Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-30
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

-AbDy sage MeF arland- Richard
son has prepared lecture on "Wo-
mans Duties"
Striped kid gloves. which make
your hand look as hideous as a snakes
skin, are in fashion.
"A Canadian agricultural society
offers prize for the best bread made
and baked by bachelors.
1T costs Canada So apiece per
annum to board her Indians. 1t costs
the United States over $50.
Tho Je,oish Messenger advocates
the introduction of congregational
singing into the synagogues.
Those lightning mail cars are
painted white as snow, and when in
rapid motion look like q flying snow.
bank.
Spain is conscripting boys of Is
years old, to be killed off in the Car.
los and Cuban wars. That nation is
soulless.
The fellow who said Andrew
Johnson had $3.50, 900 insurance on
his life is mythologist He did not
have penny.
Frog catching is money making
business at Castleton, N. Y. A man
and two boys made $3.50 at it in one
month, recently.
Russia expects that her grain
harvest this year will feed her own
people and afford 100000 bushels
for expectation.
Trying to run household with
out love, is like running a railroad
train without grease, and many shot
box" is inevitable
The man Of much property may
be as hard up as beggar in pocket.
1t is the man of immediate cash who
is rich in this world.
Recently Rochester man bought
up an apparently usedup horse for
fifty cents. He fed him up and in
few weeks sold him for forty dollars.
An Odd Fellows asylum is to be
built by the brethren of Jacksonville,
Fla, for the benefit of those in the
order who seek the State for their
health.
One who has Investigated the
subject says that sixty-eight per cent
of the members of evangelical church
es are the fruits of Sunday-school in
struction
The leading men of New Buffalo,
Mich, have joined in the enthusiastic
formation of an Anti treating Society.
"Pay for your own drinks as you 60"
is their motto.
Rev Chas c. Prest, ex-Presi-
dent of the British Wesleyan Confer
ence, aud a leading spirit of that de-
nomination, died near London recently
at the age of 90.
Mr. Gladstone is not only a
statesman and scholar, but is quite
player on The pianoforte, and sings,
withal a song in manner to delight
lovers Of good music.
If reports are true, bio Lewis
has practiced on his stomach with
brown bread, grucls and husks, until
he has acquired place among the
first ranks of dyspeptics.
-"The Life Records of Louis Kos
suth," the Hungarian patriot is an
nounced. 1t will be an interesting
work. ami will doubtless be translat--
ed into English as soon as issued.
-Pinkerton's detectives say that
they could have taken the Charley
Ross abductors at the outset, but for
the efforts of the New York and
Philadelphia police to Illustrate them.
Triton gets 800 per night for
lectures in the smaller towns, and
little more for the larger cities. He
has engagements for every night, ex-
cept Sundays and Christmas, from
now until next June
Save your potatoes. They are
worth $22, in gold, per barrel in
Havana, Cuba. Nearly $4,000 bar
rels were shipped there from New
York last week, being loaded on the
vessel at $3.50 a barrel.
Gus. Stroud, Paducah (Ky.)
printer, ran a race against time the
other day, in which he made Gs5
yards in one minute and fifty-four
seconds, or an average of nineteen
and half feet a second.
"A charity patient in Baltimore
hospital was recently searched and
more than $4,000 in money was found
in the old clothes he wore. He is an
owner of two farms near the city, and
had been living by beggary.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens,
the little Vice President of the little
"Southern Confederacy," has been
engaged to deliver two lectures in the
Star Lecture Course in Chicago the
coming winter; likewise p. r. Bar
mum.
Mr.. Benjamin F. Taylor, the
poet and lecturer, delivered a very
fine poem at the Winnebago County
Fair, at Rockford, Illinois. Mr.. Tay-
lor is one Of the few genuine poets of
the present age, says the Chicago
Journal
A good many young fellows who
started out for the different watering
places, last Summer, with bright
hopes and stunning new suits of
clothes, are sadly returning to the
city now, and taxing up the burden of
life again at 81 week
Sixteen ladies' of St. Petersburg,
Russia, have formed a society whose
members abjure silks and costly. raj
ment, and devote the money thus
saved to educating poor children.
Already nineteen students are main.
tanned at various institutions.
-Bergh has telegraph lines extend.
ing to all parts Of New York city, so