Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-26

years of age to suicide in Santa Rosa,
CAL, the other day.
The first Protestant church with.
IN the walls of the city of Rome was
opened last month.
The meanest man IN the world is
the fellow who knows where Charley
Ross is and will not tell.
Ohio has 800 coal mines. from
which $1,000 men annually produce
over 5000 600 tons of coal.
There is talk of establishing free
'ohoo in Paris, and of compelling
Ill children to attend them.
"A number of the California steam
Hour mills use wheat straw tor fuel,
instead of wood, and effect a great
saving.
"A young negro girl. left in charge
ot /. q. Carriers infant at Live Oak,
fla, lately gave it a spoonful of vitrol
To stop the crying.
"A Holyoke, Mass paper mill
workman recently dropped his watch
INTO the rag grin Ing machine, and it
vas instantly powdered.
The crusade is bearing fruitsin
Ohio. A society OF well-meanng Old
elbows 10 thereby agree not to drink
whisky, immoderately"
I've hundred and eight b'ackiSh
were driven ashore at North rruro,
ass, recently. They were sold on
the beach tpr So per fish.
Indiana has no asylum for her in
.urable insane, and about 700 of that
class of persons sire confined in ,hc
jalls throughout the State.
Tint street cars NAV be run be-
tween midnight and daylight the citi
zen of New Orleans are vii ing to
pay tour times the day fare,
1t is stated that the Erie compa-
ny has secured an English loan of
S5,000,000 to complete contemplated
improvements along the line.
japanese actors are followed
about on the stage by attendants, who
hold candles that the audience may
see the features Of the performers.
About the only mills in active
operation at Patterson, N j., at this
time, are the silk mill, making EN-.
broidery for jet fringe, the rolling
mill, lvanhoe paper mill and the skirt
mill.
-Boatmen report that ice is form
ing rapidly in the bays and coves Of
the upper Hudson. There is great
activity in freight shipments of all
kinds, many fearing a sudden cold
snap.
Californians cannot be induced TO
circulate the five cent nickel pieces as
money. They believe that coin should
be either gold or silver to pass cur
rent.
AT Fairview, Butler county, Pa,
water sells at fifty cents per barrel,
and oil at forty cents The water sup
ply is short, and, unfortunately, the
oil is not considered healthtul as a
beverage.
"A Reading, Pa, man has an oys-
ter shell that weighs ninety-one
pounds. 1t is two feet and eight
inches in length and twenty-one
inches in breadth. 1t came from the
South Sea Islands
The Americans in Berlin, Ger
many, have received the Presidents
proclamation and WI listen to its call
by getting up a big dinner iii concert,
at which the American minister will
carve the turkey.
"A manufacturer Of paper boats
at Troy has invented paper box for
transporting Kerosene. Il il the shape
of the ordinary square oil cans, aud is
said to be just rs strong and secure,
and much cheaper
"A man named Schooumaker, Cap
tain of boat ON the Morris and Es-
sex Canal, in Pennsylvania, was ston-
ed to death near the bridge on the
Greenviile line, recently, BY the Cap
tam OF another boat.
"A RhOle Island paper relates
that man named Ii Itnn, carpenter,
and formerly a resident of Lowell,
died at his home in Pawtucketvllle
from the effects OF the bite Of pig,
received about ten days ago
The Vermont Legislators com
pain sadly of the poor accommoda
tious furnished them at the hotels in
Montpelier and the exorbitant prices
charged, and urge this as a good rea-
son for wishing the capital removed.
Jane Halow, of West Dudley,
Mass, labored hard for thirty years to
procure n "home Of his own" Last
month, after those many years of par
simony, he purchased farm, settled
on it, and died twenty days thereafter.
1t is suspected now that the Plain
field, Conn, boy who shot his little
brother and sister last week commit.
tea the act deliberately, though he is
but II years old. The boys name IS
George Brown and the family is col
ored.
Origin Of Vicksburg shooting
affair: "The parties were almost en-
tire strangers, and it seems the diff
Guilty originated in remark made by
Graham, that he had very poor opin.
ion of man who would work for a
salary"
While The BARRIERS Of Syracuse
were holding ball and banquet on a
recent evening, wag stuck his head
in at the door and inquired: 'Is this
a babercue?" and vamoosed. The
BARRIERS have no cue as to whom the
inquirirg party was
Yale starts in the favorite for the
next University regatta. Her crew
remains unchanged, and has the ad-
vantage of long practice together. -
Columbia's crew is changed little,
and Harvard loses her stroke and two
OF her strongest men.
The 9th Pennsylvania cavalry
have issued an invitation to all Penn