Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-07
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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street railways.
The dead-letter Office sells $4,000
worth of waste paper per annum.
I'm Jefferson, Tex, they catch
fish by exploding nitro-glycsrine in
the bayou.
Ole Bull, the king of the king of
instruments, has started out on his
annual tour.
| 1T Is estimated that Oregon Will
have 100000 bushels of grain for
export this year.
--Kenosha does not know what 10
do. Victoria Woodruff has threat
end to lecture there.
"A female circus performer,
Madame Patton, travelling in France,
is only "a years old.
- Goldsmith Maid" hates to &C.
knowledge it, but she has reached
the goth year of her ago.
A woman-and girls walking
race constituted q novel feature OF
the Outagamie County Fair.
Moody and Sankey are in
strait betwixt calls from about TWEEN.
ty cities, and don't know which way
to jump.
The famous Tiohborne claimant,
of England, has really become in.
sane. He still insists, as before, that
be is the real Sir. Roger.
A French priest has refused two
millions of francs bequethed to HIM
by his brother because the brother
had led q wicked life.
There will be reduction ID
cabin fare TO Europe after next
month, to exist until Centennial
travel in this direction begins.
-Disraeli, the great English Is
raelite, says he owes whatever liter
airy reputation he has very largely
to the people of the United States.
MIR. Beeeher intcnds to adopt
the Christian Union entirely as his
own He says he will make it an
unsocta,ian, though religious ournal.
The people of the Colorado wall
ley in Texas are going largely into
the sugar-growing business. Land
and climate are both adapted to the
purpose.
Brooklyn. the city of scandals,
has permitted a debt twice that of
Liverpool, and over one-third larger
than that of London, to be fastened
upon her.
Since the Sioux Indian war-like
demonstrations have begun, the in
terest to go to the Black Hills, even
in Sioux City seems to have died
quite out.
The Chinese Government is to
send fourth company OF young
men TO receive an education in the
United States. They are expected
in December.
1t is said that among the stat
utes of Massachusetts is an unrepeal.
ed law which fines a young man for
walking out with his sweetheart
after shutdown
The La Crosse Convocation Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church,
Diocese of Wisconsin, will assemble
in Christ Church, Eau Claire, on Fri
day, October s.
Among tho novel features of the
Cincinnati Exposition are specimens
Of pork packed in hogsheads made of
polished black walnut, and with
plato glass heads.
Reports in The San Francisco
papers indicate that the wine pro-
duct of California this year will be
the largest ever known, amounting
to at least 100000 gallons.
The story that Tennyson con-
sumes cigars vigorously while COM
posing poetry is leading half the
young spoons of England into pre-
mature graves from over-smoking.
DIR. Balfour insists that some
plants, when mutilated, act sullen,
awkward, and sensitive. If Mr..
Bergh learns this fact we shall not
be allowed to cut up live cabbages.
Nathan Sheppard is lecturing in
Central Illinois. Leading citizens of
Barry guaranteed the lscture fee and
threw open the house to the public.
There's public spirit for you worthy
of imitation.
"A law in Nebraska requires
every business firm TO register its
name and kind of business and the
name of each member of tho firm
with the County Clerk under PEN
atty of $1,000 fine.
In one of the large London no.
tells they have introduced steam
machinery for washing the dirty
plates and dishes and also for clean
ing boots and knives and forks. 1t
is said to answer well.
General Sherman has accepted
an invitation TO be present at the re-
union of Company &, First WILSON,
sin Heavy Artillery, at the Bidwell
House in Palmyra, Wis, on the
afternoon and evening of October IL.
Ned O'Baldwin. the Irish Giant
pugilist of New York, has thrown up
the sponge 'intirely." lie did not
die of consumption either; it was
from two bullets fired by his saloon
apard." Muscle vs.. Lead is not a fair
match these days.
A Buffalo boy aged "a recently
passed himself off as Daniel Drew's
nephew in that city and purchased
steam yacht for $4,000, after in
duciog the owner to make numerous
rial trips and several important
changes in the machinery.
"A panther rushed into a bed
room 10 house a few miles from
Willis, Tex, the other day, and car
ried off baby in his mouth, but the
twelve-year old sister followed and
screamed so Justify that the brute