Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-22
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| Paris is rapidly regaining its
former beauty.
HOLSTERS we're never so plenty
for ten years as now.
Tobacco chewing is the favorite
vice OF nervous nations.
| Emigration to this country is
constantly decreasing.
| Texas is shipping immense guam
titles of canned beef to Europe.
China has stopped the exporta-
tion of Coolies to Cuba.
Saratoga Springs has a popula.
tioc Of about 1000.
The regular Fourth of July cot,
fin crop has been successfully gather.
ed in.
"A Boston genius has invented q
motor which beats Keeley's alto-
gether.
-Duels hereafter will be legally
punished in France by fine and im-
prisonment.
The latest scientific dodge Is TO
make deaf people hear by means of
the tooth.
"A commercial crash is feared
in Norway, owing to the stagnation
in the timber trade.
A few days ago about 100 tons
of rock fell from underneath the
American Falls at Niagara.
Over $4,000 acres of land in Iron
county, Mo-, are advertised to be
seld for delinquent taxes.
The progress of knowledge is like
that of tho sun-so slow that we can
not see it, but SO sure rs to change
night to day.
IT your chickens eat potato bugs
don't make pie of the chickens. a
family in Michigan was badly poison
ed in that way.
Seth Green thinks that the riv-
ers of Germany should be stocked
with shad, and he will undertake the
task if that people desire it.
"A fund of million has been
guaranteed to be expended in prov
ing the continuity of several of the
Cottonwood, Col, mines.
There is fresh activity in the
Pennsylvania oil region. Many of
the old wells are still active, and nine
new ones have been started.
The London Ne,OS attributes the
recent heavy failures in England to
the high rate of interest paid on de-
posts by the joint stock banks.
The vote upon the bill for the
introduction Of civil marriage in
Switzerland is reported to be 2055S8,
for and Isl ,057 against the measure.
Ann Eliza is going for the unc-
tuous Brigham again. She has
established her headquarters at Boss
ton, and there'll be no nonsense
about the war.
Colonel Darlington, of the regu-
lar army has sailed for Europe to
examine official documents pertain
ing to the American Revolution, to
be found in the British and French
War offices.
An engine has been invented in
Paris which is driven by the alter
nate expansion and contraction of
oil, or some other liquid contained
in cylinders.
"A synod of the Roman Catholic
clergy of the diocese of Liverpool
have enioined their clergy against
the use in the church services Of
music having theatrical tendency.
The Worcester MASS Council
of Sovereigns of Industry have unan
imously voted to disband. The ac-
ton was based on a general dissats,
faction with the workings Of tho
order.
The project originating last Dc.
cember to build railroad on the ice
on Lake Superior from Duluth to
Marquette has been abandoned
Stock in the enterprise didn't rise
with the mercury.
Tho Peterborough On. ID gold
mine is rapidly giving out, and no
gold or any thing else has lately been
obtained. The company has expend-
cd over SG5, 900 in buildings and min
ing machinery, but it is generally
conceded to be bad job.
The occupants of COO sbantios
along the lines Of New York railroads
make a living by planting corn and
potatoes between the rails and the
fences. 1t is said that 900 acres are
cultivated in this way.
Thousands of tourists are making
up parties and striking for the Yo-
semitic and the Big Trees, and tho
favorite resorts in California, and
taking in the beautiful Lake Tahoe
and Nevada on their return home.
"A Boston gentleman, while max
ing a speech, inadvertently stepped
forward and off the platform. In re-
Spouse to the peals of laughter that
greeted his unlucky fall, he claimed
that any speaker had a right "to
come down to the level of his audi
ence."
The Liue Sock Journal says:
"It appears, after all the conflicting
stories that have put in circulation,
that Red Cloud is really quite lame,
and has been turned oat to grass
All hopes of his going on the turf
this season have been abandoned; bat
a years rost, which he has richly
earned, may bring him around all
right again"
RESOLUTIONS of confidence upon
the death Of a good man of Georgia
were recently sent to the bereaved
family by some organization, tho pre-
amble Of which was worded as fol-
lows: "ResolUed, that as the Lord, for
some reason to the undersigned
unknown, has removed Brother