Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-11
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

The ''all quiet" Potomac is frog.
en- from Washington to its mouth.
-Vassar College bakes $500 pam
cakes on single griddle at one time.
Three Yale College students
were expelled last week for "hazng."
Rest assured that the climax of
the great scandal has not yet been
nearly reached.
In Philadelphia $1,000 persons
nightly bend over their books in
evening schools.
Baltimore requires the removal
of sl telegraph poles from the side-
walks within six months.
The keys and locks of the new
Palace Hotel, in San Francisco, are
said to have cost 500. 900 in gold.
And now Boston has young
lady forger aged sixteen, who In that
way made a raise of 81, 900 lately.
An American girl won the gold
medal at the recent examination at
the Collage of Brazil, Rio do Janciro.
"A fellow contrived to travel free
in a hearse, which was upon freight
train, all the way from Buffalo to
San Jose, Cal,
Two San Francisco capitalists
recently bought 100000 acres of
land in Oregon, at tho rate of 81,
gold, per acre.
That Dakota Territory fire-well
still keeps on smoking, and all the
UniversaIists in the neighborhood
are moving away.
Gable messages between New
York and Great Britain and France
will be fifty cents (gold) per word
on and after May next.
Broken rails are giving locomo-
tive engineers unusual trouble and
anxiety this season, and OCCASIONAL
" to the passengers likewise.
Count Cataoazy, who was Rus
tian Ambassador at Washington for
several years, is enguged in business
in Mexico, and getting rich, too.
David Shock, an old hermit of
Cincinnati, has "gone down the val
lev" leaving behind him about So
900 and no heirs to fight over it.
"A great scheme is on foot in
Philadelphia for having all the sol
ders of the Union ride to the Con-
tennial and back free of charge.
Mrs. Walworth is working in
right good earnest at Washington
for signatures that will influence
Governor Tilden to pardon her poor
Frank.
-Seveeal persons have recently
been arrested in Paris theators in
the act of taking stenographic notes
of the plays for use in London and
New York.
"A Canadian paper lately record.
ed the death of a young woman in
Tilsonburg, caused by the habit of
her sleeping with her tightly-laced
corsets on.
Sporting news: Horse races in
Georgia, skating races in Now En-
gland, sleighIng races in Minnesota,
snow-shoe races in Canada, and a
war of races in Louisiana.
All the hydrants in Boston ere
inspected daily by the fire patrol,
and in stormy weather oftener. The
tops are removed and sailed, end the
snow and ice cleared away.
Amos Clark, of Tennessee, upon
his death-bed, expressed wish that
twelve fiddlers should stand around
his grave and play "Old Dog Tray"
The Widow Clark saw it done.
General Sheridan is eligible to
the Presidency, being born on board
an American vessel and beneath tho
American flag while his parents
were emigrating from ireland in
1881.
-Blbbs boy says that if he
thought he should ever get to DO so
old that he wouldn't care for mo-
lasses ball, he would pray that he
might die when he is young and in
nocent.
The English and the French
troops, so long maintained at Yoke
hama in defiance of the wishes of the
japanese Government. are now max
ing preparations for immediate de-
parturo.
1t does not snow in Memphis
often, but it did last Tuesday. And
at St. Louis on the morning of
March the snow was a foot deep,
being the greatest fall they have had
there for eleven years.
John G. Granger has a palatial
home at Hamilton, Can, but its thick
walls were not proof against Jack
Frost, who crept in one night this
winter and froze the proprietor's
Jaw while he was asleep.
MARX Twains" works have
been translated into the Danish
language by Mr.. Robert Watt, and
with success that have given them
a most catering reception through
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Mr.. Leland Stanford, of the
Central Pacific railroad, is about to
build house in San Francisco which
will eclipse in splendor the magnii-
cent residence lately erected there
by Mr.. Sharon, the newly elected
Senator from Nevada.
Seven rifles used by Daniel
Boone in Indian fighting are kept as
relics in kentucky. The owner of
each points TO the notches on its
stock, explains that they are rec
ord of the number of savages shot
with the weapon. and repudiates the
genuineness of the other six.
On the cold.winter question it
is stated that in the winter of 1841
Francis Lewis, afterwards on of the
signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, drove the whole length of
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