Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| unQer meulcal rule again.
JEFF Davis is trusted to "pass the
plate" in Memphis church.
"A camp of Gypsies is located
near the city limits of Racine.
charlotte Cushmsn is gracefully
tiping off her professional career at
the Hub.
Mime. Jerome Bonaparte will CO.
cupy her Newport cottage this season.
She is now in Europe.
The educational exhibition at
the Centennial Exposition promises
to be comprehensive.
"A boy in New York has been
sentenced TO one years Imprisonment
for stealing two cents.
The Vienna university has 1913
students, and the university of Der.
lin had, last term, 1880.
Mother Stewart, the original
Ohio crusader, is leoturing in New
York state, on her hobby.
A New York house has received
an order for several pairs of shoes for
his Majesty King Kalakaua.
"A California lemon, weighing
fourteen ounces, was received at
Ithica, n. Y, the other day.
There are now in this country
fifteen universities in which colored
students are receiving instruction.
The Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, OF Dayton, O., has provided
a smokingroom in its new building.
Lake Huron, Mich, is now said
o be next to New York in impor-
lance as port of entry for aliens.
Victor Hugo is great for notices,
and has every room in his house
painted full Of Illuminated sentences.
When an Eastern base ball club
gets beaten, with double appropriate
ness they call it getting Chicago"
An eccentric woman in New
York has established "a home for
INDECENT cats" whore she feeds about
eighty.
Miss G. A. Perry, of WATERFOWL,
has been selected to read the poem
before the next State Editorial Con-
vention.
One eighth of all the lands and
premises at Niagara Falls, known as
Goat Island, was sold the other day
for S51,326.
There are about 1000 public
schools in Japan. In 1874 four new
normal schools were established, max
ing six in all.
1t has been a very hard winter
on fish hundreds of loads of dead
fish can be seen on the shore OF Big
Muskego lake.
1t is noticeable that in all Colonel
Forney's letters to the Philadelphia
Press, he has never yet used the
character "$."
"A bill for the introduction of the
ballot and woman's suffrage into the
Isle of Man has been read before the
Manx Legislature.
Seven brothers and sisters were
buried at the same funeral at Sand
lake, near Troy, N. Y, one day last
week. They all died of diptheria.
1t is said that $4,000 children
in New York between the ages of
and IA do not attend school. This
seems incredible, yet it is stated as a
fact.
The Isle of Man is said to be the
climatic paradise of Europe. The
mean temperature varies less than
sixteen degrees between Winter and
Summer.
There are already named "Cen.
tennial," an Eastern fast horse,
steamboat, base ball club, hotel,
and numerous other things too numer-
Gus and small to mention.
Carpet manufacturers through
out Great Britain have decided not
to send their products to the PhiIa,
delphia Exhibition because of the ex>
istence of the prohibitory tariff.
Bricks made in China are sold
in San Francisco for less than they
can be made for this side of the Pacif~
ic Notwithstanding the advslorem
duty oftwenty per cent. on them.
-Bartholdi, the sculptor, is cutting
a colossal figure OF Lafayette, on his
way to America when youth, which
is to be placed in Central Park, New
York, by the French residents of that
city.
Indian scouts and white soldiery
are dancing around Wyominy Terri.
tory and in the Black Hills region 80
loosely, that it is believed no gold
can penetrate the coun.
try unseen.
Combination suits are the rage
in fashionable circles, and Josenh's
coat of many coIors wouli be quite
the object of envy again, if 1t could
be found and worked over into
lady's suit.
The Southern Baptists still re-
tain their separate organization, based
upon differences arising out of the
slavery question, thirty years ago.
Their convention will meet in Charles.
ton May 6.
Sioux City is to have company
of cavalry en- route from Cairo, Illi-
nois, to the Black Hills. They 90 by
Sioux City 10 order to get directly
upon the scent of the last expedition
from there.
Mr.. A. I. Stewart has rendered
the new Attorney General, Judge
dinner. If be was
poor, hungry and unknown, instead
Of what he is, would the great mer-
chant give him one?
The library of Congress at
has copy of the first
hook ever nrinfad In tho IInifad