Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-15
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,
The residents Of Sardis. Miss. :,
% dIsrespectfully spoken Of ne Sar.

Omnibus conductors in Psril
get one dollar day for sixteen hours
work-and no stealing.
i The Vermont Supreme Court hs,
| | decided that citizen cannot refuse
TO testify for whom he voted.
Numbers of children of Roman
Catholic parents have been removed
from the Cincinnati public schools.
/ American sewing machines are
extensively used in Jerusalem. Da.
mascus, and other cities OF the Orient
1t is curious and significant
fact that to-day old Babylon and Nj
neveh are lighted with American pc.
troleum.
Ireland enjoyes the distinction OF
furnishing the British Psrlisment
with the tsliest, shortest and stoutest
members. --@-0
| There is a big geld bar on the
counter of Denver bank, weighing
| GAG ounces, and valued, In coin, OF
s22 ,694.94.
-fhe lower Savannah river has
not been SO high in twenty years az
present. The rice plantations are
| overlooked,
The boys make camp meetings
mCnotonous, in lows, by climbing
trees and throwing cuoumbers At the
man who prays.
The latest Utah discovery is of
d bed of sulphur, almost pure, sssay>
ing 80 per cent. on the average and
entirely free from arsenic.
A steamer has beer fitted up at
Montreal with stalls and all the me-
oessary conveniences for carrying
live stock across the Atlantic.
--"Christian holiness" 10 enscrbed
on the sides Of the Providence CIR IL
horse-cars. probably because there is
no other place for it in the city.
The frog-dealers of New York
are doing a jumping business. Five
hundred pounds of this French deli
cacy are consumed 10 that city daily.
The Postmaster General has
peremptorily prohibited the use Of
intoxicating liquors, either in or out
| of the Department., during business
hours.
"A Bowling Green (Ky.) man
has chicken covered with red hair
instead of feathers and down. The
old hen feels very much ashamed Of
herself.
A mammoth new elevator, the
largest in The world, is nearly COM
pleted at tho junction of the Schuyl-
Kill and the Delaware. Its capacity
is 800 600 bushels.
MIR. Hawley, of Milford Center
Ohio, weighed some powder by can,
delight the other night, and be has
been looking for his store and stock
of goods ever since.
Several gentlemen Of Philadel-
phia are contemplating issuing
journal in the Italian language. de-
voted to the interests of Italians res
ident in this country.
AT recent performance in vi
emma of sensational play, entitled
"The Carlsts in Spain," the leading
actor killed himself by attempting to
leap from high rock.
"A downeast dentist, putting man
to sleep with gas, decided that his
| puLieut WOO "Hh EiEhtv hananaa he
felt of the mans eye--a glass one
and it did not twitch
There are at present Ia prison
ers in Washington city jail, which
is seventy nine moro than have been
confined in that institution ct any
one time since the war.
Recent excavations at the Colise-
um at Rome show that what has
heretofore been considered the floor
of the arena is really the surfacs OF
twenty-one feet of accumulated rub
bish.
Summer watering-places are COM
mon enough, but winter watering
places ale more rare. One of these
latter, which is being extensively
patronized this fall, is the Colorado
Springs.
Irish immigration has fallen al
most to zero, on account OF the
steadily prosperity OF the
former country, and the present
equilibrium there between labor and
employment.
French newspaper correspond.
ents give accounts of q new line Of
horse cars just opened in Paris, in
which every one allowed to enter will
have seat, and there are no straps
to hold on to.
"A rumor 10 current in Now
York that Theodore Tilton bias been
invited to form an editorial conuec-
ton with a prominent Chicago daily
probably the TTibune--and that it
is believed we will accept the offer.
In the neighborhood of Ripoll,
in Spain, O few days ago, the Carlists
shot young married woman in cold
blood, by order of their General. Sc
psll4s. She was the wife Of Lib
eral and the mother of three children.
An importance seizure of coun-
terfei.ers' material was made at
Louisville recently, consisting of q
full act of fifty cent steel plates, blank
plates, engraving tools and large
assortment of flushed and unfinished
fifty cent currency.
The city of New York has the
only school in the United States for
the practical teaching of veterinary
science, though it is true there are
chairs in some of our Agricultural
colleges for theoretical instruction In
this branch of knowledge.
"A resident of Erie, Pa, refused
to marry his affianced, who had come
over from Germany for, the purpose
because she had not brought feather
- II NTH her She has now brought