Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-11
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dead.
The London matrimonial ga
zettes are to be squelehed as nui.
sances.
Moody and Sankey are verify
: waking brooklyn up, out of her
twenty years sleep in sin.
I'm Europe corn-cobs stepped in
hot water containing two per cent.
of saltpetre are used as fire-lighters,
retailing at So and 81 thousand.
"A clerk in a grocery store in
New York has successfully counter
feited 81 greenbacks with pen and
different colored inks. He ia now in
jail.
-Bergh's latest special order !:
keep the Presidents Thanksgiving
proclamation as much as possible
from the knowledge of the poor tur-
keys"
A poverty stricken fellow threw
a stone into the window of a millin
cry store at Boston last Saturday, so
that he right be arrested and get
something TO eat,
Mrs. DeGeer, the temperance
crusader is stirring up Sioux CITY,
Iowa, at great rate. Outdoor
meetings are being constantly held,
fair weather or foul.
"A willow tree blow down in
CambridgH, Mass, the other day,
which grew from slip from the ia
nous willow at Napolean's grave on
the island of st. Helena.
"A small terrier in Miriden, Conn
few years ago lost part of his tail,
which is now growing again at right
angles, so that be carries behind him
kind of stove-pipe elbow.
They are arresting folks out in
Shelby county, Iowa, for playing
billiards The courts call it gamb-
ling when the loser is expected to
pay the expenses of the game.
The Gar of Russia has Just
given young Jew named Frehmann
a commission in the Russian army.
Frehmarn is the first Jew who ever
attained the position of officer
Missouri sherifs allow con-
demned prisoner to lie down in his
coffin and see if it will fit, and permit
him other privileges, such as seeing
the seatfold built, feeling the rope, &c.
The Cinnamon smile scornfully at
tho i1no bat faIaOrarNh no..
convey messages thousand miles in
few seconds, but are ready enough
to believe that the telegraph poles
bring pestilenoe and death.
The manufacture of plate glass
in Missouri has been attended with
such success since It's commencement
that that industry, though only some
three years old, is now one of the
most important of the State.
The members of the Palmetto
Guard of Charleston, S c., have de-
termined to celebrate the centennial
of the battle of Fort Moultry, fought
on June 20, 1916. by erecting mon
ument at an expense of $4,000.
-One-third of the vessels of the
Italian navy are offered for sale at
auction. Their original cost was
$40, 1000, 900: the price now asked for
the whole lot is only S1,000,000.
Dealers in frewood should call
around.
"A lot of jewelry, consisting of
watches, chains, finger rings and
such like, being unclaimed articles Of
personal property recovered from
the bodies of those drowned from the
steamship Atlantic, were sold at
Halifax, Nova Scatia, a few weeks
ago.
1t is not generally known that
the Treasury Department employs
two learned and skilful chemists,
one of whom is constantly engaged
in fabricating indeiible inks. while
the other devotes his talents to
washing out the nike, and, thus far
chemistry has devised no ink which
chemistry cannot efface.
In Washington county, Me-,
they are putting up "Russian Sar-
dimes" another names for small her.
ring, minus head and tail, and pack
ed in gallon kegs. with spices, bay
leaves, and other stimulating things.
The Machias Republican says that
the orders for this preparation are
80 great from Now York, that they
cannot be supplied fast enough.
The signal recently erected on
the summit of Mount Shasta, Cal,
by the Coast Survey, is a hollow
cylinder Of galvanized iron, twelve
feet high and two and and q half in
diameter, surrounded by a cone of
nickel-plated copper. The reflection
of this cone is so strong that it is
believed the signal can be used for
observations at distance OF 100
miles
The dispute which is constantly
recurring between sportsmen whether
the ace-horses of England are equal
to those of lthis county is going to
have practical settlement by trial
3f speed between horses Of the two
countries, Mr. Sanfod of New York,
having shipped eight of our most
celebrated runners for London, with
the intention of contesting for the
prize cups next year.
Mics Robinson, teacher Of one Of
the lower grades in a Baltimore
school, deserves at least honorable
mention" Fire broke out on one
of the upper floors, and the pupils
came rushing down in the widest
panic, when she ordered one of her
assistant teachers to play a march,
and, going from room to room, she
had the children file out quietly,
without breaking step-or limb.
The success of the plan to erect
memorial theater in honor of
| Shakespeare, at Stratford-on-A Avon.