Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-29
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patent water-wheels to South Anne
Iica.
A statistician notes the extreme
rarity of suicides among the colored
people.
Sir John Hawley, well-known
in connection with the British turf,
is dead.
Some of the Adventists talk of
prosecuting Gabriel for breach of
contract.
Those siIly-looking chaps who
part their hair in the middle are now
called "middle-men"
Base ball, horse races, rowing
matches and cricket will soon SUPER
sede the spelling frolics.
Mrs. Dan. Bryant will continue
the Bryant Minstrels, under the man.
agement of Neil Bryant.
Great Britain has but 1885
acres planted in orchards. Illinois
alone has twice as many.
There are only fifteen thousand
real estate holders in New York city,
in a population of a million.
--"Shoo Fly" was originally sung
by Dan Bryant, the minstrel who
died in New York last week.
According to present plans,
some of the Philadelphia Centennial
buildings will be mile apart.
The present year commenced on
Friday and will end on Friday
This occurs once in twenty years.
"A man in Lancaster, n H., has
trout in his cistern that is so tame
that it will eat from persons hand.
at is the pleasure of proud souls
to be troublesome to tyrants," said
Victor Hugo recently at the grave
of Edgar Quinet.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Miss Susan b. Anthony decline
to lend their tongues to the Brook
Ign witness-stand.
-Pere Hyacinthe is again settlcd
over and independent organization at
Geneva, Switzerland, called the
"Christian Catholic Church."
The first English strawberries
appeared in the London markets On
the 23d of March, and were sold at
the rate of about $3.50 per dozen.
Civilization slowly but certainly
elevates the mean duration of human
life. AS many live now to seventy
as lived to forty-thres 800 years ago.
Before all our centennial celee
brations are finished, the history of
the revolution will have repeated it,
SETON paper-a good many times.
An underground railway has
been opened in Constantinople. 1t
communicates with different sections
of the city, and trains are run every
five minutes.
Engineers are engaged in sur.
veying routes in Northwestern
Georgia for a railroad from the val
ley of the Mississippi to the South
Atlantic seaboard.
The Virginia New Chronicle
says that there are now 5000 or
5000 more laboring man in Virginia
City than are wanted at the mines,
and still they come.
The cane which Senator Sumner
walked with during the summer after
he was assaulted by Brooks is in the
possession of the Charles Sumner
Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Cleveland
Miss Carlotta A. Perry, OF
Waterfowl, has been appointed to
read the poem before the next annual
meeting of the Wisconsin Editors
and Publishers Association, to be
held in June.
A Chicago party advertises for
the return of lost family heirloom,
in the shape of tortoise-shell comb,
''ts teeth indicating advanced age"
The way to tell the age of a comb,
then, az well as horse, is to examine
the teeth.
A candidate for Office in Missis-
sippi made known his determination
to run by the following card; "At
the earnest solicitation of my wife
and children, | have consented to
become candidate for County
Treasurer
Last week enc of the Chicago
Adventists, with six children depen-
ent upon him, disposed of all his Of
fects, and put his trust in the coming
of the millennium. This week he is
putting bis trust in the Relief and
Aid Society.
Ms. Anna Ornellas, the "Old
Lady" of Jacksonville, Illinois,
native of the leland Of MADEIRA, died
recently, at the age Of 100 years.
Six sons of deceased are now living,
the eldest SO ard the youngest 81
years of age.
Colonel Lee Jordan, Georgia
farmer, owns and cultivates 200, 900
acres, the original cost of which was
S45, 900. He had 500 laborers, but
is gradually adopting the tenant sys~
TEN. Six overseers superintend the
plantations, and raise from 400 to
| 1000 bales of cotton.
-Apropos to the notion Of put
ting clocks in all the principal streets
of Paris, all combined electrically to
give uniform hour, the Figaro says:
sThis is the last work of progress,
and Paris, as usual, is in advance of
oil cities" But Brussels had this
piece Of progress ten years ago, and
copied it from old-fashioned Client.
According to the last census in
England and Wales, the females of
the population outnumbered the
males by half million; but above
the age of % the males exceed the
females in number. While there
were 100000 widowers, there were
873 900 widows. Above the age of
| 80 females number two TO every
male
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