Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-19
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

4 tNhAAO NONSNs
Moody and Sankey, the Chicago
evangelists, are to be invited to visit
New Zealand.
The city of Genoa, which gave
birth to Columbus, will send special
excursion party to the Centennial.
| Don't use soap. A Brooklyn edi-
tor says that it communicates disease
by being made of fat taken from dead
dogs and cats.
lit is now proposed to enlist men
in the army as cooks, and at each re-
cruiting depot to established school
for their training.
The national temperance camp
meeting at Old Orchard, Me will be.
| gin on the 18th of next month and
continue ten days.
There are over 500 "colleees" in
this country, and scarcely $50 of
them are fairly entitled to the name
of academy or seminary.
Tile passes of the Alps looking
toward the frontiers of France are be-
ing rapidly fortified, under the direc-
ton of engineers of the Italian army.
Everybody had the mantle of
charity ready for Andy Johnson when
they heard of his death. "To err is
human, and to forgive is"~-human,
too.
Governor Stanford, the railroad
potentate OF California, is erecting
splen lid mansion in San Francisco
that will cost from $500 900 to $780,
900.
The japanese flag is flying over
cottage near the Lake House, Lake
George, at present occupied by His
Excelency Yoshida Kiyonari, who
devotes his time to fishing.
Alexander Hamilton, son of the
Alexander Hamilton of historical
fame, who fell by the hand of Burr in
the famous duel, died at his residence
in New York, recently, aged 90
years.
jeff. Davis has accepted the in
vitaton of the Agricultural Society of
Winnebago county, Ill.,, to deliver the
address before the society at its an
nual fair, to be held at Rockford, next
month.
The Wisconsin State Register, at
Portage, says the returns of the recent
census of the State are now complete,
showing population of ,237, 92l, be-
ing gain of l83,25I over the census
of 1870.
"A movement is on foot at Nash
vile to have ex.President Johnson's
remains. with those of Jackson and
Polk, placed in grand mausoleum,
to be erected on the State Capitol
grounds.
The rebel "Admral" Semmes is
an everyday figure on the streets of
Mobile, but he is soured AMI ugly
his old popularity has departed, and
he is no longer of influence either in
politics or society.
There is not broom factory in
the South. Yet, if a market was Gre
ated for broom corn, farmers could
realize 800 per acre by its produc-
ton, and the capital invested in the
manufacture would pay 40 per cent.
Among recent curious inventions
is the application of the camera OBJ
scura to railroad car, imparting to
the travelling and wondering beholder
a moving and diminntlve picture Of
the country through which he is pass
ing
Over $4,000 pounds Of gun.pow-
der were exploded at one time in
hydraulic gold mine in California
few days since. 1t was done for the
the purpose OF loosening the hard bak-
ed earth that it might wash more
easily,
Captain Johnson, of Brooklyn,
was buried Saturday Of last week,
during terrific storm, the lightning
striking the hearse and tearing it To
pieces in the cemctary. Nature is
surely no respcctor Of persons, dead
or alive.
Among the remarkable produc-
tons of California is the Hogan fami-
~, of Mendocino county. The father
stands feet inches in his stockings,
one son feet inches, a second
feet 8 inches, and a third feet
inches.
Within three Presidential terms
| five residents-Pierce, Buchanan,
| Lincoln, Fillmore and Johnson-have
died. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs.
Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln, and Mrs. john
son, the wives Of five of these ex
Presidents, are yet living.
There's "no nonsense" about
sweet voiced and big hearted and
large Drained Jenny Lind One who
has seen her in London late says she
is as lovely as ever, and "dresses her
hair in the same style precisely rs
when she was in America, twenty
five years ago"
In a New York saloon, where
some patent mead is dispensed, bee
hive containing 900 bees, who, so
the sign says, produce the honey from
which the mead is made, decorate the
windows. The bees are let out every
morning for short time, and are fed
on molasses and sugar.
= Mrs Harriet Beecher Stoves
"Uucle TOMS Cabin" still has large
sale, and she receives a liberal per-
centagc of the profits. In the South,
where, while slavery existed, the book
was outlawed, it now sells largely,
and the ex.slave holders weep over it
and repent of their sins
Monticello, Va, seems to have
hit upon horrible novelty. At the
execution there, on recent occasion,
of one Brown, small rope was at
tached to the drop, and connected
with the court house bell, so that at
the instance the poor wretch dropped,