Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-08
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

talns zo2 convlctS.
Mrs. Beecher is reported not at
all well or strong at any time.
Il matchmaking is the leading
business of most watering places.
A revival of religion of unusua
interest has begun at Appleton.
-Four years ago they were talk.
ing of monument to Boss Tweed.
The latest Rome letter SAYS the
Pope is now subject to Sudden bill
ious attacks"
The "airy, fairy Lillian" enshrin.
ed in verse by Tennyson, is now Mrs.
Rawnesley and the happy mother of
seven children.
| "A terrific water-spout prevailed
near Middletown, Tenn, one day last
week, doing great damage to wheat,
and washing away fences and roads.
BE careful how you insult your
acquaintance on postal cards A
Brooklyn man has given $4,000 bail to
answer just such charge.
There is no doubt that Tilton
has been long-sutfering. A man as
tall as he is could hardly be any other
way, if he suffered at all.
The grasshoppers, instead of TAX
ing Mr.. Greeley's advice, ego west"
are flying in countless millions toward
the northern part of the country.
The hundredth anniversary of
Daniel O'Connell's birthday is to be
Enthusiastically celebrated in Ire.
land on the 5th, 9th and 9TH of
August.
The census of Appleton shows
that young city to be in a thriving
condition. The population is 6,7s6,
an increase of nearly so per cent
since 1870.
The governor of Ceylon has is
sued n prohibition against the destruc
ton of elephants, which are becoming
scarce on account of the slaughter by
sportsmen.
Adam Grimm, of Jefferon, Wis,
is one of the largest honey raisers in
the world. His crop for last year
was $500 pounds, and his apiary
consists of Jas colonies.
-Tennyson gets $500 each for his
little poems for the magazines. And
yet with such price for poems, doz-
ems of young men remain idle and
| live off their relatives.
Eek Speaker Blaine was so iniur.
cd in his recent railroad adventure
down an embankment, that he has
been forced to abandon active work
in polotics for the season.
Olive Logan, Anna Dickinson
and Mrs. Stanton will not GO into
summer resort quarantine this season,
but will continue to sprad abroad the
doctrine of masculine fatal depravity.
On his retirement from journal,
ism, the editor of the London Times
is to receive a daronetcy. In this
country, on his retirement, the editor
usually receives only call from the
sheriff.
Boss Tweed announces that he
is cas- good Democrat to-day as
ever" thus virtually acknowledging
that he would accept the call of his
party to the Presidential candidacy
of '76.
"A Western New York paper
says the census enumerators don't
find many farmers who keep any
sort of accounts Of their productions
or sales. Out of seventy interview
ed last week, only one had an account
with his farm.
Captain Boynton doesn't enjoy
soaking in the English camel, after
all, and says that now he has shown
what could be accomplished, there is
not "money enough in all England to
tempt him to do it again"
"A Frenchman has discovered
method by which he can bring down
rain whenever it is needed; or, rather,
draw moisture from the air. He
claims that sprinkling of chloride of
calcium upon the surface of the ground
is entirely effective.
joaquin Miller's latest is about
the Quaker City, as follows:
"There is nothing to see,
In Philadelphia,
Until you get
Outside of it."
MIR. Tennyson, or his publishers,
receive the handsome sum of $4,000
or $4,000 annually from the compos-
ers who make a business of setting
the Laureate's poems to music. The
charge for permission to set a poem
has been fixed at $25, and the appli-
cations average two or three day.
The Chicago Times is RESPONSE
BILE for the following: zone half of
this years graduating class at Yale
will go into the legal profession.
They are ali anxious to becom
Evartses, and stand up on their hind
legs for weeks at a time and make
sentences with five hundred and sixty
five words in them"
just now, when 80 many honor
less graduates are being ground out
of the college hoppers, it may be
comfort to such lads and their doting
parents to know that not one of the
FIVE eminent graduates OF Bowdoin
College bore off prizes We refer to
Hawthorne, Longfellow, Franklin
Pierce, Governor Andrew and Pitt
Fessendee.
Just because little yellow dust
can be "panned out" in the creeks of
the Black Hills, some folks are in
clined to rush off, crazy with the gold
fever, and petition the Government to
buy the region. The sands of the
Missouri river at any point contain
particles of gold, and even at st.
Louis will "pan out'' quite handsome
ly-and yet no one rushes off tor that
place, or offers to buy it.
Lady Franklin's present illness is
believed to be her last. While the