Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
HERE, THERE AND Ell SEWRERe.
Spain may yet be a Republic.

Fifty English journalists vii
visit America during the Centennial
travelling everywhere.
castelar, will not come over Il
aid in the liberation of Cuba, nor
come TO cur Centennial.
Leighton Coleman. of Toledo
o., has been elected Bishop OF tb,
new Wisconsin diocese.
GAINESVILLE, O., shipped two por
table engines to the South African
diamond fields last week.
The production of lace occupies
24O, 600 women inithe departments OF
CalVados and Auvergne, France.
OF Alp women who applied 70,
: relief from the Nesmith poor fund OF
Lowell, in 1874, 10 were deserted
wives.
Mrs. Rousby, the noted beauty
of the English stage, has come to
United States to fill a profession al
engagement.
Smallpox Of the most malig-
nant type is raging among the In
dams al Piokonock, on the Gatineau
river, Ontario.
General McClead, of Cleveland.
was nirety-tive years old on New
Years day, and he went round call
ing with tho other boys.
Harriet X Hunt, the well-known
femsls physician of Boston. has fall
en- before the monster she fought so
long with drug and scalpel.
Oxford College in 1850 had 30
900 stadents, but the times are har-
der now, and it has to get along with
couple of thousand or so.
Miss Emma Howsen is said to
be the coming American nightingale.
Her SUE cess in Italy has been of the
most pronounced character.
With the approach of the Cen
tenniaI, everything in Philadelphia
except spinsiers is trying to mako
itself out q hundred years old.
"A Canadian official report on
lnnacy says about so per cent. Of
AbN iNthtp VI III ~ AOWt III kANAUA
are he children of druukards
"A good deal is said of st. Louis,
bnt there is city in Germany.
where Hesing came from, that does
not have new house in 100 years.
The expulsion of the Sisters CT
Chaity from Mexico closes forty
three charitable establishments, and
sends out of the country 4l0 sisters.
The National Rife Association
has taken tho preliminary steps to-
ward sending team TO shoot at the
International match at Dublin this
spring.
In I. pamphlet by Or. Carter
Blake it is stated that the lakes in
the northeast OF Iceland are sur
rounded by primrose ooored noun
tains of pure sulphur.
Tho name OF the first comedy
written in the English language is
Ralph Roster Doister," and it was
performed in New York, last week,
at private residence.
The Penitentiary at Albany, N.
y, q AIRED at least $40 600 last year,
aud capitalists ell over the country
wish that they could start Peniten~
tiaries on their own hook.
-Shakspearo's "Othelo' has boon
translated into Hebrew by j. e. S.
with q critical introduction by Peter
SmoIenshy. The book, which is
literary curiosity; is published at
Vienna.
Mr. Hugh Nisbotb, editor of the
San Francisco Scandinavian, expects
to accompany the Swedish Arctic
expedition and get back from the
North Pole in time to represent Swe-
den at tho Philadelphia Centennial.
Richard Grant White habtua!ly
peregrinates New York with a field
glass strapped over one shoulder,
and, if he catches stray word whore
1t does not belong, he brings the
glass to bear and takes notes on the
spot.
Some Of those persons who lost
ny pctLlhS bbab pN" iOhtS III y
mouth Church would show decl nc
are refusing TO pay, claiming that
sales are fictitious, having been offer
ed only to create a favorable impress
sion on The public.
The greatest coal mine of the
ago has been found IN Skagit Valley,
Wyoming. 1t isan extensive field,
where coal can be obtained TO an
unlimited extent on the surface with
out gong TO the usual expense OF
underground tunneling.
-Bret Harie is poor and his friends
nave slowed him away in the New
York Custom Houee IL $4,000
position. This berth, and not the
other kind, was what called bin 80
suddenly away from bis lecture en-
gagemcnt in Central Illinois.
Black has unfortunately become
the livery of women Of late years,
almost as much 80 as it is oil man.
Since the impression was conveyed
that black was safer, and in some
respects a distinguished. dress under
any circumstances, black has been
the only wear.
Many persons will be surprised
to learn that Liverpool, England, is
not an incorporated city il il mere.
ly town, and movement is pro-
posed in the direction of obtaining
city charter Manchester and Gas
gov, though less important places
than Liverpool, are cities.
The whole number of Postmas-
tiers IN the United States is "a 1874,
of which 1903 are appointed by the
President. The number OF employees
Of the postal railway service is q,
l73, and their compensation S2,357,-
800 Tue whole number of persons
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