Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-05
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

sons.
They are catching hump-backed
whales in Monterey bay, on the Pacif.
ic coast.
Extensive forest and marsh rires
are prevailing in Northern and North.
western Ohio.
Laramie, Wyoming Territory,
won't be satisfied with less than a
$1,000 hotel.
Mining stocks are on the rampage
again in San Francisco, after quiz
etude of two years.
The Cimarron News says that
the climate in that part OF New Mex
leo seems to be changing
The Dodge gold mine at Lisbon,
n Fl produced the other day mug.
get OF gold valued at s40O.
"A man from Fall River, Nj ass, is
talking about putting up million dol
lar cotton mill out in St. Louis, Mo.
Tho Lehigh, Pa, Iron Company
has reduced the pay of its salaried of
ficers aud clerks an average of IS per
cent
The Canadians are pushing tho
new Wellsnd canal toward completion.
1t is to be finished by the LIST of April,
1877.
in ballooning over Pittsburgh,
Donaldson accidentally dropped
sand bag into kettle of boiling apple
butter.
Toledo has organized q "Fat
Mans Association" with sixty male
and three female members, all over
800 pounds.
"A Danbury little darkey refused
to 60 to church "kase he didn't want
to look there like huckleberry IN
pan of milk"
In Australia every farmer can
raise three crops year, but two of
the crops are snakes and the other
very poor cereals.
"A true vein Of lead ore is suppos-
ed TO have been struck at Newbury-
port, Mass. Large pieces nearly pure
are being taken out.
Paris has 10000 loungers in the
streets, $50 cafe concerts, 2SS public
ball rooms, $4,000 wine shops and
1926 billiard rooms.
If you are going to Montana put
few apples in your coat-tail pockets.
They will sell for forty cents apiece
when you get there.
Baby. farming is said to be a very
profitable business in France, as board
is often collected on babies that have
been dead for months.
Since all tie shapes and motions
of the heavenly bodies have been as
certained, what is the use OF having
eclipses now, anyway?
-Four hundred applications have
been made for patents of various
kinds of inventions in telegraphy with
in the last few months.
Hitherto honored men of wealth,
residing near Holidaysburg, Pa, have
been discovered to be allied with a
gang of horse thieves.
In managing society the ladies OF
Washington are said to show as much
tact as their husbands and fathers do
in manipulating politics.
1t was not so few years ago,
but now over 200, 900 watches year
are made in America. Some of them
also find market in Europe.
The new trade dollar prepared
especially for circulation in China and
Japan has already deplaced $3,000,000
in Mexican coin in those countries.
"A company forming in England
with capital of 100000 sterling to
develop the resources of the West In
dian colonies, ard Jamaica in partic-
uar.
"A Nevada candidate for the
United States Naval Academy, J. K.
Mcdonnell, of Gold Hill, has passed
successful examination, and been ad
mitted.
"A colored person living near Mad
ison, Fla, set a gun for a bear the
other night Afterward he went back
to see if the thing would work. 1t
did work.
Washington, the capital, has
never had large fire. An argument
for keeping the head Of the nation
from being cut off and removed to
Reaxsville.
California now holds the Yosem-
tie valley IN trust for the nation, and
has paid $4,000 to settle the pre-
emption claims of the persons who
colonized there.
We have Mrs. DR.. Jones, Rev.
Mrs Jones and Mrs. Jones, z. NJ, but
according to Chief Justice Appleton,
of Miami, it would be illegal to have
Mrs. Jones, Esq.
"A terrible disease, among the
horses, called the "tarantula," has
broken out at Manhattan, Mexico. 1t
is perhaps only the late northern cpl
demic in a tropical development.
The local branch of the Evangel
| ical Alliance at London, has passed
resolution condemning the running of
street cars on Sunday, aud will Sor-
ward a remonstrance to the direc-
tors.
The New York World asserts
that the scum of Asia is floating to
America, and that out Of every 100
Mongolians who come to the United
States twenty-five are departed Grim
inals.
-Acheem nuts resemble the head
of an ape, and are extensively sold as
playthings for young children. The
Dutch authorities declare them pois-
onous and warn the public against
them.
An inmate of the Columbiana
county CO.. infrmary lately tied one
and IF a ahaat IN a Misunderstanding