Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-09

mules tail, as SO spoiled child"
"A tax on every child born in the
Argentine Republic is proposed as q
source of revenue to the Government.
WAS not her death quite sud-
den ?" said condoling friend to
bereaved widower. "Well, yes, rather,
| for her,"
An American girl recently won
the gold medal at the recent exami.
nation at the College of Brazil, Rio
de Janeiro.
The pension records of Great
Britain show that pension has a
wonderful influence in prolonging
human life.
Deer are very numerous in Vir-
GINA now, having greatly multiplied
since the war, especially in the low
land region.
AS was anticipated, the failure
of the Bank of California is a very
bad one. Assets, less than Sc, 600, 900;
liabilities, $14,OO0,000.
| 1t is easier for a housewife to
feed two work hands who are hun
CRY than one delicate slip of q girl
who "only wants a bite
Even Commodore Vanderbilt
thinks it safer to hold no property in
his own name. 1t has all been con-
veyed to his son William.
-"Thermometer 81 degrees, and a
heavy snowstorm raging" That
was the report from the top of Pixies
Peak last W ednesday night.
The American element prevails
largely in Australia and New Zealand
and it is admitted that TO this the
colonies measurably owe their pros
gress
-Tilton and his daughters, Flor
ence and Alice, are in Now Jersey,
at his fathers home. He has Just
completed his lecture, "rhe Problem
of Life"
The grave OF Horace Greeley in
Greenwood Cemetery has been sur
rounded by an arbor.vitae hodge,
forming an inclosuro fifteen feet in
diameter.
THAT Russian whose name
sounds like sneeze, CatacaZy, is
standing between that country and
its presentation as the American
Centennial.
When trapeze performer falls
60 feet and lights on his head in
New York, the manager of the per-
Torrance generally excuses him for
the rest OF the day.
Nelson, the actress, is in poor
health, and is sojourning in Germany
Max Strakosch offered her 100000
for 100 nights in America, but she has
been compelled to decline.
Since 1870 the number of sailing
vessels has greatly diminished,
steamers at that date having taken
the seas as never before. England,
the United States and Italy are now
the first great sailing powers.
Nellie Sartoris has persuaded
Der liege lord that America is the
place for him, and the next time they
come back from England it will be
"for good"-to take up their perma-
nent residence here.
Dealers in green groceries will
be delighted to know that one of tho
most eminent physicians has discov-
cred that asparagus and celery, if
taken in sufficient quantities, are
specifics for acute rheumatism.
g. Witherbee, a man known al
most all over the world for his prom
inence in connection with tho iron
trade, who resided at Port Henry,
New York, is dead. He amassed an
immense fortune in his business.
"A Northampton (Mass.) lawyer
sent tfr3e Deputy Sheriffs, the other
day, to attach hotel dinner just five
minutes before it was eaten. The
hungry guests were obliged to con-
tent themselves with digest of tho
proceeding.
Mrs Mary Vaughn, of William
son county, Tenn, gave a Tooth
birthday party recently. She is q
"rght p~rt" old lady, and headed
procession of 100 descendants in
marching TO the grove whore they
took dinner.
"A flock of $500 sheep at Mission
San Jose, California, got frightened,
recently, and ran into patch Of
poison oak. Here they got tangled
and piled one on another in layers
six or eight deep, and some seven
hundred were smotbered or crushed
to death.
-Londcn is agitated over a small
Ter man than Tom Thumb. The
name of the microscopic being is
lean Hannema his age is 36, his
height six inches less than Tom
Thumb's, and his weight is just
twenty six pounds. He was born in
Holland.
Sir David Salomons is the IN
ventor of process for taking instan-
taneous photographs. An ingenious
electrical apparatus enables any one,
by simply turning handle, TO take
a perfect photograph in fraction of
a second. You simply give it turn,
and there you are.
The 126th anniversary of the
birthday of the German poet, 6 oethe,
was celebrated at Gilmore's garden,
New York, Saturday evening. An
Grafton was delivered by William
Cullen Bryant, and an original poem
by Bayard Taylor. There was also
vocal and instrumental music, and
the bust of the poet, which arrived
by the steamer Klopstock, was for
mall unveiled.
"A reunion of the Bancroft FAM
| lily was held at Reading, Mass, re-
Gently. The exercises consisted of a
dinner, o horticultural address and
, speeches. By actual count there
were over 400 persons by the name
of Bancroft present. The address by
J. NJ. Bancroft, of New York, traced