Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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| Two hundred horses are in course
of training at New York stables for
the spring races.
| -"Sooiety gossip"-Dress, the
next party, weddings, servant, galism
and the cold weather.
| Andy Johnson is now en- route
for Washington, with new supply
of flags and constitutions.
| "A book has been published with
the somewhat equivocal title of
"Haf Hours with Insects"
| The Brooklyn Ferry Company
is considering proposals for dining
saloon on the morning boats.
"A military academy has just been
established in Japan, with an ex.
| United States officer at its head.
| -Leavenworth boasts of more
manufacturing establishments than
any city between st. Louis and the
Pacific coast.
1t is doubtful whether q single
steamship line in the transatlantic
trade is, for the present, paying run
ming expenses.
In Australia the thermometers
range at 100 : and upward In the
shade. For merey's sake, do. send
for some of them
They say that Uncle Daniel
Drew has made 81, 900, 900 this win
ter in stock speculstions, aud Jay
Gould $2,OO0,00o
The unprecedently large num-
Der of divorces taking place in
| Maine has begun to attract attention;
487 were deoreed in that State last
year.
A McNairy county (renn fam
lily was considerably broken up not
long since by the marriage, on the
same day, of the five daughters of
its head.
The bids for carrying the mails
in the several States and Territories
will aggregate at least 60, 900 Those
from Texas alone, by actual count,
reach 1000.
Interest in those Massachusetts
silver mines increases. A part own.
er in one lode has been offered $780,
900 for his interest, and refused, de.
handing S1,OOO,0OO.
Two Mexican students at Emory
College, Ga, who cannot speak
English, are preparing for the min~
istry, designing to enter the field as
missionaries among their own na-
ton.
The ruling of Now York court
that the testimony of an atheist
must be excluded, is to be contcstes-
ted by a number of gentlemen who
have made up purse with that
view.
The ice embargo at Now York
is very serious in its effect upon bus
mess, the ferries having all stopped
running. Teams are crossing on
the ice from Staten Island to New
Jersey
AS soon as the frost leaves the
ground, work will be commenced in
New York city on a complete sys-
tenn of underground telegraph wires
similar to those in London, Paris and
other European capitals.
"A counterfeit currency plate,
nearly a century old, on the Amherst
Bank of Hllsborough, N. H., has
Just been forwarded to the Secret
Service Division by the chief opera
tive of the Now England depart-
mont.
The reporters for the German
papers at the great trial are to be
pitied. They stumble on such ex~
pressions as "My hearts twins "My
darling of darlings," "My coy mis-
tress," and drop their pencils in
agony.
-One-eighteenth of tho land in
Kansas, except few Indian reser-
vatons, is devoted to common
schools. 1t cannot.be sold for less than
SO per acre. 1t may be paid in cash,
or in ten annual payments at 10 per
cent. interest
According to the official report
of the Mayor of Providence, r. L.,
under the operation of the new pro-
bibitory law just put in force in that
city, there are moro places whore
liquor is sold than ever before, and
rowdyism and disorder are on the
increase.
Down in Texas the lowest avail
able piece of money is the five cent.
nickel coin, and the price of small
things is therefore correspondingly
high. The Galveston NeUS, allud-
ing to the subject, raises cry for
circulation of one, two and three
cent pieces in it's neighborhood.
The famous city of Pithole, in
the Pennsylvania oil region, has been
finally cut off from the outer world by
the discontinuance Of service on the
Pithole and Olepolish Railroad. No
mail now reaches the forlorn place.
and when communication is resumed
it will probably be by aid of pack
horses.
There are four living queens of
Spain, 80 cslled-Christine, widow
of Ferdinand VII, who reside at
Sainte Addresse, near Havre Isa-
bella H., mother of Alfonso XII.
the Duchess of Aosta, wife of Prince
Amadeo, of the house of Savoy;
and the wife of Don Charles, who
styles himself Charles VII.
Deacon Stiles was a Millerite,
but be failed to convince his wife of
the truth of his doctrines. On
winter night he awoke her, exclaim-
ing: "Arjse, wife L hear the char.
lot wheels of God" ellie still, you
old fool" said the practical wife;
"the Lord wouldn't be round here
on wheels with such good sleighing."
"A discovery has been made by
NJ. Caussinus of Paris, who, by o