Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-28
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

1 "A goose III ballOn, VA, uao laAu
a petrifed egg
| The French eat more crabs than
any other nation. m&E
Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are
sons of ministers. 1858
An effort is to bemade TO abolish
q lotteries in Wyoming. ursa
Rome has Pullman coaches and
sixty-seven newspapers.
| There is a piece of soap in Al
bany supposed to be 100 years old.
4 A woman has been sent to jail
at Montreal for whipping her hus.
band.
Carl Schurz's lecture for the
coming season is centennial
| Thoughts
"A mandatory of silk threads is
to be established at Springfield, Mas.
sachusetts.
The United States imported 90
600, 900 clay pipes, mostly from Glas-
gov, last year.
"A California butcher has found
an Indian arrowhead well imbedded
in the liver Of an OK y
"A Rockford, Illinois, dispatch
| states That a great temperance revival
has broken out there.
Typhoid and bilious fevers and
fever and ague are very prevalent
now in various parts of the country
"A South Bend, Indiana, man, hav-
ing had his.arms frozen off while on
spree, has written book with his
toes.
For the best bread to be made
and baked by bachelor Canada
agricultural society has offered a
prize.
Deer are so numerous in Ell Dor
ado county, California, that complaint
is made that they are running the
vineyards.
The Ames Pow Company, Eas
ton, Massachusetts, which in good
times employs $50 men, has now only
six at work.
"A man in Dubuque, upon open,
ing package of smoking tobacco
found therein, snugly nestled, six
young mice.
--Shroeder's air-ship, for a voyage
across the ocean, now under construc
ton at Baltimore, will be completed
in few days.
A sweet potato plantation OF 700
acres near Atlanta, Georgia, is ex-
pected to yield this year 40 900 bush-
els of that vegetable.
-Colored walters are TO ofliciate at
the Great Palace Hotel, San Francis
co, over 100 OF them being now on
their way westward.
Bret Harte has got his new story
fairly started in Scribner'S, and good
authorities say it is made wen and of
Bret's best material.
-YoungKing Alphonso, of Spain,
is getting TO be wilder and faster
young blood than the English Prince
of Wales ever dared be.
DR.. L. b. Chaplin, centenaran,
of Charlotte, Michigan, has taken his
oath that he is lo5 years old, and has
practiced medicine seventy years.
1t is proposed to raise a sum Of
money in Boston for Mrs. Tilton, and
the Globe of that city has consented
to receive and deliver the sum to the
beneficiary.
Lulu did some smart trotting at
Rochester, New York, on October H.
She made the three heats in 2:lG4,
2:144 and 2:l6-the fastest three sue
cessive heats on record.
General jeff Thompson is credit
ed with the prediction that by Janu-
airy the Mississippi will have cut
new channel near Nickshurg, leaving
that place two miles inland.
-Eusebius Slaton of Fayette coun
ty. Georgia, described as stout aud
vigorous old man, has thirty children,
eighteen by Mrs. Slaton the first, and
twelve by the present incumbent.
A rusty needle has been extracted
from the breast Of girl years old in
Reading, Pennsylvania. 1t was the
opinion of the surgeon that it must
have been swallowed several years
ago.
In Mower county, Minnesota, an
imprudent dog went to sleep under
the tumbling rod Of threshing ma
chine, aud was caught by the tail and
wound up TILL the tail gave way aud
came out
"A rowing gypsy man in Bangor
snapped horses nine times the other
day, and when night set in he found
he had the same horse he first swap
ped in the morning, and that he had
$40 in money and watch in addition.
Bishop Holly, OF HayLi, the only
colored Bishop of the Episcopal
church in America, is at present in
Washington, where he preached on
Sunday, at the church Of the Epi
phany, in benefit of the IIaytien mis-
sion.
Mrs. Mary Bassett, M. D., is said
to have an annual income OF $4,000,
derived from her professional work in
Cooperstown, New York She has
met with prejudice and lived it down
by faithful work, wit bitter persecu-
ton, and has ignored it altogether
Married in Chicago, one week
ago to-day--accidently shot by his
young bride, while taking q pistol
from valise, on Monday-died yes.
terday This is the short and lament
able history of the married life of Mr.
Lon Troutman, of Winona, Mime
sofa.
"A project for erecting a memorial
to Daniel O'Connell, at his birth
place, in Carhen, Ireland, has been
started. 1t is proposed to raise the
means by penny subscription, and, as
it is to be removed from sectarianism,
it is thought that Irishmen of every