Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-08-20
HERE, THERE AND Ell SEWHERE.


They have no Mr.. or Mrs. in Ice-
land. 1t is only Injibjorg or Valgerdr.
| Nebraska is rejoicing In copious
showers and drowned out grass
hoppers.
The several Methodist churches
OF Canada have agreed upon basis
of union.
The drought this summer in
Colorado ia nnusal, even in that rsins
less climate.
This is said to be minister's leap
year. August, their vacation month,
has five Sundays.
Western Reserve College, eau
tious and conservative, has opened its
| doors to women.
The post Longfellow is to write
life of Charles Sumner, of whom he
was warm friend.
Europe consumes about two.
thirds of the petroleum produced in
the United States.
Que hundred rifles day is about
the present working capacity of the
Springfield Armory.
in a single day, recently, 1868
Cinnamon were landed in California
from two steamers.
The city of Chattanooga has
voted to give Sloo,000 to the Cincin~
natl Southern railroad.
MIR. Samuel Williston. the well.
known manufacturer of Easthampton,
Mass, died recently.
Heavenly bodies have their or.
CARNATIONS and cliques. Look at
Saturn and its rings.
The Russian nation is said to
speak the most languages, and to
speak them the best.
A second adventurous prophet in
New Hampshire fixes the end of the
world for May z, 1878.
The ladies' dress reform question
is now agitating the country to
greater extent than ever.
Women think that ribbons are
made to be looked at; men believe
why OuSut w NO haAASUs
The Bowling Green (Ky) Demo
crGt comes to the front with head OF
wheat containing llS grains.
A German doctor asserts that
consumption can be cured by injec.
tons of iodine into the lungs.
Some of the fair Vassar students
arr serving as waiter girls st Lake
Mohawk during their vacation.
In London churches they are Civ.
ing notice that FIVE minutes after the
bells shall cease to ring all pews are
free"
The Dey of Algiers talks of Wis
iting the United States, but as yet no
man knoweth when that Dey will
come
-There are $4,000 girls in the
schools presided over by the nuns of
the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States.
The lemon prospect is rather
sour, so to speak. A failure OF the
crop along the coasts of Spain and
<AhiSa ohN Aeoi5 10 iCpOAtCu'
The drag-rope now used in bal
loon ascensions was the invention OF
Edgar A. Poe's imagination in writ
ing his Balloon Hoax" years ago.
Bathing in Salt Lake is extern
sively INDUCED in by the Utah peo-
pie this summer. Learning to swim
is not necessary, as il is impossible to
sink in the briny wave.
A man travels around in Eng
land, exhibiting himself at fairs, who,
with his hands tied behind him, kills
certain number Of rats within
given time with lis teeth.
-Grasshoppers are making bad
havoc with the hay harvest in Mon
tana. 1t is estimated that ranches
yielding one hundred tons last year
will not yield ten tons this,
Returning prosperity is the oe-
casion of great rejoicing among New
England shoemakers. The trade, il
is said, was never better than at pres
ent. We hope it may last.
The San Jose (Cal.) Independent
says the grandfather of Vanquez once
owned, under grant from the King
of Spain, all the country comprising
the present site of San Jose.
The Surveyor General of Con-
necticut says that there is not even
an approximately correct map of that
State, and that its exact geographic
al boundaries are unknown.
Two of the principal managers
of the Oleomargarine Company, at
San Francisco, have been arrested for
passing counterfeit money. Oleo-
margarine is counterfeit butter.
The deluded citizens of TiAin,
O., are in darkness. The city au-
thorities and the gas company are
involved in a misunderstanding, and
the gas supply has been cut of.
-Kaga-no-Kami a prince of Japan
who died recently, had an income of
81, 000,0 900 year, and was followed
by a retinue of 1000 mobiles, whose
attendants were 10000 in number.
Miss Flora w. Charry, young
Shakeress at Canterbury, N. Fl has
fallen heir to fortune of $4,000 a
year, but refuses to leave the com
munity in which she is to enjoy it.
1t is proposed to prospec. the
bed of the Upper Missouri for gold,
the idea being that if the Jefferson
mines are good and extensive, the
bed of the Missouri will prove better
and more extensive.
The newspapers OF many an in
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