Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-18
HERE, THERE AND Ell cEWHERE.

l Sergeant bates, carrying nag
through that country, IS o lunatic.
"A negro named Moses Key,
rising 102 years old next Christmas,
is working in factory at st. Louis.
The Territoritorial Enterprise re-
ports that in Nevada there is
plenty of money to loan to those
who don't want it.
-Four millions and half of dead
letters in one year in the United
States! Why will folks try to an
swer letters when they are drunk :?
Wedding tours are becoming ur-
fashionable. The proper and sensible
thing 10 to settle down and live like
folks, without indulging in any need
less nonsense.
MIR. Bergh has commenced 10
drive 'infant prodigies" child trape-
lists and such juvenile contorlionists
from the New York stage, which is
not bad work.
The bell which called together
the Virginia convention of 1875, in
Richmond, when Patrick Henry at
tered his stirring sentence, "Give me
liberty, or give me DEATH" is still in
use in Martinsville, in that State.
Mira. York, widow of DIR. York,
who was murdered by the Bender
family in Kansas, is stopping in
Owatonna, MINI. She has written y
history of the Bender family, which
will shortly be printed and offered to
the public.
II be latest invention we have
yet heard OF, il the "Centennial
Spanker,' for which western We
man has taken out caveat. The
special claims for this patent ia, that
it will deliver stroke so effectively
that boy will remember hundr
years.
"A recent census of Charleston
county, South Carolins, shows ttat
the colored population is increasing
in more rapid ratio than the white.
In 1870 the whites numbered about
y $40, and the blacks 62,5s0; now
the whites number 1906, and the
blacks 1888.
A man without arms, housed in
box with an iron grating, was the
attraction At a Boston railway sta-
ton recearly. He was bound for
Haverhi |. and WAS in the charge of
Spaniard who fed and INDUCED him
in tobacco and pipe. He was, his
guardian assured inquirers, perfectly
'armless.
A German philosopher holds
that there is precious little difference
between civil zed men aud savages.
Both are hunters all the time after
food for their respective squaws,
pspooses and selves, although in
different fills. and if people didn't
have to eat, they would all be at the
same par.
A woman has been discovered in
Ohio who was BON on the of
July, 1776, the very day of the ia
nous declaration. Her name is
Trimmer, and we are informed by
way of overcoming our incredullty,
that her mother lived to be 100
years oil and that her maternal
grandfather reached the patriarchsl
age of lilo.
Recruiting for the Spanish army
in Cuba is in progress at New York;
at least such is the report The
Government should not allow II.
Justice to the ignorant citizens who
are being dcluded by specious
promises, and the policy of neutrality
unite in demanding that the business
be stopped, and that at once.-
Journal
Gen n p Banks recently gave
an old-tashloned husking at his man
sion and barn 10 Waltham, Mass, in
aid Of the Centennial fund. They
had plenty of doughnuts on hand TOR
the huskers, and cider as vel, and
whenever one took glass he looked
across to his neighbor and said:
ears to ye."
BE gland is getting frightened at
the increase of the roysl family all
around. AT present rates it will not
be long before there will be birth
day TO celebrate at Government ex-
pense every day in the yerr One
day last week the Prince # Wales
had his annual birthday holiday.
which has already come around
thirty times.
The Parisans have always been
known as an "out door people," and
are nowise losing their claim to this
appeilation' A statistical table has
recently been published, showing
that $4,000 persons Travelled on
recent Sunday between Paris and
the neighboring villages. while the
Small steamboats, on the Seine con-
veyed no fewer than $4,000, persons.
American carpets are fast
crowding out foreign makes. There
are three hundred factories in Phila
delphia running from one hundred TO
three hundred looms each. Not one
is idle. All are running full spread
eighteen hours day. The ssles of
one house have increased million of
dollars the last two years, and yet
the croakers say we can not compete
with European msnufact 1rers.
kansas has thousands of bushels
of potatoes, which will not be dug
on account Of their cheapness. In
the east there are thousands Of peo.
pie who will suffer during the Win
ter for want of sufficient food 1t
would seem to be an excellent mis-
sionary work to take some of the un-
employed laborers OF the East to the
West that they might assist in pro.
viding food for themselves and
others. - Toledo Blade.
Miss Butler, daughter of a
watchman on the South western