Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-25
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.


Madame Christine Nilsson has
been engaged for $1,000 a night to
give twelve operate concerts in
France.
The brewers of Cincinnati are
: using corn, meal and rice flour mixed
with the usual barley malt in making
lager beer.
The circulation of the London
/. daily Telegraph from January l to
October 81, 1874, inclusive, averaged
{ l75,l74 copies day.
: Inmates of the Blackwell Island
Prison where Tweed is confined nave
> been attacked with smallpox, but the
} "Boss" doesn't try to steal that.
1t is said that Laura d. Fair, the
murderess, has become wealthy by in
vestments in mining stocks during the
late era of speculation at San Fran
cisco.
A Catholic association has just
been formed in Paris, France, the
members of which bind themselves not
to buy, sell, work, nor cause work to
be done by others on Sunday,
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, wealthy
widow of Peoria, Illinois, and large
stakeholder of the First National
Bank of that place, has just been
elected first director of the bank.
The people of the Pacific coast
have become thoroughly convinced
that the highest prosperity rests on
manufactures, and are continually en-
gaging in new enterprises Of that kind.
The only vacant seat in the san
Francisco Stock Board has been sold
for $4,000. This is the highest price
ever paid for seat, and is $4,000
higher than the price about year
ago.
If the Beecher-Tilton scandal
does not improve the morality Of the
people it adds several remarkable
phrases to literature, such as ''stepping
down and out" changing on the rag
ged edge" etc.
Poor Plymouth church, All
churches hayo enough of passing
around the hat, but among the Ply
mouth church people-well, their last
incidental to defray the expenses of
the pastors suit was Sl25,000.
The Crown diamonds of France,
which at the commencement of the
French German war were sent TO a
military ocean port, arrived back in
Paris recently, and were delivered to
"a "A r. Il
main.
A verdict was given against the
Ncw York and New Haven railway
company for about, 10000 in favor Of
the man who was robbed Of that
amount in one of the company's cars
1t was held that the company must
protect its patrons.
1t is understood that the Pope's
golden rose will be bestowed this
year on Queen Marie, the mother of
King Louis II, of Bavaria, whose re-
cent conversion to the Roman Cath
olic faith created so much excitement
in the religious world
The Detroit Free Press keeps a
boy vino is paid $50 a week to do
nothing but sit on a chair and yell,
t(P stats Oh o,!3i n, L, .uhn onnin
the pains Of hearing seven or eight
men yell out in succession.
An Iowa man has applied for a
divorce on the ground that his wife is
an invalid. They began life in vine
embosomed cottage. 1t was at the
washtub she caught severe cold.
He drives charcoal wogon and ex-
poets to be happy in heaven.
The California Cinnamon are
learning. At a Chinese mass meeting
held at Marysville that Safe, to con-
slider the case of several Cinnamon
who had reduced the price Of wash
ing, it was decided to close the wash
houses and run the offenders out of
town.
-Alvan Clarke, the Cambridge tel
escope maker, is getting ready to
manufacture an immense telescope for
the Austrian Government, and is also
negotiating with the trustees appoint
ed by Mr.. James Lick for the erection
of an instrument in a California uni
versity.
-Comstock, who discovered the IA
nous gold mines that bear his name,
blew his brains out at Bozman, Mon
tana, in the fall Of 1870, and was led
to the rash act by reason Of dissipa-
ton and want lie disposed Of the
lode for a mule, shotgun and bot
tie Of whiskey.
Miss l.. Goodell, attorney and
counselor at law at GAINESVILLE, has
been appointed Notary Public the
second instance in which that appoint
ment has been conferred upon fe-
male in this state Gentlemen can
now make their declarations and ac-
acknowledgements before her.
Widow Phila Lambert, Of West
Georgia, Vt, SO years old, has for
fifteen years supported eight children
by laying stone wall, harvesting, and
other heavy farm work, and has not
only made herself owner Of house
and a few acres of land, but has given
her children q good education.
Baltimore oysters were never bet
ter appreciated than they were by the
hungry passengers of snow-bound
train on the Kansas Pacific railroad
lately. After being twenty-four hours
without a square meal" it was dis.
covered that there was car on the
train loaded with Baltimore oysters
bound to Denver. 1t is needless to
say that the freight was shifted with
great expedition.
The bottom of pond in South
ing,on, Connecticut, was discovered
with decomposing vegetable matter
producing carburetted hydrogen gas
in considerable quantity. The Sur
face of the water is frozen over, and