Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-25
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| English is to be made compul-
sorry study in the Russian gymnasium
for girls.
| If all things are for the best,
where do the rations for the second
best come from?
| Paul Morphy, the once renowned
chess player, is an inmate of q
Louisiana insane asylum.
The California raisin manufac-
turers have been favored with =
splendid season this year.
Walt Whiteman was the only
poet present at the dedication of Poe's
Monument at Baltimore, last week.
Large numbers of excursions
from England TO America during the
Centennial are being arranged.
-Bergh, the humanitarian, is de.
scribed as tall, benevolent looking
gentleman, of tender and sympathetic
expression.
Robert Collyer has been giving
the New England people his lecture
on "Salt," thereby hoping to save
them, il is presumed.
mo-" writes Gen. Hawley from
Philadelphia, to many inquiring min
listers, "the Centennial Exposition will
not be open on Sundays"
The Democratic City Council OF
Lexington, Ky, has divided the pub
lie school fund and appropriated
share of it for the support of two
Catholic schools.
The honor of having club
named after you isn't such a great
thing after all. It's got so now that
policemen in every town have clubs
named after them
A Tennessee iron master, of
forty years. experience, says pig iron
can be and is now being made IN
Tennessee, Georgia aud Alabama for
less than $40 per ton.
Arrangements are about com.
pleted by which Ohio will receive
from $4,000 to $40, 900 worth OF i'm.
proved fire arms, enough to equip
about thirty companies.
AT Georgia hanging, the other
day, chap in the crowd took offence
at some remark of the doomed man
on the scatfold, and tried to get at
him with a bowie knife.
-Bowden professors were lit
tie surprised the other morning at
seeing three cows patiently looking
down at them from third story win
dow in the college buildings.
To obviate the necessity of such
going down and getting up stairs.
hotel enunciator has been invented
which registers on the dial what
guests want who ring the bell
Miss Julia <. Smith, one of tho
Glastonbury sisters, has written out
translations of the Bible five times
twice from the Greek, twice from
Hebrew and once from Latin.
The State of Kansas ia only four
teen years old, but receives and sends
out more letters and newspapers than
the entire State of Missouri, CT.
Louis iucluded), which is more than
forty years old.
"A grand daughter of William |.
Barry, once Postmaster General, has
presented to the Kentucky Library
fac simile copy of the notification
proclamation of President Jackson.
1t is printed on satin and richly franz
ed
The Centennial Exhibition will
be opened on May 10, 1876, and will
remain open every day except Sun
day, until November 10. There will
be fixed price Of 90 cents for ad-
mission to all the buildings and
grounds.
A New York market gardner re-
Gently brought suit against seeds
man for the value of the cabbages he
might have raised had the seeds,
which he bought Of the latter, not
turned out worthless, and recovered
1892 l3.
The "dead- beats" Of Indian com
munities are the "squaw men, and
the "squaw men" are the white
Migrants who marry Indian woman
The Black Hills Commissioners re.
commend that this class OF white trash
be expunged from the tribes.
Mr.. Larkin u Mead's design Tor
Il soldiers monument at lIolyoke,
Mass, has been accepted. 1t repre-
sents a soldier in bronze, seven and
half feet high, standing by a granite
block, and holding muskct in the
attitude Of a charge. The ec,ire
monument is to cost $4,000.
There is a musical prodigy among
the coal miners near Massllon, Ohio.
He is boy of II, and seems devoid
of intelligence, except in musical
matters. Brought up IN the mines
without training OF any kind, he has
nevertheless powers for mastering
music, and readily learns aud plays
difficult airs without missing note.
From a single tree planted in
tub aud kept in his dollhouse, c. s.
Holbrook, Of IIolbrook, Mass, sold in
eighteen years no less than $4,000
worth of peaches some of them at
$50 per dozen, many at from $24 to
$2s per dozen, and all at an average
of $lS per dozen. They were sold
mostly in the months of February and
March.
The signal recently erected on the
summit OF Monnt Shasta, Cal s, by the
Coast survey, is hollow cylinder of
galvanized iron, twelve feet high and
two and a half in diameter, surround
ed by a cone Of nickle plated copper.
The reflection from this cone is 80
strong that it is believed that tho
signal can tie be used for observations
at a distance of 100 miles.