Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-23
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

turned ner tWenty-nItn year.
Shoes made of rattlesnake skin
are coming into fashion in Alabama.
The cod fishing on the Labrador
coast this season has proved total
failure.
"A Christian chapel for the
Chinese has been built in Virginis
City, Nevada.
Victor Hugo is expected to visit
the United States during the Centen.
NAL year, 1876.
Never SNAKE a spread" lest
people think you are training for q
big collapse.--Journdt
The cranberry crop throughout
Wisconsin seems TO be very greatly
injured by the frost
-Star-spangled- banner stockings
will be the fashion for next year,
The Centennial, you know.
The small farmers in the South
and Southwest are said to be pros,
pering this year as never before,
"A Member of the St. Louis
Board of Education proposes to es-
tablish a school especially for adults.
-Thirty-seven foreign Govern
ments have given their adhesion to
the American Centennial Exhibition.
"A london man owns a $4,000
dog, and yet be sometimes sees hours
when the world isn't all bright to
him.
"A clergyman at Pittsfied has
declined to marry a couple because
the groom couldn't repeat the Lords
Prayer.
The friends of Illinois criminals
are getting so that they petition the
Governor for pardons before the
accused are tried.
The grand prize of Rome for
sculpture mas been awarded by tho
French Government to young
American student.
-Tennesseo's new school law pro-
vides that for like services of male
and female teachers like salaries shall
be paid, and that is right.
During the 175 years of its his
tory Yale College has had only ten
Presidents Mr. WooIsev occupied
the chair twenty-five years.
The peoEls in the United States
over 100 years of age-fit subjects
for the Centennial-now count up
just 412, as far as heard from.
FLORENCE Tilton has resigned her
position as a school teacher in Brook
Ign, and spends much time with her
father, who seems TO love her
very mach.
The streams rose go rapidly dur
ing the recent floods in Iowa that on
one farm in Cass county stock was
compelled to swim out of the yards
over tops of fences
Since that physician sued James
Lick, the rich Californian, for S55 900
he has refused to employ medical aid
in any way, though suffering Sc
verely with paralysis.
The origin of the name of
"Tomahawk Baptist Church. was
| because near its site the Indians and
whites made a treaty of peace and
buried the Tomahawk.
The Waukon Iowa, narrow
gauge railroad company have very
recently decided to substitute iron
rails for the wooden ones used in the
past, they not proving satisfactory.
Wait until the morning of Sop
TENDER 20. Then you will wake up
and find the sun in an eclipse, and
all the Adventists yelling: Now, it
has come for surel"- Chicago Journal
"A young Norwegian, wh) was
converted under Moody and Sankey's
preaching, has returned to his own
country and started a Sabbath-school,
the first eVor opened in the north Of
that country.
In Spain. where thore are nine
Roman Catholic ArchbishOps, 93
Bishops, 100000 priests, II monks
and 10000 nuns, out of population
of Is 000, 900, less than million can
read or write.
The three wonders Of the world
at present are-How fluff accumu-
lates in vest pockets, where pins go
to, and why, when a man comes out
of saloon, he looks one way and
goes the other.
"A new Yosemite has been dis
covered in California, on tho south
fork of Kings river. The valley il
nine milas long, with an average
width of half mile The wall, are
5000 feet high
The Chicago Journal says:
Millions of grasshoppers recently
passed over that state high in air,
clouding the sky. They apparently
came from the northwest and were
going southerly.
1t "a very nice 10 make living
by writing poetry, but, with the cx-
ception Of six or seven people out Of
about 40, 0U0, 900 in the this country
il has turned out easier L, do it in
some other way
Henry A. Henken is a New
York lad Of l6, the heir 10 $50, 900
and an habitual drunkard AS he is
cruel to himself, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hal
taken him in charge.
"A Washington special says: "Thc
Government has accumulated 80
large an amount of gold in California
that il has been found necessary to
transfer some Of it East. Arrange
ments are now being made for that
purpose"
in one part Of Missouri, there
are some people awfaIly mysJ6 ID by
the occurrence Of g shower of hay,
and some hundreds o. niles distant
the people are grumbIing terribly
that a whirlwind should come just as
as their hay was cut