Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-16
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| The way to meet man OF DOUBT
| full credit is to take no note of him
The Chinese in California con.
sumo nearly million dollars worth
of opium per year.
A Michigan stump speaker re.
Gently announced that "the country
is fast drifting into arnica."
| -Strailsville, Ohio, is going to
send block of coal, weighing two
tons, to the Centennial Exhibition.
| -Sixty-four young ladies took the
vail at the Notre Dame Convent in
Milwaukee Wisconsin,, last Saturday.
1t can never be told when the
swallows homeward fly, until II Is
decided which end of the route
home Is.
A story is told of an 1rishmsn
who, bound over to keep the peace
against all Her Majesty's suhjec.s
exclaimed: "Then heaven help the
first foreigner | meet.
The San Antonia Herald is right
It says no man with'sany regard for
bis honor should fight in bar-room
unless he is paid-up subscriber
to both daily papers.
The factory women of England
have inaugurated q movement in
favor of the appointment of female
overseers, and against legislative no
strictions upon the labor of women.
-"Never mind, sonny, the rain
makes boys grow" remarked Lee
high county tramp the other day,
when he took silk umbrella away
from lad in the midst of a ram
storm.
Two 14-ineh she'll thrown by the
British in the commandment of Stons
ington, Conn, August 10, 1914, have
just been brought up by steam
iredges, and one of them is still nm
exploded.
They make lots of fun of George
w Chids of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, about his writing obituary
poetry, etc. and yet he goes right
elong making $1,000 day profits,
year in and out.
"A railroad is in contemplation 10
connect Alexandria of the Rcd river
Louisiana, with Marshall, Texas, thus
opening up a Territory which pro-
duces SO 900, 900 worth of cotton
alone per annum.
"A conscientious young trotting
horse at San Francisco, unwilling to
aid in swindling the public, took the
bit between his teeth on the first day
he was trained, swan into the sea
and drowned himself
Abiding to the death OF ci!i>
zen recently, the Danbury NeCs re-
marks: with singh exception Of
twenty three years ago, when hc
took few lessons on violin, his
life has been bameless
The Arabs are won't TO say: off
your neighbor has been 10 Mecca"
which is proof Of great s4nctity,"
dock your stable If he has been
"twice," which renders him perfect,
SUI Oul anu iuONC hWdJ.
= That horse looks as if he'd
been fed on barrel slaves said the
ferry master the other day TO man
taking a bouy nag over to Jersey,
Eyes, " replied the other, I'm taking
him over to Jersey to re-coopera c"
"A Partineton juryman in YER
mont recently informed his fellow>
Jurors, with great gravity, that mo
external magnetism being visual, he
would vote in the defensive" No
attempt was made to change his
| decision.
The time is near at hand when
play ed-out Governor and Senators
will receive $50 and expenses for adj
dressing a county fair on a subject of
which they are profoundly ignorant
--turnips and plow-handles.- Detroit
Free Press.
General Crook, of the United
State army, who is in a position to
make a pretty safe guess, puts on
record the prediction that, sooner or
later, the Government must have
bloody fight with the great Sioux
nation Of Indians
Texas papers estimate the total
of the wheat crop of that State this
year at So, 100000 bushels, Of which
there will be exported about 6,000,-
600 bushels. The probable increase
of acreage in this Falls sowing over
last will be 45 per cent.
Tho Grass Valley Union wishes
the question decided whether the
noun politics is singular or plural.
Without claiming to decide the gram
NAUTICAL question, we assert that poll
tics arc very singular this season.
MarysUiIie (Cat) appeal.
An old lady in New York par.
ticularly desired that certain cush-
ion on which she sat in church
should be buried with her, ard as
there was difficulty about get it into
her coffin, it was luckily proposed to
cut il, when several dollars in green
backs came to light.
"A IlVerpOoi Oreach Oi inroHlso
case has enlarged our acquaintance
with popular manners. The court
ship began in the bayfield, by pro-
cess called "sweetening the hay"
which the learned council described
to be kissing handful of hay in
order to sweeten the rest OF tho
stack.
"A tourist stopping at an estab-
lishment at Engheim, France, where
throat diseases are said to be cured
by inhaIing the fumes of sulphur
spring, passed an hour in the recep-
ii N instead of the inhaling room,
and when informed of the mistake
declared that the bronchitis had left
him anyway.
Gold mining is still pursued to a