Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-10
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

man, is worth "a, 100000.
\ Gotten seed is becoming one of
| the principal exports of Egypt.
| A japanese line Of ocean steam
ers to San Francisco is talked of.
| The present crusade against
whiskey is not so much of q failure.
| Nebraska people planted 1S,00O,-
900 trees on their prairies last year.
| MIR. Disraeli is having hard
time retaining his popularity in Eng
land.
I'm Drury College, Missouri, there
are more than a dozen Indian stu
dents.
Uncle Sam is finding it hard to
strike bargain with the Black Hills
Indians this time.
A gypsy baby in Berks county,
Pa, weighs two pounds and half,
being two weeks old.
There are a thousand rumors in
Brooklyn about the jury being bribed,
and all that sort of thing.
The Legislature of British
Columbia has disfranchised the In
dian and Chinese inhabitants of the
colony.
Mrs. L. II. Stone, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has started on years tour
over Europe with ten young ladies of
her State.
joaquin Miller has abandoned
Europe for while, and will spend
the Summer in America. He is now
in Boston.
The regular Kansas grasshoppers
have made their appearance in Nc
Lean county, ILL.,, in the vicinity of
Lexington.
The poet Schiller died May Q,
1906. The steamship SCHILLER"
named after the poet, went down
May 8, 1875.
In France the name Duval APP
pears to be equivalent to Smith in
this country. There are 4 900 of
them in Paris.
Two real hair curls, each six
feet in length, and valued at S215,
are displayed in a Binghamton, N. T.,
show window.
Montgomery Blair is the first TO
attack General Sherman's "Memoirs"
in print. He defends his brother
Frank, who is sick.
WATERFOWL, Y. Y, is to have a
State Dog Fair, at which big premi-
ums will be given for the best speci'
mems of the genus CAMS.
The convention of bank officers,
to be held at Saratoga on the Goth of
July next, is the subject of considera.
BILE talk in banking circles.
Rev. Dr. Miner, of Boston, de-
MES that ministers boys are the worst
in creation, and cites instances where
they have not gore to the bad.
When any one calls at the Aub-
urn, N Y, Asylum to see Frank
Walworth, that unfortunate youth
runs and hides away like a silly child.
Osaka, Japan, is said to be the
most religious city in the world; it has
1918 places of worship. The pres
ent creeds are the Buddhist and SIM
| too.
In Great Britain alone there are
reckoned $4,000 fossil specimens of
animals and plants that have died out
in the course of time, against 1000
living species.
"A monster expedition is organic
ing in Philadelphia for the Black
Hills. 1t is said that 10000 men are
enrolled, and that the crusade will
start this month.
Colonel Robert NJ. and Stephen
A. Douglas, sons of Stephen A. Doug
las, have been awarded by the Court
of Claims about quarter of mil
lion dollars for cotton seized during
the war in Mississippi.
An English and American Mu.
tual Aid Association has been formed
at Rome for the purpose of protect
ing foreigners against extortions of
Italian hotel keepers, especially in
cases of sickness or death.
Harry Brooks is a Washington
pedestrian who has accomplished the
feat of walking continuously for 100
hours, with the exception OF one
hours rest and forty hours which he
occupied in sleep. 1t nearly killed
him.
Princess Louise, daughter of Vic
toria, and her husband, the Marquis
of Lorne, are expecting to come to
Canada with Lord Dufferin, on his re-
turn from England, and make tour
of the Dominion and the United
States.
of the 4,448 persons committed
to 4. the Connecticut jails, last year,
and supported generally in idleness
at a costs of $4,000 for board and
| $4,000 for attendance, 1868 were
hard drinkers and 2,l49 moderate
drinkers.
There is now no doubt at all
says a Philadelphia letter-that the
Exhibition will be an overpowering
success, and that every nation, with
the exception of Russia, desires to
pay tribute to the great Republic
| by being present at its centennial
commemoration.
Last week the Masons dedicated
great hall in New York. Twenty.
FIVE thousand Masons marched in pro.
cession, and General Tom Thumb,
who has taken thiFty-two degrees in
Masonry, rode in magnificent car
riage loaned by 2. t. Barnum.
The Jewish Messenger says that
some wealthy Israelites in Rome are
discussing the feasibility Of erecting
rabinical seminary in that city, and
the indications are that soon, in the
vicinity of the Vatican, college of
Jewish ministers will be established.
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