Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-05

the grocer unfortunately is compelled
to pay for the mackerel he has trust
ed out to you. At this season of th'
year wood has to be bought, unless
perchance you live near "a schoo
house. or a railroad depot, where
Woo avs around loose. 1t is a
this season OF the year. also, wher
the fatal church festival is held, anC
you are compelled, under pain of ex
communication, TO take stock in /
saw dust cake, in which an or0idt
ring has been concealed, at fifty cents
q chance With al of these finan.
cial embarrassments, the sovereign
is compelled to play pin pool to raise
money TO meet the demands madr
upon his eXchequer, which will make
the best sovereign in the business
say cuss words. 10 obv'ate this
difficulty | would suggest that the
time Tor the payment OF taxes BE-
postponed from year to year, unit
tho people make q raise This might
be tried for say five years, and if at
the end of that time, the system is
found 10 be failure, thon [ would
suggest that you sell out your prop
erty and rent house, or go and Wis
i your aunt in the country.
SOURCES OF RETRENoHMENr.
There are many waysin which the
game Of retrenchment can be played.
| notice, in preambulating about the
public offices Of the capitol that the
most of the officers and employees
smoke cigars The money for these
cigars, every dollar Of it, comes out
of the state treasury | would sug-
gest that you pass law compelling
each Il these men to smoke o clay
pipe. This may seem arbitrary and
unconstitutional bat the constitution
does not amount to any thing in par
ticular, when ii is in the way
There could be saving of at least
so per ce Mt. if these men were to
smoke ordinary tobacco, and 90 per
cent. is certainly worth saving.
And in this connection let me sug-
gost that the state purchase a piece
OF land, and raise the tobacco The
tobacco could be issued TO the Off
GERS and clerks in lien of salary, and
they could sell what they had over.
BY compelling them to pay to the
state license, as peddlers, for sell
ing the tobacco, the thing could be
made retroactive, and of vast benefit
to the state. This is simply an idea,
which | throw out in the hope that
your superior wisdom may make it
valuable The enormous expense to
which the state has been subjected,
in years past, for public printing,
leads me 70 suggest that the subject
be generally overloaded, and lnvesti-
gated. | am credably Informed that
the printers are bloatcd bondhOlders,
and actually wear linen collars and
merino under-shirte | do not make
this charge, understand me. as being
true, but if it iS true, then you have
duty 10 perform, from which |
earnestly hope you will not shrink
The printer should be man Of pat
riotio sentiments and feelings, man
with soul above the accumulation
Of wealth, missionary as it were,
who should work for his board, and
have his fathers clothes made over
for him His employees should work
for him for love, and it might be
we'll for the state TO open a soup
house in the basement Of the capitol,
in connection with the artesian well,
for the use OF the printers, and other
laborers Careful analysis shows
THAI the water Of that well contains
nearly enough substance to keep
man alive. 1t would be easy and
cheap to transform the well into a
chicken soup geyser. by simply build
ing fire under the well, and erect
ing hen ro0st over If But YOU
will DO able. at your leisure, to 20
more into detail ID the matter, and
trust you may he able to devise some
means to keep the soul and body Of
the printer together, and at the
same time to utilize the water Of the
well, the qualities Of which are at
present entire strangers to you.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
The geological survey is being
prosecuted as we'll az could be expect
ed with the limited means at the
hands Of the searchers. in the bowels
of the earth They have already
found | am Informed, that the earth
on which we live, and move, and
have q being, is composed largely OF
dirt The discovery Of this fact is
alone worth the price of admission.
This great discovery, which will be
OF such value 10 the future historian,
hes only cost the state the insignif-
cant sum Of $3.50 Rather than re-
main in Ignorance of this astonishing
fact, would willingly pay the mon
ey myself-out of the public treasury.
1t Is rumored that parties employed
by the state to dive down into the
ground and bring up sand in their
claws, have discovered symptoms
that the world was at one time sick
TO lis stomach, and threw up divers
and sundry kinds Of rocks and things,
and there is a probability that lad
ore may be discovered This will be
valuable to make bullets Of in case
Of war with Oshkosh In peace it
is always best to prepare for war,
and trust you will lend your coun-
tenance TO the able men who are in
vesIigatlng the Lower Silurian age.
If there is one thing we need addi-
tional Information about II is the
Lower SiIurian age
EDUCATION.
This is a subject that l attack
with some diffidence, from the, per-
haps, unimportant circumstance that
| don't know much about it. In
fact | never had it, having been
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