Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-08-27
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Northern Utah is In the mist OF

If any man attempts to black
mail you, nail him on the spot.
--Thirty-thrse new Post Offices
were established in Nebraska last
month.
A day school for convicts has
been established in the achusetts
State Prison.
A new Gotten mill with 1000
spindles has just been started at Au-
gusta, Ga.
They have found worm in
Pennsylvania that bores through the
hardest rock.
| Matters have "cooled" down, and
the prospects for war with China
are very slighs.
| In Denmark they have nc green
corn. watermelons or cucumbers.
Poor Denmark
| -Freeloveism aud ministeg.wors
ship are cousins, and the fruit Of the
two is moral idiocy.
Ireland has 302. $50 dogs, on
which she pays an annual tax of
about fifty cents each.
What Roohefort has to say about
his ramble to Australia and back, 10
being printed ia London.
Two women, q mother and her
daughter, were recently cut in pieces
by a reaper at Dayton, Ohio.
The Christian Union and Hare
per's Weekly are two papers that have
let the Brooklyn scandal alone.
An enterprising Yankee proposes
to boil down the Beecher scandal,
and bottle it for bed Dug poison.
The best tatIors fn p~ris are said
to be Englishmsn, and the best mil
liners in London are from Paris.
There are in France 5,67l, 600
smokers. In every fftoen eight
smoke pipes, FIVE cigars and two Oh
garettes.
A correspondent who made the
trip with Canon Kingsley's party
says that it doesn't pay to visit the
Yosemite Valley.
There is nc fruit in Florida that
thrives rs well as the fig. The
Orange is somewhat uncertain, but
the fig is never failing.
1t is now evident that had Mme.
Bazaiue instead of the Marshal saken
charge of things at Metz, the result
would have been different.
An eccentric old Euglishmsn,
who owned much live stock, in sheer
desperation named twenty four OF
| his COWS after the alphabet.
BY q decree just issued tbs Rus
sian Custom House duties in Central
Asia are abolished. All imports from
the native States will be free.
Fourteen days imprisonment is
the British sentence on the small
boy tor shooting stones from o csta-
putt at passing railway train.
The eastern oyster does rot In.
crease in Pacific waters he grows
very fat and dies in year; their
transplantation is deemed an sntire
| failure.
The trade 10 stocks at the South
| is very active. The stocks that are
the most active Are those which have
the breech loading attachments ana
holds a rified barrel.
During a hurricane in Kansas, q
County Treasurer became so terrifi-
ed that he acknowledged o dsfalca-
ton of 81, 800. After the wind had
subsidized he denied it.
When a horse reaches 10 or IL
years of age don't kill him because
he is getting too old. Goldsmith
Maid is over II, and is showing con-
siderable activity yet.
| Ohio is beginning to tread on the
heels of Pennsylgania in the matter
of coal production. The yield Of the
Hooking valley alone, this year, will
be over million tons.
The city missionary Of Hartford.
Conn, says that he has never known
so much suffering for the lack OF food
IN that town during the summer %
there has been this season.
| Returning prosperity is the oc-
casion of great rejoicing among New
England shoemakers. The trade, it
| ia said, was never better than at
present. We hope it may last,
1T is o curious fact that it 10 the
fashion at summer resorts, this seaE-
on, for ladies to promenade IN the
open air bareheaded, and to sit at
the dining ta5le with their hats on.
"A Detroit beggar, on being
searched, disgorged S1l.IO, where.
upon he was Immediately locked
upon as a rich man and treated with
respect, instead of being kicked into
tho street.
An effort is now being made TO
divide the State of Nebraska into
two States, to be called North Platte
and Nebraska, and which shall have
a population of $4,000 and 100000
respectively.
Half the new officials in Colora.
do have already entered suits for Ii
bel against one paper or another. A
Denver daily rejoIces in five or ak OF
these. The total damage hgarlng
about $4,000.
That royal baby that went from
France to Brazil to be born was
born, but the journey was too much
for him, aud his chances for earthly
ROYALTY have been interdicted by the
King of Terrors.
"A youth in San Francisco recent>
Nv testified on oath that, according to
the statement of his mother, he was
born fifteen days after bis brother.
Medical records contain few such
cases. but they are very rare.
The contract for making 40. 0O0,-
600 cartridges for the Turkish Gov
eminent originally awarded to the
Winchester Arma Company, of New