Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-02
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

"S"shSi otc uOW tue OFueT OF the
day.
"A new American church has
Just been opened in Yokohama, ia
pan.
, The next fashionable color, saw
the gossips of gay Paris, is to be
i green.
Tourists in the Rocky mountains
complain of cold nights-almost like
winter.
. Boston has decreased in yalua-
ton about three-ffths of one per cent.
this year.
The price of paper will be reduc
ed by the introduction of cactus leaf
as material.
JEFF. Davis declines the gift Of a
homestead in Texas bought by dollar
subscriptions.
"A crocodile race on the Nile is to
be the event of the month in Egyptian
sporting circles.
Lady Franklin never had pic
ture taken, but friend is to take her
portrait from memory.
Narrowing tales are told of the
cruelty practiced on the inmates of
many insane asylums.
Within few weeks discoveries
of silver deposits of great value have
been made in Arizona.
AT Kentucky watering-placo
the walters glide around the dining
room on parlor skates.
In Germany the loss of Young
men in the war has been so great that
there arc 100000 more women than
| men.
Foreign fruit is rapidly disap,
pearing from the United States mar
kets, and domestic fruit is taking its
! place.
General Phil. Sheridan is being
ionized by the Californians during
his sojourn at the coast Which is all
right.
There are six Victor Hugos in
Paris, according to the city directory,
but FIVE of them are to the sixth as
AAOeilS W al VdSiS'
Cranberry growers in this state
are making active preparations to pick
the first of this month, The vines are
loaded with berries.
A war in South America is an
nounced, the State Of Panama having
commenced hostilities against the
Government of Colombia.
An immense bank of pink coral
has been found on the coast of Sicily,
and the coral fishers have squabbles
over it, fighting naval battles in minia-
ture.
English gardeners now pay four
shillings each for toads. They find
them the best and cheapest destroy
ers of insects which infest their gar
dens.
In certain New York shop win.
dow is displayed this suggestive no.
tice: "Boy wanted, that has fully
rested himself and is not too intellec.
tual."
"A Sandusky co woman has be-
come the mother of two little female
babies, joined similarly to the Siameso
twins, They survived birth but few
hours.
-Gilmorrq3, lpGEAAGers- rom the differ
of 1Uo,O.oU.. uIvns or The country at
tempt to sing "Old Hundred" at the
Centennial.
The Ku-Klux way of doing bust
ness has reached Indiana. Two re-
cent outrages by these dark-lantern
providers on horseback are reported
from that state.
"A St. John Newfoundland dis
patch gives information that the fish
cries of the island have almost failed,
and it is expected that much destitu
ton during the coming winter will re.
suit
Some months ago, an Oregon man
named his girl baby after Queen Vic
toria, and wrote to the Queen to that
effect. But as she didn't seem to care
a cent, he changed the child's name
to Sal.
Negotiations are pending for an
exchange of postal money-orders be-
tween Italy and the United States,
and a convention to that effect will
probably go into operation the COM
ing year.
The gamblers at Bianco City,
Texas, have addressed circular TO
the fraternity in other places, warning
them against "Arkansas Bill" an ex-
pert at cards, who pretends to be
grecnhorn.
Letters received by friends at
Mineral Point, Wis, announce the
death Of the wife of Mortimer Jack
son, U. S. Consul at Halifax The
deceased was a sister of ex-Gov. G.
c. Washburn.
The little IS year.old girl who
was recently sentenced by an English
magistrate to IA years in prison and
four years in the reformatory for pick
inc a geranium, has been released by
the Home Secretary.
"A massachusetts, snuff-taker cal
culates that during the past 40 years
| he has Initiated his nostrils with two
thirds of tun of the pungent dust,
valued at 50, 900. That's sneezy way
of getting rid of money.
The Kilbourn wis Mirror re-
ports the discovery ola wonderful gas
spring, by Capt. Jones, in the river
near that place, which is claimed to
be carbonated hydrogen, the same
that is used for Illuminating purposes.
Happy bridegroom: "More mon
ey, madam, more money? Have you
forgotten that my money bought ev-
erything you possess-the very dress
you stand in?' Fair bride: "No sir;
nor have | forgotten that your money
bought what stands in it."
"A Cincinnati man, who will de-