Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-21
HERE, THERE AND Ell SsWHERE.

Inc CALIFORNIA orange crop OF
last season was the largest ever pro-
duced in the State.
Snow fell to the depth of six
inches in the Lake Huron region of
Western Canada last week.
Donaldson, the lost aeronaut,
had arranged to lecture on aerial
navigation this Winter.
"A resident of Harrisburg, P, nnsyl-
yauia, has q collection of 1000 cop.
per coins, no two of which are ali e.
The leading merchants of Beaver
Dam have signed an agreement 10
close their stores at eight o'el ck
p. m.
London bootblacks have a club,
where they congregate every night,
pitch pennies, tell lies and indulge in
other recreations.
In Ceylon large apes are now
regularly employed to pull cocoa
nuts. They are said to select suta
BILE fruit with great discrimination.
The Lutherans of Russia are fol-
lowing the example of the Mennonits
to escape military service, and are
emigrating thither in large numbers.
AT the Meriden, Connecticut, fair
last week, il was discovered that the
barley which took the premium bad
been swollen unnaturally by soaking
it.
Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice
President of the late Southern Con-
federacy, was taken slarmingly i'll
few days since. He is not expected to
| survive.
AT York, Maine, an old apple
tree has just been cut down which
was brought from England in tub
in 1929, and has borne fruit every
year since.
The New Orleans Republican
states that warehouse in one of
the Philadelphia buildings will be
set apart far the reception Of Cen
tennial poetry.
"A tombstone has been discovered
in Vermont town, whereon is III
scribed II long epitaph, closing thus;
"otsture about # VT 200. Death
had no terrors."
| -O'Connor Powers, an Irish Nom
Der of the British Parliament, has
been addressing audiences on the
social and political condition of lre-
land, in New York.
The epizooty- or something
very like its again afflicing the
horses 10 various parts of the country.
We hear of it in New England,
New York, Ohio and Chicago.
-Workmen to and from the Gems
tennial buildings crowd the Phia~
delphia street cars night and m rning
until the driver has TO ride the brake,
and the conductor trot beside tho
track:
A Flock of 100 swallows, more
or less, thirsting for knowledge or
hungry for book worms, lately en-
tered the State library at Richmond,
Virginia, and were with difficulty ex-
PEELED.
"A young lady who reached
Portland, Oregon, direct from Ger
many, two weeks since, became
homesck and started for her moth.
er's home in Fatherland again in
thirty hours.
It's q sad commentary on hu-
man life that many city woman
is now embrodering blankets for
poodle dogs, who "hadn't time" last
Summer to do little sewing for the
grasshopper sufferers.
A gigantic hotel is about to be
built 10 London, with American
capital, by an American architect,
with American speed after an Ameri'
can plan, and to be managed after
the American system.
old Egypt, the ancient of days
among nations, put out her wlthered
paw to America, the youngest OF
lands and says she will be on hand
at the latters National Centennial
with SOS 900 worth of exhibition.
| "A subterranean room of consid-
cradle size, with bath full of fresh
water issuing from spring, and
supposed to have been used as
baptistry, has been discovered in a
street in London. 1t is built of
Roman bricks.
The Manitou islands, in Lake
Michigan, and which belong to the
State of Michigan, are under rule
of terrorism, gang of desparadoes
being 10 possession. The Governor
has been petitioned by the residents
of the island to interpose for their
protection.
Village school-kitcnens are be-
coming popular in Eogland. The
elder girls are told off for the purpose
and work together, under superin-
tendence, six at a time-two as
cooks, and four as kithen maids.
The cooking is only carried on on
certain days.
The incoming Legislature of
Wyoming will be asked to repeal the
disgraceful gambling and lottery Ii.
cense laws of that Territory, and
already sports of Cheyenne and
Laramie are reported to be raising
a corruption fund of $4,000 to de-
feat the movement.
BY singular coincidence
Theodore TIton occupied the room
in a Boston hotel Friday night which
was his bridal chamber just twenty
years ago. And not only was that
Friday evening bis marriage ami
versary, but also that of his birth
he being DO years of age.
| "A Melbourne (Australia)
widower advertised for wife, and
after corresponding fora time with
young lady, met her by appointment
to make arrangements for marriage,
when the two made the startling dis
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