The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

Will Minister Schickens. of Russ;.
feather his own nest! '''"'
'Whistling bees. That is ia he II.
next epidemic. Prepare to pucker.
Robert Link. is singing in Can,d.
and they think seriously Of calling him
bob link. n1n'
General A. E. Burnside was once a.,
apprentice in an upstairs tailor shon. at
Xenia, Ohio. p' a.
Baron Schickens is tae name If mr.
Russian Minister. He already longs to
be sent hence. W
The Democracy Of Ohio have agreed to
hold their State Convention on Bunker
Hill Daytime II.
General Spinner has contributed a $40
bill over his autograph to the Mecklen
burg Centennial.
Mrs. Gaskins Of Carteret county, N. c..
weighs $40 pounds, and one of her stock.
lngs holds bushel Of shelled corn.''
A working engineer, supposed to be in
sane' was discovered on the 5th inst
armed with loaded pistol and prowling
around the mansion Of Prince Bismarck.
he was temporarily lodged in lunati
asylum.
The New York Ledger says: "Better
IS the lowliest cottage exclusively to a
young married couple than the best
apartments in palace with a, mother.ip-
law installed therein!" Robert, old man.
let'a shake on that.
The new building of the New York
lT'6une. says the Des Moines Journal.
IS ten stories high. When a man comes
III and wants to know who wrote that
article, he is told that the author is on
the top floor with the elevator broken.
The American rifle team, for the com.
ing international contest in Ireland con.
s,sts of Major Henry Fulton, Col. John
Bodine, Col. II. A. Gildersleeve, Gen. 7.
;. Dakin, G. W. Yale and l.. L. Hepburn.
the reserves being Messrs. Coleman, Can
field, Jr., and Jewell.
Another German Catholic, loyal to his
Pope at the risk of mourning Bismarck's
displeasure, is a subject for future canon.
ization. This time it is the Prince Bish.
op OF Breslau who suffers martyrdom. He
has been banishcd to the Bohemian from
tier, for violation of the Prussian ecclcs.
iastical laws.
Chaviz, the lieutenant of the California
bandit chief, Vasquez, is carrying out the
threat he made to avenge the latter's
death. With band of mounted follow.
ers he is ravaging certain southern coun-
ties, whose inhabitants clamor for lesis.
lativc appropriation as reward for his
capture.
Prof: Bailey, who is styled the Bugmas-
ter OF Missouri, has been giving some at
tention to the grasshoppers and he has
come to the conclusion that they are
coming again. lie thinks that general
appearance of the Colorado grasshopper
over Iowa and Missouri may be auticipa-
ted and feared with absolute certainty.
The Brooklyn Argus quotes Mr.. Frank
Bird, the recent candidate for the Gov
of Massachusetts,, as saying:
"From the time that saw Mr.. Beecher
would not arrest Mrs. Woodruff for that
a conclusion was forced upon
my mind, and am sorry to say that
every Development since then has added
to that conviction
The New York World has been study
ing up early American history and an.
that on the 10th of June, 1872,
and not OH the 10Th of April, IT'S, and
not at Lexington, Massachusetts,, but at
\amquit, now Gaspee Point, in Nara.
Bay, Rhode Island, the first blow
of the Revolution was struck. At that
time, the 8-gun British schooner, Gaspee,
was captured by an improvised fotilla of
Providence rebels, under the lead of
Capt. Whipple.
Our esteemed Chief Magistrate, Gov.
Tilden, says New York paper, although
man of weight, intellectually, is not at
q ponderous person physically considered.
We believe he brings down the scale at
about one hundred and thirty pounds,
but the canal ring are said to entertain
much the same view Of him that the boy
did of the mule. "Well, ] only weighed
one of his hind legs, and calculate that
weighed a!ont 1000 pounds!''
Last December, Mollie Prescott, keeper
Of a notorious designation house in Saint
Louis, hired the Temple Hall of that city,
to deliver lecture entitled "The Social
Evil The owner Of the building subse-
quently discovered her character and re.
funded the rent money, and refused the
use of the hall. Shortly afterward, she
brought suit ISL 900 damages, and the
case has been on trial several days A
day or two since the jury awarded her
$40 damages and costs.
The widow of Dan Bryant, in applying
for letters of administration on his estate,
set forth that the property does not ex-
coed two hundred dollars in value. The
brilliant minstrel career of Dan Bryant
has that ending. Yet, if it be true, as
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