Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-12-30
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

built in 1886.
Half the children in the Boston
public schools are Of Catholic paren
tage.
Whittier will probably be the
Centennial poet, since Longisllow
has declined.
-Bsyard Taplor Is reported TO
to have said that Mark Twain's wit
is wholly superficial.
The Chicago city tax amounts
to about the same that that of The
whole State of Wisconsin does.
About $4,000 punches OF violets
are sold per day in Paris. Their
sale amountsto 100000 francs 9 year.
Fossil scorpions are extremely
rare, but several have been recently
found 10 The Sandwich Park colliery
England.
The Hon. Alex. Il. Stephens
calls Mr.. Geo. II. Pendleton the
brightest and brainiest man on this
continent"
During the last forty years more
than 200 vessels have sailed from
Gloucester, Mass, which have never
been heard from.
The new census of Rhode Island
shows that the State has population
of 25S 2S9 The city of Providence
has a population of 100 676.
The La Crosse Republicans
Leader terms TuttIe's History Of
Wisconsin a scandalous botched aud
disgraceful ill.made book.
II. n Morton, a Wholesale drug
gist, at Milwaukee, has been adjud
Gated bankrupt. and Henry Payne
appointed provisional assignee.
1t is estimated that there are
about 400 young men from the
United States pursuing their studies
at the universities and colleges of
Germany.
"A lantern maker in Japan is
making q great number of lanterns,
with the likeness of an eagle on the
side, for the American Centenary
celebration next year.
Maria Davis, charged with big
amy at the Old Bailey, London, was
released because the first husband,
being totally blind, was unable to
identify her.
During the past season of navi.
CATION on our Western lakes, 259
lives were lost by accidents or vessel
disasters. The season was an unusu-
ally rough and perilous one.
In contested election case at
Richmond i. has been decided by
the presiding Judge that witness
has no right to refuse to testify as to
what candidates he has cast his vote
Five Roman Catholic priests
have started religious revival at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, exhorting people to
repentance in genuine Methodist
style. The services are attended by
multitudes.
The police authorities at San
Francisco have made their first raid
on the opium smokers, and will con-
tinue the crusade Till they have bro
ken up all the dens frequented by
white peopla.
Wood county, Wis, claims TO
have been undertake all these years
with beds of granite, superior in
quality to the finest imported Scotch
granite A company has been or
gauized to dig it up, and make use
of it.
Russia, it is said, is going TO
abolish the passport system, and the
Minister of Finance has already de-
clared his readiness to dispense with
the 100000 of rubles which the
passport fees annually bring into the
imperial treasury.
American officers in the
Egyptian army, collectively and in
dividually, are very popular, and
have all manner of eourtesies shown
them. And they reciprocate by
drawing their salary with charming,
manly regularity.
The Albany Argus says several
hop. gro wers in the Mohawk valley,
having having held back their hops
as long as they were able, have been
obliged TO sell at IL cents, when ear
lier 10 the season they might have
got from Is TO Is cents.
The London Builder recon-
mends people who transplant trees
to mark the north side of each tree
with red chalk before II is taken up,
and replace in its natural position
A larger proportion will then live, as
in ignoring this law of nature trans
planted trees generally perish.
1t is stated that the irrepressible
DR.. Charles A. Ebert, who made such
a good thing out of the State Treas
ury Agency, has obtained an Office in
Washington-a 81 500 clerkship-
Congressman Lynde, by
reason Of his supposed connection
with the Milwaukee Herl0d.
"A French chemist asserts that
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packing pork, provided all animal
heat has left it before sailing. No
saltpetre should be used as it induces
scurvy. The brine should be -
strong as possible, and cold water is
capable of disseIving more salt than
hot water.
The most philosophic and salts
factory explanation the Philadelphia
Press can evolve for RRndall's failure
to obtain the speRkership is tina, be
had not married schoolma'am
Blaine did, and was speaker for
good long time. Kerr did. aud sue
ceeded him. Randall did not, and
loses.
The 20 cent pieces have proved
a failure in California. The San
Francisco Post says: Nobody seems
to want either TO pass or receive
them. and in some mysterious man.