Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-02-05
HERE, THERE AND EISENHERE

--kussia owns only leo newspapers, while,
Germany claims $780,
-Utsh Territory is free OF debt, with over
$4,000 In the treasury.
--"The secret history OF the Tichborne
case'' is soon TO be published.
New York has tried horse flesh and pro.
nounced il superior-to veEison.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention
only costs about $3.50 per day.
The bar OF Philadelphia have demanded
the increase Of Judges salaries.
Colonel York. of Kansas, who betrayed
Pnmeroy, has become Democrat.
The Brunswick (Me,) Telegraph wants to
hire man 10 shoot school book agents.
lit costs the people of the United States
from $500, O0O,oO to $4,000 per annun for
feet gear.
lit is deemed highly probable that Con-
gress will reduce the standing army five thou
sand men.
Ono may become enough Of legal resi-
dent of Washington for divorce purposes in
nine months
y. DAVIS. of Mississippi, seems 10 bring
trouble on everybody that ever had anything
to do with him.
You can now shoot a man without fear
of punt. hment in Kentucky, il you only give
him fair warning.
Schenectady (N. Y )Star is going TO
publish the names ofthe married men OF that
town who GET drunk.
Now is the time in which Vermont far
mers are preparing fresh APPLE sugar by melt
ing last years crop.
A La Crosse father cured his daughter of
the habit Of opium eating BY cro~dins hot
ashes into her mouth.
Experiments with singletrack elevated
railway have been made in Philadelphia, and
pronounced successful.
The youngest man in the United States
House OF Representatives is Lynch, the color
ed member from Mississippi
And now comes the pleasant little rumor
that they are making champagne out of pc
troleum, over in Pennsylvania
The statistics of Iowa show the impor-
tant fact that the greatest nutnder Of thieves
and murderers have blue eyes.
Florida is next on the roll Of States anx.
iously desiring new Constitution. Her pres
ent organic law was framed in 1868.
A bill viii be introduced in Congress to re-
store the tax upon incomes exceeding $4,000,
If taxation should be considered necessary.
The fashionable exodus to Europe will
begin this year as early as April. The nun
Der of visitors is expected to be very large.
Pennsylvania has thirty-six Soldiers Or
phans' Schools which in September last had an
attendance Of S,ll7 orphans Of soldiers and
sailors.
The Eastern papa,s have discovered that
nine ont Of ten Of the college students steal
their ESSAYS from OLD speeches Of English
Statesmen.
There are noa tvcnty-nine State Legia
latures IN session, or twice ana a quarter the
original Number Of States, to say nothing Of
the Territories.
The National Board Of Trade are opposed
to any appropriations Mt present by Congress
for water routes or any other artiaoia! mode
Of transportation.
The religious organizations Of New Jersey
arc making strenuous effort to have law
passed which will prevent the running oftrains
in that State on Sunday.
If persons do not care enough about the
publications of the Government 10 pay the
postage on them in order to receive them
they ought not to be printed.
buddhism is the mammoth religion Of the
world, and now numbers as its votaries more
than 55O,000,Oo0 Of human beings, or nearly
ha'f the population Of the globe.
The King of Saxony IS a salary grabber
lie wants his miserable pittance raised from
s645. 900 TO 81 100000 year. lie thinks he
could make more at some other business.
There are rumors Of much dissatisfaction
among Indians on certain reservations, and
the threat is made that, if government will
not fulfill its promises, they viii protect them
selves.
"A news letter wrapper, which IS claimed
to combine the uses and be general substi'
tute for the postal card and newspaper wrap
per, has been designed by Mr.. A. Watson, Of
Washington
The Emperor of Japan, in his desire for
the blessings of civilization, wanted a definite
birthday; so a convention Of wise men fixed
upon the 4th Of November, which date the
Emperor has adopted.
The Philadelphia Press says national
college for women will be established 10
Washington All branches Of learning, In
GLIDING theology, medicine. iaw, art and the
sciences, will be taught
"a French physician mas discovered that
the peculiar odor O. Russia leather has very
beneficial effect upon weak lungs, and he adj
vses consumptiye patients % repose upon pill
lows covered with that material.
The one-huud ed year Almanac says the
year 1874 viii be a very unhealthy one
There will be an open, moist winter which
will give rise to fevers Of low type, ana much
sickness during the summer months
The Danbury News states that New Ha-
ven editor spent last Sunday 10 Slawson, and
attended church. When the contributions
box came around, he was in a doze, but on
being nudged hastily exclaimed, 81 have
pass -
Lord Melbourne said, just bafore his
death, that the great event Of near genera
ton would be bitter conflict between eccies"