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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
THAT HIRED GIRL.
How She Did the Business TO. Travelling Agents

When she came to work for the
family on Congress street, says the
Detroit Free Press, the lady Of the
house sat down and told her that
agents, book peddlers, hat-rack-men,
picture sellers, ash-buyers, ragmen,
and all that class of people, must be
met at the front door and coldly re-
pulsed, and Sarah said she'd repulse
EN- if she had to break every broom
stick in Detroit.
And she did. She threw the door
wide open, blufied right up to 'em
and when she got through talking the
checklist agent was only too glad to
leave. 1t got SO after while that
peddlers marked that house, and the
doorbell never rang except for com
pany.
The other day as the lady Of the
house was enjoying nap, and Sarah
was wiping off the spoons, the bell
rang. She FASTENED to the door, ex-
pecting to see a lady, but her eyes
encountered slim man, dressed in
black, and wearing a white necktie,
He was the new minister, and he was
going around to get acquainted with
the members of his flock, but Sarah
wasn't expected to know this.
um-is Mrs.-ah-- ?"
"Git !" exclaimed Sarah, pointing
to the gate
BEG pardon, but I'd like to see.
see--!"
"Meander?" she shouted, looking
around for weapon, eve don't want
any flour sifters here! !"
"You are mistaken" he replied,
smiling blandly, 81 called to-"
Don't want anything to keep
moths away-fy!," she exclaimed
getting red in the face.
els the lady in p he inquired, try
ing to look over Sarah's head.
eyes, the lady's in, and I'm in, and
you're out y she snapped, "and now
l don't want to stand here talking tc
a fy-trap agent any longer! Come
lift your boots!'
81 am not an agent" he said, try
ing to smile, 81 am the new"
eyes, | know you; you are the new
man with a patent fat-iron, but we
don't want any, and you'd better &C
before | call the dog p
"Will you give the lady my caro-
and say that | called?"
ono l wont; we're bored to dealt
with cards and handbills and circulars
Come | can't stand here all day"
Didn't you know that | was min
ister?" he asked, as he backed off.
"No, nor don't know it now; yol
look like the man who sold the woman
next door dollar chrome for eighteel
shillings !"
"But here is my card"
81 don't care for cards, / tell you
If you leave that gate open I'll heav
a flower pot at you!"
81 will call again." he said as h
went through the gate.
sit won't do you any good!" sh
shouted after him, eve don't want n
prepared food for infants-no plan
music-no stuffed birds / know tn
policeman on this beat, and if 70
come around here again, he'll 500
find out whether you are a conidenc
man or vagrant y
And she took unusual care to loo
the door.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
Styles in Stockings.

The Paris shops are full of the most
fancitul designs in stockings, IN
cream. lemon, orange yellow, straw
pink, pale blue, pale green, lilac, light
brown, dark brown, crimson, scarlet,
purple. But the precise tint is on'v
half the question the designs worked
upon the stockings are by far the
most important part. One pair, in a
certain well-known shop, WAS in lem
on, and each instep was covered with
punches of black currants, with twigs
and leaves, delicately embroidered IN
colored silka. Another, of black silk,
had garland of pink posebuds and
leaves winding upward from the
ankle. Stockings so embroidered
are enormously dear. 1t is matter
of eager competition among the lead
ers of fashion TO secure as many
specimens of the last rage as then
purses will allow. Garlands OF flow
ers do not hold the field alone, II
must be observed. In some cases IN
scrptions and devices are embrolder
ed round the legs of modern stock
ings. and rows and patterns are
worked in col0red silk stars or spots
The ground must, on no account, b'
white. Baloriggan or fine cottor
hose Of solid scarlet of most vivit
hue, or dark navy blue, or else strip
ed around in two shades of blue, o.
brown with ecru, or else ecru will
blue. The fashion extends also to tn
sterner sex.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

PRESCRIPTION FOR DRUNKENNESS.
There is curious prescription in
England for drunkenness, by which
thousands are said to have been as
sisted in recovering themselves. The
recipe came into noteriety through
the efforts of the father of Rev.
Newman Hall and Capt. Vine Hall,
commander of the Great Eastern.
He hao fallen into snch habitual
drunkenness that his utmost effort
to regain himself proved unavailing.
At length be sought the advice of an
eminent physician, who gave him a
prescription which be followed faith
fully fer several months, at the end
of that time be had lost all desire for
liquors although he had for many
years been led captive by most de-
basing appetite. The recipe, which
be afterward published, and by
which so many have been assisted TO
refrom, is as follows: Sulphrate of
iron, five grains; magnesla, ten
grains peppermint water, eleven
grains; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm;
to be taken twice day. This pre-
paration acts a. a tonic and stimulant,
and so partly supplies the place of
the accustomed liquor, and prevents
that absolute physical and moral
prostration that follows sudden
breaking off from tho use of stimulat-
ing drinks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

BoNE-GATHERING IN ARKANSAS -
During the Winter and Spring hun
dreds of settlers all along the valley
of the Arkansas have supported Their
families by gathering up buffalo
bones and hauling them to the towns.
The prairies for forty miles each way
from the railroad have been cleaned
over till no relic of the chase can
be found. Heads and ribs are worth
SIS ton. These are shipped to
Philadelphia and ground up into fer
tilizers. Shin and shoulder blades
are worth SO ton; these go to the
sugar refneries. The horns are
worth $50; the tips sawed off here
aud sent to the factories of umbrellas.
fans, pipes, etc.; the remainder Is
used by the the chemist. Bits OF
hide found hanging to the heads are
taken eff and sent to the glue fac
tories. Evey fragment OF these
animals are made to serve purpose
The trade has been opportune tor tht
settlers, as it brought the the mean
of livelihood when crops failed
otherwise they would have.been com
PEELED to abandon their homesteads
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

rwA terrible temperance lesson
may be read in the report OF a muir"
der and suicide which have just oc-
Cured in Hamilton County-happily
for the credit of humanity, in the
edge of the wilderness known as
John Browns Tract. Two men
worked and drank together until full
and then fell to quarrelling. One ii.
nally threw the other over a wooden
saw.horse and and deliberately sawed
his head from his body, and then
ended the tragedy by cutting his
own throat and killing himself.
With what wisdom did Cassie ex-
claim after bis drunken debauch, 20
thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou
hast no other name to be known by
let us call thee-devil."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

s~You know yourself that there
is certain period in boys exis-
tence when he would rather be q
ripg-master in circus than Presi-
dent of the United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

s@A young man ia California be-
gan to read a paragraph about a
mine to his swee theart, commencing,
"Yuba mine" when she interrupt
ed him with 81 don't care if | do,
John"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

wMiss Nelson is fond of 'alf and
'alf, especially on benefit nights.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

ia Make no vows to perform this
or that; it shows no great strength
and makes thee lie behind myself.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
BANKS.


IIRsT Natl ONAL BANK OF B0SCOBEL, GRANT
L Co. Wis. A. II Meyer, Cashier, B. NJ Coates, Pres,
Directors-B. NJ. Coates. j. II. Sares. Edward Meyer,
Geo +. Hildebrand, Joseph Walker Transact Gen
eral Banking Business buy and sell Government Sc
curities Gold, Silver Bullion, &c. Draws direct on
all the principal cities of Germany, England Ireland
Scotland Scandinavia. France, Italy, the orient and
Australia Special attention given to the collection
Of monies and egaeies in foreigncountries Passen,
er Tickets for lnman and Guyon Lines. 3l-42
N Eo. W RYLAND BANKER. LANCASTER, WIS.
u Deposits received Foreign aud domestic exchange
gold and United States bonds bought and sold
Loans negotiated and collections attic nded to- ~ 10
HUMPHREY CLARKE, BANKERS. BLOOMING,
| L ton, Wis Buy aud sell Gold and Government
Bonds aud Eastern Exchange. Prompt attention Civ
en- to collections at all points, and the payment of
taxes: Deposits received ard loans negotiated. Ad-
yances made upon approved securities. Interest al
lowed special deposits at best current rates 30-42
HODGES & co, BANKERS AND DEALERS
| In Exchange and Government Securities, Platte
vile Wis. Particular attention given to Collections
and proceeds promptly RENTED on day of payment.
Refer to Henry Cews 4 Co, N. Y; h. Edgerton, u;
1aIona 30-42
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

mopGEs { co. BANKERS AND DEALER
DENTAL.

nRF f. COOMEs, DENTIST, B0sC0BEL, WIS :
IL Office over Sawyer Favor store. Can be fouhu
during hours from 9 A. till5 Z. NJ. 3o-l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
Jesse BROOKS.
BLOOMINGTON,
AGENT FOR

BLOOMINGTON, Wis.
AGENT FOR
The Celebrated Bertrand, Sames and
other Corn Sulkeys, Mccormick Har-
vesters, Woods and other Reapers
ana Harvesters.
Refers by permission to JAmes Pridesux, Esq ,
Master of Bloomington Orange. to sukeys. VIII
sell as low as csn be sold and warrant everything
represented. JESSE BRoohS.
Bloomington, May Is. stf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15

ID ARBER AND HAIR DRESSER, GEORGE GIBBS,
u Lancaster Shop ia basement Of Horseman's
Ricrk 3g-51
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
VOL. 80, NO. IS.
Business Direetorp.
ABSTRACTS.
AGENTS.

A BsTRAcT OFFICE FOR GRANT COUNTY. JOS
Il eph Book, Lancaster. ONCE over the Bank. 30-4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
HOTELS.

DIET WN HOUSE, w. @. WILCOX, PRoPRiE-
ID tor Having purchased the hotel at Beetown l
prepared to serve the public IN proper manner
Good table and frst-class accommodations generally
Si.tio 'stal,Io attacbed *32-43
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
PHYSICIANS.
TONSORIAL.

a UGUST MICHAELIs TEACHER OF MUSIC AM
n German Residence on Maple street, one doc
east OF Ryland 4 Hollnwsy's Bank. So
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
BUGGIES ANDWAGONS

That viii bear the closest inspection. Aud pre-
pared Is manufacture. to ORDER anything in my
Hur au short notice keep constantly on hand
Sarge supply OF ready made
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
Chinese Justice in California.

"A Sacramento paper says: The Chi
nese residents of Sacramento, and, doubt
less, those of other localities throughout
the State, have system of government
far more powerful, as far as they arc con-
cerned, than that which State or city can
bring to bear upon them. This is vested
In a secret council, which passes upon all
offenses and makes rules for the regula-
ton of business. ANY crime committed
by one Chinaman against another is in
vestigated by this tribunal, no matter
whether the regular courts may have taken
cognizancc of it OF not, and very frequent
ly the council goes so far as to impose
the death penalty, its officers secretly dis
posing of the party against whom the
sentence has been passed, he merely turn
ing up missing" Among other matters
regulated by the council is that of the es-
Enlistment of wash-houses. No China
man is allowed to conduct a wash-house
unless he is enrolled on the books of the
council, and even then he must not locate
within boundaries that may have been al
lottcd to some other laundryman. Some
months ago laundry was established be-
meath the Orleans Hotel, and a Chinaman
from Stockton, said to be honest and capa-
Bile, took charge of it. 1t happened that
there was another Chinese laundry on the
opposite side of the street, and the Cclcs-
tial running it proceeded against the new
conner, who was cited before the council
and fined $40, which he paid. Shortly
after officers of the council arrested him
again and he was fined $50 or $50, which
he paid. A few days ago they again
mulcted him in the sum of $50, the two
officers collecting it by applying pistols
to his head; and, as final measure, the
death penalty has been pronounced against
him, TO be enforced unless he shall imme-
diatcly leave the city. He is much ex-
ercised about it, saying that he will some
day mystcriously disappear and his bones
will never be taken back to his home in
China; but F. w. Fratt, his landlord, a
practical individual, not proposing to
have his tenant elected in this style, ha,
taken the matter in hand, and will pro
tect him to the full extent of the law, with
possibly a margin over"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
Fatal Railway Accidents in Great
Britain.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: "The re-
turns relating to railway accidents for last
year have just been issued. From these
returns it seems that the total number of
persons reported as killed to the Board of
Trade in 1875 for the United Kingdom was
England contributed ITS, Scotland gil,
and Ireland 80. OF the injured the num-
bers for England are 46S, Scotland 400,
and Ireland SO. 1t further appears that
there were last year in the United King
dom, to account for all this killing and
wounding, So collisions between passenger
trains or parts of passenger trains, 1873
collisions between passenger trains and
goods or mineral trains, engines and vehi-
Giles standing foul of the line, IS collisions
between goods trains or parts of goods
trains, 6 collisions between two engines,
81 accidents from passenger trans or
parts of passenger trains leaving the rails;
IA from goods trains or parts of goods
trains, engines ETC., performing the same
feat; 40 from trains or engines travelling
in the wrong direction through points; 81
from trains running into stations or sid
ings at too high a speed; 195 from trains
running over cattle or other Instructions
on the line; SO from trains running
through gates at level crossings; 6 from
the bursting of boilers, etc, of engines; s
from the failure of machinery, springs,
etc., of engines; from failure of ties, 81
ditto of wheels, 10; of axles, 229; of brake
apparatus, 1 of couplings, %; of ropes
used in working inclines, 8; of tunnels,
bridges, etc., 4; 1913 are charged to broken
rails; 10 to blocking of portions of per-
manent way; s to slips in cuttings or en-
bankments; % to fire in trains; IL to fire
in stations or involving injury to bridges
or viaducts; II are returned as 'other ac-
cidents-' Directors hanged or imprisoned
for manslaughter, o.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
A Royal Freak.

One of the royal freaks of Louis of
Bavaria is to be carried out in August, if
Providence and human skill are equal to
the unprecedented task. The project is
among the widest of his romantic ideas,
namely: to commemorate the acting of
their famous passion play by the villagers
of Ober-ammergau by the erection of a
colossal marble group, forty feet in height,
upon the summit of the Zugspitze, 10, 1000
the village and the place where the passion
play is performed. The statuary itself is
nearly finished. The sculptor Halbig
has spent upon it two years of patient
labor. The crucified Christ occupies the
center of the group, the Virgin Mary on
the right, on the left st. John, each rest
ing on a socle fifty inscribed, and all
three upon a common pedestal on which
are carved the arms of Bavaria. But now
it is that the difficulty begins. These
marble forms cannot be transported in
sections like bronzes, but they have to
be packed in immense boxes, whose
frame is of beams, and enor-
nous carriages have been specially built
to convey them. There lie fifty miles of
rude mountain roads between Munich and
ODER and part of the journey
is across Kloster Ettal, whose pass is the
dread of wagoncrs; while the road to the
buhiiult VI tiC AuSSpitLc, just uhlSHcu, IL
is feared may not attain the needed solid
ity. All the bridges on the way were too
narrow or too weak and had to be rebuilt
or strengthened, and when all else is ready
what shall move the statues? The artist
declares it shall be steam, and has pitched
upon a street locomotive that brought the
rough marble from the railroad station to
his door in Munich. These street engines
are unknown in our country of progress,
though we have steam plows, and New
York has a self-moving steam fire-engine
they do excellent draft work on ordinary
roads, but there has never been O trial of
one on such extraordinary roads as those
the statues must pass, and the experiment
is looked for with much interest. 1t must
be tried soon, for the Kings birthday,
which occurs in August, is fixed for the
ceremony of presentation to the people OF
Ober-ammergau. IT'S costly within OF
the romantic young King-but his people
have sort of pride in the character Of
Louis whims.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
Good Feed Will Produce Good Milk

WHEN COW is required to cat four or
five weeds to get one clover she cannot
be expected to yield milk of prime quail
ity. If pasture fields are full of daisies
and other weeds the best butter-maker
in the world will fail to produce prime
butter. But when cows can have a full
supply of clean and sweet grass the
fault will lie with the butter-maker if
the product is not of a superior quality.
In producing milk at any time there is
nothing which will tell upon the yield
more than the circumstances of rapid
and slow digestion, as poorer food, which
will digest more rapidly, will make mere
milk than a richer one, that can only be
digested slowly. Young and succulent
food digests more easily than those which
are old and dry; cooked food easier than
raw, especially where ripeness is ap-
preached. In cold weather warm food
will digest sooner than cold. Tepid
water and warm food in winter will add
10 per cent. to the yield above the same
given cold. Soaking, and even little
souring, will increase the digestibility of
food which is ripe and dry. Where there
is no difference in rapidity of digestion,
that food should be preferred which con-
tains the most albuminoids, remembering
that while full supply of albuminoids is
absolutely necessary to the largest guam
tity. a full supply of fat-forming elements
is necessary to perfect quality. With
these general principles before him the
dairyman can regulate the food of his
herd better than any outsider can do it
for him.
1t will be understood that those which
abound in flesh forming matter, and are
at the same time easiest of digestion,
will give the largest returns. There Is
but little difference in the milk-produc-
ing capacity and digestibility of oatmeal,
wheat brans, shorts and canaille: the
meal and canaille of buckwheat and rye
bran. Eastern and Western corn meal
and barley-mcal come next. Oil-meal
will produce more milk from given
weight than any other feed have ever
used, but it is costly, and only small
quantity can be used without affecting
the flavor of the milk. Brewers grains,
for their cost, produce more and poorer
milk than any other food of the grain
kind have ever used. All foods, row
ever, will not pay alike in the quantity of
milk produced by the cows.-N. z.
Herald
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
A Statue One Hundred Feet High.

A correspondent of the London Times
at Berlin writes: Speaking of West
phalia, ought to bestow a few words
upon an artist, native of that province,
whose talent and perseverance have just
completed very remarkable work. Some
thirty or forty years ago, when the unity
movement had barely commenced, Herr
Ernst Won Banded, a Westphalian devoted
to the sculptor's art, conceived the pa
triotic idea of erecting gigantic statue to
Hermann, the yanquisher of Varus in the
Teutoburg forest. A grand national monu-
ment, the statue was to reach the enOr-
nous proportions of 100 feet, not to speak
of pedcstals and base; and as it was to be
placed on the top of hill, the site of VIC
tory, the difficulty of getting it in position
not little added to the magnitude Of the
undertaking. In spite of all obstacles
what appeared a chimcra thirty years ago
has now become a reality. Assisted by
wealthy friends and occasional public
subscriptions, Herr Won Banded has COM
plcted the figure and in two months ex-
poets to witness the solemn Inauguration
of his monument by the German Emperor.
The statue is of embossed copper and has
been wrought by the hand of the man
whose brain created it. Ills whole life
has been consumed in this one object.
When he had done modeling-no small
TASK In tne case OF HTure with nands
five feet long-ie took TO the hammer and
forge and literally formed the immense
surface with his own unaided strength.
A good deal of it was done at the foot of
the hill whcrcOn it stands, the sculptor
having built himself n forge and a hut
close to his chosen locality. If the whole
is as imposing as the head, which saw
ten years since, Germany will possess not
only the largest but also one of the best
statues in Europe. This eighth wonder
of the world will tower over the famous
oak woods near Detmol,l, the capital of
the Principally of Lippe."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-07-03
+" Coal-Oil Johnny"

The country is familiar with the petro-
leum bubble of years ago; how men rose
in the morning beggars and retired at
night millionaires; how nabobs became
mendicants in the breath of a wind. One
of the heroes of those notable days is
Johnny Steele, or Coal Oil Johnny" as
ne is now Familiarity called. His history
is known to all newspaper-readcrs, and
they will remember how he went to bed
one night laborer at $50 a month and
awoke in the morning the heir of the rich
est oil well in VenangO County. He didn't
know what to do with the money which
flowed from his well. He it was whopur-
chased hotel in Philadelphia at extrava-
giant figures and gave it away the next
day; who would buy up dance-house at
. big price for the privilege of " running
it, one night; who would purchase a
fancy team, use it once and give it away I;
who bought minstrel troupe and ran it a
whole season for the fun Of il; who never
refused to lend money nor asked its return.
He stepped from perjury, through one
million and half of dollars, back TO
perjury again in sixteen short months.
Then he came West, and now he is at
work with a gang of bridge builders in
Shelby County, on the Rock Island Road,
at q salary of 175 cents day. He is just
as happy and contented With his frugal
fare and lowly lot as when lie basked in
the smiles of Fortunes favors. His wife
clings to him in adversely with true-heart-
ed love and accepts the situation with all
the grace which characterizes a noble
woman. She Joined his fortunes when
sunshine gilded his path she now seeks
to make his pathway bright beneath the
shadow of adversely. Their home is at
Dunlap. Johnny says many of the stories
of his wasteful extravaganza are false
His reverses came from loans made to
friends, who failed to repay them. A broken
bank carried down $3.50, 600 at one swoop,
and another bank took $40, 600. Out OF
the wreck of the latter he hopes to get
enough to get his good wife a beautiful
dress and nice, new house.-Des Holmes
(Iopal Cor. Chicago Tribune.