Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-07
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Ano Ceorhska Insane Asylum 4
full to oveihowing with patients.
The catalogue of the books n
the Br'si>h Museum is large librai >
In itself.
Paris has regularly organized
brigade of street snow sweepers, paid
by the city.
| They arrested o I. Inv in Prov /.
ience. r /, the other dsy, for
stealing So six years ago.
The hop crop on the continent
of Europe ia es,imsted ct 100000
cwt sgainst s2l 900 cwt. in 1873.
lows and Michigan are the two
Western S'ates which do not bang
people for murder, except by mobs.
The, shipments OF machinery
from the ports of the United States
to South America and to Europe are
steadily growing.
The Bseeher scandal fell upon
this afflicted land like the bursting of
rotten egg 5 900 miles 10 diameter.
And it smells vet.
The Russians adore Paris. Or.
era bouffs, champagne and the Ian.
rusgs are some of the principal st,
fractions in their eyes.
Phi adelphia asserts that she
has more houses than New York hv
10000, than BROOKLYN by rs 900.
and than Bos' on by 1900.
A Mormon paper at Salt Lake
ri .ces the number of polygsmists in
the Territory at 600 men, 900
women and 9 900 children.
Mr.. SqmHtl Psvson, Postmaster
OF North Warren. Me-, and his wife,
were both found dead in their beds
recently, suffocated by coal gas.
1t is wonder 10 US how any
man in these hard times couli ford
to buy gold-bearing nuariz enough
to "stoek"a mine in Wisconsin
A hunter claims 10 have X led q
swan in Columbia county. Gs.. though
Audubon says ihat swans are never
found south of the Chesapeake.
In the village of Sheridan, Ore.
gon, they utilize the church on week
days hy taking out the seats and
using the G 'or for croquet ground.
There are vet standing in Mime,
| 500, 900, ono feet of pine timber,
VIII the growth Of hemiack and
spruce Is said to be almost inexhaus-
table.
Arrangements are making for
an investigation into the csuse of the
recent fires in Boston. The % lice
have clue 10 the Charlestown in
cendaries:
"A goose yoke, made by a boy
who has since become the we, i hest
how in Indi ma. ia now one of the
adornments of jewelers. store in
Indianapolis.
"A nan who has voted and paid
taxes in N rwicb, Conn, for forty
years has just discovered. through a
new survey, that be resides outside
the corporation.
Katie King has confessed, and
again Spiritu lism has been cast out
of the minds of men. No further
appropriations for lunatic asylums
will he needed.
The Harvard College class for
1857 are subscribing for window
in the memorial hi Il, in commemora-
tion of their hero classmates who
fell in the rebe lion.
-Thera is club of American stu
dents in Stuttgart, numbering thirty
members. The club rooms are over
a bee- ssloon. which is very con-
venient for all parties interested.
Rochester, N Y, folks boast of
the solvent condition and immense
business Of the banks of that city,
which report large increase in de-
posits and returning activity in trade.
-M4rysviIIe, Cal, finds that her
ordinance requiring all boys TO be
absent from the streets after 8 O'Clock
each evening is working favorable to
the morals of tho youth of the town.
A Scotchman 80 years old was
recently natur,l I'D in Kaysvillo,
Utah. When asked if be intended
to ob y the laws, he replied that "it
I-na worth while tae dae otherwise
moo"
Mr.. Bishop. the Lucas county
(Ohio) farmer, indicted on the aocu-
sation OF two rasc,l' that he had
participated in burgl sry with them,
has been acquitted after thorough
trial.
"A new potato known as the
white queen, is being cultivated in
France. In good soil from twelve TO
fifteen tubors are formed, many of
which attain or exceed twenty-five
pounds.
"A Pacific.coast cturess says:
we allow man enough 10 dress res
pecta' | J and 60 take him o l,ctures
and other intel ctual circusee but
the bu k Of his inot me we may ap-
propria,e"
"A so>call ID anatomical museum
was brokon up in Rochester, N Y,
recen IL. The proprietors were ar
rested, and obscene representations
OF nude NIL, and fem,l, figures
seized BY the police.
The French Association of ORA
matte artists is worth 722,2l5 francs.
It. pays pensions to 204 persons. 1t
eduos ties Is orphans, and last year
distributed Is, $50 francs for the sup
port of 322 members.
The New Jersey Court of APP
peal. has decided that an agreement
by a railroad company to c try goods
tor certain persons at cheaper rate,
under the same conditions than for
others, is void, as creating an illegal
preference.
Anoarinau n;f;as nav ronpdl1 rnt