Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-02-12
HERE, THERE AND ELsEWEh'

cations for burns.
-Oxalic acid dissolved in water
cleans zinc ricely.
Brooklyn wants to be ccnsolida,
ted with New York.
Science shows that heat can be
squeezed out of ice.
= $50 600 600 is invested 10 Jour
nslism in New York city.
L iatrrrosed 10 hc, nse houses
OF ill>fame 10 Philadelphia
The best hotel ia New York
ayes all its scraps fer soap fat.
The experiment of tea growing
m California is said TO promise sue
cess.
The price Of anthracite coal has
oeen advanced TO $1,000 ton in
Chicago.
One thousand Mennonites from
Southern Russia are TO settle in East
Tennessee.
Congress has voted 10 abolish
the office of Deputy Commissioner
of Internal Revenue.
Five Senators and thirteen Re-
personalities in the present Congress
were born in Vermont.
Oranges composed wholly of col.
ored persons are TO be formed in Ar~
kansas and Mississippi.
The failure of the opium crop ia
Bengal will make that article much
higher even than it is now.
The Revenue OF the Government
both from customs and internal
sources. are SAID TO be steadily in
creasing.
Gases of consumption are said to
30 rare among people who dwell high
above sea l7v,I, but pneumonia is
very frtqaeit.
The next state convention of the
Changers will be held at Madison,
6 mmencing on the lh,rd Tuesday 0f
January, 1875.
BY agreement IN satisfactory
terms between employers and mec,
the strike IN the Pennsylvania coal
mines is ended.
OF twenty Republican
Changers in the Minnesota l. slsla"
lure, all but one adhere to tue Re-
publican party.
They say that Philadelphia has
become sick Of the Centennial, and
wishes that the country was only
uioety years Old.
The present Congress has an
even 100 members who fought in the
rebellion, and twenty-six of the mum
Der wore the grey.
A Virginia lady has recovered
81 900 from railroad company for
carry ing her two miles hey ond where
she wanted to get out.
Josh. Billings, says, There il
plenty sv pholks in this world whoze
hearts bleed tor the poor, but whoze
pocket books never do.
milwaukee, used up $3.50, 1905
in buying revenue beer stamps, DUR
ing the past year, each dollar repre-
sentirg one barrel OF the fluid.
President Adams of the National
Grange says there are between H.
600 and IL, 900 Oranges in the coun.
try, with nearly "a million members.
The Boston temperance men and
women have commenced holding
prayer meetings in the bar,rooms Of
that city, with what effect il ie not
stated
-Baez, the banished President of
He9 Il emiqG4oRjO New York city.
the Only means OF securing peace on
the island.
Buddhism is the mammoth relig-
ion OF the world, aud now numbers
as its votaries more than $50 600, 600
Of human beings, or nearly halt OF
the globe.
Chief Justice Waite comes OF "a
family OF iuriste; bis father was
Cnet Justice OF Connecticut, and his
grandfather was Judge Of consider
able eminenc3.
Ono cause Of coal oil lamp ex>
plosions is said to DO using too small
wicks, by which space - left at the
edges for the communication OF OK
ploeive elements.
1t is suggested hat Dr. Living
stone has gwen out false report of
his death 10 avoid another cal from
) anley having heard that the latter
was ia Ashantee.
j IF DAVIS is i'll at New Orleans.
'Hangma Foote'S challenge made
him suck, and his health Will prot
,bly remain impa red u-L as long ss
FJote insists on lighting him
"A bill has been introduced into
he Lower Hou.e OF Congress pro.
viding thai soldiers WHO have lost
no legs 10 tho sers ice snail re 3eige
a uension Of fifty dollars psr Month.
Oae OF the curious facts succeed.
ing the severe panic i. thAt no ley ia
now eneaper in the Uuited States
han for year pas, and quite as
chepp in Eagiand as at any time in
1873.
-Presden: p A Chadbourne of
Williams College haB been appointed
t. fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Professor Agassiz in the
NJ Massachusetts, State Board of Agri.
culture.
because man died in New York
the other day after taking Russian
bath the people have Jumped to the
conclusion that bathing is dangerous,
and are not going to wash themselves
any more.
Girls, learn to swim, all of you.
The Misses Dexter, of Boston. who
were saved from the Willie in Havre,
we're excellent swimmers. They
went down with the ship, and then
"struck out"
Thu commissioner IF TufarnaI