and that
IL the "golden-rule."
The Cincinnati brewers are buy
ing large quantities of tobacco stems,
but won't tell what for.
Judge Pulling, of Portage, Mich,
used to draw molasses in grocery
and forgeJ TO turn the faucet.
The black stallion Strideaway,
the famous trotter, valued at s25, 900,
died in Providence, r l. on Monday.
For young man to pick lint off
young mans coat collar ia said to
be the first symptoms that the young
man is il peril
TO prevent hydrophobia, mus~
zle the dogs in hot weather. To
prevent cholera, muzzle the boys in
greon-apple time.
In Madison county, Ky, the
other day, man was arrested and
fined five dollars for an unsuccessful
attempt at suicide.
In England, for lhe purpose of
securing good attendance at church,
it has been proposed to permit smok-
ing during services.
The startling declaration is made
by an English writer that the whole
civilized world, regarded as o mass,
is living beyond it's means"
Crops along Puget Sound prom
Use large returns to the husbandman
never were better at this season,
and the area planted is larger.
Edward Randolph Wellos, the
newly elected Episcopal Bishop of
Wisconsin, has asked time for reiec
ton before accepting the position.
"A correspondent asks how fast
the comet is travelling We answer,
that its present velocity is not far
from twenty-five miles per second.
Many an engagement at the sea-
side has been broken off, in conse'
quence of Romeo's disgust at the
sight of Juliet coming out of tho
surf.
Forty ofthe survivors of the bat
tie at Bunker Hill were present so
years afterwards, when the corner
stone of the monument was laid by
General Lafayette.
Edward McCook is to be Cover
nor of Colorado Territory, vice s. H.
Ebert removed. McCook was con-
firmed by one majority, after dis
cussion of several hours.
"A man in Victory. Vt. lost nine
teen lambs out of a flock of twenty-
seven, by washing them in a solution
of arsenic to destroy the shoep-ticks.
The ticks were all killed.
New York spends annually 3d.
100000 on newspapers. 81 100000
on theaters, 100000 for religious
purposes, and $4,000, 900 on liquor
and liquor establishments.
Pullman palace-cars are great
success in England. "They are just
the sort of thing, you know so aw-
fully easy and jolly, you know and
all that sort Of thing, you know"
-Pottsylvania, Va, has lawsuit
with ninety-three parties to it. A
former resident OF that place be-
queathed his property to his slaves,
and now his heirs-at-law contest the
testament.
The total amount of claims filed
by forty-two insurance companies for
losses by 2the Alabama and Florida
and their tenders, and by the Shen-
andoah after she left Melbourne, is
S., 900, 900.
Some time ago girl named Kit.
tie Satchell was spirited away from
Toronto by a Buffalo actress, and
now her widowed mother has lost her
reason, and is in Jail, the lunatic asy-
lum being full.
Tho Beloit Free Press, in view
of Mr.. Ryan's appointment as chief
Justice, says: Somehow or other,
all of the great Reform Governors
appointees are lifelong wearers of the
Bourbon badge"
-Uling, the "doetor" in New York
who buried nineteen bricks in cof-
fin, and claimed $40, 900 for them from
the insurance company, was senten-
ced on Monday to eighteen months
in the State Prison.
The committee on the bursting
of the dam at Williamsburgh report
ed that they had examined the re-
mains of the dam, and found defects
of the grossest character, indicating
that the work had been done by in.
experienced persons.
They were on a roof together in
Chicago. The next roof was fifteen
feet lower. He told her if she jump
ed down he would follow. She did,
but he didn't. She broke her leg,
and he broke bis promise. She then
broke the engagement.