Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-04
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Il The State of Missouri has deter
mined to erect handsome building
on the Centennial grounds, to be used
as State headquarters.
| One of the famous "Six Hun
1 bred" is member of the New York
Ipolice force, which shows to what
low degree hero may tumble.
| The Cincinnati suspension bridge
has just been painted at cost OF S..
I00322, equivalent to the tolls receiv.
ed from 100000 foot passengers.
| The Attorney Genera. is of the
opinion that cigar boxes cannot law
fully be made out of any material in.
capable of being BRAIDED with hot
iron.
A petrifed man with gold orna-
ments. has been found in the vicinity
of Indisnola, Texas, and the scientists
are puzzled TO know to what age he
belonged.
The census taker of an Eastern
town has found woman who is only
| % years OF age and has ten living
| children, the eldest of whom is "a
years old.
Italy has very sensibly enacted
law to compel the Commune to re.
plant the woods in their municipal
domains, under penalty of forfeiture
of the property.
The Louisiana rice crop, the best
one in quality, and by far the largest
in quantity for years, is all harvested
and careful estimates make il amount
to IT'S, 900 barrels.
The little temperance town of Col
fax, Iowa, named after the great tenn
perance Vice President, has very APP
propriately developed a splendid
mineral spring in its midst.
The trees at Galveston, Texas,
which we're denuded of their leaves
during the late tornado, are already
10 full leaf, aud present spring-like
appearance in their new dress.
"A Iunatic in Philadelphia has a
postal card with over 400 words
written upon it, and he expects to add
1000 more words, making 6,7o0 in
all. 1t is to be sent TO the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
Berlin people say it is now set
tied that Prince Frederick William
will certainly come to our Centennial
exhibition. II is also stated that his
eldest son, "Unser Fritz, jr.," will &C
company him.
1t is proposed in France by the
Geographic administration to encour-
age the introduction of private wires,
and to offer such inducements that no
great factory and no rich mans house
in the country will be without its
wire.
-"Centennial coats" are coming
into fashion. Not coats that have
been worn hundred years or there
abouts- though they are yet com
monty seen-but new article, with
long skirt and fiaring collar, called
the centennial"
Dancing is said to be on the de.
cline in London, and polite society
appears to be acting on the hint given
by the Shah of Persia when he in
quired of the Price of Wales at a
ball, "Why don't you employ servants
to DO this for you p
"A Leavenworth paper says that
if turnips were bread and cabbage
were meat, Kansas could take a con
tract to winter the paupers of the
world at two cents per head and
make enough on the contract to pay
the entire State debt.
1t is stated by the Bird FoncierS'
Journal that carrier bird which flies
$50 miles an hour is under training
for the purpose of forming a mail line
between America and Europe, tho
distance to be traversed between sun.
rise in one hemisphere and sunset in
the other.
"A Frcnchmau has discovered
way of making black paint from
smoke. lie projects shower of wa
ter luto the chimney, by which the
soluble gasses arc taken up, and the
Impurities precipitatodinto reservoir
which emptles into n cistern where
the mass is collected.
Mr.. Sturgeon is said to have a
wonderful memory for names and
faces At the close of his sunday
services he steps out of his pulpit to
the side of the door where his con
gregation pass out, and shakes hands
with the members, calling each by
name and inquiring after the families.
Little children are sold and ex-
ported from Italy how under new
dodge Instead of taking them away
singly, the spectators buy up whole
family at once, including father, mo-
Their, uncles and aunts, and start the
lot for foreign parts. The law can't
gainsay the will OF father and mother,
and so the little ones are struggled
out to tussle with the world.
The women of the Karen tribes
in Chinese Burmah wear rings of
thick brass wire bent around the
wrists and elbows, and again around
the ankle and knee, combining them so
in every motion that they cannot
possibly squat down on the ground in
the usual Oriental fashion, or kneel to
pray, as the men do, while in walking
their feet make two separate tracks a
foot or so apart.
The Indians in parts of Nevada
are busy gathering pine nuts A
white man could not gather sack full
in month, but the average squaw
will gather over 100 pounds week.
The cone, which contains the nut, is
pulled from the tree and roasted, the
turpentine being sufficient to burn
them. This opens the layers, and the
nuts are shaken out. The Indians
used TO exchange them for their
weight in -four. but the increased de-,