Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-15
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worthless.
The orchards of this country are
estimated to contain over 10000, 900
fruit trees
The merchants of Liverpool are
getting American iron at Wolver>
hampton at $50 per ton.
The Buffalo lager drinkers drink
over 20, 900 barrels of beer more in
Summer than they do in Winter.
1t took 1900 columns of the
New York Tribune to contain all of
the proceedings of the Beecher trial.
Belgian railways offer to trans.
port free all goods intended for the
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
-McCulloch says 100000 Of
Frenehmen could live on that which
40, OOO, 600 of Americans throw away.
1t is estimantsd that there are
over 500 tons of old rubber shoes
manufactured into car springs in
Boston annually.
The income of the New York
Herald last year was S1,700,000, of
which S600,000 went to the proprie-
tors net.
The Pope suffers much from
lumbago. He is not confined to bed,
| and holds audience as usual, yet
anxiety prevails.
The German writers lay it down
that sooner or later all nations will
Prussan in opposing Papal infalli-
blity.
1t is said that Miss Anna Dick
inson intends to go to San Francisco,
whore she will make her debut as an
actress.
"A gentleman in New Jersey of
fers one hundred pounds of fine honey
toward prize for the best plan for a
universal languange,
twenty-five locomotives are
now in course of construction at one
shop in Philadelphia, destined for
South American railroads.
-Longfellow is suffering severely
with acute neuralgia, and Is said to
be in such precarioHs health that he
does no literary work whatever.
Tho Agricultural Society of
France has organized a competitive
trial of reaping machines, to take
place at Versailles, this month.
1t is anticipated that the peach
crop of the present year will exceed
in quantity that of any preceding
season by at least one-half.
Families in Spain are pretty well
divided on the question of parties, of
which no lsss than twenty-six man
age to thrive and get along in the
world.
1t looks as if the Indian tribes
of the far West were preparing not
only for general war among each
other, but against "all the rest of the
world besides.
In court room of this land re-
Gently an attorney called another a
liar and got knocked down for it
with the court Bible. Need it be
said that it was in Lousville2
The importation of American
shoes into Canada has caused the
| discharge of about 5000 workmen
from the boot and shoe manufactor.
los of Montreal.
1t costs $130o0,0OO a year to
run the city OF New York. She
pays IL, 900 servants of high and
low degree, one man drawing pay to
every three who pay taxes.
Sugar from the beet has become
so abundant in England that the
sugar refners have protested against
the further free Introduction of the
article into that country.
-Gloucester, Mass, is tho latest
town affected by the mining excite
ment, quartz having been discovered
there from which an assay gave $l65
in gold and $50 in silver to the ton.
"A few scientific men of the state
of Ohio, are arranging for a pro-
Ionged cruise around the lakes, down
the St. Lawrepce river, and thence
along the Atlantic coast, next Fall.
The editor of the Cincinnati
| Gazette has all the evidence necessary
to convince him that a complete
alliance between the Democracy and
the Church of Rome has been effect
ed.
Arson Goodwin, q Rochester
rough, lifted a quarter lager beer
cask filled with water above his head
several times to exhibit his strength
recently, and moment later fell
dead.
W. w. Tilotson, of Booth thea
ter, refused to sell reserved seat to
a colored man, w. r. Davis, and
grand Jury has refused to find true
bill against him under the civil rights
act.
Senator Withers, of Virginia,
will bring eleven daughters with him
to Washington next December, and
vet the nation will expect him to get
along on about a dollar day piece
for each Of his household
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A King Of the Cannibal islands
has Just died in Paris, where he had
lived many years comfortably on
money earned by exhibiting himself
in France after the English drove
him out of his own domain.
About rs, 900 Americans annual
ly visit Europe. These on an aver
age spend $500 individually, which
foots up to the sum of s37 500, 900 Of
money made in this country and
spent in foreign lands in a single
year.
The city of Baltimore has for a
great many years enjoyed the repu-
tation of having wells within its
borders whose waters were posses