Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

in st. Louis was recently launched.
| Paris merchants set free lunch
for their customers, Q Ia ssloon-keep-
ers.
| Nellie Albani, the bride of song,
is delighting Naples, the bride of the
sea.
Germany is cultivatng he Flnri.
de cedar to obtain wood for lead pen-
ellis.
| Brown, the mind.reader, has be
come newspaper reporter in Wash.
iugton.
Over one half Of the inmates Of
the OHIO Northern Lunatic Asylum
are females.
Scotland expended last year full
ly G7,000,00 on whisky for her own
consumption.
ALI hopes of the recovery of lit
tie Charley Ross have now been ale
most abandoned
-Til,on's friends say they have re-
served their most startling testimony
Tor the last or the trlal.
Two Buffalo girls, dressed 10
mems clothes, were recently arrested
as thieves in Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Lowery, of Baltimore,
converted actress, is preaching in
Brooknyl with her bonnet on.
Tho proposed trip of tbs Prince
~ ~ nd "a - &
modest little sum of 81 $50 600
You can hardly pick your way
through the woods of Florida, just
now, the black berries are so thick
Edward Eggleston, the author,
editor and minister, has only been
about four years gaining his fame
Germany is now supplying Rus
STA with large proportions of manu-
featured goods formerly furnished by
England.
If the Pope comes to this coun-
try, he will bring with him about So
100000 that he has laid by tor
rainy day
-Lumpeson, the horse trainer, is
said to be negotiating for the use of
the Galena fair track for the coming
horse season.
An edition of the Bible ia to be
printed in London with ell the pro-
per names accented to show their
pronunciation.
Denver, Gel had one of the
heaviest snow storms of the season
Saturday of last week, it followed af-
ter terrific rainstorm.
The Cincinnati lnfrmary Super
intendent proposes to cure body
snatching by planting a can of nitro
glycerine in each grave.
1t is a question in Philadelphia
how to provide a supply of water for
the Centennial population which will
gather into Philadelphia.
The anniversary of the death of
Cervantes. author of "Don Quixote,"
which occurred 259 years ago, was
celebrated in New York.
Baltimore ships $4,000 600 cans
of oysters annually, 10000 men are
constantly employed in sharpening
oyster-knives and sorierng up the
cans.
The authorities of Liverpool COM
plain that the inmates Of tho work.
house are made insane on religion.
Several have been sent to tho lnnatic
asylum.
The withdrawal of State sab
sides from tho Roman Catholic
Church in Prussia, if contaminated,
will deprive the church of 100000
annually.
DIR. Richardson, of London, has
discovered that nitric of anvil is
powerful anti-spasmodic: Even te-
tanus, or lock jaw, has been success
fully treated by its agency.
"A national convention of colored
editors is to be held in Cincinnati.
August 2. The proposed objects of
the convention are to advance the in
terest of the journalism Of their race.
The St. Louis Republican says
the California fever has broken out all
over the west, and the bands Of emil
grants are going to the land Of fruits
and good health from all directions.
The courts ofSouth Carolina have
ruled that in the trial of an issue of
fact involving the examination Of
written or printed instrument, it is
good ground of challenge to juror
that he cannot read
Some men who were cngagnd in
cleaning out a cesspool on Staten ISL
and, the other day, came upon be-
tween twenty and thirty thousand
dollars in gold coin. 1t had been hid
den by defaulting cashier.
This years camp-meeting at
Round Lake will surpass any hereto
for bed Among the contemplated
improvements will be bakers oven
capable Of baking 1900 to 1000
loaves Of bread per day.
A spelling bout between the
clerks Of the Third and Sixth Audi
tors offices at Washington, three Of
ak remained invulnerable through
contest of three hours. One Of the
three was a colored boy
At a recent auction sale Of a me
nagerie at Lebanon, o.. three lions
were sold for $4,000, sixty monkeys
for $40, an elephant for S. 500 two
cameIs for $500, zebra for 81 900,
two kangaroos for $3.50, and a griz-
zly bear for $40.
One Of Brigam Young's wives
told him, the other day, that when
she heard that the on of Turkey
had 700 wives, she felt mortified to
think that her husband bad allowed